Kirtan with David Newman (Durgas Das) Featuring Mira Saturday, August 14, 7:30 pm, $25 READ MORE
Inner Fire Meditation Workshop with David Newman (Durgas Das) Featuring Mira Sunday, August 15, 11am to 1pm, $25 READ MORE
Warrior Heart Workshop Saturday, September 25, 12-5 pm, $50, Instructed by Judy McClain & Priscilla Szneke READ MORE
Maha Sadhana: The Great and Divine Practice Held the third Saturday of each month, 5:30-8:30 pm. Join us July 17th, 2010. READ MORE
Pre-registration by August 10 for both events: $45.
Kirtan with David Newman (Durgas Das) Featuring Mira
Saturday, August 14, 7:30 pm
$25 if purchased by August 10, $30 afterwards online or at the door.
Join us for a heartfelt evening of ecstatic call and response chanting, devotional music and sacred song with Kirtan Chant Artist David Newman (Durga Das). David’s distinctive approach to Kirtan embodies a devotional mysticism with an adventurous musicality and poetic intimacy. His Kirtans are a joyous and spiritually uplifting journey into bliss! David will be joined by his wife Mira, a gifted devotional vocalist and percussionist. All are welcome!
Please Register online.
Inner Fire Meditation Workshop with David Newman (Durgas Das) Featuring Mira
Sunday, August 15, 11am to 1pm
$25 if purchased by August 10, $30 afterwards online or at the door.
Inner Fire Meditation is a healing journey into stillness and peace. It is a heart centered approach bringing together many facets of meditation such as breath, visualization, prayer and devotion into a unified and accessible experience. Through simple yet powerful means, Inner Fire Meditation offers guidance for attaining both mental clarity and self discovery. David will support you in strengthening your meditation practice and offer tools for cultivating inner peace and achieving real life changes.
Please Register online.
Saturday, September 25, 12-5 pm $50
Instructed by Judy McClain & Priscilla Szneke
The martial language of yoga seems to pose a contradiction: warriors, bows, and arrows permeate the texts of yoga, which is based on nonviolence and cultivating a peaceful heart. On the battlefield of the Bhagavad Gita, for instance, God incarnates as Krishna to teach the warrior-prince Arjuna how to act with Self-knowledge, or wisdom. And among the first teachings of the Buddhist Shambala tradition is that of the warrior, or how to answer the call for enlightened action.
The simple warrior poses of hatha yoga, then, become mysterious vessels for complex human issues. These postures allow for great emotional, energetic, and psychological explorations on the mat. What does it mean to cultivate the heart of a warrior? What does it mean to act skillfully? What is it, exactly, that is happening to us when we assume the posture of a warrior, and how might we refine our postures purposefully? What is the relationship between our hips and our hearts? Can our physical practice help us develop a peaceful, compassionate presence in the world?
In this workshop we will explore Warrior on the mat, in meditation, and in lecture
and discussion. The workshop is suitable for students of all practice levels, and ceu’s are available for teachers who attend.
Please register online.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Judy McClain (E-RYT, RYT 500) founded Grace Yoga as a means for students to further their classical yoga studies and raise their consciousness. She teaches through the grace of her guru, Sri Dharma Mittra, and trains at his center in NYC.
Priscilla Szneke (RYT 200) integrates 30 years' experience as a nurse and epidemiologist with her commitment to meditation and yoga. Mindfulness, the art of interacting fully and intentionally with the present moment, is a central part of her practice and teachings. Read more at Seventh Element.
Maha Sadhana: The Great and Divine Practice
Held the third Saturday of each month, 5:30-8:30 pm. $25 Please preregister for this event. Join us July 17th, 2010.
Once a month at his NYC yoga center, Dharma Mittra leads a wondrous event called Maha Sadhana, which includes chanting, pranayama, psychic development exercises, deep vinyasa yoga, and Yoga Nidra. Beginning in the fall, Grace Yoga will hold a Maha Sadhana in the tradition of Sri Dharma Mittra the third Saturday of every month. The pranayama and chanting clean the mind and nervous system of impurities and bring radiance to the entire body. The deep practice of Shiva Namaskara Vinyasa tones and purifies the physical body. Psychic Development exercises put us in touch with all our resources and sharpen our powers of discernment. Maha Sadhana cements a community like no other practice.