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Meditation Circle
Once Monthly, Sunday Evening, 7 - 8 pm
Upcoming date: FEB 5th
FREE - Beginners welcome!
(No fee will be set for this program. As is customary in Meditation centers, donations are appreciated. Your donations benefit Gilda's Club of Northern New Jersey, a cancer support community.)
Meditation has become increasingly popular as a means to reduce stress and take a quiet "time out" from our busy lives to be still, look inward, and gain some perspective on our thoughts and feelings.
Please join us for our monthly Meditation Circle. In the supportive embrace of the group, we will practice various forms of meditation. We plan to meet once a month to "sit" together and learn from each other, in a contemplative community.
Appropriate for beginners as well as experienced meditators. Come & bring a friend; no prior experience with meditation required.
Please arrive a few minutes early so that we can start on time.
Up-coming Workshops in 2012
Unravel Your Stress: A Restorative Yoga Workshop
with Cindy Carver, E-RYT
When: Saturday, February 25th
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Cost: $40
"When you stop agitating it, the body starts to repair itself." - Judith Lasater
In Restorative Yoga, props are used to support your body completely so that you can release deeply into the postures without muscular effort or strain. Restorative Yoga is a delicious way to revive and revitalize your body and mind, as you effortlessly increase flexibility and reduce stress.
Simple yet powerful, Restorative Yoga helps:
- relieve chronic pain
- release deeply held tension
- reduce anxiety
- promote deep, restful sleep
- improve digestion
- reduce belly fat, blood pressure and cholesterol
- reduce stress hormones (cortisol & adrenaline)
The workshop ends with a long, luxurious relaxation (savasana). Release your body and mind into the exquisite support of yoga's Relaxation Pose and satisfy what Judith Lasater calls our "craving for deep rest."
About the Instructor:
CINDY CARVER, E-RYT earned her “Relax and Renew” restorative yoga certification from Judith Lasater in 2003. She has been teaching since 2001 after receiving her first certification in hatha yoga and is a registered yoga teacher and member of the Yoga Alliance. She has also studied with Cyndi Lee, Rod Stryker and T.K.V. Desikachar. She has completed the Svaroopa Yoga Foundation training and is an authorized mindfulness meditation teacher. In addition to a thriving private practice in NY and NJ Cindy has taught meditation and yoga workshops at Indian Rock Yoga (NY), Stillpoint Studios (PA), Pura Vida Retreat (GA) and restorative yoga for athletes at Heartwork Yoga (Northfield, MN).
Kirtan with David Newman (Durga Das)
Join us for a heartfelt evening of ecstatic call and response chanting, devotional music and sacred song in the Hindu tradition, with Kirtan Chant Artist David Newman (Durga Das) joined by devotional vocalist and percussionist, Mira.
Date: To Be Announced
Cost: $30 in advance / $35 at the door
About the Performer:
David is a Kirtan Chant Artist, sacred singer songwriter and a practitioner and educator of Bhakti Yoga - the Yoga of Love. David travels extensively sharing devotional music and the spiritual, meditative and musical aspects of Yoga. David's music embodies a devotional mysticism, distinctive musicality, poetic intimacy and a deep respect for India's ancient chant tradition. His Kirtans are joyous, ecstatic, uplifting and exploding with energy. A dedicated Chant Troubadour, David tours throughout the world with his wife Mira, a celebrated devotional singer, recording artist and percussionist. He is also the author of Merging with Grace, the founder of The Stay Strong Project and of Yoga On Main in Philadelphia. David has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and has appeared in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Yoga Magazine UK, Natural Awakening, New Age Retailer, Rock Om, Sacred Sounds Radio, Wave Magazine, Ultrasounds, In the Spirit, VividLife, Yogamates, Yogi Times, Spirit Voyage Radio, Australian Life Magazine, Yoga Chicago, LA Yoga as well as many others. David has offered programs at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center, Sivananda Yoga Retreat, The Toronto and Vancouver Yoga Conference, Madrid Mantras Festival, Yogaville, and has toured widely throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.
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