Please email jane@empvt.com tonight if you’d like to particiapte in the Bikram event tomorrow (6:30-8 pm for $15).  This class is nearly full. 100% of proceeds benefit Vermont Foodbank. With 33 students (capacity) at $15- this is $495 or about 3,000 meals.

Thank you Kelley Lyons and Bikram Yoga Burlington for co-hosting this special candlit karma class with a DJ.  We’re looking forward to tomorrow! Namaste

• BYCwinter includes teachers from the following studios: Simon Park (touring, international Prana Flow instructor), Evolution Yoga, Green Mountain School of Yoga, Laughing River Yoga, Yoga Vermont, Center for Mindful Learning and more!

• BYCwinter Yoga Studio Partners, who you can meet in the mindful marketplace include: Evolution Yoga, Laughing River Yoga, Hot Yoga Burlington, Working Well Vermont, Honest Yoga, Bikram Yoga Burlington, and Yoga Mountain

• The schedule of workshops is subject to change.

• Please bring a yoga mat.  If you own yoga props (bolster, blanket, block, strap, eye pillow), please bring these items with you to BYC.

• Please bring a water bottle

• Please light snacks for yourself throughout the day

• You do not need to know your registration number or print anything out for check-in.  First and last name and ID required. Please arrive early.

• For Day Pass Holders: Check-In begins at 7:30 am.  Opening Ceremony begins at 8:30 am.   Please arrive for Opening Ceremony.There are (2) 90 minute workshops after Opening Ceremony before lunch, with a short break in between.

• Vegan/Vegetarian catered lunch available (by pre-order only!) Catered with local and organic foods by JDC. See the menu All meals must be pre-ordered online in advance or pack a lunch.  There are no other food options in the Davis this day.

• There are 2 optional lunch lectures from 1:15-1:45 pm (the 2nd portion of lunch break), for BYC day pass holders only. There are (2) 90 minute workshops after lunch with a short break in between.

• Devadas from NYC will lead a kirtan from 7-9 pm.  Tell your family, friends, and community!

• You could also view the film Yogawoman from 7-9 pm.

• Explore healing arts!  At check-in, sign yourself up for one or many therapeutic treatments throughout the day. (Henna by Joy Danila, massage by Alison Hans, Joseph Fiacco, and Bee Well Massage.

• BYCwinter has a small Mindful Marketplace where you can learn about sustainable and eco-friendly products from companies that are leading the way in environmentally friendly products yoga-oriented products. The Marketplace is free and open to the public.  Tell your family, friends, and community to check it out!

• As part of EMP’s continuing year-round dedication to our community, BYC will be hosting a fundraiser for VT Bank at Bikram Yoga the Friday night before the conference to heat-up for BYCwinter.  Details here: http://www.burlingtonyogaconference.com/bycwinter-heat-up-fun-draiser-at-bikram-yoga-burlington/

• BYCwinter is located on the 4th Floor of the Davis Center on UVM Campus, Burlington, VT.  Though you can see this large brick building from Main Street, enter the Davis Center from East Avenue.
  Turn from East Avenue onto UVM Campus as if going to the hospital.  Go straight through the light rather than right to the hospital).  Follow signs for Davis Center.  Veer left toward Davis Center.  See the attached map if you are parking.  Use the JEFFORDS LOT for parking.  Walk to the Davis Center and up to the 4th Floor.  http://www.uvm.edu/conferences/download/Burlington_Yoga_Conference_Map.pdf

Let us know if we can answer any questions for you.

Looking forward to an awesome BYC!
SHANTI AUM

Chef Jason Clark in his garden

Lunch break at BYCwinter is from 12:30-2 pm.  We invite you to eat on-site with nourishing food made by Just Delicious Catering.  (Note: There are no other food options available in the Davis this day).

JDC presents a fresh, locally sourced, all inclusive salad bar including: mixed greens, spinach, curried tofu, mixed beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, onions, peppers, carrots, dried cranberries, cheese, cottage cheese, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, croutons and house made dressings), along with your choice of two different vegetarian soups: Lentil Vegetable and Corn Chowder.

Meals include vegan brownies, gluten-free maple cake, chocolate-chip cookies and beverages (iced tea, cold tea, and juice).

Order lunch online now, $13.08 (includes 9% food and beverage tax).

Simon Park was featured in Yoga Journal as “one of the most influential and gifted…next generation of yoga teachers.” He draws inspiration from many styles (Vinyasa, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Thai massage, and martial arts) and teachers (Shiva Rea, Maty Ezraty, Joan White, Duncan Wong, and Dharma Mittra). Simon is dedicated to sharing the teachings of Shiva Rea, his first teacher. He leads workshops and teacher trainings in Vinyasa Yoga and Thai massage worldwide. Visit Simon’s website for more information.

Coral Brown, MA, 500-eRYT, is a senior teacher trainer of Prana Flow® Yoga, created by Shiva Rea. She leads retreats, workshops and teacher trainings and is honored to be a Yoga Journal contributor and conference presenter. Coral received her Masters of Arts from Salve Regina University’s Holistic Counseling program. Visit Coral’s website for more information.

Burlington Yoga Conference is premiering a brand new event this year, BYCWINTER, to promote the big spring yoga conference. The theme is transformation as positive change. The vision is to continue to create community by welcoming various traditions, expert teachers and students under one roof to explore ancient teachings in modern times. This is a one day event, Saturday, January 07, 2012 at the Davis Center, UVM. You can be an expert or a beginner; there’s something here for you. From breath work to discussions, meditations to restorative and vigorous posture flows, come get a satisfying taste of what BYC is all about!

Friday, April 29^th, 2011
5:30-7:30 pm
$30
Laughing River Yoga
1 Mill Street, Suite 126
Burlington, VT 
Tickets available at: Laughing River Yoga & burlingtonyogaconference.com

Get ready to kick some asana and celebrate the opening night of the Burlington Yoga Conference  with Dan Wilf, Jane Jarecki Lanza and DJ HyFi at Laughing River Yoga!
This special 2-hour “Rock-star Yin/Yang Yoga Practice,” will help you find balance and channel the feeling of being in “the zone.” deepen your breath, turn your focus inward. As we crank up the music and flow, ignite the rock-star within!

“As a team, we will be sharing our culinary art and creativity from the minds of these people:

• Owen Hoppe (A New Ethic),
• Brian Casey (Shelburne Farms and Starry Night)
• Joshua Alexander Pfeil (A Drop of Joy)

The Food we will be serving will taste amazing without putting the practitioner to work and these recipes are free of any ingredients that might hinder the balance between mind and body or the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

• Lunch is: Almond butter cream spring rolls with everything in season made using some of the finest nori and organic germinated almonds.  As a side we will celebrate with a bok choy salad lightly drizzled in sesame oil and lemon cashew cream complimented with the three sisters of asian fermentation: Kimchee, crunchy chili radish root and gingered carrots.  The yogi will get all this and a Unpasteurized Azuki miso with Maine harvested Wakame.

• Dinner is: Cashew Thyme Root veggie gratin parked on top of some organic brown rice next to a Portabella mushroom that is filled with a soaked walnut veggie paté.  This dynamic duo will be complimented by our own local Mesclun mix drizzled with an elderberry vinaigrette.

All of this food will be organic and everything that is in season will be locally sourced.”

Fore more information about the BYC menu and Drop  of Joy, LLC, contact:
Joshua Alexander Pfeil
A Drop of Joy, LLC
c: 802-922-3360
e: joshuapfeil@gmail.com

A Drop of Joy, LLC

The central mission of A Drop of Joy is to extend and enhance the abundant harvests of the Vermont growing season as a culinary partner to our local farms.   It will create value-added products that showcase and diversify the beautiful vegetables, fruits, herbs and grains that our farmers work so hard to grow.  Most of our products are sourced from local farms, apiaries, herbalists, mushroom cultivators and food producers.

A Drop of Joy is now building key partnerships with Vermont farms to act as a season extension and chef service.  Two major partnerships have been established with Half Pint Farm at the Intervale and Common Ground Farm at the University of Vermont.  However, the company will pursue further partnerships throughout the coming winter months in order to provide its services to a greater proportion of the farming community.

A Drop of Joy is a locally-owned, globally-ethical, sacred food production company. Products we prepare: are usually in the realm of Raw Vegan Live Food dishes.  We serve in the context of catering, cold case production (grab and go), private aid and conference, and commercial distribution.  Types of foods vary greatly.

A Brief bio of Joshua Alexander Pfeil:
Joshua has been working with Vegan, Organic, Live foods and researching the nutritive values of this diet since 2006.  In 2008, he worked as a Chef/Instructor under Gabriel Cousens, MD at The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and in 2009, as owner of A Drop of Joy, LLC and coordinator of The New England Healers Symposium, Joshua continued his research on live food nutrition coupled with planetary herbalism.  He is currently working privately as a holistic chef, hosting two different potluck groups and coordinating several classes a month.

2.  Massage and Healing Arts are part of the experience of BYC.  Experience the benefits of massage and special body work treatments by Burlington’s finest (please support with tips!)

3.  When you purchase a BYC Day Pass- you can choose from 1 of 4 bonus! Lunch Lectures: Anatomy of Yoga: Julieta Rushford, Reiki Healing Workshop: Sukhada Repass, Ayurveda, Digestion, Nutrition: Carmen Maron

4.  After a delicious dinner and restorative break (see #2), come to kirtan with Prem Prakash and Kailash Jungle Band, Trance Dance with Roger Mckeever: 9-11 pm- unleash your primal groove.

5. BYC (May 01, 2010), is a day full of workshops (which range from meditation and discussion options to invigorating and restorative asana).  Choose a track that serves you best and enjoy! (Drop-in option available).

Kathy Blume will be in Europe on May 01- Ahimsa workshop is canceled.  Please stay tuned as we will post a new workshop discussion soon!