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Sunday, June 14
 

8:00am EDT

Beyond the Guru: Pedestals, Power, and Accountability in Modern Yoga
Sunday June 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Limited Capacity seats available
In recent years we’ve seen an unprecedented number of gurus and senior yoga teachers credibly accused of financial, sexual and spiritual abuse. As survivors grieve and lineages try to rebuild, it’s time for a bigger conversation about power relations in modern yoga.

How can we ensure better accountability in the yoga teaching space?

Can we continue to honor our sources while keeping all of us safer?

And is the age of the yoga guru finally over?

Join us for an honest conversation about hope, harm and justice, about the way power flows through practice, and about healing in community.

Presenters
avatar for Sheena Sood

Sheena Sood

Healer, Activist, Scholar
 Sheena Sood, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Delaware Valley University, and a Philly-based activist, yoga practitioner, and healing justice visionary. Sheena earned her yoga certifications at Kailash Tribal School in McLeodganj, India. Her research, “Omwashing... Read More →
avatar for Theo Wildcroft

Theo Wildcroft

Theo Wildcroft, PhD is a yoga teacher-trainer, writer and scholar who is interested in the democratization of yoga post-lineage, somatic literacy, meaning-making and the counter-culture. She is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK, Visiting Lecturer in Dharmic Worldviews... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Tanner

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 →
Sunday June 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
JJ's Lodge 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

8:00am EDT

The Ache In Your Heart Is Holy
Sunday June 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Limited Capacity seats available
Coby invites participants to shift perspective and explore their ache as something that can awaken us, rather than something to push away. Through the principles of Instinctive Meditation®, reflection, conversation, and inquiry, this interactive lecture creates space to stay with longing, pain, desire, and grief—and to consider how our ache may also guide us to remembering who we are, to beauty, to truth, and ultimately… joy.

Presenters
avatar for Coby Kozlowski

Coby Kozlowski

Senior Faculty Member, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
Coby Kozlowski, M.A., is a senior faculty member and presenter at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and a presenter at Esalen Institute and Omega Institute. She is the author of One Degree Revolution: How the Wisdom of Yoga Inspires Small Shifts That Lead to Big Changes and has been... Read More →
Sunday June 14, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Fisher Room, Country Inn 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA, USA

10:00am EDT

Living Symbols and Inner Practices: Bhūta Śuddhi & Cakra Sādhana – Anāhata Cakra
Sunday June 14, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
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 this 60-minutes session we will explore through lecture, discussion and Q&A how to authentically integrate these symbols and methods into personal practice and daily life.
Presenters
avatar for Gary Kraftsow

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 →
Sunday June 14, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

10:30am EDT

Embodied Confidence: Teaching From the Inside Out
FILLING
Sunday June 14, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
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
avatar for Abby Guerds

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

12:00pm EDT

Practice Beneath the Skin: A Moving Conversation with our Inner Structures
Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
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
avatar for Leslie Kaminoff

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 →
avatar for Lauri Nemetz

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

12:00pm EDT

You Don’t Have to Disappear: Yogic Strategies & Support for Perimenopause and Beyond
FILLING
Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Limited Capacity filling up
Midlife isn’t a disappearing act—it’s a power portal.
Perimenopause and menopause often bring unexpected shifts in mood, sleep, energy, and confidence—along with the feeling that you’re somehow supposed to manage it quietly. This yoga-based workshop, inspired by Lauren Toolin’s Flourish! program, offers a different experience: real tools, real support, and a deeper reconnection to yourself.
Through therapeutic yoga, breathwork, meditation and wisdom teachings, you'll gain practical support for your nervous system, hormones, and emotional well-being. Leave feeling more grounded, supported, and empowered, with a renewed understanding that midlife isn’t about disappearing - it's about showing up, shinier than ever.
Presenters
avatar for Lauren Toolin

Lauren Toolin

Yoga Vidya
Lauren Toolin is a master yoga teacher, certified yoga therapist, Ayurvedic practitioner, menopause educator, and master life coach with over 30 years of teaching experience and 45 years of devoted personal practice. Certified to teach in the Iyengar style in 1997, she is known for blending precise... Read More →
Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Fisher Room, Country Inn 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA, USA
  Lecture/Talk

12:00pm EDT

Your Practice is the Brand: Me Mode™ for Yoga Teachers + Students
FULL
Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
The most powerful thing you offer as a teacher isn't something you manufacture, rather something you already embody. 
This workshop invites yoga teachers into Me Mode™, a practice-based approach to teaching that honors your nervous system, your truth, and the particular way you move through the world. 
We'll start on the mat. Through a carefully shaped practice, we'll let sensation, breath, intuition, and stillness do what they do best—  reveal what's actually there.
From there, we'll explore what it means to teach from the ground of your own life, rather than from comparison, trends, or the exhausting work of performing. You won't leave with a formula for "building your brand." You'll leave with something quieter and more durable: a clearer sense of what makes your teaching feel true, and how to speak from that place without dimming yourself or burning out.
Through reflection, embodied inquiry, and tools you can actually use, we'll work with:
  • What makes your teaching feel honest and unmistakably yours
  • How to shape felt experience into words that land
  • Ways to share your work that don't cost you your energy or integrity
While Sonia is happy to share on-camera/ social media tips and answer questions on growing your audiences & reaching goals of selling out retreats, please note this isn't a lecture on visibility. It's a space where your practice, insight, and presence converge so you can teach from who you are, not who you think you should be.
*Please bring a journal to this workshop. 
Presenters
avatar for Sonia Azad

Sonia Azad

For more than two decades, Emmy Award Winning Sonia Azad has served as a trusted voice in broadcast journalism, known for translating complex health and science topics into clear, evidence-based stories. Her work has earned top honors from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and... Read More →
Sunday June 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Clark Room, Country Inn 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA 01237, USA
  Lecture/Talk

2:00pm EDT

Hands On: Adjusting Through the Lens of Elemental Action
Sunday June 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Limited Capacity seats available
In this 90 minute teachers practice, we will look at many bodies in several different shapes and address each person's individual needs dependent upon what the body presents. This will assume you have some experience with putting your hands on students and are looking to train your eye to see what exactly each body needs. We will analyze where the body needs more (or less) earth, more (or less) fire, more fluidity, less rigidity, more breath or more space. The result is using hands on adjusting beyond a 101 perspective; you will refine your ability to make the time you spend in a students’ space feel unique , satisfying and revelatory.
Presenters
avatar for Nikki Vilella

Nikki Vilella

After moving to Tribeca over two decades ago, I stumbled upon a premie Kula on the way to the train. I went, was hands down hooked by the first hip opener, and the rest is history. I started teaching at Kula in 2005 and opened Kula Williamsburg (alongside my partner in crime Schuyler... Read More →
Sunday June 14, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Crane East 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA 01237, USA
  Lecture/Talk
 
Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026
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