SCHEDULE
Pre- Conference Training
May 11-13 (15 hours) - In-person + Online
An Anusara Yoga Teacher Training with Noah Mazé & Christina Sell
Yoga Therapeutics Immersion with Doug Keller
Deepen your practice and teaching with these renowned yoga teachers in these transformative 15 hour immersions before the main conference, designed for yoga teachers and dedicated yoga students.
May 11 - 1:00pm-5:00pm
May 12 - 8:30 am-5:00 pm
May 13 - 8:30am- 12:00 pm
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Main Conference
May 13-16 - In-person + Livestream
Thursday, May 13
Thursday, May 13
2:00–3:00pm Opening Gathering: Conference Team + Benjy & Heather Wertheimer
Our opening gathering establishes the collective intention for the days ahead. Together we enter the conference with the recognition that yoga is not only a personal practice but a living expression of love in action.
3:00–5:00pm Opening Practice: An Embodied Practice for Resilience and Connection
Noah Mazé, Christina Sell & Suzanne Zuber
This dynamic opening practice invites us to cultivate steadiness amidst uncertainty and strength rooted in compassion. Through intelligent movement, breath-centered alignment, and heart-oriented practice, we explore what it means to remain grounded while engaging fully with life. As we deepen our connection to ourselves, we discover how resilience, presence, and love become resources that allow us to meet the world with courage and care.
5:00–6:00pm Community Connection Gathering
6:00–7:30pm Dinner Break
7:30–9:00pm Satsang: Love, Wisdom and the Sacred Web of Life
Carlos Pomeda + Benjy & Heather Wertheimer
This evening satsang explores yoga as a living path of wisdom, devotion, and interconnectedness. Carlos Pomeda reflects on teachings that invite us beyond separation and into conscious relationship with all of life. Through insights from the yoga tradition, participants are invited to recognize the sacred thread that unites us. Benjy and Heather Wertheimer then guide participants through an uplifting kirtan experience, where mantra and music become a collective expression of joy, healing, love, and shared presence.
Friday May 14
7:00–7:45am
Awakening into Presence - Suzanne Zuber — Awaken the Body (B)
A revitalizing morning flow designed to awaken the body, clarify the mind, and reconnect us to the healing intelligence of breath and movement. Through mindful practice, participants cultivate the vitality and presence needed to engage the day with openness and care.
The Quiet Heart Within - Jacalyn Prete — Meditation (A)
A contemplative practice of breath and stillness that invites participants to begin the day rooted in awareness, inner spaciousness, and compassionate presence. As the mind settles, the heart becomes more available to itself and to others.
8:30–9:55am The Wisdom of Belonging: Yoga Beyond Separation
Carlos Pomeda
In this opening session, Carlos Pomeda explores one of the deepest questions of spiritual life: how do we remain connected to one another in times marked by division, isolation, and polarization? Drawing from the teachings of Bheda and Abheda, Carlos examines relationship as a sacred expression of yoga. While we experience ourselves as unique individuals, yoga reminds us that beneath our differences exists an unbroken field of shared consciousness. This session invites participants to explore how love becomes an active force for healing when we recognize our essential interconnectedness.
10:15–11:45am Steady Hearts, Strong Spirits: Practice for Challenging Times
Noah Mazé (B)
This powerful practice explores how movement can become meditation and challenge can become a gateway to clarity. Through dynamic sequencing and intelligent alignment, participants cultivate resilience, adaptability, and inner steadiness while discovering how a grounded practice enables us to respond to life's complexities with wisdom and compassion.
Sacred Feminine, Sacred World
Jeanie Manchester (A)
Blending flowing asana, mantra, storytelling, and devotion, this workshop invites participants into a deeper relationship with intuition, creativity, and embodied wisdom. Through sacred myth and movement, we reconnect with the transformative power of Shakti and explore how honoring the feminine principle nurtures healing, balance, and connection in ourselves and the world around us.
12:15–1:15pm
Expanding from the Heart: Authentic Expression Through Practice
Julia Pearring (B)
This heart-centered practice explores how true expansion arises through presence, receptivity, and authentic expression. Through intentional movement and embodied awareness, participants cultivate greater connection to themselves and one another, discovering how living authentically becomes an expression of love in action.
Turning Toward Transformation
Jacqueline Prete (A)
Twists teach us how to release what no longer serves while creating space for renewed perspective and growth. Through breath, movement, and focused awareness, this practice becomes a powerful metaphor for meeting life's changes with courage, resilience, and openness of heart.
1:45–2:15pm
Anusara Worldwide: Building Community Through Shared Vision
Explore how Anusara Yoga continues evolving as a global, teacher-led community rooted in collaboration, innovation, and service. This conversation highlights emerging projects and worldwide initiatives that foster meaningful connection and collective growth across cultures and continents.
2:45–4:00pm
The Journey to the Peak: Practice as a Path of Transformation
Christina Sell (B)
This workshop explores sequencing as both an art form and a pathway toward deeper self-awareness. Through intelligent progression and embodied inquiry, participants discover how skillful practice can awaken confidence, insight, and the capacity to live with greater authenticity and purpose.
The Healing Brain, The Open Heart
Madhuri Martin + Denise Hatch (A)
Ancient yogic wisdom and modern neuroscience converge in this exploration of resilience, awareness, and transformation. Through movement, breath, and self-inquiry, participants discover how conscious practice can reshape habitual patterns, foster emotional balance, and support personal and collective healing.
4:30–5:30pm
Courageous Hearts: The Transformative Power of Backbending
Suzanne Zuber (B)
This heart-opening practice invites participants to cultivate trust, emotional spaciousness, and compassionate strength. Through intelligent preparation and supported exploration, backbends become an embodied expression of vulnerability, courage, and our willingness to remain open to life.
Rising Beyond Limitation
Benjamin Finnerty + Masumi Yoshida (A)
Arm balances become a practice of courage, resilience, and self-trust. Participants explore how moving beyond familiar limitations can reveal new possibilities for growth, empowerment, and joyful discovery both on and off the mat.
6:00–7:30pm
Rhythm of the Heart: Chill Flow with MC YOGI
A soulful blend of yoga, music, breath, and meditation designed to help participants soften, release, and reconnect. This practice becomes a sanctuary of rhythm, reflection, healing, and joyful community.
8:00–9:30pm
Love in Motion: An Evening with MC YOGI
An electrifying celebration of yoga-inspired music, mantra, and collective joy. Through rhythm, chant, storytelling, and movement, participants experience the unifying power of sound and the transformative energy that emerges when community
Free for Full Conference Pass holders
Ticket $65 ( Doors open 7:30pm.)
MC YOGI Class + Concert Bundle – $108. –
Be sure to book early as we expect to sell out
Saturday, May 15
7:00–7:45am
Honoring the Light Within
Saraswati Clere (B)
Ignite energy and awareness through rhythmic movement and breath-led flow while discovering the stillness that exists within all action and change. This practice honors the inner light that guides us toward greater clarity, compassion, and purpose.
Breathing into Connection
Jayendra Hanley (A)
A nourishing practice of gentle movement, pranayama, mantra, and meditation designed to cultivate inner stillness, vitality, and awakened presence. Participants explore how conscious breathing deepens connection to self, others, and life itself.
8:30–10:00am Compassion in Action: The Courage to Love
Carlos Pomeda
In this session Carlos focuses on the transformative power of compassion as a living yogic practice. In a culture often driven by speed, judgment, and self-protection, yoga calls us to cultivate the courage to remain open-hearted and awake. Through the lens of Bheda and Abheda, participants explore how compassion naturally arises when we begin to recognize ourselves in one another and discover how love becomes a force for healing in the world.
10:15–11:45am
Universal Patterns, Embodied Wisdom
Adam Ballenger (B)
Explore the intelligence of alignment as a reflection of the interconnected patterns found throughout nature and the cosmos. Through embodied inquiry, participants experience greater integration, vitality, and freedom while deepening their understanding of yoga as a practice of harmony and connection.
Grace in Motion
Benjamin Finnerty + Masumi Yoshida (A)
This masterful practice bridges precision and fluidity, demonstrating how alignment transforms movement into an expression of grace, clarity, and conscious embodiment. Participants discover how presence and skill combine to create a more integrated and meaningful practice.
12:15–1:15pm
Breath as Medicine: Cultivating Resilience and Vitality
Doug Keller (B)
Discover how pranayama and nervous system regulation support emotional balance, vitality, and resilience in modern life. This workshop bridges ancient breathing practices with contemporary understanding of health and well-being, revealing how the breath can become a powerful tool for healing and transformation.
Upside Down, Fully Present
Julia Pearring (A)
Handstands become a practice of humility, persistence, and self-respect. Participants explore how yoga teaches us to engage wholeheartedly in the process of growth, discovering freedom and confidence through presence rather than perfection.
2:00–2:30pm
The Art and Science of Human Flourishing
Stephanie Lopez , Denise Hatch & Saraswati Clere
This inspiring dialogue explores how yoga, neuroscience, meditation, and contemplative wisdom support resilience, clarity, and human flourishing in an increasingly complex world. Together, the panelists reflect on practices that help us cultivate balance, presence, and meaningful connection in both personal and collective life.
3:15–4:45pm
Teaching from the Heart: Sequencing as Service
Noah Mazé (B)
Explore how intelligent sequencing can support transformation, integration, and authentic teaching. This workshop blends technical precision with heartfelt intention, revealing how skillful teaching becomes an expression of service, care, and love in action.
The Poetry of Being Alive
Madhuri Martin + Judyth Hill (A)
Through yoga, poetry, chant, and creative ritual, participants are invited into an embodied exploration of beauty, interconnectedness, and soulful expression. Together we celebrate the healing power of creativity and the sacredness of everyday life.
5:15–6:15pm
Alignment from Within: The Wisdom of Embodied Support
Adam Ballenger (B)
This workshop explores alignment as an inner experience rooted in breath, awareness, and authentic support. Participants cultivate sustainable strength and freedom while discovering how true alignment arises from listening deeply to the intelligence of the body.
Grounded, Open and Free
Jeanie Manchester (A)
Through mindful movement and intelligent alignment, participants cultivate stability, openness, and grounded ease. As the foundation of the body becomes more balanced and supported, greater freedom emerges throughout practice and daily life.
7:30–9:00pm
Songs of the Heart: An Evening of Devotion and Celebration
Shantala – Benjy & Heather Wertheimer + Friends
An evening of sacred music, mantra, and heartfelt celebration. Through devotional song and collective participation, this concert becomes an experience of unity, healing, gratitude, and shared joy.
Sunday May 16
7:00–7:45am
Greeting the Day with Gratitude
Suzanne Zuber (B)
Begin the final day with breath-led movement that awakens gratitude, vitality, and connection to the rhythms of life. This practice offers an opportunity to reflect on the gifts of community, practice, and presence.
Resting in the Heart of Awareness
Jacalyn Prete (A)
Rest in the still point within—the quiet awareness beneath all movement, experience, and change. Through meditation, participants reconnect with the spacious presence that supports healing, wisdom, and compassion.
8:30–10:00am
Awakening Together: Yoga and the Healing of the World
Carlos Pomeda
In this session, Carlos leads us into a profound exploration of yoga as a path of collective awakening. Moving beyond the idea of spirituality as an individual pursuit, participants contemplate how personal transformation and collective healing are deeply intertwined. Through yogic wisdom, we explore how living with greater awareness, compassion, and responsibility contributes to the healing of our communities and the wider world.
10:30am–12:00pm
Love in Action: Integrating the Journey
Jeanie Manchester & Saraswati Clere
This closing practice integrates movement, mantra, meditation, and reflection into a collective experience of gratitude and renewal. Together we honor the journey of the conference, celebrating the ways yoga invites us to embody love through presence, service, compassion, and conscious action in the world.
12:00–12:30pm
Closing Blessing: Carrying the Light Forward
Conference Team + Benjy & Heather Wertheimer
A closing blessing of gratitude, chant, and community as we complete our gathering and step back into the world renewed, connected, and inspired. Together we celebrate the friendships, insights, and practices cultivated during our time together, carrying the spirit of love in action into our homes, communities, and daily lives.
Pre Conference Training
May 11- May 13
Pre Conference Training (15 hr)
Tuesday May 11 1pm - Thursday May 13 - 12:00pm
An Anusara Yoga Teacher Training
Join internationally respected yoga teachers Noah Maze and Christina Sell for a transformative 15-hour Anusara Yoga Teacher Training designed to deepen your understanding of healthy movement, skillful alignment, functional anatomy, and the therapeutic applications of yoga.
This training offers an exploration of the principles that support safe, sustainable, and empowering yoga practice and teaching. Participants will gain practical tools for refining their own practice while developing greater confidence and clarity as teachers. Whether you are a dedicated practitioner or an experienced instructor, this training provides a rich foundation for understanding how yoga can enhance strength, mobility, resilience, and overall well-being.
The curriculum integrates the core teachings of Anusara Yoga with contemporary insights from biomechanics and functional anatomy as it applies to yoga practice. We will explore principles for healthy alignment and common patterns of misalignment, biomechanics of asana, and foundational pose architecture. Special attention will be given to adapting yoga practices for a variety of conditions and needs while honoring the uniqueness of each practitioner.
Noah Maze is an internationally recognized teacher, known for his depth of knowledge, precision of alignment instruction, and ability to bridge traditional yoga wisdom with modern movement science.
Christina Sell is an internationally recognized yoga educator, author, and mentor celebrated for her clear teaching, compassionate presence, and insightful integration of philosophy, biomechanics, and personal growth. Together, Noah and Christina bring decades of teaching experience and a dynamic, engaging approach to yoga education.
Yoga Therapeutics Training with Doug Keller
This immersion with Doug Keller explores how yoga can support optimal health through the integrated relationship of breath, movement, fascia, joint freedom, and functional mobility. The training brings together therapeutic asana, practical anatomy, breath-centered movement, and the deeper principles of pranayama and yoga philosophy to show how vitality is maintained through the whole-body experience of breathing and moving well.
Rather than treating breath and movement as separate practices, the immersion examines how fascial lines, joint mechanics, posture, balance, and respiratory efficiency work together in everyday movement and in yoga practice.
Doug also places these practices within the larger context of the yoga tradition. The training explores how the hatha yoga understanding of prana informs asana, pranayama, mudra, drishti, and meditation, helping practitioners connect the therapeutic and spiritual dimensions of practice without losing practical clarity.
This immersion is designed for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, experienced practitioners, movement educators, bodyworkers, health professionals interested in yoga-based therapeutic approaches, and dedicated students who want a deeper understanding of breath, mobility, and healthy aging.
Doug Keller has been teaching full time in classes, workshops, and trainings for 23 years worldwide, after 14 years of study and practice, and after completing a Master's degree in philosophy and teaching at a college level at Fordham University. His yoga journey includes practicing in Siddha Yoga ashrams, intensive training in the Iyengar and Anusara methods, and nearly a decade of teaching in the U.S. and abroad.