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  • Non-Violence: The Highest Calling

    by on Apr 11

    Some people may think of Downward Dog when they think of yoga, but when I think of yoga, I think of ‘ahimsa’ (non-harm).  Ahimsa is the fundamental ethic and principal of yoga. The asanas awaken the faculty of ‘chit’ and allow the natural luminosity of our being to shine light on all the unconscious patterns of our lives, giving us the freedom to choose thoughts, speech, and actions that are based in love and wisdom.  When ‘chit’ begins to illuminate our lives, we become more naturally inclined to living in a state of ahimsa- recognizing the dignity and beauty of all living beings.

    I am thrilled to welcome as a guest of Drishti Point- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, international peace advocate, global humanitarian, and tireless advocate for a Violence, Stress-Free world.  Sri Sri’s accomplishments and awards are too numerous for me to list here, but suffice to say- I am deeply honoured.

    I WILL STAND UP TO ABUSE.

    I WILL HONOR WOMEN.

    I WILL MAKE CONSCIOUS CHOICES.

    NON-VIOLENCE. THERE IS NO HIGHER CALLING.
    -www.vio.org [Founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar]

    Although short, this interview has many gems of wisdom about meditation as an accessible path for all, and the profound implications of introducing yoga and meditation techniques to world leaders. Enjoy!

     

    Podcast: Download (Duration: 9:50 — 9.0MB)

    • Mantra Music!

      by on Apr 16

      I am thrilled to have Raghunath, the Host and Producer of Mantra Radio, CiTR 101.9FM host today’s edition of Drishti Point. Raghunath is an initiate of an ancient bhakti-yoga lineage and has been spent many years teaching and studying in this lineage in both Canada and India.  Raghunath is the organizer and facilitator of the Enchant Mantra Meditation gatherings in Vancouver and the annual Kirtan Festival in Vancouver. He regularly performs live, DJs, and leads both traditional and contemporary kirtan for yoga events, intentional dance gatherings, and festivals.

      Tune in today from 5-6pm for a special music edition of Drishti Point featuring Raghunath’s incredible talents to use music in service of spiritual awakening.

      Mantra Music Edition of Drishti Point
      Tuesday April 16 5-6pm
      Tune in at: 100.5FM or live stream at: www.coopradio.org

       

       

       

      • Healing People and the Planet

        by on Apr 15

        We all need healing- healing our pain, our grief, our sorrow, our hurts, our disappointments… and yoga HEALS! Our own individual pain is only a small part of the pain in our families, our communities, and our planet. Healing ourselves is one step towards the larger contribution we can make to healing on a community and global level.

        Save the dates! May 2-4 2013

        Drishti Point long-time honored Guest VishwaGuru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda will be in Vancouver from May 2-4 and will offer Public lectures on ‘Healing People and the Planet.’

        YOGA: Healing People and the Planet
        May 2, 3, & 4 2013
        7pm
        Yoga in Daily Life Center
        223 West Broadway
        $15

        This is a wonderful opportunity to be in the presence of a Self-Realized Master whose blessing bestows wisdom and love.

         

         

        • SPIN: Tales of Cycling, Women, and Liberation

          by on Apr 09

          What does cycling have to do with yoga and Drishti Point? To a yoga teacher who commutes daily by bicycle, the connection is obvious. Yoga is a science for cultivating inner harmony and developing harmonious relationships with people and the planet. The bicycle is one of the greatest and least harmful twentieth century inventions. Cycling allows us to travel in a way that causes the least harm to the Earth, the air, and the atmosphere. The  current dis-ease of the planet (climate change, deforestation, water pollution, acid rain) is caused primarily by our dependence on cheap fossil fuels, and the bicycle is one small way that individuals can opt out of the fossil-fuel economy and express our reverence for the Earth as the source of life that sustains us.

          As well as being a clean, ‘green’ eco-machine, the bicycle naturally contributes to confidence, strength, independence and freedom. All of this, I know… what I didn’t know was that the bicycle was intimately connected with the women’s emancipation movement of the nineteenth century. SPIN: Tales of Cycling, Women, and Liberation is a fascinating ode to the bicycle. From  the nineteenth century story of Annie Londonberry, the first woman to travel the world by bicycle to critiques of the twentieth century consumer culture, Evalyn Parry’s brilliant and engaging work is not to be missed.

          SPIN: Starring the Bicycle as Muse, Musical Instrument, and Instrument of Social Change
          April 9- 20
          April 10-14, April 16-20  8pm
          April 20 2pm

          The Cultch
          1895 Venables

          “The bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice everytime I see a woman ride on a bicycle.”
          -Susan B. Anthony, Women’s Rights Leader

           

           

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        • Fierce Light

          by on Mar 12

          Listen to a Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Velcrow Ripper, the Producer and Director of the documentary Fierce Light. Alice Walker calls it ‘a human sunrise’, Martin Luther King called it ‘love in action,’ Gandhi called it ‘soul-force,’ and Director Velcrow Ripper calls this fusion of spirituality and activism ‘fierce light.’

          This inspiring documentary features Julia Butterly Hill, legendary Civil Rights leader John Lewis, actress turned activist Daryl Hannah, Nobel-prize winner ArchBishop Desmond Tutu, and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn.

          Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:00 — 25.6MB)

          • Goddess Consciousness

            by on Mar 08

            To commemorate International Women’s Day, Drishti Point and Karma Teachers is co-hosting the First Annual Goddess Day Event, featuring some of Vancouver’s most popular and loved yoga teachers.

            In honor of this event, Drishti Point is hosting a Mini-Podcast Series on the Divine Feminine. Listen to a short podcast with Shannon Cluff who speaks about what it means to embrace and evoke Goddess Consciousness in all that we do- be in on the mat, in our intimate relationships, and in our relationship with ourselves, our thoughts, our emotions and the totality of all that we are.

            First Annual Goddess Day
            March 8 2013 2-10pm
            Info. http://www.facebook.com/events/163637110454142/?fref=ts

            Podcast: Download (Duration: 12:30 — 5.0MB)

            • Goddess Day!

              by on Mar 05

              In celebration of the First Annual Goddess Day in commemoration of International Women’s Day, Drishti Point is offering a mini-podcast series with Christine Price-Clarke, Shannon Cluff, and Suzanne Faith Slucom Gori.

              Our first mini Podcast features Christine Price Clarke speaking about the Divine Feminine and the inspiration  she draws from her two young daughters.

              Please join Drishti Point and Karma Teachers for the First Annual Goddess Day Event featuring yoga, drumming, music, and much more!

              March 8 2013 2-10pm
              Info. http://www.facebook.com/events/163637110454142/?fref=ts

               

               

               

              Podcast: Download (Duration: 10:28 — 4.2MB)

              • Conscious Parent

                by on Feb 28

                Listen to a special Drishti Point Podcast with Dr. Shefali Tsabary. Dr. Shefali Tsabary is an author, clinical psychologist and TedX speaking alumna, who uses a combination of Eastern philosophy and Western psychology to help parents become conscious in their relationships with their children. She speaks about how most parents unconsciously project their own needs, wants, desires, and expectations onto their children and how this can affect children and create problematic and dysfunctional patterns.

                With candid humor, she advises parents to take a ‘time out’ and integrate daily mindfulness practices into their lives.

                The Conscious Parent: Rejuvenate Your Connection 
                with Dr Shefali Tsabary

                Learn simple techniques to rejuvenate your parent/child connection and change destructive patterns. This presentation will help you make positive, conscious change and will offer tools to use with children of all ages to shift energies to build nurturing and lasting relationships.

                Thursday, February 28
                7:00 pm
                Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (SFU-Woodwards)

                For tickets- http://dalailamacenter.org/event/educating-heart-series-shefali-tsabary

                 

                Podcast: Download (Duration: 20:37 — 8.3MB)

                • Conscious Parenting

                  by on Feb 26

                  Conscious Parenting turns the spotlights away from “fixing” the child to the awareness that all solutions – and problems – manifest within the parent. The child is never the problem; it’s always the parent’s inability to meet the child’s needs that is. The degree to which parents are conscious of their own emotional baggage from their own childhoods is the degree to which they will be able to parent their children without the imposition of their own agendas and fantasies. A parent who becomes conscious of how their past is impacting their present will be able to be attuned to their children with mindfulness and present-moment awareness. In this manner, the parent will be able to respond to the child’s emotional needs fully without the contamination of  past emotional legacies.

                  - Dr. Shefali Tsabary

                  Dr. Shefali Tsabary is an author, clinical psychologist and TedX speaking alumna, who uses a combination of Eastern philosophy and Western psychology to help parents and educators probe a very specific question, “How can we strengthen the connections between parents and children?” Dr. Tsabary will be appearing as part of the Dalai Lama Center’s Educating the Heart series on February 28th.

                  The Conscious Parent: Rejuvenate Your Connection 
                  with Dr Shefali Tsabary

                  Learn simple techniques to rejuvenate your parent/child connection and change destructive patterns. This presentation will help you make positive, conscious change and will offer tools to use with children of all ages to shift energies to build nurturing and lasting relationships.

                  Thursday, February 28
                  7:00 pm
                  Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (SFU-Woodwards)

                  For tickets- http://dalailamacenter.org/event/educating-heart-series-shefali-tsabary

                  For full transcript of interview- http://dalailamacenter.org/blog-post/qa-dr-shefali-tsabary?utm_source=Dalai+Lama+Center+updates&utm_campaign=89947b3d66-Dalai_Lama_Center_Espousing+Peace_7_21_2009&utm_medium=email

                  • Yoga for Hope

                    by on Feb 19

                    Admist global climate change, economic uncertainty, wars and violence, hunger and poverty… there’s always HOPE.  I feel hopeful every time I step onto my mat, align myself with a higher consciousness, and fuel myself so that I can make a contribution to a more compassionate and loving world.

                    Yoga for Hope is a beautiful example of seva, karma yoga, community, and hope. Listen to a special Drishti Point Yoga Podcast with Beth Sukha Barker and Patricia Parsons about their special event on Saturday Feb.23- a full day of different classes and styles of yoga, with all the money donated to a local, privately funded children’s orphanage.

                    Visit www.yogaforhope.ca for  more details!

                     

                    Podcast: Download (Duration: 12:17 — 11.2MB)

                    • One Billion Rising!

                      by on Feb 11

                      Join the Drishti Point crew and rise up against violence against women worldwide. We are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALKOUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to violence against women and an end to violence in general. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country.

                      Take a stance on the need for us to foster and maintain true love and respect for each other. Let us come together, rise up and dance on this day, and celebrate life, love and compassion for all and to express through movement that we value treating people respectfully.

                      http://www.facebook.com/events/107519759406228/?fref=ts

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