go to: Iyengar Presenters Mon Oct 13–Fri Oct 17, 2025 go to: Iyengar Sessions |
This is the Full Listing of Festival Presenters Mon Oct 13–Sun Oct 19, 2025 |
go to: Open Weekend Presenters Fri Oct 17–Sun Oct 19, 2025 go to: Open Weekend Sessions |
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Stan Andrzejewski | Marla Apt | Olop Arpipi | Victoria Austin | Sherri Baptiste | Gitte Bechsgaard | Ros Bell | Sophie Boller | Nora Burnett | Paul Cabanis | Cristina Costa | Anna Delury | Mary Devore | George Dovas | Erin Ehlers | Aileen Epstein Ignadiou | Ruth Fisk | Gloria Goldberg | Eden Goldman | Alan Goode | Gail Grossman | Sheila Haswell | Jeanne Heileman | Juliet Heizman | Justin Herold | Holly Hoffmann | Greta Kent-Stoll | Magi Khoo | Gary Kraftsow | Maya Lev | Pixie Lillas | Elana Maggal | Simon Marrocco | Amey Mathews | Ginny Nadler | Jaki Nett | Jayne Orton | Aadil Palkhivala | Larry Payne | Shiva Rea | Cathy Rogers Evans | Ila Sarley | Antonio Sausys | Carrie Schneider | John Schumacher | Wendelin Scott | Maria Shatlanova | Peter Sterios | Maxine Tobias | Patricia Walden | Lisa Walford | Joan White | Anat Zahor | Kate Zuckerman |
John Schumacher has practiced yoga for over five decades. In 1979, he founded Unity Woods Yoga Center, the Washington areas first fulltime yoga studio. For 33 years, he studied in India regularly with B.K.S. Iyengar, who personally certified him as an Advanced Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT). Johns clear, precise style and his engaging sense of humor have made him one of Americas leading yoga teachers. In 2015, Yoga Journal awarded him its prestigious “Good Karma” Award for “spending 40-plus years sharing [his] … … … read more … … …
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My first encounter with yoga at 28 was a life-changing moment of pure recognition, a sense of coming home. Over the next few decades of study, practicing, teaching and owning a yoga studio, yoga has become my home, my work, my play, my community, my universe. It is the ground beneath my feet and the sky above me.
I study, practice and teach yoga in the Krishnamāchārya lineage. I offer what I have been taught by my teachers—including Kofi Busia, Shubraji, Paul Cabanis, Cristia … … … read more … … …
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Maria Shatlanova had worked as a professional stage actress for 10 years … but then started searching for something that would help her overcome the rigours of that former life and heal. And that was when she discovered the yoga style and tradition of BKS Iyengar.
Maria felt, in her very first class, yoga's transformative power. She had soon decided to devote her life first to its practice; and then to its teaching. She has thus been practicing in the BKS Iyengar tradition since 2000, and completed her fir … … … read more … … …
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Peter Sterios is a creative yoga instructor, author, entrepreneur, and founder of MANDUKA™ and LEVITYoGA™.
His first DVD “Gravity & Grace: Yoga for Finding Your Inner Teacher” is in Yoga Journal’s “top 15 yoga videos of all time”, and his first book Gravity & Grace: How to Awaken Your Subtle Body and the Healing Power of Yoga is a Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal winner.
For three years, Peter … … … read more … … …
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Stan Andrzejewski | Marla Apt | Olop Arpipi | Victoria Austin | Sherri Baptiste | Gitte Bechsgaard | Ros Bell | Sophie Boller | Nora Burnett | Paul Cabanis | Cristina Costa | Anna Delury | Mary Devore | George Dovas | Erin Ehlers | Aileen Epstein Ignadiou | Ruth Fisk | Gloria Goldberg | Eden Goldman | Alan Goode | Gail Grossman | Sheila Haswell | Jeanne Heileman | Juliet Heizman | Justin Herold | Holly Hoffmann | Greta Kent-Stoll | Magi Khoo | Gary Kraftsow | Maya Lev | Pixie Lillas | Elana Maggal | Simon Marrocco | Amey Mathews | Ginny Nadler | Jaki Nett | Jayne Orton | Aadil Palkhivala | Larry Payne | Shiva Rea | Cathy Rogers Evans | Ila Sarley | Antonio Sausys | Carrie Schneider | John Schumacher | Wendelin Scott | Maria Shatlanova | Peter Sterios | Maxine Tobias | Patricia Walden | Lisa Walford | Joan White | Anat Zahor | Kate Zuckerman |