10-hour Breathwork Training
January 25-26, 2025 • 12-5pm
Love Yoga in Los Angeles, CA

Your breath is not just a part of your practice; it is its essence. It's not just a part of your life, but life itself. Understanding and mastering your breath is the key to unlocking your potential, on and off the mat. 

Traditionally, yoga classes begin or end with Pranayama (breathing techniques.) Less attention is given to day-to-day breathing or breathing within poses beyond being told when to inhale and exhale. True functional breathing is more than inhaling and exhaling from an external cue. 

In this 10-hour all-levels training, you will:

Understand the relationship between daily functional breathing and pranayama

Delve into the biochemistry and biomechanics of breathing

Discover why understanding the Ayurvedic vayus are crucial to understanding pranayama

Measure how functional your day-to-day breathing is

Learn to train your respiratory system to be more efficient and imbue the body with more oxygen

Increase adaptability and resilience to stress on a cellular level 

Practice seasonal pranayama techniques and tailor them to the changing state of your unique body-mind 

When you become a master of your breathing, nothing can throw you off center. 

You can attend one or both sessions. Day 2 is designed to build from and contextualize Day 1. 

Day 1: Saturday, January 25th - The Science of Everyday Breathing 

Day 2: Sunday, January 26th - The Art of Pranayama

April 27-May 2, 2025
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Wellness and healthy weight management are best supported by a personalized approach, which the science of Ayurveda can joyfully provide. Whether you consider yourself underweight, overweight, or a yo-yo dieter, Ayurveda's wholesome, harmonizing approach to diet and lifestyle for the doshas will help you find a more comfortable balance. 

Join yoga teacher and former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, Larissa Hall Carlson, and Ayurvedic Practitioner and Certified Yoga Therapist, Kari Harendorf, for an informative, uplifting, and compassionate approach to the "when, what, and how" of eating to best optimize metabolism, digestion, elimination, and dosha balancing. 

Through experiential opportunities, Q&A, lectures and more, learn ancient wellness strategies for modern times, including: 

Understand which Ayurvedic diet, lifestyle, and self-care techniques to prioritize for optimal digestion, elimination, metabolism, and energy.

Discover why your current diet and exercise may not be working well for you.

Explore how to gently detox your environment and your body to aid digestion and transformation.

Learn how to best approach a sustainable yoga and movement routine for ongoing body-mind comfort and harmony.

Explore gentle yoga poses, slow dosha balancing sequences, and other soothing practices that will set you up for a lifetime of healthy Ayurvedic living. 

The program is designed for anyone interested in incorporating gentle/intermediate yoga and Ayurveda into their wellness practices for healthy weight and wellness. No prior experience is necessary. All are welcome. 

June 12-15th 2025
Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort
Hancock, MA

The Berkshire Yoga Festival is a 4-day experience featuring over 120+ offerings including yoga, meditation, fitness practices, music, hiking, art installations, YES talks, social gatherings, a vendor village and more. Join our internationally acclaimed faculty on the breathtaking campus at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort.

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Events with Kari Harendorf:

-Friday 2-5pm: Psoas It Is

-Sunday 8-9:30am: Get off my back

-Sunday 10am: Yes Talk on Ayurveda

June 27-29, 2025
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Imagine a world where your shoulders move effortlessly, free from stiffness and limitations. 

“Shouldering It All,” a transformative yoga therapeutics weekend meticulously designed to empower you with strength, flexibility, and freedom of movement in your shoulder girdle.

A strong shoulder girdle is the literal foundation of many yoga poses, but it is also essential in daily activities.

Through expertly sequenced asanas and exercises specifically targeted to potentiate these joints, you will gain flexibility by opening the chest muscles, stretching the shoulders, and strengthening the muscles that stabilize and support this crucial region of the body. 

What You Will Learn 

- The anatomy of the four joints that make up the shoulder girdle  

- Simple movements and stretches that can be easily incorporated into your daily routine to reverse pain, stiffness, and limitations.

- How to best avoid the common misalignments that can lead to injury.

- Why our collective posture and sedentary lifestyle can be so detrimental to the health of these joints.

- The energetic anatomy and why mindset is crucial in strong, pain-free shoulders.

Delve into poses that engage the core, the back, and the arms to build a strong and stable foundation for shoulder mobility. With a focus on alignment and mindful movement, you will develop the strength necessary to gracefully move through your practice and daily life with newfound ease.

As a certified yoga therapist, Kari wholeheartedly believes in the mind-body connection. This weekend intensive also incorporates mindfulness practices and mind-body healing techniques to deepen your awareness of the shoulder girdle’s intricate mechanics and connections to the heart and mind, as well as the breath and movement.

Whether you are a yogi or yoga teacher wanting to expand your understanding of the shoulder girdle, a yoga therapist looking to serve your clients better, or someone seeking relief from shoulder pain and discomfort, this weekend will leave you with a sense of greater understanding and empowerment of how to better care for and support this area of the body, so you can genuinely "shoulder it all."