Explore Meditation…
A full day at Oxford University
One common lesson of all spiritual teachings is that our usual self needs to be radically transformed in order for it to serve that real and deeper Self ~ that particle of Divinity, that breath of God ~ which has taken on my body-mind as an instrument for its own evolution. The Yoga Sūtras describe samādhi (freedom from the self of our everyday identification) as the aim of Yoga. During these webinars we will explore both this aim of Yoga and the obstacles that stand in our way.
We will look at the source obstacle ~ ignorance (avidyā) ~ which manifests as egotism (asmitā), in which we mistake the non-self for the Self; identifying with the drop and forgetting we are the Ocean. Following from this ignorance we are caught in the constant sway between attraction and repulsion (rāga-dvesha), and the hopeless clinging to the status quo (abhinivesha). Yoga offers the path par excellence out of these.
The source material on these webinars that Ravi Ravindra has chosen are the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali and the Bhagavad Gita.
There will be time at the end of each webinar to address questions to Prof. Ravi.
DATES:
Sunday 19 February 2023
Sunday 4 June 2023
Sunday 26 November 2023
Each one starts at 3.00 pm and lasts for 1 hour 15 minutes.
To book contact Uddhava:
SO many Yogins enjoyed the blindfold Yoga classes before they had to shut down due to Covid.
On the last Friday of every month at
Luci Trendle's lovely Yoga Studio.
Join in and find the beauty of
that 'inner gaze' ~ pratyahara'.
Booking a place essential, to book contact Uddhava:
RAFFLES ON THE DAY:
1 x Weekend Pass for the upcoming World Yoga Festival event.
For further information see: www.yogafestival.world
1 X 10" Tibetan Singing Bowl (retail cost £195)
RAFFLES OF THE MONTH:
The Garuda Studio has donated a fantastic prize specifically designed for Yoga teachers…
A Garuda Foundation Matwork Course (Virtual) valued at £840.
James D'Silva's Garuda system of movement ~ inspired by Yoga, Pilates and Bharatanatyam dance, has gained renown all over the world.
See: https://www.thegaruda.net/product/foundation-matwork-course/
(The entrants have to be teachers with a certificate in either Yoga or Pilates ~ an ideal gift for yourself or your favourite Yogin)
Sponsorship Forms will be available at the Sun Salutations Party on the 17th July OR email Uddhava and request some: uddhava@TraditionalYoga.org
You or your supporters can also give via the Just Giving Page at:
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SunSalutationsChallenge2022
Make a difference to one of our Mukti children's lives and benefit yourself at the same time!
Join James for a charity Sunday morning online get-together!
Spend a lovely Sunday morning enjoying a revitalising & invigorating 1 hour with Garuda's James D'Silva on the mat ~ online via Zoom.
Following that, Swami Ambikananda, will discuss Pranayama and give some introductory breathwork practices for 45 minutes.
Date: Sunday 8th November
Timings: 11 am - 1 pm
TO BOOK PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO GARUDA:
https://www.thegaruda.net/product/mukti-charity-class-sunday-8th-november-at-11am/
This is a free event - donate at: Mukti's JustGiving page.
Yogini Laura Truesdale who runs successful art courses through her academy, Brushtrokes Courses (www.brushstrokes.courses), is doing an online one-night special for Mukti.
Bring your loved one ~ they can join in ~ or a photo and learn the art of lovingly drawing a much-loved face.
VIA ZOOM
Date : Wednesday
28th October 2020
Time : 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm.
Sign up at: https://brushstrokes.courses/store
And make your donation at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/brushstrokescourses
Yogini Laura knew that once lockdown came into force, our fund-raising would suffer a blow. She then went into action. She opened a ‘Just Giving’ page and requested donations for her hair-shave. In the process she raised a whopping £1,280 and all the funds came to Mukti.
THANK YOU LAURA!
She is beautiful both : with her long locks and with shaven head ~ but, we have to admit, we love the shaven head look.
We know you love your Yoga
YOGA IN THE DARK
Now try it a totally new way!
In support of an appeal by the RNIB Traditional Yoga Association teachers will be taking classes once a month in which all participants (except the teacher!) are blindfolded.
"Feel it don't think it."
~ Yogin Arjuna
Yogini Luci is donating her studio space and TYA Teachers are donating their time and skills.
Participants are asked to make a donation.
ALL PROCEEDS TO GO TO THE RNIB.
Date : Last Friday of every month
Fri 31st Jan 2020 : Luci Trendle
Fri 28th Feb 2020 : Swami Ambika
Fri 27th Mar 2020 : Uddhava
Sponsored
Garba
for MUKTI
28th September 2019
ABOUT GARBA
Garba is a traditional dance from the Gujarat area of India. It is a circle dance usually done during Autumn harvest time. Traditionally ~ like the Sufi dance which Garba pre-dates ~ it was meant to invoke an ecstatic state of mind in the dancer.
This year we will have a Garba teacher who will teach us first the basic Garba and once we’re familiar with the steps we will all dance it together to live musicians for 45 minutes.
Each song takes about 3 minutes, so in a 45 minute dance there will be about 15 songs.
Each participant can decide for themselves how many songs they remain in the dance for. After a short break to eat, listen to live music and catch our breath, those of us still standing will step up to learn the next dance called ‘Dandiya Rasa’. It comes from the Garba tradition but has the addition of sticks (dandiya). They represent the swords of Durga as she fought the forces of darkness. With our sticks we join the musicians in creating the rhythm of the dance.
Again, once we know the basic moves, we will begin a thirty minute dance (about 10 songs).
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE DANCES: 25
(Participants can choose to do less.)
VENUE
Our Lady of Peace Community Centre,
338 Wokingham Road, (A329),
Earley, Reading RG6 7DA
Entrance free to all with Sponsorship.
Entrance free to children.
Adults entrance if not sponsored : £5/-
keep moving ~ for charity
Whether you are yogaing, dancing or tangoing, join us on the 29th of June at the Goring Village Hall from 9.30 to 13.00. Refreshments will be available. Donations will be for the benefit of the Mukti project.
The Mukti Project raises funds for and awareness of those whose lives are lived without what many of us take for granted: a home, an education, a loving environment. In India MUKTI gives grants to a home for street children just outside Delhi and a home for abandoned HIV Positive boys and girls also in Delhi and in the UK to various charities for the homeless.
09.30-10.30 : Yoga with Daniela
10.30-10.50 : Meditation with Swami Ambikananda
11.00-11.50 : Zumba with Daniela (first 10 mins salsa/merengue/cha-cha basic steps)
12.00-13.00 : Argentine Tango withBarbara, Reading Tango Club
For info email: d.capasso67@gmail.com
Donation : Minimum £10 ~ or more if the spirit moves you
SPONSERED SWIM FOR MUKTI by Eleanor Newman
On Sunday, 26th May ~ with land temperatures in the area at just 16º ~ Eleanor Newman took a wild swim for our Mukti Project.
Supported by other swimmers in the Uwim team, she swam Boundary Lake in Cheshire and raised £1008.91.
Thank you Eleanor ~ and thanks to all of your team who supported you and all who sponsored you.
All monies raised goes to projects supporting homeless children and young adults in India. At Christmas time we also send funds to support homeless projects in the UK.
For an update on our funding, please click here.
To all those have supported the MUKTI Project over the years, we send our deepest gratitude.
MUKTI RAFFLE 2018
All funds go to MUKTI
Two Fabulous Prizes
1. Raffle for THE BHAGAVAD GITA - SIGNATURE EDITION
2. Raffle for THE YOGA-SUTRAS OF PATANJALI - SIGNATURE EDITION
Click on the tickets to visit the website and order tickets
Closing Date : 20th November 2018
Surya Namaskar~athon
(Sun Salutations ~ lots of them!)
2nd December 2018 2.30p.m.
Reading Hindu Temple, 112 Whitley Street, RG2 0EQ
Join us for a pre-Christmas give-away as we raise money for homeless people with Yoga.
Get sponsored for a doing your health-giving Sun Salutations and breathe easy afterwards, knowing you’ve done good.
There will be lots of Christmas goodies on sale ~ home-made biscuits and sweets for Christmas.
WE WILL ALSO BE DOING THE DRAW OF OUR
FABULOUS 2018 LOTTERY.
19-22 JULY 2018 READING , UK
The fabulous World Yoga Festival that invites teachers from all over the world to come to Berkshire for 3 days of the year to celebrate and share Yoga, has this year invited a number of Traditional Yoga Teachers to teach.
Teaching this year are:
Swami Ambikananda (Friday only)
Laura Finch
To see the blog by Swami Ambikananda written for this year's festival go to: BLOG
To book for the festival go to : World Yoga Festival - click here
Talk by Prof. Ravi Ravindra on Sunday 3rd September 2017 at 7.30 pm
Inner Transformation through Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita
Krishna reveals himself in the Bhagavad Gita as an incarnation of the Highest Divinity. In the process of teaching his disciple Arjuna who is confused about what is the right action, Krishna says that no action can be right until the actor is right, and that in order to be the right actor one must practice the discipline of Yoga. Also, that the purpose of Yoga cannot be fulfilled without undertaking yajña involving a sacrifice of one’s attachment to the level one is at as well as some benediction of forces (devas) higher than oneself.
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Ravi Ravindra has agreed to give us a talk on the Bhagavad Gita. This is one of the major texts on Yoga and as Raviji has recently published a commentary on the Gita, this should be an inspiring talk for all of us. There is ample parking and tea and biscuits will be available.
Venue:
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Reading
Caversham Bridge
Richfield Avenue
Reading
Berkshire RG1 8BD
For further details and to book a place please contact Uddhava on uddhava@traditionalyoga.org
For full details and booking see:
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/mindfulness-meditation-yoga-religions-for-the-21st-century
Speakers include:
Swami Ambikananda
Dav Panesar
Dr. Peter Malinowski
Dr. Miguel Farias
For more details go to:
The draw for the 02 On Stage Together Sting and Paul Simon was done at the Garuda Studio in London on 31 March. Everyone present had a chance to give the barrel of tickets a turn and young Oliver gave it a final few rolls before Tony Tabatznik ~ a long-term supporter of Mukti ~ dipped his hand in and removed the winning ticket. He also drew a second reserve ticket that was placed in a sealed envelope.
The winning ticket belonged to Melissa Sheppard. A very sad Melissa has had to decline the prize due to a work engagement that she is unable to get away from, and the prize then passed onto that reserve ticket-holder. The lucky person therefore going to the 02 concert with the Mukti prize is the reserve ticket-holder John Cardy from Fareham, who tells us he is taking his wife, Charlene.
Congratulations John.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
Fabulous prize : Sting and Paul Simon on State Together at the O2 +++
~ meet Sting!
~ enjoy a night at a London hotel plus dinner.
All funds raised go to MUKTI.
The Surya Namaskar-athon is MUKTI’s biggest fund-raising event. It is a chance to practise charity and Yoga by getting sponsorship for any number of Sun Salutations Yogins choose to do.
In June 2014 Yogins from different schools gathered in Reading for the 2014 Surya Namaskar–athon.
Everyone who participated brought their sponsorship forms and got down to doing their Sun Salutations accompanied by the music of the Ryewolf quartet. During the afternoon we were joined by Vaneet – tabla player supreme, and Yoga student Raju Bharti led us through the new Mangala Namaskar Vinyasa developed specially for the occasion by James D’Silva of Garuda Studio.
MUKTI’s ‘Yoga Ladies’ kept serving up the delicious food they had prepared so Yogins could re–fuel. As prizes for our raffle, MUKTI’s patron Trudie Styler sent a super-hamper of Lakehouse organic produce and other goodies, and James D’Silva donated a private lesson. There were also prizes of beautiful plants and children’s toys.
In two hours enthusiastic Yogins raised £12,000 for MUKTI to donate to projects in India and the UK.
Well done and THANK YOU, Yogins!
As usual our patron Trudie Styler came through for us in 2013. She and her husband Sting offered the fantastic prize of two tickets to see Sting perform live at his ‘invitation only’ birthday concert in New York, where he would be singing songs from his new album ‘The Last Ship’ for the first time in public. The prize included the return flight to New York for our winner and their guest, plus five-nights’ stay at a luxury NY hotel. MUKTI added £500 spending money to the prize.
From June to August lottery tickets flew out across the country, and on the 9th of September superstar Uri Geller attended a dinner with MUKTI supporters and did the prize draw. The lucky winner's name he drew from the barrel of 8000 tickets was Alison Fergie from Bognor Regis. A long-time Sting fan, she was thrilled to win and took her sister with her to NY. Alison very generously donated the cash element of the prize back to MUKTI!
Alison said of her trip: “The concert was excellent, Sting and the band were on good form, and the audience thoroughly enjoyed every minute. I wanted to take a gift for Sting's birthday, but what do you give a man who has everything, so I thought it would be fun to take him a stick of Bognor Regis rock – which made him laugh. The weather was glorious for nearly all the week and we had a fabulous time.”
Thanks to Trudie and Sting and Alison and the wonderful public who bought tickets, MUKTI's 2013 Lottery raised nearly £16,000.
Please read about the Grants MUKTI has donated over the years to various Projects .
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