Movement Workshops

Our movement sessions are geared for all experience levels. Mats are available, but we encourage you to bring your own.

Movement Schedule Spring ’18 (PDF)

Long, Slow & Deep Dance Relief Yoga

This is a specialty class designed for Shakori Hills to keep you feeling amazing so you can dance your way to bliss. 90 minutes of seated and reclined restorative postures as well as breathing techniques to open up and soothe your dancing bodies. This class is intended to help you get the most of your Shakori experience! Appropriate for all levels! Offered by Crystal Hetrick.  Movement Tent, Saturday, 12:00 a.m. (MIDNIGHT)

Prana Vinyasa Yoga

Prana Vinyasa is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of teachers. Students of all levels are invited and empowered to experience Prana – the Universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living. Katie Johnson is a certified Prana Vinyasa Yoga instructor. Sacred sounds music provided by Amy and Scott Durso. Movement Tent, Friday 12:00 p.m.; Dance Tent, Saturday, 9:00 a.m.

Feeling your way through Yoga

This class will focus on how yoga creates space to allow one’s body to connect with the heart. We will explore grounding poses to support the buoyancy of Joy to emerge naturally. This class will incorporate essential oils that enhance one’s ability to deepen our heart and body connection.  Join certified Yoga for Athletes’ trainer and dance movement therapist, Tracey Turner and Wellness Advocate Tamira Cousett.  Movement Tent, Friday, 3:00 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 12:00 p.m.

Yin Yoga

A slower, inward practice where poses are held for extended periods of time allowing for the practice of letting go. Exploring our potential for greater openness and respecting our limitations, we will use the body and focused breath, building intensity to work at a deeper level with our emotions and our minds, helping us to free old patterns. Staying low to the floor for this practice, with greatest emphasis on the hips, pelvis and lower back. Led by Yoga instructor Scott Campbell.  Open to all levels. Movement Tent, Saturday, 5:00 p.m.

Guided Breath Work

Join Integrative Intuitive Healer Brooksie Edwards in guided breath work and meditation. Reconnecting with our breath can enhance our energetic radiance, our physical health and our psychological well-being.  This heart opening practice will be accompanied by sacred sound musicians Amy and Scott Durso on shruti Box and drums. www.listeningtoyoursoul.com  Movement Tent, Friday, 11:00 a.m.

Vinyassa Hatha Yoga

Join Musician and Yoga Instrutor, Tain Collins for a soft flowing yoga class. All are welcome! Breath is synchronized with movement as a meditation in motion. Starting with gentle asanas, we will transition into a more challenging standing sequence and end with twisting and calming poses – a balanced class with attention to the entire body. Dance Tent, Friday 9:00 a.m.; Movement Tent, Saturday, 4:00 p.m. & Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

Thai Yoga Bodywork

This workshop is a gentle and restorative yoga practice combined with the healing modalities of massage, bodywork and Thai massage; expanding and deepening one’s connection to the body, mind and spirit. While the asanas are being held, adjustments and bodywork are integrated into the practice to encourage discovery and awareness for one’s health, healing and well-being. Led by Crystal Hetrick. Movement Tent, Friday 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Power Yoga

This fresh fierce flow is accompanied by master drummers Taylor Houches and Colin Fernandez. You will build heat, strength and community. Led by instructor Leehan Schmitt, she will assist as she teaches with the intention of providing grounding, safety and growth. Movement Tent, Saturday 3:00 p.m.; Dance Tent, Sunday, 9:00 a.m.

Qigong for Energy, Longevity and Vitality

Qigong is an ancient Chinese holistic health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intention. With Eduardo da Silva. The Movement tent, Friday & Saturday 10:00 a.m.; Sunday, 11:00 a.m.

VinYin Yoga

All levels VinYin is the perfect balance between yin and yang. Class starts with Vinyasa and end with Yin yoga, leaving you feeling refreshed and relaxed. The active practice of vinyasa flow requires us to tap into our yang energy as we move dynamically from pose to pose. The yin practice, rooted in the Taoist yoga tradition, is slower paced and postures are held longer. Yin yoga targets the connective tissues healing to increase circulation in the joints and improve flexibility.  Led by Bill Lamb RYT-200. Movement Tent, Friday, 4:00 p.m.; Saturday 1:00 p.m.; Sunday, 2:00 p.m.

Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga is the Yoga of awareness. A yogic science which combines movement, breath and manor allowing you to access your creative potential. Come and experience a fun and energizing yoga! Led by certified kundalini yoga instructor, Reiki and Gong Master, Christine Chase. Movement Tent, Friday, 1:00 p.m., Saturday, 2:00 p.m.; Sunday, 1:00 p.m.

Mindful Flow

In this vinyasa flow class we will synchronize breath, movement and mantras to reduce stress and increase emotional and physical wellbeing. Join Shakira Bethea as she brings compassion, love and a powerful presence to her teachings, reminding you of your own power! Join her and flow on this beautiful land together!  All levels are welcome. Movement Tent, Friday, 2:00 p.m., Saturday, 11:00 a.m.; Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

Shamanic Journeying

Melodic Conscious Breathing Meditation(Live Music)

What if you could experience some of the benefits that meditation has to offer immediately, and in a single session? This is exactly what we are offering in our workshop: a tiny peak into what meditation is like. Through conscious breathing you can silence your mind and feel what it would be like if you cultivated a practice of meditation. Guided by Theo Feaster and live music provided by XYLEM, we’ll take you on a melodic journey through diaphragmatic breathing, that has been shown to combat anxiety and bolster the immune system. Healing Arts Workshop Tent, Friday, 11:30 a.m.

Festival photos on this page by: Elizabeth Larson Photography, Jerry Friend, Anna Maynard, & Dax Pecaro