2026 Sedona Yoga Festival: Full Schedule

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8:00am MST

Accessible Ashtanga - its about progress not perfection

Friday April 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am MST

Village Yoga Sedona - Event Space

Experience mind-body meditation using The Tristhana Method, a central practice in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. This holistic approach emphasizes the integration of three key elements: breath (Ujjayi Pranayama), posture (Asana), and gaze (Drishti). This method aims to cultivate a deep, meditative state by uniting these three aspects of practice, leading to a profound mind-body connection and spiritual awakening.

Breath control helps regulate the nervous system, calm the mind, and create a rhythm for physical movements. The Tristhana Method emphasizes proper alignment within each posture, ensuring stability and the engagement of the inner body/subtle body (bandhas). Drishti is the specific point of focus for the eyes during each asana, which helps to stabilize the mind and deepen the experience of pratyahara or one-pointed focus and concentration.

By consciously coordinating these three elements, the practitioners gain outer strength and inner equanimity.

Speakers

Lisa Faremouth Weber

Founder, Heaven Meets Earth

Lisa Faremouth Weber E-RYT500 MA (Satinder Kaur) graduated from the Loyola Marymount University Master of Yoga Studies and Advanced Yoga Therapy Program. She has traveled internationally, leading fitness and wellness training; she owns and founded Heaven Meets Earth Yoga & Wellness... Read More →

Friday April 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Village Yoga Sedona - Event Space

Guided Class / Session / Healing, Accessible Yoga

Participant Level Open to all Levels
Style Accessible Yoga
CEUs E-RYT500 YACEP
Track Trauma Conscious Track, Energy Track, Yoga for Teachers Track, Beginners Track
What to expect 75% practice 25% lecture
Partner practice or touching? Hands on adjustments offered with permission
Instructions to participants: mat, blocks, straps

10:30am MST

How not to get injured in a Yoga Class when you are 50 or over

Friday April 24, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am MST

Canyon Ballroom

Midlife in America is changing. Men and women between the ages of “40 something” to “70 something” are more active and adventuresome than ever before. They represent the largest population growth segment for Yoga. This program offers an overall lifestyle approach to Yoga that includes asana that is accommodating, covering everyday biomechanics, management of common aches and pains and weight reduction with Yoga, gait training, stress reduction and sleeping tips. A balanced presentation of an online course and a four-day intensive.* For Yoga teachers and students.

Prime of Life Yoga®: Yoga After 50 is a specialty program for Yoga teachers and dedicated students focusing on Yoga for midlife and beyond.

Speakers

Larry Payne

Founder, Samata Yoga Center, Ph.D.

Larry Payne, Ph.D. is an internationally respected yoga teacher and back specialist. The L.A. Times named Larry “One of America’s most respected Yoga teachers”. Larry is founding president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, founder of the Corporate Yoga program... Read More →

Friday April 24, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am MST
Canyon Ballroom

Guided Class / Session / Healing, Prime of Life Yoga /Yoga after 50

Participant Level No experience required
Style Prime of Life Yoga /Yoga after 50
CEUs Yes IAYT and Yoga Alliance
Track Yoga for Teachers Track, Beginners Track
What to expect 25% lecture 75% asana
Partner practice or touching? No
Instructions to participants: Notebooks, pens, mat, Bolster

3:30pm MST

Embracing Higher Reality: Yoga Sutra’s Essential Teachings on the Divine Within

Friday April 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm MST

Juniper Room

Modern yoga is recognized as the quintessential path for personal growth and wellbeing through personal practice. We excel in our identity as the practitioner, and celebrate the sense of the agency which yoga helps us regain. A classical understanding of yoga, however, celebrates the intersection of self-effort and divine grace. It encourages us to recognize how the profound insights revealed by yoga are glimpses of a Higher Reality which surrounds us, and boldly inspires us to embrace that Higher Reality.

In this lecture and discussion inspired by the wisdom of the Yoga Sutra, explore the nature of Higher Reality known as Ishvara (Yoga Sutras 1:23-29), the relationship between self-effort and divine grace, and how we can reconcile yoga’s focus on self-effort with the notion of trustful surrender to the divine.

Suggested Reading: The Secret of the Yoga Sutra, by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD

Speakers

Ishan Tigunait

Executive Director, Himalayan Institute

Growing up at the Himalayan Institute, Ishan Tigunait received his earliest spiritual training from Swami Rama of the Himalayas and has spent decades immersed in the Himalayan Tradition under the guidance of his father, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Rooted in a living tradition, Ishan... Read More →

Friday April 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm MST
Juniper Room 90 Ridge Trail Drive, Sedona, AZ, USA

Lecture / Talk, Yoga Philosophy

Participant Level Intermediate
Style Yoga Philosophy
CEUs YACEP, AYC
Track Yoga for Teachers Track
What to expect 80% lecture; 20% Q&A/discussion
Partner practice or touching? No
Instructions to participants: Suggested items to bring: notebook, pen

2026 Sedona Yoga Festival

8:00am MST

Lisa Faremouth Weber

10:30am MST

Larry Payne

3:30pm MST

Ishan Tigunait

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