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Welcome to the May edition of Conference Connection.
With the New York City Conference only a week away, we are working tirelessly to put all the finishing touches on our first conference in the Big Apple.
We hope you will be able to join us for what is sure to be an unforgettable 4 days. Although space is still available, many classes almost full -- register now to be a part of it all.
Registration is now open for our world-renowned Estes Park Conference that will bring us back for our 14th year.
Don't miss Desikachar as part of our 3-Day Healing Through Yoga Intensive as well as the many other offerings.
Check it out online at yjevents.com.
Finally, we'd like to share a note that put a smile on our faces. We received it from Susan Godfrey, an attendee at the recent Grand Geneva Conference:
"I feel so privileged to be thanking you for the best weekend (and the most exhausting) of my life. Beyond the physical knowledge that I knew I would acquire, the spiritual and the mental experience that I was able to attain was incredible. I feel like I have entered a new world of peace, simplicity, and health."
Thank YOU Susan—we love to hear such wonderful feedback.
Namaste,
The Yoga Journal Conference Team
New York City Conference
May 15-18, 2009
Hilton New York
One week away!
Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of the first ever Yoga Journal New York City Conference!
Click here for more information and to register.
Special Events include a Kirtan Concert with Krishna Das (almost sold out), Keynote Address by Robert Thurman, Asana Demo by Ana Forrest followed by performance with MC Yogi,
Closing Remarks by Dharma Mittra, and Monday's Keynote with Christiane Northrup, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom.
There are also free community classes on Saturday and Sunday.
Don't miss the Yoga Marketplace featuring products & services for healthy balanced living, also free and open to the public.
Colorado Conference
September 20-27, 2009
Estes Park, CO
Register now to take advantage of Early Bird pricing and get your first choice of classes (last year's conference sold out!)
Conference highlights include:
For more information visit yjevents.com/ep09.
Don't Wait—Register Now!
This Conference Will Sell Out!
Author-translator of the Bhagavad Gita (Harper 2007)
and cofounder and teacher of The Secret Yoga™
Editor's Note: Graham Schweig will be teaching at the upcoming New York City Conference.
Click here for more information.
There is a dimension of yoga that is rarely explored. For it requires a life of meditation, and an intimate relationship with the Sanskrit language and the secrets of yoga it communicates. It is this world of yoga in which Graham Schweig has been dwelling for over forty years.
Graham, at the age of fourteen, began his exploration of the timeless visions of life, of love, and the nature of immortality as illumined by the saints and sages of antiquity. At this time, when many traditional teachers from India were arriving on the shores of America in the latter half of the '60s, Graham continued and evolving his practice and understanding of yoga. He became a vegetarian and took his various practices of yoga so seriously that he dropped out of high school in order to receive formal training in yoga. His experiences in yoga were enhanced by his many travels to India, to its sacred sites and holy persons.
It was the sacred Sanskrit texts on yoga that most attracted Graham, and his gentle probings of these powerful writings allowed him to connect with their deeper messages. Graham discovered that the very language of Sanskrit texts on yoga contained a certain self-illuminating power, if accessed through meditation as well as scholarship, that would disclose extraordinary visions and experiences that are already resonating at the core of our being and from deep within our hearts. After three decades of mining their inner teachings and embedded secrets, and after earning his Ph.D. from Harvard University in yoga traditions and comparative religion, Graham's eagerness to share them with the Western world led to his unique translation work.
Today, Graham continues to mine Sanskrit gems from sacred yoga texts, making their rare beauty and profound messages tangible to all hearts desirous of discovering the treasures of yoga. He discovered the Secret Yoga as he was writing and translating for his first book entitled, Dance of Divine Love: India's Classic Sacred Love Story, published by Princeton University Press. The exquisite poetry and philosophy of this famous work of the Bhagavata Purana revealed how divine love dances eternally within the hearts of all souls, and is indeed that sacred dance for which we all long. This is the highest samadhi, and it is this ultimate state of yoga to which, knowingly or unknowingly, all forms of yoga aspire.
Since his teens, Graham had been reading and seriously studying many different translations of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most comprehensive classical writings on yoga. It was only in the last few years that he produced his own translation and illumination of the text, entitled, Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song, published by HarperOne. Graham points out that this famous text is certainly not a "song" or gita in the ordinary sense, but it is a song issuing forth from the very heart of the divine. Graham states, "In every case, yoga is not just something we do, something that we practice. Rather, yoga is something that also becomes truly revealed to us, something that is given to us. Each one of us experiences this in our own way, and the sacred texts on yoga explain that it is both a human and divine effort." As he thus describes in his work, "yoga is the mutual loving embrace between the human and the divine." We learn that there is a divine yearning in each of our hearts, and that there is a divine calling, a "secret song," a song of divine love coming to each one of us from deep within our being that is ultimately revealed to us through yoga practice. And this is the essential focus within The Secret Yoga™ seminars that Graham teaches.
The Secret Yoga™ brings out the innermost teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, as Graham's seminars reveal, along with special meditations, mantras, asana, and chanting. In the Gita, we develop the ability to recognize the voice of of the universe speaking to each one of us, and these very teachings declare themselves as "the secret yoga." Graham sees himself as bringing these hidden teachings of the voice in the Gita to his students. Moreover, The Yoga Sutra, which he is currently translating, reveals that the innermost practice of yoga, even beyond that of the "eight limbs," is pranidhan yoga: "the complete mapping of one's journey into the deepest depths of yoga is immediately realized in The Secret Yoga™, whether one is a newer or seasoned practitioner."
Graham is well-known for making the inner teachings of the Secret Yoga™, Bhagavad Gita and other texts of yoga easily accessible. Through his insights, sense of humor and his knack for putting workshop participants at ease amid Sanskrit verses and sometimes challenging philosophy, he creates an atmosphere in which one personally experiences the mysticism of sacred study. Graham and his partner Catherine Ghosh, co-creator of The Secret Yoga™ Seminars, will be offering various workshops and RYT 500 yoga teacher trainings on the Virginia peninsula and elsewhere. To find out what seminars are being offered and more on The Secret Yoga™,
please consult secretyoga.com for scheduled events and workshops.
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Upcoming Conferences
New York City
Hilton New York
May 15-18, 2009
One week away
14th Annual Colorado Conf.
Estes Park, CO
YMCA of the Rockies
September 20-27, 2009
Registration now open
Save the Dates
7th Annual San Francisco Conf.
San Francisco, CA
Hyatt Regency
Jan. 28 - Feb 1, 2010
Registration opens summer
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Come visit our booth during the New York conference for your chance to win $150 worth of free Young Living product!
Don't miss this chance to learn how pure essential oils can enhance your yoga routine.
www.youngliving.com
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Registered nurse.
Registered dietician.
Registered financial advisor.
Would you expect anything less from a yoga teacher?
If you're looking for a yoga teacher or school with integrity, knowledge and skill who has dedicated hundreds of hours to professional training choose a Yoga Alliance registered teacher (RYT) or school (RYS).
Yoga Alliance is the world's largest organization of professional yoga teachers and schools that meet internationally recognized standards of training, experience and continuing education.
To find a Yoga Alliance RYT or RYS near you go to
yogaalliance.org
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