Introducing our 2019 Presenters
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Mathew Sanford
Mathew Sanford
Matthew Sanford is an expert in the process transformation through the healing power of yoga. Paralyzed from the chest down at age thirteen and beginning yoga at age twenty-five, Matthew knows firsthand the transformative effect that yoga can have on the mind-body relationship and how it can transform trauma, loss, disability. He is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, a sought-after public speaker. He is the author of the critically acclaimed WAKING: A MEMOIR OF TRAUMA AND TRANSCENDENCE (Rodale: 2006). Matthew is a leader in the accessible yoga movement and has also emerged as a leading voice in the integrated health movement. He won the 2010 Pioneer of Integrative Medicine Award from the California Pacific Medical Center’s Institute of Health and Healing. Previous recipients include Dr. Deepok Chopra, Dr. Dean Ornish, and Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter ~ International yoga and meditation instructor, wellness philanthropist, movement motivator, healing guide, music head, and Spiritually Fly theorist.
Meet Faith Hunter, DC/NYC based Yoga instructor, global traveler, & Lifestylist, sprinkled with a dash of Louisiana charm. Faith began her life long love affair with yoga in the early 90s as a way to cope as her beloved brother Michael was dying from a complication related to AIDS. Through meditation and mindfulness Faith was able to release her fears and experience an awakening from within. From that day forward, she committed herself to sharing these practices with the world. Always eager to learn, explore, and share, Faith is an inspiring and generous mentor to yoga practitioners of all skill levels.

Kristi Taylor
Kristi Taylor
Kristi Taylor is an International Presenter, Co-Founder & Co-Owner Global Body Health, Thai Massage Therapist, Speaker, Certified AcroYoga and Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor. An exceptional teacher who actively transforms fear into joy through her exquisite instruction, her extraordinary ability to empower others and transform lives by creating trust, connection and community where we learn together, play together and see where once there was fear, there now is possibility...and joy...
"In my work with Kristi there have been things in both Yoga and AcroYoga that I feared doing, because they seemed so difficult. Kristi always, simply, said, "You can do it. You will do it." I knew she really believed that but I still didn't. Until, with her help, my thought changed from I can't do that to I can't believe I'm doing this!" - Michael McGlone

Indu Arora
Indu Arora
Indu Arora, Ayurveda and Yoga Therapist considers herself a student for lifetime. She has been sharing about Yoga philosophy, Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda since 1999. She is inspired by and taught under Kriya Yoga, Himalayan Yoga, Kashmir Shivaism and Sivananda Yoga lineages. She has studied both Yoga and Ayurveda in a traditional Guru paramapara setting.
Her teaching style is rooted in empowering and inspiring students to awaken the inner Guru. Her core philosophy is, ‘Nothing has the greatest power to heal, but Self!”
Authored: Mudra: The Sacred Secret Yoga - Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision (known as The little Red Book on Yoga)

Lauren Walker
Lauren Walker
Lauren Walker is the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice (Sounds True, 2014) and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription (Sounds True, 2017). She’s been teaching yoga and meditation since 1997 and created Energy Medicine Yoga while teaching at Norwich University. She teaches EMYoga across the US and internationally and has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mantra +, Yoga Digest, and The New York Times. She was recently named one of the top 100 most influential yoga teachers in America. For more of her work, see EMYoga.net

Carly Brown
Carly Brown
Carly Brown has been teaching Yoga for the past 9 years under the watchful eye of her Guru, Shri Prasad Rangnekar and other esteemed teachers. Her teachings are always student-centred, helping others connect to their own light, wisdom and bliss within. Often playful, but always sincere to the traditional teachings of yoga, Carly has a way of providing a great balance of her knowledge in anatomy, yoga philosophy and life experiences in a way that sparks a light in anyone present. Carly often guest lectures and speaks on various Yoga/Mindfulness topics around Canada. She is the creator of ShineOn! an empowerment program for 7-14 year old girls and her Simplicity Training for Inner Peace program which helps adults realize their true potential. Carly is also a Yoga Therapist, has her degrees in Kinesiology and Education and is an associate teacher of the Yogaprasad Institute 200hr & 500hr yoga teacher trainings. Carly is the recipient of numerous local awards for her community-centred studio Lokah Sangha Yoga in Dryden, ON.

Avanti Kumar Singh
Avanti Kumar Singh
Avanti Kumar-Singh is a physician who, after medical training in emergency medicine, began a journey to find her joy again- and to help people truly heal. Realizing that you can “quit your job but you can’t quit your calling”, Avanti set out to discover what really makes people healthy and what predisposes them to illness. She is now on a mission to evolve the conversation and to create a movement in which medical professionals reclaim the “art” of medicine and become heart-centered, healing catalysts that practice true medicine and support self-healing in their patients.
Over the 20 years of her training, study and research, Avanti has shared her expertise with Fortune 500 companies, elite undergraduate and graduate institutions and at prestigious industry and medical conferences. She has also been featured in the Huffington Post and was a member of upwave.com’s review board—Turner media’s former health and wellness entertainment brand. Avanti is currently the co-lead facilitator of the Faculty Scholars Program in Integrative Healthcare at the OSHER Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

Tanya Boigenzahn
Tanya Boigenzahn
Tanya Boigenzahn is the Founder and Executive Director of Devanadi School of Yoga & Wellness as well as Thai Yoga Bodywork, LLC, empowering people with authentic and time-tested tools and teachings to help reach their highest potential. With 25+ years on the yoga mat and 30+ years on the meditation mat, she is a multi-certified yoga teacher honored to be one of the first ParaYoga® Level III Teachers and Certified Four Desires Trainers in the world recognized by her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker. She also regularly studies with Indu Arora, and completed her Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program in 2015. Tanya also continues to study Sri Vidya, Ayurveda, and Vedic sciences regularly with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, James Bailey, and many others.
As a Certified Yoga Therapist, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, Thai Yoga Bodywork Therapist, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Reiki Master/Instructor, Tanya uses this experience to help deepen students’ knowledge of the traditional practices of healing and wholeness. She is also the forthcoming Executive Director and a registered Instructor with Thai Healing Alliance International (THAI), and offers one of the only multi-level certification programs to learn the art of Thai Yoga Bodywork outside of Thailand.

Marni Sclaroff
Marni Sclaroff
Marni Sclaroff is a yoga and meditation teacher, spirit guide, and wellness mentor, with over twenty years of experience in the healing arts. She leads workshops, retreats, online courses, mentoring programs, and teacher trainings throughout the US and abroad. Her yoga classes are a unique blend of soulful inspiration woven into functional body mechanics, with a side of light-hearted playfulness, and earth based spirituality

Leo Rising
Leo Rising
Leo Rising is a 250hr Accredited Yoga Teacher based in Manhattan. As a yoga teacher, Leo found that the physically rehabilitating practices of asana (yoga poses) and pranyama (breath work) open aspects of existence that are connected, grounded, stable and promote clarity upon every action, and the space to exist fully present, while still.
Leo Rising accredits his honed abilities to the generous teachers of his life and personal Gurus, that have been with him for his whole journey.

Ben Vincent
Ben Vincent
Ben Vincent is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and life coach based in Minneapolis. His teachings are rooted in Tantra, Classical and Hatha Yoga, of Para Yoga and The Himalayan Tradition. Ben Offers in-depth yoga study, trainings, retreats, immersions, public and private teaching. He aspires to share yoga that is authentic and accessible, supporting students to realize freedom and fulfillment in life.

Nikki Myers
Nikki Myers
An accomplished speaker, teacher and practitioner, Nikki Myers is an MBA, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Parctitioner, Addictions Recovery Specialst, and Certified Health Coach. Born from her personal struggle with addiction, Nikki is the founder of Y12SR, The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery. Based in its theme 'the issues live in the tissues', Y12SR is a relapse prevention program that weaes the art & science of yoga with the practical tools of 12-step programs. Y12SR meetings are now available throughout the world and the curriculum is rapidly becoming a feature of addiction recovery treatment centers. Nikki's work has been featured in the New York Times, Black Enterprise, The Huffingtoon Post, Origin Magazine, and CBSnews.com. She is honored to be a co-founder of the annual Yoga, Meditation and Recovery Conferences at Esalen Institiute and Kripalu Center. Nikki was named as a Yoga Journal Game Changer in 2015 and honored as a recipient of the esteemed NUVO Cultural Visionary Award in 2014.

Nicole Nardone
Nicole Nardone
Nicole learned to read and balance chakras around the same time she learned to tie her shoes. Raised around yogis, healers, and wild women, she has a natural fluency in the spiritual and metaphysical realms.
Her personal healing journeys have lead her through study in earth-based spirituality, shamanism, Thai massage, herbal medicine, classical tantra, kundalini yoga, sacred sexuality practices, sexual tantra, Taoism and more.
She has extensive training in kundalini and tantra. She is trained as a teacher of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan© through the Kundalini Research Institute. She has trained with world renowned teachers since 2003.
Nicole currently sees private clients, and leads classes, workshops, online courses, and retreats around the world. Her work has been described simply as “life changing”. She weaves ancient tradition with modern application, reverence with laughter, deep grounding with cosmic expansion. She is a powerful force for activating the innate vitality within. She is passionately, eternally devoted to awakening the sacred within all, to coming fully alive.

James Orione
James Orione
James has been practicing yoga for 7 years, having a foundation in Yoga Nidra, Yin and Restorative styles, which progressed to incorporate asana combined with vinyasa, pranayama, meditation and mantra. He completed his 200 hr RYT yoga teacher training at the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA.
James aims to create a safe space to explore yoga with open and accessible classes for students who are diverse in gender, race, religion, age and ability. As an African American male he feels it is important to create access and opportunities for people of color to explore yoga. Yoga has the ability to loosen the hold of trauma, in any form, that prevents us from living our lives to its fullest.
He teaches in the Himalayan tradition, rooted in dynamic and flowing sequences of asanas, a strong emphasis on diaphragmatic breathing, pranayama and systematic relaxation. Over the course of his classes students will cultivate a deeper connection with the breath and the body. You can practice more with James at One Yoga in South Minneapolis and Johnson Street Yoga in Northeast Minneapolis.

Rhiannon Kirby
Rhiannon Kirby
Very humbled and honored to be the resident yoga teacher at Tula Yoga Studio in Chicago, the breath is the guiding force to Rhiannon's practice and teaching style. With a BA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Mills College in Oakland, California, Rhiannon has always had a deep understanding and appreciation for the body, exploring, fine tuning and understanding the information it presents in time and space in any given moment.
Using inspiration from her self practice, the traditional Ashtanga many series' and her dance background, Rhiannon's workshops/classes offer the opportunity to dive into the intuitive body in order to safely and intellectually, self practice, sequence, become strongly aware of the internal body space, challenge the mind to quiet down and serve the information your body is asking to give you, and to turn your practice and teaching style into a constant ebb and flow of grace.
Rhiannon has been practicing yoga for 19 years, teaching for 11 years and has had the pleasure of studying with Larry Schultz, Tom Quinn, Quinn Kearney, Claire Mark, Mark Whitwel, Seane Corne, Tim Suh, Manju Jois and Tim Miller. ERYT500 Certified: It's Yoga San Francisco 200hr, Yogaview Chicago 300hr, Manju Jois Intensive 30hr, many more hours in between, in depth anatomy background and has publicly and privately taught and organized yoga teacher training programs.

Alyson Iannicelli
Alyson Iannicelli
Alyson Iannicelli completed her Bachelors in English & IT in Boston, MA prior to joining Teach For America, an AmeriCorps program serving under-resourced communities. She worked with AmeriCorps for a total of 5 years before taking her 200-hour yoga teacher training in Spain to help manage stress. Upon completion of her yoga teacher training, Alyson decided she wanted to continue to dedicate her time to helping people, but in a different way, with an emphasis on healing the mind, body and spirit. After beginning to teach yoga full-time, Alyson pursued and completed a Masters in Integrative Health and Healing to further propel her skills and knowledge in the health field. Through her masters program, she began to work as an intern for Lauren Walker to help develop the Energy Medicine Yoga School. Alyson currently works as the Director of Education of the Energy Medicine Yoga School and teaches yoga to group classes and one-on-one with clients. She is passionate and committed to sharing EMYoga and healing with the world.

Ann Blackburn
Ann Blackburn
Ann Blackburn (C-IAYT, ERYT500, AYS) and Dan Blackburn (RYT500) have co-owned Tula Yoga & Wellness in St. Paul since March 2012. Their mission is to make yoga & wellness within everyone’s reach and to create a space where people can be and connect with themselves. Ann received her Yoga Therapy certification and Dan received his RYT500 through Yoga North’s International SomaYoga Institute. They get to live their yoga practice with family (three children 12, 17, 22), business, private clients, teaching group classes & workshops, leading retreats, and facilitating relationship-building projects with organizations. Dan also works as an Executive Operations Coordinator for the Whole Foods Market Upper Midwest region and is an executive coach. They will be leading a workshop called “Live Your Authentic, Vibrant Life!”to explore life passions, Dharma (purpose), clarity about true priorities, how to let go of limiting beliefs, and learn practices to create your authentic and vibrant life. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tulayogawellness

Tiffany Denny
Tiffany Denny
Dr. Tiffany Denny is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and physical therapist with over 13 years of yoga teaching experience, and is the current Executive Director of a body-positive nonprofit, Embody Love Movement. She has a knack for weaving anatomy and movement science into mindful, creative class sequences, and a passion for nerdy anatomy discussions. Tiffany loves to offer practices that facilitate a deeper understanding of physical and energetic anatomy, and the development of a healthy, positive relationship with the body.

Calley Bliss
Calley Bliss
Calley Bliss is the owner / founder of Entertainment Jill, offering voice over, content creation, and strategy for business. After a dozen years as a jazz and pop vocalist, composer, and educator across the US, UK, and Caribbean, Bliss took her passion for all things “resonance,” and applied them to helping businesses and organizations grow through storytelling (aka content), and content strategy (aka branding). A fifteen-year practitioner of yoga in styles including Anusara, Ashtanga, and Alignment, Bliss also teaches yoga classes, workshops, and individual sessions, guided by a deep connection to the energy / matter relationship and intuitive movement.
A junkie of experience, Bliss approaches yoga, music, voice over, writing, and business with the same philosophy: observe structure, adapt to the moment, and follow the light.

Nathan Paulus
Nathan Paulus
Nathan has more than 10 years teaching experience. His approach is centered in deep listening combined with clarity of intention and awareness. Nathan is also a dedicated Taiji practitioner and teacher and sees Yoga and Taiji as one in the same, for him both are used for internal development and refinement. Beyond Yoga and Taiji, Nathan has extensive training and study in kinesiology, anatomy and physiology, Chinese Medicine and bodywork. He is one of the owners of Five Point Holistic Health, a worker owned health cooperative in Chicago.

Mindy Bez
Mindy Bez
Since her first yoga experience in 2005, via a VHS tape (Google it, kids), to her present-day pursuits as the co-founder of SYNDICATE.YOGA, Mindy Luv has become known for her innovative and progressive delivery of Ashtanga-based vinyasa, Yin-Yoga, yoga sculpt, and kid's yoga programming and classes.
A true moon child and a lover of the stars, Mindy's mantra is that believing is healing. Her mission is to create a world where everyone can feel whole and healed. She is a second degree reiki practitioner and finds her center in drawing owls, lions and trees, dancing in the warm rain with her 3 kids and meditating. She loves the mountains, devours books by authors such as Gabby Bernstein, Jennifer Sincero and Louise Hay, isn't known for her cooking but can bake just about anything,

Mollie Silver
Mollie Silver
Mollie Silver is an Eden Energy Medicine Advanced Practitioner and Authorized Instructor, EMYOGA Senior Teacher, and Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist. Mollie’s passions for travel, adventure and alternative healing have carried her across the globe where she has studied her craft with everyone from a medicine man in Fiji to a Mayan midwife in Guatemala to a Shaman in Bali. Her diverse and varied background includes a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina and volunteering throughout Central America, Australia, Mongolia, and Southeast Asia before eventually landing at Snowshoe Mountain Resort, WV where she’s been teaching Yoga and practicing Massage Therapy and Energy Medicine since 2007. She is thrilled to share this self-empowering modality of healing with you!

Molly McManus
Molly McManus
Molly McManus C-IAYT, ERYT500, SE, AHC is co-owner of Yoga North, and holds certifications as a Yoga Therapist, Somatic Educator, Ayurvedic Health Counselor. She enjoys teaching specialized workshops and her work as faculty for the International SomaYoga Institute that is one of only 26 schools in the world that certifies yoga therapists.
Molly is sought out for her special areas of interest in chronic pain and the diseases of stress in programs she has designed such as SomaYoga for Chronic Pain, Making a Change for Good – 30 Days to Compassionate Self Discipline, The Chemistry of Joy, and Yoga for Stress, Anxiety and Depression. She has not only studied and practiced in these areas extensively she has up close and personal experiences with the incredible efficacy of Yoga Therapy with her own journey through chronic pain, and the diseases of stress.

Ann Maxwell
Ann Maxwell
Ann Maxwell, MAed, ERYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist, Somatic Educator, Co-Owner Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute
Ann holds certification in Hatha Yoga, Yoga for Cancer Survivors and is an experienced teacher trainer and yoga therapist. She gets great satisfaction in supporting the teachers in training to find their niche, grow their skills and become great yoga teachers and therapists. Ann brings the spirit of adventure and curiosity to her expertise as a yoga instructor and business owner, grounding her ability in the practicality and expertise of the body. Ann is a model of yogic living for her students and brings a sense of wisdom and fun to the daily practice of yoga.

Nick Bez
Nick Bez
Since leaving behind a decade of addiction in 2008, co-owner and operator of SYNDICATE.YOGA, Nick Bez has been working to share his experience and understanding of the teaching that “yoga is the journey of the self, through the self.” He encourages students to embrace that this journey is sometimes a wild, profanity laden one, while at others it’s shades of gray, and on occasion it’s legitimately unicorns and magical rainbows but that regardless, it’s all an opportunity to breathe with greater presence and intention.
Nick has led thousands of practitioners through variations of Ashtanga and Power Vinyasa, and teacher trainings across North America, he co-created Life Time Fitness’ Warrior Sculpt yoga fusion format, and as an ERYT-500 through Yoga Alliance (YA) and a YA Continuing Education Provider has written and created multiple yoga teacher training manuals and programs. He has also written for Yoga Digest, been featured in Mantra Magazine, and highlighted by Mantra Magazine, Yoga Journal, MN YOGA+life, SF Yoga Magazine, and on StyleCaster.com.
And for those of you who appreciate such things, Nick’s training and study includes multiple standard and advanced yoga teacher trainings including the 200 hr. YTT programs at CorePower Yoga in MN, At One Yoga in AZ, The Center for Yoga in MI, and LifePower Yoga in MN, as well as extensive training with Jonny Kest.

Mathew Sanford
Matthew Sanford is an expert in the process transformation through the healing power of yoga. Paralyzed from the chest down at age thirteen and beginning yoga at age twenty-five, Matthew knows firsthand the transformative effect that yoga can have on the mind-body relationship and how it can transform trauma, loss, disability. He is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, a sought-after public speaker. He is the author of the critically acclaimed WAKING: A MEMOIR OF TRAUMA AND TRANSCENDENCE (Rodale: 2006). Matthew is a leader in the accessible yoga movement and has also emerged as a leading voice in the integrated health movement. He won the 2010 Pioneer of Integrative Medicine Award from the California Pacific Medical Center’s Institute of Health and Healing. Previous recipients include Dr. Deepok Chopra, Dr. Dean Ornish, and Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Faith Hunter
Faith Hunter ~ International yoga and meditation instructor, wellness philanthropist, movement motivator, healing guide, music head, and Spiritually Fly theorist.
Meet Faith Hunter, DC/NYC based Yoga instructor, global traveler, & Lifestylist, sprinkled with a dash of Louisiana charm. Faith began her life long love affair with yoga in the early 90s as a way to cope as her beloved brother Michael was dying from a complication related to AIDS. Through meditation and mindfulness Faith was able to release her fears and experience an awakening from within. From that day forward, she committed herself to sharing these practices with the world. Always eager to learn, explore, and share, Faith is an inspiring and generous mentor to yoga practitioners of all skill levels.

Kristi Taylor
Kristi Taylor is an International Presenter, Co-Founder & Co-Owner Global Body Health, Thai Massage Therapist, Speaker, Certified AcroYoga and Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor. An exceptional teacher who actively transforms fear into joy through her exquisite instruction, her extraordinary ability to empower others and transform lives by creating trust, connection and community where we learn together, play together and see where once there was fear, there now is possibility...and joy...
"In my work with Kristi there have been things in both Yoga and AcroYoga that I feared doing, because they seemed so difficult. Kristi always, simply, said, "You can do it. You will do it." I knew she really believed that but I still didn't. Until, with her help, my thought changed from I can't do that to I can't believe I'm doing this!" - Michael McGlone

Indu Arora
Indu Arora, Ayurveda and Yoga Therapist considers herself a student for lifetime. She has been sharing about Yoga philosophy, Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda since 1999. She is inspired by and taught under Kriya Yoga, Himalayan Yoga, Kashmir Shivaism and Sivananda Yoga lineages. She has studied both Yoga and Ayurveda in a traditional Guru paramapara setting.
Her teaching style is rooted in empowering and inspiring students to awaken the inner Guru. Her core philosophy is, ‘Nothing has the greatest power to heal, but Self!”
Authored: Mudra: The Sacred Secret Yoga - Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision (known as The little Red Book on Yoga)

Lauren Walker
Lauren Walker is the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice (Sounds True, 2014) and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription (Sounds True, 2017). She’s been teaching yoga and meditation since 1997 and created Energy Medicine Yoga while teaching at Norwich University. She teaches EMYoga across the US and internationally and has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mantra +, Yoga Digest, and The New York Times. She was recently named one of the top 100 most influential yoga teachers in America. For more of her work, see EMYoga.net

Carly Brown
Carly Brown has been teaching Yoga for the past 9 years under the watchful eye of her Guru, Shri Prasad Rangnekar and other esteemed teachers. Her teachings are always student-centred, helping others connect to their own light, wisdom and bliss within. Often playful, but always sincere to the traditional teachings of yoga, Carly has a way of providing a great balance of her knowledge in anatomy, yoga philosophy and life experiences in a way that sparks a light in anyone present. Carly often guest lectures and speaks on various Yoga/Mindfulness topics around Canada. She is the creator of ShineOn! an empowerment program for 7-14 year old girls and her Simplicity Training for Inner Peace program which helps adults realize their true potential. Carly is also a Yoga Therapist, has her degrees in Kinesiology and Education and is an associate teacher of the Yogaprasad Institute 200hr & 500hr yoga teacher trainings. Carly is the recipient of numerous local awards for her community-centred studio Lokah Sangha Yoga in Dryden, ON.

Avanti Kumar Singh
Avanti Kumar-Singh is a physician who, after medical training in emergency medicine, began a journey to find her joy again- and to help people truly heal. Realizing that you can “quit your job but you can’t quit your calling”, Avanti set out to discover what really makes people healthy and what predisposes them to illness. She is now on a mission to evolve the conversation and to create a movement in which medical professionals reclaim the “art” of medicine and become heart-centered, healing catalysts that practice true medicine and support self-healing in their patients.
Over the 20 years of her training, study and research, Avanti has shared her expertise with Fortune 500 companies, elite undergraduate and graduate institutions and at prestigious industry and medical conferences. She has also been featured in the Huffington Post and was a member of upwave.com’s review board—Turner media’s former health and wellness entertainment brand. Avanti is currently the co-lead facilitator of the Faculty Scholars Program in Integrative Healthcare at the OSHER Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

Tanya Boigenzahn
Tanya Boigenzahn is the Founder and Executive Director of Devanadi School of Yoga & Wellness as well as Thai Yoga Bodywork, LLC, empowering people with authentic and time-tested tools and teachings to help reach their highest potential. With 25+ years on the yoga mat and 30+ years on the meditation mat, she is a multi-certified yoga teacher honored to be one of the first ParaYoga® Level III Teachers and Certified Four Desires Trainers in the world recognized by her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker. She also regularly studies with Indu Arora, and completed her Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program in 2015. Tanya also continues to study Sri Vidya, Ayurveda, and Vedic sciences regularly with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, James Bailey, and many others.
As a Certified Yoga Therapist, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, Thai Yoga Bodywork Therapist, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Reiki Master/Instructor, Tanya uses this experience to help deepen students’ knowledge of the traditional practices of healing and wholeness. She is also the forthcoming Executive Director and a registered Instructor with Thai Healing Alliance International (THAI), and offers one of the only multi-level certification programs to learn the art of Thai Yoga Bodywork outside of Thailand.

Marni Sclaroff
Marni Sclaroff is a yoga and meditation teacher, spirit guide, and wellness mentor, with over twenty years of experience in the healing arts. She leads workshops, retreats, online courses, mentoring programs, and teacher trainings throughout the US and abroad. Her yoga classes are a unique blend of soulful inspiration woven into functional body mechanics, with a side of light-hearted playfulness, and earth based spirituality

Leo Rising
Leo Rising is a 250hr Accredited Yoga Teacher based in Manhattan. As a yoga teacher, Leo found that the physically rehabilitating practices of asana (yoga poses) and pranyama (breath work) open aspects of existence that are connected, grounded, stable and promote clarity upon every action, and the space to exist fully present, while still.
Leo Rising accredits his honed abilities to the generous teachers of his life and personal Gurus, that have been with him for his whole journey.

Ben Vincent
Ben Vincent is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and life coach based in Minneapolis. His teachings are rooted in Tantra, Classical and Hatha Yoga, of Para Yoga and The Himalayan Tradition. Ben Offers in-depth yoga study, trainings, retreats, immersions, public and private teaching. He aspires to share yoga that is authentic and accessible, supporting students to realize freedom and fulfillment in life.

Nikki Myers
An accomplished speaker, teacher and practitioner, Nikki Myers is an MBA, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Parctitioner, Addictions Recovery Specialst, and Certified Health Coach. Born from her personal struggle with addiction, Nikki is the founder of Y12SR, The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery. Based in its theme 'the issues live in the tissues', Y12SR is a relapse prevention program that weaes the art & science of yoga with the practical tools of 12-step programs. Y12SR meetings are now available throughout the world and the curriculum is rapidly becoming a feature of addiction recovery treatment centers. Nikki's work has been featured in the New York Times, Black Enterprise, The Huffingtoon Post, Origin Magazine, and CBSnews.com. She is honored to be a co-founder of the annual Yoga, Meditation and Recovery Conferences at Esalen Institiute and Kripalu Center. Nikki was named as a Yoga Journal Game Changer in 2015 and honored as a recipient of the esteemed NUVO Cultural Visionary Award in 2014.

Nicole Nardone
Nicole learned to read and balance chakras around the same time she learned to tie her shoes. Raised around yogis, healers, and wild women, she has a natural fluency in the spiritual and metaphysical realms.
Her personal healing journeys have lead her through study in earth-based spirituality, shamanism, Thai massage, herbal medicine, classical tantra, kundalini yoga, sacred sexuality practices, sexual tantra, Taoism and more.
She has extensive training in kundalini and tantra. She is trained as a teacher of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan© through the Kundalini Research Institute. She has trained with world renowned teachers since 2003.
Nicole currently sees private clients, and leads classes, workshops, online courses, and retreats around the world. Her work has been described simply as “life changing”. She weaves ancient tradition with modern application, reverence with laughter, deep grounding with cosmic expansion. She is a powerful force for activating the innate vitality within. She is passionately, eternally devoted to awakening the sacred within all, to coming fully alive.

James Orione
James has been practicing yoga for 7 years, having a foundation in Yoga Nidra, Yin and Restorative styles, which progressed to incorporate asana combined with vinyasa, pranayama, meditation and mantra. He completed his 200 hr RYT yoga teacher training at the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA.
James aims to create a safe space to explore yoga with open and accessible classes for students who are diverse in gender, race, religion, age and ability. As an African American male he feels it is important to create access and opportunities for people of color to explore yoga. Yoga has the ability to loosen the hold of trauma, in any form, that prevents us from living our lives to its fullest.
He teaches in the Himalayan tradition, rooted in dynamic and flowing sequences of asanas, a strong emphasis on diaphragmatic breathing, pranayama and systematic relaxation. Over the course of his classes students will cultivate a deeper connection with the breath and the body. You can practice more with James at One Yoga in South Minneapolis and Johnson Street Yoga in Northeast Minneapolis.

Rhiannon Kirby
Very humbled and honored to be the resident yoga teacher at Tula Yoga Studio in Chicago, the breath is the guiding force to Rhiannon's practice and teaching style. With a BA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Mills College in Oakland, California, Rhiannon has always had a deep understanding and appreciation for the body, exploring, fine tuning and understanding the information it presents in time and space in any given moment.
Using inspiration from her self practice, the traditional Ashtanga many series' and her dance background, Rhiannon's workshops/classes offer the opportunity to dive into the intuitive body in order to safely and intellectually, self practice, sequence, become strongly aware of the internal body space, challenge the mind to quiet down and serve the information your body is asking to give you, and to turn your practice and teaching style into a constant ebb and flow of grace.
Rhiannon has been practicing yoga for 19 years, teaching for 11 years and has had the pleasure of studying with Larry Schultz, Tom Quinn, Quinn Kearney, Claire Mark, Mark Whitwel, Seane Corne, Tim Suh, Manju Jois and Tim Miller. ERYT500 Certified: It's Yoga San Francisco 200hr, Yogaview Chicago 300hr, Manju Jois Intensive 30hr, many more hours in between, in depth anatomy background and has publicly and privately taught and organized yoga teacher training programs.

Alyson Iannicelli
Alyson Iannicelli completed her Bachelors in English & IT in Boston, MA prior to joining Teach For America, an AmeriCorps program serving under-resourced communities. She worked with AmeriCorps for a total of 5 years before taking her 200-hour yoga teacher training in Spain to help manage stress. Upon completion of her yoga teacher training, Alyson decided she wanted to continue to dedicate her time to helping people, but in a different way, with an emphasis on healing the mind, body and spirit. After beginning to teach yoga full-time, Alyson pursued and completed a Masters in Integrative Health and Healing to further propel her skills and knowledge in the health field. Through her masters program, she began to work as an intern for Lauren Walker to help develop the Energy Medicine Yoga School. Alyson currently works as the Director of Education of the Energy Medicine Yoga School and teaches yoga to group classes and one-on-one with clients. She is passionate and committed to sharing EMYoga and healing with the world.

Ann Blackburn
Ann Blackburn (C-IAYT, ERYT500, AYS) and Dan Blackburn (RYT500) have co-owned Tula Yoga & Wellness in St. Paul since March 2012. Their mission is to make yoga & wellness within everyone’s reach and to create a space where people can be and connect with themselves. Ann received her Yoga Therapy certification and Dan received his RYT500 through Yoga North’s International SomaYoga Institute. They get to live their yoga practice with family (three children 12, 17, 22), business, private clients, teaching group classes & workshops, leading retreats, and facilitating relationship-building projects with organizations. Dan also works as an Executive Operations Coordinator for the Whole Foods Market Upper Midwest region and is an executive coach. They will be leading a workshop called “Live Your Authentic, Vibrant Life!”to explore life passions, Dharma (purpose), clarity about true priorities, how to let go of limiting beliefs, and learn practices to create your authentic and vibrant life. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tulayogawellness

Tiffany Denny
Dr. Tiffany Denny is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and physical therapist with over 13 years of yoga teaching experience, and is the current Executive Director of a body-positive nonprofit, Embody Love Movement. She has a knack for weaving anatomy and movement science into mindful, creative class sequences, and a passion for nerdy anatomy discussions. Tiffany loves to offer practices that facilitate a deeper understanding of physical and energetic anatomy, and the development of a healthy, positive relationship with the body.

Calley Bliss
Calley Bliss is the owner / founder of Entertainment Jill, offering voice over, content creation, and strategy for business. After a dozen years as a jazz and pop vocalist, composer, and educator across the US, UK, and Caribbean, Bliss took her passion for all things “resonance,” and applied them to helping businesses and organizations grow through storytelling (aka content), and content strategy (aka branding). A fifteen-year practitioner of yoga in styles including Anusara, Ashtanga, and Alignment, Bliss also teaches yoga classes, workshops, and individual sessions, guided by a deep connection to the energy / matter relationship and intuitive movement.
A junkie of experience, Bliss approaches yoga, music, voice over, writing, and business with the same philosophy: observe structure, adapt to the moment, and follow the light.

Nathan Paulus
Nathan has more than 10 years teaching experience. His approach is centered in deep listening combined with clarity of intention and awareness. Nathan is also a dedicated Taiji practitioner and teacher and sees Yoga and Taiji as one in the same, for him both are used for internal development and refinement. Beyond Yoga and Taiji, Nathan has extensive training and study in kinesiology, anatomy and physiology, Chinese Medicine and bodywork. He is one of the owners of Five Point Holistic Health, a worker owned health cooperative in Chicago.

Mindy Bez
Since her first yoga experience in 2005, via a VHS tape (Google it, kids), to her present-day pursuits as the co-founder of SYNDICATE.YOGA, Mindy Luv has become known for her innovative and progressive delivery of Ashtanga-based vinyasa, Yin-Yoga, yoga sculpt, and kid's yoga programming and classes.
A true moon child and a lover of the stars, Mindy's mantra is that believing is healing. Her mission is to create a world where everyone can feel whole and healed. She is a second degree reiki practitioner and finds her center in drawing owls, lions and trees, dancing in the warm rain with her 3 kids and meditating. She loves the mountains, devours books by authors such as Gabby Bernstein, Jennifer Sincero and Louise Hay, isn't known for her cooking but can bake just about anything,

Mollie Silver
Mollie Silver is an Eden Energy Medicine Advanced Practitioner and Authorized Instructor, EMYOGA Senior Teacher, and Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist. Mollie’s passions for travel, adventure and alternative healing have carried her across the globe where she has studied her craft with everyone from a medicine man in Fiji to a Mayan midwife in Guatemala to a Shaman in Bali. Her diverse and varied background includes a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina and volunteering throughout Central America, Australia, Mongolia, and Southeast Asia before eventually landing at Snowshoe Mountain Resort, WV where she’s been teaching Yoga and practicing Massage Therapy and Energy Medicine since 2007. She is thrilled to share this self-empowering modality of healing with you!

Molly McManus
Molly McManus C-IAYT, ERYT500, SE, AHC is co-owner of Yoga North, and holds certifications as a Yoga Therapist, Somatic Educator, Ayurvedic Health Counselor. She enjoys teaching specialized workshops and her work as faculty for the International SomaYoga Institute that is one of only 26 schools in the world that certifies yoga therapists.
Molly is sought out for her special areas of interest in chronic pain and the diseases of stress in programs she has designed such as SomaYoga for Chronic Pain, Making a Change for Good – 30 Days to Compassionate Self Discipline, The Chemistry of Joy, and Yoga for Stress, Anxiety and Depression. She has not only studied and practiced in these areas extensively she has up close and personal experiences with the incredible efficacy of Yoga Therapy with her own journey through chronic pain, and the diseases of stress.

Ann Maxwell
Ann Maxwell, MAed, ERYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist, Somatic Educator, Co-Owner Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute
Ann holds certification in Hatha Yoga, Yoga for Cancer Survivors and is an experienced teacher trainer and yoga therapist. She gets great satisfaction in supporting the teachers in training to find their niche, grow their skills and become great yoga teachers and therapists. Ann brings the spirit of adventure and curiosity to her expertise as a yoga instructor and business owner, grounding her ability in the practicality and expertise of the body. Ann is a model of yogic living for her students and brings a sense of wisdom and fun to the daily practice of yoga.

Nick Bez
Since leaving behind a decade of addiction in 2008, co-owner and operator of SYNDICATE.YOGA, Nick Bez has been working to share his experience and understanding of the teaching that “yoga is the journey of the self, through the self.” He encourages students to embrace that this journey is sometimes a wild, profanity laden one, while at others it’s shades of gray, and on occasion it’s legitimately unicorns and magical rainbows but that regardless, it’s all an opportunity to breathe with greater presence and intention.
Nick has led thousands of practitioners through variations of Ashtanga and Power Vinyasa, and teacher trainings across North America, he co-created Life Time Fitness’ Warrior Sculpt yoga fusion format, and as an ERYT-500 through Yoga Alliance (YA) and a YA Continuing Education Provider has written and created multiple yoga teacher training manuals and programs. He has also written for Yoga Digest, been featured in Mantra Magazine, and highlighted by Mantra Magazine, Yoga Journal, MN YOGA+life, SF Yoga Magazine, and on StyleCaster.com.
And for those of you who appreciate such things, Nick’s training and study includes multiple standard and advanced yoga teacher trainings including the 200 hr. YTT programs at CorePower Yoga in MN, At One Yoga in AZ, The Center for Yoga in MI, and LifePower Yoga in MN, as well as extensive training with Jonny Kest.
The Minneapolis Yoga Conference is an exploration of what yoga is. It is designed to serve the community not as a proclamation of answers, but instead as an unending set of questions. Our primary aim is to explore the practice of yoga in an open, welcoming space for everyone in the yoga community. We embrace and celebrate the different and unique perspectives across the wider yoga community, so that together we can feel can feel a unity that is all too often missing. We are a conference that accepts, embraces and celebrates everyone for exactly where they are in their yogic journey, no matter where they are.
For the 2019 conference we have once again curated a group of world-class presenters, providing countless offerings and hundreds of available workshop hours. Whether you’ve been practicing for twenty days or twenty years, the 2019 Minneapolis Yoga Conference will have something for you.
Thank you 2019 studio partners! Own a yoga studio? Become a Studio Partner today!

Yess Yoga Studio
Yess Yoga Studio
Yess Yoga, located in Minneapolis, has brilliant and diverse yoga classes in a community atmosphere. Our ultimate goal is to help you discover a deeper sense of contentment and inner peace. The common thread, each teacher wants to share movement and mindfulness with everyone who enters the studio. We dare to call most of our yogaclasses “Intuitive Yoga”. We'd like to personally welcome you to our local and woman owned yoga studio, and invite you to any of our classes or events. All are welcome. Hope to practice with you soon. Namaste.

Blooma
Blooma
Through yoga, Barre, Massage, Childbirth Education, Wellness and a community of support, Blooma, nurtures the mind, body and the spirit of Mom-to-be, new mamas, and their families.

180 Balance
180 Balance
180 balance is about finding the inner depth of who you are, nurturing your body and mind and transforming your future into what you want it to be. Your body and mind will be pushed as much as you need and you will absorb all the goodness of what the studio and instructors have to offer. 180 balance is where you learn to “be” and enjoy the moment and all it has to offer.

Awaken Vibrance
Awaken Vibrance
Awaken Vibrance is a full-service Holistic Health Center and Yoga Studio located in downtown Waseca, MN. We offer Yoga, Massage, Classes, Holistic Products & Gifts.
Our gorgeous restored building is a feast for the eyes and a haven for the spirit. Walk into our divine yoga space and breathe in its relaxing, zen atmosphere. It will delight and surprise you, like it has for many new visitors. We often hear, “WOW, this is incredible! I can’t believe we have this in Waseca!”
Founded by Tracy Jevning, Awaken Vibrance opened its doors on November 9, 2015. Tracy started the company to follow her passion of helping people with their health and wellness. Her primary goal is to help her clients achieve optimal health so they can look, feel, and BE their best!.

Yoga Sanctuary
Yoga Sanctuary
Yoga Sanctuary is a non-profit, holistic studio, offering a place of respite and integration for your body, mind, and spirit.
We seek to teach safe, fun, relational yoga every day to EVERY BODY through classes, workshops, community outreach and our annual Karma Service + Yoga Trip to Guatemala. Our studio prices align with our intention to increase access, and limit obstacles, to holistic yoga.
The practice of yoga tells us that everything we need for peace and wholeness is already inside us, but living and practicing yoga is best done in the context of a supportive community. Together, we will work to ignite the transformative healing power of being fully present in our bodies and in our lives.

Green Frog Yoga
Green Frog Yoga
Green Frog Yoga is welcoming community of beginning and experienced yogi’s in Green Bay, Wisconsin. We offer a variety of different yoga styles that are perfect for students of all skill levels and body types. Our offerings include vinyasa flow yoga (hot power and slow flow), core yoga flow, restorative yoga, and Silversneakers FLEX yoga.

Yoga Tree Yoga Studio
Yoga Tree Yoga Studio
Yoga Tree Yoga Studio was created in 2012, in the rural, NW town of Roseau, Minnesota.
Since Yoga Tree first opened, we have offered a sacred space that is non-competitive, non-judgmental and guided by warm and loving hearts.
Yoga is a mind-body-spirit practice, which shows us our divine path to our authentic -self. A regular Yoga practice offers a peaceful mind, a feeling of balance inside and out, and the release of stress.
Yoga Tree believes in working not only with our selves, but with our community to improve lives, and our planet. Yoga Tree is committed in striving to support each other in our personal growth through our yogic transformation and journey. We believe that yoga is for everyone, that it transforms everyone, and that yoga is for you.
Yoga Tree is a community of committed teachers who understand, from deep personal experience, the benefits and energy that Yoga brings. Our teachers, Desi Klimesh, Catherine Stenzel, Erika Peterson and Nora Heilman, bring their insight, dedication, years of practice and training, as well as openness, creativity and caring hearts to each and every class, creating an environment filled with learning, compassion, challenges, and fun.
We look forward to Practicing with you~ Namaste

Yoga Branch
Yoga Branch
At The Yoga Branch we share traditional yoga values with the heart of yoga being minimally as important as the poses themselves. The focus of the studio is on sharing yoga with the community, and guiding them to a better place, physically & mentally. There are workshops held by various teachers, as well as different levels of yoga classes through the week.
There is a Spring Equinox/Yoga mala held each year in March, where we welcome in the Spring with 108 Sun Salutations, the energy is amazing, and all profits from this event are donated locally.
The Yoga Branch also holds donation based classes, where the funds are put into scholarships to accommodate those in the community who need and want yoga but can not afford it.

Open Sole Yoga
Open Sole Yoga
Open Sole Yoga is located in Litchfield, in central MN. We offer a variety of class from Hatha to Ashtanga to Men's to Prenatal Yoga. All of our instructors are Registered Yoga Teachers with a passion for bringing yoga to all.

Tula Yoga Studio
Tula Yoga Studio
Located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, we are a Vinyasa-based studio that truly believes that yoga, like most things in life, is all about Balance.
Our approach to yoga is a harmony of traditional principles & philosophy combined with modern practicalities & accessibility. We aim to create classes that are a healthy mix of playfulness and exploration, while maintaining mindfulness and respect for the origins and traditions of yoga and attention to the anatomy and alignment of the body.
We believe that through this balance, yoga can help one to develop greater self-awareness, physical strength and flexibility, resulting in an overall sense of well-being and inner peace.
We want to empower our students to find their own path through yoga, to create their own unique balance, both while on the mat at TULA and off the mat into this wild world.

Azitala Yoga
Azitala Yoga
Hot yoga in Elk River, Every BODY, is welcome.

Yoga Bella
Yoga Bella
Located in the southwest metro area, Yoga Bella is open 7 days a week offering quality yoga instruction. All classes are variations of 3 basic styles: Gentle, Hatha and Vinyasa yoga. Beginners to experienced yogis find their home at Yoga Bella, as well connection to our friendly yoga community. All are welcome.

Rise Yoga
Rise Yoga
Rise Yoga is located in the heart of NE Minneapolis’ Arts District. Our beautiful and spacious studio is located in the Northrup King building, home to artists, creators, and makers of all kinds.
We offer a variety of yoga classes and have the skill and love to back up our pride in supporting a wide range of practitioners, from folks brand new to yoga to those with a well-seasoned yoga mat.
Come join us for class and meet the welcoming folks who call Rise their yoga home.

Yess Yoga Studio
Yess Yoga, located in Minneapolis, has brilliant and diverse yoga classes in a community atmosphere. Our ultimate goal is to help you discover a deeper sense of contentment and inner peace. The common thread, each teacher wants to share movement and mindfulness with everyone who enters the studio. We dare to call most of our yogaclasses “Intuitive Yoga”. We'd like to personally welcome you to our local and woman owned yoga studio, and invite you to any of our classes or events. All are welcome. Hope to practice with you soon. Namaste.

Blooma
Through yoga, Barre, Massage, Childbirth Education, Wellness and a community of support, Blooma, nurtures the mind, body and the spirit of Mom-to-be, new mamas, and their families.

180 Balance
180 balance is about finding the inner depth of who you are, nurturing your body and mind and transforming your future into what you want it to be. Your body and mind will be pushed as much as you need and you will absorb all the goodness of what the studio and instructors have to offer. 180 balance is where you learn to “be” and enjoy the moment and all it has to offer.

Awaken Vibrance
Awaken Vibrance is a full-service Holistic Health Center and Yoga Studio located in downtown Waseca, MN. We offer Yoga, Massage, Classes, Holistic Products & Gifts.
Our gorgeous restored building is a feast for the eyes and a haven for the spirit. Walk into our divine yoga space and breathe in its relaxing, zen atmosphere. It will delight and surprise you, like it has for many new visitors. We often hear, “WOW, this is incredible! I can’t believe we have this in Waseca!”
Founded by Tracy Jevning, Awaken Vibrance opened its doors on November 9, 2015. Tracy started the company to follow her passion of helping people with their health and wellness. Her primary goal is to help her clients achieve optimal health so they can look, feel, and BE their best!.

Yoga Sanctuary
Yoga Sanctuary is a non-profit, holistic studio, offering a place of respite and integration for your body, mind, and spirit.
We seek to teach safe, fun, relational yoga every day to EVERY BODY through classes, workshops, community outreach and our annual Karma Service + Yoga Trip to Guatemala. Our studio prices align with our intention to increase access, and limit obstacles, to holistic yoga.
The practice of yoga tells us that everything we need for peace and wholeness is already inside us, but living and practicing yoga is best done in the context of a supportive community. Together, we will work to ignite the transformative healing power of being fully present in our bodies and in our lives.

Green Frog Yoga
Green Frog Yoga is welcoming community of beginning and experienced yogi’s in Green Bay, Wisconsin. We offer a variety of different yoga styles that are perfect for students of all skill levels and body types. Our offerings include vinyasa flow yoga (hot power and slow flow), core yoga flow, restorative yoga, and Silversneakers FLEX yoga.

Yoga Tree Yoga Studio
Yoga Tree Yoga Studio was created in 2012, in the rural, NW town of Roseau, Minnesota.
Since Yoga Tree first opened, we have offered a sacred space that is non-competitive, non-judgmental and guided by warm and loving hearts.
Yoga is a mind-body-spirit practice, which shows us our divine path to our authentic -self. A regular Yoga practice offers a peaceful mind, a feeling of balance inside and out, and the release of stress.
Yoga Tree believes in working not only with our selves, but with our community to improve lives, and our planet. Yoga Tree is committed in striving to support each other in our personal growth through our yogic transformation and journey. We believe that yoga is for everyone, that it transforms everyone, and that yoga is for you.
Yoga Tree is a community of committed teachers who understand, from deep personal experience, the benefits and energy that Yoga brings. Our teachers, Desi Klimesh, Catherine Stenzel, Erika Peterson and Nora Heilman, bring their insight, dedication, years of practice and training, as well as openness, creativity and caring hearts to each and every class, creating an environment filled with learning, compassion, challenges, and fun.
We look forward to Practicing with you~ Namaste

Yoga Branch
At The Yoga Branch we share traditional yoga values with the heart of yoga being minimally as important as the poses themselves. The focus of the studio is on sharing yoga with the community, and guiding them to a better place, physically & mentally. There are workshops held by various teachers, as well as different levels of yoga classes through the week.
There is a Spring Equinox/Yoga mala held each year in March, where we welcome in the Spring with 108 Sun Salutations, the energy is amazing, and all profits from this event are donated locally.
The Yoga Branch also holds donation based classes, where the funds are put into scholarships to accommodate those in the community who need and want yoga but can not afford it.

Open Sole Yoga
Open Sole Yoga is located in Litchfield, in central MN. We offer a variety of class from Hatha to Ashtanga to Men's to Prenatal Yoga. All of our instructors are Registered Yoga Teachers with a passion for bringing yoga to all.

Tula Yoga Studio
Located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, we are a Vinyasa-based studio that truly believes that yoga, like most things in life, is all about Balance.
Our approach to yoga is a harmony of traditional principles & philosophy combined with modern practicalities & accessibility. We aim to create classes that are a healthy mix of playfulness and exploration, while maintaining mindfulness and respect for the origins and traditions of yoga and attention to the anatomy and alignment of the body.
We believe that through this balance, yoga can help one to develop greater self-awareness, physical strength and flexibility, resulting in an overall sense of well-being and inner peace.
We want to empower our students to find their own path through yoga, to create their own unique balance, both while on the mat at TULA and off the mat into this wild world.

Azitala Yoga
Hot yoga in Elk River, Every BODY, is welcome.

Yoga Bella
Located in the southwest metro area, Yoga Bella is open 7 days a week offering quality yoga instruction. All classes are variations of 3 basic styles: Gentle, Hatha and Vinyasa yoga. Beginners to experienced yogis find their home at Yoga Bella, as well connection to our friendly yoga community. All are welcome.

Rise Yoga
Rise Yoga is located in the heart of NE Minneapolis’ Arts District. Our beautiful and spacious studio is located in the Northrup King building, home to artists, creators, and makers of all kinds.
We offer a variety of yoga classes and have the skill and love to back up our pride in supporting a wide range of practitioners, from folks brand new to yoga to those with a well-seasoned yoga mat.
Come join us for class and meet the welcoming folks who call Rise their yoga home.
Own a yoga studio? Partner with the Minneapolis Yoga Conference to receive a pass to the conference, your logo on our website, a mention on our social media profiles and the option to purchase our "studio ten-packs".
We partner with companies and organizations to enhance the experience of conference-goers, while also providing valuable name, brand and company exposure for our sponsors. Check out our 2019 Sponsors below!

Zebra Yoga
Zebra is a Minnesota based company that provides flooring, studio equipment, financing and more for yoga studios to help them open and grow their businesses. At the conference, Zebra brings over 8,000 Sq. Ft. of flooring (!) allowing participants to have a studio like experience.
http://zebrayoga.com/
Northwestern Health Sciences University
At the conference NWHSU sponsors our props area, allowing the conference to offer blankets, blocks, mats and straps to conference participants. Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU) prepares the next generation of healthcare professionals to deliver and advance health care. We offer programs in acupuncture and Chinese medicine, massage therapy, nutrition and chiropractic education. Proudly cultivating a culture of collaboration, respect and service, NWHSU strives to create a healthier world. Live, learn, serve healthy!
https://www.nwhealth.edu/
NE Wellness
NE Wellness provides acupuncture sessions free of charge to conference participants! Big Breath in, NE Wellness is calling you to be your best self. A community acupuncture & wellness center in NE Mpls offering affordable and accessible healthcare to all.
https://www.newellnessmpls.com
Tula Yoga & Wellness
Tula Yoga & Wellness and Yoga North have joined together in a collaboration to bring private, one on one yoga sessions to conference-goers. Experience first-hand the benefits of private yoga instruction, learn how it's different than both group classes and a self practice, by take the opportunity to work one on one with an instructor with sessions available all day Saturday and Sunday. Tula Yoga and Wellness is a donation-based studio located in St. Paul. We offer yoga and movement classes, transformational workshops, professional teacher trainings, yoga therapy sessions, bodywork, and energy work. We host the Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute's 200 hr, 500 hr teacher trainings and SomaYoga Intensives. With two studio spaces and several skilled teachers, we have something for everyone. All are welcome!
http://www.tulayogawellness.com
Yoga North
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness have joined together in a collaboration to bring private, one on one yoga sessions to conference-goers. Experience first-hand the benefits of private yoga instruction, learn how it's different than both group classes and a self practice, by take the opportunity to work one on one with an instructor with sessions available all day Saturday and Sunday. Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute (ISYI) with home sites in Duluth & St Paul, Minnesota is known for our Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy Certification. We are honored to be to be one of only 35 schools worldwide to hold accreditation from the International Association of Yoga Therapist (IAYT) for our Yoga Therapy Program. In our workshops, intensives, and trainings we use a progressive approach, blending SomaYoga and therapeutic yoga, bridging these techniques back to classic Hatha postures. Our curriculum is also steeped in yogic philosophy, including the 8 limbs of yoga and sacred text, as well as Yoga's sister science of Ayurveda.
http://www.yoganorthduluth.com
Tula Software
Tula Software produces, designs and directs the Minneapolis Yoga Conference. A complete software system designed to help independent yoga studios succeed, Tula Software promotes itself by investing in the community we serve by producing this conference, and sponsoring others, in lieu of buying ads on Facebook, Google, Twitter and Instagram. Know someone that owns a yoga studio? Be sure to tell them about Tula Software!
https://tulasoftware.comDo you have a product or service you want to promote, that can also enhance the experience of our conference-goers? Get in touch with us to talk about custom sponsorship options!

We partner with companies whose products and services are congruent with the experience we create for conference-goers, and we're thrilled to introduce our 2019 Vendors! If you're interested in being a vendor at the 2019 conference, please get in touch!

Roots to Stars
Roots to stars creates custom one of a kind mala prayer beads in relationship to your chakras. Each are made with 108 gemstones, hand-tied, and charged with mantra and reiki. Free Chakra readings available at the booth. Misha, owner of roots to stars is a reiki master/teacher, intuitive and life coach in Minnesota.
http://www.rootstostars.com
Yog Sadhna
Browse our products and support your journey on the path of Yoga and Ayurveda. For your body, mind and soul - Exclusively formulated and designed by Indu Arora.
https://yogsadhna.com
Inspire Life Chiropractic Center
At Inspire Life, we stand for a world where you health is inspired by CHOICE. We help adults, families, and kiddos in our community get to the root cause of their health challenges rather than masking the effects. With our advanced, gentle, brain-based approach to care, we help people access more peace and freedom in their bodymind, and in turn LIFE.
https://www.inspirelifechirocenter.com
Bali Malas
Bali Malas was founded in 2006, and is proud to have been the first company to bring awareness of these sacred seeds to the West. Many have since followed suit, but few can attain the same quality of beads and care in production as Bali Malas. All of our designs incorporate the use of authentic sacred seeds that are grown and harvested by the families that have tended to the rudraksha trees for centuries. In breaking with tradition they have given our founder in Bali, the only western woman ever, their blessing to create from their labors. We offer pristine, sustainably harvested, sacred and rare rudraksha seeds to seekers in the West who might not otherwise have exposure to the profound, healing qualities of this auspicious seed.
http://www.balimalas.com
Zyia Activewear: Kim Motschenbacher
ZYIA Active is an active wear lifestyle brand. It is also a culture that believes in embracing activity with excitement, vigor and delight. We feel that pushing your body and mind is easier and more fun with friends and family.
http://www.myzyia.com/kimmotschenbacher
Buzz Frenzy
Buzz Frenzy allows businesses to easily and economically tap into world-class, high-octane digital marketing. Businesses reach customers right where they are, tapping the effectiveness and deep connections possible via social media. For a set monthly budget a business posts to Facebook like normal and Buzz Frenzy automates the rest.
https://buzzfrenzy.com
Shangri-la Crafts & Gifts
Shangri-La Crafts and Gifts brings you genuine Tibetan singing bowls made by small artisan families in Himalayan region of Nepal. All our bowls are carefully selected by our experts in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tibetan singing bowls are so much more than just musical instruments, they are for centuries used in meditation, deep relaxation, mindfulness and for various other purposes. They have been scientifically proven to put our brains into more restful states. In fact, Tibetan singing bowls are one of the best meditation tools.
http://shangrilacraftsandgifts.com
Moxie Malas
Peacefully Untamed. Crystal healing and aromatherapy jewelry created as a wearable affirmation of the energy within. Each piece is hand made in Minnesota with genuine stones and crystals and has its own meaning and intention.
https://www.moxiemalas.com
MaxandJane
MaxandJane produce beautiful botanical Skincare from their farm in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Our formulas are truly pure, exquisite in their performance, and have the most wonderful yet subtle aromatherapy. We will be sampling, selling, and have a special discount for conference attendees. Please stop by.
https://www.maxandjane.com
The Yoga Center Retreat
Whether you are looking to start a yoga practice, train to share the teachings of yoga, make changes in your life or simply get quiet and relax – we have the classes, programs and events for you. The Yoga Center Retreat specializes in traditional yoga and offers the most comprehensive Yoga Alliance Registered 230/300 Yoga Training Programs in the Twin Cities based on curriculum carefully developed over 20 years and taught by a rich variety of highly respected and trained faculty.
https://www.theyogacenterretreat.com
HAVEN Collective
A modern favorite in the Yoga wear world - HAVEN was founded by Yoga Instructor and former David Yurman Creative Director Tracy Squillante. Designed, Created and Sewn in America with eco conscious fabrics.
https://haven-collective.com
Big Raven Yoga Mats
Big Raven Yoga Mats was founded with the goal of merging the two great loves of founder, Joleen Emery: yoga and art. It took two years of iterative development and countless failed prototypes, but Big Raven Yoga has successfully built a product for yogis by yogis that doesn’t sacrifice quality of the mat or the functional artwork it displays. All of Big Raven’s unique artwork is created in-house by women with a feminist point of view. The six core collections of mats range from vintage and retro to floral and feminine to passionate and powerful. Each mat is made from a luxurious microfiber suede that feels blanket-soft and prevents slippage during practice. Big Raven Yoga Mats offers beautifully designed yoga mats that allow each yogi to express themselves through the foundation of their practice: their mat. Big Raven Yoga Mats are the perfect blend of art and engineering, with a grippy microfiber surface bonded to a 100% biodegradable natural tree rubber base. All mats are machine washable in front-loading washing machines. It’s your yoga towel, your yoga mat, and your inspiration.
https://bigravenyoga.com
Miracles For Peace
We provide group energy healing sessions to heal cultural issues like: Releasing Trauma from Prejudice & Discrimination; Slavery; the Holocaust; Race Supremacy; War Trauma; Poverty Consciousness & Homelessness. Energy Healing is a way to release the traumas and negative beliefs held in the body and subconscious mind whether the cause is from your own past history or inherited from ancestors. We raise funds to provide these group healing events by selling our Peace Candle- 100% soy wax, cotton wick with nine words of Peace on the glass container in either a Rose (representing Divine Feminine) or Silver (representing Divine Masculine) print color. Sacred numbers were used in the word design and they are infused with Reiki energy. They are wrapped in tissue and in a gift box. Purchase individually or by the case- $15 each (it’s a tax-deductible donation).
https://www.miraclesforpeace.com
Hyatt Regency in Downtown Minneapolis
1300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Book your hotel room now!
Friday: March 22, 2019
9:00am - 9:45am
Registration Opened: Welcome to the 2019 MYC!
10:00am - 11:30am
Opening Ceremony with Faith Hunter ~ We are Love

Within the chaos of daily life, we often forget the power of human connection. Through a heart-opening blend of experiences, Faith Hunter will encourage you to breathe, listen and trust. The intention of the opening ceremony is to shed superficial layers, and align to your highest self through connecting. Be prepared to move, laugh and feel the bliss of community infused with LOVE!
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Accessibility, Asana, and the Subtle Body
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Matthew Sanford
Asana is accessible to every one, but physical bodies and their abilities vary greatly. The good news is that the experience of the subtle body is...

Soul Family-The Power of Yoga Friendships
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Marni Sclaroff & Mindy Bez
In the Buddhist Tradition, Sangha, or spiritual community, is one of the central pillars of support for the practice. Our friends become...

EMYoga Manifestation
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Lauren Walker
How do you create what you want in your life? Do you really know what you really want? Finally learn the Secret behind the Secret. In this 4-hour workshop and practice you will dive...

Deep Roots Intensive for People of Color
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
James Orione
What would liberation look like without the constraints of oppressive systems? What desires could you manifest in this state of freedom? What would it...

Yoga of Nine Emotions-Rasa Sadhana
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Indu Arora
(This intensive is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) As per the ancient Tantric tradition and Vedas - The Sanskrit word Rasa means...

Creative Sequencing for Professional Yoga Instructors
Friday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Rhiannon Kirby
This workshop has been designed to help the new to seasoned, yoga teacher or yoga professional...
Saturday: March 23, 2019
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am

Energy Medicine Yoga: The Basics
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Lauren Walker
Learn what Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga) is, how it works, why it works and how you can include it into your daily practice to transform...

Presence Time: How to wake up as a ROARRIOR
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Leo Rising
LeoRising is an auric field amplifier, cosmic diviner & mystic yoga teacher who specializes in the gift of Presence. He will teach you a 4 part...

Ayurvedic Nutrition + Yogic Diet
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Indu Arora
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) The modern definition of diet has become limited to vegan, raw, organic, vegetarian...

Deepen your Connection: Exploration through your Senses
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Faith Hunter & Kristi Taylor
Faith Hunter and Kristi Taylor join together and invite you to nestle in for a 4.5 hour intensive for women...

Intelligent Touch and Presence in Adjustments and Partnered Work
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Nathan Paulus
Touch is both a fundamental and a complex way that we interact with the world and share energy with...

One on One Private Yoga
Saturday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm

Exploration of Sound and Resonance
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Calley Bliss
Resonance - in a literal sense - is the act of vibratory motion within a physical encasement. In our culture, we commonly talk about resonance...

Emotional Balance with EMYOGA
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Alyson Iannicelli
Unprocessed emotions are believed to be the #1 cause of dis-ease in the body. Our emotions rapidly change moment to moment and in a fast...

Anatomy, Asana and Adjustments
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Tanya Boigenzahn
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) Join Tanya in this experiential, engaging mini-breakdown of the psoas...

Expand Your Teaching with Techniques and Tools for Privates Sessions
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Molly McManus & Ann Maxwell
Learn simple techniques from SomaYoga Methodology to help serve your students in private sessions...

Deepen your Connection: Exploration through your Senses cont'd
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Faith Hunter & Kristi Taylor
Faith Hunter and Kristi Taylor join together and invite you to nestle in for a 4.5 hour intensive for women...

One on One Private Yoga
Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Awakening Kundalini
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Nicole Nardone
Kundalini is the primal, raw evolutionary force. It is rising in the world, in the earth, and in our bodies. As this force rises, it transforms everything it touches. It heals...

Yoga & Racial Justice: Deeper Dive
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
James Orione
The deeper dive is a continuation of Yoga and Racial justice. This workshop builds on concept of spiritual bypassing and explores how implicit...

Integrating Medical, Yoga Therapy & Ayurvedic Assessment
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Avanti Kumar Singh, MD
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) While the biomedical model is excellent for acute, crisis...

Yoga for Equanimity: Steadiness and Ease in Turbulent Times
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Ben Vincent
Change is the nature of the world we live in, yet it is the nature of humans to seek that which last. All too often...

ELEVATE: Vinyasa from Surviving to Thriving
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Nick Bez
Regardless of your background or baggage, yoga is one of the oldest and most beneficial practices for elevating you from the experience of...

One on One Private Yoga
Saturday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

The Art of Letting Go: Exploring Vairagya (detachment)
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Carly Brown
Dive deep into exploring one of Yoga’s central concepts and one of our hardest things to do: Letting Go...

An Introduction to Trauma, PTSD, and Yoga
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Matthew Sanford
Trauma and post-traumatic stress lie on a continuum. Everyone experiences it in one form or another. Luckily for most of us, it does not profoundly...

Embody Love: A Transformational Program for ALL Women
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Tiffany Denny
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) “Our feelings about our body can either liberate us...

Live Your Authentic Vibrant Life!
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Ann Blackburn w/Dan Blackburn
Join Ann & Dan Blackburn as they guide you through an exploration of your passions, and life purpose. Use your courage, curiosity...

Self Healing with Ayurveda: The Medicine is inside you
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Avanti Kumar Singh, MD
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) Healing is widely thought to be something that...

One on One Private Yoga
Saturday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Sunday: March 24, 2019
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am

Yoga and Your Guts
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Tiffany Denny
More and more, we hear about the role gut health plays in our overall wellbeing. This workshop will include some lecture on the “how” and “why” behind centering a practice...

Chakra Awakening: Body and Soul
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Faith Hunter
Designed to ignite the physical body, stimulate the mental realm, and awaken the soul, Faith will guide you through a transformational...

Yogic Meditation for Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Ben Vincent
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) For thousands of years, meditation (dhyana) has...

EMYOGA: Stress Reset
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Mollie Silver
Feel like you’re stuck in a rut? Would you like to release old patterns that are no longer serving you? Want to find more joy in your life? Our energy body has a system, Triple Warmer (TW)...

The Art of Conscious Creation
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Kristi Taylor
Direct your intentions towards harvesting the fruit of your creative energies. Together we will journey deep into the quantum world of...

One on One Private Yoga
Sunday, 8:00am - 10:00am
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm

The Metamorphosis Get Down: Afro Beat Yoga
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Leo Rising
Formally “the metamorphosis getdown” LeoRising loves a deeply sweaty and body empowering asana practice. This will be offered. But...

EMYoga Wisdom: Aging gracefully
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Lauren Walker
The goal is to die young, as old as you possibly can! As we age, things change in both our bodies and our minds. We have an opportunity, with EMYoga...

Yoga for People Impacted by Substance and Behavioral Addictions
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Nikki Myers
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) This session presents a framework for addiction relapse...

The Art of Making Time: Untying The Knots That Keep Us Bound
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Carly Brown
Is life too busy? Is there no time for self-care? Waiting for that vacation so you can finally relax? ‘The Art of Making...

Tantric Yoga Demystified
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Tanya Boigenzahn
Ready to expand, grow and shine more brilliantly in a sustainable way? Tantra is an ancient worldview that supports experiencing life as a gift and seeing the Divine in everything. In this...

One on One Private Yoga
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Developing a Self Practice
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Rhiannon Kirby
Have you ever tried to do a self practice but your dog, kids, partner, lint under the couch have you distracted? You aren't alone. In this workshop, we will dive deep...

Shava Asana and Yoga Nidra as therapy
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Indu Arora
(This workshop is part of the Yoga Therapy Track.) Learn about the 4 stages of Yoga Nidra and the role of Shavasana in gaining deeper...

Going Beyond Asana in Your Teaching
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Molly McManus & Ann Maxwell
Using the Maps and Models of Yoga to Enhance your Services.Yoga is so much more than Asana and being able to translate and use all of the...

Compassionate or Co- dependent: The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Nikki Myers
Compassion is the heart of sustainable service. Literally translated ‘suffering with’, compassion goes beyond...

One on One Private Yoga
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness
Experience the benefits and receive individualized attention with a private one on one yoga session! Sponsored and lead by Yoga North and Tula Yoga & Wellness...
Sunday, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Closing Ceremony with Kristi Taylor

Hang on to the lessons learned and inspiration from the weekend, leave behind the things you intend to let go of, and join Kristi Taylor at the closing ceremony to seal the weekend.