Friday Schedule

8:00 am to 10:00 am

Yang Tai Chi, The Four Directions with Guy Forsyth

This is a good introduction to Tai Chi, the well known but often misunderstood practice. We will stand, open our joints, and explore finding strength through relaxation in movement, using the principles put forth by Yang Chengfu. Although Tai Chi Quan is a martial art, my focus here is on the internal structure, as the maximum health and energetic benefit comes from correct training.  No experience is required, flat shoes or barefoot.

Find your rhythm with Sarah Tomson-Beyer

Rock out to a signature Flowmotion class and liberate the rhythm within you! Check into your groove with warm-ups and sun salutes in the style of Flowmotion – then dive into rhythmically fluid sequencing.

The Infinite Power of the Heart with Rebecca Pflaum

The Heart center is the strongest of all centers. The heart center affects 108 trillion times more effectively than the head. Whenever you live ,sing or pray from heart, it will be timeless, spaceless, and absolutely effective. Please join us for a bountiful, beautiful, blissful, and heartfelt Kundalini Yoga and Meditation class. This incredible class will be dedicated to the Infinite Power of the heart. All levels welcome.

The Healing Power of Forgiveness with Max Strom

Forgiveness is perhaps the most powerful tool we have for healing ourselves. To forgive another, heals oneself, just as anger toward another poisons oneself. Anger and resentment destroy our lives. For the body to heal, often times what is most vital is to heal the broken heart or spirit. Failure to forgive affects our stress level, power to heal the body, discernment, and all our relationships. The first part of this seminar is a powerful lecture on forgiving others, the second part will address forgiving oneself, and the third part include gentle yoga movement, breathing exercises, and guided meditation with emphasis on emotional transformation. Appropriate for all levels.

ParaYoga Vinyasa: Awakening the Fire with Rod Stryker

Fire practice, from the view of the ancient tradition, means activating the dormant forces in the spine. This inner fire or shakti is the force behind all spiritual experience. Learn the principles and techniques the ancient teachings prescribe to access the sacred fire. Accessible yet powerful asanas sequenced with bandhas leads to exaltation and illumination. (Practice with introductory lecture)

Practicing with Principles – Aligning with Life with the Yax Brothers

The mat is a mirror for life. This workshop will teach alignment principles that can be applied to every posture…both on and off the mat. We will explore universal principles of alignment and myofacial lines of the body, and how they teach us to practice with truth and integrity. When we realize that principles applied on the mat create freedom in the art of movement, then we are ready to explore how principles applied off the mat create freedom in the art of living.

Preparing for Childbirth with Yoga with Brynne Caleda

Yoga is and an excellent way to prepare the mind, body and spirit for the many transitions of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood. In this two-hour-long workshop you will learn techniques for breath awareness, yoga poses (modifications and what not to do) and visualization and relaxation techniques.  All of these techniques can help strengthen and relax your body and sooth your mind during your birth and after. This workshop is excellent for people trying to get pregnant, who are pregnant, and who have had a child. You can come solo or with a partner. This workshop is appropriate for not only those new to yoga but to seasoned practitioners and to anyone interested in understanding the complex changes that occur in pregnancy.

10:30 am to 12:30 pm

SmartFLOW Yoga into Backbends with Annie Carpenter

Vinyasa Yoga, supported by structural awareness and driven by your subtle energies: less muscling, more awareness. Bring your practice to ease and joy. This practice will finish with restorative poses, based on Annie’s CD, “relaxDEEPLY” to release and re-invigorate you.

Core Strengthening: asana, bandhas, pranayama…with David Moreno

In the yogic view, abdominal conditioning and strength are encouraged for their aid in digestion, assimilation, and elimination on all levels of being and for the way this area, once toned, supports proper meditation positions. Many of the exercises found in Pilates have their origin in yoga asana. However, for the most part, muscle groups go unacknowledged in yogic text and schools because the principle focus is energetic awareness and self-realization over a fab “six pack.” Good for strengthening lower back and toning organs.

Fluid Power for Beginner Vinyasa Flow Wave Riders with Twee Merrigan

“When we realize we are the ocean, we are no longer afraid of the waves.” Anonymous. We can’t help but remember that our bodies are made of 70% water when we dive into this Fluid Power asana approach of riding the undulating wave rhythms of our own breath, heart, and body connection. Enjoy the magnificence and intelligence of Prana (creative life force) informing us as we adapt a linear vinyasa sequence into a more circular asana practice better reflecting the ever-changing waves of life in its more natural ebbs and flows.

ParaYoga: Theory and Application of Bandha with Rod Stryker

Bandha, the next step after asana, is the gateway to mastering the energetics of yoga. Perfection of bandha heals and balances; steadies mind;  builds creative power; and ultimately leads us to experience the culmination of practice – resting in soul. We explore the “what,” “how,” and “why” of bandha and experience its effect on heightening asana practice. Practice and lecture.

MovingSong: Your Body is a Musical Instrument with Daphne Tse and Ellen Watson

Join Ellen and Daphne  into the world of soulful connection through yoga movement, song, dance, and poetry, tapping into the sources that help nourish creativity, awareness and connection. This workshop is an especially sweet opportunity for those who are drawn to artistic, transformational and contemplative practices – to glean the jewels from these combined disciplines.

Ecstatic Dance practice, when united with Sacred Sound & Song, invites us to experience bliss, to move through our fear and anger, release sadness, and delivers us to the arms of our Creator, the Beloved. We’ll dance the dances and sing the songs that are ready to be lived in each of us. In small movements and huge leaps, we’ll unearth the full range of who we are and what we have to offer. Open to all!

Intro to Core Fusion® with Cristi Christensen

Build a strong core…Develop washboard abs…Improve your posture… Deepne your practice…Focus your mind. Core fusion Fuses the disciplines of core conditioning, Pilates, the Lotte Berk Method, interval cardio training, and yoga. Allowing you to work from the inside out, this transformational class consistently delivers results, including washboard abs, a tighter and higher backside, long, lean muscles, and an athletic, toned body.

Raja Yoga with Lisa Rapp

Deep within everyone there is an abiding faith in a Supreme Being, someone to whom one can look up to for help and guidance, for protection and inspiration. But the ego does not allow this to happen. Disentanglement from the ego alone can lead to release from the snares of life. Raja Yoga is the king of Yogas. It concerns directly with the mind. In this Yoga there is no struggling with the physical body, it is through the study of the Yoga Sutra’s that we cultivate good relationships, compassion for others, and a deep sense of selflessness that brings fulfillment and joy.

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Until I Overflow: Experiencing Renewal and Access through the art of Poetry with Iyeoka

Part 1: Shifting Your Inner Paradigm

Sound and Spirit with Ty Burhoe

In this two-hour workshop, we will look into the meditative aspect of sound and rhythm. We’ll get a birds eye view of the elements which make up Nada Yoga. We will also learn several simple and fun building blocks of rhythm and tone which can be applied towards coming into rhythm with ourselves, our loved ones, and our environment. * No experience needed / No instruments needed.

Introduction to Traditional West African Dance Part 1
with Craig Kohland, Star Anastasio and Jesse Seymour

Starr Anastasio will lead students in the foundation of African dance, as well as the history and stories behind them. In our three-day workshop we will focus on basic techniques and form and dance several traditional pieces to live drumming by percussionists Jesse Seymour and Craig Kohland (Shaman’s Dream).

The Art of Hands-On Enhancements | An EmPowered Approach to Hands-on Assisting with Twee Merrigan

Learn an intelligent approach to hands-on assisting that empowers the student ( and the teacher) to honor their current state of yoga. Understand how to channel, release, or extend the prana (creative life force) through the 72,000 channels of energy throughout the student’s body temple in order to create a union of stihra (steadiness) and sukha (ease). This approach, influenced by the intelligence of the student’s breath within, combined with the intuitive touch of the teacher “without,” creates a deeper awareness, sensitivity, and joy towards their yoga practice, and their daily living.

A Creative Movement and Contact Improvisation Experimen with Lilly Barels

Join Lilly for a musically stimulated, spontaneous movement extravaganza. No dance background is necessary, but come with an open mind and a willingness to boogie.

Whats your Flow? with Sarah Tomson-Beyer

Feel empowered as you color outside the lines in an authentic Flowmotion experience! More deeply explore warm-ups and sun salutes in the style of Flowmotion – then shift into rhythmically fluid sequencing. As the intensity and pace of the sequence builds, tune into your rhythm and express your flow.

Restorative yoga teaches the body to surrender allowing for soft tissue injuries to heal, muscles to release, minds to quiet and deepen physical openings. Teach your body when to be active and when to relax to increase performance, reduce stress and heal.

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Deep Flow: Lateral Sequence with David Moreno

An immensely engaging yoga practice that moves at a steady pace, allowing for a progression into an interior landscape of sensation, pulsation, and inner rhythm. It challenges practitioners to go beyond mindless and automatic yoga practices in order to experience the subtle levels of prana shakti – the life force. Throughout students are encouraged to take as much time as their body requires when transitioning from one pose to the next, as these postures continue to generate profound unfolding, liberating internal movement and sensation beyond the pose itself. Students are encouraged to indulge themselves in deep states of awareness, experiencing poses as streams of flowing consciousness with an intelligence of their own.

Twist and cleanse with Annie Carpenter

Perhaps the most confrontational of all poses, twists ask us to come face to face with our inner koshas (sheaths) to cleanse and detoxify all layers of ourselves. We move from light, easy twisting into the most challenging, transformative twists and emerge lighter and freer.

Strength, Grace, and Healing with Max Strom

The intent of yoga is not only to increase our strength and flexibility, but also to promote health and vitality. The next layer is to transform our behavior from coarse to gracious, and to transform even our very thoughts, from chaos to beauty. Experience Max Strom’s unique prana-flow class, with emphasis on emotional transformation. Class will include a short talk, vinyasa-flow, non-dogmatic philosophy, breathing, and meditation. All Levels.

Holotropic Breathing with Steve Ross

Treat yourself to a mind expanding experience. Let Steve help you access non-ordinary deep states of consciousness and breathe yourself into ecstasy. Please join us with an empty stomach and an open mind.

Anusara Yoga with Skeeter Tichnor

A Joy filled practice of  attuning to spirit inside and all around us.  We will play with Anusara Universal Principals of Alignment and the 5 Elements exploring and celebrating the magic of co-creating with Nature. All levels welcome.

Plays Well With Others with Guy Forsyth

An open conversation about communication through music with other musicians, even if you’re not a musician yourself. Bring an instrument… or don’t.

The Future Sound of Yoga with Angel and Matt Singmin

The Future Sound of Yoga is a sensory experience involving music and movement. The movements are a combination of traditional yoga poses and freeform dance. Angel guides the yoga while Matt Singmin DJ’s and creates the soundtrack. The music is drawn from electronic dance music, atmospheric band/artist albums, classical music and film soundtracks. Examples include artists like Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Zero 7, Bjork, Trentemoller, Sigur Ros, Hot Chip, The XX, Goldie, Paul Kalkbrenner, Feist; film soundtracks like Blade Runner, Once, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and classical music like Philip Glass, Debussy, Satie and Beethoven. Rather than strict instruction or striving to achieve complex yoga poses, it is more about switching off the mind, connecting with the body and letting go. The yoga unlocks the body; the music energises the room and brings the focus into the present. The experience evolves over two hours. The class starts lying down, just breathing and listening. There follows a series of moves to activate the body, before flowing standing sequences to work the body. The session peaks with 15 minutes of dance, before winding down with some gentle poses and meditation.

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