Narayani, the Devotional Singer, Voice Work Facilitator and Yoga Teacher will be guiding various Concerts, Voice Circles and a Yoga Retreat within the coming months. Check out the dates and locations of these events below.

About Narayani

Narayani is a Devotional Singer, Voice Work Facilitator and Yoga Teacher. Her personal journey with yoga and sound, and the discovery of her powerful and deeply resonant voice had such a profound and transformative impact on her life that she passionately shares this through devotional music and chanting, voice circles and workshops, as well as teaching yoga.

CD’s by Narayani: Narayani is the author of several Mantra CD’s, her latest work being Chandrashekhar.

Friday 19th March

Brighton

Brighton Voice Circle

7-9pm
£8-£10 Sliding Scale
An informal evening of chanting and voice work. Deepen your connection to your voice and access your inner sound. By using the voice, without any need for previous singing experience, we will help develop confidence and explore how the voice can be used as a tool for self healing, expressing and transforming emotions and lead us to a place of inner peace.

Suitable for complete beginners and experienced singers/performers alike.

365 Ditchling Road
Brighton, BN1 6JU

Saturday 20th March

East Sussex

Hastings Concert with Jason Kalidas

7-9pm
£12 on door, £10 prebook
The Wellington Centre
44 Wellington Square, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1PN
01424-442520
www.thewellingtoncentre.com

Saturday 10th April

London

London Concert joined by Tom Simenauer (Tabla) & Lucy Crisfield (Violin)

7:30-9:30pm
£12 on door, £10 prebook
Special Yoga Centre
Tay Building
3a Wrentham Ave
London NW10 3HA
www.specialyoga.org.uk

Sunday 25th April

London

London Voice Circle Workshop

2-5pm
£25/£20 pre book

Join Narayani on a journey of exploration of your own voice through the mediums of chant, mantras, spontaneous song and movement.

Through voicework, movement and chanting you can deepen your connection to your voice, open your heart and access the sound that comes from within. By using the voice, without any need for previous singing experience, we will help develop confidence and explore how it can be used as a heart opening tool, leading to self healing and self expression, and can help to transform emotions leading us to a place of inner peace.

This workshop is suitable for everyone.

30th April – 3rd May

Essex

Heal and Energise Through Yoga and Voice Retreat
With Fiona Agombar And Narayani

May Bank Holiday 2010
30th April – 3rd May
Domus Mariae Centre
803 Chigwell Road, Woodford Bridge, Essex IG8 8AU
More information: www.onebodyonesound.com/yoga&voiceweekend.htm

Saturday 3rd July

Liverpool

Liverpool Concert – with Jason Kalidas

7:30-9:30pm
£10
The Dojo, The Annexe,
13 Hope Street (next door to the Everyman Theatre)
(Map)
Contact Jenni 07879282479
jenni@yogabumpsandbabies.co.uk
www.shiatsu-liverpool.co.uk


More information:
Email: narayani@onebodyonesound.com – T: 07976 016 103 – Web: www.onebodyonesound.com – www.myspace.com/narayanidevi


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Cruzeiros Algarve Seafaris is organizing a Zen Cruise. It is a thematic cruise in which participants will have the opportunity to develop activities such as Yoga and Meditation. The cruise will be held on April 18, departing from the Marina of Vilamoura.

This cruise will be a sharing of experiences, offering the opportunity to practice Meditation and Yoga, in a natural environment, full of life and energy – the Sea. During sailing a guided meditation will take place conducted by Rute Rodrigues and Paula Luís, followed by debarkment on a beach with exclusive access by sea, where participants can experience a yoga class given by Tiago Boto. Next there is a rest period and a light vegetarian meal served on the beach. After that there will be the trip back to the Marina of Vilamoura, during which participants can enjoy the wonderful Algarve Coast, with its fantastic beaches, rock formations and caves!

Program

9:00 – Meeting at Marina de Vilamoura to board
9:30 – Departure on Yacht Moena, heading the Western Algarve

• Guided meditation during navigation by Rute Rodrigues and Paula Louis
• Break for snack

11:30 – Debarkment on the beach with exclusive access by sea

• Yoga class on the beach, by Tiago Boto

13h – Lunch on the beach – vegetarian meal
14h - Return to the Yacht Moena. Navigation towards Vilamoura
16h – Arrival at Marina of Vilamoura

About Rute Rodrigues, Paula Luís and Tiago Boto

Rute Rodrigues is a therapist trained in Reiki, Karmic Astrology and Bach Flowers.
Paula Luís is a therapist trained in Reiki, Pranic Healing and Shamanic Healing, Quiromassage and sound massage using Peter Hess’ method. She is a Reiki teacher. Paula conducts various workshops, including behavioural visual therapy.
Tiago Boto is a Yoga Instructor. He practices Yoga since the age of 14 and has several specializing courses in the subject.


Please Note: advance booking is required – limited number of participants.


Date: April 18, 2010
Hours: 9h30 to 16h
Language: Portuguese and English
Location: Algarve Cruises Seafaris, Office No. 10, Marina de Vilamoura – Algarve
Value: € 40 per person (activities and lunch included)


More information:
Email: ana.aires@algarve-seafaris.com – T: 96 682 56 03 – Web: www.algarve-seafaris.com

On Saturday, 6 March, at 15 h, Quinta da Calma invites you and your students and friends to come and participate in a very special event: Quinta da Calma has the great pleasure of receiving Mataji (Swami Gurucharananda) from Yogaville, U.S. who will lead a Satsanga.

Mataji will be speaking on gaining and sustaining our inner peace despite these difficult days of chãos all around us by practical application of the regular practice of Yoga in our daily life.  In other words, how to stay peaceful no matter what ! She will be using the approach of Mantra Yantra to illustrate this. Mataji will be speaking, then there will be application of the practices, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions.

About Mataji (Swami Gurucharananda)

For more than 50 years Mataji has been living and teaching at Satchidananda Áshrama, Yogaville, USA. All her life has been dedicated to share and spread the philosophy and the teachings of Yoga. To be present in a Satsang with Mataji is a very special occasion to learn with her presence and her simple loving way of sharing her wisdom.

Mataji is truly inspirational: she totally embodies the teachings of Swami Satchidananda, and her great joy at sharing these teachings with us is palpable !

You cannot help but feel good in her presence ! Please do not miss this beautiful event !


To retain:

• Please let Reception know if you can come
• Tea and cakes/cookies will be served

Date: March 6, 2010

Hours: 15h-18h

Language: English – the event will be translated into Portuguese.

Location: Quinta da Calma – Pavilion, Almancil – Algarve, Portugal

Value: By donation


More information:

Email: info@quintadacalma.com - T: 289 393 741 – Web: www.quinta-da-calma.com


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Matthieu Ricard, the well-known french buddhist monk, will be in Porto for a Public Conference, on March 8th, a jointly organized event by Kangyur Rinpoche Foundation and C.A.S.A. (Centro de Apoio ao Sem Abrigo). The conference, entitled “The Need for Altruism”, will take place at Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda.

About Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a french buddhist monk, photographer and author. He lives and works in the Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal, Himalayas, for forty years now.

Born in France in 1946, son of the renowned French philosopher Jean-Francois Revel, Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of the french intellectual circles. He traveled to India in 1967.

Matthieu Ricard holds a Doctorate in molecular genetics at the Institut Pasteur from Paris in 1972 but he decided to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. He studied with Kangyur Rinpoche and with some other great masters of that tradition and became close student and assistant and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, until his death in 1991. Since then he has dedicated his activities to achieve the vision of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Matthieu Ricard’s photographs of spiritual masters, landscapes and people from the Himalayas have appeared in numerous books and magazines. Henri Cartier-Bresson said about his work, “the spiritual life of Matthieu and his camera are one, from which spring these images, fleeting and eternal.”

He is the author and photographer of “Tibet, An Inner Journey” and “Monk Dancers of Tibet, and, in collaboration, the photo books “Buddhist Himalayas”, “Journey to Enlightenment” and recently ” Motionless Journey: From a Hermitage in the Himalayas”. Matthieu Ricard is the translator of many Buddhist texts, including “The Life of Shabkar”.

The dialogue with his father, Jean-Francois Revel, in “The Monk and the Philosopher”, was a bestseller in Europe and was translated into 21 languages, and “The Quantum and the Lotus” (co-authored with Trinh Xuan Thuan ) reflect his long-standing interest for science and Buddhism.

In his 2003 book “Plaidoyer pour le Bonheur” (published in English in 2006 as “Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill”) he explores the meaning and plenitude of happiness and was a huge best-seller in France.

Matthieu Ricard was dubbed “the happiest person in the world” by popular media after volunteering for a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on happiness, ranking significantly above the average after the testing of hundreds of other volunteers.

A board member of the Mind and Life Institute, which is devoted to meetings and collaborative research between scientists and buddhist scholars and meditators, his contributions have appeared in “Destructive Emotions” (edited by Daniel Goleman) and other books of essays. He is deeply engaged in the research on the effect of mind training on the brain, at the Universities of Madison-Wisconsin, Princeton and Berkeley.

Matthieu Ricard received the “Ordre National du Mérite” by the french president François Mitterrand for his humanitarian projects and efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of the Himalayas.

In the last years Matthieu Ricard has devoted his efforts and donates all the profits of his work to thirty humanitarian projects in Asia, including maintenance and construction of clinics, schools and orphanages in the region: www.karuna-shechen.org

Since 1989, Matthieu Ricard acts as the French for H. H. the Dalai Lama.


(TN: Karuna means “compassion” in Sanskrit)

Source: Wikipedia

Date: March 8, 2010

Hours: 18h30

Location: Fundação Dr. António Cupertino Miranda, Avenida da Boavista, 4245, 4100-140 Porto


More information:

T: 21 390 40 22 – 21 774 25 39 – 934 353 961 – Web: www.facm.pt – www.krfportugal.org – www.matthieuricard.org

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For the sixth time Yoga Vidya, Europe’s biggest seminar house for Yoga and Áyurveda, invites professors and scholars of Áyurveda to a congress held in the scenic town of Bad Meinberg in the Teutoburg Forest in Germany.

In times of global change, Áyurveda can be an effective means to focus our consciousness upon the fact that each individual has a personal responsibility for his or her own health. As a holistic system of medicine – from prevention to natural healing – the impact of Áyurveda on western health systems is profound. It is a true chance for future global health.

The talks and workshops during the congress are designed in a way that many people can profit from them. People new to Áyurveda will find inspiration, experienced practitioners and Áyurveda therapists can deepen their knowledge, people seeking treatment find information where to turn for help. More than 40 renowned Áyurveda scientists share their knowledge there.


The Program includes:

• Pancha Karma
• Jyotish
• Marma Therapy
• Massages
• Áyurveda and Spirituality
• Áyuryoga
• Ayurvedic Medicine
• Áyurveda in the West
• Cooking Workshop
• Dosha Yoga classes

Áyurveda is, ideally, complemented by the practice of Yoga, Meditation and Mantra as well as ayurvedic, yogic vegetarian whole food which is offered from the organizer’s certified organic kitchen. In addition, Aura photography is presented and demonstrated in a massage example of how can the aura change thereafter. The parallel yoga sessions are also very interesting – dosha yoga for vata, pitta or kapha to compensate for imbalances, marma yoga, therapeutic yoga, and much more.

About Haus Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg

The Haus Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg is a beautiful and spiritual place, very powerful and with wide radiation in the beautiful Teutoburg Forest located near Paderborn.. It is Europe’s biggest seminar house with over 650 seminars each year – recreation within beautiful nature, intensive work on body, mind and soul. Inform yourself about the courses and events we offer !

In the seminars you have the possibility to:
- start with the integral practice of yoga for better health and positivity in your life
- study particular aspects of yoga in depth
- intensify your yoga practice and have deep spiritual experiences

The integral practice of yoga and meditation in wonderful nature, with delicious food (organic!), together with like-minded people, harmonizes and inspires body mind and soul. A stay in House Yoga Vidya can give you a lot of strength, joy, and positivity for your daily life as well as for deep inner self-knowledge. We are looking forward to see you !


Date: March 5 – 7, 2010
Venue: The Haus Yoga Vidya, Wällenweg 42, D-32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany.

Despite the quiet location the venue is easy to reach: by car (B239), by train (station Horn-Bad Meinberg) or by plane (airport Paderborn, then train to horn).

Organizers: The Professional Association of Yoga Vidya Health Consultants, Trainers and Therapists (BYVG) is an association of health advisers, course leaders, life counselors and therapists who share de ideals of expanding knowledge, teaching, exercise and holistic techniques of Yoga, Áyurveda, Vedic Sciences and related disciplines.


More information:
Email: rezeption@yoga-vidya.de – T: 05234/87-2203 – Fax: 05234/87-1880 – Web: www.yoga-vidya.de


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Swami Asokananda, President of the Satchidananda Áshram (Yogaville, Virgina, USA) and Integral Yoga International, a disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda, will be in the Algarve, at Quinta da Calma, to teach the Intermediate Yoga Teacher Training of Integral Yoga – a 3 Week Residential Course.

Are you and your students ready to go further in your yoga practice ?
Wanting to share more advanced ásanas, go deeper into pránáyáma and meditation ?
Are you yearning to give more to your Yoga students ?
This course will enhance your development as an Integral Yoga teacher and increase your capacity to serve your students .

Intermediate ásanas and variations are presented as well as intermediate pránáyáma practices. Deep study of the teachings of the Bhagavad Gítá is also included, expanding your grounding in the universal teaching of Yoga for personal development and deepening your understanding for teaching.

More advanced understanding of anatomy and physiology and how it relates specifically to yoga ásanas.

This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and spend time with other Integral Yoga teachers, to share experience and new ideas, and to find creative solutions to problems encountered in teaching.


Curriculum

• Full details and guidance for teaching Hatha Yoga II
• Optional poses for this level
• How to modify and adjust the poses for the individual
• Course in the Bhagavad Gítá
• Further study of pránáyáma and meditation practice and theory
• Physiology and anatomy
• Workshops on your own personal practice of ásana, pránáyáma, and meditation

Certification: On completing the course satisfactorily you will receive a Diploma qualifying you to teach Integral Yoga Hatha II – Intermediate Level.
Pre-requisite: The course is available to all Yoga teachers who have completed Basic Teacher Training.


Dates: 14 March – 3 April, 2010
Location: Quinta da Calma, Almancil, Algarve, Portugal
Values: Sharing accommodation: 1808 €.
Single room supplement (per day): shared bath 15 €; private bath 25 €; bungalow as single 50 € (includes fees, accommodation, food, teacher training manuals & diploma)


More information:
Email: info@quintadacalma.com – iytt@iyiva.org (Satchidananda Ashram in USA)- T: 289 393 741 – Fax: +351 289 393 346 – Web: www.quinta-da-calma.com


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Heather Mason, assisted by Carly Taylor, are conducting the workshop “Healing from and Depression Through Yoga & Mindfulness” where they will explore the curative role that yoga therapy and mindfulness can have on emotional healing.

Modern science and psychology are now beginning to appreciate the importance of body-mind approaches in the treatment of depression, anxiety and stress. This workshop will offer an opportunity for experiential learning, combined with insight into groundbreaking theory around how both yoga and mindfulness influence the brain and nervous system. Using a combination of yoga therapy, break-work, mindfulness and psychotherapeutic support, Heather and Carly will guide you through practices specifically designed to work with both the mental and physiological aspects of anxiety and depression.

Appropriate for all levels: this includes both students and clinicians


What to Expect:

• A wonderful, gentle supportive day by two of the UKs leading teachers in Yoga and Mental Health
• Skills you can take home and practice to cultivate well-being
• Insight into how to work with depression and anxiety over the long term
• A CD to aid you in home practice
• An opportunity to ask personal questions and how yoga and mindfulness can influence them.

About Heather Mason

Heather Mason offers Yoga Therapy for the mind and the body based on her extensive training in psychotherapy, yoga therapy, and mindfulness-based practice. Having suffered from both depression and anxiety Heather offers an approach that is both experientially and scientifically based. This prompted her to found a company called Yoga for the Mind where she integrates the benefits of yoga postures, breath practices, mindfulness techniques, and psychotherapeutic principles to help people alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression. Through this combined approach Heather is able to work with both the mind and body meeting both the psychological and physiological aspects of mental-health through a process of mutual cure. Heather holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from SOAS University London, and completing a three year MA in Clinical Buddhist-Based Psychotherapy. This educational journey is an accompaniment to a three year meditative and yogic journey in South East Asia where she resided in Buddhist monasteries and learned how to transcend her own emotional suffering. Heather has been teaching yoga since 2001 and is also a qualified yoga therapist. Heather is the only person in the UK to have trained extensively with the Boston Trauma Center, Massachusetts on how to use yoga as a complementary treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD and is now enrolled in an MSc in Neuroscience, Roehampton University to conduct research on how Yoga can positively influence the brain. More info: www.yogaforthemind.info

About Carly Taylor

Carly Taylor is a qualified yoga teacher (Integral Yoga Institute Gibraltar/ recognized by The Yoga Alliance) and founder of Ginger Pai – www.gingerpai.com. Carly’s teaching style is gentle & fun, she works in a relaxed and intuitive way. She specializes, in working with people who have ME/Chronic Fatigue (Trained with Fiona Agombar) and has trained as a LifeForce Yoga practitioner with Amy Weintraub to use yoga to treat depression and anxiety. Additionally, Carly completed the Integral Yoga / Raja Yoga “The Science of the Mind” Teacher training in Portugal with Nalanie Chellaram & Hersha Chellaram and has been influenced by many other inspiring teachers, including: Heather Mason -“Yoga for the Mind”, Bridget Woods Kramer- Anusara Yoga, DR Ruth Gilmore/Paul Fox Yoga Anatomy, David Sye Yoga Beats being just a few. Drawing on a combination of skills and knowledge Carly founded Ginger Pai, which integrates yoga and creative arts to promote good mental health and happiness. Ginger Pai also organizes various events throughout the year for inspiring teachers. Most recently Amy Weintraub – Life Force Yoga to Balance the Mood in Surrey, Fiona Agombar – Teaching yoga to people with ME/CFS in Brighton and Russell Stone “Sounding from the Heart” in Kent. More info: www.gingerpai.com


Date: March 21, 2010
Hours: 10h30 – 5 pm
Location: Yoga Ananda Holistic Centre, 46 Albert Road North, RH2 9EL – Reigate, Surrey
Value: £60.00 – Booking essential


More information:
Email: events@gingerpai.com – T: 07886 178 652 – 07804 613 132 – Web: www.yogaananda.co.uk – www.gingerpai.com – www.yogaforthemind.info

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Russell Stone will be at Yoga Ananda Holistic Centre in Reigate, Surrey, to present the workshop “Sounding From The Heart”.

In this workshop you will discover an exciting way to connect with your inner being through the voice.

Russell will take you through a session of Yoga Nidrá, enabling you to connect deeply with yourself and then when connected, he will take you on a path to explore your own sound with love (Yoga Nada). This process has been developed through MA research as Sound Recovery Therapy™, a way to contribute to your sense of well-being.

Through engaging with this sound you will be taught to access techniques for:

• Identifying and learning to cope with negative, habitual thought patterns
• Calming the mind
• Nourishing creativity and spontaneity
• Moving beyond the ego

About Russell Stone

Russell Stone is a singer extraordinaire and world-class vocalist, Yoga Teacher / Psychotherapist specialising in group “sounding” as therapy and integration, is known for his self-penned world-wide hit “We Do It”, which he performed with R & J Stone in the 70’s. As a professional singer, he has sung with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Tony Bennett, among others. Know more…

“As a professional singer for over 35 years, an Integrative Counsellor and Transpersonal Psychotherapist for the past 10 years, with a British Wheel of Yoga Foundation Course Certificate and as a registered teacher with the Independent Yoga Network, I feel I am able to integrate these three disciplines into a form of expression that is exciting, unique and has great potential for healing.” – Russell Stone


Data: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Hours: 2pm – 5pm
Venue: Yoga Ananda Holistic Centre, 46 Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9EL
Exchange: £ 20


Booking essential:
Email: events@gingerpai.com – T: 07804 613132 / 077886 178 652 - Web: www.gingerpai.com – www.yogaananda.co.uk – www.russell-stone.co.uk

Organization: www.gingerpai.com


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Narayani & Jason Kalidas invite you to an evening of bhakti with a Kírtan Concert where they will be joined by the fabulous violinist Lucy Crisfield. They share a powerful and intuitive dynamic that takes you on a deep journey as you experience heart opening through Kírtan.

Kírtan is an ancient and effective yogic practice of singing together to open the heart and connect to the self. Meditative and ecstatic chants are led by Narayani’s deeply resonant voice. Sanskrit mantras are set to beautiful, yet simple, melodies with Jason’s dynamic Tabla rhythms and Bansuri. The chants are easy to pick up and give a wonderful opportunity to discover the power of your own voice.

About Narayani and Jason Kalidas

Narayani is a devotional singer, voice work facilitator and yoga teacher. Her personal journey with yoga and sound, and the discovery of her powerful and deeply resonant voice had such a profound and transformative impact on her life that she passionately shares this through devotional music and chanting, voice circles and workshops, as well as teaching yoga.

Renowned Tabla and Bansuri player Jason Kalidas tours with some of the worlds greatest kírtan artists including Dave Stringer and Bhagavan Das. He also gives solo concerts and Nada Yoga sound journeys.


Date: 14 de February de 2010
Hours: 6:45-8:15
Location: Jivamukti Yoga Centre, 300 Kensal Road, Units 136-137, W10 5BE – London
Value: £10 in advance – £12 at door


More information:
Email: narayani@onebodyonesound.com – www.jivamuktiyoga.co.uk – T: 07976 016 103 (Narayani) – 020 8960 3999 (Jivamukti Yoga Center) – Web: www.onebodyonesound.com – www.myspace.com/narayanidevi – www.jivamuktiyoga.co.uk

Amy Hollowell Sensei guides a Zen meditation retreat in Lisbon at the Portuguese Buddhist Union.

This is a non-residential retreat, open to all, experienced practitioners and beginners, and consists of sessions of meditation (zazen and kinhin) throughout the day.

About Amy Hollowell Sensei

Amy Hollowell Sensei is the founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi, in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center. Amy Hollowell has been teaching Zen meditation in Portugal since 2004, leading retreats and meditation workshops, and giving lectures. She is also a poet and a journalist, and lives in Paris since 1981.


Regular practice of Zen meditation in Lisbon re-scheduled! More information here.


Date: 6 February 7, 2010-01-26 Hours: 6 February: 14h00 – 18h00, 7 February: 9:30 – 17:30
Location: Portuguese Buddhist Union, Avenida Cinco de Outubro, 122, 8 º Esq, Lisbon
Value: € 50


More information:

Email: wildflower.pt@gmail.com – Web: sanghazenpt.wordpress.com – zenscribe.ovh.org