Your Yoga Alliance

Community Sangha | Reconciliation and Social Justice from an Indigenous Perspective
2020-07-20 14:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
This sangha offers a transformative process of building communities to wholeness. Participants will develop a greater capacity for empathy in providing healing for both those who are harmed and those who cause harm.

CE Workshop | Scientific Research on Yoga and Back Pain
2020-07-20 12:00 - 13:00
Lower back pain is one of the most prevalent physical complaints in society. Here, workshop hosts explain why this is so common and reveal how yoga can offer relief when compared to surgery or pharmaceutical interventions.

Community Sangha | Testimonial: Yoga in My Life
2020-07-17 10:00 - 10:30
Rose Weaver shares her personal experiences with yoga and discusses how it served to benefit her life as an artist.

CE Workshop | Origins and Authenticity in Modern Yoga, Part 2
2020-07-16 14:00 - 15:00
This workshop series untangles the complicated roots of our modern yoga practice. From Indian ascetics, tantric mystics, and bodybuilders to European philosophers, wizards, and dancers, we’ll trace the wild rhizomatic web that got us to today’s physical and spiritual practices.

CE Workshop | Yoga Philosophy and the West: Yoga in an Age of Confronting Systemic Discrimination, Part 2
2020-07-14 10:00 - 11:00
This four-part series introduces ethical and social philosophies of yoga, including Yogic Models of Understanding and Colonialism; Yoga and Thinking Philosophically, Religion, Spirituality; Categories of Western Imperialism vs Yoga; and Yoga as a Basic Ethical Theory.

Community Sangha | Meditation in Nature
2020-07-13 14:00 - 15:00
Nature is a powerful way to draw a restless and worried mind back to a state of profound balance. This workshop will explore the ways we can draw on our natural surroundings as a vehicle for waking up and includes suggestions on guiding students into a meditative state ripe for insight.

Research Discussion | Bringing Scientific Research to Life: Trauma
2020-07-13 12:00 - 13:00
Sharpen your understanding of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Here, guest panelists offer their most notable experiences and learnings from teaching yoga for trauma survivors and take questions related to the many aspects of this fast-growing field of mind/body healing.

Community Sangha | Retreat to Spirit Through Self-Care
2020-07-10 10:00 - 11:00
This community sangha includes discussion with Retreat to Spirit founders Pamela Stokes Eggleston and Amina Naru with their take on self-care and contemplative yogic practices that they have used in the past and throughout their collective self-care and self-love journeys.

CE Workshop | Origins and Authenticity in Modern Yoga, Part 1
2020-07-09 14:00 - 15:00

Community Conversation | An International Perspective
2020-07-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-07-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-06-24 14:00 - 15:00
The COVID-19 pandemic and recent social justice movements show us how connected we all are. This series aims to foster a greater connection with the international yoga community and better inform participants about areas of challenge and opportunity faced by the yoga community around the world.

CE Workshop | Yoga Philosophy and the West: Yoga in an Age of Confronting Systemic Discrimination, Part 1
2020-07-07 10:00 - 11:00

CE Workshop | Scientific Research on Yoga and Trauma
2020-07-06 12:00 - 13:00
In this workshop, you will sharpen your working definitions and understandings of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Here, experts expand on these topics and explain why yoga is a good modality for trauma, compared with and as an adjunct to pharmaceutical interventions.

CE Workshop | The Yoga of Relationship
2020-07-02 14:00 - 15:00
Understand the multidimensional nature of the human system and the corresponding multifaceted practices as taught by the Ancients. This workshop will begin to explore the breadth of these teachings and practices and the ways in which we can integrate them into our personal yoga practice and teaching.

Community Conversation | The Intersectionality of Yoga for Black Teachers and Practitioners
2020-07-02 10:00 - 11:00
In this edition of Community Conversations, a BIPOC panel including Yoga Alliance employees will engage in open conversation about how racism has affected their lives as yoga teachers and practitioners and their experiences navigating yoga spaces.

Yoga Alliance Office Hours | Ethics and Yoga
2020-07-01 11:30 - 12:00
Join Yoga Alliance for this community conversation on questions and resources for offering accessible yoga during these changing times.

CE Workshop | Unpacking the Upleveled Standards
2020-06-30 10:00 - 11:00
This event will guide participants through the strengthened RYS application and review process launched in Feb 2020. Hosts will detail what goes into a completely new application, and the up-leveling process for existing schools. Walk away with application clarity and preparation tools.

Community Sangha | Kemetic Yoga
2020-06-29 10:00 - 10:30
Yirser Ra Hotep joins our Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer in this online gathering designed to bring yoga schools, teachers, and students together during this time of social distancing.

Community Conversation | Mindfulness as a Tool for Families Pursuing Social Justice
2020-06-26 14:00 - 15:00
Join us for a purposeful conversation about how adults, including parents, can comfort, educate, and support children using mindfulness practices as tools to confront the realities of racism, oppression, and violence.

Community Sangha | Healing with Yoga
2020-06-26 10:00 - 10:30
Cleora Francis-O’Connor joins our Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer in this online gathering designed to bring yoga schools, teachers, and students together during this time of social distancing.

CE Workshop | Applying Anatomy for Movement Educators
2020-06-25 14:00 - 15:00
Review the basic anatomical principles of how bodies move and function. This workshop will focus heavily on understanding the structural and functional variations of the body, why biomechanics matters, and how to look for and integrate these things into your teaching with practice.

Scientific Research on Yoga as a Contemplative Practice, Part 2
2020-06-25 12:00 - 13:00
Explore the subtle energy aspects of yoga, such as prana, the chakras, and the energetic body. This workshop unpacks research that has measured the human experience of the “unitive state” and the more profound psychological transformations that can happen with a regular yoga practice.

Yoga Alliance Office Hours | How to Create a Welcoming Space for Queer People
2020-06-24 11:30 - 12:00

CE Workshop | Untangling the Bhagavad Gita, Part 4
2020-06-24 10:00 - 11:00
The Bhagavad Gita is a beautiful expose to understanding that we are more than what our senses perceive. This concept is what this workshop series focuses on. Join Jafar Alexander in untangling the wisdom of this timeless resource and peer into how these teachings can assist in creating an understanding that is applicable to this day and time.

CE Workshop | Introduction to Nada Yoga
2020-06-23 14:00 - 15:00
Nada Yoga uses outer sounds to train perception, lure the mind inward, and allow one to become aware of inner sound (or anahata sounds). Learn about the philosophical background of this practice and as well as easy to follow instructions on how to get your personal Nada Yoga practice started.

Scientific Research on Yoga as a Contemplative Practice, Part 1
2020-06-23 12:00 - 13:00

Community Sangha | Yoga and Ayurveda, Part 1
2020-06-22 14:00 - 14:30
Dr. Keshia Abraham joins our Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer in this online gathering designed to bring yoga schools, teachers, and students together during this time of social distancing.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Special Populations
2020-06-19 10:00 - 10:30
Dante Settles joins our Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer in this online gathering designed to bring yoga schools, teachers, and students together during this time of social distancing.

CE Workshop | Scientific Research on Yoga and Disease Prevention, Part 2
2020-06-18 12:00 - 13:00
Unpack what experts truly mean when they speak about disease prevention. This video explains why the most prevalent diseases in society are called Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), and what research has been done on yoga preventing NCDs and other types of illness.
