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)

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.