Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026

Community and connection are at the heart of Lora’s feel-good vinyasa flow. Her teaching style is thoughtfully designed with creative sequencing and smooth transitions to a dynamic, and curated playlist that will take you on a journey that is a “straight shot to the soul.” Lora’s friendly personality and positive energy welcome everyone to this all-levels class,encouraging self-expression and intuitive play. She brings joy and lightness to the practice while creating moments to face the truth of the challenging times we are in. Be the change, be the bright light. 


Join Lora in this uplifting fun flow from start to finish. Inversions and arm balances are integrated and offered as options during peak poses. Expect to leave inspired and energized with a few new smiles and connections exchanged with your fellow yogis.

Grief is a sacred teacher - an expression of love, loss, and transformation. In this healing workshop, we journey through the five elements—earth, water, fire, air, and ether—to explore how nature’s wisdom can support us in moving through grief with compassion and grace.

Through a blend of grief yoga, breathwork, meditation, and somatic practices, we will honor our emotional landscapes and awaken the body’s natural capacity for healing.

In this 90 min class we will explore the depths of our inner landscape and where there is unprocessed and unexpressed e-motion (energy in motion). Giving opportunities to experience active choice throughout the class, and notice how we respond to discomfort and where we can deepen into self kindness.

Yoga is always about being integrated — with yourself, with each other, with the world. Yet we forget this all the time.

Sati is a practice of remembering: your motivation, basic goodness, and inter-being-ness. Cyndi will introduce this concept, along with Gom, Cho, and Sadha- the traditional Buddhist progression for establishing an integrated, personal practice.

We will embody this work through a Sustainable Yoga practice: medium-paced vinyasa, precise alignment and mindfulness of feelings give us tools for embodying this four-part process.

As you remember and get familiar with moving in ways that nourish, strengthen and create physical resiliency, your yoga practice becomes self-renewing. Breath by breath, you will develop presence, stability, nimbleness, and confidence.

Get Naturally High and Elevate your Consciousness in a Kai Chi Do circle where we will commune with the 5 elements of life - Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Ether. Kai Chi Do is a Metaphysical Workout for Body, Mind, and Spirit -- Like dancing while you're meditating...With a bunch of friends... Putting some air between your thoughts...Until the sun shines in your head... And your body hears it.

Choose your starting point wisely with this sweet, honey flow. Stoke your fire and clear your mind.

Set your Sankalpa (heartfelt intention or resolve). Enjoy this sweet combination of movement, postures, breath, and mantra to shake up your energy and clear the tension. Flow through thoughtful sequences that keep it simple; then rest in restorative postures to unwind, stretch out, drop-in, and find clarity. Why are you here? 

Good music, upbeat, fun; and profoundly relaxing.

This 90-minute Kripalu Yoga workshop explores dharma as the lived expression of purpose, values, and right action in daily life. Through a grounding dharma talk, mindful asana, pranayama, and meditation, participants will examine how inner alignment informs outer choices. The practice emphasizes listening deeply to the body and breath as gateways to clarity, integrity, and service.

It's tempting to use gratitude as an escape route from discomfort. But true gratitude is not a demand to pretend everything is fine; it’s the capacity to see and embrace the full, honest landscape of our experience. This session encourages us to acknowledge difficulty while still recognizing the innate tenderness and beauty that exist.

In this 90-minute session, we’ll explore gratitude as a steady, honest, and embodied practice that dismantles the myth of toxic positivity and roots us in reality while creating space for possibility. Through a blend of heartfelt discourse, meaningful reflection, and an accessible all-levels yoga practice, you’ll discover how gratitude can be a grounding force without glossing over the truth. We will explore how deep presence becomes transformative, supporting clarity, connection, and full integration.

You will be guided through an all-levels yoga practice utilizing asana, relaxation, pranayama, and meditation to feel gratitude from the inside out, through sensation and embodied awareness. This layered approach is designed to foster clarity, connection, and deep integration, allowing you to cultivate a sustainable sense of appreciation that is both honest and whole. All are welcome to explore this powerful path of presence.