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2013 PROGRAM
SATURDAY, APRIL 27th
Times	Session	Presenter (s)	Session Title	Session Description
6.30 – 7.45am	MORNING PRACTICE 1	Camille Jeboult	Body Focus – Gentle Asana	Iyengar Yoga: Alignment with Heart- An exploration of alignment principles and how they facilitate a movement toward a deeper inner connection.
	MORNING PRACTICE 2	Julie Smerdon	Body Focus – Vigorous Asana	Shiva’s Blissful Dance: Exploring Creation, Sustenance, Dissolution, Concealment and Revelation in Asana
	MORNING PRACTICE 3	Janaki Murray	Ujjayi Pranayama -Exploring the ‘Ocean Sounding’ Breath	This session explores a few of the many different ways to work with Ujjayi Pranayama. It will develop your awareness of how to use Ujjayi in different ways, their benefits and how those differences affect you.
	MORNING PRACTICE 4	Alison Keane	Mind Focus – Meditation	Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing the mind into the present- centred grace of the body.
8.00 – 9.00am	Registration
9.00 – 9.15am
	Welcome & Opening Ceremony
	Morning Centring Meditation		Leigh Blashki
9.15 – 10.00am	KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Dr Ganesh Mohan
10.00 – 10.30am	Morning Break
10.30 – 12.30pm	WORKSHOP Option 1	Kaye Tribe	Safe stretching	How to influence the reparative and healing capacity of the connective tissue structures of Hatha yoga students.
	WORKSHOP Option 2	Janaki Murray	The Healing Power of Breath	Dive deep inside and discover the healing power of the breath with extended experience of Ujjayi Pranayama as taught in the ancient texts.
	WORKSHOP Option 3	Mary Keizer	Inquiry and Meditation in Yoga	Popular keynote address of the 2012 Yoga Australia Conference, this session will be an exploration of the nature of inquiry of mind and meditation in yoga.
	WORKSHOP Option 4	Suzanne Swan	Yoga for Fertility – Aligning to the Lunar cycle	Yoga practice according to the phases of the moon to bring into balance natural fertility.
12.30 – 1:30pm	Lunch
1.30 – 3.30pm	WORKSHOP Option 5	Karen-Anne Wong	Children’s Yoga – Bodies on and off the Page	Develop a deeper understanding of what it is like to be a child practicing Yoga. Learn which practices are important and relevant to a children’s Yoga classroom.
	WORKSHOP Option 6	Adam Bornstein	Smooth transitions, dynamic alignment, and inner stillness in Asana	How to transition safely and gracefully through a warm up sequence, sun salutations, and a select group of asanas including inversions.
	WORKSHOP Option 7	Keiran O’Callaghan	Profession and Passion	Tips for Sustained Success for the contemporary professional yoga teacher in the business of teaching yoga
	WORKSHOP Option 8	Trish Brown	Live with Passion and Dynamism – Activate Manomaya Kosha awareness	Motivation and dynamism have their origin in this layer. Ignite your ability to bring alive passion in life and your Yoga practice.
3.30 – 4.00pm	Afternoon Break
4.00 – 5.00 pm	PANEL & INTERACTIVE FORUM	NeLi Martin	Meditation in Yoga	An exploration of different concepts, approaches and techniques to meditation in yoga Hatha & Raja Yoga – where does meditation fit? Mindfulness in Yoga Yoga & Buddhist meditation Clinical approaches and applications
		Dr Geoff Simpson
		Dr Ganesh Mohan
5.00pm	END
6.30pm	Conference Dinner (Optional Extra)

SUNDAY, APRIL 28th
Times	Session	Presenter (s)	Session Title	Session Description
6.30 – 7.45am	MORNING PRACTICE 1	Annabel McLiskey	Body Focus – Gentle Asana	A gentle, healing yoga session including Dru energy block release sequence, gentle asanas and relaxation incorporating principles of Trauma Sensitive Yoga.
	MORNING PRACTICE 2	Adam Bornstein	Body Focus – Vigorous Asana	The principles of Radiant Light Yoga within an asana sequence.
	MORNING PRACTICE 3	Swami Kriyatma	Breath Focus – Pranayama	Satyananda Yoga
	MORNING PRACTICE 4	Swami Mukti	Mind Focus – Meditation	Globally, abundant meditation practices are being taught. Yoga nidra, however, is the easiest practice. It enables you to relax, focus, develop the witnessing state of mind and deeper states of meditation.
8.00 – 9.00am	Registration
9.00 – 9.15am
	Welcome to Day 2	MC – Kerri Harris
	Morning Centring Meditation	Nickyy Thomas
9.15 – 10.00am	KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Dr Ganesh Mohan
10.00 – 10.30am	Morning Break
10.30 – 12.30pm	WORKSHOP Option 9	Sue Jackson	Mindfulness in motion: Yoga as a pathway to Flow	Flow is an optimal psychological state involving complete focus in the present moment. Learn how to facilitate flow in Yoga practice and teaching.
	WORKSHOP Option 10	Swami Kriyatma	A context for Pranayama in Raja Yoga	This presentation will consider Pranayama as the bridge between the gross outer world to the subtle dimensions of the human experience as outlined in Patsanjali’s Astanga Yoga.
	WORKSHOP Option 11	Swami Mukti	Sankalpa resolve – a tool for change	What is Sankalpa? How to use pranayama, Chakra Mudra, Trataka , Mantra ,Yantra, Dharana and Yoga Nidra towards this resolve.
	WORKSHOP Option 12	Tamara James	Pancha Kosha n Pain, Injury and Healing- Holistic Yoga	The application of Pancha Kosha model to understand injury and holistic assessment of Koshas for personal practice and prescription.
12.30 – 1:30pm	Lunch
1.30 – 3.00pm	WORKSHOP Option 13	Annabel McLiskey	Trauma Sensitive Yoga and teaching students with Mental Health Issues	Discussion and education on Mental Health literacy and focusing on trauma and how to help students experience being present, spatial orientation, creating rhythms and spatial awareness.
	WORKSHOP Option 14	Garry Hart	Business models for Yoga teachers	Making a living as a yoga teacher.
	WORKSHOP Option 15	Annette Loudon	Yoga for breast cancer-related lymphoedema (BCRL) : from teaching to research to teaching with evidence	This workshop will focus on the application of integrated yoga practice for women with BCRL.
	WORKSHOP Option 16	Margo Hutchinson	Seniors Yoga	Learn practical strategies for teaching Yoga to this fast growing sector of our community
3.00 – 3.30pm	Afternoon Break
3.30 – 4.30pm	PANEL & INTERACTIVE FORUM Facilitator: Garry Hart	Mary Louise Parkinson	Yoga Outreach – seva, service and compassion	Panel discussion of the great works being done by yoga teachers and the yoga community. Includes offering yoga to those in need, and various forms of community service, other than teaching yoga.
		Lucy Karnani
		Keren Cooksey
4.30 – 5.00pm	Closing Session
5.00pm	END

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