Schedule: July 7th, 2023
8:00-9:30am
Location: Burbank
Start your morning with a slow beginner yoga flow to elevate your vibes for a balanced day. Shake off what no longer serves you to allow a fresh start to your day. You’ll start with a centering meditation leading into a yoga flow infused with energy clearing. We will use rattles, movement and breath to release stuck energy in your body for a balanced mind and body.
Location: Crane East
After establishing a solid, stable foundation, we now will utilize poses carefully weaving them into a joyful flowing practice, by adding breath to each movement and adding a touch of play to our practice.
Location: Crane West
Cultivating an Open Spine: Hips Into Backbends
Your back doesn’t actually bend — it elongates. To find a true “back bend,” you need radically open, flexible hips. In this advanced level class, Kat offers up a magic sauce of warming flow, hip opening, technique and alignment that gets you safely into backbends — and other deep spaces — that may surprise and delight you. Offering lots of variations and modifications, come to this session to discover how doable, teachable and joyful your backbend practice can be.
9:30-10:00am
Break
10:00-10:50am
Speaker: Beth Kozik, LMHC
Location: Fisher Room
This presentation will explore the protective factors that contribute to an individual’s resilience. Participants will learn concrete techniques to foster sustainable, resilient behavior over time to improve their physical and emotional health.
11:00-12:30pm
Location: Fisher Room
A non-intimidating and approachable class designed to give you a solid foundation for beginning your yoga practice. You will learn terminology, basic poses to increase strength and flexibility and modifications that work for your body. Not only is this appropriate for beginners but for anyone who wants to get back to the basics. Classes will include elements of Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and Yin yoga as well as some basic breathing techniques.
Location: Crane East
A yoga flow that focuses on breath work, core work, alignment focused yoga poses, and ending with a nice, long savasana. Accessible to most levels, modifications will be given.
Location: Crane West
Join me for a vinyasas flow with a warm up before taking flight with standing and arm balancing poses to find balance within your mind, body and spirit. Practice allowing your breath to flow in challenging poses which you can take off the mat into your daily life so you can stay balanced throughout your day.
12:30-1:30pm
Free Time
1:30-2:30pm
Speaker: Jessica Raistick, LMHC
Location: Fisher Room
In this discussion participants will learn about the powerful impact of joining therapy with healing modalities such as reiki and acupuncture. Individuals will be able to better understand energy work and how it dovetails beautifully with the therapeutic process. Some of the questions we will explore consist of:
- What is energy work?
- How do my emotions get trapped in our bodies?
- What do emotional and physical releases feel like?
- Where are our emotions stored in the body?
- How does acupuncture and reiki help my emotional state?
Location: Clark
In this guided meditation Laurie will help you navigate and thread through the mind’s complex resistance to meditation. He will help you dissolve the ideas and thoughts that seem to make meditation elusive and impossible. Laurie will also teach you the powerful 10 second meditation to try anywhere, anytime, through any circumstances.
In this class you will experience and learn the knack and be inspired to continue your practice.
Format:
Guided practice. Q&A. The 10 second meditation.
2:30-3:00pm
Break
3:00-4:30pm
Location: Crane East
Are you feeling tight and unbalanced? In this practice you practice holding poses for a few breaths and deep stretching while moving from pose to pose. This yoga class will release any tension that holds you back from feeling balanced in your life.
Location: Crane West
Take your practice to a more physical level with this power flow. Sue will incorporate Spot specific strength exercises, challenging balance poses, arm balances and inversions into a fun flow with upbeat music!
3:00-4:00pm
Location: Burbank or TB
Taoist Elixir Method (“Tao Tan Pai”) is the basic health and self-healing Qigong training. Tao Tan Pai is a complete ancient Taoist system of moving meditation and breath control that imparts good health, vitality and personal empowerment by coordinating eyes, mind, movement, and breath according to an alchemic formula that opens the heart, clears and focuses the mind and profoundly strengthens the body. The health benefits of Tao Tan Pai practice are improved circulation, respiration, digestion, metabolism, posture, balance, flexibility, neuro-muscular coordination, sound and restful sleep, boosted immunity, and effective management of stress.
5:30-6:30pm
Light Apps-Cash Bar — Location: JJS
Cost: $20.00
Schedule: July 8th, 2023
8:00-9:30am
Location: Burbank
Come unwind with this 60 min full body flow. This is a slow-moving class designed to help the student relax and release with an emphasis on foundational postures and alignment that's perfect for beginners. Move through a series of centering/breathing exercises and asanas that promote rejuvenation of the mind & body. Good for those new to yoga as well as practitioners of all experience levels looking to slow down and let go.
Location: Crane East
Beginner friendly all levels yoga class. Class structure focuses on mindful breathing, stretch & strength poses including balances & functional mobility.
Location: Crane West
Two yoga styles blending to produce a unique class.
Come, play and lose yourself in this fun heart opening exhilarating practice. Letting your body come alive, feeling empowered you'll find the balance of power and ease. Both physically mentally and spiritually. Expect to sweat and flow with great intentions in your practice today. Followed by a sweet, blissful meditation.
Laurie will follow Kala’s joyous and powerful vinyasa flow infusing the fruit of his pranayama practice for you to share throughout Kala’s flowing sequences.
9:30-10:00am
Break
10:00-10:50am
Location: Clark
Nadabrahma meditation. This powerful technique uses a combination of breathing, latihan movement and humming to induce a deep state of consciousness in which to soak and let go at the end. Q&A follows.
Location: Fisher Room
Your Health and Longevity: Why You Should Start Yoga Now and Never Stop
The Rolling Stones said it: What a drag it is getting old. Lost mobility, strength and balance, cognitive decline, poor sleep, hormonal imbalances and diminished sex drive are all hallmarks of aging. Unless, that is, you have a simple, consistent yoga practice. Join Kat for a factual and fun chat about the scientific benefits of yoga and how it specifically targets and improves the most daunting of health and aging challenges.
11:00-12:30pm
Location: Burbank
You are invited to join this soothing Hatha flow, designed to help release blockages and encourage energy to flow more freely. There will be a subtle emphasis on twists, which reduce anxiety, strengthen the spine, and boost mood. The class will end with an extended deep relaxation meditation.
Location: Crane East
Saluting both the sun and the moon this class will move through postures to align, strengthen and promote balance in the mind, body and spirit. You can expect an emphasis on, as well as repetition of movement to get out of your head and into the body. Not only will we flow, but we will be holding longer deeper postures for the end of the class. Followed by a sweet, blissful meditation.
Location: Crane West
Intermediate & Advanced students looking to deepen their yoga practice with creative sequencing, arm balances & inversion work. This class breaks the rules & encourages practitioners to think outside the box with their yoga practice.
12:30-1:30pm
Free Time
1:30-2:30pm
Location: Fisher Room
Living and Loving a Balanced Life
Are you a health enthusiast? Are you choosing a positive, creative and healthy lifestyle for yourself and your family? If your answer is yes, then the Power of One-Third is for you. Our forefathers fought for the 8-hour workday, so that they could sleep for 8 hours and have 8 hours for their family, friends and themselves. But are you able to do that? Enjoy this experiential workshop and see that this type of lifestyle is within your reach and possible for you today.
Location: Fisher Room
Learn two Martial Arts meditative Qigong sequences for resetting and revitalizing your personal health systems.
By incorporating the Five Elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal, into a moving meditation, you will feel the playful connection to the natural world. As vital Chi energy coursing through your body, a sense of groundedness and fluidity will be achieved. Tap into a healthier and more intuitive self-awareness.
Silk Weavers Exercise is a traditional full body warm up for the Martial Arts. It strengthens the muscles and tendons, as you move with breath. The basic idea is to fashion the movements to be slow, smooth and continuous as if you were weaving silk. By coordinating breath control and movement the union of the body, mind and spirit are accessible.
2:30-3:00pm
Break
3:00-4:30pm
Location: Burbank
Enjoy your practice at a slower pace today. Our yoga poses will be much less intense and transitions will be smooth and slow....We will spend time indulging in sweet yogic breath work. This class will allow extended time for blissful meditation and of course, relaxation.
Location: Crane East
The secret to a comfortable, open yoga practice is comfortable, open hips. Hips are the gateway to an expanded practice — seated, standing and balancing postures, backbends and meditation all become easier and more accessible with easeful hips. Join Kat for some functional anatomy and rigorous practice that will deepen your understanding about the importance of hip work in next-level asana.
Location: Crane West
Intermediate & Advanced students looking to deepen their yoga practice with creative sequencing, arm balances & inversion work. This class breaks the rules & encourages practitioners to think outside the box with their yoga practice.
4:30-5:30pm
Location: Thunderbolt
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6:30-10:00pm
Dinner & Dancing — Location: JJS
Schedule: July 9th, 2023
8:00-9:30am
Location: Burbank
Yoga 101: Basic Strength + Flexibility for All Ages and Abilities
Yoga is the fountain of youth; start drinking from it now! You can start at any age to build and maintain the essential ranges of motion, strength and flexibility that are important to overall health and pro-aging. This beginner level class gives you safe, fun, effective access to postures that will support you now and for the years ahead. Nothing complicated, just simple yoga basics delivered with Kat’s signature clarity and humor.
Location: Crane East
Connect with your body, mind, spirit and soul in this spirit in this fluid all levels class. Enjoy a centering meditation, breathwork, flowing yoga sequence and blissful relaxation - designed to build strength, flexibility and balance while quieting your mind and opening your heart. There will be options and modifications available for all. A wonderful way to start your morning!
Location: Crane West
A yoga flow that will have the practitioner exploring breath work, meditation, and a flow of yoga poses with space to ply and explore. Prior yoga experience is recommended.
9:30-10:00am
Break
10:00-10:50am
Location: Clark
Finding the Deep Center Line: A Primer for Tantrik Meditation
Since the 1970s, research at Harvard, MIT and UMass has shown what ancient Tantrik, Hindu and Buddhist cultures have known for millennia — that meditation has astounding health benefits. Meditation increases concentration, physical resilience and the ability to respond well in stressful situations. It has been shown to decrease depression, physical pain, and dependence on unhealthy coping behaviors. Whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, join Kat for a simple, classical Tantrik meditation that will bring you a sense of embodied calm and wellbeing. You will leave with a practice you can easily work with at home, beginning what we hope will be a lifetime of steadiness, clarity and open awareness.
Location: Fisher Room
How do I trust my Intuition?
In this presentation , We will explore how to access your intuition and decipher what it’s saying. We will discuss concrete tools you can use to start to test and learn to trust your intuition. We will also talk about how to answer the following questions:
- Feel my body… what?!?
- What do I need?
- How does my need support my ability to access my intuition?
- How do boundaries relate to my intuition?
- Is that my gut or am I overthinking?
11:00-12:30pm
Location: Burbank
Beginner Yoga with Sarah Snider is for all levels, body types, abilities, and ages. This class is alignment based and will combine some gentle flow and relaxation.
Location: Crane East
Experience a deeper connection with yourself as you flow through a dynamic movement sequence intended to strengthen and open the body while creating internal peace in the mind.
Location: Crane West
Cultivating an Open Spine: Hips Into Backbends
Your back doesn’t actually bend — it elongates. To find a true “back bend,” you need radically open, flexible hips. In this advanced level class, Kat offers up a magic sauce of warming flow, hip opening, technique and alignment that gets you safely into backbends — and other deep spaces — that may surprise and delight you. Offering lots of variations and modifications, come to this session to discover how doable, teachable and joyful your backbend practice can be.
