Thursday, December 4, 2008   7:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: East West Bookshop of Seattle
6500 Roosevelt Way, NE
Seattle, WA  98115

For more info: 206-523-3726

The ATMA Centre in Austin, TX will show Living Yoga on Friday, Sept 26, 6:30 pm. The screening will be followed by a presentation lead by Swami Ramananda, president of the Integral Yoga Institute of NY. He will talk about Yoga in Everyday Life and the schedule and requirements for the Integral Yoga Teacher Training that begins in Austin, Saturday Sept 27.

1700 Ashby, Near Oxford. See http://netingenuity.com/yoga/ for details, or call Vimala Devi, 512 797-0018, suryoko@aol.com.

The public is invited. Contributions are requested to offset the cost of Swamji’s travel to Austin.

LIVING YOGA was just selected as an official entry in the 2008 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival.
This makes our 7th film festival selection! The Festival runs from September 25 – September 28 at:

 Theatre 145
145 West 11th. St.
Erie PA
(814) 873-5069

I completed Basic Integral Yoga Teacher Training on May 17th and went back to my hometown in Ojai, California to write my business plan for my studio/shop/counseling center.  When I submitted my plan to the bank I gave the banker a copy of “Living Yoga” and said “watch this before you read the plan”.  She watched it and absolutely loved it.  It also helped her understand the importance of what I am trying to bring into our community and she granted the loan!

I have just completed my qualifying class for Intermediate Teacher Training.  I will fly back home and my studio will open on August 22nd.  I plan to advertise a free showing of “Living Yoga” for the grand opening and I am feeling excited about bringing Swami Satchidananda’s teachings and Integral yoga to our area.

Screening:  Friday at 7:00 p.m., August 22nd
at:  52 Weeks of Peace, 960 E. #52 Ojai Avenue, Ojai CA 93023

Contact:  Prashanthi (Shareen)  805-746-2341      Email: hope_at_52weeksofpeace@yahoo.com

On Saturday, August 9th, at 5pm there will be a screening of Living
Yoga at The Corner Store, located one block from the historic
Eastern Market in Washington, DC.

The Corner Store is a non-profit community arts center and the home of
Kris Swanson and Roy Mustelier, who have been practicing Integral
Yoga for many years.   They serve the Capitol Hill, DC neighborhood
by showcasing artists, filmmakers, sculptors, musicians, poets,
chefs and playwrights in their beautifully restored corner store
home.  Kris and Roy open the doors of The Corner Store to the under-
served children of the neighborhood, where Kris teaches art and
life skills.

The screening will be free, with donations to The Corner Store’s
continuing mission appreciated.  For more information about The
Corner Store, please see http://www.krisswanson.net.

Living Yoga will have its St. Petersburg, Florida premiere on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 1:30 pm at: First Unity Church,  460 46th Ave North, St Petersburg  (727)-527-2222.

For more info: hlender@aol.com  or  www.yogawithharis.com.

Living Yoga will be shown on Saturday July 26th at Integral Yoga Institute of New York.

Information: 212-929-0586

Living Yoga will be shown as part of the   UH Summer Cinema Series
University of Hawaii
Spalding Auditorium
Sunday, August 24 at 5 PM
Information: 223-0130

The Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco will sponsor a screening on Thurs., July 31st at 6:00 pm at the Roxy Cinema (16th St. at Valencia). It will feature an opening kirtan and after-film discussion. For more information, please contact the IYI, 415-821-1117

Report from Living Yoga writer/co-producer Joshua M. Greene

On June 20, some six hundred people filled the Jivamukti Yoga School for the New York premiere of Living Yoga! Guests included Conrad Rooks, Peter Max, Dean Morton, Rabbi Gelberman and a full coterie of IYI notables, teachers, and friends. We had three elevated 8-foot-wide screens with six speakers of surround-sound—that was in addition to the equipment brought by Krishna Das, who opened the program with kirtan.

Krishna Das sure knows how to get ‘em worked up. He’s always a hit, but last night he got the beat going until an unusually expressive entourage of arm-flailing, head bobbing, eyelash-fluttering fans who rose up like cobras to Om Namo Shivaya and Hare Krishna. Jivamukti yoginis were walking around prompting victims “INNNhaaaaaale, EXXXhaaaaale…,” so nobody got hurt.

After the kirtan, Swami Ramananda, the head of the New York Integral Yoga Institute, introduced the film. He was so calm he makes calm look nervous, which was great at Jivamukti, a place where you find yourself peeking out of the corner of your eye and wondering “Is HE famous? Is SHE famous?” And saffron is this year’s black, so he was completely en vogue.

The screening was more of a screaming. This group was primed. You would have thought it was a taping of The Improv, judging by audience response. They even laughed where nothing was funny at all, like when Richard Cripe says he suffered his second heart attack at age fifty, and then a third heart attack the next year, and a fourth heart attack after that–by the time he had his fifth heart attack the room was in stitches. Whatever, everyone loved it.

After the screening the entire audience stayed for a group discussion that included Sharon and David (Jivamukti co-founders), Dr. Amrita McLanahan, Peter Max, Arjuna Zurbel, Ramanandaji, Shiva Kumar (the film’s director) and myself. Most of the 45 minutes or so were taken up with stories about Sri Gurudev from the panel and from IYI folk in the audience.

Shiva had his family there, and my wife and daughter came. This was special for me because at home the message is, “Dad, don’t bother trying to boil water, you’re not going to get it right,” and here are all these people walking up to us after the film bowing and giving us r-e-s-p-e-c-t. Of course, it will not make much difference once we’re back on Long Island and I try to boil water again. The 15 minutes of fame are up. Ah, well.

We are grateful to have had this opportunity to play a small part in telling Gurudev’s great story. When I think of how much I miss myspiritual master, I get a little taste of what it must be like for Gurudev’s many dedicated disciples. Transcendental knowledge is apauruseya: it descends from a higher realm through the intermediary of realized masters. How can anyone with even the slightest sensitivity to the mystery of life not be moved by Gurudev’s mission?

Anyway, a fun time was had by all. But I have to sign off now. I’m late for water-boiling class.

Love,
Yogesvara (Joshua Greene)