ENTERING 2012: SPIRIT TOUR OF INDIA, GREECE WORKSHOPS, MORE…

SPIRIT TOUR OF INDIA: FEB 2012 (Click here for details)

Starting our yatra in Chennai, we will tour the spiritual landscape of Tamil Nadu and its magnificent temple architecture.

A stone carving at a Shiva Temple

Continuing on through Mahabalipuram, we come to the quaint, once French, town of Pondicherry, home of Sri Aurobindo.
And the nearby Eco-Village conceptualized by The MotherAuroville.

Meditating inside the Matra Mandir is to access pure energy.

It is a yearning that draws one to Tiruvannamalai, the pure joy of visiting the home of Ramana Maharishi
and the mountainhe loved so much as the home of Lord Shiva: Arunachala!

The sun sets at Arunachala

We visit the sacred town of Chidambaram, where the Shiva Temple is dedicated to his Yogic form as Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer.

Thillai Nataraj Temple

Completing our yogic journey of the south, we fly north to Varanasi, perhaps the oldest living city in the world!
While immersing in the sacredness of the Ganges, visiting its ancient Temples and walking its ancient streets, we study Tantra with scholars and listen in the old gharanas to the music of one of its 15th generation classical musician families.

Varanasi, the river Ganges and its ancient temples

Finally, a small group of us will venture on to Rishikesh to visit the Ganges in another of its most sacred homes, Rishikesh:

Where ancient rishis lived once and a bridge now takes us across a river Lord Rama crossed by boat back somewhere in the mists of time

HOWEVER, 2012 begins in January with another Sacred Art of Eating workshop, this one in Malibu as it traverses its way across the culinary landscape of Southern California: perhaps it is time for you to immerse in its aromas, tastes and visual pleasures?
January 29: 1-7 PM at a Private home in Malibu: Space is limited to 12. Please contact Lynn Dolin at lynndolin@aol.com to sign up.

BACK in Greece after the India Retreat, we invite our international friends to join us for a Teacher Training Immersion in Ayurveda for Yogins: March 1-4:
Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers, Level 1: The Path of Healing & Realization
with Arun Devaat NYSY Yoga Studio, Athens
(Click Here For Details)

UPCOMING!

APRIL 2012: PRANA, TEJAS & OJAS: THE TIES THAT BIND: NAMA CONFERENCE 2012
Link Here!

APRIL 2012: SVATANTRA: CERTIFICATION COURSE AT SIVANANDA YOGA FARMS, GRASS VALLEY
Link Here!

JULY IN SO CAL!

Thank you Salt Lake City for a most memorable and enjoyable May!


June is turning into a self imposed triple r: rest, recuperation & rejuvenation. All done in Reverence to the great teachings of time off (rest), food poisoning (recuperation) and Srivatsa Ramaswami (rejuvenation)…

JULY OFFERINGS:


SAPTADHATU CIKITSA:

Creating Excellence in the 7 Tissues of the Body with Yoga & Ayurveda.

$120 for series (SAVE $40) or drop in for $20 each.
In this eight class Series, we will access the flow of therapeutic yoga sequences, specific pranayamas & japa to manifest excellence (sara) in the saptadhatus or 7 layers of the body.
This Series encourages all levels of practitioners to attend. The focus is on yoga therapy based on Ayurvedic principles of alignment.
DANCING SHIVA YOGA & AYURVEDA
7466 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90036 • 323-934-VEDA(8332)

Dates: July 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 28 & August 1, 4

SVATANTRA: ALCHEMY OF CONSCIOUSNESS IMMERSION:
DANCING SHIVA YOGA & AYURVEDA: JULY 9/10

Ayurvedic Cooking & Nutrition Workshop

“The Sacred Art of Eating”   

with Arun Deva and Jutta Hecht

July 23, 2:30 – 7 pm, Cardiff, CA

Food is Life

SOULED OUT (THANK YOU:)



BACK IN SO CA…APRIL EVENTS

Greetings from India where the journey goes on…
Returning end March and a month in So CA means time spent w/my daughter, with dear friends and in teaching locally; from West Hollywood to Encinitas and San Juan Capistrano to Ojai ending up at the Sivananda Ashram in Grass Valley end April.
Perhaps we will cross paths along the way, dear friend:

MONDAY APRIL 4: CAAM Sponsored talk on Daily & Seasonal Routines of Ayurveda
at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center: 9:30AM-11:30AM
For information on this event, please call: 310.822.9642

AT DANCING SHIVA YOGA & AYURVEDA:

  • SEVEN CLASS SERIES APRIL 4-28: MON & THURS: 6:30-8:30AM:

Vinyasa Krama Cikitsa: A Therapeutic Flow towards Consciousness in Action.
$108 for series (SAVE $32) or drop in for $20 each.
In this seven class Series, we will access the flow of therapeutic yoga sequences and specific pranayamas to create an upward spiral of consciousness and energy and experience the trance like state known to yogins as the Antara Anga (The Inner Pathway)
This Series encourages all levels of practitioners to attend. The focus is on yoga therapy based on Ayurvedic principles of alignment of the body with the breath and the resultant settling of the restless mind.

DANCING SHIVA YOGA & AYURVEDA
7466 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90036 • 323-934-VEDA(8332)
Mon & Thurs April 4-28 Seven classes total.

SATURDAY APRIL 9: THE SEVEN STAGES OF SUFFERING & THE SEVEN STATES OF JOY
At the AYURVEDIC GARAGE, SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
Call Megan at 949.280.9968 to sign up. Please note, this is a Private Event & space is limited

SUNDAY APRIL 10:
Vinyasa Yoga Therapeutic Flow & Pranayama Package
w/Special Emphasis On Ayurvedic Principles.
AT THE WILLOWS YOGA, ENCINITAS
Register with:
Michele Bollo 760-840-0414 , michele@willowsyoga.com
or Jutta Hecht, juttamariah@gmail.com

SAT APRIL 16: LIVING YOGA CENTER, TEMECULA
Vinyasa Krama Yoga Class with Pranayama & Meditation
Saturday, April 16th, 1:00-3:00 PM

Vinyasa Krama Yoga is the yoga of sequencing asanas based on a fixed and logical purpose. In yoga this purpose is always the raising of the level of our consciousness into meditative and clear states. Thus our practice progresses from asana to pranayama to dharana: the first state of meditation. All else follows this sequence, even enlightenment. Reaching that shore is your choice!

APRIL 28-MAY 1:
Emotional Intelligence using Yoga, Ayurveda and Tantra
at Sivananda Yoga Farms, Grass Valley

In May the journey continues on the road: Medicine Crow Event, Grass Valley; Albuquerque w/Dr. Lad; 2 weeks of Treatments, Consults, Vinyasa Krama, Vinyasa Cikitsa & Workshops (including for the first time:cooking Ayurvedically) at the Shiva Centre in Salt Lake City! A true home away from home…these sanghas are growing… Jai Shri Lakshmi Ma.

Bajrang Bali