June 12-15th 2025
Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort
Hancock, MA

The Berkshire Yoga Festival is a 4-day experience featuring over 120+ offerings including yoga, meditation, fitness practices, music, hiking, art installations, YES talks, social gatherings, a vendor village and more. Join our internationally acclaimed faculty on the breathtaking campus at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort.

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Events with Kari Harendorf:

-Friday 2-5pm: Psoas It Is

-Sunday 8-9:30am: Get off my back

-Sunday 10am: Yes Talk on Ayurveda

June 27-29, 2025
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Imagine a world where your shoulders move effortlessly, free from stiffness and limitations. 

“Shouldering It All,” a transformative yoga therapeutics weekend meticulously designed to empower you with strength, flexibility, and freedom of movement in your shoulder girdle.

A strong shoulder girdle is the literal foundation of many yoga poses, but it is also essential in daily activities.

Through expertly sequenced asanas and exercises specifically targeted to potentiate these joints, you will gain flexibility by opening the chest muscles, stretching the shoulders, and strengthening the muscles that stabilize and support this crucial region of the body. 

What You Will Learn 

- The anatomy of the four joints that make up the shoulder girdle  

- Simple movements and stretches that can be easily incorporated into your daily routine to reverse pain, stiffness, and limitations.

- How to best avoid the common misalignments that can lead to injury.

- Why our collective posture and sedentary lifestyle can be so detrimental to the health of these joints.

- The energetic anatomy and why mindset is crucial in strong, pain-free shoulders.

Delve into poses that engage the core, the back, and the arms to build a strong and stable foundation for shoulder mobility. With a focus on alignment and mindful movement, you will develop the strength necessary to gracefully move through your practice and daily life with newfound ease.

As a certified yoga therapist, Kari wholeheartedly believes in the mind-body connection. This weekend intensive also incorporates mindfulness practices and mind-body healing techniques to deepen your awareness of the shoulder girdle’s intricate mechanics and connections to the heart and mind, as well as the breath and movement.

Whether you are a yogi or yoga teacher wanting to expand your understanding of the shoulder girdle, a yoga therapist looking to serve your clients better, or someone seeking relief from shoulder pain and discomfort, this weekend will leave you with a sense of greater understanding and empowerment of how to better care for and support this area of the body, so you can genuinely "shoulder it all." 

November 21-23, 2025
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Become the master of your breathing, the maestro of your health. Traditionally, yoga classes begin or end with pranayama techniques. Less attention is given to breathing within poses beyond being told when to inhale and exhale. True functional breathing is more than inhaling and exhaling from an external cue. Your breath can make or break your practice. Your breath can make or break your life.  

In this workshop, you will:

Discover the difference between breathwork and pranayama.

Delve into the biochemistry and biomechanics of breathing.

Learn the science behind traditional yoga breath practices.

Measure how functional your breathing is.

Train the respiratory system to be more efficient and imbue the body with more oxygen.

Increase adaptability and resilience to stress on a cellular level.

Learn about the relationship between breathing, sleep, and mental health and how to improve all three.

This workshop is for yoga teachers wanting to understand how and why pranayama is so powerful and which ones to teach for which student, yogis who know that breath is the bridge for true body-mind health and harmony, and anyone who breathes. To improve your functional breathing, this workshop leverages Oxygen Advantage® techniques, including the simulation of high-altitude training during yoga asana.