The Art & Science of Being Human: Free Event ( Access code Panel 2)
A Conversation with Dacher Keltner, Stephanie Lopez & Denise Hatch at Hotel Kabuki (Online + in-Person)
TO REGISTER USE. Acces Code is Panel2 (ie when you register)
The Art & Science of Being Human (in-person + online)
A Conversation with Dacher Keltner, Stephanie Lopez & Denise Hatch
Saturday, May 2 | 1:30–2:15pm
Hotel Kabuki | Part of Yoga Conference SF
Pre-registration is required for this FREE event –
Use Access code Panel2 to register on Eventbrite
The world feels loud. Fast. Unpredictable. And yet—this moment is also asking more of us: more clarity, more heart, more grounded leadership.
Join internationally respected psychologist Dacher Keltner, founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, alongside somatic educator, Stephanie Lopez and mind-body yoga expert, Denise Hatch for a dynamic, real-world conversation about what actually helps us thrive when life feels uncertain.
Dacher Keltner, author of Awe and Born to Be Good, has spent decades studying the science of emotion, compassion, and wellbeing. His research shows that yogic practices and exploring nature, art, and being in community, calm the nervous system, reduce stress chemistry, and expand our sense of connection. These practices makes us less reactive and more generous and widen our perspective when the world feels small.
Stephanie Lopez brings decades of experience weaving classical yoga philosophy with trauma-informed somatics and meditation. As neuroscience continues to explore neuroplasticity and vagal tone, the practices yogis have refined for centuries—breathwork, mindful movement, deep awareness—are now backed by data. They regulate the stress response. They increase emotional range. They build inner steadiness that isn’t dependent on outer conditions.
Denise Hatch is the founder of Power of the Mind and the Yoga Sports Performance Method. She blends yoga, hypnotherapy, and neuroscience. With over three decades of experience, she has trained, professional athletes creatives, leaders and high performers. Denise explores how stress imprints live in the body and nervous system. Breath, attention, and presence can transform those patterns and embodied awareness restores steadiness, clarity, and compassion
What will you walk away with?
• Practical tools to regulate anxiety and steady your nervous system
• A deeper understanding of how yogic practices and nature reshape the brain
• Insight into how compassion strengthens leadership and connection
• Renewed confidence that your personal practice matters—in your life and in the world
• A felt sense of hope rooted in evidence, not denial
You’ll leave with language for what you’re experiencing, tools to navigate it, and inspiration to embody resilience in a way that’s authentic, grounded, and contagious.
Because in uncertain times, well-being isn’t a luxury. It’s leadership.
Pre-registration is required for this FREE event –
Use Access code Panel2 to register on Eventbrite
Free to attend. No prior experience needed—just an open heart and curiosity.
PLEASE NOTE This events is held in person at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco and online
This event is part of the Yoga Conference - for more details please read below.
Recorded Video will be available and sent automatically to all registered participants. If you cannot make the time but would like to attend, please register to receive the video link
Acces Code is Panel2
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Yoga Conference – San Francisco 2026.
(early discount available this week)
The Yoga of Equanimity — Finding Steadiness in a Turbulent World
April 28 – May 3, 2026 | Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
Hosted by Anusara Yoga + Yogakula
A Global Gathering for These Transformative Times
As our world undergoes rapid shifts and collective change, yoga offers us a powerful pathway toward grounded presence, clarity, and resilience. We invite you to immerse yourself in a transformational week of practice, wisdom teachings, and community as we gather in the heart of San Francisco.
Inspired by the timeless teaching from the Bhagavad Gita— “Samatvam yoga ucyate” — Equanimity is Yoga—
This conference invites you to explore how integrated practices of asana, meditation, philosophy, and sacred sound can help us remain steady, open-hearted, and awake during complex times.
This is more than a conference. It is a global convergence of yogis, teachers, scholars, and musicians dedicated to living yoga as a force for peace, healing, and collective wellbeing.
Why This Gathering Matters
In an age of distraction and division, this conference offers a return to presence, connection, and inner resourcefulness. Through immersive yogic practices rooted in Anusara Yoga’s heart-centered approach, you will:
- Cultivate calm and resilience through asana, breathwork, meditation, and nervous-system-supportive practices.
- Deepen your understanding of yoga as a path of embodiment, discernment, and sacred relationship.
- Experience how integrated practices—movement, mantra, philosophy, and community—strengthen your capacity to stay grounded and open in everyday life.
- Connect with a global community of practitioners and teachers from around the world who share a vision of compassion, wisdom, and unity.
Whether you are a dedicated student, a teacher seeking inspiration, or a practitioner ready to deepen your path, this gathering offers a unique opportunity to expand your practice and rediscover what steadiness feels like from the inside out.
World-Renowned Faculty & Visionary Musicians
The Yoga Conference brings together an international lineup of master teachers, scholars, and artists, including:
Carlos Pomeda, Noah Mazé, Christina Sell, Desiree Rumbaugh, Madhuri Martin, Adam Ballenger, Denise Hatch, Jeanie Manchester, Jackie Prete, Julia Pearring, Judyth Hill, Suzanne Zuber, Saraswati Clere, Stephanie Lopez, Jayendra Hanley, Benjamin Finnerty, Masumi Yoshida, Dr. Dacher Keltner, and many others.
We’ll explore:
- Therapeutic & sustainable alignment
- Dynamic, strength-building asana
- Subtle body practices: pranayama, bandhas, energetic alignment
- Philosophy that awakens the heart
- Functional Anatomy & Yoga Therapy
- Skillful Teaching Methodology
Evenings overflow with inspiration, featuring concerts and sacred sound experiences with MC YOGI, Shantala (Benjy & Heather Wertheimer), and other special guests—offering the heart-opening magic of mantra, rhythm, and collective vibration.
Conference Overview
Pre-Conference Teacher Training Intensive - April 28–30, 2026
Deepen your practice with a 16-hour immersion led by renowned yoga educators, Noah Mazé & Christina Sell, focused on sustainable alignment, strength, and refined awareness.
Main Conference - April 30–May 3, 2026
Each day includes multiple tracks of asana, meditation, philosophy, therapeutics, subtle body work, and kirtan—culminating in a powerful collective finale practice on Sunday. Evenings include satsang, concerts, and community gatherings for reflection and renewal.
The Venue: Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco Nestled in the vibrant Fillmore District, Hotel Kabuki blends Japanese-inspired calm with modern elegance. With its serene courtyard, quiet nooks, and beautifully designed practice spaces, it offers the ideal setting for deep practice and rest. Just steps away, you’ll find tea houses, parks, artisan shops, and some of the most soulful corners of San Francisco. The city itself becomes part of your yogic adventure—alive, diverse, creative, and conscious.
The Yoga Conference is a collective offering—a prayer for steadiness, compassion, and a more loving world. Together we affirm a vision where:
- All beings are treated with dignity and respect.
- Our actions support healing for the Earth.
- Community becomes a source of resilience and hope.
- Love, authenticity, and mindful presence guide the way forward.
Every practice, every breath, every chant becomes an act of remembering.
Special Discounts
Holiday Discount. - Use promo code: Holiday25 at checkout Valid through March 15
Group Discounts Perfect for studios, friends, or travel groups.
- 10-Pack: Pay for 8 registrations, get 2 free. 25% savings — $110 off per person
- 6-Pack: Pay for 5 registrations. 20% savings — $90 off per person
- Student discounts available with student ID
To register go to the yogakula website www.yogakula.com
https://www.yogakula.com/events/https/wwweventbritecom/conference
A Conversation with Dacher Keltner, Stephanie Lopez & Denise Hatch at Hotel Kabuki (Online + in-Person)
TO REGISTER USE. Acces Code is Panel2 (ie when you register)
The Art & Science of Being Human (in-person + online)
A Conversation with Dacher Keltner, Stephanie Lopez & Denise Hatch
Saturday, May 2 | 1:30–2:15pm
Hotel Kabuki | Part of Yoga Conference SF
Pre-registration is required for this FREE event –
Use Access code Panel2 to register on Eventbrite
The world feels loud. Fast. Unpredictable. And yet—this moment is also asking more of us: more clarity, more heart, more grounded leadership.
Join internationally respected psychologist Dacher Keltner, founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, alongside somatic educator, Stephanie Lopez and mind-body yoga expert, Denise Hatch for a dynamic, real-world conversation about what actually helps us thrive when life feels uncertain.
Dacher Keltner, author of Awe and Born to Be Good, has spent decades studying the science of emotion, compassion, and wellbeing. His research shows that yogic practices and exploring nature, art, and being in community, calm the nervous system, reduce stress chemistry, and expand our sense of connection. These practices makes us less reactive and more generous and widen our perspective when the world feels small.
Stephanie Lopez brings decades of experience weaving classical yoga philosophy with trauma-informed somatics and meditation. As neuroscience continues to explore neuroplasticity and vagal tone, the practices yogis have refined for centuries—breathwork, mindful movement, deep awareness—are now backed by data. They regulate the stress response. They increase emotional range. They build inner steadiness that isn’t dependent on outer conditions.
Denise Hatch is the founder of Power of the Mind and the Yoga Sports Performance Method. She blends yoga, hypnotherapy, and neuroscience. With over three decades of experience, she has trained, professional athletes creatives, leaders and high performers. Denise explores how stress imprints live in the body and nervous system. Breath, attention, and presence can transform those patterns and embodied awareness restores steadiness, clarity, and compassion
What will you walk away with?
• Practical tools to regulate anxiety and steady your nervous system
• A deeper understanding of how yogic practices and nature reshape the brain
• Insight into how compassion strengthens leadership and connection
• Renewed confidence that your personal practice matters—in your life and in the world
• A felt sense of hope rooted in evidence, not denial
You’ll leave with language for what you’re experiencing, tools to navigate it, and inspiration to embody resilience in a way that’s authentic, grounded, and contagious.
Because in uncertain times, well-being isn’t a luxury. It’s leadership.
Pre-registration is required for this FREE event –
Use Access code Panel2 to register on Eventbrite
Free to attend. No prior experience needed—just an open heart and curiosity.
PLEASE NOTE This events is held in person at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco and online
This event is part of the Yoga Conference - for more details please read below.
Recorded Video will be available and sent automatically to all registered participants. If you cannot make the time but would like to attend, please register to receive the video link
Acces Code is Panel2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yoga Conference – San Francisco 2026.
(early discount available this week)
The Yoga of Equanimity — Finding Steadiness in a Turbulent World
April 28 – May 3, 2026 | Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
Hosted by Anusara Yoga + Yogakula
A Global Gathering for These Transformative Times
As our world undergoes rapid shifts and collective change, yoga offers us a powerful pathway toward grounded presence, clarity, and resilience. We invite you to immerse yourself in a transformational week of practice, wisdom teachings, and community as we gather in the heart of San Francisco.
Inspired by the timeless teaching from the Bhagavad Gita— “Samatvam yoga ucyate” — Equanimity is Yoga—
This conference invites you to explore how integrated practices of asana, meditation, philosophy, and sacred sound can help us remain steady, open-hearted, and awake during complex times.
This is more than a conference. It is a global convergence of yogis, teachers, scholars, and musicians dedicated to living yoga as a force for peace, healing, and collective wellbeing.
Why This Gathering Matters
In an age of distraction and division, this conference offers a return to presence, connection, and inner resourcefulness. Through immersive yogic practices rooted in Anusara Yoga’s heart-centered approach, you will:
- Cultivate calm and resilience through asana, breathwork, meditation, and nervous-system-supportive practices.
- Deepen your understanding of yoga as a path of embodiment, discernment, and sacred relationship.
- Experience how integrated practices—movement, mantra, philosophy, and community—strengthen your capacity to stay grounded and open in everyday life.
- Connect with a global community of practitioners and teachers from around the world who share a vision of compassion, wisdom, and unity.
Whether you are a dedicated student, a teacher seeking inspiration, or a practitioner ready to deepen your path, this gathering offers a unique opportunity to expand your practice and rediscover what steadiness feels like from the inside out.
World-Renowned Faculty & Visionary Musicians
The Yoga Conference brings together an international lineup of master teachers, scholars, and artists, including:
Carlos Pomeda, Noah Mazé, Christina Sell, Desiree Rumbaugh, Madhuri Martin, Adam Ballenger, Denise Hatch, Jeanie Manchester, Jackie Prete, Julia Pearring, Judyth Hill, Suzanne Zuber, Saraswati Clere, Stephanie Lopez, Jayendra Hanley, Benjamin Finnerty, Masumi Yoshida, Dr. Dacher Keltner, and many others.
We’ll explore:
- Therapeutic & sustainable alignment
- Dynamic, strength-building asana
- Subtle body practices: pranayama, bandhas, energetic alignment
- Philosophy that awakens the heart
- Functional Anatomy & Yoga Therapy
- Skillful Teaching Methodology
Evenings overflow with inspiration, featuring concerts and sacred sound experiences with MC YOGI, Shantala (Benjy & Heather Wertheimer), and other special guests—offering the heart-opening magic of mantra, rhythm, and collective vibration.
Conference Overview
Pre-Conference Teacher Training Intensive - April 28–30, 2026
Deepen your practice with a 16-hour immersion led by renowned yoga educators, Noah Mazé & Christina Sell, focused on sustainable alignment, strength, and refined awareness.
Main Conference - April 30–May 3, 2026
Each day includes multiple tracks of asana, meditation, philosophy, therapeutics, subtle body work, and kirtan—culminating in a powerful collective finale practice on Sunday. Evenings include satsang, concerts, and community gatherings for reflection and renewal.
The Venue: Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco Nestled in the vibrant Fillmore District, Hotel Kabuki blends Japanese-inspired calm with modern elegance. With its serene courtyard, quiet nooks, and beautifully designed practice spaces, it offers the ideal setting for deep practice and rest. Just steps away, you’ll find tea houses, parks, artisan shops, and some of the most soulful corners of San Francisco. The city itself becomes part of your yogic adventure—alive, diverse, creative, and conscious.
The Yoga Conference is a collective offering—a prayer for steadiness, compassion, and a more loving world. Together we affirm a vision where:
- All beings are treated with dignity and respect.
- Our actions support healing for the Earth.
- Community becomes a source of resilience and hope.
- Love, authenticity, and mindful presence guide the way forward.
Every practice, every breath, every chant becomes an act of remembering.
Special Discounts
Holiday Discount. - Use promo code: Holiday25 at checkout Valid through March 15
Group Discounts Perfect for studios, friends, or travel groups.
- 10-Pack: Pay for 8 registrations, get 2 free. 25% savings — $110 off per person
- 6-Pack: Pay for 5 registrations. 20% savings — $90 off per person
- Student discounts available with student ID
To register go to the yogakula website www.yogakula.com
https://www.yogakula.com/events/https/wwweventbritecom/conference
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