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New Teachers Meet-Up

Are you new to teaching yoga? Then this meet-up is tailored just for you!

Join us for an enriching hour-long virtual gathering with opportunities to expand your network, seek guidance, exchange experiences, and immerse yourself in a supportive community of like-minded individuals. This session is a great opportunity for new yoga teachers to discover their local community, carve out their niche, and embark on a collective learning journey with a group of fellow professionals.

Yoga in Healthcare: Exploring Integration and Impact

Join an exploratory conversation into the topic of yoga integration into health care settings. We’ll discuss the unique work of the YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry team, findings from the Yoga in the World research study, and explore what strides have been made in these efforts as well as what roadblocks remain.

Explore the Benefits of Yoga Alliance Membership

Whether you're already a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, a current student at one of our many Registered Yoga Schools, or thinking about starting a yoga teacher training, there's a lot a Yoga Alliance membership offers that you may not know about. Join the Community Engagement team for an event designed to help you get the most from a Yoga Alliance membership. The team will go over the many resources available to you as a member, including the Member Assistance Program and YA CommUnity, setting up your professional profile, accessing benefits, and more. Bring any and all questions—or even let us know what benefits you'd like to see in the future!

Yoga in Healthcare Meet-Up

At Yoga Alliance, we believe in the power of connection and community. Member Meet-Ups bring together yoga professionals from around the world into one virtual space to engage in meaningful conversations, share knowledge, and strengthen their network.

Interested in learning more about bringing yoga into healthcare settings? Join this collaborative conversation with the YogaX team from Stanford Psychiatry to discuss the differences between providing yoga in a studio setting compared to healthcare settings. In this member meet-up, we will utilize breakout rooms to engage in small group conversations about yoga in healthcare.

To ensure that everyone has an opportunity to actively participate, registration will be limited. This way, we can maintain an engaging and inclusive environment for all attendees.

YogaX and Yoga Alliance invite all US-based yoga professionals to participate in a research survey on integrating Yoga into Healthcare: http://cloud.email.yogaalliance.org/yogax.

Community Class | CONFIDANCE

According to vulnerability researcher Brené Brown, "there is no form of self-expression that makes us feel more vulnerable than dancing. It is full body vulnerability”. In an art form that requires us to be seen, not only by ourselves but by others, in our own bodies, it's no wonder most of us don't feel confident when we move.

Join us for an inspiring yoga practice to celebrate AAPI Month! Designed and led by Lauren DeVera (she/her), this movement and introspective workshop will guide attendees in taking up space, being seen, and moving with confidence. Integrating a slow flow, improvisation and journaling, attendees will experience a deeper sense of self, safety in one's body and confidence to explore our edges.

When we all take up space fully, the world becomes a brighter place.

This event will be moderated by Stephon JB, Founder & CEO, LifeWell. This class is open to everyone.

You can learn more about Lauren DeVera at www.lauren-devera.com.

Items to bring: yoga mat, journal and pen

Spanish Networking Meet-Up

¡Llamando a todos los miembros de Yoga Alliance de habla hispana! ¡Tendremos nuestro primer encuentro online para miembros de Yoga Alliance de habla hispana! Tendrás la oportunidad de conocer, conectar y compartir con miembros de todo el mundo.

Únete a nosotros para esta reunión de una hora que tendrá lugar en Zoom.

Community Class | Pride and the Pursuit of Progress

Be like the moon. Show up in the world regardless of what phase you're in." As the LGBTQIA+ community celebrates Pride month in the United States, join your Yoga Alliance community for a multi-faceted all-levels practice including asana, pranayama and meditation. Washington, D.C based yoga teacher Chris Reber (he/him) will lead the Yoga Alliance team and a virtual audience in a practice that explores how your personal identity connects you to your community. The class will end with a brief question and answer session led by Lauren DeVera (she/her), founder of The Lion's Den.

Items to bring: yoga mat

Info Session | Join Yoga Alliance’s Boards of Directors

We believe that if more people practice yoga, the better the world will be. Yoga Alliance has released its 2024-2030 Strategic Plan and we are now looking for individuals to join Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance Foundation’s Boards of Directors. In this info session, you will learn what it means to serve on the Boards of Directors, roles and responsibilities, details about the application process, and more.

This event is moderated by Kevin James Karas, Board Governance Manager at Yoga Alliance.

Community Class | Our Presence Has Purpose

Celebrate Disability Pride Month and join our online seated adaptive and accessible yoga class. This event is Adaptive which means it will allow you to adapt all the movements to your own wonderful and unique body, and Accessible because it’s open to the entire community -- disabled and non-disabled folks alike. Disability both diminishes and magnifies, and we will wholeheartedly celebrate the diversity of the human experience. You'll be invited to inhabit your body gently and kindly through breath, movement, music, awareness, and meditation—a genuinely nourishing, intimate, embodied experience with your Self.

Props: If you do not use a wheelchair to travel the World, we kindly ask you to show up with a sturdy chair and a few props.

“Freedom from & Freedom to” Flow

The word freedom comes from the English word FRĒODŌM , a state of emancipation, liberty, or free will. This word is composed of: free or “FRĒO,” indicating an exemption from something and “DŌM” is a suffix in Old English indicating judgement or condemnation.

Designed and led by Nana Amoako-Anin, this practice carves out space for us to explore FREE-dom. Freedom from elements of life that are blocking our progress. Offering us space to experience joy.

Going deep into movements for the FREE-body, this vinyasa flow class is a mix of heart-openers and grounding poses. This practice will begin with contemplation and reflection about what freedom means to each of us. We will ponder how our self-beliefs may prevent progress. The practice will encourage openness and release.

The class will end with a brief question and answer session led by Rodrigo Souza (he/him), Adaptive & Accessible Yoga Teacher and founder of Allihopa Yoga.

Items to bring: yoga mat, yoga block, and journal

In Remembrance of Our Dead

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the tradition of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), we will respectfully build an ofrenda (offerings placed on an altar) and dedicate our sadhana to our beloved who are deceased.

Designed and led by Daniel Hickman (he/him), we'll intentionally use this time as an homage to our ancestors, dearly departed friends, and perished animal companions.

We welcome everyone to create their own ofrenda, or Día de los Muertos altar, to pay tribute to and celebrate the life of their loved ones who have departed. The altar serves as a celebration of life, honoring the joy, spirit, and cherished memories of those who have passed with love and remembrance.


Class will begin and end with chanting. Asanas will include mobility, flexibility, core stabilization and static strength to move us through the six directions of the spine. We will then make use of pranayama to enter stillness in dhyana in remembrance of our dead.

Chants: rhythmic repetitions of a song, prayer, word, or sound. In yoga, sound is seen as healing and sacred.

· Bija Mantras (short one syllable word chanted aloud or silently to cultivate concentration, mindfulness, and a state of meditation.)
· Om Mani Padme Hum (mantra that encapsulates the core teachings of compassion and wisdom and is said to represent the path to enlightenment.)

Pranayamas: Ancient breathing techniques that involve controlling one’s breath using different styles and techniques

· dirgha (known as “three-part” breath; this technique consists of slow and deep breathing, filling up the chest, abdomen, and clavicular regions. Its benefits include prolonged breathing, stress reduction, increased inner focus, and connection of the mind, body, and breath.)
· surya bheda (known as right nostril breathing; a technique that consists of inhaling through the right nostril and exhaling through the left.)
· chandra bheda (known as single nostril breath, or left nostril breathing; a technique which involves blocking the opposite nostril, typically done in a seated position at the end of a yoga practice to calm and cool the mind and body down.)

The class will end with a brief question and answer session led by Nana Amoako-Anin (she/her), Ghanian-American seasoned yoga teacher, E-RYT 500, YACEP, and owner of Bliss Yoga Accra.

Items to bring: yoga mat, blanket, blocks, meditation cushion and… items to decorate our ofrenda in a way that connects you to your dead loved ones. Be it flowers, food, pictures, clothes, textiles, even books, jewelry, flowers and candles.