Being Yoga Schedule
6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m. Friday, August 17, 2012
Dinner
7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Friday, August 17, 2012
Yoga Stories
The Path of Yoga
All are welcome
In this intimate conference opening, Being Yoga teachers Sharon Gannon, Beryl Bender Birch, Carrie Owerko, Rev. Jaganath Carrera, Darren Rhodes, and Elena Brower share stories about the inspiration they have gained from their own yoga practices. Through each yoga story, we connect to the larger yoga community’s shared knowledge and history, and our own unfolding journey on the yogic path.
Yoga Stories is designed to connect us to a more genuine experience of yoga and help us discern aspects of the practice that can truly feed and sustain us. Yoga is often fused with mainstream images and ideas about what it means to be healthy, fit, beautiful, and spiritual. As a result, its roots in authentic teaching, ongoing study, and personal experience can become obscured, or even lost. Sharing and listening to personal yoga stories gives us the opportunity to connect with the path of yoga in an intimate way, and celebrate our practice together in community. Masood Ali Khan will open the evening in song.
4:00 a.m.–6:00 a.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
Sadhana
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Sadhana is a spiritual practice—with the goal of liberation and enlightenment—that often involves deep meditation, prayer, or yoga. Join us for sadhana during the hours known as the amrit vela, or the time of the nectar, when life around us is very still. It is a time of deep healing and inner contemplation.
7:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
Breakfast
8:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
When you register, choose one session for each time slot below.
Detox for Mind & Body (B1A)
The Combined Cleansing of Sweat, Breath & Attention
Beryl Bender Birch
Track: Being Yoga Seasoned; Level: Seasoned
A potent ally in maintaining good health is a strong Ashtanga vinyasa flow asana practice. It can strengthen the immune system and help clear tightness, toxins, and tension from the mind and body. Using the tools of classical yoga, we learn to fine tune our attention and tap into our inner world. By training the mind to focus, we learn to consciously activate the sweating mechanism, slow our heart rate, control our breath, and quiet our mind. Then we effectively work to burn out physical and psychological obstacles that limit our health and happiness.
Dance Awakening (B1B)
A Journey Into the Soul
Hemalayaa
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Awaken your spiritual power through this dance and yoga practice, which combines yoga with elements of Indian dance. Inspired by the exuberant, bold, and expressive moves seen in Indian films, Hemalayaa infuses various Vedic practices, such as chanting mantras, with classical and folk dances of India, breathwork, meditation, and yoga. Experience this unique and joyful practice that is sure to empower you inside and out!
No dance experience is necessary. Shoes are optional. Bring water.
Effective Communication (B1C)
Eliminate Inner Conflict
Gurushabd Singh Khalsa
Track: Meditation; Level: General
If we reject ourselves, if we are scared and hold back our truth—from ourselves or others—we lose touch with our thoughts, our feelings, and ourselves. When we passionately like someone and yet cannot say a word, our lack of communication hinders our possibilities. If we learn to listen and speak from the heart, everything changes. This Kundalini Yoga meditation inspires effective communication, helping us to talk rationally and sincerely, and connect with ourselves, family, and friends—even those with whom we have never connected before.
OM Yoga (B1D)
Start Where You Are!
Cyndi Lee
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner
This OM Yoga beginner class gets us standing, stretching, sweating, and moving through safe and simple sequences. We practice to open tight spots in our body, such as hips and shoulders, and to release tight spots in our mind and heart. We leave feeling integrated in body, breath, and mind—and we have fun getting there!
Grounding Your Inner Warrior Through the Bhagavad Gita (B1E)
Manorama
Track: Discussion & Philosophy; Level: General
Who doesn’t want to be a hero? We are all the hero of our own epic poem. Join Manorama to delve into the principles of the inner warrior of the Bhagavad Gita. Enjoy chanting resonant and healing verses, and experience the quiet beauty and harmonious connectivity of pure sound. In this class, Manorama introduces the three qualities of the inner warrior and discusses how to bring these heroic qualities into our daily life and how to live them more fully.
Bring a pen and notebook.
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.
Hip Openers & Twists (B1H)
Desirée Rumbaugh
Track: Asana; Level: Seasoned
The idea that we are free is a very empowering one. In our yoga practice, the tightness in our hips and lower back presents the perfect learning opportunity to experience a shift from feeling bound to feeling free. In this class, we explore using resistance creatively with strength in order to increase the feeling of freedom in our body. Through the practice of simple but powerful mental and physical yoga techniques, even the tightest places respond with a big sigh of relief.
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.
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
When you register, choose one session for each time slot below.
The Yoga Tools (B2A)
Bandhas, Breath & Drishti
Beryl Bender Birch
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner
Learn to use the three techniques of bandhas, breath, and drishti to catapult your own practice beyond exercise to the outer edges of your spiritual potential. These three aspects of yoga practice are not just incidental additions to asana; they are profound and powerful aids that develop and deepen mindfulness since they require attention to the present moment. Beryl Bender Birch guides us in understanding how yoga fuels our evolution and leads us into deeper levels of multisensory awareness. This is a strong vinyasa asana practice—hard enough to challenge, yet soft enough to do.
Vinyasa Vortex (B2B)
Elena Brower
Track: Asana; Level: General Enter the vinyasa vortex as we alternate between vinyasa flows and restorative healing postures. Through this rejuvenating vinyasa practice guided by Elena Brower, we offer our body, mind, and heart time to reflect on, integrate, and absorb our experience of “being yoga.” Special guest Masood Ali Khan will accompany our practice with live unplugged music.
Enlightenment Is Inevitable (B2C)
The Seven Gates to Freedom
Rev. Jaganath Carrera
Track: Discussion & Philosophy; Level: General
Yoga is not something to simply believe in or agree with. The heartbeat of yoga is the cultivation of experiences that bring about transformation. Tucked away in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a teaching that clearly lays out seven key developments in personal growth that lead to enlightenment. These seven stages are the inevitable outcome of an awakening mind that asks, “Who am I and why am I here?” In this class, we learn how to bring this powerful teaching into our daily life for ourselves, our clients, and our students.
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.
The Sacred Dance of Thai Massage (B2E)
Open Your Heart & Free Your Shoulders & Neck
Kaline Alayna Kelly
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Deepen your yoga practice, rebalance your body, and allow the free flow of prana with this hands-on exploration of the ancient healing art of Thai massage. Combining passive yoga stretches, compression, acupressure, and rhythmic rocking, we are guided compassionately and playfully to both give and receive a Thai massage session focused on opening the heart and freeing the shoulders and neck.
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 (B2H)
Practicing Through the Five Elements
Carrie Owerko
Track: Being Yoga Seasoned; Level: Seasoned
Backward extensions are natural and powerful mood-elevating poses. A regular and consistent practice of these invigorating poses can have profound effects on both our spirit and our sense of well-being. Through a dynamic yet stabilizing practice of back bends, we explore how the five great elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) can support us in the practice of these potentially joyful and uplifting poses.
Concentration (B2J)
Sharon Salzberg
Track: Meditation; Level: General
Concentration is steady and focused attention that allows us to let go of distractions. When our attention is stabilized in this way, energy is restored to us—and we feel restored to our lives. The foundational meditation technique you learn in this class is uncomplicated, yet powerful. Through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern platform, you discover how to improve your concentration by focusing on something you’ve known how to do all your life—breathing. This class provides opportunities for questions and is suitable for both new and experienced meditators.
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.
12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
Lunch
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
Tour of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL)
OCSL
The Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) is an environmental education center and natural water reclamation facility built to meet the highest standards currently available in sustainable architecture, LEED® Platinum and Living Building Challenge™ certification. At the OCSL, you can observe the Eco Machine™ treating wastewater without chemicals and get a close-up look at the solar and geothermal systems that provide energy, heating, and cooling for the building.
When you register, choose one session for each time slot below.
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.
Bollywood Vinyasa (B3C)
Hemalayaa
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Inspired by the exuberant music and expressive moves seen in Indian films, Bollywood vinyasa practice combines vinyasa flow yoga with elements of Bollywood and Bhangra dance. Connect your inner self with your outer body while joy and radiance flow through you in this creatively linked series of yoga asanas, breathwork, meditation, and sound vibrations that ultimately culminates in bliss.
No dance experience is necessary. Shoes are optional. Bring water.
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.
Pronounce Your Pose (B3E)
Basic Sanskrit for Pronunciation
Manorama
Track: Discussion & Philosophy; Level: General
“How do I pronounce this asana?” This is a question often heard in yoga teacher training programs. Guided by Manorama, a recognized leader in the fields of Sanskrit, yoga, and mantra, we learn basic elements of the Sanskrit language that enable proper pronunciation of asanas. Come away feeling confident and empowered to pronounce some of the most commonly taught poses in yoga, including tadasana, caturanga, dandasana, virasana, vrksasana, adho mukha svasana, and more.
Bring a pen and notebook.
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
Darren Rhodes
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.
Tapping Into the Flow of Grace (B3H)
Back Bends & Arm Balances
Desirée Rumbaugh
Track: Being Yoga Seasoned; Level: Seasoned
When we open our mind to possibilities and creativity we allow the universal support of grace to guide us. As we begin to feel more supported, even difficult challenges become a bit easier. In this class, we explore ways in which the physical practice of back bends and arm balances can teach us how to feel what this is like—any time. Once you get the hang of it, you will want more and more!
Mindfulness (B3J)
Sharon Salzberg
Track: Meditation; Level: General
Mindfulness is the moment-to-moment observation of our mind-body process with a calm and focused attention. It is the fundamental skill of many diverse meditative traditions. Mindfulness enables us to relate to our everyday experience with clarity and insight, and enhances our ability to live with less fear and less clinging while also deepening our sense of peace and well-being. Through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern platform, we experience or deepen our mindfulness practice and learn to incorporate it more fully into our life. This class provides opportunities for questions and is suitable for both new and experienced meditators.
This class is useful for laypeople and helping professionals.
Everyday Yoga for the Beginner (B3K)
Colleen Saidman Yee, Rodney Yee
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner
Come begin or revitalize your yoga journey. Guided by Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee, learn an everyday sequence that highlights the essential postures to bring balance, vitality, and ease into your practice and life. With fundamental instructions that can guide your daily exploration of the art of yoga for years, discover why we order the poses of this sequence the way we do and learn how to be creative from this basic blueprint.
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
When you register, choose one session for each time slot below.
Nurturing Your Other Heart (B4A)
Your Mind on Yoga
Elena Brower
Track: Being Yoga Seasoned; Level: Seasoned
In this restorative practice, our mind gets as much love as our heart. Through a sequence of cleansing twists and forward bends, we make time and space for our thoughts, so we can cultivate expansion and self-acceptance in our heart—and in our mind.
Heart (B4B)
The Sacred Center of Yoga
Rev. Jaganath Carrera
Track: Discussion & Philosophy; Level: General
The heart is the center of peace, truth, and wisdom. It prompts us to bring the highest good to others and ourselves. The heart’s natural state is compassionate, giving, and fully open. Although powerful, the heart’s voice is subtle. It can easily be obscured by the cares of daily life. Yoga offers three time-honored ways of creating the environment in which the heart can flourish. Learn these empowering practices and discover how to tap into your heart-power.
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.
The Sacred Dance of Thai Massage (B4D)
Opening the Hips, Pelvis & Lower Back
Kaline Alayna Kelly
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Deepen your yoga practice, rebalance your body, and allow the free flow of prana with this hands-on exploration of the ancient healing art of Thai massage. Combining passive yoga stretches, compression, acupressure, and rhythmic rocking, we are guided compassionately and playfully to both give and receive a Thai massage session focused on opening the hips, pelvis, and lower back.
Jumpstart Kriya (B4E)
Gurushabd Singh Khalsa
Track: Meditation; Level: Seasoned
What we often call love is the desire to be fulfilled and to feel needed. To fully love others, we have to love and need ourself first. But to do this, you must remember: You are not body, you are not mind, and you are not spirit. You are all the essences of you. Your power lies in the breath through which you live—the breath of life. Gurushabd Singh Khalsa guides us in a practice of Kundalini Yoga, including movement and seated pranayama, designed to make our mind sensitive, build our intuition, and tap into universal higher conscious wisdom.
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. Special guest Masood Ali Khan will accompany our practice with live unplugged music.
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.
Practice Principles for Finding Your Inner Teacher (B4K)
Peter Sterios
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner
Using a variety of basic yoga asana, we examine where resistance is present in our body, and experience how resistance softly met during practice is essential for discovering new ways of moving and new ways of being present with whatever limitation exists in the body and mind. Through both static and flowing styles of practice, we sink deep into self-reflection and stay in the moment with any sensations that arise. With consistent practice, we uncover our unique “inner teacher,” cultivating a sustainable, lifelong practice and the wisdom borne of our own experience. This class is appropriate for beginners and teachers of beginners looking for creative ways to produce original curriculum.
Dinner
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012
Mantras Merge With Rock, Funk & World Grooves
Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band, Hemalayaa
All are welcome
Join us for an exciting night of singing, dancing, and celebrating! New Orleans mantra musicians Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band lead us to experience freedom and joy through the practice of kirtan, the yoga of ecstatic chant. Hemalayaa guides us in movement to begin this evening of fun.
4:00 a.m.–6:00 a.m. Sunday, August 19, 2012
Sadhana
Gurushabd Singh Khalsa
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Sadhana is a spiritual practice—with the goal of liberation and enlightenment—that often involves deep meditation, prayer, or yoga. Join us for sadhana during the hours known as the amrit vela, or the time of the nectar, when life around us is very still. It is a time of deep healing and inner contemplation.
7:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Sunday, August 19, 2012
Breakfast
When you register, choose one session for each time slot below.
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.
Why Me? (C1B)
Solving the Riddle of Suffering
Rev. Jaganath Carrera
Track: Discussion & Philosophy; Level: General
Everyone experiences suffering and challenges in life. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali teach us that we need to see suffering as a friend that helps us uncover our hidden strengths. This requires a radical shift in our mind-set and a new way of looking at suffering. Using the biblical story of Job, illumined by the teachings of yoga, we explore how to use times of suffering and awareness for growth. In Job’s struggle to find peace, meaning, and justice—as well as his encounter with the divine and his ultimate transformation—we find answers to vital questions that have troubled us all.
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.
Monkey Massage, Monkey Mind (C1D)
Thai Massage-Inspired Assists to Invite Awakening
Kaline Alayna Kelly
Track: Other Practices; Level: General
Thai massage, based in the yogic traditions of India and the heartful path of Buddhism, encourages each touch and adjustment to awaken awareness. In this compassionately revealing class, Kaline Alayna Kelly offers chosen gems of simple, profound, and dynamic techniques to assist ourselves and others in opening beyond the body, both on and off the mat. We explore supportive touch, surrendering notions of “giver” and “receiver,” and the possibilities of inviting freedom of movement and freedom from energy blockage.
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.
Backbends that Energize and Heal (C1G)
Feel Your Unlimited Power With Standing Poses & Back Bends
Desirée Rumbaugh
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner
Creative power is available to everyone at any time—and feeling it is believing it. Come and delight in the playful exploration of your own inner light and discover your unlimited power. In this invigorating class with Desirée, kindness, wisdom and strength lead the way.
Lovingkindness (C1H)
Sharon Salzberg
Track: Meditation; Level: General
Lovingkindness is a meditation that cultivates our natural capacity for an open and caring heart. It is traditionally offered with meditations that enrich compassion, increase joy in the happiness of others, and develop the balance borne of wisdom. These practices also lead to the development of connection, greater love for ourselves and others, and genuine happiness. Through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern platform, we delve into the practice of lovingkindness and learn to open our heart and mind. This class provides opportunities for questions and is suitable for both new and experienced meditators.
This class is useful for laypeople and helping professionals.
Integrating Nature Into Your Yoga Practice (C1J)
Peter Sterios
Track: Being Yoga Seasoned; Level: Seasoned
Learn how to source inspiration from nature to choreograph your practice or classes. In this class, we focus on techniques to connect with the power of nature to strengthen our relationship to yoga, and ultimately to life. Nature exists all around us and within us, and is often overlooked as a source of powerful healing, capable of restoring balance in our personal physiology and psychology. Peter Sterios shares ideas and forms of practice based on the conscious experience of our inner and outer nature. This class is designed for teachers and seasoned practitioners, and is part lecture, part dynamic practice. Special guest Masood Ali Khan will accompany our practice with live unplugged music.
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Sunday, August 19, 2012
How Practice Calls Us to Light
Sharon Salzberg and Desirée Rumbaugh
All are welcome
At this Being Yoga closing event, national meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg and yoga teacher Desirée Rumbaugh, lead us in an hour of practice and story that explores the power of practice to open us to joy, even in the midst of life’s challenges.
12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Sunday, August 19, 2012
Lunch & Departure

