Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Yoga for Athletes: Before, During, and After Your Workout

Sunday June 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

Limited Capacity full
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Sage Rountree, author of The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga, will teach you routines you can practice immediately before, during, and after your workouts to help keep your body balanced and your mind present. We’ll learn all the details of five specific routines, none of which will take you more than 10 minutes, but all of which will help you avoid injury, recover faster, and continue running well. You’ll leave feeling confident about incorporating yoga in your training—or with a fun lesson plan to teach in your own classes. Appropriate for athletes of all levels of sport and yoga experience.

Presenters

Sage Rountree

PhD, E-RYT 500

Sage Rountree (sagerountree.com), PhD, E-RYT 500, is an internationally recognized authority in yoga for athletes and master yoga teacher trainer. She is author of thirteen books, including The Art of Yoga Sequencing, Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, The Professional Yoga Teacher’s... Read More →

Sunday June 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Yoga

Style Yoga & Lecture
Schedule Spotlights Anatomy & Biomechanics

10:30am EDT

Embodied Confidence: Teaching From the Inside Out

FILLING

Sunday June 14, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Clark Room, Country Inn

Limited Capacity filling up

This workshop is for festival-goers who feel the spark of teaching—or who want to deepen the way they show up in any room they enter. Abby blends nervous system awareness, self-trust, voice, and presence to help participants step out of their heads and into their bodies. You’ll explore teaching as leadership: how to hold space with confidence, speak from authenticity, and embody who you are rather than imitate someone else.
Rooted in the philosophy behind Radiance Yoga’s signature classes—known for being packed week after week—this session offers a behind-the-scenes look at what truly creates magnetic, impactful experiences. It’s not about choreography or cues alone; it’s about energy, clarity, and connection.
Designed for both aspiring and current teachers, this workshop is experiential and transformational. Participants will move, reflect, and reconnect with their own inner authority. You’ll leave feeling grounded, capable, and inspired, thinking: “I want to be in rooms like this more often. I’m ready to grow into my voice and share this energy.”

Presenters

Abby Guerds

Lead Teacher + Director of Education, Radiance Yoga

I started yoga as a freshman in high school with my coach having us run to a local gym every week for an hour long yoga class. Not only did it help me focus on race day, it also brought me to my roots of dance. I earned my 200 hour certification through Radiance Yoga in Pittsfield... Read More →

Sunday June 14, 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, Personal Growth & Transformation

12:00pm EDT

Practice Beneath the Skin: A Moving Conversation with our Inner Structures

Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

Crane West

Limited Capacity seats available

This session is a sample of the movement practices Leslie and Lauri lead during their innovative week-long cadaver dissection workshops. The intent is to provide an experiential embodiment of the insights gained in the day’s lab.

Exclusively for BYF, Leslie and Lauri have agreed to share some of their private dissection footage from several of their labs, so that participants can get a taste of the experience of lab attendees.

In this session you will have an opportunity integrate the revealed fascial planes, musculoskeletal continuities, organic relations and internal breath movements with guided movement, visualization and tactile feedback. Time will also be devoted to interactive exchange and Q&A.

Notice: The viewing of dissected human cadaver imagery is an integral part of this session

Presenters

Leslie Kaminoff

Founder, President, The Breathing Project, Inc.

Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar. With more than five decades’ experience in the fields of yoga and breath anatomy, he leads workshops for schools and training programs around the world and online. Leslie’s passion is teaching... Read More →

Lauri Nemetz

MA, BC-DMT, LCAT, ERYT500, C-IAYT, Wellness Bridge

Laurice (Lauri) D. Nemetz, MA, BC-DMT, LCAT, ERYT500, C-IAYT Lauri Nemetz is a long-time teacher and forever a student who values curiosity. She is the author of The Myofascial System in Form and Movement (Handspring Publishing, 2023) and a contributor to The Anatomy of Yoga Colo... Read More →

Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Lecture/Talk