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A life-changing day. Choose from workshops like Yoga and Activism, Green Yoga, or Yoga as
Medicine that focus on topics such as Cancer Treatment, Emotional Health, and Adapting
Yoga for People with Disabilities. Whatever you choose, you'll gain valuable tools to expand
your practice and your mind.
Monday Special Event
{12:30pm–1:30pm}
Keynote by Dr. William Stewart:
"Awakening The Healer Within"
William Stewart, MD, is the Medical Director and cofounder of California Pacific Medical Center's Institute for Health & Healing in San Francisco. Dr. Stewart began his association with the Aravind Hospitals in India in 1983. Over the past 25 years his work in India, profession as a surgeon, and study of yoga have profoundly influenced his perspective on the meaning of health, the experience of healing, and the practice of medicine. He now leads one of the largest integrative medicine centers in the country. He is the author of Deep Medicine.
Open to all.
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Instructor: Katchie Ananda and Julia Butterfly Hill
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: AMACTI
All Levels
Yoga practice is our inhalation-our way to connect to a greater vision. Acting on our values is our exhalation. We'll move from a discussion of spiritual activation into a deep and heartfelt yoga practice. With this embodied awareness, get inspired into conscious action and leave with a renewed connection to yourself, your community, and the world.
Instructor: Nicki Doane and Eddie Modestini
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: AMNDEM
All Levels
Learn to create safety and strength by applying basic alignment principles to a Vinyasa Fusion practice. Morning class will be a vigorous vinyasastyle practice that includes Sun Salutations, standing poses, backbends, forward bends, lunge work, and cultivating awareness in our hands and feet. The afternoon session will be more reflective in nature, exploring various hip-openers, inversions, and chanting.
Instructor: Julie Gudmestad
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: AMGUDM
Continue Your Education
Protect yourself and your students from common injuries and strains. We'll discuss gravity's effects on the body and how certain positions put leverage and strenuous loads on the spine and other joints. Then we'll work on poses and teaching techniques so teachers can use proper body mechanics as they demonstrate and adjust students.
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Instructor: Jnani Chapman
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine Intensive
Code: AMCHAP
All Levels, Therapeutic
After an overview of the body's organs and systems, cancer cell pathology, and the side effects of treatment, we'll explore how yoga awareness, breathing, movement, and relaxation methods can help bring symptom relief. Lecture, discussion, and practice.
Instructor: Gary Kraftsow
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine Intensive
Code: AMKRAF
All Levels, Therapeutic
Modern science is beginning to confirm what the ancient yogis have known for thousands of years: that emotional states powerfully impact the health of the body. We'll explore the complex interaction between thought, emotion, and physiology, as well as examine the yoga practices that can be used to restore equilibrium—including asana, pranayama, chanting, and meditation.
Instructor: Judith Hanson Lasater
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine Intensive
Code: AMLASA
All Levels, Therapeutic
While practicing, we'll focus on hip movements and deal with problems with this core joint in asana.
Instructor: Aadil Palkhivala
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine Intensive
Code: AMPALK
All Levels, Therapeutic
Pain in the lower back is a physical manifestation of feeling burdened. We'll heal the symptoms of lowerback pain by doing modified asana and pranayama. Then we'll address mental and emotional issues through Purna Yoga meditation and yogic philosophy. Bring one mat, two straps, one firm blanket, and one block.
Instructor: Desirée Rumbaugh
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine Intensive
Code: AMRUMB
All Levels, Therapeutic
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.
Instructor: Matthew Sanford
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: Yoga as Medicine Intensive
Code: AMSANF
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.
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