The 2020 Online Summit Schedule

DAY 2: Thursday, April 22nd, 2020

Bobbie Ellis

5am PDT (Los Angeles) / 8am EDT (New York) / 1pm GMT (London) / 2pm CET (Paris) / 10pm AEST (Sydney)

Discover new and unexpected possibilities when you combine the fluid movement practices of Continuum with the principles and practice of Yoga.

Bobbie will guide experiential learning as you explore:

• How the fluid nature of the body and continuum can inform and evolve yoga practices

• Curiosity to develop new resources for embodied living

• How the “8 limbs” of yoga are found in Continuum

• The body as a resilient creative process, rather than an object to force and mold

• Pouring your body into and out of asana in exploration rather then a fixed static state

• How your yoga practice can be informed by the moment, as opposed to perfecting form

• Preventing yoga-related injuries by changing your habitual tempo and listening from within in new and novel ways to develop in-powerment and self regulation

Mariana Caplan

7am PDT (Los Angeles) / 10am EDT (New York) / 3pm GMT (London) / 4pm CET (Paris) / 12am Friday AEST (Sydney)

Has yoga improved your health and expanded your awareness but emotional and relationship issues continue to challenge you? Or have you found psychotherapy helpful, yet you yearn for further spiritual discovery? Somatic Experiencing is at the cutting edge of trauma treatment and embodiment practices worldwide. Yoga is scientifically and anecdotally proven almost universally to be beneficial for all levels of physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being at all ages and stages of life. Join author, yoga teacher, and psychotherapist Mariana Caplan, PhD, MFT, E-RYT 500, for an overview of how to combine the benefits of yoga with somatic practice, depth psychology, and neuroscience to support the processing of difficult mind-states and emotions, heal trauma, and open new gateways to yoga’s physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. This session will help you:

• Learn about core practices of Somatic Experiencing™ and how these, and other somatic practices, integrate, support, and deepen yoga practice

• Discover how to use psychological inquiry to amplify yoga — turning it into a powerfully effective "free therapy on the mat"

• Apply the insights of psychology in a practical way to your own yoga practice, teaching, professional work, and personal life.

Eric Franklin

9am PDT (Los Angeles) / 12pm EDT (New York) / 5pm GMT (London) / 6pm CET (Paris) / 2am Friday AEST (Sydney)

Successful yoga requires high levels of awareness, control, and range-of-motion, which are all only available with highly accurate body schema: the dynamic, mental representation (i.e., picture) of the body, and its parts, in relation to the surrounding environment. Mental imagery (i.e., the creation and use of mental images and metaphors) is relevant for addressing and enhancing body, and specifically joint mobility and schema.

Dynamic Neuro-Cognitive Imagery (DNI) is an evidence-based, codified approach to mental imagery. DNI is designed for movement and postural retraining yoga, Pilates, dance and other modalities. This approach focuses on the embodiment of human anatomy and correct biomechanics through mental imagery in order to improve body-related self-awareness as well as motor and non-motor aspects of performance. As such, DNI shows promise as a training approach for facilitating and enhancing pelvic mobility and schema.

In this presentation, participants will:

•  Learn how DNI training can address and enhance their skills in yoga, specifically flexibility, balance and anatomical embodiment.  

• Understand key principles of mental imagery and DNI for enhancing bodily-related self-awareness;

• Use DNI techniques and tools of anatomical and metaphorical imagery to experience functional mobility with correct biomechanics

• Learn specific DNI exercises for improving alignment and stability throughout yoga asanas.   

At the end of the workshop, time will be devoted to questions and answers.

Dr. Rick Hanson

11am PDT (Los Angeles) / 2pm EDT (New York) / 7pm GMT (London) / 8pm CET (Paris) / 4am Friday AEST (Sydney)

Mental practices aimed at the heights of human potential – what could be called “awakening” – have been around for thousands of years. And now modern neuropsychology is beginning to reveal the underlying biological basis of these practices and higher states of consciousness.

The breakthroughs of the great teachers are not reserved for the chosen few. Join New York Times bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson to explore seven practices for embodying them ourselves in daily life to handle stress, heal old pain, feel at ease with others, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness. 

In this presentation you will learn:

• What could be happening in your brain when your mind is calm, clear, loving, happy, wide open, and fully present.

• The seven practices that are found again and again across a number of traditions, leading to awakening.

• Practical tips you can use right away to become more mindful, cultivate more kindness, and feel more confident and contented – in the life you already have.

These teachings are from Dr. Hanson's new book Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. If you preorder now you can get 3 bonus gifts!

Dr. Richard Miller

1pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 4pm EDT (New York) / 9pm GMT (London) / 10pm CET (Paris) / 6am Friday AEST (Sydney)

Nondual meditation is designed to reveal what it is about you that is already and always Whole — that never needs healing, fixing or changing. From this perspective you are not practicing meditation or engaging in healing practices to become whole. You are practicing from your innate and already present Wholeness. You just need to recognize, remember and embody it, as it is already so. With this understanding firmly in place you can then learn to interweave your felt-sense of Wholeness into every circumstance of your daily life, as well as utilize meditation to address what may need healing in the body and mind.

This presentation experientially explores six essential meditative inquires that has been handed down through the ancient teachings of Samkhya-Patañjali Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmir Unqualified Nondualism. These inquiries help you recognize and directly experience your essential unchanging and ever-present Wholeness and innate Well-Being that underlies true health, healing, and awakening to your Essential Nature. These simple inquiries enable you to reclaim your inner and outer connectedness and realize your human potential where you feel empowered and in harmony with yourself and the entire cosmos during every step of your journey as a human being.

A Powerpoint Presentation, MP3 meditations, and handouts are included with this presentation.

Ally Bogard

3pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 6pm EDT (New York) / 11pm GMT (London) / 12am Friday CET (Paris) / 8am Friday AEST (Sydney)

In many of the mystical teachings, the Yogic and Buddhist teachings alike, the heart has four innate qualities. Think of these as natural expressions inherent to the heart when it is in its safest and most open state.  

In this one hour program for the Embodied Yoga Summit, we will explore how ancient and modern day teachings show the way to reclaim one's natural heart. Amidst the rubble of a heartbroken world we will use both philosophical teachings and practical approaches to be guided back to the vast and untouched heart.

This program will work both personally and collectively:

• Personally:  relationship to self, to one's past, and to others.

• Collectively: in order to navigate our current world with a soft and available heart.

We will explore:

• The use of mental inquiry and contemplative prayer in order to create an observed and questioned mind as a path to the heart  

• Four qualities as outlined in the Yoga Sutras (the Brahma-Vihara's in Buddhism) to  create a map to forgiveness

• Understanding the past

• Staying present in order to meet for an unsure future 

Rev. angel Kyodo williams

5pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 8pm EDT (New York) / 1am Friday GMT (London) / 2am Friday CET (Paris) / 10am Friday AEST (Sydney)

Presentation and discussion

Sianna Sherman

7pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 10pm EDT (New York) / 3am Friday GMT (London) / 4am Friday CET (Paris) / 12pm Friday AEST (Sydney)

Rasa Yoga is dedicated to the Alchemy of Yoga & the Artistry of Life. Invoke the power of spirit and the creativity of your soul in this fluid-form vinyasa, weaving poses on the thread of the breath. This practice is an alchemical flow of asana, mantra, mudra, pranayama, meditation, and mythic insight. Rasa Yoga is a soulful fusion of asana, mantra, mudra, myth, pranayama, meditation, functional anatomy, Tantric yoga philosophy, shadow work, and soul alchemy.

DAY 4: Saturday, April 24th, 2020

Betsy Polatin

5am PDT (Los Angeles) / 8am EDT (New York) / 1pm GMT (London) / 2pm CET (Paris) / 10pm AEST (Sydney)

In this experiential exploration we will look at ways to discover the unity of the system, including body, mind, and spirit. And at the same time, we see how trauma and overwhelm can interfere. You will learn simple exercises to enhance sensory skills by exploring the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems. As you increase body awareness, and breathing capacity, you can change inefficient habits, so that you can move with ease as you practice. I will share with you my ideas about support, suspension, and breath.

In this class you will learn:

• How everyday events can lead to trauma.

• How to find support from the ground for all poses.

• How to find suspension inside.

Michal Yarkoni

7am PDT (Los Angeles) / 10am EDT (New York) / 3pm GMT (London) / 4pm CET (Paris) / 12am Sunday AEST (Sydney)

Considered the "The mother of all senses", the sense of touch is one of the first to develop. Touch and movement develop together - as the embryo is moving in the womb her skin is being stimulated by the amniotic fluid, by the wall of the uterus and by the pressure of the mother's internal organs around the womb. When a baby is born, the touch she receives supports emotional bonding with mom and plays a significant role in different physiological functions such as growth, immunity and regulation of the nervous system. Touch continues to be a major part of our physiological and psychological health throughout life. 

In these current times of having to keep social distancing for the sake of our health and safety, many of us are lacking opportunities to touch and be touched. The class will explore embodying the sense of touch and various ways we can use our yoga practice to touch and be touched - by ourselves and by the environment around us.

Participants will need a bolster or a heavy pillow, and a shawl/scarf/ little blanket.

Tara Judelle

9am PDT (Los Angeles) / 12pm (New York) / 5pm GMT (London) / 6pm CET (Paris) / 2am Sunday AEST (Sydney)

This class will tap into the electric life force and web of continuity that shapes the tensegrity of our body/mind.  Like an inner webbing of support, creativity, unwinding, and spiraling, the fluid network. This class will start with tuning into the fascial lines, unwinding and listening to their vibration, transition into asana flow, a guided exploration into the unwinding of the fascial through free movement,

Mark Walsh

11am PDT (Los Angeles) / 2pm EDT (New York) / 7pm GMT (London) / 8pm CET (Paris) / 4am Sunday AEST (Sydney)

• Learn how to turn familiar poses into embodiment coaching.

• Discover practical tools for revealing personal patterns and linking asana to daily life.

• Explore novel poses to explore self-care, boundaries and passion.

Niralli D'Costa

1pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 4pm EDT (New York) / 9pm GMT (London) / 10pm CET (Paris) / 6am Sunday AEST (Sydney)

In this workshop we will explore the source of yoga as the weaving of the life force energy that keeps our hearts pulsing in our chests, gives us access to pleasure, and allows our bodies to heal when they have been broken with the vastness of the cosmos, illuminated by the light of a thousand stars, and in dynamic relationship with the elements. Through attention to the deepest impulses of our bodies, we will explore the subtle energy currents that give rise to shapes and form asanas. We will allow these sacred postures to imprint upon us the cosmic wisdom we begin to access when in union with our Source.

We will work with stillness and breath, fluid movement, and living postures. We will begin to restore what has been lost in the process of the commodification and colonization of yoga through our direct experience of the living body in practice by listening to the wisdom that runs through our veins and connects us to the wild and unobstructed forces of nature. We will begin with meditation and move fluidly into our physical practice. There will be opportunities to share and integrate the experience. For those of you that wish to be witnessed in your practice we will have the opportunity to be in a virtual circle together learning from one another’s direct embodied experience.

Together we will explore:

• Increase receptivity to the energetic benefits of yogic practice

• Integrate yogic postures with organic, fluid unwinding of tension patterns in the body

• Weave personal direct felt experience with larger energetic fields of resource

Patty Townsend

3pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 6pm EDT (New York) / 11pm GMT (London) / 12am Sunday CET (Paris) / 8am Sunday AEST (Sydney)

Exploring our rich and varied humanity frees us to see life as it actually is. Releasing resistance to our complicated personal qualities and traits, allows us to become witnesses to the radiance that is fundamental to our being.  Commitment, agency, passion, and love are gifts of a life lived in form.

In this workshop, we will use yoga movements and embodied-inquiry to explore our human selves through our organs, bone marrow, and earthy density and heft.

Karina Kalilah

5pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 8pm EDT (New York) / 1am Sunday GMT (London) / 2am Sunday CET (Paris) / 10am Sunday AEST (Sydney)

This is a pre-recorded session. Please look for the link in your daily schedule emails during the conference to access the video as it will not be streamed via Zoom.

Take a deep dive, a meditative journey to the vibrational sounds of crystal bowls, chimes and the beautiful channelled vocals by Kalilah.  As we journey through the Chakras, you will be invited to explore a listening that goes deeper than the ears, a communication that goes deeper than speech, and an experience that goes deeper than touch. You will open yourself up to the gentle hum of your own spirit, coming home to your true nature. The event will begin with a guided meditation to allow you to drop into your body, followed by 45 minutes of sound, and will end with a guided manifestation visualisation. Karina will guide you deep within yourself, and you will leave feeling clear, grounded and connected to yourself, to each other, to your loved ones, and to the Earth.

Leo Peppas

7pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 10pm EDT (New York) / 3am Sunday GMT (London) / 4am Sunday CET (Paris) / 12pm Sunday AEST (Sydney)

This is a pre-recorded session. Please look for the link in your daily schedule emails during the conference to access the video as it will not be streamed via Zoom.

For the benefits of a nourishing practice to sustain, it needs to connect to everyday life on many levels, particularly the way our embodiment relates with the world; the landscape we are in and people who inhabit it. In this way the practice supports our presence in relationship, helping us discover how we lose presence and how to find it again.

The capacity to dive exclusively inside, or access our inner experiencing is essential, yet ultimately we need to be able to simultaneously be present with what’s happening around us. In our early development as infants, we potentially go through a process that invokes this capacity. Initially spending a lot of time inside we gradually learn to meet the world in more and more complex and mature relationships, growing our skills of expressivity and interaction. What we need may change depending on where we are in this process, to appreciate this its essential to differentiate what’s appropriate in each moment.

A self practice can often be more internally focused, when this becomes a habit it may be misleading and can even become a psychological trap: Our awareness seems to become more sophisticated but our experiencing is not confirmed by the outside, so we may struggle to integrate this new way of being into our life and relationships. When an embodied practice is in relationship with the landscape moment by moment, it supports us in many aspects that have meaning in life; in the way we meet adventures and challenges, and in the choices we make.

This session will introduce some simple tools that support the integration of your existing practice with all relationships, something that is at the core of what may guide you to continue practicing in a profoundly relevant and evolving way.

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THROUGHOUT THE SUMMIT

In addition to the live classes above, you may also enjoy these pre-recorded classes at any time throughout the summit.

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