Texas Yoga Conference

Bollywood Vinyasa™ – Playtime with Yoga and Bollywood Dance

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Sunday, February 19 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Bollywood Vinyasa™ is an innovative new fusion of Vinyasa flow Yoga and Bollywood Dance. Spice up your practice with this powerful ‘ancient meets modern’ combination. We will awaken our spiritual power, connect to our inner self and have a fun, fabulous workout! Expect to feel radiant, revitalized and energized. No dance experience required.
• Some yoga experience preferred
• Clothing should be comfortable workout wear.
• We will be doing aerobics style moves without shoes.
• Bring water.

TED* The Empowerment Dynamic – Building Community

wp-admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:55:23 +0000

Friday, February 17 – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Presented by: Angi Hunter

Communities are built around shared vision and values. How does your community strengthen, support and uphold those vision and values? Using simple frameworks and precise language, you’ll walk away with TED* a resource that brings you closer to understanding your own personal values, a resource for sharing those values, and a resource for updating “lenses” that color and create our world. This is a modern day developmental approach enhanced, enriched and encompassed in traditional yoga teachings.

Revitalize Your Health and Wellbeing

wp-admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:27 +0000

Saturday, February 18 – 3:15 pm – 5:15 pm

Presented by: Ana Forrest

The sedentary and frenetic pace of modern living contributes to our stress levels and causes our bodies to be stiff, often overweight and generally unhealthy. The body also harbors the lasting effects of negative experiences like pain, fear and loss within its cell tissue. In this session, experience how yoga can cleanse, purify and refresh. Wash away tension and clear internal blockages. Begin incorporating greater fitness, flexibility and joy into your life.

Journey Into Power: A Playful and Powerful Saturday Morning Flow

wp-admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:14:27 +0000

Saturday, Feburary 18 – 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Presented by: Brooke Hamblet Hinkle and Desirae Pierce

Join the powerful Baptiste Power Yoga teachers from all over Texas! Brooke Hinkle, Desirae Pierce, Leah Cullis, Nancy Sheridan and others will enthusiastically lead you through a vigorous and playful 2-hour practice that will energize and charge your body with freedom and possibility. Deepen your understanding of the Baptiste Methodology and further embody its amazing flow as you experience new levels of vitality, connection, and self-expression. You will access and strengthen your body, mind, and spirit. Through practice, discussion, and meditation, expand your practice and celebrate the possibilities that emerge.

For New Yoga Teachers: Share, Relate, Inspire and Renew

wp-admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:12:20 +0000

Sunday, February 19 – 8:00 am – 9:00 am

Presented by: Malia Scott
(0-2/3 years teaching experience)

Through sharing we learn and grow. Through sharing we practice compassion and understanding. Through relating we connect and inspire others around us!

This is an interactive, collaborative lecture that will focus on discovering and defining any energetic blocks that are coming up for you in teaching yoga. Relate through sharing and and refine through interacting in a supportive environment. Leave renewed with new tools to implement into your teaching (and possibly a few new friends as well!)

Includes discussion, sharing, journaling and possibly some asana demonstrations

Burned-out or Stressed-out? Uncovering the Art of Balanced Living

wp-admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:18:23 +0000

Friday, February 17 – 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Presented by: Maggie Grueskin

The be in balance does not mean living a perfect, stress-free life, but rather nurturing our ability to flow with life, through all its turbulent patches, with wisdom and grace.

This session is about recognizing our current state of Being: Are you feeling stressed-out or Burned-out? Do you know the difference and which methods are best for YOU to get back into balance?

Incorporating basic Ayurvedic principles, this course will provide you with the opportunity to take a 2-part Dosha quiz to determine your basic Mind/Body constitution, to uncover who you are at an elemental level – your “Nature”.

Through discourse and samples, we will review a few samples of Vikruti, your current fluctuation, or imbalance and ways to bring you back to a more balanced state of being. Understanding how our “Lifestyles” contribute to our state of balance or imbalance is a key factor in building our resilience and flowing with life!

This class is appropriate for yoga teachers, caregivers, nurses, doctors or anyone who spends a lot of time giving care and energy to others.

Finding and Embodying Your Purpose: Sacred Activism and Yoga

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Sunday, February 19 – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Presented by Suzanne Sterling

Each of us has a unique calling that needs only to be nurtured and cultivated so that it can grow and flourish. Our modern challenge is to know that we each can make a difference and that our life is purposeful and rich with meaning.

In this dynamic introductory workshop, we will explore the connections between the yogic path and the way of divine service or Seva. We will then journey through an embodied and soulful yoga practice that awakens the flow of intention. Each asana and each breath will invite us to dive deep into the flames of our passion and expand our ability to turn that purpose into action.

Through asana and ritual, we will awaken our greatest potential to inspire change and give back to the world – weaving our visions and voices and reconnecting with the joy of service from the heart.
Embody your purpose and live it now!

Energy 101: Flow with Kurt Johnsen

wp-admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:47:21 +0000

Sunday, February 19 – 1:00 pm – 3:00

Presented by Kurt Johnsen
“Going with the flow doesn’t mean blowing in the wind”

Energy is the currency of our lives. We can own it or even store it up for very long yet our entire existence is shaped by what we do with it. In Energy 201, Kurt Johnsen, founder of American Power Yoga, host of Yoga for Life and creator of APY60 will share his understanding sources and flow of energy on this planet while guiding you through an energy balancing class. You will leave with a better understanding and feel for energy as well as a few tools to heals others.

This Master Class/Workshop will include:

A brief discussion and application of energy

A workshop to help all feel the flow of energy

An introduction to Tai Chi and Chi Gung

American Power Yoga Flow class.

Gain Strength, Increase Flexibility, Improve Focus, Find Peace and Have fun!

Sanskrit Basics: What Does “Yoga” Really Mean?

wp-admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:27:04 +0000

Saturday, February 18 – 3:15 pm – 5:15 pm

Presented by Nicolai Bachman

After a quick, fun-filled journey through the Sanskrit alphabet, we will explore what suffering is and how to overcome it according to the Yoga Sutras. Antaraya-s can disrupt our practice, vrtti-s can distract our attention, and klesha-s cause us to react suddenly, create more negative karma for ourselves and keep us from attaining real happiness. By understanding these aspects of ourselves we can begin to make wiser choices and perform more conscious, appropriate and well-thought-out actions, moving us a step closer to a quiet and still heart-mind. We will examine each of these obstacles in detail and discuss Patanjali’s solutions. Individual sutras will be chanted, translated from the Sanskrit and then discussed as a group.

Wild Lotus Flow

wp-admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:25:19 +0000

Saturday, February 18 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Presented by: Sean Johnson accompanied by the Wild Lotus Band

Merge the sensuality of vinyasa yoga with the heart and soul of bhakti yoga in a unique vinyasa experience that weaves creative sequencing, storytelling, live music, inspiring poetry, and enchanting mantras. This workshop sold out at this summer’s Yoga Journal Conference. Experience with vinyasa yoga is recommended.