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CE Workshop | 4 Simple Exercises for Pranayama

Enrich your practice and teaching with enjoyable and logical Pranayama exercises. Guided by Patanjali's sutras, this workshop playfully explores a set of accessible and practical breathing exercises that develop sensitivity to the nuances of inhalation, exhalation, and basic retention. These simple exercises can be taught as an introduction to Pranayama for beginner yoga students, and even seasoned yoga practitioners are often surprised by the effectiveness of this approach. Get ready to fall in love with your breath!

CE Workshop | The Gift of Radical Vision: Practice for True Freedom

This asana practice re-frames your orientation to help you SEE how you can make choices to uplift and support ALL people, especially those who have been marginalized. Practice in a way to see yourself as a part of a collective and to honor the indigenous roots of the tradition that has given us all so much.

CE Workshop | Sustainable Studios

It's been over a year since many of us closed our doors due to COVID-19 and wondered, "will yoga studios ever rise again?", and we aren't alone. Simply Google "death of boutique fitness" and you'll find tons of articles predicting an end to physical yoga spaces. Yet here we are. If you feel overwhelmed and a bit worn out, that's normal—but it doesn't have to be permanent! Learn five keys to building a sustainable studio post-pandemic and how this contributes to a sustainable lifestyle.

CE Workshop | Compassionate Cueing

Compassionate cueing explores how intention and empathy help create safe and inclusive spaces. Cueing is a key tool for yoga teaching and can be broken down into different components and perspectives. This workshop helps participants develop an understanding of how compassion can show up in teaching and practice.

CE Workshop Series | Mantra Mālā – Mantra is Prāṇāyāma, Part 3

Traditionally in India, mantra is the first introduction and practice of pranayama. In each Mantra Mālā offering, yoga lovers will befriend a Sanskrit Saṃskṛtá alphabet in its physical form, learn how it sounds, and what the esoteric significance of the alphabet is. We will also look at how it occurs in a few familiar yoga words. Learn a mantra and how to chant it with correct Vedic intonation, so the sound strikes in the body and energetically precisely where it should, bringing the visceral magic and abundance of this practice alive.

CE Workshop | How to Successfully Host a Yoga Retreat

Interested in leading a yoga retreat? Sheri Colosimo shares her strategy for planning a stress-free experience. Walk away with a Retreat Planning Workbook including a sample budget template and a list of venues to kickstart your dream to retreat.

CE Workshop | Yoga for Young Athletes

Nick and Aaron of Men Care Now, discuss the Yoga for Young Athletes program designed to help yoga teachers communicate and integrate yoga into sports and recovery programs for youth. The conversation also illuminates the benefits of teaching yoga to youth, including how to deliver and structure a class.

CE Workshop | Creating Welcoming Spaces for Folks with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities

Discover how to cultivate an environment of compassion where people of all abilities are seen, heard, and validated. Presenter Mary Medellin Sims discusses her nonprofit, Guided by Humanity and provides tools to better support folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Understand the barriers to access and become familiar with appropriate language, acknowledging trauma within the disability community, leaning into non-attachment while teaching, and adapting to varying physical disabilities.

CE Workshop | Studying Pigeon Pose

Learn about pigeon pose and its applications for strength and useful mobility. This workshop also teaches the difference between passive and active range of motion while guiding participants through movements that distinguish these concepts. Presenter Erin Ehlers discusses the "how to" of this peak pose and adjacent movements to create a practice that amplifies an understanding of strong and mobile hips.

CE Workshop | Spinal Health for an Over-Seated Society Made Simple

Increase your understanding of spinal anatomy and physiology from a developmental standpoint to our present state of common seated discomfort. This workshop reviews the importance and function of the spinal curves, the role of the SI joint for stability, and the key relationship to the psoas in fostering healthy posture in all positions.

CE Workshop Series | Yoga Ethics and Western Impositions, Part 1

This three-part workshop explores how yoga ethics may not be what many have come to expect in a Westernized world. Explore how yoga is a basic ethical theory that rivals familiar theories present in South Asia and the West, and how asana was not primarily a physical practice, but rather a philosophical exercise of ethics. Consider how colonialism continues to marginalize yoga ethics in contemporary discourse and make room for non-colonized yoga ethics. Part 1 focuses on yoga ethics and Western impositions.

CE Workshop | Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

Yoga can be utilized as a healing tool for all. Understand how being trauma-informed can promote long-term healing for clients who have experienced trauma without triggering unwanted memories or sensations. This workshop will teach a trauma-informed approach to ensure that all students feel safe to experience yoga as an empowering, healing practice.

*Of note, this event may include information on trauma and yoga therapy as presented by individuals with credible expertise in that field. For more on Yoga Alliance’s unique policy on Yoga Therapy, see our Code of Conduct and Scope of Practice.