In my Spiritual Activism workshop on Sunday, I'll offer thoughts and ideas, based on the teachings of traditional yoga wisdom texts, about why spiritualizing our response to untruth, injustice, and authoritarianism is so important, how the values of yoga philosophy provide a solid foundation for progressive social action, and what we can do to imbue our actions with spiritual power
In my Spiritual Activism workshop on Sunday, I'll offer thoughts and ideas, based on the teachings of traditional yoga wisdom texts, about why spiritualizing our response to untruth, injustice, and authoritarianism is so important, how the values of yoga philosophy provide a solid foundation for progressive social action, and what we can do to imbue our actions with spiritual power
Explore the origins of yoga philosophy, the relationship of Yoga to Sankhya and Vedanta, the interdependence of faith and knowledge, the key elements of yoga psychology, and the essential tension between traditional yoga and modern culture.
Explore the origins of yoga philosophy, the relationship of Yoga to Sankhya and Vedanta, the interdependence of faith and knowledge, the key elements of yoga psychology, and the essential tension between traditional yoga and modern culture.
Hari-kirtana das will describe six core values of yoga and demonstrate how we can translate those values into clearly defined strategies for social engagement. Participants will gain knowledge of how universal principles of spiritual activism work, how we can imbue our activism with spiritual power, and how to maintain our equilibrium in a challenging socio-political environment.
Hari-kirtana das will describe six core values of yoga and demonstrate how we can translate those values into clearly defined strategies for social engagement. Participants will gain knowledge of how universal principles of spiritual activism work, how we can imbue our activism with spiritual power, and how to maintain our equilibrium in a challenging socio-political environment.
Participants will learn how different approaches to yoga offer different conceptions of relationships, practices, and the ultimate goal of yoga.
Participants will learn how different approaches to yoga offer different conceptions of relationships, practices, and the ultimate goal of yoga.
When we look at the modern world through the lens of yoga philosophy, something amazing happens: the bend of the lens reveals secrets that were hiding in plain sight, clarifies the blur of a seemingly irrational world, and suggests ways to think about our lives that never would have occurred to us otherwise.
When we look at the modern world through the lens of yoga philosophy, something amazing happens: the bend of the lens reveals secrets that were hiding in plain sight, clarifies the blur of a seemingly irrational world, and suggests ways to think about our lives that never would have occurred to us otherwise.
Through lecture, discussion, experiential exercises and breakout group brainstorming, we’ll look at our selves and the world through the lens of yoga philosophy and consider the ways in which yoga philosophy provides both a framework for personal spiritual development and fresh perspectives on contemporary social issues such as sexism, racism, nationalism, cultural appropriation, and climate change.
Through lecture, discussion, experiential exercises and breakout group brainstorming, we’ll look at our selves and the world through the lens of yoga philosophy and consider the ways in which yoga philosophy provides both a framework for personal spiritual development and fresh perspectives on contemporary social issues such as sexism, racism, nationalism, cultural appropriation, and climate change.
