Kirtan is part of the path of Bhakti Yoga — the path of opening the heart through devotion and surrender. It is the music of the heart, and is sung freely from the heart. No experience is necessary to participate.
Using these practices, breathing and chanting helps to release fear in these unique times.
Suggested donation $10-$20
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Developed by HeartMath, this workshop provides self-regulation tools and strategies to strengthen resiliency, improve HRV (heart rate variability) and access intuition. Learn about the science behind the Heart/Brain communication and practice techniques that support physiological and emotional balance. Discover how to shift into a more coherent and composed state before, during, and after challenging situations, maximizing clarity and emotional stability.
Highly interactive with lots of time for practice, the workshop also includes a live demonstration of the HeartMath technology.
Handouts included
$40
1/2 price ($20) for active IYI teachers and anyone repeating the workshop.
Jaymie Meyer, C-IAYT, NBC-HWC, ACC is the founder of Resilience for Life®. Over the past 19 years, she’s educated thousands of people in stress reduction and resilience. A National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Jaymie is a licensed HeartMath provider with certifications in Ayurveda, and yoga therapy (C-IAYT). A veteran yoga therapist and educator, Jaymie most frequently serves those in mid-life who have any combination of concerns including stress, anxiety, back pain, poor sleep, balance issues, heart disease, insomnia, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and chronic pain. In addition to teaching the Therapeutic Class on Wednesdays, Jaymie serves as a Yoga for Arthritis mentor. As a Health and Wellness coach, she works online with clients, focusing on stress reduction, weight control and optimal sleep. www.resilienceforlife.com
A puja is a sacred ceremony used to invoke the presence of the Divine Consciousness, in order to experience that Divinity within ourselves, and to seek guidance or blessings. The ceremony includes purifying ourselves and opening the heart to receive that Presence, and then honoring it with incense, light, flowers and food offerings.
The external ritual is a powerful meditation and surrender of the ego-mind in order to experience a Spiritual Consciousness beyond our limited understanding. We will review and then perform a puja. Please bring a small image or picture that represents for you that Divine presence.
Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 40 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.
Please contribute whatever you can to this fundraising program generously donated to us by Richard Miller. Suggested donation $45.
Normal human development culminates in our sense of being authentic and individuated human beings, living in time and space, feeling ourselves as separate from the world and those around us. But this milestone is often accompanied by injuries to our soul, whereby we lose touch with our Essential Ground of Being-Presence-Awareness-Essence. And, as aptly expressed in the Brihadaranyaka Upaniṣad, such loss is always accompanied by anxiety, fear and/or the feeling that something’s amiss in our lives. Fortunately, our underlying Essence always remains whole and intact. It just needs recognizing, engaging and embodying.
Join Richard Miller for an engaging experiential exploration of our next stage of human development that leads to embodying our Undivided Wholeness whereby we recognize our identity as not just with our body-mind-personality, but also with our essential Being-Presence-Awareness-Essence. Richard will teach six inquiries that enables you to recognize and embody your Essential Wholeness and take it with you into your daily life and relationships.
Richard C. Miller, PhD is a Master of Yoga and Meditation, recognized as a leading authority on the practice of Yoga Nidra. He has founded key organizations including the iRest Institute, the International Association of Yoga Therapy, and the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology. Richard teaches worldwide and serves as a consultant researching the efficacy of iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation, a meditative healing program he’s developed based on the ancient meditation teachings of Nondualism.
As the Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco enters its 50th year serving the San Francisco Bay Area, the revenue from this workshop will go to our building campaign, so that we can continue to inspire peace and transformation for another 50 years and beyond. Please select a donation amount that you feel comfortable with.
