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A FREE VIDEO EVENT

With the Founder & Director of the American Viniyoga Institute®
Gary Kraftsow
2026-06-20 11:00:00 am
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Awaken a deeper sense of empowerment around your health and quality of life through the ancient art of Yoga Cikitsā (aka Yoga Therapy) — and become an active participant in your own wellbeing.

Are you dependent upon pharmaceuticals and treatments from healthcare providers and wish you had the tools to better manage your condition?

Yoga Therapy offers a radically different approach…

Much of what the modern world understands about yoga has been filtered through Western interpretation — often emphasizing posture, flexibility, and fitness while overlooking yoga’s deeper therapeutic and multidimensional roots.

Yet within traditional lineages, yoga has long been understood as a profound system of self-care: a holistic map for navigating physical pain, emotional imbalance, chronic illness, and the deeper existential challenges of being human through accessible practices.

Master Yoga Teacher Gary Kraftsow is one of the foremost holders of this authentic therapeutic lineage.

Anchored in decades of study with legendary yogis T.K.V. Deśikāchar and Tirumalai Kriṣhṇamācārya, Gary has guided thousands of people into multidimensional wellbeing — moving beyond surface-level yoga practices into a potent, integrative journey of self-awareness and self-care.

During this free online workshop, Gary will introduce you to the authentic tradition of Yoga Therapy and how it can empower you to regulate and enhance your own health and wellbeing through the challenges of modern living.

You’ll experience the difference between Yoga Therapy and traditional yoga as he guides you through a 15-minute therapeutic practice that begins with movement to release structural tension in the lower back and stabilize the physical body.

From there, you’ll shift into a calming laṅghana prāṇāyāma practice that offers potent tips on how to soothe the autonomic nervous system, release tension, and cultivate focus.

You’ll then experience a pañcamaya-based meditation designed to help you “map” the layers of your human experience and cultivate the self-awareness needed to respond to your body and mind with greater clarity, compassion, and care.

Through specific methods tailored to individual conditions and needs, you’ll better understand what is happening within your own system and apply practices that can positively influence your health, function, and quality of life.

Gary will share how this therapeutic model can support those navigating chronic pain, structural limitations, symptoms of long-term illness, emotional overwhelm, and the challenges of aging…

… while also offering meaningful tools for cultivating mental clarity, resilience, and spiritual wellbeing.

Gary’s deepest intention is to help you recognize that you can become increasingly independent and empowered in your own self-care — and experience physical, physiological, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing throughout every phase of life.

This event is especially meaningful for those in midlife and later life stages who are seeking a more conscious and empowered relationship to health, healing, aging, and wellbeing.

In this free online event, you’ll:

  • Be guided in a 15-minute Yoga Therapy practice that integrates movement, breath, and meditation for greater regulation and self-awareness
  • Learn the differences between yoga, Yoga Therapy, and Western healthcare — and how Yoga Therapy supports proactive self-care
  • Explore an authentic Yoga Therapy lineage — and its purpose as a self-care practice beyond asanas, with different goals, methods, and practices than general yoga
  • Discover how Yoga Therapy can help you identify what’s going on in your system — and provide tools to improve function and quality of life
  • Understand how pain and suffering happen at a multidimensional level — and how Yoga Therapy supports wholeness
  • Discover how Yoga Therapy can support structural health, physiological conditions, emotional balance, and the end-of-life transition — with specific interventions designed for specific conditions
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You’ll also be among the first to learn about Gary’s upcoming 12-week online video course, where you'll learn how to restore balance in your body, calm your nervous system, and cultivate a more empowered relationship to health, aging, and wellbeing through the authentic therapeutic tradition of Yoga cikitsā, or Yoga therapy.

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FREE VIDEO EVENT
2026-06-20 11:00:00 am

Join this FREE video event with Gary Kraftsow to explore how the ancient art of Yoga Cikitsā (aka Yoga Therapy) can empower your self-care practice beyond symptom management — and guide you into multidimensional wellbeing.

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What People Are Saying About Gary Kraftsow...

“I love the way Gary presents the teachings in such an understandable and eloquent way.”
I am so thankful for the work Gary has done in inspiring people. I love the way he presents the teachings in such an understandable and eloquent way. When he stated that the reason we suffer “is the result of our entanglement with the world of name and form,” I was just blown away. When framed that way, all of a sudden everything makes sense to me. I understood how the greatness of the whole has magnified my understanding.
E.N.

Viniyoga teacher-in-training

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“I am such an advocate for Gary because these teachings are real.”
I am such an advocate for Gary because these teachings are real. They have transformed my life, and I have witnessed a transformation in the lives of my students as well. I am profoundly grateful to be a part of this tradition.
S.C.

Viniyoga teacher

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“I cherish the mantras and meditation.”
I cherish the mantras and meditation. My brain was soaked in the mantras to the point where when I woke, I heard them playing in the background of my consciousness. Now that is deep work!
M.D.

Viniyoga student

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“I was able to feel a shift in my productivity and mental health…”
By practicing the material, I was able to feel a shift in my productivity and mental health after a two-year slump.
Kelley

Aurillac, France

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“I felt like, for the first time, I was being initiated into a yoga practice that was authentic...”
I felt like, for the first time, I was being initiated into a yoga practice that was authentic and carried the true energy of this ancient wisdom and science. It felt like a very rare opportunity and the next level in my personal practice.
Steve Waldron

Haiku, Hawaii

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About Gary Kraftsow

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Gary Kraftsow has been an innovator in the transmission of yoga for health, healing, and personal transformation for over 40 years. He began his study of yoga in India with T.K.V. Deśikāchar in 1974 and received a Viniyoga Special Diploma from Viniyoga International in Paris, France in 1988. 

Gary received his master’s degree in psychology and religion from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1983 and opened the Maui School of Yoga Therapy around that time. 

In 1999, he founded the American Viniyoga Institute, LLC. Since then, he has become a renowned speaker and teacher of the Viniyoga methodology at many conferences and schools nationally and internationally. Gary developed protocols for two National Institutes of Health studies, one on yoga for chronic low back pain and one on yoga for anxiety. He also helped develop a clinical trial on mind-body stress reduction in the workplace.

He is the director and senior teacher at the American Viniyoga Institute (AVI®), author of the books Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation, and the educational DVDs Viniyoga Therapy for Low Back, Sacrum and Hips… Viniyoga Therapy for Upper Back, Neck and Shoulders… Viniyoga Therapy for Depression… and Viniyoga Therapy for Anxiety. 

He has also produced multiple online workshops and is in the process of creating the AVI Digital Library, which offers both live and on-demand classes.

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