2026 Conference Lineup
Hearts for Healing with Alisa Brightman & Shelley Lancaster
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. Shelley, licensed massage therapist, will provide a choice of light massage to facilitate further relaxation and healing into each pose.
This practice is included in the purchase of a two-day conference ticket. It can also be purchased as a standalone practice.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
6:00-8:00PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21
10:00-11:00AM
Funk with Flow with Walter Thomas
Move and flow in a fun level 1/2 vinyasa style yoga practice with some funky tunes, fun transitions, arm balances and breakdowns, a little laughter and a chance to not take ourselves so seriously. All you’ll need is a mat, fun attitude and sense of humor.
Ecstatic Dance with Jackie DeConti & Brian Luce
Enter a sacred space where music becomes prayer and movement becomes medicine. In this guided ecstatic dance, Jackie invites you to journey inward and awaken your body’s innate wisdom through rhythm and flow. We will begin in stillness, grounding into breath and intention, before being carried into waves of sound designed to open the heart, soften the mind, and free the spirit. This is not about choreography or performance - it is an invitation to release, to feel, and to move in harmony with your own truth. As we close, we’ll gather in quiet integration, honoring the transformation and connection that arise when we dance as one. All are welcome, no dance experience needed.
Embodying Resilience from Within with Kelly Purcell & J’vanete Skiba
Begin this workshop in a relaxed, grounded state with a guided meditation accompanied by crystal singing bowls. Then move through a gentle yoga practice infused with key principles from the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) - an internationally recognized, trauma-informed approach for resetting and rebalancing the nervous system. Following the movement and meditation, you'll engage in an interactive session where you'll learn and practice four foundational CRM skills designed to build resilience and support emotional regulation—for yourself, your loved ones, and your wider community. Leave feeling connected, resourced, and empowered to integrate these practical, body-based tools into your daily life and community care practice.
11:30AM-1:00PM
Wintering: A Sacred Season with Jessica King & Michelle Walker
Step into the stillness of winter and gift yourself 90 minutes of mindful restoration. Wintering: A Sacred Season Mini-Retreat is a nourishing introduction to the immersive seasonal retreats offered by Jessica King and Michelle Walker. Rooted in mindfulness, nature, and community, these retreats invite participants to align with the rhythms of the natural world as a pathway to resilience and healing.
During this mini-retreat, you’ll experience:
Gentle psychoeducation on the ways mindfulness and nature-based practices foster healing and support resiliency.
Yoga and meditation to quiet the mind and connect with the body.
Therapeutic, nature-inspired activities that encourage reflection, restoration, and renewal.
Winter is nature’s reminder that deep transformation often begins in stillness. The earth pauses, resting beneath the surface, preparing for the rebirth and growth of spring. Likewise, we are called to retreat from busyness, honor our need for rest, and lean into the quiet power of the season. In embracing the energy of winter, we create space to restore our spirits, replenish our strength, and cultivate the conditions for meaningful transformation.
Nourished Healer with Jenna Little
Explore the voice of your body and the heartbeat of your service in this trauma informed embodied workshop. Jenna will teach to the life cycle of giving and receiving as helpers, guides, healers and space holders. All will be invited to explore how yoga and ancient wisdom guide us home to our sacred self through movement, breath, mediation and guided journaling.
From Fidget to Focus with Ingrid Saddler-Walker
This dynamic and informative class explores the profound benefits of integrating yoga practices into the lives of children and adolescents diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Moving beyond traditional interventions, we delve into how mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation can serve as powerful tools to cultivate focus, manage impulsivity, and foster emotional regulation in young individuals.
2:00-3:30PM
Primal Soul Movement with Donna Dowson
Imagine your body as a wise oracle that's been waiting patiently for you to remember how to listen. In this immersive 90-minute journey, you'll discover the profound healing that happens when you move beyond the limitations of "should" and step into the wild wisdom your body has always known. PrimalSoul Movement isn't about perfect poses or prescribed sequences - it's about awakening the primal intelligence that flows through your bones like ancient rivers.
What You'll Experience:
Opening Circle & Intention Setting
Breath & Nervous System Awakening
Primal Movement Exploration - Discover natural movement patterns your body craves
Integration & Embodiment
Closing Circle
This practice is perfect for: anyone feeling disconnected from their body's natural wisdom, those seeking movement beyond traditional fitness or yoga, humans ready to release perfectionism and embrace authentic expression, and anyone curious about somatic healing and embodiment practices.
DIY Wellness Bar with Lea Alston
Step into a sanctuary of creativity, healing, and self-care with Scentsuosity’s new elevated Wellness Bar Experience. This unique offering invites you to craft your own natural skin-care creations using a rich array of essential oils, plant-based oils, herbs, clays, crystals, honey, milks, and more. Each ingredient is chosen with intention to nourish the body and uplift the spirit, allowing you to customize products that reflect your personal wellness journey.
Beyond the bar, immerse yourself in holistic balance with our Crystal Singing Bowl Station, designed to align and heal the chakras through sound vibrations. Discover inspiration at the Affirmation Card station, where words of encouragement and empowerment gently guide your spirit. Then, retreat to the Meditation Corner, a peaceful space to ground, breathe, and reconnect with your inner calm.
This elevated experience is more than self-care - it’s a ritual of creativity, healing, and renewal, designed to awaken all of your senses.
Walking the Sacred Spiral with Candace Vivian
Discover the ancient practice of labyrinth walking as a tool for mindfulness, reflection, and renewal. In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll learn about the history and symbolism of the labyrinth, experience a guided walk, and take time for journaling and group reflection. Open to all levels, this moving meditation offers a restorative path to balance and inner peace.
Extended Workshops
10:00AM-1:00PM
The Fascia-Mind Connection with Shannon Reilly
This experiential workshop explores the powerful link between fascia, the nervous system, and attention. Participants will learn what fascia is, why it matters for stress regulation and focus, and how targeted release techniques can shift both body and mind states. The session blends concise education with hands-on practice, making complex concepts accessible through simple visuals, slides, and an optional handout (CEU-eligible).
Through guided myofascial release practices and supportive yoga sequences, attendees will experience how working with the fascial system can enhance resilience, reduce tension, and foster greater clarity of mind. Whether you are a yoga practitioner, teacher, or wellness professional, this workshop offers practical tools you can integrate into practice and teaching to support regulation, presence, and sustained attention.
Key elements include:
Educational overview of fascia and its role in stress, regulation, and cognition
Experiential self-myofascial release techniques using accessible props
Yoga sequences designed to complement release and promote integration
Reflection prompts for personal practice and/or client application
2:00-4:00PM
Accessible Energy: Integrating Qigong into Yoga with Maddy McPherson
Yoga and Qigong are ancient practices from different traditions but when woven together, create a powerful synergy that supports healing and vitality. This class will explore how Qigong’s gentle, circular movements and breath-led energy cultivation can enhance yoga’s grounding structure, making movement more accessible for every body.
We’ll explore how this fusion:
Supports aging bodies with low-impact, joint-friendly movement.
Invites deep relaxation through breathwork and meditative flow.
Cultivates subtle energy awareness to nourish body and mind.
Offers inclusive options for those with limited mobility, or chronic conditions.
Bridges traditions of Prana and Qi to create a holistic, adaptable practice.
This practice is movement medicine that meets students where they are and gently guides them toward balance, vitality, and joy. Practice will be standing and/or chair based.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22
9:30-11:00AM
Opening Group Practice with Carrington Jackson
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12:00-1:00PM
Steeped in Stillness with Leslie Douglas & Kim Keskitalo
Slow down and savor the art of rest. This calming workshop begins with a guided tea ceremony, offering a chance to connect through presence, reflection, and gentle ritual. You’ll then be guided into a deeply restorative sound bath, where soothing vibrations encourage release, balance, and inner peace. Together, these practices create a sanctuary of stillness.
Find Your Inner Yes with Heather Till
Gentle Somatic Yoga incorporates therapeutic and somatic movements that are slow, mindful and designed to help amplify your body's ability to self correct and self heal. This is a whole body, heart-based approach that invites a deeper self awareness through movement to release deep held tensions and pain patterns, and cultivate and maintain a sense of inner calm and peace.
This workshop highlights specific Somatic Movement Flows to release tension from the back, hips, neck and shoulders, freeing up greater ease and mobility to create a deep rejuvenation for body and mind that feels like you've just had a massage from the inside-out.
We do this through one of the core tenants of somatic yoga called "pandiculation", isolating specific muscles, mindfully contracting those muscles, and then slowly releasing them until the tone of muscles return back to neutral. It is through the practice of isolating and focusing on particular muscles in a way that provides the brain with information that it can synthesize and use to create a more integrated experience of body and mind.
Finding our "inner yes" is a way of moving that honors where our body is now, and is a way of making decisions that feel light and joyful within our body/mind (soma). As we collectively find our way to our "inner yes", we are able to return to our natural regenerative state of peace and well being.
1:30-3:00PM
An Introduction to Chakra Mapping with Rachel Larsen
This workshop will introduce Chakra Mapping using asana yoga, meditation, and self-inquiry to guide you up and through the chakra system. This experience is rooted in moving energy and self-study.Together, we’ll peel back the layers, uncovering the patterns that may have kept us feeling safe and comfortable—but also stuck. Join us and prepare to step confidently beyond your comfort zone into a space that feels aligned, purposeful, and guided by the wisdom of your heart. There will be movement, breath-work, mantra, personal reflection and community sharing.
Building Embodied Awareness, Conscious Relationships, and Connected Communities with Samantha Simons
This collaborative, transformative workshop explores how mindfulness and embodied awareness can break the cycle of disconnection that threatens well-being. Participants will consider how belonging at the personal, relational, and community levels allows us to create brave spaces where authentic connection naturally emerges. Through the lens of mindful social change, we'll uncover how our embodied presence becomes a powerful tool for healing isolation and building resilient, connected communities individuals and communities.
Extended Workshops
12:00-3:00PM
Acro Yoga with Rachael Crawford & Emily Burdette
Join Rachael and Emily for Acro-yoga fun! Using principles of gravity within the loving support of community we will work in groups of 3: with base-flyer-spotter triads; groups of 2: leaning and supporting each other’s weight, and party of 1: self-practice warmups. Learn and practice basic moves, build into fluid sequences and expand with acro-dancing. Finish with acro-Thai trade and sweet serenade in savasana. Come with a friend or two and leave with a village.
1:30-3:30PM
Yoga and the Nervous System with Dr. Sarah Cavrak
This workshop aims to help teachers and students understand how yoga supports anxiety, burnout, and nervous system resilience — through the lens of psychology, neuroscience, and physiology.
With burnout, anxiety, and nervous system dysregulation at an all-time high, more and more yoga students are coming to the mat not just for fitness, but for healing. This training gives teachers the tools to support their students skillfully and safely, and students the tools to empower and care for themselves.
The workshop includes:
An overview of nervous system states (sympathetic, dorsal, ventral)
The causes and consequences of nervous system dysregulation
The science behind how yoga, breath, and movement support resilience
Practices that students and teachers can use right away
Sequencing, cueing, and pacing recommendations for teachers