schedule of events

 


this is the 2009 schedule. The 2010 schedule is coming soon, with many many returning teachers and some exciting new additions!!

Friday, August 7th

7am-9am : registration open (registration will be open all weekend)

9am-10am : opening ceremony, including welcome, meditation, and Odissi Indian Dance Performance by Revital Carroll.

10:30am-12:30pm workshops

  • Yin Yoga with Tom Beall *
  • Arm Balances and Inversions with Geoffrey Taylor *
  • Enhance your Practice with Japanese Esoteric Meditation, Mantra and Mindfulness with Don Siclari
  • Breathing: "what's all that breathing about"?  with Sally Weber *B
  • Awakening the Endocrine System with Rama Jyoti Vernon * B
  • "More Truth Will Set You Free" with John D. Seibert, MSW, LCSW. B
  • LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood with Rose Kress * B
  • QiGong and Standing 5 Elements Practice, with Adam Da Virro, L. Ac. B

 

  •  LUNCH BREAK..(meals are on your own...walking distance restaurants, and pre-ordered food for advance pass holders ...order before midnight Wednesday August 5th)...including free lunch lecture in the Cafe space: Mystic Poetry Reading by Lee Timmerman   

      1:45-3:45 workshops

  • Integrating the Wisdom of Perspective:Yoga for the Second Half of Life with Sally Y 
  • Cellular Energizing and The Ever-Expanding Universe of Yoga with Iala Jaggs B
  • From the Ground Up...Brightening your Practice by Standing on Your Own Two Feet, with Laura Brown B
  • Yoga for a Healthy Heart with Sally Weber*
  • Teaching Prenatal Yoga with Mimi Solaire *
  • Pilates and Yoga: Co-operatively Co-Create your Core! With Jan Rominger
  • Sutras, Sound, Self and Sangha with Tom Mendola * B
  • Brain Wave Yoga with Melissa Koci B

 

 

4:30 pm -6:30pm workshops

  • The Energetics of Weaving Yoga, Meditation and Guided Imagery with Keelyn Riley *B
  • Freedom Yoga for Over-40s with Heather Bostian B
  • Beautiful Backbends with Marcia Galleher*
  • Empower your practice with the three A's of Anusara Yoga:  Attitude, Alignment and Action.  with Erin Widman*
  • Do the Twist: Twisting Asanas  with Jeff Martens * B
  • Yoga for a Healthy Back with Tom Beall *
  • Developing Your Own Yoga Practice with Malissa Bobbitt
  • Intro to Jivamukti Yoga with Aubrey Hackman

 

 

DINNER BREAK (meals are on your own... cafe options on site are exclusively for advance pass attendants who have pre-ordered before midnight Wednesday aug 5th).

8:30pm

  • Vibrational Healing with April LaLiberte B
  • The Energetics of Enlightenment with Steve Ilg B
  • Vinyasa/Yin/Kundalini combo class with live music, with Daniel Gottlieb and Michael Kolasa
  • kirtan session with Brian David B

 

Saturday, August 8th

7am-9am workshops

  • The Dance of Yes and No: How our Boundaries are our Greatest Freedom: an Anusara-Inspired workshop with Bob Hoffa B
  • Lifeline Technique Presenataion and Demo with Kristin Mc Gary, LAc., MAc., CLP
  • LifeForce Yoga Shakti with Rose Kress
  • HP Yoga® Master Class with Steve Ilg and Joy Kilpatrick*
  • Laughter of the Heart with Jan Rominger

 

10am-12pm workshops

  • Right Brain Creativity Workshop with Brain Wave Vibration, with Nicole Dean
  • The Yoga of Indian Dance with Revital Carroll*
  • Unwinding Yoga: Working with the Cranial-Sacral Impulse with Frederica Hall
  • Empower your practice with the three A's of Anusara Yoga:  Attitude, Alignment and Action with Erin Widman*
  • Your sacred sacrum with Lisa Connor, D.C. B
  • Foot Fitness and Chi Yoga with Kat Myers *
  • Tiger Body Buddha Mind with Cain *
  • Yin Yoga with Tom Beall *

 

LUNCH.( meals are on your own... see firday for details) .. including free cafe talk: Nature Deficit Disorder and how to alleviate it, by Sierra Club Representatives

 

1:45-3:45 workshops

  • Moon Salutations with Tom Beall*
  • The eight -step process of developing good headstand technique, in the Sivananda tradition, with Jonah Jensen
  • Journaling through the Chakras pt.1 with Holly Troy B
  • Mudras - A Doorway to Your Spirit with Sally Weber *B
  • Thai Massage techniques for Yoga teachers with Jason Temkin : Hands-free techniques
  • Desire as Evolution with Jeff Martens * B
  • A Breath-based Practice with Rama Jyoti Vernon * B
  • Durga Tales and Vinyasa Flow, with Maria Kali-Ma *

 

4:30-6:30 workshops

  • Spiritual Acupuncture, Experiencing Brain Meridian Acupuncture / Single Needle Acupuncture, Banya Lim, L.AC.
  • Jivamukti Yoga with Aubrey Hackman*
  • Feng Shui with Raquel Rotnes
  • Beauty and the Belly with Hilary Giovale B
  • Partner Yoga with Tom Beall and Sally Weber *
  • Journaling through the Chakras pt.2 with Holly Troy B
  • Opening the Heart to the Divine in 2009 with Heather Bostian
  • Thai Massage Techniques with Jason Temkin: Inversions and Seated Thai techniques

 

DINNER (on your own... see friday for details)

8:30pm

  • Portals of Peace: A Path to Inner Peace and a Healed World,  Book Signing and Talk with Kimberly Kingsley
  •   Yoga and Modern Psychology with Keelyn Riley  B
  • ·Dream Yoga with John Galleher B
  • Kirtan with Lee Timmerman and friends B

 

Sunday, August 9th

7am-9am workshops

  • morning meditation B
  • The Biomechanics of Yoga with Jim Keegan *
  • All-Levels Vinyasa Flow with Autumn Bolin B
  • Yoga for Relaxation and healing with Malissa Bobbitt B

 

10am-12pm workshops

  • Kundalini Yoga with Laurel Clohessy B
  • Thai Massage with Jason Temkin
  • Pranayama in the Sivananda tradition with Jonah Jensen B
  • Blossoming the Lotus : Deep Hip Openers. Anusara-Inspired workshop with Bob Hoffa
  • The Yoga of personal Transformation: from Fear to Clear, with Jeff Martens  *B
  • Jivamukti Yoga with Aubrey Hackman *
  • Ayurvedic Yoga with Cain *
  • The Secret of the Mystics, and their practices for Attainment with Lee Timmerman B

 

LUNCH (indepentently... see firday for details)  plus free cafe talk and Q and A: Arizona Yoga Association

 

1:45-3:45 workshops

  • Integration of the Yoga Sutras with Asana with Rama Jyoti Vernon * B
  • Arm Balances and Inversions with Geoffrey Taylor *
  • Beauty and the Belly with Hilary Giovale B
  • Deep Stretch yoga with Mimi Solaire *
  • Taoist meditation for Longevity with Brandey Gowey, ND B
  • Bikram yoga class with Julia Olguin NOTE TIME: 2:15-3:45pm
  • Yoga Workshop with Jason Magness and Chelsey Gribbon : Introduction to AcroYoga*
  • Talk: Completing the Puzzle of Humanity with author Kimberly Kingsley.

 

4:30-6:30 workshops

  • Sivananda Yoga with Holly Troy
  • Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back to the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy life  with Nicole Dean
  • "More Truth Will Set You Free" with Erin Patterson B
  • Spontaneous Yoga Teaching with Laura Brown
  • Anusara Workshop with Stephani Lindsey
  • Vinyasa-Yin-Kundalini combo class with Live music : Daniel "Yoga Dan" Gottlieb and Michael Kolasa * B
  • Vibrational Healing with April LaLiberte B
  • Yoga Workshop with Jason Magness and Chelsey Gribbon: Acrobatics Immersion:bringing the Wisdom of Yoga to Acrobatics*

 

DINNER (independantly... see fri for details)

 

  • 7:30pm: closing ceremony and meditation, including 15-minute Maha Kali Moksha Indian dance by Revital Carroll.

 

8:30

  • Gentle Restorative Yoga with Emily McRobbie B
  • Kirtan with Brian David B
  • Gong Bath with Judy Springer B
  • The Lifeline Technique: an informational talk with Dr. Kristin McGary,

 

 

 

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post-festival intensives/retreats:

 

 

 

also,

  classes/workshops with an * by them are taught by a E-200 RYT, RYT-500 or E-500 RYT instructor, meaning that yoga alliance may count these classes as continuing education credits for yoga teachers.

 

classes with a "B" by them are suitable for beginners.