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Sunday January 29, 2012 at 7pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
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By donation to Crossroads Hospice
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Visionaries like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh had a heartfelt belief that all hate, inequality, and racism in the world could be cured through music. This one love mentality will be magnified through a series of group asana (poses) and partner assists. Everyone has an inborn natural desire to love, embrace and radiate happiness. So come groove, laugh, connect, share, and amplify your love for all people in the universe.

This is a by donation class, all proceeds go to Hungry for Life International.

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Saturday January 28th
3pm – 4:30pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
Instructor: Sean O’Leary
by donation to Hungry for Life International.

RSVP here or just show up!

Donation boxes are found at Suter Brook and Austin studios.

All donations must be received by Friday December 16th (for delivery December 17th).

Food Items:

Soup
Vegetable – canned
Fruit – canned
Canned Meals
Pasta & pasta sauce
Kraft dinner
Chicken Mr. Noodles
Cookies
Peanut Butter / Jam
Mayonnaise / Mustard / Ketchup
Pancake Syrup
Juice – carton
Coffee/Tea/Hot Chocolate

We will be buying fresh items for the hamper (meat, cheese, milk, fruit/veg on the 16th for delivery on the 17th).

Gift Items

Toiletries
iTunes gift card
Shoppers Drug Mart gift card
Cineplex Odeon gift card
Books (12 year old girl)
Rona gift card (for father)

Please bring a packed lunch and clothing you can move in and be prepared to have fun!

Led by Shannon Brundrett.

Ages 6 – 11 years

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December 19th – 20th (Mon & Tues)
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
11:30am – 2pm
$35 + HST for 1 day or $60+ HST for both days

Money today is the very antithesis of the sacred. The modern money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Charles Eisenstein presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

In this talk, Charles Eisenstein will explain the forces driving the collapse of our current system, and lay out a vision of a new kind of money system that will replace it. Explore avant-garde concepts including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Explore of way of living in accordance to your ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. It is a vision already emerging today as institutions and individuals step deeper into transition.

This will be a mind-opening glimpse of solutions and new ideas for the future of money and economics – and how we can contribute to it and be part of the positive change.

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Thursday January 12th, 2012
7:30pm – 9pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook

Following the talk, participants may make a donation based on their sense of gratitude, propriety and value.

“I consider Charles Eisenstein one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time. Rarely have I met a person who combines such philosophical and spiritual depth with such practical insights into the cultural and institutional origins of the potential terminal dysfunctions of modern society, and the potential solutions.”
~ David Korten, Author of The Great Turning

about Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. He currently lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and serves on the faculty of Goddard College.

Visit Charles Eisenstein‘s website.

Video Featuring Charles Eisenstein “The Revolution is Love”

books

Interested to read more before the event? Charles’ books are available online and will also be for sale at the event.

Sacred Economics

“This brilliant and beautifully written book is an indispensable must-read for all those who believe our economic system is terminally sick and in need of radical, sacred rehaul. Charles Eisenstein has the great gift of being able to make complex ideas both thrilling and inspiring. I hope this book begins a serious, worldwide conversation on how we can reinvent our attitude to money.”
~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

“With his breadth of knowledge, enthusiasm, commitment, diligence, and sensitivity, Charles has become a beacon of hope for others. Your heart and mind will be opened by this treasure of a book that shines with wisdom of crucial importance to our troubled world today.”
~ Kamran Mofid, founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative

The Ascent of Humanity

“Brilliant and original, with great depth of insight and understanding, Eisenstein’s Ascent of Humanity easily ranks with the works of such giants of our age as David Bohm, Julian Jaynes, Jean Gebser, Whitehead. It is a profoundly serious, indeed somber portrait of our times, even as it opens a door of honest hope amidst the dark destiny we have woven about us. Accept the challenge of this major accomplishment and discover the light shining within it.”
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution’s End, and The Biology of Transcendence

“Quite marvelous, a hugely important work… This book is truly needed in this time of deepening crisis.”
~ John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive and Elements of Refusal

On Saturday November 19th come celebrate our official Grand Opening and Community Celebration at Suter Brook! Bring your friends and family, all are welcome. Check out our schedule of FREE events and activities:

1:00pm – 4:30pm Check out the Studio and Wellness Center
1:30pm – 2:30pm FREE all-levels Yoga class
3:00pm – 4:00pm FREE all-levels Yoga class
4:30pm – 5:30pm Intro to Belly Dancing Workshop lead by Nicole Roy
7:30pm – 9:00pm Community DRUM CIRCLE with Diana and Andrew Clark

RSVP through our Facebook event page

Drum Circle

Saturday, November 19th at 7:30pm

Create unity and rhythm at our Kushala Community Drum Circle. West African djembes and other percussion instruments provided, or bring your own hand drum. No experience necessary- just the willingness to get in the groove! Expect to play and move as you pick up basic patterns and strokes, and “the universal break”.  Diana and Andrew Clark from Coastal Sound Music facilitate the drum circle.

According to Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead drummer): “The Drum Circle is a huge jam session. The ultimate goal is not precise rhythmic articulation or perfection of patterned structure, but the ability to entrain and reach the state of a group mind. It is built on cooperation in the groove, but with little reference to any classic styles. So this is a work in constant progress, a phenomenon of the new rhythm culture emerging here in the West.” 

The drum circle is lead by Coastal Sound, singing programs that enrich lives, for preschoolers to adults.

Intro to Belly Dance Workshop

Saturday, November 19th at 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Free your body and move to universal rhythms through belly dancing. This art originated from the Middle East and other Arabic influenced regions many centuries ago. In this introductory 1-hour workshop, learn some of the basic movements and liberate your inner dancer! Lead by Nicole Roy, in her own words: “Life is a dance. Belly Dance is an expression of life. It calms the mind and soothes the soul even as its movement inspire the senses. It expresses the multiple dimensions of the feminine: passion and reserve, chaos and order, softness and strength.”

SHARE’s goal is to raise 40,000 pounds of food, enough to stock the food bank shelves and feed local families in need until October.

Donations will be delivered to the food bank on July 21st, the day of the “fill-up”.

The most-needed items are staples such as rice, pasta, canned meat and fish, canned fruit and vegetables, cereal, juice, tomato sauce, peanut butter and jam, granola bars and Ensure or other protein drinks. For babies, the most-needed items are Enfamil A+ gold-label powder and Enfamil low iron powder.

Read more: http://www.thenownews.com/life/Give+food+bank+this+daily+bread/4999484/story.html

As part of the ongoing Dharma Series: The Art of Engaged Living, we are honored to have Alan Clements, a former Buddhist monk and author of the internationally acclaimed book, The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Burma’s Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, offer a special presentation exploring Alan’s keynote topic:

World Dharma – an approach to spiritual transformation and higher human potentials that is unique to each individual, and evolved through the creative fusion of one’s yoga with meditation, activism, and spiritual practice.

At the heart of the World Dharma vision is what Alan calls “the yoga of freedom” or “finding liberation through living.” Alan is widely regarded as a spiritual maverick and one of the most innovative Dharma teachers today.

“World Dharma is about having the heart, awareness and wisdom to make every encounter an opportunity to awaken, liberate, and give; to love, touch and to be touched.”
- Alan Clements

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Sunday July 17th
7pm – 8:30pm
Kushala Yoga at Newport
By donation

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Alan will also speak about his new book

A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN – A GUIDE TO EMPOWERMENT,
REVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENTAL SANITY AND THE UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO BE FREE

“At a time when the contemporary spiritual landscape has become dangerously gentrified and domesticated,
Alan Clements restores us to our senses – wild and elemental. He summons the voices of those who, along
side him, have not traded their souls for the market-driven need to be tame or acceptable, and points us to the
wilderness of true, engaged, fiercely authentic awakening. This is why we are alive—to set freedom free, in
ourselves and for others, in every aspect of our lives from the most mundane daily task, to the most profound
political act.”
- Kelly Wendorf, author and editor Stories of Belonging

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Stay in the loop about the dharma series at Kushala Yoga.

Take your understanding and experience of Eastern philosophy to a new depth with our new Dharma Series: The Art of Engaged Living. How do you not only learn and sample great philosophies, but actually apply them to your life?

Led by Ian MacKenzie (Karen’s husband), each session we will share a 30 minute pre-recorded audio talk from teachers like Alan Watts, Pema Chödrön, Adyashanti, and Michael Stone. The audio talk will be followed by a meditation and group discussion.

You do not need to attend every evening, but please RSVP to let us know your interest: inquiry@kushalayoga.com.

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Sundays June 26, July 3, July 17, July 24
7pm – 8:15pm
Kushala Yoga at Newport
Admission: By cash donation to SHARE Community and Family Services

About the Facilitator

Ian MacKenzie is a student of Taoism, Yoga and Buddhism. He is a new media producer based in Port Moody, BC. He shoots video journalism and documentary films. He also blogs about pop culture, new media, philosophy, and religion. His website is www.ianmack.com.