Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026

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.

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.”

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