Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

The Touch of Grace: Advanced Hands-On Adjustment Training for Yoga Teachers & Dedicated Practitioners

Friday June 12, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Refine your touch. Elevate your teaching. Transform your students’ experience. Step into a deeper level of mastery and confidence with hands-on adjustments that truly make a difference. This immersive training will guide you in delivering skillful, intuitive, and unforgettable assists—rooted in alignment, awareness, and heart-centered intention.

Through a refined system of alignment-based techniques, you’ll learn how to communicate through touch with clarity, sensitivity, and purpose—enhancing both your students’ experience and your own personal practice.

Guided by internationally acclaimed teacher, Kripalu Legacy Faculty member, and founder of Ashaya Yoga, Todd Norian, you’ll be led step-by-step into the art of powerful, effective, and compassionate hands-on adjustments. In this training, you will:

- Build confidence in offering safe, transformative hands-on assists
- Deepen your personal practice through giving and receiving adjustments
- Refine your understanding of alignment, anatomy, and biomechanics
- Learn to apply Ashaya Yoga principles through intelligent, supportive touch
- Cultivate intuitive, respectful, and heart-led connection

Practice within a supportive, growth-oriented communityYou’ll leave with practical tools, embodied knowledge, and the confidence to offer adjustments that are not only safe and effective—but truly meaningful.

Ashaya Yoga is an accessible, therapeutic practice designed for all levels. Modifications are always offered, and you are encouraged to honor your own pace throughout the training.

Presenters

Todd Norian

Founder, Ashaya Yoga, LLC

Todd Norian, E-RYT 500, YACEP, internationally acclaimed yoga teacher, founder of Ashaya Yoga, author of Tantra Yoga: Journey to Unbreakable Wholeness, A Memoir, musician, acharya in Blue Throat Yoga, and a Kripalu Legacy Faculty, teaches classes, workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings both live in-person and online, for students and teachers all over the world. A student of yoga since 1980, Todd brings a depth of inner strength, devotion... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Burbank Room 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA 01237, USA

Yoga

Schedule Spotlights Teacher's Path

8:30am EDT

✴️ Entrepreneurship and Yoga: 4 Sustainable Paths

Friday June 12, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT

Crane West

Limited Capacity seats available

Presenters

Andrew Tanner

Founder, Berkshire Yoga Festival

Andrew Tanner is a global yoga teacher, men's mind/body coach, and public speaker known for his soulful style of teaching, and unshaken faith in people's ability to transform for the better. He has been offering holistic healing work and guiding people on spiritual retreat for over 20 years... Read More →

Sponsors

American Yoga Council

Friday June 12, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Community Event

Schedule Spotlights Teacher's Path

10:30am EDT

Embodied Mindfulness: The Yoga of Singing for Health and Wellness Workshop

Friday June 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Doc Maynard Pavillion

Limited Capacity seats available

Discover the voice of your soul in this transformative workshop with internationally touring world music artist, teacher, and author Girish.

Science is proving what ancient cultures and our inner wisdom already knows: your voice can become one of the most powerful agents of transformation in every facet of your life. Sharing his own experience as a sound healer, musician, yogi, and former Hindu monk, Girish offers tools and practices to find and express your true voice in this interactive and inspiring workshop.

Discover and express your true voice and reclaim the healing potential that resides there. Girish will share several enjoyable and practical techniques, based on his decades of sound healing experience, that you can incorporate into your daily life. You will discover what 21st Century neuroscience reveals about these practices, many based on ancient yogic teachings, and learn new and inspiring ways to support and open your voice. You will discover unique, liberating methods to clear old patterns that block your natural expression and fulfillment. You will feel how opening your voice leads to powerful transformation in every dimension of your life.

Presenters

Girish

Girish is an internationally touring world music artist, teacher, and author. He began his music career as a jazz drummer, spent five years as a monk in a Hindu monastery, returned to music as a session tabla player on more than a hundred world music albums, and for the past twelve... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Doc Maynard Pavillion

Meditation & Pranayama