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Jason Crandell, one of San Francisco's most respected and popular yoga teachers, is yoga director at the San Francisco Bay Club, writes extensively for Yoga Journal and has taught the Yoga Journal staff for six years. He's known for strong, fluid sessions that leave students feeling clear, grounded, and content.

Home Is Where Your Practice Is
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TICRAN
All Levels


Feeling ambitious, you light your incense, grab your sticky mat and unroll it in the comfort of your living room. You're finally going to practice at home! Then the doubts set in: What do I do? How long do I hold my poses? Why am I here instead of in class? This all-day intensive gives you safe effective strategies to start your home practice and stay with it. Discussion and asana.



Shoulders, Hips, Breath
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Friday, September 26
8:00am-10:00am: Main Conference - Session 1
Code: M1CRAN
All Levels


Free your breath by aligning, stabilizing, and unlocking your shoulders and hips. Learn how these pieces of your body's puzzle fit together—and how to shift them in ways that create more space, ease, and freedom, using a wide array of standing poses, hip openers, shoulder openers, and basic pranayama. Mostly asana.



The Craft of Sequencing
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Friday, September 26
10:30am-12:30pm: Main Conference - Session 2a
Code: M2CRAN
All Levels/Continue Your Education


Like the order of notes in a melody, the sequence of poses creates specific emotional, mental, and physical effects. Develop your teaching skills and personal practice with this in-depth exploration of the art of sequencing, including ways to construct an effective and balanced class, and how to develop authentic sequences for a home practice. Discussion and asana.



Opening, Aligning, and Strengthening Your Shoulders
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Saturday, September 27
10:30am-12:30pm: Main Conference - Session 5a
Code: M5CRAN
All Levels


We demand a lot of our shoulders. But shoulders are complicated, sensitive structures that are prone to injury when not well cared for. Learn how to work the shoulders safely in a wide-range of poses that will deepen your experience of standing poses, twists, backbends, and forward bends. Mostly asana.



Learning to Love Backbends
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Saturday, September 27
3:30pm-5:30pm: Beginners Conference B
Code: Beg Conf B
Beginners


For most students backbends are difficult and a little scary. Yet these are some of yoga's most gracious poses if done with precision, patience, and care. Learn to open your shoulders, hips, and spine, and backbend with greater integrity, comfort, and ease. Mostly asana.



Awakening and Strengthening Your Core
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Sunday, September 28
10:00am-12:00pm: Main Conference - Session 7
Code: M7CRAN
All Levels


Awaken deep sensations and intelligence in the body's core. We'll start with abdominal work, developing strength and awareness. Then we'll channel this work into standing poses, twists, forward bends, mild backbends, and inversions. In doing so, we'll experience how core strength creates integrated alignment and sets the stage for greater steadiness and ease. Mostly asana.




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