Yoga Festival Toronto Winter Roundtable Event: "Yoga and Birth"
March 14th, 7-9pm
* Venue: Yogaspace Studio in Toronto
Cost to attend: $20 donation to the Acorn fund (cash at the door, first-come-first-seated)
YogaSpace is at 148 Ossington Ave. Several buildings south of Dundas on the west side of Ossington.
Panelists: Crescence Krueger, Christine Reeves, Kathryn Beet, Davis Batson
QUESTIONS:
- What do we as individuals and modern Yoga practitioners believe about the phenomenon of birth, and how do our beliefs inform our actions and culture? (this is the 'keynote' question panelists will be asked to give a 3-5 minute perspective on)
- Who is it that is coming into this world? Can we discern their nature and propensities?
- Rainbow, Crystal, and Indigo children: is the species changing, or are our fictions about ourselves becoming more narcissistic?
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What happens to women during childbirth -- physically, emotionally, spiritually?
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What do traditional and modern Yoga sources opine on the subject of abortion? Do we as a subculture express any more unity of sentiment with regard to this issue than the general public? Do we have anything to offer that would elevate and/or pacify the debate?
- What are the gravest problems with modern birthing culture? What are its benefits?
- Top 5 things new mothers need, according to Yoga and Ayurveda
- Top 5 things new fathers need, according to Yoga and Ayurveda
- How will we pass our yogic understanding and practice-culture on to our children, in the absence of schools, cultural visibility, and community infrastructure?
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Are the premises of modern western education tolerable to a parent practicing Yoga?
YOGA and PILATES Conference and Show, 2009
Show Hours:
Friday April 3rd 2009
10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday April 4th 2009
10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sunday April 5th 2009
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
*PLEASE NOTE*
We've had a bit of a mix-up with Dear Lil' Devas booth location this year. It is INDEED in our usual spot. (the far west wall- on your far right hand side once you've come into the show) We'd hate to miss you, so please check out the map below- and be sure to come by!
Map to Booth #104 (Dear Lil' Devas) download
YOGA ATLANTIC CONFERENCE
Mark Your Calendars...
April 17, 18, 19, 2009
Best Western Chocolate Lake Hotel, Halifax N.S.
Yoga Atlantic and its partners are enthusiastically planning this year Yoga Conference around the idea of giving. Strengthening our third Chakra "Manipura" helps us live an authentic life, empowering us to take action in Giving Back. This year we celebrate the third Chakra by noticing our own natural ability to generate action, to see the courage needed to take risks, to identify our strength of character and to be generous with ourselves, each other and the world we live in. We chose to give our energy in support of the Earth in all regions of the Atlantic.
We are excited to share our complete presenter line-up for the 2009 Yoga Atlantic Conference. Among many senior local and regional instructors we are also honored to host teachers:
Coeli March - Master Vinyasa teacher from Massachusetts;
Carrie Gaynor - Co-Director of Absolute Yoga and Wellness and Structural Integrationist from New York;
Megha - Nancy Buttenheim - Senior Kripalu director and creator of Grace in Motion ®.
For complete details on conference presenters click conference faculty and for workshop information click on workshops.
Early Bird Registration opens February 1st until February 28th. The first 75 people registered for full conference received a complimentary Lululemon yoga mat.
Manipura – Personal Power
This year the Atlantic Yoga Conference supports and combines its efforts with Earth Day. Join us and share your personal power as we "Give Back" to our Earth by cultivating a mindful practice that will expand beyond the limited notion of "self" to a greater awareness of Oneness.
YOGA FESTIVAL TORONTO
Friday, August 22 to Sunday, August 24, 2008
National Ballet School
(400 Jarvis St.)
We are looking forward to this event wholeheartedly!
The organizers of the Yoga Festival Toronto has commissioned Dear Lil' Devas to design and sew up the volunteer's T-shirts. These are going to be a beautiful green in 100% Bamboo Fabric.
Register now and consider volunteering for this fantastic and important community event. The Yoga Festival Toronto
About Yoga Festival Toronto:
Riding a wave of unprecedented Yoga-community cooperation and support for its non-profit, non-commercial mission, Yoga Festival Toronto (YFT) is poised to host its inaugural 3-day event in August of 2008. This will be the first of yearly grassroots festivals convened to unite, inspire and support local practitioners and teachers of Yoga.
Founded by a broad coalition of Yoga community folk, YFT was initially inspired to action by the growing commercialism of Yoga culture. YFT believes that the technologies of Yoga are liberating to human consciousness and healing to the planet - they should therefore be affordable, accessible, topical, developed through dialogue, and offered apart from the standard tensions of consumer-profit economy. YFT seeks to live and impart the values of sustainable living, community support, and the contemplative life.
Through community fundraising and frugality with regard to overhead, YFT has managed to keep tuition for attending the entire 3-day event to $285 +GST, which offers incredible value for the number of classes and events included. Between its socially-conscious pricing and its community outreach, YFT is the least commercial and most accessible gathering of its kind in Western culture.
The venue is National Ballet School on Jarvis Street - a building naturally dedicated to human enrichment. To reduce the ecological footprint of promoting the event, YFT is advertising primarily by word-of-mouth and on-line-through its own website and social networking sites such as Facebook. The YFT Green Initiative is foundational to all our planning. For example, all vendors are vetted according to ethical standards and utility to progressive and holistic culture.
To counter the typical cultural impression that Yoga is primarily about postures and sweat, YFT is actively marketing to the broader holistic community and designing attendance options that don't require a mat and leggings. Presenters will be speaking and instructing in Ayurvedic medicine, Yoga philosophy in contemporary perspective, "enlightened" eating, sexual wholeness from a Yogic perspective, Vedic Astrology, the Yoga of social activism, Yoga and psychotherapy, Yoga's relationship to Buddhism, meditation as a healing therapy, and more. This unique schedule is viewable here.
The presentation schedule for the first event reflects YFT's focus on local community. Sixteen of the 18 faculty members are mentors in the Toronto-and-beyond Yoga scene. Their attendance will shine a light on this emergent local culture, and emphasize a central truth of this ancient practice: Yoga begins at home.
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