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New to our schedule! Visit with a Tibetan Monk!
Please check your calendars and set aside some time to visit Heartsong Yoga this fall to enjoy our special events. We welcome back two dear friends nest weekend,Beryl Bender Birch for a Saturday afternoon Master Class, (Beryl was named by Yoga Journal as one of only seven American women in their "Innovators Shaping Yoga Today" issue in 2000.) and on Sunday evening, we have the pleasure of seeing Khen Rinpoche, as he comes through our area on his 2007 Northeast tour.
Also, note that we have had to re-schedule Sunday afternoon's JourneyDance and tonight's event with Dr. Steve Sobel.
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Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan
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Taking Refuge in the Buddha
Sunday, October 21, 7:30 to 8:30 pm, Questions and Answers to follow. This event is free and open to the public, donations will be accepted to support the Siddhartha School Project in Ladakh, India. Walk ins are welcome, but pre registration is preferred.
Khen Rinpoche Lobzang Tsetan is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk of the Gelug-pa lineage (the same as the Dalai Lama), with the highest degree obtainable in Tibetan Buddhist metaphysics and philosophy. He was recently enthroned as the head abbot of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in exile. This is the Panchen Lama's Monastery outside of Tibet. His new title of Khen Rinpoche recognizes him as a precious high lama.
In 1995, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tsetan founded The Siddhartha School in his native home in Ladakh. The school seeks to preserve Tibetan Buddhist Culture and language while giving the children of this remote Himalayan area a well-rounded education, which will allow them to represent themselves and their culture in this newly evolving global community.
In January of 2005 H.H. Dalai Lama appointed Geshe Tsetan to be the head
abbot of the new Tashilungpo Monastery in India. (This is in the absence of
the Panchen Lama, who has been missing since the Chinese Government took him and his family into custody when he was 4 years old.) In July 2005 he was installed as Kachen, or head Abbot of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in southern India. His new title is Khen Rinpoche Geshe Kachen Lobzang Tsetan, and he has assumed his new responsibilities overseeing the Tashi Lhunpo monastery in exile. He is now, in essence doing the Panchen Lama's job.
Geshe Tsetan's dharma talk will be on "Taking Refuge in the Buddha" which is a practice of "Taking shelter in the protection and guidance of the Three Jewels; Buddha, Dharma and Sangha." It is not necessary to give up any religious affiliation to practice Buddhism, as these are practices that can enhance and deepen one's spiritual life, however they live it! Questions and discussion will follow along with a meditation and blessing, in this rare opportunity to meet a Tibetan Monk in an "up close and personal" intimate gathering.
To learn more about the Siddartha School Project and Khen Rinpoche, Click Here
To learn more about the concept of "Taking Refuge"
that will be part of Geshe's dharma talk Click Here
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Restorative Yoga Specialty Class
Next Monday, October 15, 7:30-9:00 pm
Please join Lauri Deary (Anusara-inspired yoga teacher) for an evening of Restorative Yoga which includes; pranayama, gentle movements to open the body followed by supported poses designed to promote rest and deep relaxation. This process allows the body, mind and heart to align with the energy from the Universe which flows like a gentle stream through the heart, restoring, revitalizing and rejuvinating your entire being. Connect to the source of stillness and deep peace that resides within you and bring that sense of calmness and well being to everything you do.
$18.00, pre register & pre paid, $20.00 at the door. (Heartsong Monthly Members always $18.00) Best to pre register, but drop ins always welcome.
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Astanga Yoga Practice with Beryl Bender Birch
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Saturday, October 20, 11 am to 2:00 pm. $50.00.(Heartsong Monthly Members $45.)(At the door, $60.00) Please Pre Register!!
In this afternoon workshop we will do primary series, explore some second series back bending, do a little meditation, a little talking, ask some questions, breathe, and learn to simply pay attention! Challenging, hot, and lots of fun! All students who enjoy a vigorous, strengthening yoga practice of any tradition are welcome to this event.
Pre registration is requested, but walk ins are always welcome, as long as we meet our "minimums".
Beryl Bender Birch, a renowned visionary and author of Power Yoga and Beyond Power Yoga, has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching yoga for 33 years, and training yoga teachers as "spiritual revolutionaries" since l980. In 2000 she was named by Yoga Journal as one of only seven American women in their "Innovators Shaping Yoga Today" issue. She is the director-founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute.
Sheila Magalhaes, director of Heartsong Yoga, has been a student of Beryl's since 1996 and has taken over 500 hours of teacher training hours with her, as well as many more weekends and events studying, assisting and enjoying her friendship with BBB.
Read this interview with Beryl for the LA Yoga Times,
Click Here.
Please join us for this rare opportunity to meet Beryl at Heartsong Yoga, as she "passes through" our area while visiting and guest teaching at her student's studios in the northeast.
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Rescheduled Events
JourneyDance with Toni Bergins and Dr. Steve Sobel's Surviving the Teenage Journey have been postponed to another date and time.
We look forward to a wonderful and busy fall season with our Heartsong Yoga teachers offering their "Specialty Classes" along the national presentors visiting in October and November. To learn more about these offerings, Click Here.
We always welcome drop in students but pre registration is always recommended, as many of these teachers are coming from great distances to be with our Heartsong Yoga Community, and have minimum requirements for students in order to hold the event. Always check the web or call before coming out to an event that you have not pre registered for.
Peace!
Sheila and Tony
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