Fwd: What's New ~ Jan 7 ( shiva@yogadventures.com)

From: Shiva Rea <shiva@yogadventures.com>

Subject: What's New ~ Jan 7

If you have problems viewing this message, visit here for the web version. Please add shiva@yogadventures.com to your address book to ensure future email deliveries. January 8, 2010 Dear Friends, Namaskaram!  I am returning back to LA on Sunday feeling recharged and renewed from the Pura Vida (pure life) in Costa Rica.  This was a "bring-on-the-New Year" pilgrimage and after three weeks of being pranified by the sea and jungle, we are more in love with Costa Rica than ever and are planning on coming back for New Year's 2010-11! Here are the upcoming prana flow sessions in Venice and the Naga Shakti workshop that I am so inspired to share with you next weekend.  This is the first session of both the Naga Shakti: Encounters in Primal Vinyasa Series as well as the Tantric Studies Program where we explore the earliest sacred text on Kundalini Shakti with Tantric scholar, Chris Tompkins and the evolving naga (serpent) vinyasa that has been developing through meditating, and flowing in yoga with snakes. If you are local, don't miss this opening weekend as well as a Yogatrancedance this Saturday. Thank you to Cristi Cristensen, Manager of Exhale, Venice for making this and all the workshops we do happen with such a great spirit. You will also see the incredible design work of Lisa Firefly and a peak at the photos of the Primal Vinyasa project that I am working on with some of Amir Magal's photographic art.  Let us open to the creative power and grace of our rising life-force. May we be in our fullness with an open heartmind,   For the waves Shiva I will be back in town offering prana flow: energetic vinyasa with my favorite local yoga tribe at Exhale, Venice: Mon January 11 ~  6:00PM Wed January 13 ~ 10:30AM Sat January 16 ~ 10:30AM  Sat - Sun January 16-17 Naga Shakti Weekend Workshop  Sat Jan 16 Nagaraja! Yogatrancedance  Mon January 18 ~ 6:00PM Rise up! Special Martin Luther King Jr.  Class Wed January 20 ~ 10:30AM Sat January 23 ~ 10:30AM Sun January 24 ~ 10:30AM Mon January 25 ~ 6:00PM Om Nagarajaya Namah! Snake Photo by Amir Magal Next Weekend! Naga Shakti ~ Awakening Kundalini Shakti at Exhale, Venice "All my life, I was afraid of snakes and never touched one until June of 2009 when I requested to be with these boas as a photographic art project with Amir.  After that live hour experience, I was initiated into the beautiful power of these sacred beings and realized that this was a potent method of transmitting naga shakti energy for yoga practitioners."  - Shiva Rea Presented by Samudra Tantric Studies + Naga Shakti: Primal Vinyasa Program, with Shiva Rea + Chris Tompkins January 16 + 17, 2010 In India, snakes are worshipped as NagaShakti, the divine kundalini flow and as Nagaraja, Lord Siva as the Serpent King wrapped in serpents while deep in meditation and dance.  Experience a Primal Vinyasa to awaken the instinctual body through a direct encounter with the sacred boa snakes (nagas) while meditating and flowing in yoga.  We will create a safe, ritual environment to go beyond fear and open to a living embodiment of the creative life-force of Kundalini Shakti.  This transformative experience will give you the direct transmission of moving and being in the slow, fluid, creative serpent power embodied in these beautiful artistic beings.     These wonderful boas have been raised with humans and are completely safe and amazing wisdom beings.  Giving context to the Naga Shakti experience is the extraordinary scholarship of Chris Tompkins who is writing his doctoral thesis on the origins of Kundalini Shakti within Tantra and has translated the first hymns of Kundalini that he will share on Sunday and as part of the Tantric Studies Program.  Naga Shakti: Yogatrancedance embodies the celebration as we head into the new year transforming fears and resistance into creative power! For more information and registration please contact Exhale. Saturday Jan 16, 2:00 - 6:00pm Naga Shakti Primal Vinyasa ~ Moving with Serpent Power Includes yoga encounters with Live Boas Saturday Night Jan 16, 8:00 - 10:00pm Naga Shakti Yogatrancedance! Sunday Jan 17, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Kundalini Shakti within Tantra with Chris Tompkins Check out this weekend with Mikki Willis An intimate evening with award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Elevate Film Festival, Mikki Willis THIS Sunday January 10, 7PM to 10PM at Royal T Art Gallery, Culver City, CA Hosted by Jenny & Otis Funkmeyer, the evening will focus on new Paradigms for Transformational Media as we embark upon the second decade of the 21st century. Our communication systems and media technology have reached a level never achieved before. The technology to assist in planetary and spiritual elevation is here. The question is how are we to harness these communication systems in a new way, with greater respect, responsibility and intention? How can we forge this new path? What are the obstacles? What are the next steps to be taken? You are invited to join us to engage more deeply in this discussion… This will mark the second session of Parallel University, a lecture series exploring the space where science, art, and spirituality merge. Mikki Willis is the founding director of Elevate Films, Elevate Foundation, and Elevate Film Festival, which challenges the international film community to create works of social and global importance. Mikki is the recipient of the 2008 Conscious Life Humanitarian Award.  The Sacred Flow: Breathing Consciousness San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference All Day Intensive with Shiva Rea + Chris Tompkins Friday January 29, 2010 Indian Classical Music & Drumming with the Mayapuris! The simplest yet also most advanced yoga is a realization and transformation of ordinary respiration into a moment-by-moment sacred receiving of breathing consciousness that is available to everyone at any time. Enjoy a daylong immersion into Tantric meditations upon the sacred flow of breathing as the sublime organizing rhythm of living yoga and practice. Includes: Sacred vinyasa flows * Meditation * Sutra Studies * Pranayama from Krama School of Kaishmiri Shaivism * Sahaja Movement * Sequences and Text for Study provided to be integrated into your teaching or daily life.   Saturday Night January 30: Ignite Your Passion: Yoga Journal's 6th Annual Yoga Trance Dance Join us for an amazing four-hour immersive rite into the power of community, intention, and inspiration. Through music, movement, and thought we will call upon ourselves to remember, re-ignite, and release our passion. Donna De Lory, MC Yogi, Shiva Rea, DJ Dragonfly and visual artist Jonathan Singer lead you on a journey through spacious beauty, soulful grooves, intentional movement, and hip shaking world beats. $20 for conference attendees; $25 for general public  We will never share, rent or sell your personal information to third parties. Shiva Rea / Samudra: 245 S. Main St., Venice, California 90272 Subscribe  /  Unsubscribe From This List  /  Unsubscribe From ALL LISTS

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