KARMA・Awakening the Joy of Selfless Service with Nonviolent Communication
Celebrating 6 Paths of Integral Yoga
60 Year Anniversary Weekend Celebration • Friday, OCT 2 – Sunday, OCT 4
HATHA • physical well-being | RAJA • mental mastery | BHAKTI • devotion | JNANA • wisdom & Self-realization
KARMA • selfless service | JAPA • transformation through sacred sound
ONLINE with Kamala Itzel Hayward
$5–54 individual session | $54–540 Weekend Pass
Accepted memberships: Active teachers, Weekend Pass* holders, and “Friends” all levels
All sessions are offered on a sliding scale to support accessibility for all. You may pay for individual sessions or purchase a Weekend Pass, which serves as one payment for all sessions throughout the weekend. Weekend Pass holders must still register in advance for each session they wish to attend in order to reserve their space. As a special weekend in support of our nonprofit mission, we invite you to contribute as generously as you are able to help us continue sharing the classical teachings of Integral Yoga with all who seek them for years to come. Thank you.
Nonviolent Communication, or NVC, offers practical tools for us to practice Karma Yoga—the path of selfless service. At its most superficial level, NVC provides a framework for speaking with truthfulness (satya) and nonviolence (ahimsa). However, NVC is rooted in the understanding that the most direct path to peace is through self-awareness and awareness of our interdependence. And when our NVC practice becomes well-established, we release attachment to outcomes and the knowing of our shared humanity awakens.
In this workshop, we explore what it means to give in a way that is selfless and joyful—giving that springs not from attachment, obligation, or aversion, but from the expansive movement of our heart toward another. Through this exploration, we discover the paradox that lies at the center of Karma Yoga: that when we give freely and fully, the distinction between giver and receiver dissolves, and we experience our fundamental human interconnection—the recognition that we are not separate.
Kamala Itzel Hayward was an economic justice and public policy lawyer for over a decade before shifting her focus to wellness, mindfulness, and healing. The liberatory, embodied, trauma-informed lens she developed across both paths now shapes everything she does. Itzel specializes in bringing Yoga and mindfulness to communities directly impacted by systemic oppression. She is the founder of the Integral Yoga Institute’s Scholarship-Based Yoga Teacher Training for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. She’s also an Adjunct Professor at UC Law SF, where she teaches her students to facilitate equitable group processes through mindful presence, power-consciousness, and empathic engagement. Find Itzel on Insight Timer for a library of guided meditations, monthly live events, and her growing community rooted in liberation and collective well-being: insighttimer.com/attunedliving
Enjoy a Weekend Pass; make one payment and access ALL sessions throughout the weekend! Remember; Weekend Pass holders must still register in advance for each session that they wish to attend in order to reserve their space. When registering for individual sessions, select the Weekend Pass as your payment.
