Deepen your understanding of yoga's healing powers. Whether you're a yoga teacher or student, you'll learn about the therapeutic benefits of yoga postures, breathing, and philosophy from the field's leading experts.
Friday All-Day Intensives
Instructor: Scott Blossom
Thursday, March 26
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: ATBLOS
all levels, therapeutic
Learn how integrating Ayurvedic wisdom into your yoga practice creates vinyasas that are in harmony with the free flow of prana and in sync with the time of day, the season, and your stage of life. Spend the day practicing asana, bandha, pranayama, chanting, and meditation while exploring the principles behind integrating Ayurvedic wisdom into your yoga practice or teaching.
Instructor: Cyndi Lee and Tari Prinster
Thursday, March 26
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: ATCLEE
continue your education, all levels
Co-taught with Tari Prinster, this workshop is a specialized teacher training for yoga teachers eager to gather critical information and cultivate skills for designing a healing class for breast-cancer survivors. We'll look at different diagnoses, treatments, and long-term effects; discover poses that offer specific benefits to people undergoing treatment for breast cancer; and create short, simple vinyasa sequences that provide emotional and physical support. Discussion and asana.
Tari Prinster is an 8 year breast cancer survivor and, since the age of 50, a yogini. Tari is the senior teacher of the OM yoga Women Cancer Survivor program and was recently invited by the SYTAR conference to present her abstract on teaching teachers how to teach yoga to breast
cancer survivors.
Instructor: Tias Little
Thursday, March 26
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: ATLITT
continue your education, all levels, therapeutic
The inner leg gives access to the front of the spine and holds the life force of our deep reserve. Due to excess fatigue and stress, this area is typically tight, weak, or collapsed. Through dynamic and restorative postures, we'll open these channels and investigate the inner leg from the perspective of Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines. Discussion and asana.
Instructor: Aadil Palkhivala
Thursday, March 26
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: ATPALK
all levels, therapeutic
Pain in the upper back is often caused by our inability to release or express what we feel in our heart. Learn Purna Yoga sequences to release chronic tension held in the neck, shoulders, and upper back. Bring two straps, a block, a sticky mat, one blanket, and one 1 to 1.5 wooden dowel approximately two feet long. At least six months' asana practice recommended.
Instructor: Matthew Sanford
Thursday, March 26
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: ATSANF
all levels, therapeutic
Matthew Sanford is a pioneer both in adapting yoga for people living with disabilities and in advocating for a mind-body approach to our medical and rehabilitation practices. He draws upon his unique experience with yoga and paralysis to give participants basic guidelines for adapting yoga and applying yogic insights to transform the delivery of health care. Discussion and asana.
Instructor: David Swenson
Thursday, March 26
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: ATSWEN
continue your education, all levels, ashtanga
Through partner work, we'll develop an eye for alignment and energy flow in the asanas through observation and hands-on adjusting techniques. We'll start with Downward Dog and move through a sampling of asanas from the standing, the seated, and the closing sequences. Mostly asana with partner work.
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