Events Platfrom: Yoga

Taylor Hunt talks about the transformative nature of yoga and how it took him from living on the streets to teach yoga worldwide.

In this session, I wish to introduce the listener to a great shakta text known as Devi Mahatmyam. The main part will be the teaching and the practice of one of the integral parts of Devi Mahatmyam, the great hymn Tantroktam Devi suktam. This will be a great start on the path to Divine Mother and a perfect preparation for the Chaitra Navaratri which starts on March 22nd.

Vocal Yoga is a sound meditation based practice which benefits from the power of Indian Classical music and mantras. We travel through the sound into the different layers of consciousness until we find this resting peace where we can abide in Silence. Sound has an amazing power to quieten the mind and to connect us to our divine nature. Focusing on subtle vibration, we create harmony in ourselves and around us. Diving farther we can comprehend through the sound the beauty of this universe and its expressions. In this session, we will approach practically how sounds reverberate in our being, going through a specific raga scale and its mood, then we will expose our heart to the divine through chanting before listening to its response in Silence.

Emotions bind us. We struggle under their grasp, at times to the point of suffocation. How does one learn to manage the constant ebb and flow and storms and upheavals that happen at regular intervals? How does one learn to seek the constant and not be whisked away with the tide? Sri Ramana Maharishi’s Upadesha Saram gives us practical tools for understanding the nature of the mind and methods to resolve into a larger awareness. It shows us how to develop space between ourselves and our thoughts, thereby releasing us from our bondage to sadness.

In this presentation, Teune will take you on a short journey, exploring the hidden clues that can be found in your everyday postural yoga class. Specifically, from a non-academic point of view and from a perspective outside of India. There are breadcrumbs of knowledge everywhere, hidden in plain sight. Simply looking at the denomination of your favorite style of yoga, the names of the poses and the mantras that accompany your sessions, for example, are great starting points. What are — to many of us practitioners — foreign names and words at first, can reveal layers of knowledge once we try to find out more about them. When the yoga enthusiast continues to enquire into the meaning of terms heard in class, a process of inward investigation is started which can expose a refreshing self-view rooted in the Indic Knowledge Systems, universal truth that is liberating and enlightening, revealing our greater reality.

Bhagavad-Gita is a manual of life and shows us the relevance of many words and concepts in our day-to-day life. In the Gita, Lord Krishna has explained the concept of Yoga in a most unique way. The topic of Yoga comes in the Gita in various chapters. In this session, an attempt will be made to combine those instances and try to understand the concept of Yoga, as envisaged by Lord Krishna.

Nilima Bhatji and Rahi Santhanamji will share about the inspiration behind the world’s first ShaktiKumbh being held at Rishikesh from Feb 12 – Mar 5, 2023. The one-of-a-kind Integral Yogini TTC and the theme: Regenerative Renaissance of Mother India. Revitalising Bharata Shakti

Stability and Mobility are two major principles when we practice yoga on the mat and off the mat. This one hour session will help us experience and explore the freedom of physical, pranic and mental mobility when it is built on physical, pranic  and mental stability.