The Special FREE Expo 2024 Issue

Christian Yoga Expo 2024

Be a part of us for an incredible in-person occasion, the Christian Yoga Expo 2024! It’s taking place in Columbus, OH, USA, and also you gained’t need to miss it. Immerse your self in a novel expertise that mixes the bodily follow of yoga with a religious deal with Christian ideas.

Uncover a harmonious mix of physique, thoughts, and soul as you take part in varied yoga classes led by professional instructors. Whether or not you’re a newbie or a seasoned yogi, there’s one thing for everybody. Have interaction 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 information 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 stage, 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 gained’t need 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 convey Christ into your lessons and with shoppers 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 fantastic thing about God!

11:30 Brooke Beardall – Imaginative and prescient vs. Manifesting

• On this discuss, we are going to 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 are going to 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 gotten 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 discuss how this story issues and the way it may be used to set others free!

2:00 Jody Thomae – Let All That I Am: Complete 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 surprise and love earlier than you, the holy God! YAHWEH, you might be my soul’s celebration. TPT), we are going to 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. Pressure

• Exploring Christ, the God of the ‘nice trade’ 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 packages (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)

• Learn to mix Christian yoga, Scripture, and Yoga philosophy with 12-step conferences for a holistic method 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 advised them to attempt it. For athletes, it’s typically completely different. They need to get better quicker 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 Faculties

• This session will start by offering an summary of tips on how to start providing a yoga program or workshop in a Christian religion college. Following the overview, we are going to discover tips on how to modify youngsters’s yoga packages to handle Christian ideas, embrace scripture, and alter poses and sequences to traditional Bible tales. This session will probably be lively, hands-on, upbeat, and fascinating.

11:30 Mindy Heimer – Retreat Planning 101

• Have you ever needed to steer a yoga retreat however haven’t the slightest thought 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 price range, 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 lessons and its use past backbends.

2:00 Rebecca Smiddy – Yoga and Dependancy 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 section of womanhood with pleasure and thanksgiving. We’ll go over some widespread 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 looking forward to what’s to return. There may be 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 must dwell in probably the most majestic locations to come across nature – you merely want a inventive plan. On this workshop, we’ll discuss how being in nature adjustments you for the higher, and also you’ll go away with revolutionary methods to information your group within the nice open air.

5:00 Megan Graf – Braveness to Fly (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)

• It is 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 mild 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, religious practices, and journaling. You’ll acquire a deeper understanding of what chakras are, why it’s invaluable to stability them throughout the context of our relationship with God, and the way to take action in a means that aligns together with your Christian beliefs. Uncover sensible insights into recognizing imbalances, aligning with divine will, and experiencing holistic therapeutic. By means of biblical truths, you’ll discover God’s design and objective for our lives whereas studying sensible methods to stability every chakra, all throughout the comforting embrace of your religion. Reap the benefits of this chance to embark on a sacred journey of religious progress and alignment with the divine.

10:30 Leah Lynn – A Biblical Mannequin of Stewardship for the Physique

• Throughout this discuss, Leah will deal with the character of wellness and stewardship of our our bodies from a biblical perspective whereas incorporating Ayurvedic ideas, 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. Be taught the basics of Ayurveda and tips on how to incorporate this historic science into your yoga follow and every day life. Utilizing Ayurveda alongside our yoga may also help us obtain concord and stability 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 mentioned, “Prayer is a phrase that describes a relationship between two individuals who care about one another.” This workshop will describe completely 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 dwell in a damaged, messy, difficult world. Every day, we’ve to armor as much as survive. It is a likelihood to take a deep have a look at just a few postures that discover their means onto a big share of flows. Why can we do them? Title them as we did. What do they do for us? Simply how do they connect 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 a 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 turn into extra inventive and swap issues up, this workshop is for you. Discover foundational and superior cues, mastering breath-based cueing and empowering language. Be taught to command the room confidently and exactly, guiding college students by way of their follow with readability and intention. Dive into cueing sensation and embodiment, unlocking the facility of aware motion. Go away feeling empowered and able to lead impactful and transformative yoga lessons.

5:00 Doran Richards – Energy of Phrases We Communicate (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 convey.

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 may write out a category stream or have it off the cuff, however writing a meditation has you want a deer in headlights. Be taught the sensible method 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 reveals His compassion and love for His creation by therapeutic and delivering us. What does it imply to be “sozoed”? How can we expertise this interior therapeutic? How can we incorporate SOZO into our yoga follow and put it to use in our lessons as instructors? This presentation will look at how we join with every Individual of the Trinity and supply suggestions and sensible instruments for fostering interior therapeutic in ourselves and our college students/shoppers.

11:00 Jody Thomae – Isaiah 52:7 The BEaUtiful Toes of the Gospel Spreader

• Diving into Isaiah 52:7, whereas specializing in the toes, we are going to 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 – Authentic Design – Who’re we, and what are we dwelling for?

• Who’re you, and what are you dwelling for? Regardless of who you might be, the place you might be from, your age, ethnicity, training, faith, or fatherland, each human has requested these two common questions: who’re you, and what are you dwelling for? On this discuss, we are going to discover the biblical distinction between our human design and our human situation, look at the “little t” truths of our human expertise, and talk about the “massive T” truths about our human existence.

1:00 Beverly Steiger – Myofascial launch and yoga (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)

• Be taught myofascial launch strategies 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, acquire an understanding of what the lymph does and tips on how to keep wholesome by way of the follow of yoga.

4:00 MaryAnn Sander – Discover What You Discover – A Catalyst for Profound Change

• Think about an extended highway that appears to go on eternally – it’s deeply rutted and worn, but it seems like the one path…or is it?? Do you’ve gotten college students or shoppers who’re on this metaphorical highway? Or perhaps you’re feeling caught in deeply ingrained ruts of physique, thoughts, spirit…On this related session, we are going to 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 highway 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 are going to discover will probably be chair yoga and utilizing fundamental 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 fascinating 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? When you’re feeling caught or such as you don’t know the place to start out in the case of content material creation, you’re not alone! Be taught some sensible suggestions and share inventive concepts with others as we fill our social media administration device belt with all the precise instruments!

10:00 Beverly Steiger – Non secular Disciplines workshop (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)

• This workshop will introduce you to the Non secular Disciplines as defined in Richard Foster’s, The Non secular 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 influence 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 completely different from our on a regular basis follow on the mat? We’ll look at its advantages and talk about tips on how to incorporate somatic motion into your yoga lessons.

1:00 Lisa Stavrakas – Religion and Fasting

• Have you ever all the time needed to quick? Is there an space the place you need to submit extra totally to God? The place does God need to remodel 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 “Individuals are slaves to no matter has mastered them.” For some, meals has turn 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 protected fasting, in addition to scientific and historic Ayurvedic knowledge of what occurs to our our bodies once we take part in a quick. Cleaning units the stage for the physique to naturally and steadily let go of the toxins that might have an effect on our Non secular 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 religious advantages of yin and methods to include this tremendous nourishing antidote to our very yang life into our private practices and our educating.

3:00 Beverly Steiger – To Contact or To not Contact? (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)

• Be a part of us for this Spirit led contact and changes workshop the place we are going to talk about the distinction between alignemnt-led changes and spirit-led contact. Be taught the distinction between assists and changes in addition to sensible strategies for offering them with effectivness and effectivity in your yoga lessons.

4:00 Mindy Heimer – SUP Yoga – Ought to I Add a Floating Studio?

• Are you on the lookout for an thrilling new possibility to supply your yoga college students? In case you have entry to a stupendous physique of water, think about taking your follow to the subsequent stage with SUP Yoga (yoga on a Stand Up Paddleboard). Be a part of us for a session to discover whether or not this distinctive method is best for you. We’ll cowl the whole lot from the fundamentals of SUP Yoga and the mandatory 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 objective 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 strategies, infusing your lessons 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 educating takes flight right into a realm of countless prospects.

12:00 Karisha Gillenwater – Everybody Deserves Yoga

• Yoga isn’t a “one dimension suits all” routine. This workshop will look just like a category however slower as every pose is damaged down to handle making lessons 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 educating. Delve into seven distinct strategies of sequencing, every crafted to infuse your lessons with creativity and pleasure. Be a part of us for an unforgettable expertise as you study to construction inventive yoga sequences that encourage and remodel. Elevate your educating 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 concerning the elements contributing to making a vibrant group inside a studio through which people really feel inspired and supported of their yoga follow and religion.

3:00 Mia Neuenhoff – Yoga Nidra By means of the Christian Lens (Yoga Alliance CE 1.0 credit score)

• Discover the scientifically supported follow of Yoga Nidra with the profound advantage of 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 hear 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 – Stage 1 Move

11:00 Donna – Yoga Class – Light 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 talk about suggestions and instruments to remind us that our our bodies are blessings from an excellent 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 every 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 summary of polyvagal idea 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 protected connection and talk about how we will use yogic practices to create an area for rising a way of security and company in ourselves and our college students.