This informal advice is offered by Karuna Kreps, following her experience with a showing in Austin, TX.

After watching the film, people asked if they could buy books and many wanted to buy the DVD.

I wished I had downloaded the press kit from the website and printed it out so people could have looked through it. Ideally, one could produce a PDF of a program for the film.

Collect email addresses from those who would like to to hear more from Integral Yoga. If you have a local mailing list, you can invite them to join that list and also invite them to subscribe to Weekly Words of Wisdom. If you type up and send a list of the email addresses to weeklywordsofwisdom@swamisatchidananda.org with the subject SUBSCRIBE, we will send an invitation to each person to get the weekly mailing). If you don’t have a local mailing list, you can easily set one up on yahoogroups.com and send invitations to each person who signs the list.

Welcome the audience, thank them for coming and to introduce the film. You may want to say:

LIVING YOGA: The life and teachings of Swami Satchidananda is a film written and co-produced by Joshua M. Greene and directed and co-produced by Shiva Kumar. It is presentation of Stories to Remember and Integral Yoga International.

Let people know they can learn more about the film and order a copy from www.LivingYogaMovie.org. Thank the hosts of the venue. Introduce the organizers of the screening and the Integral Yoga teachers who are present. You may want to mention where people can learn more about Swami Satchidananda and the teachings he offered. Have printed flyers that say:

You can learn more about Swami Satchidananda and his teachings by visiting these sites:

http://yogaandpeace.org ( a portal to all things having to do with Integral Yoga)
http://iymagazine.org (Subscribe to this excellent, quarterly print journal, Integral Yoga Magazine. Receive four advertising-free issues each year for just $25)
http;//livingyogamovie.org (more info about the film, including a complete press kit and trailers. Please tell your friends about how they can order the film themselves)
http://swamisatchidananda.org (a site all about the Guru and his teachings)
http://lotus.org (a site all about the Light of Truth Universal Shrine, which was conceived of and built by Swami Satchidananda)
http://shakticom.org (order books, DVDs and tapes by Swami Satchidananda and others)

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 Living Yoga had it’s Austin premiere in the splendid One World Theatre. It was a successful fundraiser for the Save Our Springs Alliance.  Karuna Kreps organized the event with the help of Karma Yogis Dristi (Molly Ragan), Karly Branch and Russell Scheinberg.

There were a handful of Yoga teachers and a lot of newbies. I suspect that few if any in the audience knew who Satchidananda was.  Afterward, people did come out asking if they could buy books and many wanted the DVD. Everyone really enjoyed the film.

LIVING YOGA will screen at the Honolulu Academy of Arts/Doris Duke Theatre, 900 South Beretania Street, Honolulu on Tuesday, November 4, Wednesday, November 5, Thursday, November 6.