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CE Workshop Series | Liberation: Yoga Ethics in Action Right Now, Part 4

Inspired by presenter Susanna Barkataki’s book Embrace Yoga’s Roots, this four-part series explores key issues in our community and offers participants experience in powerful practices like yoga, conversation, breathing, and meditation. These practices help support us in mending our spirits as we act, transform, care, and support ourselves and others. Part 4 focuses on yoga ethics.

CE Workshop | Conspirituality: The Rise of Conspiracy Theories & How to Address Them

This workshop looks at the rise of QAnon and conspiracy theories in recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it is impacting the yoga community. The discussion also covers approaches for how the yoga community can address conspiracy theories amongst its practitioners. For more information on this topic, event participants may refer to isdglobal.org

CE Workshop | Lower Back Pain and the Iliopsoas

Approximately 80 precent of the population suffers from chronic, or episodic, lower back pain. This can occur for many different reasons, yet how we move, sleep, and sit can dramatically impact our backs' health. Often, proper balancing of the deep flexor muscles of the “core” with the extensor muscles of the lower back/pelvis can improve low back pain—and yoga is a wonderful medium for this to occur! This workshop discusses the functioning of the iliopsoas muscle, the alignment of the pelvis, and the risks of excessive sitting and poor sleep hygiene. It also provides guidance on how to address and trouble-shoot our students’ and personal lower back pain.

CE Workshop | Teaching Yoga for Big Bodies

As a plus-size yoga practitioner and teacher, presenter Kady Lafferty of Big Booty Yoga has spent years exploring and learning more physically comfortable ways to access yoga postures and flow more freely in a big body. For big-bodied students, it can be apparent when teachers don’t have knowledge on how to sequence for, adapt to, or support their success in class, which can feel isolating. This 75-minute workshop equips teachers with tools to empower students of all sizes so they will feel seen and appreciated. Walk away with tips and tricks to accommodate curves, hips, bellies, and busts.

CE Workshop | Embodied Agency: Overcoming Oppression in Yoga

There’s a lot of current conversation in our country about who has privilege and who benefits or suffers from both overt and subtle systems of oppression. But how and why does this apply in a yoga setting? In this workshop, we draw on the Five Faces of Oppression model to discuss how power dynamics affect access to yoga, and how you can step forth as a leader to create diverse, equitable, and brave yoga spaces and empower yourself and others.

CE Workshop Series | Men Care Now: Layers of Compassion, Part 3

In this thoughtful and dynamic four-part series, guests from Men Care Now and yoga activist Reggie Hubbard discuss the power of compassion. Event participants have the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the importance of compassion for both the individual and broader communities.

CE Workshop | How to Find New Clients Online

Connecting with the people who can benefit from your work online is easier than ever once you understand the three basics to getting noticed in the virtual space. Whether you are an experienced yoga teacher who has had great success in-person or you are a brand-new teacher with no following at all, this workshop will help you design a reliable strategy for consistently attracting new students online.

CE Workshop | Mantra Mālā – Mantra as Prāṇāyāma, Part 2

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 Series | From Doing Yoga to Being Yoga: Embodying Three Sacred Teachings of Our Tradition, Embracing Transformation

We can "do" yoga for years, but it's only when we infuse our practice with the wisdom of the tradition that we fully embody yoga's transformative power. This is when we go from simply doing yoga to being yoga. Inspired by presenter Barrie Risman’s best-selling book, Evolving Your Yoga: Ten Principles for Enlightened Practice, this three-part series explores powerful and foundational understandings that will unlock greater meaning for your practice and teaching, and profoundly shift the way you approach and share yoga. Each session includes contemplative inquiry, meditation and breath work practices, and concrete, practical ways to bring the wisdom of yoga into your classes. Part 1 focuses on embracing transformation.

CE Workshop | Q&A on the SI Joint

Presenter Jenny Loftus facilitates a Q&A based on her previous workshop, All About the SI Joint. Event participants have the opportunity to ask questions in real time and review information that will deepen their understanding of SI joint anatomy and its application(s) in yoga. For reference, the original workshop recording can be found archived on yourya.org or on our YouTube channel.

CE Workshop Series | Men Care Now: Layers of Compassion, Part 4

In this thoughtful and dynamic four-part series, guests from Men Care Now and yoga activist Reggie Hubbard discuss the power of compassion, particularly for men. Event participants have the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the importance of compassion for both the individual and broader communities.