12:10pm - Michael Taylor

Topic: Your Yoga as Health Care

Michael Taylor is a yoga guide at Strala Yoga in New York City.  He's practiced Eastern movement and healing techniques for more than two decades. Michael holds a degree in mind-body medicine from Harvard, and studied alternative medicine and psychology at Oxford. Mike is also the CEO of social media company Odyl.

Michael will be speaking about creating good health for ourselves and everyone around us.  He’ll address how yoga can assist in making your body into the shape you want and its effect on being healthy and feeling good.  Feel good as the summer opens up here on Solstice.

12:30pm Class – Donna Rubin (Bikram Yoga) 

Donna brings many years of experience to her position at Bikram Yoga NYC. With a background in dance, Donna began her professional career with the National Ballet of Canada. She then starred as Meg in the original Canadian cast of Phantom of the Opera and continued her career on Broadway when she performed in Carousel at Lincoln Center and subsequently in the National Tour.  In 1998 Donna became certified at the Bikram College of India in California and has since applied her dance and yoga background to exclusively teaching the 26-pose Bikram method. Donna and her business partner, Jennifer Lobo, now own the 4 Bikram Yoga NYC studios.

www.bikramyoganyc.com

3:10pm - Swami Ramananda

Topic: Ahimsa, Making Peace with Each Step

Swami is the President of Integral Yoga in New York City having practiced yoga for over 30 years.  He offers practical methods of integrating the ancient practices of yoga into daily life, and coping with stress, depression, and anger leading teacher training all over the world.  Swami has taught mind and body wellness programs in many locations and is a founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals.

Swami will address the principal of Ahimsa.  His workshop will closely examine our actions and the intentions behind them, to seek to understand the root causes of violence in our selves and in the world.  His goal is to bring peace to our hearts and to our relationships as we celebrate the year's longest day of light, the Summer Solstice.

3:30pm Class – Paula Tursi (Reflections Yoga) 

Paula Tursi is the Founder and Director of Reflections Yoga and the Reflections Yoga Teacher Training Program. She has been working with alternative healing practices in New York City and internationally for over fifteen years. Paula developed Reflections Yoga as a way to integrate what she found most inspiring in other practices with her own personal truth.  Paula's work focuses on the alignment of mind and body, understanding that we move not only from our muscles and joints, but from the support of our inner body.  Paula holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Columbia University and a Masters degree in Education from Hunter College. She did her clinical post-graduate training at the Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis.

www.reflectionsyoga.com

5:40pm - Tevis Rose Trower

Topic: Balance & Integration - A Times Square Moment

www.balanceintegration.com

Tevis is the founder of the Balance Integration Corporation.  She has presented to the NYPD, Harvard Business Review and the Omega Yoga Conference in New York.  She is a work life expert for WebMD and served as an adjunct professor teaching Mastery in the advanced management program at NYU SCPS. 

Tevis will talk about the power of balance integration in the midst of it all.  She will address recognizing mastery and courage in carving out moments of awareness. Tevis will lecture on how to be present and peaceful even in the iconic headquarters for human culture.  She will deliver something that attendees can take with them off the mat, into work and life.

6:00pm Class – Dana Flynn (Laughing Lotus)

Dana Flynn is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Laughing Lotus Yoga Center and School.  This year Laughing Lotus Celebrates 10 years in NYC!  Dana is celebrated for her fiercely creative and poetic sequencing which is expressed through the ecstatic flowing movement in her classes. She has been teaching for 20 timeless years and is so grateful to all the amazing beings and teachers that have inspired her along her way, especially her partner Jasmine Tarkeshi.

www.laughinglotus.com