# Event Details - **Event Name**: SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026 - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 09:30 am – Sun, 06 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Get ready to flow and connect with the BIPOC yoga community in an uplifting gathering you won’t want to miss!About this EventYour Labor Day Weekend Wellness Getaway — Without Leaving the Bay.Limited discounted pricing ends Aug 20 — lock in your spot!This event is dedicated to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who want to connect, practice yoga, support BIPOC businesses, and cultivate wellness together. Experience empowering yoga sessions, workshops, and discussions led by BIPOC instructors. Whether you're seasoned or new to the practice, there's something for everyone at this conference. Don't miss this opportunity to nurture your mind, body, and spirit in a safe and inclusive space. Join us at the SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference!The link to ​ register for workshops and trainings is available here: https://forms.gle/PHiBHawvtZJ54jpN9Check out our website for last year's event and what we're about: https://www.baybipocyogacon.com https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/676a50a0-a5f4-11f1-8990-5d04d231a2dd-rimg-w592-h740-dcc8d8a8-gmir.jpg Saturday 🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AMAnjali Rao - Workshop: Storytelling As A Liberatory PraxisHost: Anjali Rao Info: Storytelling was one of the integral methods for sharing esoteric and abstract concepts in ways that were relatable to ordinary people living ordinary lives. Liberatory teachings of yoga were conveyed through storytelling. Stories, in addition to being informative and laden with insight into the human experience, are chronicles of the times that shed light on the sociopolitical interplay of gender, caste, and religion. Drawing from themes from her first book, Yoga As Embodied Resistance, Anjali Rao leads us into an exploration of extraordinary stories of women, from myth and history who defied societal norms of caste, gender and class. We will discuss how storytelling can be integrated in our practice, teaching and community.🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AMBook Signing: Yoga As Embodied Resistance Host: Anjali Rao Info: Get your copy of Yoga As Embodied Resistance signed by Anjali! There'll be books available for purchase.🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMPranayama Immersion : Cultivating OnenessHost: Meera Dhawan Info: Explore the fourth limb of Yoga, Pranayama, in dept with Meera Dhawan. This immersive pranayama practice explores the breath as a bridge between body, mind, soul, and community. Together, we'll experience Pranayama techniques while reflecting on the ways breath connects us to ourselves, eachother, ancestors, and the world around us. This session offers both guided practice and teaching to invite participants to slow down, cultivate presence, and remember the shared humanity carried in every breath. 🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PMBloom Into Balance: Neurodivergent-Affirming Yoga Flow for self-expHost: Kat LeeInfo: Join Kat Lee of Mindful Bloom Studio for a gentle, neurodiversity-affirming yoga experience designed to cultivate regulation, creativity, and connection. Through mindful movement, breathwork, and a heart- and hip-opening flow, participants will explore how the body stores stress and emotions while creating space for greater ease, self-expression, and freedom. The workshop also introduces Likhita Japa, a meditative writing practice in which participants repeatedly write a chosen mantra or intention to support focus and inner reflection. By engaging the mind, body, and breath together, this practice offers another accessible pathway to grounding and presence. This class is designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind, offering options throughout so every participant can honor their unique body and nervous system. Teachers, practitioners, and anyone curious about creating more compassionate, neurodiversity-affirming spaces will leave with practical tools they can integrate into bot🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PMThe Stories We Live: Discovering Yourself Through the Sacred Stories of YogaHost: Aditi Sharma Info: The stories of yoga were never meant to be distant myths, they were meant to be lived. In this workshop, we'll explore three sacred stories from the yogic tradition and the timeless wisdom they offer for navigating uncertainty, courage, purpose, and self-discovery. Through storytelling, guided reflection, discussion, and meditation, participants will move beyond learning philosophical concepts to experiencing how these stories become mirrors for their own lives. Rather than approaching yoga philosophy as something abstract or academic, this workshop invites participants to engage with it in a way that is personal, practical, and deeply relevant. Storytelling has always been one of humanity's oldest teaching traditions, and the stories of yoga continue to offer profound insight into the human experience thousands of years after they were first shared.🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PMIntersectionality in Yoga: How to begin the conversation on equity & belongingHost: Meesha SharmaInfo: This interactive workshop invites participants to move beyond surface-level conversations about diversity and into a deeper understanding of intersectionality as a living practice within yoga communities. Together, we will explore how systems of identity and power including caste, race, ethnicity, class, disability, gender, sexuality, religion, and migration shape who feels welcomed, represented, and supported in yoga spaces. The session will begin by introducing the foundations of intersectionality and examining how historical and contemporary inequities continue to influence the modern yoga industry Drawing from both social justice frameworks and yogic philosophy, we will explore practical strategies for cultivating equity and belonging through community leadership, programming, language, and relationship-building. Participants will leave with actionable tools and a framework for creating yoga spaces that honor complexity, encourage accountability, and foster genuine inclusion.🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PMTeacher Training: Exploring Ease - Intro to Restorative Yoga (part 1)Host: Samara Reynolds Info: This training is a short experiential introduction to Restorative yoga. It begins with a practice to contextualize the lecture. We'll touch on the history of Restorative yoga, societal attitude towards rest, access to rest, racism in wellness, consent and autonomy,the nervous system. Folks will learn how and why props are set up a certain way, anatomical principles, and how to give their students a great Savasana that meets them where they are. Discussions about rest will touch on anti-blackness,classism, ableism, fatphobia, racism, and xenophobia in order to support BIPOC as we navigate a world not yet built with us in mind. Sliding scale: $65-125 2 scholarships available!🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PMDe-Addiction: Returning to Balance (Ayurveda)Host: Amita Basra Info: When we hear "addiction", most of us picture substances such as alcohol, nicotine, or drugs. However, addiction is actually any pattern we've become dependent on to feel okay, even when that pattern pulls us further from balance. A habit doesn't need a needle or a bottle to be an addiction-- it just needs to be something we reach for automatically, something the body and mind have learned to crave regardless of whether it serves us. This talk explores addiction through that wider lens: as any habituated response that creates vikriti (imbalance) in the body and mind. Will look at how our daily routines (dinacharya) either reinforce that imbalance or gently correct it. Small, repeated choices compound over time into either dis-ease or swastha (true health). Rather than treating the addiction as a battle of willpower against a single habit, we'll talk about it as a practice of awareness. We'll rebuild a rhythm of living that naturally supports balance instead of working against it.🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PMAuthentic Visibility: Building Your Voice, Story & Community as a Yoga TeacherHost: Kristy Whitlock Info: Participants will learn how to identify their unique voice, share their personal story with intention, create content that reflects their values, and develop a more sustainable relationship with being visible online and within their communities. I believe this is a strong fit for the BIPOC Yoga Conference because representation matters—not only in who teaches yoga, but in who feels empowered to be seen as a leader, creator, and community builder. This workshop supports BIPOC yoga teachers in taking up space, honoring their lived experiences, and sharing their gifts in a way that feels aligned with who they are.🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PMKirtan - Baba Hanuman: A kirtan in the Bhakti traditionHost: Alyssa Lauren StoneInfo: Kirtan is call and response. Alyssa sings a line; you sing it back. No experience, no training, and no previous Sanskrit knowledge required... only your voice. Kirtan comes out of Bhakti, the yoga of love and devotion, carried from teacher to student across South Asia for centuries before it was ever sung in a Western studio. Alyssa learned Bhakti from Grammy-nominated artist Jai Uttal and from yoga teacher, recording artist, and author Janet Stone. The tradition holds that every letter of Sanskrit vibrates a specific energy point in the body. Sixty minutes, one harmonium, and a room of untrained voices. If you have ever cried during a chant and couldn't say why, that is the practice working, not you losing composure.Sunday 🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMElevate Yo Soul: Movement, Affirmations & CacaoHost: Chris Rodriguez & Rondy Isaac Info: A soulful convergence of two of the Bay's most magnetic yoga teachers, coming together for one unforgettable journey inward. This is a full-body, full-spirit reset that is part ceremony, part movement practice. Come as you are and leave lighter, louder, and more you, with a gift at the end of the session. We open with a cacao ceremony, meditation, and pranayama to settle the nervous system and drop into presence before we move. We reflect through guided journaling prompts, inviting you to name what's ready to shift and what's ready to rise. We then move through a dynamic flow blending asana with primal movement. We close with sound therapy, letting ourselves integrate. You will leave with a gift to carry the practice beyond the mat.🕑: 11:30 AM - 01:30 PMTeacher Training - Yogic Music Theory for Yoga Teachers and Sound HealersHost: Tako Oda Info: This training covers the science behind music (especially singing) and how it heals. The second half will be practical techniques for healthy vocal production, as well as application of harmonic theory to sound healing and playlist design. While both Yoga and music have long histories of being appropriated, this training will make a point of looking at music from a South Asian lens - in particular the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Music and Yoga have always been closely tied to liberatory struggles, and are therefore central to the lives of BIPOC. Tako is an Oakland-based yoga instructor and teacher trainer. As a registered YACEP, their workshop can count towards continuing education credits for YA members.Sliding scale:$45-80 NOTAFLOF🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PMWorkshop: Meeting Life As It Is: Kleshas & CompassionHost: Disha Gupta Info: What if the patterns of the mind that keep us stuck aren't personal flaws, but simply part of being human? This workshop offers an embodied introduction to the yogic concept of the kleshas - universal patterns that arise as we search for certainty, identity, and lasting happiness. Rather than seeing these patterns as something to fix, we'll explore how recognizing them can become a source of compassion, offering relief in the understanding that they are part of our shared human experience. Through embodied grounding, yoga philosophy, guided reflection, journaling, and community dialogue, we'll connect these timeless teachings with our own lived experience. Participants will leave with a practical understanding of the kleshas, simple embodied tools for cultivating awareness, and perhaps a gentler, more compassionate way of meeting themselves and life as it is.🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PMTeacher Training - Exploring Ease: Intro to Restorative Yoga (part 2)Host: Samara Reynolds Info: This training is a short experiential introduction to Restorative yoga. It begins with a practice to contextualize the lecture. We'll touch on the history of Restorative yoga, societal attitude towards rest, access to rest, racism in wellness, consent and autonomy,the nervous system. Folks will learn how and why props are set up a certain way, anatomical principles, and how to give their students a great Savasana that meets them where they are. Discussions about rest will touch on anti-blackness,classism, ableism, fatphobia, racism, and xenophobia in order to support BIPOC as we navigate a world not yet built with us in mind. Sliding scale: $65-125, 2 scholarships available!🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PMWorkshop - Seasonal Ayurvedic YogaHost: Vida Karvandi Info: Receive an intro to Ayurveda through the seasons. As we are transitioning from summer (pitta season) to autumn (vata season), that will be our focus. We will practice pranayama (breathwork) & yoga asanas (poses) in relation to the heat of pitta season or the coolness of vata season. To enhance alignment and make yoga poses more accessible, we will use support from the wall and blocks. Whether you're a beginner, more advanced or a teacher, you will learn something new. As this is a BIPoC fully centered conference, ancestral reclamation and communing are integral. Each personal ancestry will be welcomed and incorporated in whatever capacity resonates. Collectively communing and weaving our lineages through each Ayurvedic breath, movement and meditation together.🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PMSound bath!Host: Island Time Healing - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/berkeley/sf-bay-bipoc-yoga-conference-2026/100001995478661393 - **Event Categories**: health-wellness, workshops, business, art, conferences, yoga, bhajan-jamming, meditation, storytelling, meetups, fine-arts, literary-art, science-fair, womens-history-month - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - door_time: 2026-09-05T16:00:00Z - Duration: 8 hours 30 minutes - Location: The Berkeley Alembic - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 31.48, max: 60.54, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Berkeley - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: The Berkeley Alembic - **lat**: 37.85417169999999 - **long**: -122.2934207 - **full address**: The Berkeley Alembic, 2820 Seventh Street, Berkeley, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026 - **Image URL**: https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F1189716514%2F131756148869%2F1%2Foriginal.20260727-173338?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&s=f5490d950461c21a8ec586ac49986ccb ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026 being held? - **A:** SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026 takes place on Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 09:30 am to Sun, 06 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm at The Berkeley Alembic, 2820 Seventh Street, Berkeley, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026? - **A:** SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026 is organized by Josephine Mwanvua. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** SF Bay BIPOC Yoga Conference 2026 is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Berkeley, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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