​​​​​​​Cheryl Fenner Brown C-IAYT​, E-RYT 500, YACEP

your modern path to wellness through the ancient practices of yoga

Become a monthly subscriber to the most extensive yoga resource available online, brought to you by integrative yoga therapist Cheryl Fenner Brown, C-IAYT, whose passion is to bring transformative, life-affirming yoga practices to everyone. Whether you are a beginner looking for on-demand yoga classes and self-care challenges or a seasoned teacher looking for an encyclopedic yoga resource at your fingertips, this app is for you!

free self-care challenge

To preview the content in the app, access the Free Self-Care Challenge, which guides you through a week of audio and video lessons for simple yoga practices, including Intention, Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, and Yoga Nidra.​ This is the perfect way to preview my teaching style and explore the various yoga practices available with our monthly subscriptions. 
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Student Membership

- For yoga practitioners of any level -
$15 a month
YOGA CLASS LIBRARY *20 classes added
80+ full-length video classes, choose from Chair, Beginning, Restorative, Intermediate, and Subtle Practices & Meditation

YOGA NIDRA *New
Listen to 35 guided meditations from anywhere

5 DAYS TO INTENTION & MANTRA
Discover your heart's greatest wish for self-transformation and healing

21 DAYS TO SPRING SELF-CARE
Ease from Winter to Spring with three weeks of energizing yoga self-care 

21 DAYS TO SUMMER SELF-CARE
Simple yoga self-care that helps you regain your chill this Summer

21 DAYS TO AUTUMN SELF-CARE
Flow into Fall with self-reflective and nourishing yogic self-care 

21 DAYS TO HOLIDAY BLISS
Yoga self-care to keep you sane this Holi-daze season

Teacher Membership

- For YTT trainees, teachers, and yoga therapists -
$30 a month
ADAPTIVE ASANA
Photo and video instruction of 250+ poses, 100+ inspiring sequences, A-Z Pose Index with Sanskrit translations, and Pose Mythology plus fifteen categories of poses to help you adapt your teaching to all students

MUDRA
Photo and video instruction of 220+ gestures that promote dramatic shifts in self-awareness and well-being with an A to Z and Therapeutic Index, and Mudra 101

PRANAYAMA
Instruction for 30+ conscious breath practices that promote health and vitality, including an A to Z index

MANTRA & CHANTING
Sound practices to shift mindset. Includes Chanting 101, Sanskrit Basics, Meaning of Om, Bija Mantra, How to Use a Mala, and Common Yoga Chants

YOGA NIDRA *35 mp3s added
Learn about this guided meditation technique and enjoy sample scripts and listen to 35 mp3s

C​HAKRAS
An introduction to the seven sacred energy centers with resources to explore more deeply

PHILOSOPHY
Honor Yoga's ancient ​Vedanta and Samkhya roots with lessons on the Gunas, Koshas, Kleshas, and Doshas

Reviews

Suzanne Makay, Yoga Therapy Today, Spring 2023, p. 54
The digital application Yoga Encyclopedia is truly a passion project by Cheryl Fenner Brown, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT. The app grew from the seeds of weekly Wisdom that Cheryl planted in her emails, and it has now blossomed into a platform that expresses Cheryl's love of and dedication to the vastness of the yoga practice. Yoga Encyclopedia is for both the yoga teacher and the yoga student. The app is home to an impressive collection of classes, articles, and informative videos spanning many aspects of yoga, including asana classes, spiritual courses, thoughtful therapeutic applications, and yoga philosophy.
 
The content within Yoga Encyclopedia lives up to its name — it is as encyclopedic as it is robust, intelligent, and comprehensive. The yoga class catalog includes chair yoga, beginners' yoga, therapeutic practices, restorative yoga, intermediate sequences, and meditations. There are more than 250 yoga asana explanations and several adaptations based on the practitioner's familiarity with the poses. The app includes more than 220 mudras and details both the art and science of these sacred hand poses; more than 30 pranayama practices; several yoga nidra, mantra, and chanting practices; ample overview texts related to yoga philosophy, and a preview to a 40-hour chakra course.
 
Not only is the content of Yoga Encyclopedia laudable, but the app also delivers on intelligent design that is intuitive and easy to
navigate. Practitioners can log their stress levels to notice trends, and the app seamlessly tracks their engagement across metrics such as the number of days in a row they've completed activities, the number of activities completed, and the minutes spent on the app in the last 30 days. Additionally, the Yoga Encyclopedia allows practitioners to select the practice area they want to engage with while also supporting their progress with an interactive community chat, Similar to a digital satsang (spiritual discourse). The community chat allows practitioners to ask questions directly to Cheryl or to share their successes with others on the app. Jai!"

​The Yoga Encyclopedia costs $30/month, or $1/day, and the practitioner has access to the content discussed previously; several rotating self-care challenges are available for an additional one-time fee. These rotating self-care challenges range across a variety of yogic practices, including yoga for back care, conscious breathing, and yoga nidra. During the self-care challenges, practitioners are provided with short (< 10-minutes) videos or instructional practices to assist them in creating their own yoga practices. For an additional charge, practitioners can also access various seasonal self-care challenges, such as a 5-Day Intention Setting and Personal Mantra challenge.
 
The beautifully designed and thoughtfully curated content within the Yoga Encyclopedia App could be a way for anyone to start or further a yoga education. The breadth and depth of content also make this app useful for yoga therapists wanting to look-up some aspect of yoga or find inspiration for practices and combinations of practices.
Makay Suzanne, MS, MBA, RDN, CDN, ERYT-500, is a certified breath coach and holds a degree in clinical nutrition and nutritional counseling with a concentration on eating disorders Markay is completing the C-IAYT certification and owns two private practices: All Voices Nutrition and MS Yoga Therapeutics.