Asana Track
The more subtle alignment of asana develops from watching how prana gets absorbed by the mind and body. In this class with Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee, we learn how to make refinements in our posture by feeling the ease or lack of ease in our breathing. We experience asana practice using the sound and sensation of the breath as our guide and as a preparation for a seated pranayama practice.
Yoga of Your Truth (B1F)
Personal Empowerment Through Asana
Sadie Nardini
Track: Asana; Level: General
Many people think they are living their truth, but they’re actually still playing out old stories that keep them from full happiness and success. It’s inspiring and illuminating to discover our innermost truth. Get inspired through a core conversation with Sadie Nardini, and move your realizations into experience through a challenging, but sweet and heart-opening asana flow. Founded on new information about anatomy, Nardini’s core alignment instructions are crucial for safe and effective back bends, and for full expression in all our poses.
Tending to Tenacious Tendencies (B1G)
Arm Balances & Back Bends
Darren Rhodes
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
We all have tendencies that can be triggered by even minimal drama. Dharma (duty) is that which supports and sustains us. Drama is that which purports and inflames us. A clear understanding of dharma helps us make skillful choices, instead of going down the dead-end road of tenacious tendencies. Often what we don’t say and don’t do is the expression of our practice. In this class with Darren Rhodes, we examine the four gates of speech as our primary guide: Is our speech true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? And is it the right time to say it?
This class is useful for laypeople and helping professionals.
Anusara Yoga® Empowerment Through Attitude (B1H)
Hip Openers & Twists
Desirée Rumbaugh
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
The idea of freedom is empowering and our hips and lower back present the perfect learning opportunity to experience a shift. In this class, we explore any amount of resistance to even the slightest increase of freedom in our body. Through the practice of Anusara Yoga® techniques, we learn to meet physical resistance and apply practical tools we can use during any type of yoga practice.
Gravity & Grace (B1J)
The Power of Surrender & Intuitive Response
Peter Sterios
Track: Asana; Level: General
We often begin the journey of yoga working with muscles and skeletal structure, creating shapes or movements with the body based on generalized rules of alignment. As with most endeavors, through the consistency of practice, awareness of subtler forces begin to develop. In this class with Peter Sterios, we learn to recognize and release habitual patterns of movement and posture. Through gravity-supported movement and meditation, and gentle guidance from Sterios, we fine tune and energize our yoga practice, no matter the style, and cultivate intuition borne from our own personal experience. Special guest Masood Ali Khan will accompany our practice with live unplugged music.
Practicing Asana as a Pranayama Experiment (B1K)
Colleen Saidman Yee, Rodney Yee
Track: Asana; Level: General
The more subtle alignment of asana develops from watching how prana gets absorbed by the mind and body. In this class with Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee, we learn how to make refinements in our posture by feeling the ease or lack of ease in our breathing. We experience asana practice using the sound and sensation of the breath as our guide and as a preparation for a seated pranayama practice.
Vinyasa Vortex (B2B)
Track: Asana; Level: General
Yoga for a Broken Heart (B2D)
Seane Corn
Track: Asana; Level: General
In the course of our life, we inevitably experience heartache—whether it is through unforeseen setbacks, the end of a relationship, or the death of a loved one. These experiences often are difficult to reconcile or move through because of the lingering effects of grief. In this inspirational class, Seane Corn offers ways to help us see beyond the confusion, loss, and grief, allowing us to take this journey with gratitude, understanding, and peace of mind. Through practice and discussion, we shift our resistance into surrender, our judgment into compassion, and our fear into faith.
This class is useful for laypeople and helping professionals.
Developing Courage (B2F)
The Way of the Spiritual Warrior in 2012
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Track: Asana; Level: General
In our increasingly connected global community, we are affected by each other as never before. Now is the time to develop the strength, courage, and wisdom to weather storms and walk a peaceful path. Join Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa in a practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation kriyas that broadens our perspective, and see how much we can affect one another and ultimately uplift and heal each other. We chant, laugh, dance, and then relax to the sounds of the sacred gong.
OM Yoga (B2G)
Mindful Flow
Cyndi Lee
Track: Asana; Level: General
In what ways do you avoid being present? This class offers a rich blend of flowing yoga, precise alignment, and the relaxed wakefulness of mindfulness meditation as the ground for exploring our habits in body and mind. Through Cyndi Lee’s creative sequencing, fun and inspiring instruction, and plenty of hands-on assistance, we practice making friends with all that arises, allowing for open gaps while being curious about what’s next.
This class is useful for laypeople and helping professionals.
Back Bends to Hip Openers to Pranayama (B2K)
Colleen Saidman Yee, Rodney Yee
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
Discover how to open yourself as a conduit between heaven and earth and feel the natural absorption of prana, which animates your mind and body. In this class, we use an intermediate back bend sequence to prepare for a more advanced hip opening sequence. These two sequences together set us up for seated pranayama and seated meditation.
Intermediate and advanced practitioners are welcome.
2:00p.m.–3:30p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
Yoga Nidra (B3A)
Turning Inward Through Pratyahara
Beryl Bender Birch
Track: Asana; Level: General
Yoga nidra is an ancient technique that uses focused breath practice to remove the damaging effects of chronic stress, reduce high blood pressure, increase immune function, and prevent premature aging. The experience of yoga nidra is a state of mind that occurs between wakefulness and dream sleep where mental activity quiets down. Explore a deeply relaxing and rejuvenating experience that prepares you for the three inner limbs of yoga—dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and ideally, samadhi (profound meditation).
Vinyasa Flow Yoga (B3B)
Establishing a Strong Foundation
Seane Corn
Track: Asana; Level: Beginner
Learn the foundation of a solid practice through alignment, core awareness, and breathing techniques. Through discussion, demonstration, and the practice of asana, we learn the basic principles of sun salutes A and B and how these principles are the cornerstone of every vinyasa practice. We also discuss the preparation, inner queues, and fundamentals of standing poses, back bends, twists, and inversions.
Experience Your Own Strength With Kundalini Yoga & Meditation (B3D )
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Track: Asana; Level: General
Make the impossible possible and experience strength and balance that calms and opens your heart. A kundalini experience can reveal possibility and inner strength faster than perhaps anything else. Through the practice of Kundalini Yoga, meditation, chanting, breathwork, dance, and the ethereal sounds of the sacred gong, we discover the power of self-healing and inner radiance and find a deep acceptance of our life exactly as it is.
Yin Yoga & the Watercourse Way (B3F)
Biff Mithoefer, RYT-500
Track: Asana; Level: General
When we follow our own path, effort and suffering naturally fade away. In this Yin Yoga class led by Biff Mithoefer, we focus on the natural patterns, or li, that make up our physical, emotional, and energetic selves. With this new understanding, we can let go of the stories of how we should be, and instead embrace who we really are.
Lineage Is Leverage (B3G)
Forward Folds, Twists & Hip Openers
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
Even if you don’t have a specific teacher or practice a specific style of yoga, if you practice at all, you are connected to a lineage. As the practice of hatha yoga has been handed down, rather than becoming watered down, it may actually be gaining in power and momentum. Every time we practice, we participate in the evolution of hatha yoga. In this class with Darren Rhodes, we contemplate and then practice the ways in which hatha yoga offers leverage to us individually and to our culture as a whole.
4:00p.m.–6:00p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
EmPower Flow (B4C )
Seane Corn
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
Take a stand! This physically invigorating and moderately paced vinyasa flow yoga class turns up the heat and initiates strength, flexibility, and stability in your practice. Seane Corn takes us through a creative and challenging sequence of sun salutes A and B, standing poses, back bends, and forward bends with grace, agility, and ease, while also inspiring inner power and purpose. You leave feeling cleansed, strengthened, motivated, and empowered.
Embodying Generosity (B4F)
Cyndi Lee
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
Do you wish you were a more giving person? The teachings of Mahayana Buddhism remind us to start by being generous with ourselves. Reconnecting with our own innate richness through vinyasa, pranayama, meditation, and humor, helps us naturally feel more generous toward others. Through a fun and creative asana class, we practice embodying true generosity, which gives only that which is needed—and gives the gift of fearlessness, stability, and equilibrium.
The Wild Child of Yoga (B4G)
Sharon Gannon, David Life
Track: Asana; Level: General
Most of us live in the domesticated world of the tamed, yet the yogi is a child of the wild. The wild is always in balance and moves in harmony with itself and its source. The wild is never chaotic, and is never, ever bored. In this physically challenging Jivamukti Yoga® practice, we embrace the wild side of our nature in asanas that resonate with expressions of nature—mountains, trees, snakes, and more. We experience wild meditation, wild breathing, wild music, and wild ideas. Together, we shake off our cultural conditioning, and discover our own wild possibilities.
A Yin Yoga Journey (B4H)
Biff Mithoefer, RYT-500
Track: Asana; Level: General
The quiet practice of Yin Yoga is a shamanic journey that can take us into the depths of our emotional and physical bodies. In this class, Biff Mithoefer is joined by master drummer Prema Mayi, and together they weave poetry, drumming, and chanting to create a space for us to sink deeply into simple, long-held yin postures.
Parivrtta Kriya (B4J)
Twisting, Cleansing & Clarifying
Carrie Owerko
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
In this class with Carrie Owerko, we explore a dynamic and energizing sequence of lateral extensions and twisting asanas. Through an effective yet playful practice, we stretch, squeeze, rinse, and ring ourselves out. As we increase circulation, improve elasticity, articulate, and integrate ourselves, we bring greater vitality and clarity to our body, heart, and mind.
8:30a.m.–10:30a.m. Sunday, August 19
Gratitude (C1A)
The Memory of the Heart
Elena Brower
Track: Asana; Level: General
Retreating and caring for ourselves cultivates gratitude for the circumstances of our lives. Through a sequence of carefully selected heart-opening back bends and meditations led by Elena Brower, this class offers a healing—for each one of us, our families, and those closest to us.
Detox Flow (C1C)
Seane Corn
Track: Asana; Level: General
This unique and challenging class explores how making conscious and responsible choices can help purify our body and mind, supporting optimal health. Through practice, and some discussion, we focus on cleansing the vital organs through a special vinyasa sequence that utilizes three internal components—compression, decompression, and twists—to stimulate the purification process within the body. This class includes sun salutes A and B, a detox standing-pose sequence, breathing exercises, and meditation.
Life is a Flow…So Why Worry? (C1E)
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
Things are always changing, but we all have the power to live without negativity. If we make the agreement that God is everywhere and we are everywhere with God, we release worry from our mind, body, and life. Through Kundalini Yoga and meditation, we discover the power in this positive approach to life. Finishing with a deep gong relaxation, we leave this class refreshed and uplifted.
The Sunday Core Revival! (C1F)
Sadie Nardini
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
Flow through a musical, mindful Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga class designed for all levels while you delve deeply into anatomy, alignment, and creative sequencing. Discover new findings on the powerful deep core muscle meridian you must know about to get the most benefit from your time on the mat. Sadie Nardini shows us how to integrate power into all our yoga poses. Use these muscular and energetic sources to bring you to a whole new optimal level—no matter what style of yoga you practice.
The Promise (C1K)
Advanced Yoga for Everyone
Mark Whitwell
Track: Asana; Level: General
In order to receive the promise of yoga’s gifts—including health, intimacy, well-being, and joy—you must fulfill your promise to practice yoga. But your yoga practice must be adapted to fit you; you need not fit yourself to yoga. With personalized attention, Mark Whitwell offers advanced yoga practices to integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience. You dive into asana, pranayama, and meditation as a seamless process and return home with understanding and the embodied sense of your own joyful practice.