By Donation
With Swami Ramananda, Magdalena Zubin Goldman, Halim and Vakila, Mirabai Warkulwiz and the IYI Sangha

Renew your spiritual vision for 2020, and connect with your Integral Yoga family. Join us for a special evening ringing in the New Year with music, dance, light and love. This year we celebrate the Oneness with special guests Magdalena Zubin Goldman, Halim and Vakila who will be offering Dances of Universal Peace. The Dances of Universal Peace are meditative spiritual folk dances employing inspirational language and mantras of diverse world religions. Well known Kirtan leader Mirabai Warlkulwiz will also lead us in chanting the names of the divine and we will end the evening meditating into the new year.

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Swami Ramananda is the President 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 35 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. Ramananda trains Yoga teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Magdalena Zubin Goldman was initiated into Western Universalist Sufism via Sufi Ruhaniat International in 1974, ordained a Minister in the Universal Worship in 1993, initiated as a Sheika in 1995, and certified as a leader of the Dances of Universal Peace in 2002. She has resided at the Khankah on two occasions, from 1995-1998 and from 2010 to the present.

Halim Friedman and Vakila ter Veld, both recognized as teachers in the sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel L. Lewis. They bring a relaxed, friendly and deep atmosphere to their approach and lead this particular spiritual practice twice monthly in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have also taught in Europe and other parts of the United States.

Mirabai Warkulwiz planted her yoga and meditation roots in San Francisco at the Sivananda Center in 1998. Amazed at her healing of a back injury and many other positive life changes, she became yoga certified through 200-hour teacher training programs both at the Integral Yoga Institute in 2004, and at the Greenpath Ashtanga Studio in 2005. In July 2008 she completed another 170 hour Intermediate Teacher Training program in Asana and Pranayama through the Integral Yoga Institute in Virginia. She is attuned to Reiki Level 1, studies Aryuveda, is a dancer, and enjoys being in communion with nature. She invites all of her yoga students to transcend physical, emotional, and mental blocks to experience more spaciousness, comfort, happiness, clarity, and inner peace. As a Kirtan musician (Mirabai and Friends Kirtan Band) Mirabai leads Kirtan around the Bay Area, and enjoys implementing chanting, sound, and music into class.