2027 Conference Lineup
Hearts for Healing with Alisa Brightman
This workshop is designed to promote deep relaxation and provide a safe place for healing. Alisa will guide you through a restorative yoga practice where you will be completely supported with pillows, bolster, blankets and blocks. Throughout the experience, licensed massage therapists and soothing sound healing instruments will add layers of comfort, allowing you to settle into rest.
This practice is included in the purchase of a two-day conference ticket. It can also be purchased as a standalone practice. Cost is donation-based.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
6:00-8:00PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
10:00-11:00AM
Flow Burn with Victoria Schuch
The best of both worlds - a little yoga and a little sculpt, including pilates & barre, with beat-based movement and a nice stretchy cool down.
Open Heart and Hips: A Slow Flow to Release and Reconnect with Jahdea Kedeche
A slow flow to help you find your rhythm, where softness and strength meet.
This practice moves through gentle backbends, chest openers, and hip openers; working the heart and hips together on purpose. What the hips hold, the heart often protects. So we make room for both - space to let go of what's ready, and space for more of what serves you in mind, body, and spirit.
No performance, no perfection. Just a willingness to come as you are and let your breath lead instead of your effort.
The Yoga Teachers Laboratory: Lessons from High Performance Athletes with Emily Slachetka
What happens when your students challenge everything you thought you knew about teaching yoga? In this experiential class, we’ll explore some of the lessons I’ve learned teaching Division I athletes and other high-performing populations. We’ll play with different ways of approaching familiar practices, experiment with cueing and challenge, and consider how observation and adaptation can change the experience of a class. You don’t need to teach athletes to benefit from this practice. Come curious, and see what your students might teach you about becoming a better yoga teacher.
11:30AM-1:00PM
Journey Through the Chakras: A Mystical Flow of Energy and Sound with Jen Fisher & LeeAnn Anderson
This practice is an invitation to explore the subtle, the mysterious, and the magic within. To tune into your own frequency. To become curious about what is stirring, what is awakening, and what is ready to be released.
Together, we will journey through the seven chakras with soulful vinyasa, intentional breathwork, and meditation, accompanied by the beautiful live music of LeeAnn Anderson, musician and sound facilitator throughout the practice. Her sounds and vibrations will weave through our movement, creating a rich, immersive experience that invites us to feel beyond the physical. LeeAnn uses a soundscape of instruments including Tibetan bowls, crystal harp, gong, shruti box, guitar, her voice and more to create a one-of-a-kind sound experience.
We will move through asana, pranayama and breathwork before surrendering to a deeply restorative sound journey led by LeeAnn, allowing the vibrations to wash over us and settle into the stillness.
Somatic Movement - Beyond the Workout with Lisa Dubaj
A music-driven somatic workout and life practice that combines repetitive movement, breathwork, and vocal release to help process emotions, release energy, regulate the nervous system, and connect deeply with the body both on and off the mat.
Restorative Yoga and Cacao Ceremony with Katie Baker & Lauryn Blele
Katie and Lauryn combine ceremonial cacao, restorative yoga, and massage to invite you to melt into complete bliss.
The workshop begins with a cacao ceremony, which includes breathwork, meditation, a chance to connect with the group, and a wonderfully delicious hot cacao drink made with oat milk, cinnamon, salt, and honey. Cacao can offer a sense of calm and groundedness, making it a lovely precursor to your restorative yoga class. Lauryn and Katie will provide a gentle massage and assists in each restorative pose, elevating your yoga practice to the next level. Participants are encouraged to use blocks, bolsters, and blankets to support the body and mind achieve peace and rest.
2:00-3:30PM
Meditation for People Who Think They Can't Meditate with Gretchen Voth
If you’ve ever tried to meditate and thought, “I suck at this,” this workshop is for you. We’ll take some of the mystery and pressure out of meditation by exploring what the practice is, what it isn’t and why a busy mind doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. Through several short, guided practices, you’ll experiment with different approaches to meditation and discover what works for you. You’ll leave with practical tools, a better understanding of the practice and a simple framework for building a meditation habit that fits into real life. No experience or perfectly quiet mind required.
Cultivating and Embodying Safety: Creating a Safe Container Through Relational, Somatic, Nature and Trauma-Informed Practices with Mercedes McLaughlin & Kayla McEvoy
Safety is the foundation of transformation. This interdisciplinary workshop explores how relational neuroscience, attachment theory, nature therapy and trauma-informed principles deepen our capacity to create responsive, embodied learning environments. Participants will examine patterns of protection, such as over-efforting or withdrawal, and learn practical tools for cultivating regulation, choice, resourcing autonomy, and repair within yoga, clinical, and holistic spaces.
Understand core nervous system states and their impact on practice
Recognize relational patterns that influence embodiment
Explore nature based strategies and applications of integration of the natural world into healing work
Apply trauma-informed principles to group facilitation
Understand resourcing, development of practice and application for self and clients
Develop co-regulation and choice-based cueing skills
Slow Flow Vinyasa with Noelle Whittington
Join Noelle as she returns to her hometown of Wilmington to offer a Slow- flow Vinyasa Yoga practice for all levels with a sound bath Savasana. In this experience, we will begin with pranayama to access the deeper levels of presence, and we will begin moving slowly with our breath through a full-body asana practice. We will wind down into a very restful Savasana (relaxation) complete with sound bath meditation. During a fully supported Savasana with blankets and bolsters, Students will be invited to enjoy the sound of crystal singing bowls, the Harmonium, and Noelle’s Mantra music to allow deep rest and connection to one’s Highest Self. May our practice benefit all beings and the planet.
Extended Workshops
10:00AM-1:00PM
Yoga for Menopausal Magnificence with Kristine Weber
In this practical, empowering workshop, you’ll learn how yoga can help you get through hot flashes, support better sleep, ease stress and anxiety, reduce brain fog, improve energy, and help you navigate the ups and downs of perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. Blending accessible yoga practices with neuroscience, Ayurveda, and a refreshing reframe of menopause as an empowering life transition, this workshop will give you simple tools to feel cooler, clearer, stronger, and more at home in your changing body.
2:00-4:00PM
Primal Soul Reset with Donna Dowson
An experiential workshop designed to explore what becomes possible when we stop asking the body to do more and instead create the conditions for it to release, move, and restore.
We’ll begin with guided self-myofascial release, using simple tools and techniques to explore fascial tension, sensory awareness, and changes in mobility. Participants will pause throughout the practice to recheck movement and sensation, experiencing firsthand how working with one area of the body can influence movement and awareness elsewhere.
From there, we’ll take that newfound awareness into PrimalSoul Movement, an intuitive, somatic-inspired practice incorporating grounding, mobility, spirals, shaking, primal movement patterns, and free movement. Rather than focusing on achieving a particular shape, participants are encouraged to follow sensation, curiosity, and their own body’s range of expression.
Finally, we’ll transition from movement into stillness with gentle breathwork and a restorative crystal quartz bowl sound bath, followed by time for quiet integration and reflection.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21
9:30-11:00AM
Opening Group Practice - TBD
This practice is included in the purchase of a two-day conference ticket AND Sunday full day ticket. It can also be purchased as a standalone practice. Cost is donation-based.
12:00-1:00PM
The Rise of Energy - A Kundalini Experience with Frannie Ayers
In this class we will balance, open, and expand the energetic body using movement, breath, mediation, mudras, and mantras. Each posture will align with a different chakra (energy center). You will feel revived and grounded at the completion of class and have a better understanding of your own energetic body.
Chakra Balance Yoga with Lea Alston
Restore balance, release tension, and reconnect with your inner energy in this 60-minute Chakra Yoga experience. This gentle, intentional class moves through the seven chakras using yoga poses, breathwork, meditation, affirmations, and mindful movement designed to support energetic balance from root to crown.
Perfect for beginners and experienced yogis alike, this class offers a peaceful space to ground, open, release, and restore—leaving you feeling centered, refreshed, and more connected to yourself.
1:30-3:00PM
Yoga, Mindfulness and Coping Skills for Children Experiencing Trauma with Ingrid Saddler-Walker
Join Ingrid Saddler-Walker for an engaging and experiential workshop inspired by her children’s book, Lil Willie’s Yoga Adventure. This workshop explores how yoga, mindfulness, breathing, and movement can provide children with practical tools for coping with stress, difficult emotions, and traumatic experiences. Through Lil Willie’s story, participants will explore the mind-body connection and consider how children may respond when they are exposed to stressful or unsafe environments. The workshop moves beyond discussion into practice, giving participants an opportunity to experience simple, child-friendly yoga and mindfulness techniques that can be adapted for classrooms, counseling settings, homes, after-school programs, and community organizations. Participants will experience breathing exercises, grounding techniques, gentle yoga practices, guided mindfulness, reflection activities, and strategies for creating trauma-informed spaces for children and youth. We will also explore ways to use Lil Willie’s Yoga Adventure as a conversation starter for emotional awareness, self-regulation, resilience, and healthy coping.
Traditional Tantra Yoga with Taylor LoGrasso
Explore an ancient practice, led through the lens of traditional Tantra Yoga, as taught by Bhagavan Shri Shanmukha Anantha Natha of Tantra Mela. Derived directly from the Indian life science of Ayurveda.
Balance your internal system through a methodical combination of asanas (postures), pranayama (vital energy/breath work) and ancient Vedic philosophy. Journey to cultivate meditation, stillness, flexibility, strength, body awareness, patience, compassion, creativity and vital energy flow, among many other byproducts of yoga.
The tri dosha series are the core asanas and the primary element of Traditional Tantra Yoga. This sequence takes place entirely on the ground at a slow pace, encouraging meditation and relaxation, similar to a yin yoga practice yet uniquely different. The asanas are held to lengthen + deepen, each one building upon the last, for an overall euphoric and calming body sensation. As physically and mentally challenging as you make it, perfect for all levels. Final shavasana concludes each practice, offering the space to reset and honor ourselves
Mantra and Mala with Rachel Larsen
Step into the powerful practice of mantra and mala, a space to quiet the mind, connect with intention, and explore the transformative power of sacred repetition.
This all-levels experience weaves gentle movement, pranayama, mantra, and meditation together. You’ll learn the meaning and purpose behind mantra, explore how sound and repetition can create focus and presence, and discover how a mala can be used as a tool for meditation and intention setting.
We’ll move through a grounding yoga practice before settling into a guided mala meditation, using the traditional practice of 108 repetitions to cultivate steadiness and awareness.
No previous experience with mantra, meditation, or malas is necessary. Bring your own mala if you have one. If not, one will be provided for you to use during our workshop.
Extended Workshops
12:00-3:00PM
Your Brain, Your Body, Your Practice: A Framework for the ADHD & Autistic Nervous System with Shannon Reilly
For ADHD and autistic bodies, "just focus" or "just relax" rarely works because the nervous system doesn't respond to willpower, it responds to what it actually needs. In this experiential 3-hour session, we'll explore a simple, embodied framework — Notice, Regulate, Support — built specifically around the ADHD and autistic nervous system.
You'll move through guided practice designed to help you feel regulation shift in your own body, not just understand it conceptually. We'll blend gentle, fascia-informed movement, breath, and rhythm-based practices, with built-in options throughout so you can choose what your body needs in the moment. There is no single "right" way to participate. In the second half, we'll bridge from personal practice to professional application: how to bring this same framework into your own teaching, coaching, or client work.
This session is for yoga teachers, wellness professionals, and anyone who wants tools that actually work with a neurodivergent nervous system, not around it.
Learning Objectives
- Understand a simple framework — Notice, Regulate, Support — grounded in ADHD and autistic nervous system needs
- Experience that framework in your own body before applying it to anyone else
- Leave with language and tools to bring the framework into your own teaching, coaching, or client work