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Are you interested in vending at BYC?

Jane — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:57:19 +0000

For years Burlington, Vermont, a beautiful lakefront city, has been a destination for health, natural living, organic food, and yoga. BYC annually gathers top-notch yoga instructors, students of all levels and backgrounds, and healing arts practitioners- all under one roof – to empower positive change and create community.

BYC attracts devoted yoga students and teachers who seek the ultimate yoga experience — the opportunity to interact with awesome instructors and students in beautiful settings.

Burlington Yoga Conference features great marketing opportunities including a Yoga Lifestyle Silent Auction filled with sought-after products and services. Place your products and services directly in the hands health-conscious consumers. Enhance brand presence and leverage the benefits of face-to-face marketing.

And this is just the beginning!

Align your company with this growing health and fitness trend. Here’s some neat statistics from * Yoga Journal’s “Yoga in America” 2005 Market Study.

Over the past decade, yoga has grown from a niche market into the hottest sector of America’s health and fitness industry:
Americans spend $2.95 billion a year on yoga classes and products, including equipment, clothing, vacations and media (DVDs, videos, books and magazines).*
7.5% of U.S. adults, or 16.5 million people, practice yoga. In addition, almost one in seven non-practitioners, or about 25 million people, say they intend to try yoga within the next 12 months.*

Email jane@empvt.com to apply for a vending spot at BYC. Are you interested in sponsoring BYC? Are you interested in becoming a BYC Yoga Studio Partner?

TABLES 6′ (includes table-linen, power, and wifi access)
BOOTHS (includes 3 tables to form a booth in premier location)
BYC Yoga Studio Partner: $108/day
Vendor Table- Saturday or Sunday Only: $200
Vendor Table- Weekend: $350
Vendor Booth- Saturday or Sunday Only: $400
Vendor Booth- Weekend: $650

For increased promotion above and beyond the exposure you’ll get at BYC, we invite you to become a BYC partner. For an additional $250- we can offer you:

A direct link to your website on BYC website
Your studio’s logo on the BYC schedule (distributed to each guest upon arrival and used throughout the day)
One blog post on our website and blast
One post to Facebook fans & Twitter and about your yoga studio (includes a photo and clickable link)

What is Burlington Yoga Conference?

BYCwinter Thank You

Jane — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:10:10 +0000

Thanks for being a part of BYCwinter and the yoga community in Burlington. This conference simply would not be the same without you. Each of you is an essential thread in the fabric of BYC. We had a blast and truly enjoyed seeing you again or, in many cases, meeting you for the first time. We hope you enjoyed your experience. We will be following up shortly with a survey. If you care to share your experience with us, we really value your opinions. We are BYC and so are you!
Namaste.
Love,
Jane, Ben, and Sage

Who is BYC? Video

Jane — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:22:22 +0000

After mastering the wind and waves….

Jane — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:35:39 +0000

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness… the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Within Organics Give-Away at BYCwinter

Jane — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:25:17 +0000

BYCwinter is psyched to have some give-aways for our Facebook fans- thanks to Within Organics.

You could win an I am BEAUTIFUL tunic (value $40) or 1 of 4 $50 gift cards (discount codes available) for withinorganics.com.

To win you must “Like” the BYC and Within Organics Facebook pages and post your favorite positive affirmation (“I am …..”) on both walls. BYC will pick four winners based on the most creative, thoughtful responses.

Once the winners are selected on January 1st, we will email unique codes to you.Within Organics created the discount code BYC for 25% off any order on their website for all BYC fans.

Start posting and enjoy!

BYCwinter tickets go up in price January 1st

Jane — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:09:01 +0000

Why spend extra money on tickets when you can plan ahead and save? Until January 1st, tickets to BYCspring cost only $55. After the New Year, prices go up. Tickets will be available online until Jan. 4th and again at the venue. BYC event planners intentionally created a smaller event than the big spring conference but intend to fill both classrooms. Register now to ensure your top-choice workshops.

REGISTER NOW

BYC’s mission it to unite local yoga studios, teachers, and students to create community and to give back to the communities that we’re a part of. Top-notch instructors offer a variety of traditions of yoga that appeal to all levels of students. BYC intends to inspire personal practice, a sense of connection, and positive change through yoga.

BYCwinter teachers include:
Yogiraj Prem Prakash, founder of Green Mountain School of Yoga
Simon Park, senior teacher and teacher trainer of Prana Flow
Christine Hoar, founder of Bristol Yoga
Margaret Pitkin, Vermont’s first certified Anusara teacher
Martha Whitney, founder of Living Yoga
John McConnell, creator of YogaLive!
Jane Jarecki Lanza, founder of BYC & Liberate
Lindsay Foreman with VCYP and Center for Mindful Learning
Adena Harford of the Ayurvedic Center of VT
Special kirtan with Devadas from NYC
Screening of the film YogaWoman

There will be a fundraiser for Vermont Foodbank on Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 6:30 pm at Bikram Yoga Burlington to heat-up forBYCwinter (details below).

Burlington Yoga Conference, now in it’s fourth year, is one of the largest annual yoga events in New England and Quebec and is steadily growing in size and scope. Save the Date! BYCspring is May 4-6, 2012.

BYCspring Scholarhsip Opportunity

Jane — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:27:58 +0000

Burlington Yoga Conference Winter grants 3 full scholarships.

This scholarship program is intended for yoga teachers and students, with limited income, who share yoga with under-served populations in the community. Scholarships are intended to support the participation of low-income yoga teachers and students who actively contribute their unique teaching abilities to the truly under-served. What is your plan to pay the knowledge forward?

These under-served populations include (but are not limited to):

Children/teens
Homeless Shelters
Senior Centers
Immigrants
People of low-socio economic backgrounds
Disabled people
Incarcerated populations

How to Apply: Email application to BYC
Deadline is April 1st, 2012
We ask for the following information:

Essay: 150 words or less. Essay topics are not limited, but you may wish to reflect how yoga has impacted your life, and the lives of others, and why you are applying for the scholarship.

References: Please include 1 reference from your yoga instructor, teacher/professor, employer or any other person who will provide us with an additional sense of why you should be considered.
Ideally, the reference should be someone who has seen you teach to people who may not otherwise experience yoga.

Devarshi Steven Hartman teaches Kripalu Yoga for you at home

Jane — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:00:46 +0000

Join Burlington Yoga Conference teacher Devarshi Steven Hartman as he leads you through an hour-long moderate/vigorous Kripalu yoga class.

This class includes a variety of foundational postures (standing, seated, and on the floor), longer holding, and breathing exercises—including Kripalu Yoga’s signature alternate-nostril breath, Anulom Vilom—providing a good workout and deep restoration.

The intention of Kripalu Yoga is to cultivate an internal meditative experience while stretching and recharging the body. Learn more about Kripalu Yoga at kripalu.org/aboutyoga.

Thanks for the Music
Todd Norian and Bija
www.deeppeaceyoga.com

What is BYCwinter?

Jane — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:03:04 +0000

What is Burlington Yoga Conference & BYCwinter? Burlington Yoga Conference is currently the largest annual yoga conference in New England and Quebec and is steadily growing in size and scope. BYC’s mission it to unite local yoga studios, teachers, and students to develop community. BYC intends to inspire personal practice, a sense of connection, and positive change through yoga. BYCwinter highlights some of Vermont’s finest yoga instructors in advance of the larger annual conference: BYCspring, that gathers yoga instructors from around the world. BYCwinter gives yoga students, experienced and beginner, a place to practice yoga and learn new things, as well as community to connect with fellow students and local teachers and studios. Gain access to many leading innovators in the yoga community and experience yoga’s power to change, cure, and heal from within. Namaste! Burlington Yoga Conference is currently the largest annual yoga conference in New England and Quebec and is steadily growing in size and scope.

BYC’s mission it to unite local yoga studios, teachers, and students to develop community. BYC intends to inspire personal practice, a sense of connection, and positive change through yoga. BYCwinter highlights some of Vermont’s finest yoga instructors in advance of the larger annual conference: BYCspring, that gathers yoga instructors from around the world. BYCwinter gives yoga students, experienced and beginner, a place to practice yoga and learn new things, as well as community to connect with fellow students and local teachers and studios. Gain access to many leading innovators in the yoga community and experience yoga’s power to change, cure, and heal from within.

Namaste!

evolution yoga creates event for flood relief: vinyasa for vermont

Jane — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:43:35 +0000

Throughout the past 3 years of BYC history, evolution yoga has taken an active role in supporting the conference. evolution’s support, in part, enables BYC to fufull it’s mission- uniting local yoga studios and students, of various schools and traditions in the spirit of oneness. BYC thanks evolution deeply; without our local yoga studios getting involved, the conference could not fully fulfill its dharma.

Yoga is connection with a focus on compassion and service. evolution yoga created an awesome yoga-event, Vinyasa for Vermont on Dec. 11, to serve our neighbors, still suffering from flood damage and unite people in support. They selected two non-profit funds as the recipients of the money raised: The Intervale Farmer Recovery Fund to help with local disaster relief and The Vermont Disaster Relief Fund for statewide long-term relief efforts. 100% of profits will go to these two funds.

Sunday, December 11th from 9-11 am at the UVM Davis Center- a special yoga class will be taught by eight of the area’s leading yoga teachers : Heidi Bock, Susan Cline Lucey, Sofi Dillof, Emily Garrett, Lydia Hill, John McConnell, Martha Whitney and Jim Woodard featuring live music by Patrick McAndrew and Heidi Champney – Guitar, Violin and Sonic Landscapes.

A new and used yoga Clothing Sale will follow the class from 11-12:30. Sample Lake Champlain Chocolates, get a chair massage, you can enter the raffle and shop.

There are two ways to attend Vinyasa for Vermont: 1. Buy a ticket : to the event online for $30 or 2. Join our fundraising team raise a minimum of $30. This is a tax deductible donation.

Vinyasa for Vermont has some great prizes to give away including: Registration in an Honest Yoga Teacher Training $2500 value | 10 bodywork sessions from Stephen O’Dwyer at Neuromuscular Therapy of Vermont. Value $1000 | Wanderlust Festival at Stratton Mountain 2012 Sage Pass 4-day yoga + music ticket – $475 value | Lululemon Gift Certificate $300 value | (and our personal favorite) Tickets to the Winter and Spring Burlington Yoga Conference events $205 value :)

We hope to see you there in support of Vermonters in need!