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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
