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                        Yoga International Spring Digital Conference 2016PRESENTATIONS LAUNCH MAY 6-8  Areas covered:BodySuper charge your yoga practice and deepen your experience. Topics include:    Yoga therapy to relieve neck and shoulder pain    Strengthening and aligning the knees and hips    Physiology and function of fascia    Yoga for trauma healing    Living yoga off the mat    Yoga and literature as social justice tools    Yoga and pranayama for depressionMindGet complete yoga practices, workshops, and inspirational sessions with expert teachers in the comfort of your own home (or wherever you’re connected to the internet from!).    Get 20+ hours of yoga workshops, lectures, and practices.    Hear groundbreaking perspectives on yoga, body image, yoga for trauma healing, yoga for depression, anatomy (and more) from 12 world-renowned yoga teachers.    Join over 100,000 participants around the world for discussion and practice throughout the conference weekend.SoulDiscover how yoga can heal the body, mind, and spirit.    Balance your emotions, and learn how to create and maintain healthy relationships.    Reduce your stress levels so that you can manage your life with greater ease.    Clarify and sharpen your mind to create a palpable vision of your best life.    Replace unhealthy habits to kickstart your healing.    Infuse your yoga practice with therapeutic techniques that will carry you through challenging life experiences.    Increase your vitality, health, and wellbeing to enable joy and personal fulfillment.Conference Presenters: Sianna ShermanBhakti Fusion of Form and Flow: Alignment Based VinyasaJulie GudmestadHow to Keep the Low Back Safe in Forward BendsCyndi LeeAll You Have to Do Is Show Up: Release Expectation and Just PracticeGary KraftsowYoga Therapy: Working with DepressionRoger ColeStrengthening and Aligning the Knees, Hips, and LegsDoug KellerHealthy Neck and ShouldersDianne BondyYoga, Body Image, and the Evolution of SelfTiffany CruikshankDemystifying the Core: Simple Methods to Access Your Core More Effectively in Yoga & Everyday LifeJill MillerFascia: Function, Physiology, and ApplicationChelsea Jackson RobertsHow to Use Yoga and Literature as Tools for Healing & Social JusticePandit Rajmani TigunaitThe Healing Power of Tantra and KundaliniMatthew SanfordYoga, Trauma, and TransformationContinuing Education CreditsYoga Alliance requires all yoga teachers to accumulate at least 30 hours of continuing education every three years. They recently changed their continuing education requirements to allow 20 hours of online yoga studies to count towards this requirement.Our Spring Digital Conference will fulfill all 20 of these online study hours. Get the Conference Pass and you will receive a certificate of completion after you take a brief completion quiz. This is a great way to expand your teaching and develop your practice while completing your Yoga Alliance CE requirement.Schedule:Matthew Sanford – Yoga, Trauma, and TransformationMatthew tells his personal story, and offers insights on what it means to live and practice with trauma, and how yoga can be used as a tool to help people to “come home” and re-connect. This workshop includes a complete yoga class with emphasizes grounding, being simultaneously supported and open, and exploring boundaries and balance.Matthew Sanford – Coming Home: A Yoga Practice for TraumaPandit Rajmani Tigunait – The Healing Power of Tantra and KundaliniPandit Rajmani Tigunait – Agni Sara (Fire Essence) TutorialChelsea Jackson – How to Use Yoga and Literature as Tools for Healing and Social JusticeThis workshop includes a discussion on using yoga and literature to teach critical literacy to teens, specifically within marginalized and vulnerable communities. Topics include making connections between yoga, literacy, and social justice; understanding trauma; and practicing conscious allyship. This workshop includes an example of a complete Restorative Vinyasa Flow practice and poetry discussion for teens.Chelsea Jackson – An Interactive Practice: Root and RiseJill Miller – Fascia: Function, Physiology, and Application(Attention anatomy geeks!) Learn what this important connective tissue is and how it effects your yoga practice and your life. Includes a fascia-nating anatomical discussion and a self-massage exploration to help you get familiar with your own fascia.Tiffany Cruikshank – Demystifying the Core: Simple Methods to Access Your Core More Effectively in Yoga & Everyday LifeThis workshop includes a breakdown of the anatomy of the the core and a look at how it can be used in a more therapeutic way in yoga practice and in our daily lives. Includes a practical discussion of core muscles and tips for connecting with key concepts on the mat.Dianne Bondy – Yoga, Body Image, and the Evolution of SelfThis workshop delves into the intersection of yoga and body image and includes a body positive yoga practice. Rated E for Everyone: If you have a body, you can learn something!Dianne Bondy – Love-Your-Body Yoga PracticeDoug Keller – Healthy Neck and ShouldersThis workshop includes a discussion on neck and shoulder anatomy and tips for addressing common misalignments. It also includes a complete asana practice for a healthy neck and shoulders.Doug Keller – A Practice for a Healthy Neck and ShouldersRoger Cole – Strengthening and Aligning the Knees, Hips, and LegsThis is a complete asana class designed to strengthen and align the knees, hips, and legs, and you’ll also find that it quiets the mind as well. The practice includes comprehensive alignment tips for standing poses, kneeling poses, seated poses and more.Gary Kraftsow – Yoga Therapy: Working with DepressionThis workshop includes a discussion on the multidimensionality of depression and how yoga and yoga therapy tools can be used to help manage symptoms. It’s followed by a complete, breath-centric asana class led by Gary.Gary Kraftsow – A Yoga Therapy Sequence for DepressionCyndi Lee – All You Have to Do Is Show Up: Dharma Talk and Guided Mindfulness MeditationA Dharma talk and asana flow exploring what it truly means to “show up”— to our mats, in each pose, and throughout our daily lives.Cyndi Lee – A Full Yoga Class: Release Expectation and Just PracticeJulie Gudmestad – How to Keep the Low Back Safe in Forward BendsThis workshop includes an anatomical overview, alignment breakdowns of forward bends that can often be problematic, and healthier options to prepare students safe for forward folds (including tips for tight hamstrings!)Julie Gudmestad – Anatomy OverviewJulie Gudmestad – Forward Bends That Can Be ProblematicJulie Gudmestad – Healthy Ways to Prepare for Forward BendsJulie Gudmestad – Doorway StretchJulie Gudmestad – ConclusionSianna Sherman – Bhakti Fusion of Form and Flow: Alignment Based Vinyasa”Listen to your breath, listen to your body, and use the alignment to support the creative energy of your being” as you flow through this heart-centered vinyasa class with Sianna, featuring the music of Masood Ali Khan.