Thursday, March 17, 2011

Event - Saturday at YVT (After Nada Yoga)

An evening of experiment and more sound and celebration of Spring...all are welcome. More information below:

 Hello.  How to say simply...The intention is to create a sacredconscious space without the use of any chants or words being associated with the singing we will create together.  As a group we will first check in and offer our visions and aspirations for the shifting world....voice our prayers etc....then endeavoring to sing.

 Sort of choir style.  Everyone will sing long drawn out notes without much melody, rising in soft crescendo and descrescendos...No rules.  People listen to the group sounds and the body of sound as a group will shift and change.  .....like single note tones, drones. The whole group maintains the sound as a continuity so there is continuous sound...a single body of sound.   The idea is to generate a spontaneous wave and flow of sound where waves of explosive harmony arise followed by intense dissonance...

  Depending on how things go, we may do group visualizations of light etc integrated with the sound.   As well, some movements walking into and awya from the center of the circle.

    I chose saturday night bc of the full moon energy and its proximity to the equinox.  This moon is the closest to our earth in its perogee since 19 some odd years....and likely has some connection to the japan earthquake last week.   As a group, we can create a very conscious and deliberate body of sound that is alive with creative and loving energies, to inspire unity and dissolve the webs of fear and anxiety that are very prevalent in the world right now.   The power to create and manifest change through conscious gathering....in a context that is not religious.....just primal sound.

   This is something i have wanted to do for years....so this is an experiment.   You and all are welcome to come.  Theres no money involved.

Starts at 6:30!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Monday, March 14, 2011

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Baird Hersey, Nada Yoga



RIDING THE BLISS

NADA YOGA: The Yoga of Sound

A Sound Meditation Class with Baird Hersey



“Unequaled bliss comes to the heart of the Yogi who hears the internal sound of the Nada.”
-The Nada-Bindu Upanishad

By bringing our minds to single pointed attention on the internal sacred sound, we quiet the chatter of the mind and experience a deep feeling of comfort and contentment.

This meditation, based on the Hatha Yoga Pradipika,  will use the 4 levels of sound: Vaikhari (external sounds), Madhyama (mental sounds). Pashyanti (visual sounds), and Para, (the internal sound)  to connect us with the Nada, the sound of bliss.

Climbing the Nada Mala: The 4 Levels of Sound
Seeing the Inner Light
Hearing the Anahata Nada
Riding The Bliss: Ancillary & Supportive Practices


Workshop will be held March 19, 2011
10:00 – noon
1:00 – 3:00
Cost is $40 – Register at Yoga Vermont



Baird has been a student of Yoga since 1988. In 1997 he began both the daily practice of Ashtanga Yoga and the practice of Nada Yoga. He studied with Shri K Pattabhi Jois for 9 years in the US and Mysore India. He has recorded and performed with Krishna Das, Wah!, Ainne Minogue, Nadine Risha, David Nichtern, and his vocal group Prana.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Friday  March 18, 2011
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Ira Allen Chapel, UVM
Free

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

If Guests are coming over on short notice

first clean the bathroom
second clean the kitchen
third pick up the rest of the house
fourth make tea

Saturday, March 5, 2011

a remembered mantra ...

Neti Neti = Not this, Not that

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

prayer.

my mother was visiting her brother at the hospital. a woman gave her the following prayer. she loved it and saved it. gave each of her children a copy. i try to read it everyday.

trust yourself to me.
i'm here.
i see everything.
i'll never leave you.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011