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Stillness Yoga (1522 Roswell Road Marietta, Georgia 30062 - located
inside Marietta Health Foods) will host a screening on Saturday,
July 12 at 7:20 p.m. Please contact Stephanie Clement at 770-337-9335
for more information and to reserve a seat.
| November 4, 2008 7:30 pm | to | November 7, 2008 8:30 pm |
The Honolulu Academy of Arts/Doris Duke Theatre, 900 South Beretania Street, will have four screenings of Living Yoga.
Tuesday, November 4 at 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30 P.M.
Thursday, November 6 at 1:00 P.M.
Friday, November 7 at 1:00 P.M. and 7:30 P.M.
| June 27, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Living Yoga will be shown June 27th 7:30 pm at: Yoga Space, 82 Washington St., Keene, NH
For more info: Daphne Sundari Logan 603-352-6908
At the end of April 2008, I took Dr. Mala Cunningham’s Cardiac Yoga® course in Charlottesville. That Saturday, a group of us drove down to Yogaville.
I took the course so that I would be better able to put together a pilot study we’re planning to do at the hospital here in Greenville, North Carolina. I’m working with the hospital’s Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehab Center to put the program together. It will consist of 10 sessions each 90 minutes long and will focus on rehab patients who have completed their rehab sessions. Initially we want to see if certain functions continue to improve, to see if the participants will participate and do their assignments regularly, and for us to get practice in running these classes. At this point I’m primarily interested in using LIVING YOGA’s “Healing With Yoga” section of the DVD in our first meeting and then using Richard Cripe’s account of his experiences in dealing with heart disease in the second session. I think that these two sections are very powerful.
Thank you so much for allowing us to use the DVD for this purpose.
Don English
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)Subscribe to weekly words of wisdom
Send email with the subject SUBSCRIBE to weeklywordsofwisdom@swamisatchidananda.org.
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.
| November 4, 2008 8:00 pm | to | November 6, 2008 8:00 pm |
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.
These comments were offered following the premiere in San Diego, CA:
This movie was unbelievably amazing! Swami Satchidananda was a great visionary with a big heart and astute mind. What a wonderful blessing for us to have had this master in our presence. I recommend this movie to everyone who wants to experience a greater knowledge from a real ecumenist! — Kamala
A generous contribution to our understanding of Yoga and it’s tremendous impact on our culture. I strongly recommand getting a copy of this film. — Yunjana (on SanDiegoReader.com)
I didn’t know anything about the yoga movement and after seeing the film, I wish I had known about it earlier and could have known Swami Satchidananda. I have little kids and I want to introduce yoga into their lives. Thanks for the awakening!! — Beautiful_Goddess (on SanDiegoReader.com)
For those of us who were blessed to find Sri Gurudev many years ago, Living Yoga, the movie is a trip down memory lane. Somehow, these talented filmmakers were able not only to capture our beloved teacher but also to place Him in the times that indeed “were a changing…” As a student and teacher of Integral Yoga for the past thirty years, I was amazed at how much I didn’t know or maybe remembered. The movie layers so much information that it educates the beginner, as well as the advanced yogi. It reminded me of so many fabulous moments in Gurudev’s presence. His sense of humor, His love of fun and always His gentleness as He reassured us that we only need to do our best. Embracing His teachings changed the course of my life and continues to guide me on a daily basis. I am forever grateful and thank the producers, especially Prem, who, for decades, literally followed in Gurudev’s footsteps, camera in hand to bring Him to life on the big screen. I think He would laugh and say “So, now I am a movie star, a yogi movie star!! You see, anything is possible, have faith!!” Anandi Annechild
Film director Joshua Greene answers questions after the screening.
Brahmi Romero, Joshua Greene, and Paul Orum (Chairman of the Yoga Center Board)
IYTA member Christine Brahmi Romero, director of the St. Mark’s Yoga
Center on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., hosted a premiere on May
15th as part of its 30th Anniversary Celebration. The screening of
the film was followed with a discussion with filmmaker Joshua M. Greene.
Brahmi reports:
Our screening went well. Everyone was very moved by the film and
asked such wonderful questions of Joshua at the end. His responses
were amazingly informative and inspiring. He is a truly wonderful
man and we very much enjoyed meeting him.
People were very impressed by the film and the message of Integral
Yoga and Gurudev. As one of the audience members said last night to
Joshua, thank you so much for the service to all that this film
represents.
Seeing the film on “the big screen” was even more impressive. I think
my favorite part of the film is Dr. Amrita’s explanation of the
Integral Yoga class. She is so clear in her description.
Several people sought me out afterward to ask specifically about
taking IY classes. One young woman wants to go to Yogaville for
Teacher Training.
In July, we will do another screening at a local arts venue. (check
back on our event calendar for details)
