The yoga tradition is chock full of tools and practices for students dealing with eating disorder challenges, but it’s not immediately clear which elements will help! This series introduces three leading experts in the field of yoga and eating disorder recovery and how to make your yoga classes a safe space that supports eating disorder prevention and recovery. In this workshop, you’ll hear from presenter Chelsea Roff and special guest Maris Degener. Walk away with a menu of practical, evidence-based tools to help all students eat mindfully, cope with big emotions, and feel better in their bodies.

This 75-minute active workshop offers a clear understanding of the anatomy and structure of the pelvis, but more importantly how it functions within yoga asana. Presenter Keri Bergeron explains the risks of specific postures and how to minimize them. Leave with cues and tools to accommodate various injuries and body types in your classes.

This two-part workshop teaches breath-work to expand vital energy—pranayama. Explore what techniques are more stimulating or balancing for feelings of heaviness in the body and mind, and which are more calming or balancing for jittery energy. Event participants will pause between techniques to feel sensations in the body and experientially discover benefits.

In this workshop series for both yoga teachers and practitioners, Hari-kirtana das explores the connection between yoga as a spiritual practice and religion as an expression of faith. This interactive discussion helps participants gain clarity about the theistic aspects of the yoga tradition, the difference between Western conceptions of God and the Vedic conception of the Absolute Truth, the relationship between yoga and Hinduism, how to understand and reconcile dualistic and non-dualistic yoga philosophies, and how to talk about spirituality in a secular environment.

Presenter Jenny Loftus answers popular questions on yoga for the low back gathered from her previous workshops on this exact topic. She dives into anatomy and functional movement patterns, while illuminating how to avoid asana pitfalls and support a healthy functioning low back in yoga practice.

Dr. Lois Steinberg reviews the Iyengar Yoga methodology of practice for respiratory ailments with a focus on the new COVID virus. This workshop also looks at respiratory conditions that have been with us a long time, such as asthma and forms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

This panel discussion focuses on taking intentions around creating yoga equity and turning them into meaningful action. It’s often that we have the right intentions but lack framework and strategy to translate them. Here, panelists share three specific tools to help teachers impact their communities in a way that translates into equity and inclusion.

Author and longtime yoga practitioner Matthew Sanford hosts a probing multi-part discussion about Chapter Two of the Bhagavad Gita and its possible applications in asana practice. Conversation topics range from setting the historical context for this ancient text to insights that might be drawn from Arjuna’s moral dilemma and Krishna’s responses to him, to how a contemporary practitioner might integrate such insights into their yoga practice. Each session includes a short yoga practice.

Using survey and media research, this workshop discusses yoga population demographics, including the presiding public impression and social justice implications of the skewed dominance of white women practitioners. The conversation will explore faulty impressions including the need for flexibility—or even wealth—in order to practice, as well as the need for inclusive public education and recognition that yoga can be adapted for any practitioner.

This robust three-part workshop series explores the meaning and relevance of the term Tantra, the types of authority and authenticity debates that shape the global-digital world of Śākta Tantra, and the relevance of additional terms such as Goddesses, Initiate, and Adept. Part 2 analyzes the status of women and the third gender in the world of Hindu Śākta Tantra.