The Living Yoga Intensive
Join Amy and the Center Yoga + Wellness community for our beloved New Year’s weekend immersion. This is a chance to reignite your practice from the inside out and reconnect with what moves you. Our goal this weekend will be to take the time to reacquaint ourselves with some of the timeless postures seldom taught in today’s fast-paced world, while exploring what it means to live your yoga.

Through intelligent sequencing, skillful alignment instruction, and classic feel-good asana, you’ll explore practices, philosophy, pranayama, and meditation while expanding your capacity for resilience and joy.

Get excited to move, breathe, and learn in a welcoming community of practitioners ready to deepen their understanding and reignite inspiration for the year ahead.

Walk away with tools to meet the world where it is, new friends in your corner, and a feeling of freedom and ease in your body!

GIFT BAG FOR FIRST 20 PEOPLE TO REGISTER FOR THE FULL WEEKEND.

This weekend also serves as the in-person kickoff for Amy’s online 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, officially beginning February 24, 2026 (Learn more and apply!).

WEEKEND SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, January 30 | 6:00–8:00pm - HIPS - click here to sign up for this session ONLY

Gather with friends, old and new, to unwind the hips and pelvis through intelligent sequencing and breath. Expect deep hip opening, and a focus on mobility, stability, and longevity.

SATURDAY, January 31 | 11:00am–1:00pm - HEART - click here to sign up for this session ONLY

Awaken your chest, shoulders, and upper back with progressive heart expansion designed to broaden your range and strengthen your upper back for improved posture.

SATURDAY, January 31 | 3:00–5:00pm - LOW BACK & HAMSTRINGS - click here to sign up for this session ONLY

A therapeutic, grounding practice to free the lower back and strengthen the back body. Through accessible forward folds and stabilizing poses, you’ll unlock ease and circulation throughout the spine and legs.

SUNDAY, February 1 | 11:00am–1:00pm - INVERSIONS & RESTORATION - click here to sign up for this session ONLY

End the weekend on a high note with an uplifting blend of standing balances, hand balances, and inversions, followed by a deeply restorative closing sequence. Leave feeling grounded, refreshed, and ready for the year ahead.

PRICING:

Early Bird (through December 31, 2025): $65 per session | $249 for the full weekend

Regular Pricing: $75 per session | $289 for the full weekend

Yoga Alliance CE hours for full weekend apply for teachers. Non-refundable. Yoga Alliance CE hours available for full-weekend participants.

Winter Yogafest!
The Seeker’s Life: Yoga & the Invitation to Meaning

Winter invites us inward — to reflect, reset, and rekindle the spark of curiosity. Join us this February for a warm, heart-centered winter gathering designed to reconnect you with what matters most. Together we’ll explore story, philosophy, and practice in community as we open the new year with purpose, inspiration, and a renewed commitment to living our yoga. Most of us want to know where we came from, how we got here, and where we’re going. There is a seed of curiosity and an inner calling in each of us. In this gathering, we’ll look at how yoga traditions have defined the seeker and what they have to say about life that invites us to more than our duties and responsibilities. Stories from the Rg Veda, the Upanishads, the Epics and Puranas will provide us with all we need to ask what’s life for and what could it be about? Expect to explore classical teachings alongside skillful, grounded yoga practices to help you remember your direction, build inner steadiness, and return home renewed and inspired. 

Weekend Highlights:

• Yoga asana, pranayama + meditation with Amy and Sue 

• Philosophy + storytelling sessions with Douglas

• Nourishing catered communal dinner on Friday night

• Daily opportunities for reflection, connection + community

• A chance to reset, recharge, and begin the year anchored

• Cozy winter vibes + a supportive learning environment

Full Weekend Schedule:

Friday, February 6

3:00-4:30pm: Asana with Amy

5pm: communal dinner at Dig

6:00-8:30pm: Lecture with Douglas

Saturday, February 7

12:00-3pm: Lecture with Douglas

3:30-5pm: Asana with Amy

Sunday, February 8

10-11:15am: Asana with Sue & Amy

12:00-2:30pm: Douglas

Pricing:

Full Winter YogaFest + Dinner: $320, $285 for staff /monthly members
Douglas only: $195 

✨ BONUS: First 15 registered for full weekend will receive an organic welcome bag!

300-Hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

Online Program: February–September 2026

Ready to earn your 500-Hour credential and expand your teaching with depth, versatility, and confidence?

My comprehensive 300-hour training helps you refine your craft, step into leadership, and share yoga in a way that leaves a lasting impact — all from the comfort of home.

Optional In-Person Kickoff: January 30–February 1, 2026 | Connecticut

The Sanctuary - Yoga to Reconnect, Retreat, and Recharge - The Good Earth Farm, Lennox, SD

Join Amy and our vibrant community for a weekend of connection and renewal at The Good Earth Farm. Take a pause from the noise of the world to practice yoga in a gorgeous barn, savor organic pizza, and create space for deeper connection — with each other and yourself.

Friday Night Yoga, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Come Home to Yourself: It’s All About the Pelvis
This nourishing evening practice brings you back to your center, the pelvis, as a source of support and stability. Through intentional movement, breath, and grounding poses, we’ll explore how moving from this center creates ease and balance throughout the body. Over time, this can influence how you show up beyond the mat, offering yourself with care rather than depletion. Expect a mix of movement, quiet listening, and a deeply supported savasana. Leave feeling grounded, replenished, and more at home in yourself.

Saturday Morning Yoga, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Hearts Wide Open
Flow through a vibrant blend of gradual, supportive chest-opening poses designed to unlock strength, mobility, and resilience in the upper body. Discover how opening the muscles in the chest can support healthy posture, confident expression, and the ability to handle what comes your way. You’ll leave with practical tools for inversions (more on this Sunday!), backbends, and everyday life, plus a felt sense of openness you can draw on when the world asks more of you.

Saturday Afternoon Yoga, 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Grounded & Generous: Hamstrings, Hips, and Lower Back

Breathe new life into your lower body through a nourishing spectrum of hamstring, hip, and lower back poses designed for both therapeutic relief and renewed vitality. As you create more ease and steadiness in yourself, discover how your ability to give back and make a difference gains more capacity. Walk away feeling freer, more uplifted, and resourced – ready to offer your energy and presence with greater clarity and generosity.

Saturday Evening Farm Dinner, 5:30pm
Enjoy a thoughtfully prepared organic meal from the farm featuring woodfired pizzas and local spring greens.

Sunday Morning Yoga, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Smart Inversions for Real People
If inversions have ever felt intimidating, confusing, or just “not for you,” this Sunday morning session is a safe and supportive place to begin again! We’ll explore upside-down poses as practices of curiosity, trust, and steady progress, not bravado or force.

Through clear alignment, thoughtful preparation, and accessible options, you’ll learn how to approach inversions in ways that honor your body and nervous system. Whether you’re rebuilding confidence, refining familiar inversions, or simply learning how to prepare for inversions without ever going fully upside down, the emphasis is on choice, consent, and intelligent support.

Expect to leave feeling more informed, more capable, and surprisingly calm — with tools you can use both on the mat and in moments when life asks you to see things differently.

FIRST 20 PEOPLE TO REGISTER RECEIVE AN ORGANIC WELCOME BAG!

Where:

The Good Earth Farm
28318 466th Ave
Lennox, SD 57039

How cool is this? Our venue, The Good Earth Farm, has been featured in a Google ad for 2025’s Super Bowl! Watch the video to get a sense of this lovely spot in South Dakota where we’ll gather!

Lodging:
Check out Newton Hills State Park for nearby accommodations. Bring your friends to share a cabin!

Dates:
April 24-26, 2026

Monday April 27th
One-Day Hands on Assists Training for Yoga Teachers at Joy Collective in Sioux Falls!

A skillful hands-on assist can be deeply supportive, clarifying, and transformative for a student’s practice. At the same time, an unskillful or unconscious adjustment can be confusing or harmful – sometimes more so than offering no assist at all. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to offer hands-on assists that are intelligent, respectful, and truly supportive of your students’ bodies and nervous systems.

This day of immersive training is designed to refine your skills in therapeutic touch, observation, and clear intention. Under Amy’s guidance, you’ll explore a wide range of manual assists for common asanas, learning how to adapt them for different bodies, abilities, and contexts. Emphasis will be placed on consent, communication, and the subtle art of presence—so your assists feel educational, empowering, and safe.

Through guided practice, partner work, and thoughtful feedback, you’ll deepen your sensitivity, confidence, and discernment as a teacher. Come expand your teaching repertoire, sharpen your observational skills, and reconnect with hands-on assisting as an act of service, care, and attunement.

Contact The Joy Collective for more information on location and schedule!

Hands on Assists for Yoga Teachers

A skillful hands-on assist can be deeply supportive, clarifying, and transformative for a student’s practice. At the same time, an unskillful or unconscious adjustment can be confusing or harmful – sometimes more so than offering no assist at all. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to offer hands-on assists that are intelligent, respectful, and truly supportive of your students’ bodies and nervous systems.

This day of immersive training is designed to refine your skills in therapeutic touch, observation, and clear intention. Under Amy’s guidance, you’ll explore a wide range of manual assists for common asanas, learning how to adapt them for different bodies, abilities, and contexts. Emphasis will be placed on consent, communication, and the subtle art of presence—so your assists feel educational, empowering, and safe.

Through guided practice, partner work, and thoughtful feedback, you’ll deepen your sensitivity, confidence, and discernment as a teacher. Come expand your teaching repertoire, sharpen your observational skills, and reconnect with hands-on assisting as an act of service, care, and attunement.

Location:
The Joy Collective
315 N Main Avenue, Ste 207
Sioux Falls, SD

Contact The Joy Collective for registration and schedule details!

June 11-14th, 2026

Four days of world-class yoga, connection, and guided adventure, hosted in Bend, Oregon, a destination beloved for its sunshine, vibrant community, craft culture, delicious organic food & farmer’s markets, and endless outdoor beauty.

The Bend Yoga Festival is rooted in the ancient cultural traditions of yoga and its related philosophies and practices. You are welcome here.

Amy will be joined by yoga luminaries Kia Miller, Tiffany Cruikshank, Gina Caputo, and many more!

4 Days of Deep Connection & Inspiration in the Most Spectacular Setting

So much more than just a yoga festival, it’s a unique and special gathering unlike any other.