We're proud to announce that we will be hosting the 2012 TYF from the base of the gondola in the town of Telluride at the Camel's Garden Hotel! We've listened to the feedback over the last 5 years and have brought the event to town. You can book lodging right in the hotel and enjoy all of the incredible, convenient amenities that the hotel has to offer. Please join us this summer July 12-15th and bring your friends!

Beginner - Remember to breath! You will never have a better yoga teacher than your own breath! If you’re breath doesn’t come easily into a posture, you may have gone too far and should gently and slowly move out of the pose. Mastery of the breath, will lead to the depth of the posture.

Intermediate - Engage your toes! Lifting the all of the toes in standing postures can be a quick fix for lazy feet. Spreading the toes in certain standing and seated postures also helps to strengthen the feet and pull the rest of the leg into proper alignment. Can’t move your toes to save your life? Neither can most people beginning to work with the feet, butdon’t be discouraged! Practice while at your desk, brushing your teeth, or watching your favorite show. It also helps when starting to use your hands to move your toes and feet in order to build muscle memory. If they’ve never spread or lifted before your muscles will not know where to go!

Advanced - Drop the tailbone and lift the pelvic floor in certain asanas (poses). Engaging of mulabhanda (root lock) helps to bring the entire body into proper alignment. This can be engaged easily on the exhale and understood better if the exhale is held out for a moment. While seated place your hand directly on the tip of your tailbone, exhale completely and hold it out, try to lift the pelvic floor and breath, release. If you felt the tailbone move slightly inward you’ve done it. With more practice, it becomes more of an energetic movement in that area and less of a physical movement of the tailbone.

Thanks to all who attended and in keeping with their committment to protect and preserve the environment in the Telluride region, 25% of the proceeds of the 2009 festival were recently donated to two local environmental non-profits: Telluride Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and Telluride's New Community Coalition.

Pictured above: Peter Mueller/The Nature Conservancy, Elaine Demas/The Telluride Yoga Festival & Kris Holstrom/Telluirde's New Community Coalition.

Wow! What a response the early bird tickets had this year! Thank you to all of you have purchased a pass and congratulations on taking advantage of such a deep discount!

Not to worry, however, if you didn't get your pass by Feb 1st. We will keep them discounted by $50 until the 1st of April  at only $275 which is still a screaming deal for:

* 9 (2) hr workshops Friday-Sunday

* Free entrance into Friday night kirtan with Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band

* Daily Meditation

* Daily Mysore

* Free Organic TYF Tote Bag

* Priority entrance into over 12 hours of FREE yoga classes

Full festival passes will be $325 after April 1st so if you missed the first deadline, I hope you can make the 2nd!

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If you get a group of 3 together by adding 2 or more people to your registration, you and your friends also get the $225 rate! So join us in a truly incredible festival where the yoga is potent, the teachers are real and the experience is unique and authentic. You won't find another yoga experience even close to this one.

This year we're offering TYF attendees something quite special. We're bringing in the two of the world's most respected Yoga Philosophy & Sanskrit teachers: Dr. M.A. Jayashree & M.A. Narasimhan from Mysore, India. The director of the festival, came into contact with these profound teachers when she traveled to Mysore last winter. Dr. M.A. Jayashree & M.A. Narasimhan teach Sanskrit, Yoga Philosophy and chanting in Mysore, India and are a brother-sister duo. They are truly teachers of teachers and have worked with many of the most well known yoga teachers in the western world. Many of whom have even taught at the festival before including David Hollander, Alanna Kaivalya and James Boag (just to name a few of them). This is a very rare and special experience to host teachers of this caliber and is something not to be missed. If you have any interest in yoga or if you've been teaching yoga for decades, these teachers will reach you. Please join us!