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Total yoga immersion can be yours! Soak up the knowledge of the world's most experienced teachers like Seane Corn, Judith Hanson Lasater, and Desirée Rumbaugh. Through practicing, listening, and learning, you'll rejuvenate your practice and feed your soul during one unforgettable day. Or, choose to attend the Half-Day Intensives.

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Yoga and Rock Climbing
Instructor: Jason Magness
Wednesday, September 24 OR Thursday, September 25
8:00am-5:00pm: All-Day Intensives
Wednesday Code: WIMAGN
Thursday Code: TIMAGN
All Levels


Push beyond your boundaries and explore the world at the edge of gravity as you experience the beautiful realm of "vertical yoga." We'll start with a morning asana practice, then we'll relocate to a nearby cliff for a day of rock-climbing. As dusk approaches, we'll finish with a short session of introspective yoga and meditation outdoors. No experience is necessary, although you should be in good general health. All equipment will be provided. Be prepared for various weather conditions, and wear good hiking shoes. All climbers must sign a release of liability waiver.


Off the Mat, Into the World: Yoga, Purpose, and Action
Instructor: Seane Corn
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TICORN
All Levels


Get inspired to get active! We'll start with a transformational vinyasa flow yoga sequence to uncover your deepest passion. Learn practical tools to bring your own unique purpose into the world and help you become a more effective agent of change in the world. Discussion and asana.



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.



The Lower Back: Practice, Anatomy, and Therapeutics
Instructor: Judith Hanson Lasater
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TILASA
All Levels


Probably no pain is more common in yoga practice than lower back pain. We'll study the anatomy of the area, identify common reasons for pain, then practice with this awareness and apply therapeutic movements as needed.



Stories Behind the Asanas: Embodying the Essential Teachings
Instructor: Alanna Kaivalya
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIKAIV
All Levels


Who is the warrior behind 1, 2, and 3? Why are Hanumanasana, Virasana, and Anjaneyasana all poses dedicated to Hanuman? What is the poison-removing power behind Mayurasana? Learn the stories of the most beloved and sacred poses to embody the spirit of the teachings and make your practice more alive and poignant.



Imprinting Self-Love: Reverse Adi Shakti Meditation
Instructor: Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIKHAL
All Levels


When we can experience our Self, not through the projection of others but through our own Divinity, we can walk in confidence beyond the seesaw of emotions and transform our relationships. The Reverse Adi Shakti is a highly technical meditation that allows you to deeply bless yourself, change your psyche, and change your world.



The Sacred Seam of the Inside Leg
Instructor: Tias Little
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TILITT
All Levels


The inner leg gives access to the front of the spine and holds the chi of deep reserve. But due to excess fatigue and stress, the inner leg is typically tight, weak, or collapsed. We'll open the channels of the inner leg and energize the meridians that run the inner length of the leg through dynamic and restorative postures. Bring a strap and a block.



Menopause: Yoga as Medicine
Instructor: Elise Miller
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIMILL
All Levels


Menopause can be a time for great spiritual ripening, as well as physical and emotional challenges like hot flashes, stiffness, insomnia, irritability, and melancholy. Yoga helps us accept these changes and transform them into a reflective and positive experience. Discussion and asana.



Bhakti, Jnana, and Karma Yoga in Purna Yoga
Instructor: Aadil Palkhivala
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIPALK
All Levels


Bhakti (love), jnana (knowledge), and karma (action), the three great yogas, correspond to our three major energy centers: the heart, head, and pelvis. Learn how to direct the energy housed in each of these areas to help transform asana from physical exercise to a healing form of self-discovery. Bring a mat, strap, and block.



Heart Fire: Tending the Sacred Flame
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TISREA
All Levels


How do we tend the flame of our heart in modern life? This ritual practice will help us tend our heart fire authentically as the center of one's creativity, vision, inspiration, wisdom, and love. We'll explore teachings from Tantra, hatha, and bhakti yoga to unite an illumined body and awakened heart.



Anusara Yoga: Yoga Shouldn't Hurt
Instructor: Desirée Rumbaugh
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIRUMB
All Levels


Learn how Anusara Yoga's Universal Principles of Alignment can help alleviate pain and lessen the chance of injury. In the morning, we'll focus on hips, lower back, knees, and feet. In the afternoon, we'll work on the neck, shoulders, upper back, and wrists.


8 Limbs of Yoga Intensive
Instructors: Rod Stryker and David Swenson
Thursday, September 25
8:00am-5:00pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIEIGH
All Levels


Come and discover the truly profound simplicity that underlies Patanjali's eight-limbed path as set out in the Yoga Sutra. In the morning, David Swenson will illuminate limbs one to four through discussion, asana, and breathwork—and explore how these four limbs can be applied in modern times. In the afternoon, Rod Stryker will lead us through limbs five to eight. These final limbs are more than the culmination of practice; each is a progressive step to ultimate fulfillment and capacity "off the mat." Through lecture and practice, we'll explore how they become effortless—a seamless progression of asana and pranayama.



Asana and Pranayama
Instructor: Rodney Yee
Thursday, September 25
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensives
Code: TIRYEE
All Levels

Come and learn how asana trains the body and the mind, and sets the foundation for a safe and intimate pranayama practice. The body, when trained, becomes a fine musical instrument that amplifies without distortion them melody of the present moment. The vibration of the moment is absorbed completely in pranayama.

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