Join us for a FREE ONLINE EVENT with Doug Keller on new perspectives on alignment in yoga
Healthy Alignment for Yoga: A Free Online Presentation with Doug Keller -
Sunday Feb 15 1:30pm-2:30pm PDT -
Join renowned yoga educator Doug Keller for a free online presentation that brings fresh insight, new research, and a grounded perspective to one of the most essential — and often misunderstood — aspects of yoga practice: healthy alignment for lifelong longevity.
Discover how modern movement science is reshaping our understanding of alignment, revealing the difference between functional, personalized alignment that supports ease, strength, and resilience, versus rigid or unhealthy alignment patterns that can contribute to strain and injury over time. Doug will illuminate how alignment enhances bodily awareness, optimizes energy flow, deepens presence, corrects long-held habits, and builds a strong foundation for progressing safely in your practice. Whether you’re a dedicated practitioner or a teacher seeking to refine your understanding, this session will help you understand how practice more effectively — and sustainably — for decades to come.
When: Sunday February 15, 2025 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm California Time. (PDT)
Recording: will be sent automatically to all registered so please, feel free to register if you cannot join the livestream but want the video. The recording will be available for 2 months.
Price: Free
Technology: Zoom will be used. You will receive the zoom link in the confirmation email.
Reminder emails: will be sent 2 days, 30 min and 10min before the event.
About Doug: Doug Keller’s background reflects a lifelong commitment to studying, imbibing and sharing the vast field of knowledge and practice known as yoga.After receiving honors and graduate degrees in philosophy from the top Jesuit universities in the United States, Georgetown and Fordham Universities, and teaching philosophy at a college level for several years, he then pursued his ‘post-graduate’ education in the practical experience of yoga at the Siddha Meditation Ashram, Gurudev Siddha Peeth in India, for seven years. He spent a total of 14 years doing service, practicing, training in and teaching yoga in Siddha Meditation Ashrams worldwide. He received intensive training in the Iyengar system in New York City, mainly with senior certified Iyengar teacher Kevin Gardiner. He also practiced Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in India, and became one of the first certified Anusara Yoga teachers, producing three highly respected books on asana, pranayama and yoga philosophy.
His further expansion in learning is reflected in his latest and most in-depth work, ‘Yoga as Therapy,’ which is truly one of the most comprehensive, innovative and useful treatments of the structural aspect of yoga therapy available. And for three years he was a regular columnist for Yoga+ Magazine (formerly Yoga International, published by the Himalayan Institute), writing the ‘Asana Solutions’ column that addresses specific therapeutic problems. He is at the highest level of certification with Yoga Alliance, E-RYT 500, and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
Doug’s teaching is rooted in a vast and inclusive perspective of study and practice that honors the insights of the many streams of wisdom that flow into the river of yoga.Website: www.doyoga.com
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CHECK OUT UPCOMING WORKSHOP with Doug Keller on alignment in yoga
New Perspectives on Alignment to Deepen Your Practice: with Doug Keller (Online)
Sunday Feb 22
11:00am-1.00pm PDT - Lower Body
2:30pm-5:00pm PDT - Upper Body
Designed for teachers as well as students who wish to deepen their practice.
Join us to explore principles of alignment in yoga. Knowing how to align your body for a particular pose protects you from injuries, harmful movements, pain, and discomfort. Healthy alignment improves your awareness about your body and promotes your body's overall wellness. Alignment principles are applied most effectively when we don’t make assumptions, but instead start with awareness of what is before us.
The sessions will go over fundamental features of postural and movement types that are user-friendly, helpful, and insightful for knowing which aspects of the principles should be emphasized for giving more specific, individualized instructions for students when needed in class. This will include going over the principles themselves, and giving some ‘principles’ for applying the principles, based on observational skills.
The lectures will include illustrated notes for you to keep and review, as well as practical examples and applications in asana, from a perspective that takes into account the significant differences between individual students’ bodies — including the unique features of your own!
Join us for this webinar, which will likely clarify and transform your understanding of the body in asana — and ultimately the beneficial purposes of asana!
When: Saturday & Sunday 11:00am-1:30pm + 2:30pm-5:00pm PDT check your time zone
Recording: will be sent automatically to all registered so please, feel free to register if you cannot join the livestream but want the video. The recording will be available during 2 months.
Price: $85 before Feb 16 / $100 after
Technology: Zoom will be used. You will receive the zoom link in the confirmation email.
Reminder emails: will be sent 2 days, 30 min and 10min before the event.