Sliding scale: $1, $10, $20, $35 | Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.
Attendees will vote at the gathering to select a social justice organization to receive the proceeds.
A special event to share hope and inspiration for bringing healing and transformation to our world, including ourselves. Join us for a heart meditation and embodied awareness practice to connect with our inner strength and deep peace, and from this joyful foundation envision our way forward. Together we will develop a vision of the world we wish to see, to be circulated as a call to the incoming administration and all people; then reflect on our personal intentions for the year in small groups. Plus get a fun Japanese fortune for 2021!
This workshop is presented by Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI), an interfaith group dedicated to supporting the earth and its inhabitants through education, action and advocacy for personal and policy-wide changes in our society. By approaching challenging issues through the eyes of love, nonviolence, and truth telling, we act from a heart-centered awareness of our inherent peace and oneness to benefit all beings.
For more information email info@spiritualactioninitiative.org
Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U. S., Europe and South America.
Claudia Bartsch – Originally from Germany, Claudia Bartsch is a yoga teacher and therapist living in San Francisco. She is passionate about supporting individuals to find healing through aligning themselves with their deepest values.
When living in Berlin she dedicated herself to political activism but eventually realized that true political and societal change also depends on the willingness of the individuals to do inner work. When moving to San Francisco in 1996 she was introduced to Integral Yoga and has been practicing and studying ever since. Today she combines both paths: Supporting herself and others to develop the capacity to live in peace with each other and the planet but also engaging in meaningful political action.
Besides in her yoga practice she finds strength and contentment by spending time in nature, especially in forests.
Vishwam Heckert is the founder of Flowing with Life (UK) and a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher & Teacher Trainer. Originally from Iowa, Vishwam attended Grinnell College before moving to Scotland where he wrote his PhD on the connections between social movements, anarchist ideas and loving relationships. He is overjoyed to be part of the Spiritual Action Initiative, bringing together his passion for equality and freedom with his dedication to peace, gentleness and the transformative power of love.
Visham is also a poet working on his first collection entitled Medicine Poems. He currently lives in Matlock, Derbyshire with his partner and their second permaculture forest garden.