Christian Yoga Expo 2024
Be part of us for a tremendous in-person occasion, the Christian Yoga Expo 2024! It’s occurring in Columbus, OH, USA, and also you received’t wish to miss it. Immerse your self in a singular expertise that mixes the bodily follow of yoga with a non secular deal with Christian rules.
Uncover a harmonious mix of physique, thoughts, and soul as you take part in numerous yoga classes led by professional instructors. Whether or not you’re a newbie or a seasoned yogi, there’s one thing for everybody. Interact in mild stretches, invigorating flows, and stress-free meditations, all infused with Christian values.
Join with like-minded people who share your religion and curiosity in yoga. Discover vendor cubicles providing a variety of yoga-related merchandise, from mats and equipment to books and attire. Take the chance to deepen your data and understanding of each Christianity and yoga.
On the Christian Yoga Expo 2024, we prioritize making a welcoming and inclusive setting. All are welcome, no matter age, health degree, or earlier yoga expertise. Come as you might be and go away feeling refreshed, renewed, and impressed.
Mark your calendars, and make sure to be a part of us on the Christian Yoga Expo 2024 in Columbus, OH. It’s an occasion you received’t wish to miss!
This Schedule Could Change:
Christian Yoga Journal – Expo 2024- Friday, October eleventh, 2024
Crown Stage Talking Lineup
09:30 Amy Kuscsik – Yoga Remedy for Trauma: He Can Repair You. No Actually, He Can
- Discover tips on how to deliver Christ into your courses and with purchasers once they don’t consider.
10:30 Virginia Norman – Pranayama: Each Breath is the Title of God
- This presentation is the fruit of a collaboration between myself and my husband, the place we discover the connection between breath and life from theological and organic standpoints. This all began with a breath prayer throughout a yoga class, however it has led to a deeper exploration of how God sustains us each second of our lives and a extra profound appreciation of the indescribable creativity and great thing about God!
11:30 Brooke Beardall – Imaginative and prescient vs. Manifesting
- On this speak, we’ll discover the distinction between manifesting and visioning. In a tradition that guarantees all of the secrets and techniques to life are present in manifesting, we’ll have a look at a Biblical view of Imaginative and prescient and Christ’s invitation to co-create our lives.
1:00 Jonnie Goodmanson – The Testimony Written On Your Physique
- Each expertise you’ve had is written on the tissues of your physique! In case your physique is the paper, your central nervous system is within the pen, and your hormones are within the ink. Let’s speak about how this story issues and the way it may be used to set others free!
2:00 Jody Thomae – Let All That I Am: Entire Physique Worship
- With Psalm 103:1 in thoughts (With my entire coronary heart, with my entire life, and with my innermost being, I bow in marvel and love earlier than you, the holy God! YAHWEH, you might be my soul’s celebration. TPT), we’ll transfer to a few of our favourite reward & worship songs, utilizing interpretive signal language, postures of worship, and easy motions and motion. Come worship and play together with your fellow “Reward Mates” as we worship with our entire selves! All ranges and skills.
3:00 Brooke Beardall – Energy Vs. Drive
- Exploring Christ, the God of the ‘nice alternate’ and studying tips on how to commerce the FORCE of our human situation for the POWER of our human design.
4:00 Beverly Steiger – Christian Yoga for 12-step applications (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Learn to mix Christian yoga, Scripture, and Yoga philosophy with 12-step conferences for a holistic strategy to restoration.
Coronary heart Stage Lineup
09:30 Megan Graf – The Sporty Yogi (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Many come to yoga to destress, relieve ache, or as a result of the physician instructed them to strive it. For athletes, it’s typically totally different. They wish to recuperate sooner and enhance efficiency…of their sport, not their follow. Generally, they solely present up as a result of their coach requires it. It’s as much as us to run with that, create it for them, and, within the course of, information them to a love of the follow and all it has to supply.
10:30 Dr. Donna Jagielski – Christian Yoga Programming for Colleges
- This session will start by offering an outline of tips on how to start providing a yoga program or workshop in a Christian religion college. Following the overview, we’ll discover tips on how to modify kids’s yoga applications to handle Christian rules, embrace scripture, and modify poses and sequences to basic Bible tales. This session will probably be lively, hands-on, upbeat, and interesting.
11:30 Mindy Heimer – Retreat Planning 101
- Have you ever needed to guide a yoga retreat however haven’t the slightest concept of the place to start out? We’ll stroll you thru Retreat Planning 101 and canopy what to search for in a venue, setting your finances, theme creation, inventive methods to work round obstacles, and extra!
1:00 Mia Neuenhoff – Reinventing the Wheel: Carry Enjoyable & Depth to Your Yoga Lessons (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- An introduction to incorporating the yoga wheel into your courses and its use past backbends.
2:00 Rebecca Smiddy – Yoga and Habit Restoration
3:00 Doran Richards – New Mercies in Maternity & Postpartum (1hr YA CEC)
- All of the bodily methods are altering and doing such dynamic work to construct and develop a child. This workshop talks about tips on how to fight feelings of worry that might hinder you from experiencing the part of womanhood with pleasure and thanksgiving. We’ll go over some in style postures to assist throughout being pregnant and past. We’ll cowl liminal areas and the way being pregnant and postpartum can permit us time to step right into a threshold and keep longing for what’s to return. There’s pleasure within the morning!
4:00 Mindy Heimer – Yoga Outdoors the Field
- Everyone knows that we (people) are God’s creation, however have you ever ever skilled how you’re a half OF creation? You don’t need to reside in probably the most majestic locations to come across nature – you merely want a inventive plan. On this workshop, we’ll speak about how being in nature modifications you for the higher, and also you’ll go away with progressive methods to information your group within the nice outside.
5:00 Megan Graf – Braveness to Fly (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- This can be a likelihood to step into our directions to not worry, a possibility to find what it’s to fly. We’ll chat, sit in scripture, and take to the mat with the braveness given us by Christ as we fly into arm balances and inversions.
Root Stage Lineup
09:30 Janelle Lanier – Balancing Chakras with God Workshop( Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Step right into a nurturing setting and be a part of us to softly discover chakras within the gentle of our Christian religion. On this workshop, we’ll gently delve into the divine interaction between chakras and the presence of God, incorporating yoga, meditation, prayer, scripture, non secular practices, and journaling. You’ll achieve a deeper understanding of what chakras are, why it’s helpful to steadiness them inside the context of our relationship with God, and the way to take action in a method that aligns together with your Christian beliefs. Uncover sensible insights into recognizing imbalances, aligning with divine will, and experiencing holistic therapeutic. Via biblical truths, you’ll discover God’s design and goal for our lives whereas studying sensible methods to steadiness every chakra, all inside the comforting embrace of your religion. Make the most of this chance to embark on a sacred journey of non secular progress and alignment with the divine.
10:30 Leah Lynn – A Biblical Mannequin of Stewardship for the Physique
- Throughout this speak, Leah will deal with the character of wellness and stewardship of our our bodies from a biblical perspective whereas incorporating Ayurvedic rules, together with diet, the circadian rhythm, and natural drugs.
11:30 Rebecca Smiddy – Adventures in Opening and Proudly owning A Studio
1:00 Pam Milner – Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Ayurveda is the sister science of yoga. Study the basics of Ayurveda and tips on how to incorporate this historic science into your yoga follow and each day life. Utilizing Ayurveda alongside our yoga might help us obtain concord and steadiness in our our bodies and minds.
2:00 Beverly Steiger – Forms of Prayer (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Dallas Willard as soon as stated, “Prayer is a phrase that describes a relationship between two individuals who care about one another.” This workshop will describe totally different postures for prayer and differing kinds, from Breath Prayer to Conversational Prayer to Intercessory Prayer to Labyrinth Prayer and extra.
3:00 Megan Graf – Warriors for Christ (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- We reside in a damaged, messy, difficult world. Every day, we now have to armor as much as survive. This can be a likelihood to take a deep have a look at a number of postures that discover their method onto a big proportion of flows. Why can we do them? Title them as we did. What do they do for us? Simply how do they hook up with God’s armor as we take them off our mere and out into life?
4:00 Janelle Lanier – Inventive Cueing Workshop (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Be part of us for an empowering workshop to spice up your confidence as a yoga trainer. If you end up utilizing the identical cues for every pose and tips on how to develop into extra inventive and change issues up, this workshop is for you. Discover foundational and superior cues, mastering breath-based cueing and empowering language. Study to command the room confidently and exactly, guiding college students by their follow with readability and intention. Dive into cueing sensation and embodiment, unlocking the ability of aware motion. Depart feeling empowered and able to lead impactful and transformative yoga courses.
5:00 Doran Richards – Energy of Phrases We Converse (1hr YA CEC)
- Phrases can bless or curse, they usually have significance in all we do as ambassadors for Christ Jesus. Come and study the relevance of our phrases and the life they’ll deliver.
Christian Yoga Journal – Expo 2024 – Saturday, October twelfth, 2024
Crown Stage Talking Lineup
09:00 Amy Kuscsik – Meditation for Trauma and Past: The Tortured Yogi’s Division
- You’ll be able to write out a category circulation or have it off the cuff, however writing a meditation has you want a deer in headlights. Study the sensible solution to write and recite a meditation.
10:00 Virginia Norman – SOZO Good: Saved, Healed, and Delivered!
- God doesn’t cease at merely saving us from hell. He exhibits His compassion and love for His creation by therapeutic and delivering us. What does it imply to be “sozoed”? How can we expertise this inside therapeutic? How can we incorporate SOZO into our yoga follow and put it to use in our courses as instructors? This presentation will study how we join with every Particular person of the Trinity and supply ideas and sensible instruments for fostering inside therapeutic in ourselves and our college students/purchasers.
11:00 Jody Thomae – Isaiah 52:7 The BEaUtiful Toes of the Gospel Spreader
- Diving into Isaiah 52:7, whereas specializing in the ft, we’ll discover what it means to unfold the excellent news of the gospel of Jesus, each ON and OFF the mat. What truths should we stand in? The place is God calling us into new locations of journey? This isn’t about being an evangelist or missionary; it’s about you being a Christian who spreads the aroma of Christ wherever you go. Be impressed to face and stroll in your future because the BEaUtiful aroma of Jesus! Carry your Bible.
12:00 Brooke Beardall – Unique Design – Who’re we, and what are we residing for?
- Who’re you, and what are you residing for? Irrespective of who you might be, the place you might be from, your age, ethnicity, schooling, faith, or fatherland, each human has requested these two common questions: who’re you, and what are you residing for? On this speak, we’ll discover the biblical distinction between our human design and our human situation, study the “little t” truths of our human expertise, and focus on the “large T” truths about our human existence.
1:00 Beverly Steiger – Myofascial launch and yoga (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Study myofascial launch methods mixed with mindfulness and breath consciousness to assist launch stress and pressure, nourish connective tissues, and reset the nervous system. This class is for all ranges.
2:00 Brittany Edie – Yoga for Anxiousness and Stress Administration
3:00 Pam Milner – Shield & Transfer (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Our lymphatic system is a important a part of our immune system and is taken into account the inner spring cleansing crew. Create a yoga follow that enhances the motion of lymph, achieve an understanding of what the lymph does and tips on how to keep wholesome by the follow of yoga.
4:00 MaryAnn Sander – Discover What You Discover – A Catalyst for Profound Change
- Think about an extended street that appears to go on ceaselessly – it’s deeply rutted and worn, but it appears to be like like the one path…or is it?? Do you’ve college students or purchasers who’re on this metaphorical street? Or perhaps you are feeling caught in deeply ingrained ruts of physique, thoughts, spirit…On this related session, we’ll transfer past the fundamental ideas of commentary and consciousness to extra complete practices of nonjudgmental noticing and aware responding, which might result in profound change. Let’s assist others and ourselves get out of our life ruts and onto the sleek, scenic street of flourishing!
5:00 Dr. Donna Jagielski – Christian Household Yoga (Intergenerational Yoga)
- This session will deal with tips on how to construct an at-home follow that may be modified and adjusted to offer inclusion and accessibility to all members of the family. A number of the modifications we’ll discover will probably be chair yoga and utilizing primary family props to extend accessibility and inclusion. This session will draw upon scripture that emphasizes household connections and intergenerational inclusion. This session will probably be an lively, hands-on, upbeat, and interesting session.
6:00: Closing Presentation / Raffel / Prayer
Coronary heart Stage Lineup
09:00 Mindy Heimer – The Reel Life on Social Media
- Oh, social media. Everyone knows tips on how to scroll and devour social media, however what about creating content material that captivates, invitations others in, and connects us to our group? If you happen to’re feeling caught or such as you don’t know the place to start out with regards to content material creation, you’re not alone! Study some sensible ideas and share inventive concepts with others as we fill our social media administration software belt with all the appropriate instruments!
10:00 Beverly Steiger – Religious Disciplines workshop (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- This workshop will introduce you to the Religious Disciplines as defined in Richard Foster’s, The Religious Disciplines Handbook.
11:00 Mia Neuenhoff – The Accessible Meditation Follow: Restorative Sound Baths (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- The advantages of introducing sound into your follow and its affect on thoughts, physique, and soul.
12:00 Pam Milner – Somatics: The follow of self-inquiry (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- What’s Somatic Yoga, and the way is it totally different from our on a regular basis follow on the mat? We’ll study its advantages and focus on tips on how to incorporate somatic motion into your yoga courses.
1:00 Lisa Stavrakas – Religion and Fasting
- Have you ever at all times needed to quick? Is there an space the place you wish to submit extra totally to God? The place does God wish to rework you? After we quick and deal with God and His phrase, transformation occurs; readability occurs. All through scripture, we examine people who fasted to attract close to to God. 2 Peter 2:19 “Persons are slaves to no matter has mastered them.” For some, meals has develop into our grasp. Fasting is basically giving up meals (or one thing else) for a interval to focus your ideas on God. Lisa will information you thru secure fasting, in addition to scientific and historic Ayurvedic knowledge of what occurs to our our bodies after we take part in a quick. Cleaning units the stage for the physique to naturally and step by step let go of the toxins that might have an effect on our Religious connection, feelings, psychological readability, and immunity.
2:00 Virginia Norman – The Absolute Yumminess of Yin
- Why is yin yoga “yummy”? How can one thing so “easy” be so arduous? You’ll know the reply to those questions by the tip of this presentation! I’ll deal with the bodily, energetic, emotional, and non secular advantages of yin and methods to include this tremendous nourishing antidote to our very yang existence into our private practices and our instructing.
3:00 Beverly Steiger – To Contact or To not Contact? (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Be part of us for this Spirit led contact and changes workshop the place we’ll focus on the distinction between alignemnt-led changes and spirit-led contact. Study the distinction between assists and changes in addition to sensible strategies for offering them with effectivness and effectivity in your yoga courses.
4:00 Mindy Heimer – SUP Yoga – Ought to I Add a Floating Studio?
- Are you in search of an thrilling new choice to supply your yoga college students? In case you have entry to an attractive physique of water, think about taking your follow to the following degree with SUP Yoga (yoga on a Stand Up Paddleboard). Be part of us for a session to discover whether or not this distinctive strategy is best for you. We’ll cowl all the pieces from the fundamentals of SUP Yoga and the required gear to the coaching necessities and extra!
Root Stage Lineup
09:00 Nicole Fisher Draft – Main with LOVE
- Nicole will share how she turned her ardour into her goal by being obedient and letting Jesus take the wheel.
10:00 PENDING YOGA CLASS
11:00 Janelle Lanier – Superior Cueing and Sequencing Workshop (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Step right into a world of innovation and transformation with our immersive workshop. Journey past the fundamentals as you grasp superior cueing and sequencing methods, infusing your courses with creativity and depth. Discover the artwork of anatomy, biomechanics, and efficient cueing methods, diving deeper than ever earlier than. Integrating breathwork, embodiment cueing, and crafting distinctive actions, and watch as your instructing takes flight right into a realm of limitless potentialities.
12:00 Karisha Gillenwater – Everybody Deserves Yoga
- Yoga is just not a “one measurement matches all” routine. This workshop will look just like a category however slower as every pose is damaged down to handle making courses accessible. The main target will probably be on these with limitations, together with age-related challenges, disabilities, and bigger our bodies.
1:00 Janelle Lanier – 7 Yoga Sequencing Strategies (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Dive into the guts of yoga sequencing with our immersive workshop designed to ignite your creativity and elevate your instructing. Delve into seven distinct strategies of sequencing, every crafted to infuse your courses with creativity and pleasure. Be part of us for an unforgettable expertise as you study to construction inventive yoga sequences that encourage and rework. Elevate your instructing and unleash your inventive potential with our professional steering.
2:00 Kristin Daubenmeyer, Nakia Reeves, & Liz Hansen – Creating Neighborhood in Your Studio
- Come be a part of us for a dialog in regards to the components contributing to making a vibrant group inside a studio during which people really feel inspired and supported of their yoga follow and religion.
3:00 Mia Neuenhoff – Yoga Nidra Via the Christian Lens (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- Discover the scientifically supported follow of Yoga Nidra with the profound good thing about inviting Christ into the self-discipline.
4:00 Brittany Edie – Praying in colour + restorative yoga
Workshop Stage Lineup
09:00 Leah Lynn – Workshop: Discovering True Identification in Christ
- Throughout this meditative yoga class and workshop, attendees will pay attention and permit the Holy Spirit to talk over them. This workshop will facilitate wholesome attitudes about who we’re and who God says we’re in Christ.
10:00 Jonnie Goodmanson – Yoga Class – Degree 1 Move
11:00 Donna – Yoga Class – Mild Move – To Yin and Again
12:00 Kristen Daubenmeyer – Your Physique Is Good
- We’ll discover using yoga for physique appreciation and selling wholesome motion. We’ll focus on ideas and instruments to remind us that our our bodies are blessings from a great God; they shouldn’t be disadvantaged, criticized, or ashamed.
1:00 Leah Lynn – Surrendering on the mat
- Throughout this mild yoga class and workshop, attendees will study to actively give up their minds and our bodies to listen to from the Lord and stay in His presence. This workshop will assist attendees implement this follow in each day life.
2:00 – 4:00 Cindy Chiarello – Rooted: The Science of Security and Connection (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)
- The neurobiology of attachment and trauma, and an outline of polyvagal concept and its correspondence to psychology (Maslow) and yogic ideas (gunas, koshas chakras, 8 limbs). We’ll see how all of those level to God’s design in us for love and secure connection and focus on how we are able to use yogic practices to create an area for rising a way of security and company in ourselves and our college students.
