The Future of Yoga Is Being Defined—Clinically, Consciously, and Collectively

A Featured Conversation at Yoga Expo LA 2026

Yoga is entering a new era—one that extends far beyond studios and personal practice and into healthcare systems, mental health frameworks, and community-based environments. As this transition accelerates, the question is no longer whether yoga belongs in these spaces, but how it is integrated—with integrity, responsibility, and evidence.

That conversation will be visibly underway at Yoga Expo LA 2026, the nation’s largest yoga-inspired gathering, returning for its eighth year on Saturday, February 7, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center.

Among the many sessions shaping this forward-looking event is a featured talk led by Dr. Mini Rattu, a FeelWell™ Fellow and FeelWell Council™ Member, whose work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, neuroscience, and embodied practice.

A Highlighted Talk: Integrating Yoga Into Healthcare and Community Health

Dr. Rattu’s session, “Integrating Yoga into Healthcare and Community Health Settings with YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry,” focuses on one clear and critical exploration:

How yoga can be responsibly and effectively integrated into healthcare, mental health, and community-based settings.

Her talk bridges:

• Neuroscience and nervous system regulation

• Trauma-informed care and ethical application

• Evidence-based practice within clinical and community systems

• Embodied wisdom, ensuring yoga’s depth is not lost in translation

Drawing from her work with YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry, Dr. Rattu approaches yoga not as a trend or adjunct, but as a modality that must be thoughtfully designed, appropriately delivered, and contextually grounded when entering institutional environments.

Within the broader scope of Yoga Expo LA 2026, her talk stands as a moment of intellectual rigor—particularly relevant for clinicians, educators, yoga professionals, and wellness leaders navigating the expanding role of yoga in modern care.

Yoga Expo LA 2026: A Forward-Thinking Wellness Gathering

While Dr. Rattu’s session is a key highlight, Yoga Expo LA 2026 is intentionally designed as a full-spectrum, all-day immersive experience, welcoming more than 3,000 attendees across practice, education, innovation, and community.

The event features:

• World-renowned headliners Travis Eliot and Lauren Eckstrom, co-founders of Inner Dimension TV, leading transformational main-stage practices

• Yoga and movement for every body, from vinyasa and restorative to trauma-informed and next-generation hybrid modalities

• Meditation and mindfulness experiences blending ancient wisdom with modern insight

• Keynotes, panels, and presentations exploring integrative health, wellness innovation, biohacking, longevity, and conscious business

• A curated marketplace of 125+ conscious brands, spanning yoga apparel, clean beauty, supplements, superfoods, and sustainable lifestyle products

• Family and youth programming, making the Expo accessible across generations

• Intentional community connection, bringing together studio owners, retreat leaders, clinicians, educators, and conscious entrepreneurs

Each exhibitor and presenter receives a dedicated 50-minute presentation slot, creating space for depth, dialogue, and meaningful engagement.

Curating the Future of Wellness

Hosted by Arianne Traverso and Sandra Tribioli, Yoga Expo LA 2026 reflects a deliberate evolution in the wellness industry—one that values discernment as much as inspiration, and integration as much as innovation.

Dr. Mini Rattu’s featured talk exemplifies this shift. It signals a maturation of yoga’s role in society—where embodied practices meet systems of care with clarity, accountability, and respect for both science and wisdom.

The Larger Invitation

Yoga Expo LA 2026 is not simply a place to practice—it is a place to witness where the wellness industry is heading. It brings together movement, medicine, innovation, and conscious leadership at a moment when discernment matters more than enthusiasm.

Within that landscape, conversations like Dr. Mini Rattu’s signal an important maturation of the field: yoga stepping into systems with responsibility, humility, and intelligence—meeting healthcare, mental health, and community needs without dilution or dogma.

For attendees, the value lies not only in what is practiced on the mat, but in what is understood off of it. This is where practitioners become professionals, wellness becomes infrastructure, and embodied wisdom learns how to speak the language of the future.

Yoga Expo LA 2026 is where that transition becomes visible.

FeelWell Magazine exists to spotlight the leaders, conversations, and systems shaping the future of mind, body, and business.

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Quadeera Teart is the author of ManifestHer: Awakening the Power Within to Build Your God-Sized Vision, Publisher of FeelWell Magazine, and Founder of ManifestHer Media. For over 15 years, she has operated at the intersection of branding, media, and intellectual property—architecting highly visible personal and company brands that scale influence and income. As an Influence Builder, Quadeera specializes in organizing ideas, expertise, and lived experience into premium brand assets, signature programs, and authority-driven platforms. Through her Seen. Heard. Profitable.™ Influence-Building Model, she activates power from within and structures it into refined ecosystems that drive visibility, profitability, cultural impact, and legacy.