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Welcome to the December Conference Connection.
Our gift to you this holiday season... the return of musician Michael Franti to the San Francisco Conference!
We invite you to join Seane Corn and Michael Franti, two spirited artists and committed activists, for an interactive evening of yoga, song and dance. This will be a hatha vinyasa flow yoga class for all levels, guided by Seane, and enriched with Michael's songs, culminating in an off-the-grid dance jam.
Space is limited and last year sold out quickly, register now!
Also this month we're pleased to spotlight Pandit Rajmani Tigunait who will be at both our upcoming San Francisco and Boston Conferences. Panditji was raised in North India where tantric "miracles", woven into the fabric of village life, fed his faith in unseen forces and awakened a lifelong appetite for ever-deepening experiences of the inner dimension of life.
With so many exciting things happening at the Yoga Journal Conference there is a lot to love. Here are a few things the conference team loves about the events we work on all year long.
- Savasana after 5 days of asana!
- Seeing attendees and presenters reconnect
- Free samples and goodie bags
- Meeting yogis/yoginis from around the country
- Watching new yoga businesses grow
- The vibrant yoga community
- Fun and sassy new fashions
- Discovering new yoga styles and teachers
What do YOU love about the Yoga Journal Conferences? Add to our list on our Facebook page.
Wishing You Happy and Healthy Holidays!
- The Yoga Journal Conference Team
This holiday season, Give the Gift of Yoga! It's the perfect present for the yoga enthusiast in your life.
Call 800.561.9398 and treat someone to the San Francisco or
Boston Conference experience.
7th Annual San Francisco Conference
Hyatt Embarcadero
January 28 - February 1, 2010
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Boston Conference
Sheraton Boston
April 6 - 11, 2010
Registration is open for the Boston Conference!
Yoga Journal is pleased to return to Boston, April 6-11, 2010. The event will featureing more than 40 world-renowned yoga teachers such as including Seane Corn, Ana Forrest, Gary Kraftsow, Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee and many more. Choose from more than 100+ yoga classes and workshops in all styles for students of all levels.
New this year is a special 3-day Continuing Education for Teachers Immersion plus an evening event with world renowned author
Deepak Chopra.
A limited number of VIP tickets for a meet and greet reception with Dr. Chopra and priority seating are available. Register now for this amazing opportunity!
Find out more about the conference including special events online at yjevents.com/boston10.
Submit your photos from previous conferences and they may be featured in the next conference newsletter or on our facebook page!
Send photos to Yjconference2009@gmail.com.
Picture yourself growing up in a world where miracles are woven into the tapestry of daily life. Imagine seeing-not once but many times-a metal bowl floating through the village pulled by an unseen force to the exact place where a thief hid his booty. Or watching an untouchable healing-with a pinch of ash from his fire-everyone who asks for his help, even those who mock him for his low birth.
Or seeing a monk stroll across the surface of a pond, seat himself on the water, and play two flutes, one with each nostril!
This was the world of Pandit Rajmani Tigunait's boyhood in a region of North India that has been a stronghold of tantra for thousands of years. The tantric "miracles" woven into the fabric of village life fed his faith in unseen forces and awakened a lifelong appetite for ever-deepening experiences of the inner dimension of life.
An outstanding teacher is first and foremost an outstanding student, and Panditji's appetite for spiritual knowledge was nourished by a series of remarkable teachers. The first was his father, a learned man whose life revolved around meditation and scripture recitation and who freely shared his vast knowledge of yoga's oral tradition (and the contents of his extensive Sanskrit library) with his son. When Panditji was in fifth grade, the head of a nearby monastery took him under his wing,
deepening Panditji's exposure to the oral tradition and providing his first formal instruction in pranayama. From eighth grade on, he attended a traditional Sanskrit school, where he had the good fortune to be the star pupil of a master renowned for his scriptural knowledge and for his skillful performance of rituals.
While completing his undergraduate and doctoral work at the University of Allahabad, Panditji continued to find his way into the presence of spiritual masters, sitting at their feet, practicing under their guidance, and absorbing their wisdom. Among the extraordinary teachers he encountered during this period, the one that Panditji speaks of most often-with love and joy shining in his eyes-is Swami Sadananda,
a philosopher and tantric healer whose skillful tutelage prepared the young man to meet his ultimate master, the Himalayan adept Sri Swami Rama.
A few months after this momentous event, Swami Rama sent Panditji to the shrine of the Divine Mother at Kamakhya, where he had the good fortune to study under the guidance of the renowned tantric master Dolai Baba. Thereafter Panditji lived with Swami Rama for two decades, studying, practicing, and teaching under his guidance, eventually stepping into Swamiji's role as the spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute when Swami Rama left his body in 1996.
The systematic teaching of tantra that Panditji is undertaking in the coming year flows from decades of personal study and practice and is the culmination of his work here in the West during the past 30 years.
Editor's Note: Pandit Rajmani Tigunait will be teaching and presenting a keynote at both the
San Francisco Conference and Boston Conference.
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