Dear Reader,

I’m thrilled to let you know that I’ll be visiting the Bay Area this winter as the guest teacher-in-residence at Yogakula Berkeley. I’ll be offering:

  1. February 1: Calming Anxiety
  2. February 8: Building Strength & Resilience
  3. February 15: Moving Through Grief, Anger, and Despair
  4. February 22: Leaning into Uncertainty

I also have limited space for in-person 1:1 sessions. Contact me for more information about how I might support you.

Learn more about all of these events at www.yogakula.com.

Like many yoga teachers, I’ve been leading classes mostly online for a few years now, so I’m super excited to get back into the studio and be with the warm and welcoming Yogakula community. I’d love to see you there!

Yours in yoga,

Barrie Risman

A little bit about me: I’ve been teaching yoga for more than 25 years and working with yoga teachers for nearly 20. My book Evolving Your Yoga: Ten Principles for Enlightened Practice is a guide for teachers and continuing students to deepen, expand, and integrate the benefits of yoga in their lives. I teach students around the globe through my ongoing classes, workshops, mentoring programs, and trainings, both online and in person.

I’m known for conveying the essence of yoga philosophy with exceptional clarity, coherence, and relevance to people from all walks of life. I’m regarded as a teachers’ teacher, and my students tell me that I’m as unpretentious and down-to-earth as I am insightful and inspiring. They appreciate the combination of rigor and challenge balanced with sensitivity, humor, and compassion that I bring to my teaching.

My events weave together the technical precision of refined alignment-based postural practice with an ever-present awareness of the wisdom teachings of yoga distilled from decades of intensive study and practice.

My work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Elephant Journal, La Presse, and on CBC television. I’ve been a regular contributor to the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog. Most recently, I collaborated with Nina Zolotow on her book Yoga for Times of Change.

Watch this video to learn more about my approach to teaching yoga.

Are you wondering what Nina Zolotow is up to these days? Check out her Delusiastic! blog for tiny stories and creative non-fiction and sign up for her emails here, or find her on Substack.