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)

On Saturday, January 17  from 4-7 pm the Integral Yoga Institute of Princeton will host a screening of Living Yoga followed by a vegetarian feast.

Free and open to the public. Please pre-register by calling the IYI at: 732-274-2410

Integral Yoga Institute Princeton
613 Ridge Road
Suite 110
Monmouth Junction, NJ  08852

Directions: http://www.iyiprinceton.com/directions.cfm

Ashtanga Yoga Richmond will host a special screening of Living Yoga in honor of Yoga Day USA on Friday, January 23 at 7:00 pm. The program will include kirtan, meditation and a viewing of Living Yoga with Integral Yoga teachers Nitya Griffith and Nora Pozzi leading an after-film discussion.

Ashtanga Yoga Richmond
2902 West Cary Street
Second Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23221
www.ashtangayogarichmond.com
804.622.8211

Ashtanga Yoga Richmond is located next to the Historic Byrd Theatre in Carytown. There is a free parking lot directly behind on Colonial Street.

Living Yoga will premiere in Athens, Georgia on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 7 pm at The Healing Arts Center, 834 Prince Ave.

A suggested donation of $10 will benefit the subtitling of Living Yoga in Spanish (and hopefully other languages as funds permit).

For more info: Rev. Manjula Spears 706-548-3625

Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&cid=0,0,4065101566448468222&fb=1&dq=Healing+Arts+Center+is+834+Prince+Ave.+Athens+Georgia&daddr=834+Prince+Ave,+Athens,+GA+30606&geocode=9024317878713597481,33.961791,-83.391859&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=directions-to

Living Yoga was selected to receive an “Honorable Mention” Jury Award from the 2008 Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival. This is a beautiful honor and recognition for which we are so grateful! We thank Shanda Davis and  BCIFF and were honored to participate in the film festival.

Special thanks to Karuna Kreps for representing Living Yoga at its screening during BCIFF.

LIVING YOGA has been chosen to be screened at the 2009 Phangan Film Festival (PFF), to take place 20 – 22 February 2009. PFF will take place on Koh Phangan island and more info is available on their website: http://www.phanganfilmfestival.com

From the PFF website:

The Phangan 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.

Following the auspicious premiere events earlier this year, the 2009 festival, to be held Friday February 20 to Sunday February 22, 2009, will mark PFF’s 2nd annual edition. We are committed to providing the local community as well as travelers to this beautiful tropical island with a diverse presentation of high-quality independent films from around the world. The festival themes are NATURE and SPIRIT, two widely cherished and intimately related subjects which bear increasing relevance for both our island and our planet at large.
We hope that this initiative will profoundly touch festival-goers, stimulate thoughtful reflection on our own ways of life, and bring about appropriate attitudinal change and responsible action. For the community, we wish to open the doors to spiritual activism and ultimately contribute to the harmonious development of Koh Phangan for all of its inhabitants and visitors.

PFF also supports the efforts of Green Phangan, a non-profit initiative that educates and advocates a low-impact, sustainable way of life on our island. Current projects include introducing bio-degradable corn starch straws and spreading the use of shopping bags made from cloth to fight the plastic plague.
Location

As in 2008, PFF will take place at the spacious Holiday Beach Resort in the outskirts of Koh Phangan’s biggest town Thongsala. The resort is located 100 meters off the main road that connects Thongsala and Baan Tai. As you drive from Thongsala towards Baan Tai (and Haad Rin) watch out for a big Yamaha shop on your left hand side, the resort’s driveway is right opposite that landmark.