Events
Yoga
Wednesdays – (WEEKLY)
In the tradition of Yogacharya Sri T Krishnamacharya.
Yoga is an ancient, self-empowering practice that utilizes a wide range of tools to enhance well-being and to maintain and restore health. It can be a powerful tool on the journey of personal and spiritual growth. Health, healing and spiritual transformation are its fundamental purposes; all of which influence our choices, how we live and the developmental of our relationships. One’s evolution in their personal relationship is shared with others. This is then, the measure of how successful our practice of doing the yoga tools is in our lives.
Some of the tools used in this tradition include (but are not limited to) postures (asana), breath regulation (pranayama), meditation (dhyana), dietary recommendations (ahara niyama), lifestyle suggestions (vihara niyama), chanting (mantra), visualization / affirmation (bhavana), gestures (mudra), and guided self-inquiry (svadhyaya) and scriptural study of the Yoga Sutras along with its recitation.
Location - North Vancouver (private space)
- Adult class 145pm-245pm
- Children class 330pm – 430pm
RSVP to register – mangalam.mandiram@gmail.com
Kindly RSVP your attendance. Space is limited…
Wise Earth Ayurveda
May the universe never abuse food. Breath is food, The body eats food, This body rests on breath. Breath rests on the body, Food is resting on food. The one who knows this becomes rich in food and great in fame. Taittiriya Upanishad 11.7Seasonal Gatherings (twice a season) – Beginning November
‘Wise Earth Sadhana’s (actions which reclaim the Divine within) practices of food, breath, and sound enable us to sustain our health, realign ourselves with nature’s cycles, and discover our rich inner realm of wisdom. They help us to “sit in ourselves”, to remain centered in our consciousness with every action we take. By finding spiritual accord in our daily routines, we can find this peace elsewhere and everywhere. If we cannot find the harmony in our everyday actions, we will not find it anywhere else.’ Mother Maya
Join the community sanga gathering for seasonal sharing with a focus on appropriate application and integration of practices in food, breath and sound. We experience distinct emotions and energies associated with each and every season although we may not be aware of them. Special focus in each season share be shared and experienced with specific treatments and rituals to meet the needs and interest of the time.
It is our intention to nourish and cultivate the tradition of Wise Earth Ayurveda in our communities, strengthening the awareness within, with the gift of nature’s healing balm. Om Jennifer Gillis (WEA Program Director of Canada)
The Ahimsa Sadhana Kitchen & Prana Lifelines of Fruits and Vegetables
This introduction to Wise Earth Ayurveda begins with the understanding of creating the kitchen as a sacred space. Thus evoking reverence for the very nature of the foods prepared as healing balm for one’s self and those we lovingly cherish.
Honoring nature’s prana lifelines of fruits and vegetables, we maintain the integrity of food and adhere to the spirit of sadhana. There are eight distinct types of vegetables; each revealing the consciousness of all life. Cutting vegetables, herbs, and fruits along their life lines makes for a sharper buddhi, the faculty of personal wisdom and intellect.
Join us for a evening of sharing and experience as we evoke the healing consciousness within. Kindly note, a hardcover copy of ‘The Path of Practice – A Women’s Book of Ayurvedic Healing‘ by my Guru, my teacher, Mother Maya (Maya Tiwari), is included for this and the continuing WEA class studies, as a study guide and personal tool of transformation.
November 6 – 330pm-530pm - $35
Location - North Vancouver (private space)
The Ceremony of Ghee
The ancient Vedic monks basked in the joyous ceremony of making ghee, practicing it as a means of meditation to awaken the true self. Performed at Purnima, during the full moon, evokes inner tranquility. It is said that the guru, the teacher, would instruct his disciples to ‘gather a herd of cows‘. This was a figurative expression meaning ‘go and gather, or strengthen, your resolve and commitment to a spiritual life’. The making of ghee became one of the means by which the seers were able to acquire and practice these qualities.
Join us for an evening of ceremony, chanting and silence during the luminous time of Purnima. We will experience the creation of ghee making.
December 11 – 330pm-530pm – $25
Location – North Vancouver (private space)
Veda Studies – Advaita Vedanta – Bhagavad Gita Home Study Group
The self is the origin of all finite happiness, But it is itself limitless, transcending definition. It remains unaffected by deeds, right and wrong. It is beyond feeling and beyond knowledge. It is the ever present in the meditation of a sage. Brhadaranyaka UpanisadCommunity Gatherings (Bi-weekly)
Pujya Sri Swami Dayananda Sarasvati’s Bhagavad Gita Home Study Course is an edited transcript of classroom talks of Pujya Swamiji’s. It is a unique set of 4 books of over 2000 pages which goes comprehensively through all the chapters and verses of the Gita with a word to word translation in English from Sanskrit and an elaborate explanation of Pujya Swami Dayanandaji’s based on Sankara’s commentary. Each verse is unfolded with clarity in such detail as to make the reader feel he/she is sitting in the class room.
Pujya Swami Dayananada Sarasvati about Bhagavad Home Study Course:
‘I am very happy that the Bhagavad Gita Home Study Course will now be available in a book form. But I want the readers to be aware that this is not another book on Gita. Being an edited transcript of classroom discussions, the material is presented to the reader as a program for self-study. If this is borne is mind, while reading, one can enjoy the same attitude of a student in the class listening to the whole process of unfoldment of the content of the words of Bhagavan. The study will then proof to be as rewarding as directly listening to the teacher. This attitude would proof to be atma-krpa. Once this krpa is there, the other two, Shastra-krpa and Isvara-krpa, would follow.’
The material of this immense work is based upon Gita classes held during the intensive 3 year course that Swami Dayanandaji gave to his students in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, from 1986-1989. It is unfolding, gradually, the entire vision of the Gita. It is the reference book on the Gita for teachers and students of Vedanta around the world.
600pm-700pm (*Dakshina – voluntary donations for the teachings)
September 15, 29 October 13, 27 November 6December 4, 18
Location - North Vancouver (private space)
Om Sri Gurubhyo Namah Om Tat Sat