Walking the Way: Finding Deeper Connection on the Camino
With a single breath, I stepped into yoga’s purest form.
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New to BTY? Try our New Student Special
With a single breath, I stepped into yoga’s purest form.
Small practices can change everything.
A personal journey integrating yoga and nutrition for community health.
Gratitude, presence, and impermanence converge.
The ripple effect of a mixed-level practice.
Awareness without judgment can propel your journey.
Observation can offer a powerful lesson.
This immersion is a perfect opportunity for yoga teachers to develop proficiency in teaching adaptive and accessible yoga to a diverse population of yoga students.
What are we doing? Intuition Painting – We’re using the Creative Process to dive deeply into self-discovery. It’s not an Art class because we are interested in process over product.
During this 30-hour intensive, you will learn the benefits and basic information for teaching restorative yoga, including sequencing and modifications, breath work, hands on adjustments, language and instruction, the history of restorative yoga, and using props effectively.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of sound healing and acupuncture treatment.
This balancing Autumn digestive reset will ground your nervous system while supporting your immunity.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
In nature, growth begins below the surface. Long before a plant blooms, it strengthens its roots — quietly creating the stability and nourishment needed for future growth.
My journey with meditation and its profound impact on my well-being and daily life.
Yoga is a journey of “meditation in motion.”
In this workshop, we will go deeper into Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskars in Sanskrit), a foundational practice in Yoga that is highly versatile and offers great benefits to its practitioners!
How a physical yoga practice can help still and calm the mind.
Join Joanne for this 15-hour immersion and learn the theory and practice of how to utilize different eastern and western modalities while releasing stress and trauma.
If you are interested in taking your practice deeper, becoming certified to teach, or continuing your yoga education, join us for this free session to learn about our Joy of Yoga Teacher Training program.
The psoas is the all star in a group of muscles called the hip flexors.
Most core work begins at the pelvic floor — a subtle, powerful foundation that influences stability, breath, posture, and even our sense of confidence in daily life.
This workshop is designed for students who wish to deepen their backbending practice while developing greater shoulder openness, spinal mobility, and embodied intelligence — both on the mat and in hip-height aerial yoga.
Resistance to the concept was probably a lesson in itself.
We’ll begin by talking through our CranioSacral system; how it works and the role it plays in your practice.
You may have seen “Mysore” on the class schedule and wondered what it means.
This is the first of 3 upcoming retreats that progressively go deeper, and is open to all levels of yogis and artists.
Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep) involves a series of systematic and step by step techniques to bring about a profound sense of physical, mental, and emotional release and relaxation.
Joanne Varni and Leslie Germain are combining their strengths and knowledge to create a nourishing afternoon aimed to reset your nervous system, where the body and mind are able to enter a resting place of calm and relaxation.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
On the evening of the summer solstice, together we’ll gather to move through 108 sun salutations, a contemporary ritual inspired by yogic tradition and the cycles of nature
Join us for this specially designed yoga experience where we will focus on the various ways yoga can help us in sustaining balance in body and mind , so we can have the energy for those things that give us joy.
This Immersion is designed for any student or teacher interested in exploring aerial as a beginner, or deepening their existing aerial practice.
I found community, enjoyment, and self-acceptance once I challenged myself.
If you are interested in taking your practice deeper, becoming certified to teach, or continuing your yoga education, join us for this free session to learn about our Joy of Yoga Teacher Training program.
This time of year we get into a kind of hustle and bustle due to the end of school year.
Join us for an uplifting and playful Partner Yoga experience designed to deepen connection, cultivate trust, and invite more joy into your practice.
Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep) involves a series of systematic and step by step techniques to bring about a profound sense of physical, mental, and emotional release and relaxation.
This Summer, your reset starts here. Refresh, reconnect, and rediscover what feels good.
Join Amy as she guides a small group through a soulful day of creatively expressing our prayers for our planet, the natural world, the animal world, our families, and ourselves by imprinting, and embellishing the flags with personal prayers, symbols, and Mantra.
There is a truth of who we are that lives at the center of our being.
Your nervous system is always responding to the world around you, sometimes mobilizing you for action and other times guiding you toward rest
This two-hour workshop is a deeply restorative experience created to support women during times of hormonal transition — including PMS, perimenopause, and menopause.
Join us for a deeply therapeutic workshop designed to improve circulation, release stress and elevate the health of the body through poses that focus on hips and lower back.
This is an opportunity for those who are already certified at the 500-hour level to make a greater impact by creating compelling, impactful workshops, immersions, programs, and retreat curriculum in yoga and the mind/body arts.
Come join us in the Spring Garden as we explore, with childlike freedom, two techniques for making collages.
Gentle yoga is a 30-hour course that explores the fundamentals of teaching beginning yoga students through accessible sequencing, language, and use of props.
Unstoppable is not just a word; it is a way of being. It is the quiet, steady commitment to growth—the choice to keep moving forward, no matter the obstacles.
Change is constant, and sometimes extremely disruptive to the plans we had envisioned for ourselves.
“Sankalpa” in Sanskrit refers to a deeply held intention aligned with truth.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Discover how breath, movement, and scent come together to bring harmony to body and mind.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation. Learn how basic Ayurvedic principles apply to growing your practice.
Join Kourtney for a deeply nourishing evening designed to reconnect you with your inner calm and clarity.
Embark on a fascinating exploration with me as your guide in the “What the Chakra?!?” afternoon retreat before the holidays, where we will bridge the ancient wisdom of the chakras – the energy centers in the body – to our current understanding of our nervous system.
The sound vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, native flutes, bells, and chimes surround you and bathe you in a fully immersive sound experience, as they guide us into a deep meditation.
As yoga teachers and movement professionals, the words that we speak carry weight.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best savasana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
In this workshop we will take a methodical approach to instruct the students through the various aspects of the postures included in the Intermediate Series of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
I’m so excited to have created and be able to offer you this short series of yoga for menopause.
In this course students are presented with the foundations of the science of Ayurveda, the sister science of Yoga.
Celebrate the power, grace, and wisdom of the divine feminine in this yoga workshop inspired by the stories of Hindu goddesses.
In this Clinic, we will apply a therapeutic approach to the asanas of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series as a platform to learn how to support yoga practitioners during their practice.
Meditation and embodied-awareness practices are essential tools in cultivating presence of mind and body such that we can live more joyful, mindful lives and be of more meaningful benefit in the world.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
This balancing Autumn digestive reset will ground your nervous system while supporting your immunity.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide the students a step-by-step guide to learn Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of sound healing and acupuncture treatment.
Discover how cutting-edge neuroscience can deepen your yoga practice.
Join Cindy & guests for a beautiful summer day in Cindy’s home and backyard garden.
Investigate alignment as it is affected by fascial ‘layering’ throughout your body.
We’ll look at how to use and develop our bodies for flight, play with all kinds of props to support our aspirations, discover what the ancients had to say about how to fly, study the “origami” of variety of “postures,” explore creative transitions, and create external and internal habits of movement that make our flight dreams possible.
Join us for a joyful gathering of our prenatal & postpartum community!
In this workshop, Maria will blend the harmonizing sounds of crystal bowls, gongs, drums and other instruments with uplifting music, breathing exercises, gentle movement, Reiki, and healing touch.
Celebrate the initiation of summer with intention.
Been practicing yoga for a long time but still can’t do handstand?
This might be a starting point for some, or even a refresher course for others when it comes to strength training.
Join us for a deeply therapeutic workshop designed to improve circulation, release stress and elevate the health of the body through poses that focus on hips and lower back.
The chakra system gives us insight into the connections between the various levels being – physical, energetic, spiritual.
This game broadens our understanding of yoga and how it supports our practice in our daily lives. We’ll explore five paths of yoga: Yoga of
As a birth doula and prenatal yoga instructor, I’m excited to offer this workshop for yoga teachers, fitness instructors, and pregnant students who want to confidently adapt their practice for pregnancy.
In this workshop series, you will be developing a practice to engage your physiological, energetic and spiritual core.
Please note this one day workshop, open to all, is also the first day of the twenty hour Pelvic Floor Yoga™ Teacher Training.
In this twenty hour workshop, we will delve deeper into how to teach students with pelvic floor issues and applying Pelvic Floor Yoga™.
You’re invited to a special afternoon filled with laughter, mindful movement and play.
Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Harmony Slater comes to guide multiple days of Mysore practices, a led primary class, and several workshops.
Christy’s bringing a new flow sequence for the hammock! After a gentle warm-up, we’ll move through a slow and mindful aerial flow sequence
New to Kundalini yoga? Already love the practice? Open to experiencing this powerfully transformative ancient wisdom?
Stress and somatically held tension block the free expression of your higher self, your heart, and your soul.
The chakra system gives us insight into the connections between the various levels being – physical, energetic, spiritual.
Every Seasonal Sisterhood experience will start with a meditation practice and end with a sound bath.
Join this Grief Release Workshop, a safe and supportive space to explore your grief. Learn techniques for transforming grief and releasing pent-up emotions.
Ready for a fun and unique experience? After a gentle warm-up, Christy will lead you through a slow and mindful aerial flow sequence
Join Marcela Christjansen and Jesica Fernández, Assistant Professor, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University for a multi-session dive into Día de los Muertos
Join us for an intimate and personalized small group Yoga Therapy workshop in conjunction with Cancer CAREPoint.
Whether you categorize yourself as a beginning, novice, or experienced meditator, I imagine that we’ve all found ourselves with those moments of clarity that occur in meditation where it seems like an idea or word dropped in from out of nowhere.
New to Kundalini yoga? Already love the practice? Open to experiencing this powerfully transformative ancient wisdom?
This intensive is designed for any student or teacher interested in exploring aerial as a beginner, or deepening their existing aerial practice.
Every Seasonal Sisterhood experience will start with a meditation practice and end with a sound bath.
Prominent in the discourses of the Buddha is the Satipatthana Sutta, oftentimes referred to as
the “foundations of mindfulness”.
Learn and practice specific poses that can stretch and strengthen muscles to help relieve tightness, alleviate pain, and allow for better mobility on and off the bike.
This workshop invites you on an inward journey to reconnect with the roots of inspiration.
Enjoy a 2-hr practice in community with other parents.
To the outside world, yoga practitioners may look like flexible people who like to stretch because it helps them relieve stress.
Embark on a transformative journey that seamlessly blends the grace of yoga with the soulful wisdom of Sufism.
This workshop is designed for anyone struggling to achieve mind-body balance and a sense of authenticity and connection to the present moment.
In this workshop we will learn more about Reiki and how to give ourselves the gift of self-care and healing.
This workshop focuses on refreshing and resting your body. Dedicating these 2 hours will leave you with a calm mind and body.
Join us for this carefully curated yoga workshop created to replenish your inner energy cup, re-balance your energy, and calm your body & mind.
A home practice…We often hear about the benefits of a home practice and are even encouraged to “cultivate” a home practice.
Join us for an enriching 3-hour Aerial Yoga Fundamentals Workshop designed to provide a detailed guide to the key elements essential for any aerial yoga practice.
Experience a luxurious, in-depth, full-body roll out. We will take a journey up the front line and down the back line of the body, helping us stand taller and dig into common cranky zones (like the low back, shoulders, neck and hips).
Every Seasonal Sisterhood experience will start with a meditation practice and end with a sound bath.
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga means so much more than whether or not you can put your leg behind
your head or catch your heals in backbending, though those can be fun and tangible landmarks
within our asana practice.
The chakra system gives us insight into the connections between the various levels being – physical, energetic, spiritual.
Benefits of backbends are endless. On a physical level backbends stimulate and restore the central nervous system, boost immune system, realign and increase mobility in the spinal column, open the hips, and strengthen and stretch the legs.
Been practicing yoga for a long time but still can’t do handstand or forearm stand?
Do you over grip your butt muscles with all of your might in yoga poses or is there a “lazy ass” you may not be aware of?
Have you ever wondered if you’re doing a yoga pose correctly? Or wish you could transition
better from one pose to another?
Forming new habits or having a different mindset can be a challenge, so how long does it take to form a new, healthy habit?
Spend an afternoon enjoying a synthesis of healing modalities – restorative and gentle yoga, breathwork, guided meditation and hands-on healing.
This workshop is designed for those who harbor a natural curiosity in ancient cultures and enjoy both the art of listening and narrating stories with emotion.
Take time out of your busy schedule to give yourself the gift of relaxation and healing.
Do you want to live a long healthy life well into your 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and Beyond?
As one of the hottest growing partners to a seasoned yoga practice, functional movement and self-massage are now being incorporated across drop-in yoga classes, crossfit boxes, and physical therapy sessions.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
The sound vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, native flutes, bells, and chimes surround you and bathe you in a fully immersive sound experience, as they guide us into a deep meditation.
If you’re experiencing PMS, irregular periods, perimenopause, menopause, and other hormonal symptoms, you are definitely not alone.
Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Harmony Slater comes to guide four days of Mysore practices and several workshops. This is an opportunity to work on your individual practice and learn some helpful tools.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed by the best savasana ever, including an acupuncture treatment.
Join Leslie Howard, an Oakland-based yoga teacher, for a weekend focused on all things pelvic. This three part workshop will empower you with the tools you need to address incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain and more.
During this 15-hour intensive, you will learn the benefits and basic information for teaching restorative yoga, including sequencing and modifications, breath work, hands on adjustments, language and instruction, the history of restorative yoga, and using props effectively.
Many yoga students have the notion that Iyengar Yoga is static and lacking in dynamic flow.
Join Maria, Nancy, and Erica for one or two interactive workshops filled with yoga, chatting, laughing, learning, moving, building community, and meeting new and old friends.
Come spend an afternoon pampering yourself with a guided gua sha facial treatment and yoga nidra (non-sleep deep rest) practice.
Offered only in our studio, Jennifer’s seasonal retreats will continue for another year, beginning this Autumn. Each seasonal retreat has a specific focus. This Autumn retreat will build upon last Autumn’s retreat.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best savasana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Join Joanne for this 15-hour immersion and learn the theory and practice of neurogenic tremoring.
Experience a journey through the ethereal frequencies of planetary gongs and 432 Hz crystal bowls, alongside deeply transformative practices.
“The first rule of Handstand Club is: you do not talk about Handstand Club. The second rule of Handstand Club is: you DO NOT talk about Handstand Club!”
Oh, avoidance. It’s often soaked with judgement and disguised as a different and “better” plan.
Half-day retreats with Jennifer are designed to inspire your practice for the entire season ahead.
Come spend an afternoon in nurturing, and supportive practices to nourish your heart – the main Yin organ of the summer.
Join Amy as she guides a small group through a soulful day of creatively expressing our prayers for our planet, the natural world, the animal world, our families, and ourselves by imprinting, and embellishing the flags with personal prayers, symbols, and Mantra.
Kirtan is a yearning of the soul and an emotional expression of the heart.
Join Cindy and Christy Li for a beautiful Spring Day in Cindy’s backyard garden in Los Gatos.
In yoga and Ayurveda, marma points are vital acupressure points located on the surface of the body that connect to the energetic circuitry of nerve and blood.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Have you ever wished that you could help yourself or your loved person’s health issue, especially in these past few years?
Find out why bhakta devotees were the original activists.
Do you want to live a long healthy life well into your 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and beyond?
It’s baaaaaack! One of our most popular self-massage workshops, Full Body Roll Out, is coming back to BTY this March.
Join seasoned yoga instructor Alyssa Prettyman for a night of music, movement and JOY!
This weekend is an introduction to Ashtanga Yoga open to all levels of experience or lack there of.
In this workshop you & your partner will learn the art & science of Traditional Thai Yoga Therapy.
Welcome 2023 – take an afternoon with Cindy to reboot your movement practice and reinvest in healthy lifestyle and mindset habits.
Make yoga and meditation part of your company culture for optimal workforce.
Bring awareness to the perspective of not only your physical eye but also the eyes of your heart and mind.
Kick off your day with this replenishing practice that will leave you feeling energized and ready for whatever lies ahead.
2 questions + 1 principle = 3 yogic guides
The greatest teacher and the biggest pain in the butt.
Come gather for a 3 hour nurturing and informational workshop navigating the concept of rest.
Overlooking low-back pain in even a single class leaves out the majority of students.
The conclusion to this five-part world history lesson.
A five-part world history lesson – part four.
A five-part world history lesson – part three.
Tips and tricks to turn a shared space into your sanctuary.
A five-part world history lesson – part two.
How my first experience with Kundalini Yoga changed the course of my life.
A five-part world history lesson.
“Yoga on Fifth Avenue is a spiritual fake.”
Join Julianne and a community of friends to take a deep, luxurious dive into the heart of yoga and meditation.
Let’s chill out with a Gentle Yoga and Therapy Ball workshop.
A guide to becoming a yogi later in life.
Understanding the Sanskrit work ‘maitri,’ with the help of Pema Chodron.
In both Buddhism and Hinduism, ‘kleshas’ are known as the seeds of suffering.
Tame the summer fire through compassion and mindfulness.
We are, in many ways, walking the talk of yoga when we do this work.
Finding courage in the face of life’s uncertainties.
In this third heart to heart, the JOY founder and teacher shares her most-loved books as a yoga student and teacher.
Have you wanted to try aerial yoga but have felt intimidated or felt like you are not strong or flexible enough?
Circle May 25, 8113 on your calendar.
For this month’s therapeutic tip, try “squatting” laying down and with the support of a wall.
Our face reflects how we feel, and sometimes, it even reflects something very different than how we actually feel.
The spine is literally central to everything we do.
Understanding the physical vs. psychological barriers to any given asana.
Join Noell for this half day retreat to cultivate a deeper understanding of impermanence and connect to our daily lives with a sense of joy and wonder.
How my hamstring injuries turned out to be blessings in disguise.
In this second heart to heart, the JOY founder and teacher shares a journaling practice for new yoga teachers.
There’s no time like the present – and no place like home.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Facing health fears during the global unrest.
An introduction to determining your dosha.
Proper strengthening and stabilizing of the pelvic floor helps to create the correct foundation of each movement in the body.
A new therapeutic tip of the month with maximum benefits for minimal effort.
Join Jana Kilgore, E-RYT500 yoga instructor and author of The Outdoor Adventurers Guide to Yoga, for this afternoon of preparation and practice to enjoy your outdoor adventures with greater awareness, balance and strength.
A JOY of Yoga student’s take on why it’s important to “bring on the rain.”
According to Kundalini Yoga technologies.
Consider these questions the next time you’re in an uncomfortable situation.
Join Dana Schwartz RYT500 as she breaks down the component poses (asana) of Surya Namaskar A (Sun Salutation A), revealing the roots of each posture, directions of movement, and how props assist one to access the asana in a safe and thoughtful manner.
Try side-lying pose to settle your nervous system after a stressful day.
It’s never too late to learn something new.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Sternocleidomastoid is easier to pronounce than you think.
Four ways to ensure the breath of future generations.
Creating awareness in your feet can solve many issues.
Discover connection that transcends language barriers.
Three steps to remain calm, alert, and safe.
For the first time in my life, my true self was able to emerge like a lotus stuck in the mud.
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