Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026: Full Schedule

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10:30am EDT

How to Cultivate Community: Curating a Container for a Connected Experience

Saturday June 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Limited Capacity seats available

A remarkable experience is one that unfolds a thoughtfully connected journey. Learn how to create and facilitate purposeful, transformational offerings — whether through a public practice, workshop, event or retreat.
In this session, learn the inner workings of The Sky Path, a curated arc designed to guide students through a connected experience. Discover how to meet your students where they are upon entry, invite them to explore and deepen their awareness, provide a supportive container for immersion, and integrate the teachings in a way that allows them to depart having shifted even the slightest bit into a transformed state.
Learn the art of intentional curation and how to create experiences that foster connection, expansion, and lasting impact.
This session weaves perspective, experiential practice (guided meditation, breathwork, and light movement), instruction, and shared conversation into a lived experience of intentional curation. The learning unfolds as embodied clarity, inviting you to sense how a connected container is formed and to recognize your own capacity to create one with purpose and care.

Presenters

Courtney Chase

Courtney Chase is the Founder and Director of Sky Yoga Studios, a three-location yoga and mindfulness community established in 2016 with the intention of building spaces that foster depth, connection, and collective growth.Since beginning her teaching path in 2013, Courtney has studied... Read More →

Saturday June 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Clark Room, Country Inn 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA 01237, USA

Lecture/Talk

Style Yoga & Lecture
Schedule Spotlights Teacher's Path

2:00pm EDT

Living Symbols and Inner Practices: Devatā Yoga – Lakṣmī

Saturday June 13, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Crane East

Limited Capacity seats available

We all have the recurring experience of frustration and suffering - from different causes, and at different levels of intensity - throughout our daily lives. In response to this recurring experience, we seek to release suffering and find fulfillment outwardly and, as a result, become entangled in what the Ancients called the ‘world of name and form’. This misguided seeking perpetuates the recurrence of unresolved issues, frustrations, tension, and suffering that we all experience throughout our lives.

Deep methods of Inner Practice evolved in the tradition of Tantric Laya Yoga through which we can break this recurring cycle, realize our true nature, actualize our innate potentials and, ultimately, become free. These methods of practice relied on complex symbol systems.

In this series of three classes, we will explore two of the most important symbol systems, the methods of practice evolved to work with them and, finally, how to integrate these symbols and methods into our personal practice.

In the second session of the series, we will
- Explore the symbolism of the Vedic Gods and Goddesses as “macrocosmic map” that reveals what the Ancients called our Divine Human Potentials.
- Introduce the methods of Devatā Yoga
- Work with this methods in a practice focused on the Mahā Lakṣmī

Presenters

Gary Kraftsow

Gary Kraftsow has been an innovator in the transmission of yoga for health, healing, and personal transformation for over 40 years. He began his study of yoga in India with T.K.V. Deśikācar in 1974 and received a Viniyoga Special Diploma from Viniyoga International in Paris, France... Read More →

Saturday June 13, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Crane East 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA 01237, USA

Yoga

Style Yoga & Lecture
Schedule Spotlights Yoga Philosophy & Wisdom Traditions

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