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Community Sangha | Healing with Yoga

Join Sangha host Maya Breuer and special guest Candace A. Jennings for this community gathering, highlighting the healing qualities of yoga. Candace discusses her background in dance and yoga and describes how yoga aided in her recovery from paralysis.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Meditation in the Black Community

The Black community has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving many wondering how to maintain normalcy at a time when everything is abnormal. This sangha explores how utilizing yoga and meditation can help reduce tension, stress, depression, and anxiety in individuals and families.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Ayurveda, Part 2

This focus of this session is nurturing nature’s elements in our practice. Explore the application of vata (movement and communication), pitta (transformation) and kapha (binding) in our expressions of yoga and receive several tips to apply to your class or personal practice.

Community Sangha | Teaching Yoga in India

Have you wondered what it's like to teach yoga in India? Learn about this unique experience and gain useful insight that can help you become a more compassionate and effective teacher working with students of diverse cultural, life-stage, body type, and psychometric profiles.

Community Sangha | Love, Light, and Food: Making Sustainability Taste Good

Presenter Satta Jallah describes how her yoga practice opened her mind to her food choices' karmic and environmental impact. She also shares how the COVID-19 pandemic inspired a radical culinary evolution for her and her family as well as the many health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Community Sangha | Annamaya and Pranayama Kosha

Join an in-depth exploration of the Physical and Prana Bodies. This workshop introduces many yogic techniques to strengthen and support these layers, as well as tips for protecting the first two body sheaths against the coronavirus.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Social Justice

Previously sentenced to 38 years in state prison, Marshawn Feltus pulls on his experience to teach yoga in correctional facilities, schools, and community centers throughout Chicago. In this sangha, he and our VP of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer discuss social justice in yoga.

Community Sangha | The Healing and Restorative Power of Yoga

Explore how yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda can be used to heal and restore during these times to help safely navigate and deconstruct racism, ecological devastation, injustice, and oppression on individual, local, national, and global levels.

Community Sangha | Kashmir Shaivism

Learn about Kashmir Shaivism and its lesson that even the most commonplace occurrences throughout our day-to-day lives hold opportunities for growth and consciousness expansion. This sangha explores how access to the divine is accessible even in "ordinary" or "simple" actions, understood as different types of yoga and meditation.

Community Sangha | The Power of Breath in Times of Great Change

While the world around us may feel chaotic, explore how to create a calm environment within. Learn why breathing is an act of peaceful resilience and how to efficiently manage stress and awaken inner wisdom through the practice of mindfulness and pranayama. Leave feeling energized and at peace.

Community Sangha | The 5 Divine Actions

This sangha touches upon the root teaching of Śiva’s form of Naṭarāja, the “Lord of the Cosmic Dance.” Specifically, participants focus on his 5 Divine Actions and how to use this knowledge to investigate personal psychosomatic patterns.

Community Sangha | Achieving Peace, Harmony, Balance, and Success with Yoga

Host Maya Breuer chats with special guest Berry Murray who attributes her success as the owner of a thriving bed and breakfast to her yoga practice. Listen as she speaks about the benefits she has derived from yoga's practice and philosophy and how it impacts key pieces of her life.