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Living Your Essential Nature: The Integration of Meditation into Daily Life, 1-Day Meditation and iRest Yoga Nidra Workshop

Online & In-Person | $90  or $75 early bird exp. 6/17/2023

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Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

Enroll/In-person
Please review our In-person Safety Guidelines. https://integralyogasf.org/attending-in-person

This daylong retreat will guide you through a simple yet elegant nondual approach to meditation as both a practice and a way of living life. It is designed to help you experience how all movements of your body, mind, and daily life can be pointers that continually reveal your underlying Essential Nature as dynamically ever-present, beautiful, still, and the essence of indestructible happiness, peace, and well-being, which often goes unrealized because of its simplicity. Living your Essential Nature enables you to experience yourself and everything as interconnected, not-separate, and always whole.

During this daylong retreat we will engage periods of meditation, BodySensing and BreathSensing Yoga, iRest Yoga Nidra, and periods of self-inquiry into the freedom to be who we truly are. This is an opportunity to nourish coming home to your deepest Essence and authentic aliveness where you can open the door to the unexpected—to delight, wonder, astonishment, and awe. The day celebrates meditation not as an achievement, but as your ever-present Essence in which you can experience your true home in the Mystery we call life.

We have 1 hour for lunch – please bring your food (only vegetarian food in the ashram, no eggs or meat). We will share this time together. Hot water for tea and selection of teas will be available. We do not provide a way to heat up or refrigerate your food, the kitchen will be closed.

Schedule:
10:30 – 12:00 pm
1:00 – 2:00 pm lunch break
1:00 – 4:00 pm

 

Richard C. Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar, and spiritual teacher who has devoted his life to integrating western psychology and neuroscience with the ancient nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism,and Buddhism. Richard is the founder of iRest Institute, co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and founding past president of the Institute for Spirituality
and Psychology.

Author of iRest Meditation: Restorative Practices for Health, Healing and Well Being, Yoga Nidra, The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing, and The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the nondual somatic-based meditation protocol he’s developed–iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation–researching its efficacy on health, healing, and well-being with diverse populations that include veterans, women rescued from human trafficking, youth, the homeless, and the incarcerated with issues such as sleep, PTSD, pain and chemical dependency, as well as research on iRest’s efficacy for enhancing resiliency and well-being. Grounded in 35+ research studies, the US Army Surgeon General and the Defense Centers of Excellence have recognized iRest as a Complimentary Program for healing chronic pain and PTSD and restoring resiliency and well-being. Richard leads international trainings and meditation retreats on the integration of enlightened living into daily life. www.iRest.org.

2023-03-30T16:36:26-07:00March 30th, 2023|Tags: , |

Alignment as Life Practice

Online | $30

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Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

Free for IYTA Members (email membership@iyta.org for your member discount code).

Sometimes, I search for the meaning of life in everyday awareness which includes the heavy, dark and horrific elements to the elegant, geometric and playful expressions. Other times, I search for meaning from sacred texts, meditation practice and writing or through my easeful or challenging relationships with family, friends and strangers. It has become clear to me that the things that feel out of alignment, misunderstood, miscommunicated, often become teachers for that part of us that recognizes the common desire for happiness and Peace.

And for some reason, there is the natural tendency to act and behave in ways that take us far away from that process of contemplation. Whether the broad understanding of karma, the deeply explored dimensions of trauma, or the simple acceptance of life’s rhythm of joys and sorrows, a complete Yoga practice can help us sense that place of highest, personal alignment.

The body naturally searches to align in such a way so that it can recognize what part is connected to the ground and what part is reaching upwards towards the sky.

Our body’s conversation with gravity and finding our physical balance can be a starting point for understanding alignment as a life practice. What feels off-center to us? What part of us reacts and tries to adjust things back to a comfortable center? How deeply do we understand our center versus how stubbornly do we hold onto a habitual posture in our body/mind. How often do we allow for pause and rest, reflection and creativity as medicine for our ever-conflicting, ever-fluctuating world?

Join Mukunda for this workshop that will be part lecture on Yoga philosophy, gentle movement, meditation and conversation.

All are welcome. No previous experience in Yoga is required.

Continuing Education Credit: Yoga Alliance (YA), 1 contact hour. You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.

***This event will be translated, live, into multiple languages***

 

Marc Mukunda Morozumi, ERYT 500, CMT, Lead IYI Teacher Trainer, began practicing Ashtanga yoga in 2001 while a full-time modern dancer with Joe Goode Performance Group in SF, CA. Due to injury, Mukunda retired from his 12 year dance career in 2004 and entered the events industry from 2004-2016. A 2-month personal trip to India in 2007 paved the way for landing in Yogaville in 2009 for his first teacher training with Swami Divyananda and staff. One month after returning from graduation, Mukunda began teaching a Saturday morning class at the SF IYI which he maintained for over 10 years. Mukunda has co-led Integral Yoga retreats since 2011 and has staffed or co-led Basic Teacher Trainings since 2013. He has opened and managed small group yoga studios in SF since 2017 and in early 2020, he opened and then reformed a yoga center post COVID-19: Mukunda Studio.

2022-12-07T10:45:26-08:00November 30th, 2022|Tags: , , |

Winter Solstice Meditation

By donation $0, $5, $10, $15 | ONLINE & IN-PERSON

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Please join us for an extended evening meditation on the shortest day and longest night of the year. The Winter Solstice is a reminder to honor our connection to the natural world and to celebrate the birth of a new solar year.
This meditation will include:

  • Breathing
  • Chanting
  • Guided meditation instruction with the focus on connecting to our Earth and uncovering the Inner Light\
  • Sitting in silence
  • Arati *

*Arati is a sacred ritual in which Light is offered to the Divine and we then receive the blessings of the Light.

All levels of meditation practice are welcome. Online practitioners are encouraged to have a candle available for this ritual.

Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT and e-RYT 500, has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. Diana has been a lead teacher trainer for 200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2012. The classes she teaches include chair/gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, prenatal, guided mindfulness meditations, and various yoga, pranayama and meditation workshops. She’s been working as a health educator and yoga instructor for Kaiser Permanente since 2014.
She is C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and San Francisco center manager for the Integral Yoga Therapy 800-hour certification program. Diana offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus on physical and mental wellness. Her offerings help people to find a deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience. Learn more at dianameltsner.com

2022-11-08T20:01:08-08:00November 4th, 2022|Tags: , , |

Meditation: Study, practice and sharing of this timeless practice

FREE | Online

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Join us Swami Ramananda and Diana Meltsner for an hour of exploration of meditation. This is an opportunity to ask questions about meditation practices by these two teacher trainers. A brief practice and a talk will be shared. Some meditation experience is welcome.

All attending will receive a discount promo code for an upcoming Meditation Teacher Training, December 1 – December 20, 2022 and January 5 – February 11, 2023.

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. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT, e-RYT 500, has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. Diana has been a lead teacher trainer for 200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2012. The classes she teaches include chair/gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, prenatal, guided mindfulness meditations, and various yoga, pranayama and meditation workshops. She’s been working as a health educator and yoga instructor for Kaiser Permanente since 2014.
She is C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and San Francisco center manager for the Integral Yoga Therapy 800-hour certification program. Diana offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus on physical and mental wellness. Her offerings help people to find a deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience. dianameltsner.com

 

2022-11-08T19:54:26-08:00August 12th, 2022|Tags: , , |
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