Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026

Every teacher has a message worth sharing, the question is how to shape it into a workshop, retreat, or program that
transforms lives and supports your livelihood. In this interactive session, Krystal draws on years of international teaching and program creation to give you a clear structure for designing powerful experiences rooted in your
dharma.You’ll leave with tools to align your story, message, and method into a workshop or program that inspires others and expands your impact.

Grow into joyfulness and unconditional well-being!

We need all the limbs of the Yoga Sutra’s ashtanga yoga, (plus a bit of help from Yoga Sutra’s Four Attitudes) to reconfigure persistent painful habits of body and mind. A brief look at the functions of the mind and nervous system reveals how and why the full range of yoga practice is potent, effective, and necessary.

In this intensive we’ll look at the kleshas (afflictions) in light of modern neuroscience and explore what it means to embody the Yoga Sutra:
● Correct misalignments of survival instincts with restraints (yamas) and yoga practice
● Practice breath-aligned movement and yogic breathing to balance the nervous system and develop interoception (mindfulness and self-awareness)
● Correct emotional and behavior misalignment with observances (niyamas) and four attitudes—antidotes to common undesirable tendencies
● Learn a simple short but powerful daily self-reflection practice
● Correct conceptual and perceptional misalignments through meditation and self reflection (svadhyaya)

Are there elements of your yoga in which you are striving for a breakthrough? Have you seemed to reach a plateau in other aspects of your practice?  Are you healing from injuries, or just hoping to avoid them?  Bring your inquiries to this three hour immersion with Leslie Kaminoff, co-author of the perennial best-seller “Yoga Anatomy and learn the bedrock principles behind healthy movement and effective alignment.  From those foundations, you will be able to experiment with a wide variety of individual adjustments and adaptations that will keep your practice healthy and effective at any age.  All levels welcome, and ample time will be devoted to individual questions.