Wednesdays, 10-11:30am

Current Series: March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22
Next Series: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27

This series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Back Care and Back Care Basics classes. With other new beginners to Back Care Classes at Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective, instructor Ede Thurrell will teach you many of the basic actions, help you find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disc(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain… or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Back Care classes.

Wednesdays, 2:15-4:15pm
2026 Dates: January 14, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 13, June 10, September 23, October 14, November 18, December 16

One class for: $40 teachers, $30 Samamkaya Teaching Assistants, $20 Students
Any 3 classes for Teachers/Assistants/Students:  $105/80/54
Any 6 classes for Teachers/Assistants/Students $180/150/100
Any 10 classes for Teachers/Assistants/Students  $250/230/140

This course is approved as an IAYT CE Course! Take any 6 classes (12 hours) +  one 1 hour mentoring session for $240

Students with scoliosis have very specific needs with the nervous system, proprioceptive system and with pain patterns.  One must avoid muddled information.  Using prop set-ups, hand on adjustments and verbal instructions, Deborah Wolk will guide you in how to better teach your students with scoliosis.

This class is appropriate for all yoga teachers and for students with scoliosis. Teachers of other modalities (Pilates, personal training, etc.) may attend as teachers with Deborah’s permission. This class is not recommended for brand new beginners to yoga.

MONTHLY on Thursdays, 4:00-5:30 pm on ZOOM:
March 19
May 14
June 11
Free or by donation

Samamkaya Yoga is pleased to offer a support group for people with spinal fusions for scoliosis (or those considering a spinal fusion for their scoliosis). This group, led by Martha Carter, is designed to encourage participants to safely explore the emotional toll and experiences related to their fusion in an environment with other participants who share their experience. Whether you were a teen when your spinal was fused or an older adult or somewhere in between, discussions within this group will draw out personal reflections, identify successful ways to self-heal, and evolve to reflect the needs of the group.

Please join Martha as she seeks to encourage health and healing through group interaction—free of the shame and stigma associated with scoliosis and related surgeries.

May 16-17
Saturday & Sunday 9:30am-12pm & 2-4pm

Full Weekend: $210*
One Day Only: $115*
One Morning Session Only: $70*One Afternoon Session Only: $55*
*Get 10% off by using the code EARLYBIRD by May 4th

This workshop will focus on the methods and tools, developed over fifty years of teaching, that Karin makes use of to look at the body and its asymmetries, misalignments and scoliotic patterns. We will explore different types of perception, such as peripheral vision and “the eyes at the back of the mind,” while practicing the asanas, including some partner work. Concepts and imagery that can help guide our poses to greater visual harmony and balance will be discussed, and put into use, employing our own bodies as examples. These include: even and equal distribution of weight, and lengthening and broadening from the median plane.

Throughout the weekend, Karin will also draw on her Five Step Program of Observation and Analysis. We will practice seeing and interpreting asymmetric body patterns in the asanas, learning how to develop “the mind of an engineer and the eyes of an architect,” in other words, understanding how structural coherence in our poses becomes aligned with aesthetic beauty.