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Community Sangha | Transitioning to Online Learning

with Angela Fears (E-RYT 500, YACEP), Monique Schubert, and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). Here, presenters discuss their experiences creating sacred space and having a presence online. Attendees will walk away with insightful tips and practical advice on moving their yoga teaching professions to virtual spaces.

Community Sangha | Moving the Body

with Certified Exercise Physiologist and Wellness Coach Laura Gorriaran-Goodwin (RYT-200) and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). Laura Goodwin believes that at the core of achieving your best self you need to be able to manage both the internal and external stressors that arise on a daily basis. How do you achieve peace in times of chaos? How do you find optimal movement within an imperfect world? Come join me for this exciting workshop where you will learn corrective training technique fun and untraditional movement strategies, and tools to help focus the mind and help heal the body. We will facilitate connections with the body through joy, movement, and self-love. Breathe, you’ve got this!

Community Sangha | Healing with Yoga

with Candace Jennings and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT500, YACEP). Join Sangha host Maya Breuer and special guest Candace A. Jennings for this community gathering, highlighting the healing qualities of yoga. Candace discusses her background in dance and yoga and describes how yoga aided in her recovery from paralysis.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Meditation in the Black Community

with Kathleen Souza (MS, MSW, LICSW) and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). The Black community has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving many wondering how to maintain normalcy at a time when everything is abnormal. This sangha explores how utilizing yoga and meditation can help reduce tension, stress, depression, and anxiety in individuals and families.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Ayurveda, Part 2

with Keisha Abraham and Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). This focus of this session is nurturing nature’s elements in our practice. Explore the application of vata (movement and communication), pitta (transformation) and kapha (binding) in our expressions of yoga and receive several tips to apply to your class or personal practice.

Community Sangha | Teaching Yoga in India

with Nuthan Manohar and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). Have you wondered what it's like to teach yoga in India? Learn about this unique experience and gain useful insight that can help you become a more compassionate and effective teacher working with students of diverse cultural, life-stage, body type, and psychometric profiles.

Community Sangha | Love, Light and Food: Making Sustainability Taste Good

with Satta Jallah and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). Presenter Satta Jallah describes how her yoga practice opened her mind to her food choices' karmic and environmental impact. She also shares how the COVID-19 pandemic inspired a radical culinary evolution for her and her family as well as the many health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Community Sangha | Annamaya and Pranayama Kosha

with Sherry Ryan and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). Join an in-depth exploration of the Physical and Prana Bodies. This workshop introduces many yogic techniques to strengthen and support these layers, as well as tips for protecting the first two body sheaths against the coronavirus.

Community Sangha | Yoga and Social Justice

with Marshawn Feltus and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP) Previously sentenced to 38 years in state prison, Marshawn Feltus pulls on his experience to teach yoga in correctional facilities, schools, and community centers throughout Chicago. In this sangha, he and our VP of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer discuss social justice in yoga.

Community Sangha | The Healing and Restorative Power of Yoga

with Dr. Stephen Redmon and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). Explore how yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda can be used to heal and restore during these times to help safely navigate and deconstruct racism, ecological devastation, injustice, and oppression on individual, local, national, and global levels.

Community Sangha | Kashmir Shaivism

with Bruno Garrote. Learn about Kashmir Shaivism and its lesson that even the most commonplace occurrences throughout our day-to-day lives hold opportunities for growth and consciousness expansion. This sangha explores how access to the divine is accessible even in "ordinary" or "simple" actions, understood as different types of yoga and meditation.

Community Sangha | The Power of Breath in Times of Great Change

with Sara Clark and Yoga Alliance's Vice President of Cross-Cultural Advancement Maya Breuer (E-RYT 500, YACEP). While the world around us may feel chaotic, explore how to create a calm environment within. Learn why breathing is an act of peaceful resilience and how to efficiently manage stress and awaken inner wisdom through the practice of mindfulness and pranayama. Leave feeling energized and at peace.