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• CE Workshop | Creating Inclusive Yoga Spaces, Part 2: Bias, Power, and Privilege in Yoga Member Event Online

  Aisha Yusuf

  MAY 30 2023
  8:30pm–9:30pm ET
  Creating an inclusive space in yoga means that all feel welcome to the practice, regardless of race, gender, or physical ability. Fostering this environment requires intentional action, including self-reflection and openness to unlearning many societal assumptions. In this three-part series, Aisha Yusuf, E-RYT-200 and an executive leader in social justice reform, will walk you through the critical work of creating more inclusive yoga spaces for people from marginalized communities. In part 2, we explore our positions within some of the power structures that exist in yoga.
  
  Discussion topics include:
  
  · Gender Identity, orientation, and ableism
  · Addressing bias, power, and privilege
  · Intersectionality
  
  
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• CE Workshop | Creating Inclusive Yoga Spaces, Part 3: Best Practices in Yoga Classes Member Event Online

  Aisha Yusuf

  JUN 6 2023
  8:30pm–9:30pm ET
  Creating an inclusive space in yoga means that all feel welcome to the practice, regardless of race, gender, or physical ability. Fostering this environment requires intentional action, including self-reflection and openness to unlearning many societal assumptions.
  
  We've partnered with The Driven Yogi for this three-part series, hosted by The Driven Yogi Founder and Emmy Award-winning journalist Keisha Courtney (E-RYT 500). She's joined by Aisha Yusuf (E-RYT-200), an executive leader in social justice reform and Teacher Trainer at The Driven Yogi. This series of workshops introduces the critical work of creating more inclusive yoga spaces for people from marginalized communities. The final part of this series ties together what we’ve learned to provide best practices to cultivate a truly inclusive yoga class.
  
  Discussion topics include:
  
  · Intersectionality · Avoiding common microaggressions · Best practices in classes and studio spaces
  
  
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• Explore the Benefits of Yoga Alliance Membership Open to Everyone Online

  JUN 14 2023
  10:00am–11:00am ET
  Whether you're already a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, a current student at one of our many Registered Yoga Schools, or thinking about starting a yoga teacher training, there's a lot a Yoga Alliance membership offers that you may not know about. Join the Community Engagement team for an event designed to help you get the most from a Yoga Alliance membership. The team will go over the many resources available to you as a member, including the Member Assistance Program and YA CommUnity, setting up your professional profile, accessing benefits, and more. Bring any and all questions—or even let us know what benefits you'd like to see in the future!
  
  
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• CE Workshop | Samskaras: Reprogramming Our Neural Pathways Member Event Online

  Lauren Bleck-Tutsch

  JUN 22 2023
  3:00pm–4:00pm ET
  Our subconscious patterns, habits and behaviors influence our life as we know it. In the Yogic tradition, this is referred to as Samskara. Let’s talk about what the brain is responsible for on a biological level and how our neural plasticity affects our individual thoughts and actions leading to our habits; what this means as we age and what we can do to shift Samskara.
  
  Discussion topics include:
  
  · Reviewing brain function, nervous systems, neural pathways.
  · Vibration and frequency, subtle bodies, attention and energy.
  · Individual sensory, manas; unconscious memory, chitta, etc.
  
  
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• CE Workshop | Scientific Research on Yoga and Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Member Event Online

  Sat Bir Singh Khalsa

  JUN 28 2023
  12:00pm–1:00pm ET
  In the United States, 28.8 million Americans will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their lives. Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental and physical health conditions that can affect people of all genders, ages, race and ethnicities, body shapes, and weights. There is a credible scientific rationale for the potential benefit of yoga practices in preventing and treating eating disorders.
  
  This webinar is hosted by Sat Bir Khalsa, Yoga Alliance’s Director of Yoga Research and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Special guest speakers include yoga researcher Catherine Cook-Cottone, a Professor of Counselling at the University of Buffalo, and yoga teacher and therapist Chelsea Roff, the Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. During this session we’ll explore the published research on studies demonstrating the efficacy of yoga for eating disorders and hear real life experiences of the characteristics and challenges of applying yoga for eating disorders.
  
  Join us for this informative discussion. You’ll learn:
  
  · The definition, prevalence, and characteristics of eating disorders
  · How yoga practices are relevant for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders
  · The important published research findings supporting the use of yoga for eating disorders
  · The characteristics of the application of yoga practices for eating disorders
  
  
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