Your Yoga Alliance

Community Sangha | Yoga and Self-Care
2021-09-17 10:00 - 22:45 (America/New_York)
Unpack yoga and self-care in this community sangha. Here, Dr. Solmaz Behtash shares how she found yoga, and explores insights on her daily yoga and meditation practices. Hear how they support her as a physician and parent.

CE Workshop Series | Ayurveda: Practical Applications in Teaching Yoga, Part 3
2021-09-16 16:00 - 17:00
Ayurveda is a sister science to yoga and one of the oldest natural healing systems on the planet, with South Asian roots. The final part of this three-part workshop series will narrow in on the key sites, gunas, and five sub-doshas of Vāta (the vayus), as they pertain to bodily functions, pranayama practices, and asana. There will be readings from classical sutras and a short grounding practice to balance vāta dosha (space and air elements).

CE Workshop | Healthy Movement and Range of Action
2021-09-16 10:00 - 11:00
Ensure that your practice is safe and complete with this perspective on healthy movement and range of action. Discuss options to make your practice well-rounded and enjoyable and explore movements for conditioning areas that are often neglected and help prevent common injuries. These simple exercises add depth to your understanding and can be applied by beginner students and seasoned practitioners. Get ready to expand your practice!

Taller de CE | Rango de acción para movimiento saludable
2021-09-14 09:30 - 10:30
Asegúrate que tu práctica sea saludable y completa con esta perspectiva sobre el rango de acción que te ofrecerá muchas opciones para hacer que tu práctica sea equilibrada y agradable. Este taller explora movimientos para acondicionar áreas que a menudo se descuidan al tiempo que previene lesiones comunes. Estos sencillos ejercicios añaden profundidad a tu comprensión y pueden ser aplicados por estudiantes de yoga a todos los niveles desde principiantes a experimentados. ¡Prepárate a expandir tu práctica muy fácilmente!

Partner Event | Teaching for Equity and Synergy Yoga Sangha Series
2021-09-12 12:00 - 13:30, 2021-08-15 12:00 - 13:30, 2021-08-01 12:00 - 13:30
Yoga Alliance Foundation’s Teaching for Equity program provides funding for free yoga classes in communities that face barriers to access. In this sangha series, program teachers will offer insights from their work, sharing stories of resilience, challenges, and solidarity that emerged in their communities amidst the global pandemic.

CE Workshop Series | Ayurveda: Practical Applications in Teaching Yoga, Part 2
2021-09-09 16:00 - 17:00
Ayurveda is a sister science to yoga and one of the oldest natural healing systems on the planet, with South Asian roots. Part 2 of this three-part workshop series will look at the four seasons, winter, spring, summer, and fall. Review the qualities and tendencies of these times of the year and learn ways to balance through movement, specific asanas, and meditation.

CE Workshop | Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Part 2
2021-09-07 15:00 - 16:00
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. Presenter Ivelise Castillo also answers questions from Part 1. Find Part 1 of this workshop and others on yourya.org.

CE Workshop Series | Ayurveda: Practical Applications in Teaching Yoga, Part 1
2021-09-02 16:00 - 17:00
Ayurveda is a sister science to yoga and one of the oldest natural healing systems on the planet, with South Asian roots. This three-part introductory workshop touches on underlying philosophical foundations of Ayurveda. Learn the fundamentals of the five elements, three doshas, 20 gunas, paradigm of constitution, and sources of balance and imbalance.

CE Workshop | Make Savasana Sweeter with Sound
2021-09-02 14:00 - 15:00
Relaxation does not come easy to many, which can make Savasana difficult. This workshop will help yoga teachers explore ways to enhance the benefits of Savasana through sound. Learn about various sound bath instruments including tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, gongs, and chimes. Discuss the science of sound baths and how they can be used in yoga classes offered either online or in person. Experience the benefits of sacred sound for yourself as you learn and receive!

CE Workshop | Sequencing for the Spine
2021-08-26 10:00 - 11:00
Enhance your practice and teaching with simple sequencing focused on your spine. Learn to design sequences following an easy, logical, and systematic formula to enhance spinal mobility and stability. This approach invites you to expand your understanding of postures for maintaining spinal integrity and ensuring a safe practice in your practice and teaching. Get ready to give your spine attention and love!

CE Workshop | We Are Not the Same: Working Practices for Engaging with LGBTQ2SIA+ and BIPOC Folks
2021-08-24 16:00 - 17:00
Learn how to create a more comfortable and equitable yoga space for historically marginalized folks, particularly LGBTQ2SIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-spirit, Intersex, Asexual, plus) and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) folks. In this workshop, Teaching for Equity recipient Ameerah Craigg reviews the basics of how to offer radically anti-oppressive wellness spaces and provides a detailed How-To on leading a trauma-informed and inclusive yoga session.

Taller de CE | Secuencias centradas en la columna
2021-08-24 09:30 - 10:30
Enriquece tu práctica y enseñanza aprendiendo a crear secuencias sencillas centrada en la columna vertebral. Aprende a diseñar secuencias siguiendo una fórmula sencilla, lógica y sistemática para mejorar la movilidad y la estabilidad de la columna. Este enfoque te invita a ampliar tu comprensión de las posturas para mantener la integridad de tu columna al tiempo que creas práctica segura. ¡Prepárate para ofrecer atención y amor a tu columna vertebral!

Community Sangha | Meditation and Active Dreaming, Part 2
2021-08-20 10:00 - 10:45
Ava Wolf is back to 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.

Yoga Lineages | Kundalini Yoga Practice
2021-08-19 12:00 - 13:15
Practice Kundalini in this asana class. This lineage is a dynamic blend of postures, pranayama (breath), mantra (chanting), movement, and meditation that awakens the flow of life force energy along the spine to help us become healthier, happier, and more spiritually connected.

Yoga continues to evolve to include deeply varied styles and types of practice, all rooted in a shared ancient history. Yoga Lineages is a series of conversations that explores seven of today’s most widely recognized yoga lineages, revealing what is unique about these practices. Whether you’re seeking peace of mind, strength in body, or are simply interested in finding a more mindful way of living, yoga can help and is a practice for all.

CE Workshop | Stand Out, Brand YOU!
2021-08-18 16:00 - 17:00
The pandemic brought with it competition, less room for error, and the need for greater angling to be visible in the wellness space both online and off! Don’t stress. Sadie Nardini, one of the world’s most successful digital yoga and fitness entrepreneurs, provides a few DIY tools to quickly designate your place, unique personality, and expertise, and help you claim your rightful spot in a crowded space.

Yoga Lineages | An Introduction to Kundalini Yoga
2021-08-18 12:00 - 13:15
In this event, host Kim Weeks and Pritpal Kaur Khalsa explore the origins, evolution, and modern-day story of Kundalini. This practice is a dynamic blend of postures, pranayama (breath), mantra (chanting), movement, and meditation that awakens the flow of life force energy along the spine and helps us become healthier, happier, and more spiritually connected.

Yoga continues to evolve to include deeply varied styles and types of practice, all rooted in a shared ancient history. Yoga Lineages is a series of conversations that explores seven of today’s most widely recognized yoga lineages, revealing what is unique about these practices. Whether you’re seeking peace of mind, strength in body, or are simply interested in finding a more mindful way of living, yoga can help and is a practice for all.

Yoga Alliance Office Hours | Anatomy: Coming Back from an Injury Safely
2021-08-17 14:00 - 15:00
When healing from an injury, it can be difficult to know what is safe and what to avoid in your yoga practice. Additionally, as a teacher, you may be unsure of how to help your students. There is much we can do to modify our practice to support ourselves and our students safely during recovery time. Here, presenters Keri Bergeron, Jenny Loftus, and Arturo Peal answer questions and talk about yoga practice through injury recovery.

CE Workshop | Chair Yoga: More than Asana
2021-08-17 10:00 - 11:00
Explore chair-based yoga through a combination of theory and practice. Maria Jones offers an experience helping participants discover why and how chair-based yoga is much more than asana. Understand how this practice promotes community and independence and provides tools for managing chronic and age-related conditions.

CE Workshop | Partner Yoga: Twice the Fun
2021-08-12 12:00 - 13:00
Explore the benefits of partner yoga and how to use this practice to deepen your individual poses. Learn how partner yoga can help practitioners sense their “edge,” and use the breath of intuitive communication in this practice to find focus like none other. Many partner poses are explored as we play and have fun in this practice for two!

CE Workshop | Studying Cobra Pose
2021-08-11 12:00 - 13:15
Practice cobra pose from the perspective of strength and useful mobility. Discuss interpretations of the term “core strength,” and work through exercises that distinguish these concepts. Participants visit cobra pose several times throughout the workshop to discuss the how-to of this shape and explore a few variations and exercises to create a practice that amplifies understanding of a strong and supple spine.

CE Workshop Series | Fun, Friendship, and Freedom, Part 4
2021-08-10 11:00 - 12:00
Indulge in some summer fun! Prashant and Manju Joshi teach yoga and holistic practices that result in better friendships and assist in freedom from dis-ease. Built especially for the summer, this workshop offers tools for this season such as handling heat and sun, and enhances your practice to prepare you for the forthcoming fall.

This series includes a combination of presentation and practice, focusing on the foundations of yoga, anatomy, physiology, mental health, teaching styles, and business.

CE Workshop | The Anatomy of Yoga Sequencing
2021-08-04 11:00 - 12:15
Hayley Winter presents this 75-minute workshop, during which she shares the anatomical and biomechanical approaches she uses when teaching yoga to athletes. Explore how to switch key muscles on and off to improve muscle sequencing and activation, and how developing this understanding can add a whole new dimension to how you teach yoga postures!

CE Workshop Series | Fun, Friendship, and Freedom, Part 3
2021-08-03 11:00 - 12:00

CE Workshop | Book Discussion, IS THIS YOGA?
2021-07-29 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Anya Foxen and Dr. Christa Kuberry visit concepts, histories, and the complexities of modern yoga practice. Their recent book Is This Yoga? asks readers to get comfortable with the contradictions that are inherent in yoga’s past and present. Both authors provide us with a rigorously researched and accessible view that is flexible enough to move between and amongst a variety of definitions, understandings, and practices of yoga. This book explicitly strives to center the idea of diversity, conversation, and change when it comes to the story of yoga as we continue to critically question—is this yoga at all? Is This Yoga? is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

Member Benefit Workshop | Navigating Music and Video Copyright Laws
2021-07-28 16:00 - 17:00
The learning curve surrounding music and video copyright laws can be a challenge. This workshop offers a conversation about these concerns and explores what’s possible as many professionals continue to take their endeavors online. Gain insight around why the copyright laws function the way they do, who dictates those laws, and how to bring compassion and awareness to this unusual and often fragmented ecosystem. Also, explore the historical role of music in yoga and its development and evolution as yoga and embodiment practices continue to grow and change due to Western influences.

CE Workshop Series | Fun, Friendship, and Freedom, Part 2
2021-07-27 11:00 - 12:00

Yoga Lineages | Viniyoga Practice
2021-07-22 14:00 - 15:00
Experience the depth of an integrated Viniyoga class, including asana, pranayama, and meditation. Viniyoga offers a comprehensive and authentic transmission of yoga designed for everyone’s unique body and mind.

Yoga continues to evolve to include deeply varied styles and types of practice, all rooted in a shared ancient history. Yoga Lineages is a series of conversations that explores seven of today’s most widely recognized yoga lineages, revealing what is unique about these practices. Whether you’re seeking peace of mind, strength in body, or are simply interested in finding a more mindful way of living, yoga can help and is a practice for all.

CE Workshop Series | Three Principles of Spiritual Leadership: Self-Discipline, Part 3
2021-07-22 12:00 - 13:00
The Bhagavad Gita is a call to action. Beyond the asceticism of a solitary yoga practice for the sake of one’s own liberation, is the higher practice of fighting for the sake of the world’s welfare. This workshop series, based on the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, discusses the practical application of three leadership principles that can empower us to lead without egoism, see beyond illusion, and exemplify action for all the world to follow. This series helps prepare those who know that the world needs them, to step up into a position of spiritual leadership. Part 3 of this series focuses on self-discipline.
