Berkshire Yoga Festival 2024: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

Healing Addiction: The Dis-ease of the Lost Self (Part 1)

Part 1 of 2: Broadening the view of addiction
When we mistakenly look outward for what lies within, believing that happiness and fulfillment reside in external factors like people, places, things, education, behaviors, substances, or experiences, we are led down a path that ultimately results in darkness and disconnection. This detachment from our true selves, often due to trauma or unfulfilled needs, is not just a catalyst for addiction, eating disorders, and co-dependent behavior, but according to ancient yoga and Vedanta texts, it's also the fundamental cause of all suffering, including societal issues like racism, sexism, and gender-based discrimination. However, we don't need to endure or inflict suffering. We have the power to rediscover and embrace our authentic selves. This journey of self-reclamation involves returning to and embracing the aspects of ourselves that we have long neglected or hidden, with the goal of restoring the innate love, acceptance, and sense of belonging that is our inherent right. Lecture, Discussion, Embodiment practices.

Presenters

Nikki Myers

Founder, Y12SR

Nikki Myers, MBA, C-IAYT, is an accomplished speaker, teacher and the founder of Y12SR, The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery.Nikki is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Addictions Recovery Specialist, and Certified Health Coach. Born from her personal struggle with addiction, based... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Intensive, Yoga

Style Somatic Yoga, Recovery
Level All Levels

12:45pm EDT

✴️ Business of Yoga: The Roadmap for Financial Freedom + Career Longevity w/Yoga Renew

Are you a part-time yoga teacher whose scared to make the leap to full-time because you're worried about the money? You have a day job you're dying to leave but you can't understand how you could possibly make a living as a yoga teacher? Are you a full-time yoga teacher whose starting to experience burnout and looking for a long term sustainable career path? The good news is... there is a way...

In this workshop you will Explore:

Your Relationship With Money
The Problem(s) with the Current Yoga Teaching Model
A Realistic Path to Passive Income
The 4 Noble Truths of Growing a Yoga Business

You will Learn about and Workshop your Roadmap:

How to choose a Niche in 5 mins.
Your first digital download to grow an audience
Your first passive income online product
How to create Medium and High Ticket offers that Help People.

The hustle required for creating success as a yoga teacher is real, and so is the burnout that comes with it. With a combined 25+ years as entrepreneurs in the yoga and wellness space, Kate Lombardo and Patrick Franco, co-directors of YogaRenew— the largest online teacher training program in the world— have worn every “hat” there is a yoga teacher. In this session, they’ll teach you how to lay the foundation for a business that focuses on earning you more money and giving you back your most valuable currency— your time— so you can build a prosperous and sustainable career sharing the practice you love.

Brought BYF Platinum Sponsor, YogaRenew.

Presenters

Patrick Franco

Co-Director, Yoga Renew

Revered as the yoga teacher’s yoga teacher, Patrick Franco has leveraged his extensive knowledge across yoga and eastern medicine to develop and inspire some of the world’s most influential yoga instructors. His magnetic demeanor has been a guiding light for the international... Read More →

Kate Lombardo

Co-Director, YogaRenew

Kate Lombardo is a Conscious Business Mentor and Yoga Teacher Trainer. As co-director of YogaRenew, the world’s largest yoga teacher training program, her work as a yoga instructor spans the globe, touching tens of thousands of students internationally. She is fiercely passionate... Read More →

Sponsors

YogaRenew

Thursday June 13, 2024 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

✴️ Community Event, Business of Yoga

Style Business of Yoga

2:00pm EDT

The Art of Adjustments

Please bring a strap and mat. Yoga blocks optional.

The power of human touch is profound. An intelligent, informative hands on assist has the potential to be an incredible teaching tool. There is also a big responsibility that comes along with putting your hands on someone else’s body. You must be well trained, careful, conscientious, and without negative intent.
Kula has always been known as a studio where you will find plenty of hands on assists. This teachers intensive will look closely at how/when/and why to touch, and when there are other more effective ways to assist a student. It will teach you how to use intelligent touch as a teaching tool and how to use your body as another way to communicate with your students in a supportive environment.

Presenters

Nikki Vilella

Nikki is the co-director of Kula Yoga Project in NYC where she has been teaching for nearly two decades. She is at the helm of the 200 hour Kula Flow Foundations teacher training program, leads an annual 75 hour advanced TT at her home in upstate NY and offers a mentorship program... Read More →

Thursday June 13, 2024 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Intensive, Yoga

Curated Schedules For Yoga Teachers

6:30am EDT

✴️ Morning Meditation: Ground & Focus w/Taoist Wisdom

Early risers start your day right with a 15 mins of gentle stretching and a 30 min meditation and contemplation of yogic wisdom practice. Meditation will be partially guided in the Sahm Je Taoist tradition. Beginning your day with meditation is scientifically proven to improve your energy levels and focus throughout the day.

Presenters

Andrew Tanner

Founder, Dregs of Wisdom School of Taoist Yoga

Andrew Tanner is a global yoga teacher, men's mind/body coach, and public speaker known for his soulful style of teaching, and unshaken faith in people's ability to transform for the better. He has been offering holistic healing work and guiding people on spiritual retreat for over... Read More →

Friday June 14, 2024 6:30am - 7:15am EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

✴️ Community Event, Meditation

Level All Levels
Curated Schedules Transformation and Personal Growth, For Beginners, Gentle Practice

8:00am EDT

Classic Kula Flow: Smart, Sweaty, Ecstatic

Kula Flow is vinyasa style yoga with an emphasis on creativity, anatomy and alignment. Class will be a thematic, inventive and thoughtful sequence of sun salutations, standing & seated postures, back bending, inversions, and hand/arm balances —guided by a steady breath to tone and calm the mind. Uddiyana Bandha practice will be sprinkled throughout class.

Presenters

Nikki Vilella

Friday June 14, 2024 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Yoga

Curated Schedules Awakening Shakti, Level Up

10:00am EDT

Integrated Energy Healing & Reiki

Restore emotional balance through guided movement and touch.
This class is designed to release muscle tension and restore emotional balance, leaving your body in a natural state of ease and fulfillment. We move through a slow, grounding yoga sequence and offer hands-on assists. The class culminates in a meditation infused with hands-on energy healing assists that combines Usui Reiki and Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) that can help to reduce stress, restore balance, and clear energy blockages through gentle touch.

Presenters

Dima Bosko

One Voice Yoga & Wellness

Dima is the the creator of One Voice Yoga and her interest lies in the practical application of spiritual illumination, embodiment practices and functional movement. As a student of consciousness for many years, she has thousands of hours of trainings in the field of yoga, meditation... Read More →

Natalie Engler, MSW, LICSW

Natalie Engler, MSW, LICSW is Certified in Usui Reiki Level II and Advanced Integrated Energy Therapy (IET), and is trained in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Professional Skills Level 2 and Family & Systemic Constellations. In the past, Natalie taught yoga in wellness and medical... Read More →

Friday June 14, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Sound Healing & Self Care

Curated Schedules For Beginners

12:00pm EDT

The HOLY Wake-Up Call

Have you ever felt like a cosmic 2x4 hit you across the head, often labeled as a mid-life crisis? Join this interactive lecture and discover the wisdom that yoga offers to view midlife not as a crisis, but as a profound opportunity for self-discovery and alignment with what truly matters. According to yogic teachings, we go through four distinct stages (ashrama) in a lifetime. Now is the time to stand for who you are, who you want to become, and to live in accordance with the season of your life.Dive into the conversation, maybe even laugh and embrace midlife as a sacred wake-up call.

Presenters

Coby Kozlowski

Faculty, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Coby Kozlowski, M.A., senior faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga and Esalen Institute, author of One Degree Revolution: How the Wisdom of Yoga Inspires Small Shifts That Lead to Big Changes, has been featured on the cover of Yoga Journal and Mantra Yoga + Health, and was... Read More →

Friday June 14, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Crane East, Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Lecture / Talk