Sedona Yoga Festival 2019

To love your lower back, we will use the principles of Ahimsa and Satya, the 2 yamas, or guidelines, that do no harm and accept truth. After anatomical discussion, floor work and asanas are presented to experience this 'be kind to your spine' philosophy and practice, finishing with relaxation. Excerpts from the Concise Book of Yoga Anatomy book will be used, as well as a power point presentation to explain the intricacies of the lumbar/sacral connection, the very center of the body.

A casual, positive and uplifting presentation focusing on the good Earth news you will not hear in the news! We will touch on ancient prophesies, but focus more on how we changed many of the prophesies, from doom, gloom and “me” to Golden Age and “we”.

We will explore the New Earth energies and offer tips on how to not only survive but thrive and help co-create a New Paradigm on Earth. Teachings from a variety of disciplines and topics, we will clarify keys to the shift: yoga, meditation, integrity, compassion, awareness, overcoming fear and pain, integrating our shadows, emotional intelligence, moving from head to heart, and more. Learn how to recognize and overcome generational patterns, beliefs and false limits, and raise your energy vibration. We will include some gentle movement and meditation, but mostly this playshop is discussion and satsang / community.

Hemalayaa combines yoga, dance + live music by DTO to enhance your optimal health, radiant-self, and spiritual connection. Hemalayaa incorporates dynamic postures, free-form dance, positive affirmations, and energizing breath-work. Let’s recycle our negative thoughts and transcend them into powerful intentions for our lives. DTO of Buddha Music Group will amplify your senses through the frequencies of his album Nameless Energy. DTO will inspire your experience into a vibration-raising awakening for your soul. Our experience will invigorate and energize the brilliance of your purpose. Let’s turn it up!

Don't you just love to feel good? Take it all in at this power packed class for all levels. Ashley will guide you through arm balances and inversions through a Vinyasa & Ashtanga rooted practice. This class is perfect for anyone up for a challenge and some lighthearted fun.

Use the moon, the stars and the orbits of the planets as a guide to develop tools for deeper connection to the Universal flow in your practice. Balancing our bodies with the alignment of our planetary cosmos, gives us a more balanced and fulfilling journey. Learn about the Full Moon, the New Moon and various planets that can affect your practice and ways to work with that energy! Once we understand the energy of the planets in alignment with our own chart, we can harness that energy and work with it, creating the life we truly love. Ha-tha yoga = sun and moon. How could it be anything different. Learn how to align your own practice with the Moon. Understand the different cycles and rhythms; what is specific to each sign, and how it aligns with your own body. Gather monthly rituals and integrate into your practice, connecting you deeper to Source and Mother Earth. Learn meditations, chants, pranayama and sequencing for each Moon cycle. Includes 60-120 minutes asana practice, followed by lecture.

The Universal Laws of Nature do not derive from any religion, but instead contain a road map through sacred geometry that reveals our Divine interconnectedness. One of the oldest systems of mystical thought, these teachings are deeply rooted in Ancient Egyptian esoteric wisdom and are based on receiving Truths that help to elevate consciousness in order to become less reactive and more heart centered in unconditional love. It is not enough to do physical yoga because yoga alone cannot open the heart. Learning esoteric wisdom can help assist in the evolution of future life times, strengthens the aura, aligns the being with the Laws of Nature, and help to change mental thought patterns in order to create new habits and move from fate consciousness into one's destiny. Negative seeds are sown in the mental or Divine Realm, pass through the emotional or Astral World, and manifest ease or dis-ease in the action or Physical Plane of existence. A balance of a physical practice and deep understanding of the Laws of Nature help to liberate the soul from the body of pain and move gracefully into the body of Light. In this 2-hour workshop, we will learn about the Law of the Triangle and the 7 Creative Planets. Learn the Primary Planet that reveals the elements and energies we chose to be born with in order to understand who we are and what we chose to express in this lifetime. Connect with the plants and trees that support your Primary Planet as well as the 7 days of the week. Get anointed by 7 plant and tree teachers, enjoy a powerful vibrational healing bath, and chant Naam meditation to seal the forces of wisdom and healing into the entire being.

Enjoy a beautiful flow outside with a view of the red rocks

Join us in an invigorating and intensive hip opening session and experience precise and fluid movements that can remove tension on a physical, emotional, and energetic level. You will be guided to approach the opening of the hips in a fun and patient way, allowing the body time to respond. When the hips are open and loose, the rest of your body will feel more supported and at ease. Learn tech­niques to gen­tly stretch and open the hips. Increase flex­i­bil­ity, explore dif­fer­ent rota­tions of the hips and safe, effec­tive ways to open them, reliev­ing stress on lum­bar, sacroil­iac, and knee joints, plus you’ll clear, awaken and balance the two base chakras. The hip area is a com­plex clus­ter of pow­er­ful mus­cles, ten­dons, and lig­a­ments, and we can begin to loose the rota­tion, flex­ion, and exten­sion they need to remain agile. Life today requires that we sit too much — sports, such as run­ning and cycling (even walk­ing) demand hip strength but not flex­i­bil­ity, and every­day stress cre­ates ten­sion in your hip area. You will be guided to approach the open­ing of the hips in a patient way, allow­ing the body time to respond. When the hips are open and loose, the rest of your body will feel more sup­ported and at ease. Unstick your hips and get them glid­ing freely again!

Learn about the miracle mechanism of the enlightened Masters of how to change something from one form into another and a meditation to begin to do it too. We each need to also experience whatever the Divine souls experienced: working with the soul and angel channels, transforming karmas, healing souls, handling spirits and negativity, communicating and hooking angels, bringing your own energy up to connect and communicate with Mother Divine, and more. It all begins with the power of the five elements. Learn how to cut negativity, heal stress and depression, and open spiritual channels that enable you to communicate directly with the angels and more. Receive knowledge as ancient as the stars. All participants will receive a cosmic manifestation of a combination of all the five elements to give your soul a boost of Divine energy with healing love.