Want to deepen your practice, refine your poses, and discover how to live your life with more wisdom?
Spring into your healthiest, most grounded self at Yoga Journal LIVE New York! It’s four days of innovative yoga classes, workshops, and trainings led by the world’s most renowned teachers.
Plus, join free community classes, shop yoga styles and gear, and sample healthy foods in the FREE Sangha Space and Yoga Market.
Whether you are dropping by for a quick flow, a serious student of yoga, or seeking to fine-tune your teaching skills, you will find a session that speaks to you.
Featuring:
Elena Brower, Coral Brown, Kathryn Budig, Seane Corn, Jason Crandell, Maty Ezraty, Alan Finger, Sarah Finger, Bo Forbes, Richard Freeman, Amy Ippoliti, Giselle Mari, Dharma Mittra, Aadil Palkhivala, Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee.
It’s no secret: yoga is both at its historical height of popularity, and also undergoing rapid change in the way it is taught and practiced. As teachers and artisans with wildly different backgrounds, Kathryn and Bo will share their discoveries of common ground, surprising insights, and fresh perspective on the future of yoga, the body, and the ways of developing and maintaining an authentic and lasting career.
In this full-day workshop, drawing from their collective expertise in storytelling, myth, branding, psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and yoga, Kathryn and Bo will highlight the major current forces that shape our bodies, careers, and our relationship with ourselves and others. We’ll explore social media, the paradigms or “boxes” that any established field creates for us, the pressure to produce and succeed, the drive to brand the self and body, and the need to cultivate approval from others on whom we depend for our livelihood.
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Together, we’ll access, connect with, and nourish our deep connection with mind, body, and spirit, and with the body of work we’re meant to bring to the world.
Whether you currently teach yoga, hope to teach, or infuse the practice into your life and work, this all-day experience brings insight into the forces that drive change so we can engage with and utilize their power rather than be confined and limited by them.
Please bring: two yoga therapy or tennis balls, a block, a blanket, a mat, and something to write with an in, plus your phone!Welcome to Super Yogis' Schoolhouse kids yoga teacher training with Rina Jakubowicz! This three-day program is for school teachers, yoga teachers, moms, dads, and anyone who wants to connect to kids. You will join an intimate group of students focusing on Super Yogis' Schoolhouse Mission: To empower kids by teaching them valuable life skills, influenced by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Rina’s teacher, Swami A. Parthasarathy, that include:
Training Includes Lecture, Interactive Discussions, Some Asana and Play Time
The Art of Teaching Yoga is a mentorship program that will develop your teaching skills and help you wisely integrate your knowledge. You'll study principles of sequencing, improve your hands-on assists, and refine your voice as you move through a curated three-day schedule and attend semi-private mentoring sessions with master teachers Giselle Mari and Coral Brown.
The experience includes the curated curriculum at YJ LIVE New York (see below), a pre-event assessment, live coaching sessions within an intimate group of RYTs, and connections you'll establish as you advance your career.
For more details and to watch a webinar about the program, please click here.
Friday, April 21
9a-4:30p Full-Day Workshop
Infinite Practices, Few Basic Principles: How Seasoned Teachers Build Meaningful Yoga Classes That Hook Their Students with Coral Brown and Giselle Mari
8am-10am: Select your own class
11am-1pm: Safe, Effective, and Inspired sequencing with Coral Brown
2:30p-5:30p Exclusive Art of Teaching Mentoring
Sunday, April 23
8a-10a: Select your own class
11a-1p: Master Hands-On Assists with Giselle Mari
2:30p-5:30p: Exclusive Art of Teaching Mentoring
Inhale. Exhale. You do it 24/7. The breath is the fuel upon which spirit travels while inhabiting the vehicle of your body. Have you thought about the quality of your breath? Does it drive you too fast? Too slow? Do you wait until your tank is empty before paying attention to your body’s dashboard alerts?
In this community class led by certified yoga therapist and Breathe Salt Rooms founder Ellen Patrick, you will learn the basic anatomy of breath and remove physical blockages to its free flow through a vinyasa practice. Fill your tank and create a smoother journey with fewer roadblocks. Come experience what it’s like to fully BREATHE YOUR BODY!
Rewire how your nervous system responds to stress. Kat will lead you through an interval vinyasa practice that replicates the ups and downs of life and our ability to cope. Class will finish off with a restorative practice using essential oils provided by Nature’s Truth®, that will help ease you into deep relaxation. All levels
What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know about reality?
Join New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra as he shares new insights from his latest work You Are the Universe and explores some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world.
The greatest spiritual urge in our time is the urge to change, to walk the path of transformation. Millions of people feel this urge, yet they run into the same problem.
Where is transformation supposed to occur?
Should we focus on our bodies or alter our beliefs, address our old conditioning or pursue a special spiritual discipline?
None of this has been made clear, which is why transformation remains a muddled topic for many people.
Chopra will address these questions as well as practical ways to experience higher consciousness, transformation and healing.The New York Hilton Midtown invites you to sample the Meet with Purpose Yoga & Yogurt package. Stop by the table at the Americas Hall on the third floor, outside of the Yoga Market and enjoy a delicious yogurt parfait and receive a free yoga mat, while supplies last. Learn more about Meet with Purpose events by visiting www.meetings.hilton.com/meetwithpurpose
Join Chef Richard LaMarita, Chef Instructor at Natural Gourmet Institute and 35-year practitioner of Ayurveda trained through the Maharishi Ayurveda organization, for a 3-hour workshop on Ayurvedic Cuisine.
In this workshop, we will focus on the definition of health in Ayurveda as it relates to Ayurvedic cuisine. We will look in depth at the 6 tastes according to Ayurveda — sweet, sour, salty, bitter, astringent and pungent, and sample foods in each category to help recognize and understand each specific Ayurvedic taste. We will also explore how to strengthen digestion, or “agni”, and eliminate bodily toxins, or “ama,” as well as talk about the process of eating in regards to becoming more mindful of our eating habits.
Living on the edge can be precarious. But it is in that very spot—the gap between knowing and not knowing, coming and going, understanding and confusion that transformation and insight are vividly illuminated. Within our yoga practice we find tools to honestly work the edge of sensation, form, emotion and thought so postures become a meditation in motion that support the inevitable challenges and changes we encounter in everyday life. In this half-day workshop we’ll work with asana, pranayama and meditation to drop into the edge of sensation and change.
Ride the wave of renewal with Sound Off™ Submerge - an invigorating blend of guided vinyasa, yoga nidra, and a sound bath savasana using Sound Off headphones. This 90-minute pow-wow led by Lindsey Valdez is designed to reduce stress and anxiety. Sound Off headphones allow you to hear Lindsey's voice perfectly over DJ Miss Behavior's curated deep house soundscape. Alex Falk of Atonal Meditation will draw a gentle yet powerful sound bath using Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, and tuning forks. This meditative musicale will arouse theta and beta brain waves to support the natural process of healing in the mind and body. Dive deep into your own awakening with this soothing, sonic experience.
A deep vinyasa practice uses the coiling patterns of the internal breath to move in and out of postures and to refine and unfold the posture along the central channel of the spine. This little known and delightful part of the vinyasa approach is invigorating, enjoyable and truly restorative. In this class we will discover these subtle yet basic movements that will transform and deepen any level of practice. For Intermediate students.
No matter how rigorous or relaxed your asana practice is, without a solid, well balanced finishing sequence, you’re missing out because your asana does not directly serve meditation and pranayama practice. In this class we will explore the subtle internal forms of classic finishing postures, in particular within the heart, throat and palate, that open deep sensation patterns to naturally induce a meditative state. For Intermediate and Advanced students.
13 HANDS, aka DALIEN will be on hand to conclude this years conference with a celebratory finale of sound meditation, chant, songs and community! He happens to play over 30 instruments and will start by offering a gratitude intention/sound meditation with Native Flute, Hang Drums, primordial voice channeling, ambient loops, guitars and percussion. Then DALIEN's joyful spirit will segue way us into some kirtan and interactive song to honor this years conference experience to honor of all the yoga, education, connecting, community and healing experienced. It will an awesome, fun-filled, celebration of Yoga Journal's 20th year of holding these conferences!
Beneath any healthy relationship lies the foundation of a balanced expression of complimentary opposites. Through integrated and internally rooted yoga practice we learn to embody this type of broad based equilibrium that is then reflected not only in our yoga poses, but in our relationships with others and the world as a whole. In this all day workshop we explore just how a dynamic yet contemplative asana practice that is supported by pranayama and an understanding of the ethical underpinnings of yoga philosophy informs the way we find harmony in life.
Morning session will be a guided asana practice followed by meditation and chanting. The afternoon session will include a pranayama practice as well as a lecture and discussion of philosophy with time for Q&A.