Anusara® Yoga (B1F)

Moving With the Breath

Anusara® Yoga offers a sophisticated blend of vigorous asana, refined alignment, and celebration of the human spirit. In this class, certified Anusara® Yoga instructor Ellen Saltonstall guides us to move with the rhythm of our breath through a range of asana in the Anusara® style, designed to enliven our spine, hips, and shoulders. As we discover the joy of moving our body in time with our breath, we free our joyous and resilient spirit.

Ellen Saltonstall, MA, RYT, serves on the certification and curriculum committees for Anusara® Yoga. She is known for her clarity, depth of knowledge, and enthusiasm in encouraging students of all levels to find their own inner joy and freedom through the study of yoga. Saltonstall is coauthor (with Loren Fishman) of Yoga for Arthritis and Yoga for Osteoporosis. mohiniyoga.com

Cultivating Prana in Yoga Practice (B1G)

Prana is the life force that both animates us and keeps the autonomic functions of our body alive. Hatha yoga practice works directly with prana to integrate and strengthen our body—muscles, connective tissue, bones, organs, and circulatory and respiratory systems. Guided by Peter Sterios, we observe the power our practice has to build prana by focusing our attention on the subtle qualities of our breathing and the physical and psychological resistance we often find in yoga poses. This class is especially helpful for those working with physical limitations or injuries, as well as yoga teachers wanting to deepen their understanding of yogic healing.

Peter Sterios is creator of the popular Gravity & Grace yoga DVD, one of the top 15 yoga DVDs of all time according to Yoga Journal. He is founder of Manduka, a leading eco-yoga products company, and a writer and former contributing editor for Yoga Journal. His yoga classes, workshops, and teacher trainings are offered worldwide and reflect more than three decades of practice and study. petersterios.com

Advanced Yoga for Everyone (B1H)

Developing a Personal Yoga Practice

While respecting the popular styles of yoga and each person's background, Mark Whitwell shows how the ancient yoga technology brought forth by T. Krishnamacharya can serve the practice you already know and love. We focus on principles of breath and bandha in asana and pranayama that can be incorporated into all styles of yoga, creating a more efficient, powerful, safe, nurturing, abundant, and regenerative practice.

Mark Whitwell has enjoyed a lifelong relationship with the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya through his studies with B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, Srivatsa Ramaswami, Indra Devi, A.G. Mohan, and T.K.V. Desikachar. He is author of Yoga of Heart: The Healing Power of Intimate Connection and founder of The Heart of Yoga Association, a nonprofit that provides yoga education around the world. heartofyoga.com

Guided by the Breath (B1J)

Learn to let the breath guide your yoga practice. Through a balanced asana practice followed by seated meditation, we observe the way the breath is moving in our body and appropriately change our alignment to allow the breath to flow more freely. This focused practice quiets our mind, allowing us to see even finer and finer aspects of our breath, as well as the more subtle aspects of who we are.

Rodney Yee cofounded Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, and has created dozens of DVDs through Gaiam. He is author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance (both with Nina Zolotow). yeeyoga.com

Colleen Saidman Yee graduated from Jivamukti Yoga®'s teacher training program in 1998 and has been teaching ever since. She is co-owner of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, New York. yogashanti.com

Yin Yoga (B2E)

Finding Peace in Our Practice

The search for peace begins with the practice of acceptance, both in ourself and in the world around us. 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 understanding, we can let go of the stories of how we should be, and instead embrace who we really are.

Biff Mithoefer teaches Yin Yoga internationally. He is author of The Yin Yoga Kit and coauthor of The Therapeutic Yoga Kit. Mithoefer is a founder and director of the Jamtse Sponsorship Project, which supports Tibetan refugee children. biffmithoeferyoga.com

Iyengar Yoga & the Dance of Dynamic Space (B2F)

Space can be an all encompassing support both within and around us. In this workshop guided by Iyengar Yoga teacher Carrie Owerko, we play with ways to come into greater harmony with the space that pervades and surrounds us. We explore the uses and benefits of fluid lyrical movement as well as stillness, dynamic spatial attention, and variations in rhythm. These elements can help sustain us in a dynamic yet harmonious relationship with our inner and outer environments.

This class is for seasoned practitioners without serious injuries.

Carrie Owerko is a core faculty member of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York and holds an Intermediate Senior One teaching credential. An assessor for the Iyengar National Association, she also travels to India regularly to study with the Iyengar family. carrieowerko.com

Insight Yoga (B2G)

Insight Yoga is a unique blend of yoga, Buddhism, and psychology. It encourages a relaxed and vibrant integration between the body, heart, and mind. Join Sarah Powers, founder of Insight Yoga, for an introductory class that weaves together yin sequences of floor poses, alignment-based yang practice, and mindfulness meditation to help develop a calm, vibrant internal center of gravity, a precondition for being able to meet the moments of our everyday life skillfully and wholeheartedly.

Sarah Powers, founder of Insight Yoga, began teaching yoga in 1987. Together with her husband, Ty Powers, she is cofounder of the Insight Yoga Institute. She is also cofounder of Metta Journeys, a service-oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. Powers is author of Insight Yoga. sarahpowers.com

From Twists to Backbends (B2J)

Why are twists good preparation for backbends? Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee guide us in a sequence that answers this question. As we loosen up the spine and broaden the muscles of the back through the twist, it lays a perfect foundation for using the muscles without binding them to the spine for the backbend. Oscillating back and forth from open to closed twists, we feel the strong broad strength of our back with a deeply seated spine that is perfect for backbending.

Rodney Yee cofounded Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, and has created dozens of DVDs through Gaiam. He is author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance (both with Nina Zolotow). yeeyoga.com

Colleen Saidman Yee graduated from Jivamukti Yoga®'s teacher training program in 1998 and has been teaching ever since. She is co-owner of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, New York. yogashanti.com

Empower Flow (B3B)

Take a stand! This physically invigorating and moderately paced vinyasa flow yoga class raises the heat and initiates strength, flexibility, and stability in your practice. Seane Corn takes you through a creative and challenging sequence of sun salutes A and B, standing poses, backbends, and forward bends with grace, agility, and ease, while inspiring inner power and purpose. You leave feeling cleansed, strengthened, motivated, and standing firmly in your power.

Seane Corn is an inspired communicator, spirited yoga teacher, impassioned public speaker, and global servant. Named the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, she also trains leaders of activism through her cofounded organization Off the Mat, Into the World®. Corn has three DVDs, Vinyasa Flow Yoga I, Vinyasa Flow Yoga II, and Yoga From the Heart, and an audiobook, Detox Flow Yoga. seanecorn.com

The Awakening Call (B3F)

The Wanting of Nothing

A Kundalini experience can reveal possibility, destiny, and an inner knowingness faster than perhaps anything else. Similar to a near-death experience, a Kundalini Yoga class can slip off the cause and effect of karma so that we might come to realize "the wanting of nothing." Through a practice that includes Kundalini Yoga, chanting, meditating, dancing, breath walking, sweating, laughing, and the ethereal sounds of the gong, we safely cultivate our own Kundalini experience and find a deep acceptance of our life exactly as it is.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is cofounder and director of Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles and New York City. For almost four decades, students around the world have sought her classes in Kundalini Yoga and meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan, whom she met 38 years ago. She is author of The Eight Human Talents and Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful. goldenbridgeyoga.com

Yin Yoga (B3G)

Returning to a Place of Balance

At the center of the spinning circle of yin and yang is a place of balance. In this class, we look at how yin and yang relate, and how the understanding of their relationship can help us to embrace the truth of transformation and impermanence. Biff Mithoefer leads us in a quiet Yin Yoga practice, where we can experience these truths through the deep wisdom of our own bodies.

Biff Mithoefer teaches Yin Yoga internationally. He is author of The Yin Yoga Kit and coauthor of The Therapeutic Yoga Kit. Mithoefer is a founder and director of the Jamtse Sponsorship Project, which supports Tibetan refugee children. biffmithoeferyoga.com

Dancing the Standing Poses (B3J)

Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee teach that we are always arriving, yet never arrive, in the ‘full' pose. Join them for a practice that encourages us to move mindfully and gracefully from one standing pose to the next. As we uncover the relationships between poses, we learn that the movement of our bodies, no matter how subtle, is constant.

Rodney Yee cofounded Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, and has created dozens of DVDs through Gaiam. He is author of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance (both with Nina Zolotow). yeeyoga.com

Colleen Saidman Yee graduated from Jivamukti Yoga®'s teacher training program in 1998 and has been teaching ever since. She is co-owner of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, New York. yogashanti.com

Yin Yoga & Meditation (B4B)

Yin Yoga is a quiet, inward focused practice that affects the flow of energy through the body. Most postures are held for up to five minutes, which puts gentle pressure on the ligaments and joints, gently moving and stretching them. While we remain still in each posture, we cultivate a receptive awareness that allows us time to practice one of the most basic skills of meditation: paying attention. As we learn to direct our attention, we gain an additional tool for managing the movement of energy. This relaxing but challenging practice is a great complement to more active styles of yoga.

Jenn Brown is an editor, gardener, and yoga teacher with a passion for growing food and sharing it with friends. She is the managing editor at Omega, where she also teaches Yin Yoga to the staff. Her classes combine the focused attention of awareness practice with the embodied experience of yoga.

Everyday Miracles (B4C)

As seekers on the path, we are often looking for signs, symbols, and intuitive guidance to point us toward a more definitive direction, often failing to recognize the possibilities within the practical and the inherent mystery in all moments. Through vinyasa practice and discussion guided by Seane Corn, we illuminate the miracles that exist in each moment of our life and explore how spirit conspires to give us exactly what we need. We awaken our ability to live with gratitude in our daily life and remember that the answers to our prayers are often right in front of us.

Seane Corn is an inspired communicator, spirited yoga teacher, impassioned public speaker, and global servant. Named the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, she also trains leaders of activism through her cofounded organization Off the Mat, Into the World®. Corn has three DVDs, Vinyasa Flow Yoga I, Vinyasa Flow Yoga II, and Yoga From the Heart, and an audiobook, Detox Flow Yoga. seanecorn.com

Becoming Strong as Steel (B4E)

Build inner and outer strength, energy, commitment, and self-discipline by creating muscular balance, strengthening the nervous system, and building a strong magnetic field. Through Kundalini Yoga, pranayama, meditation, and the sacred gong, we awaken and experience the vitality and strength inherent within us.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is cofounder and director of Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles and New York City. For almost four decades, students around the world have sought her classes in Kundalini Yoga and meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan, whom she met 38 years ago. She is author of The Eight Human Talents and Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful. goldenbridgeyoga.com

The Wild Child of Yoga (B4F)

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 own 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.

Sharon Gannon and David Life, founders of Jivamukti Yoga®, have been teaching yoga around the world for more than 20 years. They are recognized as "innovators in yoga" by Yoga Journal and are sought after by thousands of yoga students. Gannon and Life are authors of Jivamukti Yoga and The Art of Yoga, and articles in Yoga Journal and other publications, as well as videos and music. They have been featured on the Today Show and in Time magazine, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. jivamuktiyoga.com

Yogini: Yoga for Women (C5C)

This women's only class explores the feminine aspect of spirituality, self-responsibility as a key to transcendence, and the role of women today as seekers, householders, workers, and activists. Seane Corn guides us in a vinyasa flow yoga practice to cultivate an inner journey toward healing, acceptance, and empowerment in this uplifting and thought-provoking class.

Seane Corn is an inspired communicator, spirited yoga teacher, impassioned public speaker, and global servant. Named the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, she also trains leaders of activism through her cofounded organization Off the Mat, Into the World®. Corn has three DVDs, Vinyasa Flow Yoga I, Vinyasa Flow Yoga II, and Yoga From the Heart, and an audiobook, Detox Flow Yoga. seanecorn.com

Ushering in 2012 (C5E)

Developing Courage

We have been told by many teachers and guides that times will get rough as we head toward 2012 and the dawning of the Aquarian Age. Now is the time to develop the courage and wisdom to sail over any chaos. This is the time to live for each other so that we can live in peace globally. Join Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa in the practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation kriyas that broaden our perspective and reveal how much we can ultimately heal and uplift each other. We chant, laugh, dance, and then relax to the sounds of the sacred gong.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is cofounder and director of Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles and New York City. For almost four decades, students around the world have sought her classes in Kundalini Yoga and meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan, whom she met 38 years ago. She is author of The Eight Human Talents and Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful. goldenbridgeyoga.com

Anusara® Yoga Therapeutics (C5H)

Free Your Shoulders & Neck

Many of us carry stress and tension in the shoulders and neck, causing discomfort in both our daily life and yoga practice. In this class, we look at the biomechanics of the shoulders and neck, and practice Anusara® Yoga therapeutic techniques to relieve tension and misalignments causing discomfort. We learn practical tools to use as warm-ups and guidelines during any type of yoga practice.

Ellen Saltonstall, MA, RYT, serves on the certification and curriculum committees for Anusara® Yoga. She is known for her clarity, depth of knowledge, and enthusiasm in encouraging students of all levels to find their own inner joy and freedom through the study of yoga. Saltonstall is coauthor (with Loren Fishman) of Yoga for Arthritis and Yoga for Osteoporosis. mohiniyoga.com

Gravity & Grace (C5J)

Cultivating a Truly Personal Practice

Join Peter Sterios, creator of the popular Gravity & Grace yoga DVD, and learn to harness the subtle external force of gravity for movement appropriate for each of us individually, and awaken the subtle internal force of grace, which appears when guidance comes from an inspired source much greater than ourself. We practice educating our body and sharpening our attention toward the internal call for surrender when meeting physical resistance, and "tone" intuition and build trust in the feeling centers of our heart and gut. Ultimately, we begin to develop and trust our "inner teacher" as we cultivate a truly personal practice.

This class includes a vigorous practice sequence of poses and is for those with a minimum of six months of experience.

Peter Sterios is creator of the popular Gravity & Grace yoga DVD, one of the top 15 yoga DVDs of all time according to Yoga Journal. He is founder of Manduka, a leading eco-yoga products company, and a writer and former contributing editor for Yoga Journal. His yoga classes, workshops, and teacher trainings are offered worldwide and reflect more than three decades of practice and study. petersterios.com

The Yoga of Fulfillment (C5K)

The yoga tradition encourages and provides teachings for seekers to achieve both spiritual and worldly fulfillment––"mukti" and "bhukti." There is a science to both. In this lecture given by ParaYoga founder Rod Stryker, we outline the yogic keys that empower us to accomplish whatever goal we hold dear, fulfill our worldly as well as spiritual potential, and achieve our ultimate destiny. Our discussion covers the theory of "sankalpa," how we bring thought into form; the theory and practice of "yoga nidra," yogic sleep; and the concept of both individual and collective "dharma," life purpose.

Rod Stryker is the founder of ParaYoga and widely considered one of the country's leading yoga and meditation teachers. He has taught for more than 30 years and leads retreats, workshops, and trainings worldwide. parayoga.com