july

– WORKSHOPS –

Zoom links for online classes will be sent to you close to the Workshop date.

ADVANCED STUDIES PROGRAM 2026

Practice of Backbends

with Gay White

Tuesdays, May 12 - June 23 | 5:45 - 7:15 pm

7 classes/ $224

Backbends restore a normal spinal curve and strengthen the back muscles. They open the chest, stimulate the nervous system and increase vitality. This class is meant to deepen our understanding of backbends and explore different ways of practicing them.

Practice of Backbends is open to current Advanced Studies Program Students, ASP Graduates, teachers and interested practitioners.

Payment is directly to the instructor on or before the first class. Registered students will receive an email with information on how to pay.

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Gay White, Director of The Yoga Room and Co-Director of The Yoga Room's Advanced Studies Program, has taught yoga in the Bay Area since 1991. Gay's classes and workshops are dedicated to alignment and awareness in a safe and joyful mixed-level learning community.

ADVANCED STUDIES PROGRAM 2026

Yoga Functional Anatomy 2

with Sandy Zirulnik

8-week summer series

Monday/Tuesday June 22, 23, 29, 30 July 6, 7, 13, 14

5:45 - 7:15 pm

$380 for series, includes 1 year subscription to “Muscles & Motion” Yoga Anatomy app ($40, normally $89)

Offered as a stand-alone module or as a part of the Advanced Studies Program
Prerequisite Anatomy 1 or permission of Instructor
Required for ASP Certification; this course will not be offered again in 2026/27

Anatomy – The Structures

Physiology – How It Works

Kinesiology – How We Move

Take a deeper dive into Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology for Yoga practice. We will look at how body systems work together, how muscles and joints move, the relationship of the nervous system to movement and balance. The course presents engaging and appropriate learning, whether anatomy is part of your daily life or you haven’t taken a science course since middle school. We will study elements to immediately deepen Yoga practice. Has it been a while? This is a good opportunity to refresh your relationship with your body.

The sessions will include a combination of presentation, discussion, anatomy topics, and movement, coordinated with specific asana teachings in the second-year of Yoga Room’s Advanced Studies Program. Original course material will be provided in a .pdf format, along with selected reading from Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews. This course will not be offered again in 2026.

For more information or to register, email Sandy Z: mailto:szir@earthlink.net

INTENSIVES

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MEMORIAL DAY INTENSIVE

with Gay White

Saturday, May 23 and Sunday, May 24, 2026
mornings 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / afternoons 2:00 - 4:00 pm

4 classes/ $240; one day/$120; single class/$65 (online and in-person)

Join me for two days of practice as we move into the summer months. The more active morning sessions will open the body and establish a sense of stillness, balance and groundedness through standing poses, supported backbends and twisting postures. The quieter afternoon sessions will encourage turning inward with gentle inversions, reclining work, restorative poses and pranayama. Intensives allow us to go into a deeper kind of practice with four connected classes.

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