Your Yoga Alliance

CE Workshop | Partner Yoga: Twice the Fun
2021-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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!

Partner Event | Teaching for Equity and Synergy Yoga Sangha Series
2021-08-15 12:00 - 13:30, 2021-09-12 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 | 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.

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.

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.

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 | 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.

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.

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!

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.

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 | 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 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 | 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 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.

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!

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!

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).

Community Sangha | Yoga and Self-Care
2021-09-17 10:00 - 22:45
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 | Chair Yoga: Comfort and Stillness
2021-09-23 10:00 - 11:00
Without comfort, there is no stillness. Krista Marzewski and Maria Jones explore utilizing a chair to create space and comfort through the practice of chair yoga. Krista and Maria talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of being seated for prolonged periods of time and then take participants through a short chair-based yoga practice that aims to bring comfort and stillness in both mind and body.

Yoga Lineages | An Introduction to Iyengar Yoga
2021-09-23 14:00 - 15:15
In this event, host Kim Weeks, Patricia Walden, and Joan White explore the origins, evolution, and modern-day story of Iyengar. This practice is a practical method of exploring the philosophy of yoga from the skin to the soul.

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 | Creative Sequencing for the Hips
2021-09-28 10:00 - 11:00
Boost creativity and inspiration with a combination of active and introspective poses that focus on hip-opening. This workshop focuses on how to design hip-opener sequences for yoga practitioners of all levels.

CE Workshop | Keep it Fun, Keep it Yoga: Teaching for Children
2021-09-28 13:00 - 14:00
Learn how to share yoga with preschool children appropriately and safely, along with specific techniques to help children relax and focus. Practice structuring a 30 to 45-minute class, and a guided relaxation using breath and visualization. This workshop also reviews guidelines for children with ADHD and Autism.

CE Workshop | Prenatal Yoga: Applications for Teaching and Safe Practice
2021-09-28 15:00 - 16:15
This workshop explores some of the body changes that can occur throughout pregnancy and how yoga can support common challenges. Learn safe and simple modifications that can be incorporated into yoga practice to support both the parent and the baby during this sacred time.

Yoga Lineages | Iyengar Yoga Practice
2021-09-30 14:00 - 15:15
>Practice Iyengar in this asana class. This lineage is a practical method of exploring the philosophy of yoga from the skin to the soul. 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 | Yoga and the Path of Being Climate Awake and Proactive, Part 1
2021-09-30 16:00 - 17:00
Understand how the practice of yoga fits into the landscape of constant change. Discuss how to live yoga in a meaningful way. The world seems like a never-ending landscape of suffering and injustice. At the same time there is also breath-taking beauty, raw magic, courage, kindness, and bravery. Climate change poses an imminent threat to all life. Explore how using yoga to educate and empower is one of the possible solutions for taking on the work of being climate awake and climate proactive. Along with the insight of fundamental yogic teachings, practical tools and ways forward are shared.

CE Workshop | Freedom From the Clouded Mind: A Guide to Kleshas
2021-10-05 22:00 - 23:00
In yogic philosophy, the kleshas are the obstacles and afflictions that keep us away from our true contentment. Learn what they are, how to overcome them, and release yourself from their grip to live a happy and peaceful life. Let’s unravel the thread, unblocking the path to our self- development in a happier, healthier, and spiritual manner.

CE Workshop | The Greatness of the Goddess
2021-10-06 16:00 - 17:00
This workshop explores the vision of the divine feminine we see in ancient India’s first Sanskrit Goddess text: Devī Māhātmya (literally, the Greatness of the Goddess). The Indian Great Goddess is understood in this text as power itself (śakti), which all beings – humans, animals, gods – draw on. Unpack questions like, “What would it mean to have a supreme cosmic force, which is feminine vs. masculine?” “What wisdom were the ancients trying to encode in the face of power we see in the Devī Māhāmtya?” Join Dr. Raj Balkaran as he narrates and decodes these ancient tales testifying to the greatness of the Goddess.

CE Workshop | Yoga and the Path of Being Climate Awake and Proactive, Part 2
2021-10-07 16:00 - 17:00
Sometimes, the world can seem like a never-ending landscape of suffering and injustice. At the same time, there is also breath-taking beauty, raw magic, courage, kindness, and bravery. Climate change poses an imminent threat to all life, and this workshop explores how using yoga to educate and empower is one way to take on the work of being climate awake and climate proactive. Practical tools and a way forward are shared along with the insight of fundamental yogic teachings.
