Berkshire Yoga Fesitval 2025: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

Embracing Longevity—Vinyasa Flow and Supplemental Practices for Aging Well

Thursday June 12, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Part 1: Vinyasa KramaYoga Practice for Aging Well: Join Yoga teacher and Athletic Trainer Jai Sugrim for a challenging 90-minute vinyasa flow designed to enhance strength, flexibility, and balance as we age. This invigorating class focuses on mindful movement and breath awareness to promote physical vitality and mental clarity. Suitable for all levels, modifications will be offered to ensure a safe and rewarding practice that supports aging gracefully.
Part 2: The Supplemental Practices of Yoga: After a short break, delve into an enlightening 45-minute lecture exploring interdisciplinary approaches that complement your yoga journey. Discover the benefits of integrating weight training for muscle and bone health, self-massage techniques for recovery, walking 10,000 steps a day for cardiovascular wellness and maintaining the body’s fascia, seasonal fasting for detoxification, and the importance of quality rest. The session concludes with a 15-minute Q&A, providing an opportunity to ask questions and gain personalized insights. This presentation will help you with organizing your weekly training in a way that supports optimizing the circadian rhythm of your organs, to strike a balance between your effort and recovery.

Presenters

Jai Sugrim

With 30 years of professional experience as a yoga teacher, longevity expert, and health coach, Jai Sugrim has dedicated his life to guiding individuals toward graceful aging. He helps clients enhance their physical and mental well-being into and beyond the second half of life. His... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Intensive, Yoga & Lecture

Curated Schedules Longevity

8:00am EDT

MenoMagick: A 3-Hour Transformational Workshop

Friday June 13, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am EDT

Jiminy's Big Tent

Step into a sacred space dedicated to the transformative journey of menopause. In this immersive 3-hour workshop, we will explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of this powerful life stage. Through dynamic discussions, guided self-reflection, breathwork, and gentle movement, we will reconnect with our bodies and reframe outdated beliefs about aging. This workshop blends ancient wisdom, modern insights, and holistic practices to empower you to embrace menopause as a gateway to greater self-discovery, resilience, and inner peace. Together, we’ll cultivate community, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Presenters

Seane Corn

Seane Corn (she/her) is an internationally-acclaimed yoga teacher, author, and public speaker who has been at the forefront of yoga, activism, and community service for 30+ years. Known for her social activism and impassioned teaching style, Seane is raw, honest, articulate, and spiritually... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 8:00am - 11:00am EDT
Jiminy's Big Tent 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Intensive

Curated Schedules Women's Health, Longevity

10:00am EDT

Undoing The Primary Pattern

Friday June 13, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am EDT

Potter Brothers

We all develop movement patterns as we walk through life. This workshop addresses the primary pattern of life. It’s the impact of time and gravity on the body. And while it can be augmented with different environmental, familial, or social patterns, the primary pattern is one we all have in common. Whether your age or degree of flexibility, Avita Yoga identifies the patterns and the restrictions they create to unwind them both. The result is more happiness.

Presenters

Jeff Bailey

Jeff Bailey is an expert at restoring and maintaining joint health and bone strength. With over 13,000 teaching hours online and in the classroom, he has helped thousands resolve joint pain and return to the activities they love. Working with Jeff, many have avoided joint replacements... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Potter Brothers 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA, USA

Yoga

Level All levels, Gentle, Beginner
Curated Schedules Longevity

12:00pm EDT

MenoPAUSE Myofascial Symptoms - Rollout, Repair, Relief

Friday June 13, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Crane West

Perimenopause and menopause are the unfortunate harbingers of vast changes in the musculoskeletal and fascial tissues of women’s bodies. Sudden pains may erupt out of nowhere in joints large and small. The shoulders are particularly vulnerable to these hormonal changes and frozen shoulder is all too common. Learn rollout techniques to “thaw” your shoulders while improving range of motion and pain reduction. Using a combination of rolling, corrective exercise and specific tune ups, this is the perfect session for those struggling with neck and upper back pain too.

Presenters

Jill Miller

Tune Up Fitness

Jill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT, is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the self-care fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method. With more than 30 years of study in anatomy and movement, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Myofascial Release & Body Work

Curated Schedules Women's Health, Longevity

2:00pm EDT

Flowing Through Challenges: Vinyasa Flow for Resilience

Friday June 13, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Crane West

Part 1: Vinyasa Flow for Resilience:
Join Jai Sugrim for a powerful 90-minute vinyasa flow designed to cultivate resilience and inner strength. This dynamic class focuses on grounding postures, mindful movement, and breathwork to help you navigate life's challenges with grace and confidence. Suitable for all levels, modifications will be offered to ensure a supportive and empowering practice that enables you to connect deeply with your inner self.

We highly recommended joining Jai again, at 4pm for a follow up lecture and presentation "Applying Yoga to Crisis".

Presenters

Jai Sugrim

Friday June 13, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Yoga

Curated Schedules Longevity

12:00pm EDT

Neck & Shoulders

Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

Potter Brothers

The shoulders have the greatest range of motion of all our joints, which makes them a likely target for losing their movement potential. As movement potential is lost, arthritis, calcification, and degeneration occur. We’ll examine the intimate anatomical and movement relation between the shoulders, upper back, and neck. Avita Yoga is far more than improving the range of motion—it’s about healing and remodeling your joints for better health. We’ll cover several unique and potent neck movements to help preserve the vertebral health of the cervical spine.

Presenters

Jeff Bailey

Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Potter Brothers 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA, USA

Yoga

Curated Schedules Longevity

8:00am EDT

Get Off My Back

Sunday June 15, 2025 8:00am - 9:30am EDT

Fischer Room, Country Inn

Find lasting relief for your lower back in this yoga class dedicated to core engagement and healthy alignment. This session focuses on strengthening the deep core muscles, stabilizing the pelvis, and releasing tension in the lower back.
Carefully crafted by seasoned yoga therapist, health counselor, and yoga anatomy teacher Kari Harendorf from her decades of work with individual clients, this workshop Illuminates and addresses the root causes of LBP; she offers sustainable solutions through the healing power of yoga, yoga therapy, and breathwork.
Whether you’re a seasoned yogi, a yoga teacher looking to help your students, or an enthusiastic festival goer who perhaps did too many sun salutations this weekend 😣 this class offers essential tools for a pain-free, resilient lower back. It's suitable for all levels!

Presenters

Kari Harendorf

Co-Founder, Better Yoga

Kari Harendorf is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, an E_RYT 500 Yoga Educator, and a Reiki Master. Kari, a teacher of teachers, was on faculty for 200-hour and 850-hour teacher trainings at the Kripalu Schools of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Yoga Therapy. She spent over... Read More →

Sunday June 15, 2025 8:00am - 9:30am EDT
Fischer Room, Country Inn 37 Corey Rd, Hancock, MA, USA

Yoga

Curated Schedules Longevity, Anatomy Focus

2:00pm EDT

✴️ Chair Yoga for All Ages…Really!

Sunday June 15, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

Crane West

Chairs will be provided. Bring your mat!

Join Stephan and Ingrid in their wildly popular Chair Yoga class for all ages that is fun, challenging, invigorating, and inspiring (and perspiring!). We start in the chair for simple joint-opening movements, and then get up and create yoga flows using the chair as a prop that will surprise you and make you wonder why you haven’t done this before. Chair Yoga is great for people who may have stiff muscles, may have an injury, may not enjoy getting down to and up from the floor frequently (or at all), or who really enjoy learning a new way of practicing (and teaching) yoga. Some poses are actually deeper using a chair! It is a wonderful way to personalize your practice for your shifting daily needs. And, blissfully, you’ll experience a healing Savasana with your legs up on the chair, with Ingrid singing to you. : )

Stephan W. Kolbert and Ingrid A. Marcroft
Co-Founders, Upper West Side Yoga and Wellness, NYC

Presenters

Stephan W. Kolbert

Co-Owner, Upper West Side Yoga and Wellness

Stephan is a native Upper West Sider, an educator, yoga teacher (E-RYT500) and integrative therapist who uses yoga, Reiki, aromatherapy, nutritional and contemplative counseling, and Thai Bodywork with his clients. He has spent decades working with diverse populations: from the homeless... Read More →

Ingrid A Marcroft

Co-Owner, Upper West Side Yoga and Wellness

Ingrid is a transplanted Upper West Sider by way of Massachusetts, Germany, New Jersey, Paris, upstate New York, and Guadeloupe. Prompted by her own health crisis in the early 90s, she dove headfirst into studying myriad natural healing methods (nutrition, bodywork, mental / emotional... Read More →

Sunday June 15, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Crane West 37 Corey Road, Hancock, MA, USA

Community Event

Curated Schedules Longevity, Studio Partners

Berkshire Yoga Fesitval 2025

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