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Kirana Stover, director of the Integral Yoga Centre in Barcelona, Spain reports that the first public screening of Viviendo El Yoga, the Spanish subtitled version of Living Yoga, was held and was beautifully received. Thanks to Kirana for organizing this inspiring gathering.

We’re grateful to the film’s director Shiva Kumar for helping to get the subtitles added, to Sr. Maitreyi, Ram, Pilar & Mercedes for their translation services and the sangha in Argentina, Barcelona, Richmond (VA) and Integral Yoga Magazine supporters for making this possible. OM Shanti.

The 1st Annual Samui Film Festival (SFF) will be held from 14-16 August 2009. SFF selected Living Yoga as one of its premiere events! SFF takes place on the beautiful tropical island of Samui in Thailand.

The website states: The Samui Film Festival grew out of a pure love for meaningful independent filmmaking. Additionally, we are world travelers who rejoice in the cross-cultural expansion that subtly transforms all those who wander far and wide, and we embrace film as a medium for this soul-level evolution. We are delighted to celebrate with you by sharing this year’s roster of inspiring and exquisite hand-selected films from around the world with the local community as well as travelers to this beautiful tropical island. (Living Yoga screens on Aug. 15th)

To read more about this brand new festival, please visit: http://www.tropicalmagazine.info/archives/3461

The 13th Annual Videographer Awards were just announced and we’re very proud to report that Living Yoga received the 2009 Videographer Award of Excellence, the highest honor in the documentary category. Our thanks and congratulations to Shiva Kumar (Silver Arc Productions) for his excellent videography work that was so befittingly acknowledged by The Videography Awards. Thanks also to Joshua Greene (co-producer) and all who contributed to the success of the film.

There will be two screenings of Living Yoga in Richmond next weekend. On Fri. March 20th at 6:30 pm, Barabara Tara West of Inlight Yoga (3835-C Old Buckingham Road, Powhatan) will host a screening at her center. For more information, please visit: www.inlightbooksyoga.com or contact:  (804) 598-0700 or info@InlightYoga.com.

On Sunday, March 22, at 4pm, Elizabeth Southard will host a screening at the Carver Healing Arts Gallery, 1208 West Marshall St, 23220 VCU area. For more information, please visit: www.myspace.com/carverhealingartsgallery or contact: 804-386-9663  or  yogilizard@yahoo.com.

Both screenings are free, love offering suggested, and are open to the public.

On Saturday, March 28th at 6:15 pm, the Yoga Co-Op at Ashram Savannah will sponsor a screening of Living Yoga that is open to the public. The Yoga Co-op is a growing community of Yoga practitioners who try to have community-oriented awareness events each month.

Yoga Co-Op at Ashram Savannah
2424 Drayton Street, Unit E
Savannah, GA 31406
For more info, please visit: www.ashramsavannah.com

For directions/map: http://tinyurl.com/dygrpq

On Friday, February 27th at 6:00 p.m., Healthy Life Yoga will sponsor a free screening of Living Yoga. The program will open with a kirtan, followed by the film and discussion afterward.

The Ancient Secrets Wellness Center in Pahrump, Nevada will host two screenings on Saturday, March 21st and Saturday, April 25th, both at 6:00 p.m. The screenings are free and open to the public. For more information please contact: Linda Sampson, 775-212-1602.

Ancient Secrets Wellness Center
1230 S. Loop Rd
Pahrump, NV 89048
1-775-727-0999

Map/Directions: Map/Directions: http://tinyurl.com/dfe4yt

Living Yoga will be the first in an ongoing “Yoga Movie Night” series sponsored by Glenmore Yoga & Wellness in Richmond, Virginia. Living Yoga will screen on Friday, February 13, 7PM.

The movie night is free and open to the public.

Glenmore Yoga & Wellness Center
10442 Ridgefield Pkwy
Richmond, VA 23233
(804) 741-5267
www.glenmoreyoga.com

To get directions to Glenmore Yoga: http://tinyurl.com/aopsbm

Living Yoga will be featured  at the 5th annual Bisbee Yoga Expo in Arizona. The film will screen on February 13, 2009,  at 8PM at the address below:
Central School Project
43 Howell Ave.
Old Bisbee, AZ
Sponsored by the Bisbee Yoga Expo and CSP
$3 donation

For more info about the Bisbee Yoga Expo, please visit: www.bisbeeyogaexpo.com

For a map to the screening location, please visit: www.centralschoolproject.com/contact.html

It was as if Swami Satchidananda, himself, were present to a full house at the Boulder Public Library for this showing of Living Yoga.

Some in the audience had met him, others came to see and learn more about this famous Yogi, whose teachings of Integral Yoga have had worldwide impact. Afterwards people greeted each other and connected, as he would have wanted. There was laughter, as well as engrossed silence as the stories unfolded alongside images and words of Swami Satchidananda (loving called “Gurudev” by his students).

For those of us who have been his disciples, it was a reunion of the heart. We felt the delight of being in his presence and met sangha members we had not known before but seemed to recognize by virtue of our connection to our Guru. For us, it brought back the early days with the one who had immeasurable impact on our lives. Others related the impact of their meeting with him, while some were reminded of their own Guru, and still others found a depth of Yoga they had not known.

His smile, his laughter and his humor. Living Yoga brought to life one of India’s greatest Yoga Masters. It was like a dance through years done with the elegance that was his trademark. Gurudev would have been proud of this film as he was a filmmaker and loved the art of film.

Living Yoga has interviews with some of the most prominent disciples of Swami Satchidananda. Legendary artist Peter Max who brought Gurudev to the US in the 1960s. Dr Dean Ornish (the respected doctor who has helped bring Yoga to the mainstream and author of the brilliant book The Spectrum), the wonderful Dr. Mehmet Oz and others.

Swami Satchidananda came to Boulder in the early 1970s and opened the hearts of  Boulderites. Living Yoga has rekindled that Light.

–Reported by Mitra & Dharmavati Shapiro and Padma Wick

(A special thank you from Satchidananda Ashram to Joel Haertling, Boulder Library Film Coordinator for hosting this event. A big thank you to Mitra, Dharmavati, Padma Wick, Padma Habib and others for helping make it such a huge success! Read Mitra & Dharmavati’s inspirational weekly blog on Huffington Post at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-and-deb-shapiro)