Take advantage of the opportunity to learn from one of the most senior Iyengar instructors in the world. Lois Steinberg returns to California Yoga Center to share her expertise with us.
This special session for CIYTs focuses on emotional wellness to deepen personal practice, enhance teaching skills, and empower students with tools that support emotional health and well-being.
When we experience anger, agitation, doubt, shame/guilt, hate, fear and/or fatigue, it diminishes our health, both emotionally and physically. These aspects impact our lives and our relationships with others. Stress can diminish our emotional wellness.
Stability, self-love, resilience, equanimity, self-content, confidence and compassion define emotional wellness. Sadhana is the foundation for being present and cultivating these qualities.
Lois will guide you through different sequences to optimize and balance the emotional being. Learn how to practice when there is grief/shock, ongoing trauma/post-trauma, anxiety, mood disorders, and fatigue. Modifications of classic asana help the student process and manage difficult emotions and situations. The result is a physical body with less tension and breathing that is more smooth which promotes mental stability and equanimity.
CIYT’s ONLY may attend Friday through Sunday all sessions: for $350.
Schedule:
Friday, March 6, 2026 (For CIYT’s Only)
Teachers Session - 12:00-4:30 pm; Cost $135 Drop in
Students are able to join for Saturday and Sunday. You may attend the whole weekend or attend one day only.
Saturday, March 7th, 2026:
Session 1: 9-12; Cost $100 (drop in)
Session 2: 4-6:00pm: Cost $75 (drop in)
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Session 3: 9am-12pm; Cost$100 (drop in)
Bio: Lois Steinberg (Ph.D., CIYT Lever 4, C-IAYT) is one of the world’s most experienced yoga instructors awarded the Advanced 2 certification by B.K.S. Iyengar himself. Her 40 years of extensive studentship with the Iyengars includes annual participation in the general and medical classes at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India.
Lois’ teaching is infused with enthusiasm to share the knowledge and acumen that have come through her sustained practice and study of the tremendous work of B.K.S. Iyengar and his family. She strives to emphasize and exemplify whole-body transformation through the joy of regular immersion in practice. As a teacher, she is direct, dynamic, clear, focused, engaging, gently humorous, and an invaluable resource for understanding the healing potential of yoga. As a teacher of teachers, a hands-on mentoring approach is the focus of her IYCU teacher education program.
Lois is the author of numerous books and articles and is widely respected for and consulted regarding her considerable knowledge of therapeutics. She is sought after worldwide to instruct workshops, and serves as a member of and assessor for the Certification Committee of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the US.