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We’ve Moved! Mayan Revision Quest on Playa del Carmen April 10 – 15

yogaonthedancefloor — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:08:00 +0000

Welcome to your villa, an 8 bedroom abode just steps away from the idyllic white sandy beaches and beautiful tranquil turquoise water of Playa del Carmen! The moment you enter the common areas (kitchen,dining and living rooms) of the villa you will experience a captivating and enchanting views of the turquoise Caribbean sea!

Revision Quest package is $1898 per person based on double occupancy. This retreat is limited to 14 persons. Retreat Inclusions are

* 5 nights accommodation in Beachfront Luxury Villa
* Arrival and Departure Transfers
* Breakfast Daily, 3 Lunches and 5 Dinners

* Optional Juice Feast
* Property Taxes and Gratuities
* Baggage Handling at the Hotels (1 bag per person)

* Sweat Lodge Ceremony

* Daily Yoga and Mantra Meditation in Sanskrit and Bengali

* Mayan Ruins and Sian Kaan Nature Tour

* Floating Meditation

* Dance Meditation

* Admission to all sites as per itinerary

* All Local Guide services as per itinerary

Join Jenevi New York City’s yoga guru and Ekayani dance trance sensation from yoga on the dance floor for five nights in Playa del Carmen for a rejuvenation of Mind, Body and Spirit. You will be accommodated in a luxury beachfront villa just minutes away from La Quinta (Tulums Fifth Avenue) shopping and nightlife district. Call Lux World Travel at 1 – 866- 269- 2659 for more details on this retreat or write Revision – Quest@Luxworldtravel.com

In Memoriam Yamuna Devi passes Govinda Vallabha Devi Remembered

yogaonthedancefloor — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:27:26 +0000

Srimati Yamuna Devi left her body December 20th, 2011 in Melbourne, Florida during the early morning hours. Yamuna was an expert cook and author of the IACP award winning 800 page volume ” Lord Krsna’s Cuisine The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking”. In 1988 this was an incredible achievement in a male dominated field filled with European meat centric cooking. Hers was a vegetarian South East Asian sic Vedic cookbook gaining international recognition. Encyclopedic in it’s scope, a labor of love that took ten years to research, test and illustrate out in the field in the kitchens of royalty and temples in India where nary a Westerner had set foot. Back home she was a ground breaker and anyone working in this genre today, particularly female (Nigella Lawson, Padma Laksmi) and Vegetarian owes her a debt of gratitude for paving the way to making this type of cuisine earn the respect of Westerners for the vast and sublime art form that it is. This is huge. Yamuna was a living legend within the Vaisnava community and she could have well been outside that community if she had sought such attention. One of a small group of married couples that journeyed to London to establish Krsna Conciousness, she was an important member of a band of unlikely pioneers who eventually encountered The Beatles, established a thriving temple, and who greeted and took care of so many of those persons who visited Sr Sri Radha Londonisvara’s mandir setting a beautiful example of devotion and service. She appeared with her godbrothers and sisters on George Harrison’s Radha Krishna Temple album with the Hare Krsna Mantra hitting Number 1 on the UK’s Top of The Pops in 1969. Her singing was angelic and full of devotional nectar and to this day hers is the voice heard every morning in 400 temples and farm communities worldwide. An empowered Vaisnavi devoted to the lotus feet of her guru Srila Prabhupada, I got to see her in action during The Cook and The Book food festival in Philadelphia where I assisted in the kitchen. She was serious business. I didn’t dare waste her time speaking to her (I was all of 20) and just watched in amazement (while rinsing pounds and pounds of mache). The recipes she assembled for this affair were of a sophistication unseen for the quantity of persons attending and the precision with which she operated made me realize the meaning of expert. I remember her leading mangala – arati prayers during her stay in the Philadelphia temple. (I had requested she lead). Her singing was simply ecstatic with a cooling effect like a full moon. True their are many lovely kirtaneers today but the sound vibration that emits from the mouth of a soul on the platform of bhava is beyond any material expertise or sensuality. (Somewhere I have that Yamuna mix tape with that morning program). Her god brother Joshua Greene recalls that everything she did was for the Lord’s pleasure with her offering of arati as graceful as a dancers. Yamuna was the real deal. She was meticulous in everything she did and the bar was raised high. I remember worrying if the chick pea and yogurt dish with mustard seed and coconut I served as part of the breakfast menu I had prepared would be to her liking but was too scared to ask. (It was her recipe.) A little later she kindly recommended me to Peter Kump’s Cooking School class that I was inspired to take because of her magnificent example. Her passing comes on the heels of another sweet soul Srimati GovindaVallabha devi who recently left her body on 12/12/2011. She was always very kind to me during my training at New Nilacala Mandir. She would always inquire if I had enough to eat when I returned from sankirtana which was greatly appreciated as I would return tired and hungry after attempting to distribute books. I remember distinctly our conversation in Sri Sri Radha Sarad Bihari’s kitchen while I was preparing an offering for Their Lordships.

I said , ”Well, I guess one day when I finally get to prepare a meal for Krsna I will feel differently.”

Govinda Vallabha devi replied that in fact I WAS cooking for Krsna right NOW and that there was NO difference between the arca – vigraha standing on the altar and the Lord Himself. That struck me like a bolt of lightening and removed my theoretical understanding of devotional service. In an instant, she removed a deep misconception within my heart and brought me so much closer to the Deity letting me see Them for the first time in a more personal way. I credit her for the deepening of my feelings for Them from that moment onward. Thank you both for all your service, sacrifice and love for Guru and Gauranga. I am beginning to feel the weight of your passing and the need to step up and teach. See you on the other side. Your fallen servant, Ekayani devi dasi
p.s. I direct the reader to the re-released edition of her landmark book, the instant classic that Julia Child called “Big and beautiful.” Just click on the book cover!

When the Going Gets Rough Non Violence and the Transcendent Realm

yogaonthedancefloor — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:34:03 +0000

Sri Nrisimha Pranama

(from the Nrisimha Purana, offered by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to Lord Jagannatha in Jagannatha Puri)

namas te narasimhaya

prahladahlada-dayine

hiranyakashipor vakshaha

shila-tanka-nakhalaye

“I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, Lord Nrisimhadeva. You are the giver of pleasure to Prahlada Maharaja, and your nails cut the chest of Hiranyakashipu like a chisel cutting stone.”

ito nrisimhah parato nrisimho

yato yato yami tato nrisimhah

bahir nrisimho hridaye nrisimho

nrisimham adim sharanam prapadye

“Lord Nrisimha is here and also there. Wherever I go Lord Nrisimha is there. He is in the heart and is outside as well. I surrender to Lord Nrisimha, the origin of all things and the supreme refuge.”

You have asked me what the meaning of this prayer is. It is a prayer of protection invoking the Mercy of the Half Man Half Lion incarnation of Vishnu or Krsna known as Nrisimghadeva. Like many of you I have watched with dismay with the increased militarization against the citizens of this country (and everywhere else for that matter) who are asking for a process that is participatory with access to our leaders to redress grievances. Food, shelter, education,a clean environment, mercy shown to defenseless women, children, elderly and animals are all reasonable concerns which should not in fact have to be asked of those charged with the human responsibility of stewardship by the mass of people. We wonder what they are actually learning at such higher institutions such as Harvard which boast of being superior educational institutions for the best and the brightest. As devotee and scholar, Srila Prabhuapada said many times the fatal flaw in the educational system is there is no department to study the science of the soul in any of these universities. Without a grasp of the fundamentals of the difference between Matter and Spirit, the relationship we have with the Source of all life, understanding the application of compassion, we run the risk of finding ourselves in a misguided civilization that is gliding towards hell. (Sound familiar?)
Non – Violence and the Transcendent Realm – The History of Hiranyakasipu and Prahlada Maharaja
Looking back to history, I see that this is not the first time humanity has faced this situation. Allow me to elucidate. Prince Prahlada was the son of Hirayakasipu (which means “gold” and “soft bed” such were his priorities) who was an incredibly powerful tyrant who had managed to create his own One World Order through intimidation and brutality. In terms of military strength and personal wealth he made todays despots seem puny So Fear Not. In fact, he was so terrible that just by raising one eyebrow he could make the Universe tremble. Prahlada was the heir apparent to this throne of cruelty and was duly sent to school at the age of 5 years to learn diplomacy, politics and manipulation as part of the ruling elite. Prahlada being a self realized soul by dint of having the good fortune of encountering his spiritual master in utero, was completely uninterested in such topics. His heart was already given to the the Supreme Lord and had concluded that one’s time was wasted striving for mundane power. Humble, peaceful and well mannered, he could still be classified as a rebel.When his teachers Amarka and Sanda weren’t paying attention he spent his time instructing his classmates in the science of devotional service during recess in the schoolyard. When Prahlada went home Hiranyakasipu asked him what the best thing he had learned that day. His response met with considerable disapproval. His teachers were chastised and told to take charge of the situation or else. When they asked him where he had learned such deviant teachings Prahlada Maharaja replied:

“Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose external energy has created the distinctions of “my friend” and “my enemy” by deluding the intelligence of men. Indeed, I am now actually experiencing this, although I have previously heard of it from authoritative sources. He went on to say (SB 7.5.12) : ” When the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with the living entity because of his devotional service, one becomes a pandita and does not make distinctions between enemies, friends and himself. Intelligently, he then thinks, “Every one of us is an eternal servant of God, and therefore we are not different from one another.” (SB 7.5.13: ) ” Persons who always think in terms of “enemy” and “friend” are unable to ascertain the Supersoul within themselves. Not to speak of them, even such exalted persons as Lord Brahma, who are fully conversant with the Vedic literature, are sometimes bewildered in following the principles of devotional service. The same Supreme Personality of Godhead who has created this situation has certainly given me the intelligence to take the side of your so-called enemy.”

After some time when asked again by his father what he learned in school, he replied in the same vein stating that only a bewildered person would invest in the perspective of division and that true success lies in remembering, hearing and serving Lord Vishnu. Furious, Hiranyakasipu took this as an act of direct aggression and throwing his son down on the marble floor of the palace (ouch!) ordered his lackeys to kill Prahlada immediately. Things were looking grim. How could a 5 year old boy defend himself against riot cops in military gear?

Tridents and swords were brandished and poked at Prahlada but the attempts to chop him to pieces were ineffectual. No visible harm was done as Prahlada sat in profound meditation on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Hiranyakasipu at that moment became very afraid. What power was this 5 year old boy drawing upon?
Panicked and fearful Hiranyakasipu then began a series of violent acts against his son:He attempted to have Prahlad trampled by elephants, thrown from a top of a hill, boiling him alive in a caldron, poisoning him with food, throwing him in a pit of poisonous snakes and so on. Regardless of the dangerous circumstances he was placed in Prahlada remained serene by dint of his unflinching faith and meditation on Lord Vishnu. He thought ” I can see that this boy’s strength is unlimited, for he has not feared any of my punishments. He appears immortal. Therefore, because of my enmity toward him, I shall die. Or maybe this will not take place.” S.B. 7.5.47

Now this is the thing: Prahlada while seemingly imbued with great mystic power was relying for his protection on the Supreme Mystic Yogesvara. The glue was love. The Lord is Bhakta Vatsala which means he is affectionately inclined towards His devotees. For those who depend on Him exclusively He provides protection. If this sounds far fetched consider the power of the life connection we all share known as the Supersoul. This is a feature of the Lord who is present in the heart of all living entities. The Supersoul instructs from within so when it came time to trample Prahlada the elephants simply lifted him with their trunks and placed him upon their backs as they were instructed to do so from within. The snakes ordinarily ill tempered became peaceful and saw no threat in his presence among them. Weapons were rendered useless, poison ineffectual and so on.

Now for the Closer:
After some time Hiranyakasipu desiring more power questioned Prahlada as to where he got his power from.

“The same place that you do father. The Supreme Personality of Godhead”.

This was too much for the demon. He said “Where is he?”

“He is everywhere.”

“Everywhere? Is he here? Is he here?”

This line of questioning was accompanied by some frantic finger pointing by Hiranyakasipu to various locations in his palace.
Finally he inquired ” Is he in this pillar?”
“Why Yes He is is father.”
“Well then I shall kill him!” shrieked Hiranyakasipu and with his great strength smashed the pillar with his sword.

Out of the pillar lept the half man, half lion incarnation of the Lord Nrsimghadeva roaring in great Trancendental anger.

“Hiranyakasipu studied the form of the Lord, trying to decide who the form of Nrsimhadeva standing before him was. The Lord’s form was extremely fearsome because of His angry eyes, which resembled molten gold; His shining mane, which expanded the dimensions of His fearful face; His deadly teeth; and His razor-sharp tongue, which moved about like a dueling sword. His ears were erect and motionless, and His nostrils and gaping mouth appeared like caves of a mountain. His jaws parted fearfully, and His entire body touched the sky. His neck was very short and thick, His chest broad, His waist thin, and the hairs on His body as white as the rays of the moon. His arms, which resembled flanks of soldiers, spread in all directions as He killed the demons, rogues and atheists with His conchshell, disc, club, lotus and other natural weapons.
While Hiranyakasipu looked all around to find the source of the sound, that wonderful form of the Lord, which could not be ascertained to be either a man or a lion, emerged from the pillar. In amazement, Hiranyakasipu wondered, “What is this creature that is half man and half lion?”
PURPORT: “A demon cannot calculate the unlimited potency of the Supreme Lord. As stated in the Vedas, parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca: the different potencies of the Lord are always working as an automatic exhibition of His knowledge. For a demon it is certainly wonderful that the form of a lion and the form of a man can be united, since a demon has no experience of the inconceivable power for which the Supreme Lord is called “all-powerful.” Demons cannot understand the omnipotence of the Lord. They simply compare the Lord to one of them (avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam [Bg. 9.11]). Mudhas or asses , rascals, think that Krsna is an ordinary human being who appears for the benefit of other human beings. param bhavam ajanantah: fools, rascals and demons cannot realize the supreme potency of the Lord, but He can do anything and everything; indeed, He can do whatever He likes…”

Why This Is So

“The Lord is situated transcendentally, in pure goodness. The material world is generally controlled by tamo-guna, the quality of ignorance, but the spiritual world, because of the presence of the Lord and His effulgence, is free from all contamination by darkness, passion or contaminated goodness. Although there is a tinge of goodness in this material world in terms of the brahminical qualifications, such qualifications sometimes become invisible because of the strong prevalence of the modes of passion and ignorance. But because the Lord is always transcendentally situated, the material modes of passion and ignorance cannot touch Him. Whenever the Lord is present, there cannot be any darkness from the mode of ignorance. It is stated in Caitanya-caritamrta (Madhya 22.31)”

The Power of Mantras to Lord Nrsimghadeva

In the spiritual currency sound is all powerful. This is so because there is no difference between the Name Fame Form and Entourage of the Lord. Spiritual Sound is the original reality and everything we see here is a derivative of that. Today there is a common acceptance that words have the power to heal or harm. That our thoughts have great power and the ability to manifest positive or negative results. I present to you here the spiritual origins of these ideas. As we work to shape a compassionate just world let us not leave out the Source of compassion and justice. Our position like Prahlada finds us outgunned by aggressive and hostile persons who are fully invested in a friend/ enemy paradigm. We know that we don’t want to end in bloodshed which is the mode that the old guard would like to see things end in because they don’t understand anything else. Let’s dig in, have faith and depend on a true Friend who has everyone’s best interests at heart and who is perfectly capable of protecting us in ways beyond our expectations while purifying the world of envy and greed. Please copy and past the link below to read more extensive mantras of protection to the Lord. And in case you are wondering what happened to Hiranyakasipu he was liberated as a result of being touched by the Lord. In the same way a kitten is unafraid of being picked up in the jaws of it’s mother, so a devotee is peaceful and unafraid the face of the great power and majesty of the Lord.

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/prayers_to_lord_narasimhadeva.htm

Lighten Up and Live it Up! March 6 – 11 Tulum

yogaonthedancefloor — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:10:14 +0000

http://www.yogaadventurestulum.com/index.php?inc=nancy_index.html

Meditation Yoga Dance in Tulum with Nancy & Ekayani

On the Cover ! The Daily Single July 13, 2011

yogaonthedancefloor — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:58:49 +0000

We Love Water Tour Ever Expanding June Events

yogaonthedancefloor — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:05:41 +0000

Yoga on the Dance Floor with Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space is pleased to announce (the ever expanding) schedule of events for June’s We Love Water Tour Get on the Green Bus for potluck & membership citylife wellness gydo underground howl wanderlust nyc waterback project woodstock recording session galiana retreat illuminate spiritual dance club med flash mob mmny kids carnival Howl! festival farmers Artist Ashram Unitribe Evolver Souldish Water Back Project and Green Bus rides to events!

Welcome! In this edition we invite you to get on the Green Bus! The Green Bus Tour is a growing community project out to inspire a culture of conscious living through creative collaboration and by promoting a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. Their mission is to empower people to become more conscious consumers and participants in building community. There is lots to pick and choose from here. It’s going to be a great summer! Join us along the way!

Wednesday June 1 - Potluck Dinner and Membership Drive , We Love Water Tour Launch Party @ Citylife Wellness Bring a dish!

Thursday June 2 - Get Your Dance On, Mott Street

Friday June 3 - Hare Krsna Kirtan for Allen Ginsberg Howl! Festival Tompkins Square Park 2 – 4PM Under sacred tree East Village
Friday June 3 underground howl We Love Water
Raymond Norwood – Water Back Project
Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space
Trystette 8 – 10PM Bar on A 170 Ave A
Saturday June 4 Artist Ashram & Green Bus at Howl Out Loud Children’s Carnival Tompkins Sq Park

2- 7:30PM
Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space appear on the Howl! Festival Mainstage 2:30 – 2:50PM
Sunday June 5 Green Bus to Philadelphia Green Fest Live Music!

Next Week 6 – 12 June

Outdoor fun! Camping! Screenings! Talks with the Dalai Lama Dance Party Water Back Recordingwith Srikirtan Woodstock Green Bus Gluten Free Getaway Good Commons Get on the Green Bus for transportation to these great events Contact Charlie Gonzalez greenbustour@gmail.com

Tuesday June 7 - Wanderlust NYC, Green Bus + Artist Ashram Pier 63 5 – 8PM We Love Water Tour

Wednesday June 8 - Private Event

Thursday June 9 - Green Bus Departs for Woodstock NY – Water Back recording session with SRIKIRTAN! Show & Overnight stay
Friday June 10 - Galiana Opening festivities woodland retreat We Love Water Tour Kundalini Yoga | 8 Tantric Workshops | Tantra Tango | Spiritual Cabaret | Galiana Theater | Kirtan | Shamanic Aromatherapy | Tantric Banquet | Drumming | SoulDance | Pool and Sauna Chillout | Goddess Temple | Tibetan Yoga | Raw Food Sampling | Yoga on the Dance Floor and much more!
Saturday June 11- East West 2 Mystic Yoga Shala and Mystic Indie Theatre with Talks with the Dalai Lama John Halpern and Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space Stonington, CT

Sunday June 12 - Closing ceremonies at Galiana Retreat New Lebanon NY

June 13 – 21 And Beyond…

Make Music New York celebrates 5 years of 11 hours of free public performances! Med Flash Mob in public spaces changing perceptions of how to create peace. Be healed at Illuminate June 18. Farmers – We anticipate making stops at farms and festivals upstate in Sullivan County & Cayuga counties near Ithaca. Please stay up to date by joining We Love Water group on facebook. Search We Love Water To participate in Med Flash Mob NYC contact Srikala at relaroni@gmail.com

Thurday June 16 – Green Bus departs for Cafe Free Gluten Free Weekend at Good Commons in Vermont

Friday June 17 - The Gypsy Joint on Main street in Great Barrington, MA with Technicolor Lenses

Saturday June 18 - Illuminate Spiritual Dance Club with Parashakti, Srikala, Alokananda & Ekayani @ New York Open Center 8pm till Midnight

Make Music New York 11 Hours of Non Stop Music Schedule of Events

Saturday June 21 Med Flash Mob stops at Make Music New York - contact relaroni@gmail.com
with Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space
@ Calabar African Imports 820 Washington Avenue Brooklyn NY from 2 – 3:30PM
Awedacity Boutique - 806 Washington Avenue Brooklyn Museum 6:30 to 8PM
Raymond Norwood Water Back Project 6 – 7PM Branded Saloon 603 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn
Take the 2/3 to Eastern Parkway Brooklyn for these free events!

June 22 – 29 Stay tuned…
June 30 Get Your Dance On NYC

How You Can Help We Love Water Tour Green Bus Wheels Turning

yogaonthedancefloor — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:00:18 +0000

A mobile celebration in honor of our most precious and powerful resource; featuring water ceremonies, live music and interactive art. Brought to you by Green Bus Tour, Unitribe, Evolver, Artist Ashram, The Water Back Project, Soul Dish.
There are many ways you can support the Green Bus as we voyage around NY State on a sacred activism tour.In addition to Green Bus CD compilation tour see these other options!

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1 Year Membership at City Life Wellness – $540 Green Bus Founder’s Pass
Sign up for a 1 year membership with our partners at CITY LIFE Wellness – our new yoga & wellness center in Williamsburg above the Meeker Flea Market (75 Frost St, Brooklyn NY). Membership gives you access to all regularly scheduled classes (a variety of martial arts, yoga, dance & movement) and 10% discount on special programs and events. $540 for the whole year! Through our partnership, City Life Wellness has graciously offered to donate 20% to help fund our non-profit sacred activism.
Visit www.CityLifeWellness.com
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Viridian: Switch to Renewable Energy!
Coming Soon!
Sign up for renewable energy through our partnership with Viridian – now available in 75% of NY State, all of New York City, NJ, CT, and parts of PA & MD. Switching to 20% renewable energy will save you an average of 5-10% on your bill; switching to 100% renewable energy will only cost you 5-10% extra on your bill. Viridian uses Wind & Solar power – Support the infrastructure of the future so we can get off the fossil fuels & create green jobs and energy independence.
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Evolver Intensives: Live Online Courses with Transformational Thinkers
Interact with visionary thinkers of our time via live web video streaming & an interactive chat room. Through our partnership with the Evolver Social Movement (Evolver.net), they have offered to donate 20% to help fund our non-profit sacred activism tour.

Learn more about Evolver Intensives and upcoming courses:

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Upcoming courses:
* How to Live a Life of Change: Shaping our future from a feminine perspective
* Psychedelic Adventures at the Edge of the Abyss: The ideas of Teren…

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The Shift Network: Telesummits with Evolutionary Leaders
Are you part of the Shift?

The Shift Network empowers a global movement of people who are creating an evolutionary shift of consciousness that leads to a more enlightened society, built on principles of sustainability, peace, health & prosperity.
If you are interested in free events, paid courses and products that enrich your life and expand your horizon then check it out.
Learn about upcoming & current courses:

https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/tsn/GBT/

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Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space, Green Bus Tour, Artist Ashram & Water Back Project, Soul Dish, Evolver
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We Love Water Tour Rolls Out in June Musicians Activists Yogis Spring into Action

yogaonthedancefloor — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:57:24 +0000

For Immediate Release:

Contact : Charlie Gonzalez

Green Bus Tour

(917) 930 – 3329

GreenbusTour@Gmail.com

www.GreenBusTour.com

WE LOVE WATER tour springs into action. The Green Bus makes thirty stops in thirty days in June bringing education,celebration and awareness to NewYork state about the sanctity of it’s water supply.

New York, NY, May 16, 2011

On Earth Day, a collective of artists and sacred activists held a water healing ceremony at Grand Central station for the pre – launch of We Love Water Tour, a mobile celebration in honor of our most precious and powerful resource. The tour is a collaboration of artists and musicians who are bringing joy, creativity, and celebration to you and your community through meditation, live music and interactive art.

Traveling on the Green Bus will be the Artist Ashram and Water Back Project. Various featured artists who will join as special guests along the way include Dynasty Electric, The Flowdown, Didge Project, Optimus Tribe, TruthNow, Prop Anon, Sierre Carrere, Adam Collett and Zion Judah, Meagan Perry, Raymond Norwood, Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space, Michael Benedetto and Technicolor Lenses. Launch partners for the tour include Unitribe, Evolver, NYC Tantra Center in cooperation with NYH2o.org , Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, Frack Action, We The World, an international campaign for global peace and unity, NYC Fair Trade Coalition, Sarapis Foundation the Real YOUniverse and an expanding list of community-based organizations.

Charlie Gonzalez of Green Bus Tour says; “This is a call for all who believe in a positive future to come together at this time as one collective voice. Join us in celebrating the abundance of life and a return to harmony with each other and mother earth.”

We Love Water will make thirty stops one for each day of the month of June interacting with farmers, elders and families, visiting communities around NY state with whom we all share the same watersheds – the Delaware river, the Catskill aqueduct and the Croton resevoir. Tour stops include Underground Howl fest in NYC, Galiana retreat in New Lebanon a celebration in Hancock NY, Wanderlust and Get Your Dance On June 30 that coincides with the end of the moratorium on fracking in NYS. For an exhaustive list of tour stops visit www.GreenBusTour.com
Green Bus Tour is currently accepting sponsorships and collaboration from all organizations and conscious businesses that support sustainable and holistic values. Donations are tax-deductible and support our artists and community programs.
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Green Bus Tour is a growing community project out to inspire a culture of conscious living through creative collaboration and by promoting a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. Our mission is to empower people to become more conscious consumers and participants in building community. http://www.greenbustour.com

Water Back Project: Water Back is a song. It’s also a grass-roots project done aimed at getting musicians involved in spreading the word about the dire need for us all, individually and as a species, to protect our water.The project is viral and uses social media and live showcases to spread the message. Artists create their own version of Water Back song, making it their own using as much or as little of the original as each artist desires using video and or audio to submit. ALL genres welcome! Lyrics current recordings and guidelines of the song can be found and downloaded at http://reverbnation.com/raymondnorwoodlive www.WaterBackProject.wordpress.com Contact raymond.norwood@gmail.com

Artist Ashram is an artistic haven which nurtures innovation by creating an inner space where creativity flows most freely and each participant may explore his or her true artistic self. In the Artist Ashram, participants may experience deeper levels of listening, extended periods of inspiration, and constant streams of innovation, thereby manifesting a broader sense of imagination. Come play, co-create, listen and drop into the flow of your own free expression.

http://ArtistAshram.com

UNITRIBE supports a unified culture focused on individual empowerment, wellness and the creation of community building projects that support positive change and transformation. Unitribe is an ever expanding network, actively unifying different communities, projects, wellness centers, yoga studios, grass roots movements and sub-cultures that represent a new paradigm of conscious collaboration and are working towards effecting a new value system and uplifting our planet as a whole. The Unitribe Network provides opportunities for our members to offer their services and spread their mission to a much wider demographic of people in NYC and beyond. As a unified culture, our commitment is to honoring and nurturing our inter-connectivity.

Evolver is a new social network for conscious collaboration. It provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world. Evolver promotes sexy sustainability, yoga glamour, and shaman chic. http://www.evolver.net
The NYC Tantra Center is a branch of the Alignment Center in NYC dedicated to the education of Sacred Relationship, Love, Intimacy, Tantra, and the harmony of the Divine Feminine and Masculine. We are at a paramount time in history where the Divine Feminine in its empowerment is rising to elevate and harmonize with the Masculine, hence, bringing greater awareness and acceptance in deepening relationship through creativity, peace, love, and high vibration. The Dalai Lama has said, “It is the Western Woman who will save the planet.”
We, The World (WTW) is a global coalition-building organization based in New York City. Founded in 1998, WTW has annually connected thousands of socially conscious organizations and individuals to amplify their efforts and generate public awareness and action. Advisors and supporters include Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Bill McKibben, Immaculee Ilibagiza (author and Rwanda survivor) , Daniel Ellsberg, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Marianne Williamson, Jonathan Granoff, Hazel Henderson, Robert Thurman, Riane Eisler, William Schulz (former Amnesty International USA Executive Director), Patch Adams, and 70 other visionary leaders from around the world.
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MOVIE ALBUM Kickstarter April 3 – May 3

yogaonthedancefloor — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:03:16 +0000

OUR NEW FILM & ALBUM is being funded on KICKSTARTER from April 3 to May 3. Funders receive special limited edition tees, autographed CD’s, VIP passes to concerts, screenings and more. See Here! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heresthelight2011/heres-the-light-2011-film-album-ekayani-and-tom-gl/widget/card.html

About:
John Halpern (REFUGE and Talks with the Dalai Lama) produced and directed this film on the flowering of Yoga & Culture in America focusing on the role of new arrivals Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space and pioneer DJ Cheb i Sabbah, the godfather of devotional and global electronic world music. Performances and backstage interviews with Cheb i Sabbah, Ekayani, and Brooklyn purveyor of conscious underground culture Jaimi Becker were shot in and around a three day festival in three locations. The film is a milestone documenting intriguing perspectives on the mystic traditions of the East transposed into the popular music of the West.
Help us finish. Here’s to the Light in you and the flowering of spiritual culture. Pledge now.

Gratitude from Director John Halpern – Nobody Said It Better

yogaonthedancefloor — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:34:51 +0000

A great sense of indebtedness and gratitude to Casey and Bill for providing such a rare and fertile occasion to show and discuss REFUGE.

The creative and concerted interest among the film audience was so palpable, deeply moving and inspiring. Thanks to them all. It feels as though the Mystic Independent Theater community was who we had in mind when we were making the film! The atmosphere at the theater is the dream of any filmmaker. This direct dialogue with the public is the actual substance of what culture is made from.

Working together with Ekayani Chamberlin, whose work is the embodiment of East and West, is more than sublime. Anyone who participates in her dance floor yoga rituals will agree that her presence is healing, evocative and delightful. She invokes a sense of the holy and integrates it with a mischievous, inviting rant that is at once tender and gently wrathful.

This magical concoction of film and yoga/dance is the collaboration of the theater and it’s upstairs neighbor, the gifted Amy Zezulka , the accomplished yogini director of Yoga Shala. Her yoga community, together with our film audience comprised a special evening of thought and celebration.

Altogether our event gave me a genuine feeling of wellbeing and renewal.

I couldn’t be more enthusiastic and glad.

Thank you all!

John Dileva-Halpern
March 14, 2011
New York, NY