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CE Workshop | Finding Your Ideal Yoga Students, Part 2

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.