BYC turns 5 | Wrap up | Thanks

BYC took place May 4 and 5, 2013 at the UVM Davis Center in Burlington, VT. The 5th BYC was a sacred, fun-filled weekend to remember …

Last weekend approximately 180 yogis, 19 vendors, 25 presenters, various yoga studio owners, artists, and body-workers, took over the 4th floor of the UVM UVM Davis Center. The result was a weekend full of yoga, community, healing and fun.

Friday, May 3rd, we enjoyed a beautiful sunset at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne, VT with a purifying Ayurvedic fire ceremony, JourneyDance, and chanting. Saturday in Burlington we explored the five elements through yoga and explored our connection to the Earth with Russell and Gillian Comstock of Metta Earth Institute. Yogis on Saturday took classes ranging from YogaDance to Postural Balance and Awareness, Restorative to Jivamukti, Dharma Yoga’s Master Practice to Yoga for Better Sex, iRest to Yoga for Runners, Kid’s Yoga to kirtan, Yoga of Subtle Bandhas, an Ayurvedic cooking class and much more.


On Sunday students explored a physical movement inquiry that presented teachings of the yamas via Metta Earth Institute. Students explored classes like Kriya Yoga, got outdoors with Yoga and Cycling, partnered up with Partner Yoga and Acro Yoga, learned ways to be comfortably still and present through a Modern Mindfulness workshop, unwound through a spring detox Prana Flow and Yoga Dance for Liberation, enjoyed Blissful Hip Opening and Yoga for a Bendy Back, Yoga of Revolution, Yoga for Women, Ashtanga, Yoga and Music, Mythological Story Telling, Spanda Shakti Flow, and much more.
The BYC Silent Auction raised $420 for VNRC and $420 for BYC. Our food drive created a donation of approx. 40 pounds of food to Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf.
Burlington Yoga Conference pays special thanks to Kalpana Reddy and Wholistic Care (Malone, NY), and Sage Plakosh, for support year after year that helps make BYC possible. Thank you as well to our other partners and friends: Designs by Jake, evolution yoga & PT, Laughing River Yoga, Honest Yoga, Naada Yoga, re:source yoga, Working Well VT, Hot Yoga Burlington, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Isha Foundation, cnow.tv, The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, All Souls Interfaith Gathering Center, My Yoga Online, Call + Response Foundation, Mountain Kid’s Yoga, Dobra Tea, Heartfire Henna, Singletrack Mindfulness, Karen Henderson (flag-making), Metta Earth Institute, Seven Days, Shem Roose Photography, Max Landerman Photography, Dominique Dodge (harp), Yogi P and the Funky Shanti, and Yoganonymous.
BYC thanks you, our guests, for joining us. Please tell us about you experience. Take a survey now. Thank you to our awesome BYC interns Catherine and Dania, our excellent volunteers and staff, to the mindful marketplace vendors, talented body workers, and the helpful, friendly Davis Center staff.
BYC sincerely thanks our teachers (from all BYC and Liberate events to date), and thanks our teachers’ teachers.
Until we meet again, blessings.
NAMASTE
Love,
Jane and Ben

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Full Moon Dream Yoga Dance

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Full Moon Dream: Summer Soothe Yoga Dance
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August 23, 2013
7-9 pm, $25

This experience begins with feel-good yoga warm-ups to energize the body and mind. We will focus on grounding energy considering the strong gravitational pull of the full moon. Listening to the inner rhythm of the breath and the music as guides, we’ll move fluidly from warm-ups into standing. Here there will be some guided movement inquiries led. Eventually we’ll move into a free-form prana-flow. Though it may be tough to imagine now, you’ll find yourself in an intuitive movement meditation, liberating the creative life-force, prana. This is followed by an ambient savasana to integrate. Dynamically enhance your range of motion, break through physical and energetic blockages, boost cardiovascular strength, and create a more positive relationship with your body while you open your mind and heart. This is not a technical dance. There is no choreography, rather an experience in listening and letting go, a meditation in motion.

About Jane Jarecki Lanza, E-RYT

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Start Again

start againEvery breath, every day is a new opportunity to begin again.

 

 

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New Yoga Class Highlight: Hot Slow Flow

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New Class! Hot Slow Flow with Jane Jarecki Lanza
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-10:15 am at Laughing River Yoga
This class begins the week of May 20, 2013

This warm loving class weaves together breath and movement through a calm, sweet flow practice. While this class is a slower pace than regular Vinyasa, it will still challenge and inspire you to deepen your practice. This class consists of Sun Salutates, standing poses, balancing postures, twists, basic inversions, and always ends with a deep, relaxing savasana.

Slow Flow is perfect for students who want to learn more about the poses (asanas), explore breath work and meditation, or just slow down and deepen into their practice. Emphasis is given to aligning breath and movement, slowing down and paying attention, and relaxing into your own body. This takes place in a heated room which will enhance detoxification, stimulate the glandular systems, and challenging the cardiovascular system while we cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance through the yoga postures and flows. This class is appropriate for beginners and more experienced students alike.

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Yoga Church: A Soulful Sunday Morning Flow with Live Music

yogachurch Sunday, June 30, 2013
10 am- 12 pm
$25
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Join Jane Jarecki Lanza, E- RYT and celebrated yoga-musician Jeff Liffmann, for a Sunday morning flow class accompanied by live ethereal music. This workshop is a soulful exploration of yoga and music as ways to liberate the creative life force, prana, from the inside out. Inspired by the rhythm of the instruments and of the breath, we invite you to join us to raise the collective vibration. This will be an all-levels flow practice will include a long 20 minute ambient savasana.

About Jane: janeJane Jarecki Lanza, E-RYT, began to study yoga and Buddhism in 2004 following a trip to Northern India. She was asked to teach by one of her yoga teachers in 2006 after being certified in the Kripalu method. Jane is grateful to practice Kripalu Yoga and Babaji’s Kriya Yoga. Jane draws wisdom from (what the great teacher Gangaji calls), many unique “lifestreams,” of the one great ocean. Jane’s inspired by the connectivity of the intelligent universe, through yoga practice, her teachers and students. Jane’s mission is to transmit yoga through compassion, consciousness and love. Jane’s been a featured presenter at Wanderlust Festivals, a yoga teacher for musicians in various bands like Umphreeys McGee, Rubblebucket and Lotus, a featured teacher in Yoga Journal online, a yoga consultant for various Universities and schools, and presenter at myriad retreat centers and corporations. Jane’s favorite thing to do is practice yoga in nature and hang with family and friends. Read Jane Yoga blog.

About Jeff: Jeff-Bio-Photo_webSince October 2011, Jeff Liffmann has been performing regukarly at Back Bay Studio in Boston with Amy Wren. Many of these performances are available online. Jeff was a featured performer at Wanderlust Vermont 2012, has collaborated with Aarona Pichinson for her Soundscapes at Kula Tribeca (NYC), played at the beautiful Greener Postures in South Portland (ME), and will embark on a cross-country tour for the first half of 2012. Everything is created live when Jeff Liffmann performs – nothing is looped and nothing is pre-recorded yet the layers and textures he improvises fill the room with a warm atmosphere of brilliant, refined sound. As a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Jeff brings a wide range of experience into his performances. His music directly responds to and helps create the energy in the room, invoking a spacious quality of movement and breath. His playing styles and influences include classic rock, acid jazz, dub reggae, electronica, funk, soul, and more. He has lived in the mountains of Colorado, the city of Buenos Aires, and a few places in between. Most recently, Jeff has been a resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn but is looking forward to a new life on yoga tour.

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