Your Yoga Alliance

CE Workshop | Finding Your Ideal Yoga Students, Part 2
2021-03-16 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
It can be tempting to dive head-first into the largest yoga market you can find and see how things go. However, tackling a big market right away is not always a wise idea. Aiming too high too fast can cause you to stretch your resources thinly and become overwhelmed. On the other hand, getting your start in a smaller (or niche) market is almost always a solid yoga business plan. Targeting a smaller customer base will enable you to pivot your product faster, scale seamlessly, and create opportunity to engage with your users regularly. This workshop takes a closer look at the benefits of defining your niche market and guides you through the process with easy-to-understand steps.

CE Workshop | Reflection: Yoga Teachers, Power, and Privilege, Part 2
2021-03-18 14:00 - 15:00
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 2 focuses on power and privilege.

Community Sangha | Meditation and Active Dreaming
2021-03-19 10:00 - 10:45
Explore the value of night-time dreams, liminal waking experiences, and even “ordinary” waking experiences to solve problems and discover allies. This community sangha reveals how mediation and active dreaming can help us recognize future challenges and opportunities, maintain health, reveal life patterns and themes, communicate with the departed, inspire creativity, unlock mysteries of relationships, and ultimately, reveal larger Purpose.

CE Workshop | The Sweet and Simple Practice of Mantras and Mudras (M&Ms)
2021-03-19 12:00 - 13:00
Many yoga practitioners and teachers shy away from mudras and mantras as esoteric or religious practices. In this workshop, we focus on the science and practical relevance of their use in bringing out the potential of your yoga practice and teaching. The five elements and seven chakras are fundamental to the science of yoga and Ayurveda, and here we explore how mudras and mantras can also create necessary balance for optimal functionality. Mudras and mantras—as sweet and simple as M&Ms!

CE Workshop | Q&A Session: Follow-up to Yoga and Eating Disorders
2021-03-22 12:00 - 13:00
This workshop serves as a follow-up to previous Yoga and Eating Disorders events available as recordings on yourya.org. Join presenter Chelsea Roff as she answers lingering and popular questions derived from this series and addresses new questions brought by event participants.

CE Workshop Series | Mantra Mālā – Mantra is Prāṇāyāma, Part 1
2021-03-23 12:00 - 13:00
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 | All About the SI Joint
2021-03-23 14:00 - 15:15
Dive into about the anatomy of the sacroiliac joint and its relationship with neighboring structures in the body. Learn functional movement patterns that support this joint’s health and how to work with common pitfalls and challenges in a yoga practice.

CE Workshop | Studying Plank Pose
2021-03-24 12:00 - 13:15
Plank pose, or chaturanga dandasana, is a nuanced posture that sparks conversation and creativity. This workshop discusses how the joints are positioned and loaded in the common variation of this pose. We also learn how to create a more expansive idea of alignment, so we can understand when a student may require alternatives to the typical variation. And, we play with chaturanga! Practice with props, movements, and creative iterations of this remarkable pose.

CE Workshop | Reconnection Through Action: From Appropriation to Appreciation, Part 3
2021-03-25 14:00 - 15:00
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 3 focuses on appropriation and thoughtful action in yoga.

CE Workshop | Teaching to a Peak Posture
2021-03-26 14:00 - 15:00
Explore intricate and interesting stretches and shapes to build to the peak pose Bird of Paradise. Learn arm balances as prep postures and creative nuances to travel through hamstring, hip, and shoulder work. Take the time in this workshop to embody the actual shape rather than whizzing right through it. Explore curious, smart, and fun orientations of Bird of Paradise and work deeper than you have before to reap the benefits, breath space into the asana, and find ease in the process.

Panel Discussion | Evolution of Yoga Summit and Blueprint, Part 2: Equity and Racism
2021-03-29 14:00 - 15:00
While whiteness is positioned to have access to practices that are healing and liberating, we know many BIPOC are suﬀering with disproportionate rates of hypertension, heart disease, racial trauma, and the impacts of being made invisible by culture. When we leave race out of a conversation about yoga, we reinforce the idea that some are meant to suﬀer while others are meant to be healed and liberated. A focus on race allows us to deepen our understanding of the intersection of capitalism and the industry of yoga, and to consider how we can truly move beyond inclusion and create a liberatory space where those marginalized based on race can practice self-determination and create conditions for themselves to thrive.

CE Workshop Series | Men Care Now: Layers of Compassion, Part 2
2021-03-30 12:00 - 13:00
Men Care Now: Layers of Compassion Series is a yoga conversation series which explores how unique compassion is for each individual and how powerful compassion is for a community.

CE Workshop Series | How to Price Your Yoga Offerings, Part 3
2021-03-30 17:00 - 18:00
Pricing services is one of the most common issues for yoga professionals. There is no true industry standard—rates fluctuate based on location, experience, and demographics. This workshop walks through best practices, pricing strategies, and the magic formula for yoga businesses. Look at drop-in rates, intro offers, and monthly memberships designed to engage and retain students whether you are a yoga studio or solo yogi-preneur. This workshop also provides additional support through the Yoga Alliance CommUnity Forum.

Yoga Alliance Office Hours | Yoga and Religion
2021-03-31 12:00 - 13:00
Explore yoga and religion with two great leaders on the topic—Hari-Kirtana das and Yoga Alliance’s Vice President of Standards, Dr. Christa Kuberry. In this series, expert panelists open their office doors, answer participant questions, and centralize discussion on nuanced and complex yogic topics.

CE Workshop Series | Liberation: Yoga Ethics in Action Right Now, Part 4
2021-04-01 14:00 - 15:00
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
2021-04-05 10:00 - 11:00
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
2021-04-05 16:00 - 17:00
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.

Yoga Alliance Office Hours | Anatomy: The Low Back
2021-04-06 12:00 - 13:00
In the Yoga Alliance Office Hours series, expert panelists open their office doors, answer participant questions, and centralize discussion on nuanced and complex yogic topics. In this event, returning digital event presenters Keri Bergeron, Jenny Loftus, and Arturo Peal break down the anatomy of the low back.

CE Workshop | Teaching Yoga for Big Bodies
2021-04-07 12:00 - 13:15
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
2021-04-08 12:00 - 13:00
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.

Master Class | Men Care Now: A Slower Pace to Practice
2021-04-09 12:00 - 13:30
The Men Care Now Yoga Methodology is a unique, empathetic “risk-aware” methodology for the body and mind. It is primarily a Vinyasa methodology, though it also has deep ties to other lineages like Iyengar. This event offers a pace-focused Vinyasa flow allowing for time in each pose while guiding participants to remain connected to the breath. It also utilizes compassionate language and cueing with a risk-aware lens. Additional attention is placed on optionality and accessibility while incorporating props. Provided modifications help attendees to learn, self-reflect, and choose which aspects complement their path, needs, and wishes for their yoga practice and teaching style.

CE Workshop | LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity: Holding Space for Other Communities
2021-04-09 14:00 - 15:00
Yoga should offer space free of assumptions where all are welcomed. This workshop provides an open dialog about supporting the LGBTQIA+ community in yoga classes.

CE Workshop Series | Men Care Now: Layers of Compassion, Part 3
2021-04-13 12:00 - 13:00
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.

Community Conversation | "How Can the Yoga Community Heal Its Divisions in the Wake of 2020?"
2021-04-16 16:00 - 17:00
2020 was a tumultuous year for many, including the yoga community. Deep divisions, conspiracy theories, misinformation, and using the guise of yoga to justify violence has left many wondering how we got here. In this conversation, leading yoga teachers Amy Ippoliti, Hari-kirtana das, and yogic activist Reggie Hubbard discuss the foundations of yoga and how we can begin to heal this divide and move forward with truth, integrity, and compassion.

CE Workshop | How to Find New Clients Online
2021-04-19 16:00 - 17:00
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.

Panel Discussion | Evolution of Yoga Summit and Blueprint, Part 3: Cultural Appropriation
2021-04-20 09:00 - 10:00
With the conﬂuence of Yoga teachers of various lineages and cultures, the Cultural Appropriation Track at this conference invites practitioners to explore questions and nuances raised within the context of Yoga and cultural appropriation. We will consider the ﬁne line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation. We will also assess the impacts within the Indian and South Asian diasporic context as well as within Black and Indigenous Native American cultures. Cultural appropriation involves a degeneration of primordial cultural rituals and wisdom, so we will also explore the depth, creativity, and richness of indigenous rites and practices that are often missing from Modern Postural Yoga practices. We will explore and practice restoration of ancestral wisdom and other Yogic cultural elements.

CE Workshop | Mantra Mālā - Mantra as Prāṇāyāma, Part 2
2021-04-20 12:00 - 13:00

CE Workshop Series | From Doing Yoga to Being Yoga: Embodying Three Sacred Teachings of Our Tradition, Embracing Transformation
2021-04-21 14:00 - 15:00
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.

Panel Discussion | A Conversation with Professionals: COVID-19 and its Vaccine
2021-04-22 12:00 - 13:00
This panel discussion features both yoga and health care professionals who offer valuable insight on the coronavirus pandemic. Viewers can listen in as panelists share their knowledge, respective expertise, and perspectives on COVID-19, its corresponding vaccines, and the health and wellness of the communities they serve.

Community Sangha | Teaching Yoga and Meditation
2021-04-23 13:30 - 14:15
Presenter Monique Schubert (E-RYT 500, YACEP) shares reflections from her explorations into meditation and contemplative practices. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, she also addresses the importance of personal practice and how to adapt the teachings of mindfulness and meditation to fulfill your intentions as a teacher, meeting students where they are as they are.
