An Urban Pilgrim’s walk with Bhakti Marga SwamiPosted by admin on March 31st, 2010

Title: An Urban Pilgrim’s walk with Bhakti Marga Swami
Location: 324 Bloor street w
Date: Saturday, May 01 2010
Time:10:00 AM till 01:00 PM
Description:
Event fee $5 includes Vegan lunch

Spring brings with it a sense of life, creativity and continuity of life beyond the freezing spell. It’s a time for rejuvenation and a time to flex your muscles – both body and mind. A time for a get-away from the Urban skyline to venture into the scenic setting of Toronto ravines for a spiritual walk and picnic lunch.

This spring, Bhaktimarga Swami, The Walking Monk, will take us on a walk through the Toronto Ravines. He has been a monk for 40 years and walked across Canada, Guyana, Ireland and several different countries. Now he has agreed to take us on this special adventure and we wanted to invite you all to join us for a special walk in the scenic green settings.

Come dressed in comfortable walking clothes for a walk and picnic. The walk will start at UrbanEdgeYoga at 10 AM and we aim to be back there at 1 PM.

It’s a great way to flex those muscles and hear from a very special Monk story of his travels and adventures through the land.Join us for a WALKING MEDITATION!

We will have a delicious picnic lunch for all the participants midway through the walk.

Overcoming Loneliness – Krishna fest Special Speaker BB Bhagvat SwamiPosted by admin on March 31st, 2010

Title: Overcoming Loneliness, Speaker BB Bhagvat Swami
Location: Urbanedgeyoga, 324 Bloor Street W
Date: Sunday, May 09 2010
Time:11:00 AM till 01:30 PM
Description:
Event fee $7 includes delicious vegan lunch

‘I want my own space’ is not just a teenager’s cry but the call of everyone 5 years up to as old as it gets. A fight with someone or a broken heart could automatically translate to locking yourself up but if it gets too unbearable to deal with yourself in isolation, the easy fix is to drown oneself into alcohol. If depression becomes overwhelming, you can always pop-in a ‘happy pill’. As time goes by we learn to confidently tell our friends, just leave me alone and I will fine. Are we really ever alone or are we just forgetting to acknowledge the presence of Mr. lonely who gets to witness our darkest moments.

Join us this Krishna fest for an insightful workshop with our visiting Monk and speaker BB Bhagvat Swami. He has been practicing ancient eastern traditions for approximately 3 decades, and is the founder and director of several schools of yoga knowledge in India, Africa and several other countries.

Vegan cooking classes – Asian vegan cuisinePosted by admin on March 28th, 2010

Title: Vegan cooking classes – soups and salads
Location: Urbanedgeyoga, 324 Bloor street w
Date: Thursday, Apr 01 2010
Time:06:30 PM till 08:30 PM
Description:
Event fee $5 includes dinner

Believe it or not – Vegan soups and salads could be a whole meal in themselves. General perception maybe that vegan food is just a bunch of veggies thrown together. Wrong answer

Join us so you can watch Delicious salads and soups being whisked together by our Chef Shyama. Our classes are very interactive and you will get a chance to make your own thing too.

There is an art to cooking these delights and our super Chef Shyama will share these secrets in a structured class room environment with you. Ever wondered why our food tastes so good? Well, our Shyama will be sharing all our top secret recipes in demonstration/hands-on cooking classes. With themed menus taken from countries all around the world we will show you how you can cook a meal at home that will win the hearts of your friends, family and flat mates!

Through these classes we will take you on a Journey to focus deeply on the ‘Yoga of cooking’. Yes, you will be surprised to know how you can transform your home kitchen into a meditation room and your food into Ayurvedic treats.

Please pre-register as we have only limited spots.

Yoga Psychology and happiness with Devamrita Swami, InSpirit 2010Posted by admin on March 26th, 2010

Title: Yoga Psychology and happiness with Devamrita Swami
Location: Urbanedgeyoga, 324 Bloor St W
Date: Friday, Jun 11 2010
Time:07:00 PM till 09:30 PM

Event fee $ 10 includes vegan dinner

Do you have inkling there’s more to life than your average everyday experiences? Come explore essential human quest for ‘happiness’ with an esteemed author and Monk Devamrita Swami who is visiting us from New Zealand for special Yoga lifestyle festival Inspirit. Not to mention the beautiful meditative chants (Kirtan) that he will introduce for us to experience a flavor of happiness not limited by time and space. To top it all we have a delicious vegan dinner and dessert for all our guests.
Yoga psychology – in knowledge and practice – aims at reactivating and cultivating within each individual the essential strength and introspective talents, the powers of self knowledge and self transformation that lay dormant within. Then we can walk in greater harmony with ourselves, others and our environment. Real happiness lies not in the race but in the harmony within.
We need to discover who we truly are, beyond induced convictions, acquired identities and false behavioral models that limit our potential and our deepest aspirations. A time to explore the deeper mysteries of life…

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Kirtan Konnection with Badahari Dasa – InSpirit 2010Posted by admin on March 26th, 2010

Title: Kirtan Konnection with Badahari Dasa
Date: Saturday, Jun 05 2010

Venue : Yoga sanctuary Danforth, 95 Danforth Avenue, Suite 301, Toronto
Time:07:30 PM till 09:30 PM

Event fee $20 includes delicious vegan dinner

Let the calming waves of ancient melodies nourish your heart and soul. Relax in the glowing presence of a Monk as he chants some of the most ancient and powerful mantras in the universe. Relish delicious vegan desserts and dinner prepared by yogis specially for rejuvenating your body and mind. Join us this summer, Sat Jun 5 for an evening of Kirtan (Meditational music) and Mantra meditation with Badahari Dasa, a monk, Kirtan master and a musician for over 35 years who has performed at several spiritual concerts in every continent.

Badahari dasa has a degree in music and has released several music albums and trained many budding artists on classical Kirtan music and instruments. He will enchant you with his deep and devotional voice blended to the expert play of fingers on an ancient instruments ‘The Harmonium’. Accompanying him will be a group of expert musician yogis on eastern instruments like the hand cymbals and Mridanga-drum. Witness the transformation within as Badahari dasa explains the power of the mantras he will sing. A not to miss evening for all spiritual enthusiasts.

Kirtan connection is a unique opportunity to connect with the Supreme pleasure through the simple art of chanting ancient mantras with ancient monks.

Yoga – retreat with Devamrita Swami:Building lasting relationsPosted by admin on March 21st, 2010

Title: Eco – retreat with Devamrita Swami:Building lasting relations
Location: Hart house farms
Date: Saturday, Jun 12 2010
Time:09:00 AM till 05:00 PM

Event fee $50 waged, $30 for students (includes breakfast, lunch and take away snacks for dinner)

Just for a day, let’s get away from the cars and concrete jungle that is Toronto, and catch a glimpse of a skyscraper-free skyline. Join us for a relaxing retreat with Devamrita Swami, a monk of over 40 years, and revive your Inner Self in the picturesque setting of Caledon. We invite you to embark upon a journey in search of building lasting relations.

The true measure of success and happiness is the quality of our relationships. Not the bank balance, not the corner office, but the people who validate them and make those ‘successes’ worth something. A heartfelt chat with a friend can actually light up our day. Unfortunately, these very relationships sometimes also result in heartbreak and pain that can truly transform your life’s journey. Constant ever-increasing heartbreaks sometime may leave us feeling a certain sadness – and perhaps we may wonder ‘can we ever have a lasting relation? A relation that lasts a lifetime or perhaps transcends the bounds of birth and death?’

Yoga is the process of connecting with ‘The Love Supreme’. Revive your Self through a series of yoga asana practices, mantra meditation and spiritual workshops with Devamrita Swami. A day filled with exciting activities and delicious spiritual cuisines – something for the body, belly and mind.

InSpirit Mantra meditation – ancient chants and timeless musicPosted by admin on March 21st, 2010

Title: Mantra meditation – ancient chants and timeless music
Location: Room 321, Student centre, York University
Date: Tuesday, Jun 08 2010
Time:06:30 PM till 08:30 PM

Event fee: $5 (includes vegan dinner)

The sounds from our demanding jobs, classes, families and friends fill our lives and can exhaust our body, mind and spirit. Rushing through our busy lives, at every step we try to carve out a passage through this jungle of never-ending sounds we live in. Perhaps in those precious quiet moments you may have wondered what it means to be happy and at peace. Perhaps you have contemplated meditation and yoga to re-connect within yourself to experience happiness.

This workshop will present possibilities about how we can expand our pleasure beyond our present limitations. It will demonstrate how inner happiness can be experienced immediately by anyone, through the mystical power of transcendental sound vibrations. Mantra meditation deals with a pleasure principle that operates beyond the bounds of time and space and emanates from the very innermost part of our being.

This summer we present to you a rare and precious opportunity to experience Mantra meditation with Devamrita Swami, a Bhakti Yoga monk for about 4 decades who has introduced Mantra meditation to thousands of aspirants in every continent of the globe. He brings with him a life of meditation, travels, realizations and sacred sounds sung to classical instruments from ancient east.

Join us for an evening of heart inspiring Kirtan (musical chants), a delicious Vegan dinner, spiritual insights and some floor tapping!

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InSpirit Karma Index – Measuring real growthPosted by admin on March 21st, 2010

Title: Karma Index – Measuring real growth
Location: Multifaith centre, 569 Spadina Ave
Date: Wednesday, Jun 02 2010
Time:06:30 PM till 08:30 PM

** Event is now FULL**

Event fee : $10 – includes vegan dinner (Free for CMA members)
Modern civilizations around the globe use sophisticated indices to make a quantitative assessment of the health of a nation/region’s economy and market. Their hope is to try and predict the future of a sector, industry, organization or nation based on some key indicators. Conventional corporate growth indicators like retention, net profits, and stock market index are now set to meet their match.
Recent series of events have started to shape money markets and corporations in ways never seen before. Corporations are beginning to stop and consider the long term impacts of their short term decisions. This thoughtful reflection has spurred an interest in socially responsible investing – a practice that has exploded in recent years and now encompasses about 10 percent of the $24 trillion investment marketplace.
Karma – a key indicator driving the long and short term health of an organization or nation – is almost never accounted for. Join us for an evening of intriguing discussion as Devamrita Swami, a monk, author and founder of the Institute of Sustainability, introduces the concept of ‘Karma Index’ to evaluate business decisions and measure real growth in the cosmic market place.

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InSpirit Yoga of food – Recipes for health and happinessPosted by admin on March 21st, 2010

Title: Yoga of food – Recipes for health and happiness
Location: Lululemon, 342 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M5V 2A2
Date: Thursday, Jun 03 2010
Time:06:30 PM till 08:30 PM

Event fee $10 (includes vegan dinner)

Join us as Devamrita Swami, a monk and a practicing Vegetarian for over 40 years helps us explore the connection between Food, consciousness and happiness. He has inspired thousands of people in every continent of the globe to embrace a lifestyle of Vegetarianism leveraging this for building not just health, but also happiness. The adage “you are what you eat,” has never been more true as people struggle with poor health and obesity.

Food is central to our lives and it’s only natural for food to be the among the most effective mediums to initiate a change in consciousness. Conscious living spans all thoughts and actions and, living consciously begins with conscious eating.

Food is the most basic necessity of life. Its purpose is to nourish the body, mind, and soul. It has the unique power to bring people together. All of us have had the experience of sitting down to a meal cooked with love and felt an immediate transformation of consciousness filling us with a sense of deep joy and happiness. Food that is old, decomposed, and consisting of dead flesh will pollute the body and consciousness. Food that is fresh, alive, and nutritious will, on the other hand, enrich the body, cleanse the mind, and satisfy the soul. When prepared with love, food can speak any language. Such food has the ability to break down barriers, turn anger into love, fear into trust, and ignorance into enlightenment. Conscious people live their lives in full awareness of their connection to their surroundings.

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InSpirit Mystic Powers – exploring the unknown by Devamrita SwamiPosted by admin on March 21st, 2010

Title: Mystic Powers by Devamrita Swami
Location: Urbanedgeyoga, 324 Bloor St W
Date: Tuesday, Jun 01 2010
Time:06:30 PM till 08:30 PM

Event fee $10 waged, $7 students (Includes Vegan dinner)

The possibility of an alternate reality of magic, mysticism or a paranormal encounter. Some fear it, others desire it and only a few have it. Mystic powers have enchanted the imagination of mankind for generations.

o A free flight where you spread your arms and embrace the winds, soaring up to touch the skies
o The awe associated with an ability of knowing the future before it actually happens
o The wonder of moving things with your mind.

Mystic powers introduce us to a new reality.
Thousands of years down the line people never tire of discussing the Pyramids, Stonehenge and hidden knowledge of ancient tribes.

Devamrita Swami, A Monk for about 4 decades and an internationally acclaimed author has done phenomenal research on Mystic powers as explained by the scientific community and the ancient cultures of the east. Join us as he takes us on a journey through ancient times to explore mystic powers and discover the real mystic power that lies dormant in our hearts. Join us for a journey of discovery , a delicious Vegan desert and enchanting music from ancient east.

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