swami lalitananda: live on the internet!
January 26th, 2009 by roseanne Posted in ascent, community, timeless
All listeners are encouraged to participate by calling in to the show toll free at 1-800-230-3062. Swami Lalitananda will be available for questions and comments regarding all aspects of yoga practice during her interview with host Dr. Melissa West.
The first three participants will receive a FREE copy of The Inner Life of Asanas and each additional caller will have the chance to purchase the book at a 25% discount.
Contact Talk Radio is an online radio station devoted to spiritual, psychic, holistic, and personal development. Returning to the Body Mind, hosted by Dr. Melissa West, is a show that ‘revisits the wisdom of the body as the seat of the soul.’
And just in case you can’t listen to this live internet radio appearance, you’ll have several opportunities to connect with Swami Lalitananda in Real Life this spring! She’ll be offering Hidden Language Hatha Yoga workshops in Toronto and New York. Stay tuned for details…
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workshop with swami lalitananda
January 8th, 2009 by roseanne Posted in ascent, community, timeless
To promote ascent columnist and senior teacher, Swami Lalitananda’s upcoming workshop at the Omega Institute in upstate New York, the renowned centre for holistic studies has just published an inspiring article. Writing on the intersection of selfless service and hatha yoga, Swami Lalitananda says: “Practicing yoga means using whatever circumstances we are given and accepting that they are exactly what we need for our development. Keeping our purpose clear, we can step up to the challenge, recognizing that even in the most adverse situations there is the opportunity to develop character. We become stronger as we affirm our connection with our own inner light, and also when we admit where we are not strong, where we need help.” Read the rest of the featured article in the Omega e-newsletter. Buy Swami Lalitananda’s book here: The Inner Life of Asanas. Register for a special workshop with Swami Lalitananda, May 1 -3, 2009 If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
brooklyn reflection
December 17th, 2008 by gem Posted in ascent, community, reflection
Our NYC correspondent, Gem Salsberg, offers a slice of life from the big city… This afternoon I was riding the subway, on the train heading over the water homeward into Brooklyn. There was a tough scar-faced looking guy sitting in the chair directly behind me. His spine aligned to my spine. He sat with his little boy, about 5 years old. I caught on partway into what the little boy was saying, “….Forty, eight, ninety, two, three three, two hundred, seven, seventy, one, five, four, eighty, hundred, million, thousand, billion and infiniti!” I peeked over my shoulder innocuously, but only saw the cheek of the man with his scarred up tough-looking face. The boy said, “That’s a lot! Isn’t it?! That’s a lot!” “Yes,” the father said calmly, “it is.” There was silence. The train doors slid open slid closed the station passed, the people came on and exited, sat and stood, read and music bobbed their quiet heads. “I love you.” The father said suddenly. His voice was deep and certain. “You know that? I love you.” The kid said “How much?” And the father, I could hear his truth in his voice as he answered “If there is The Place after The Life, I love you there.” “Why?” asked the boy. “Because,” answered the scar-faced man, “you are my boy. You are my beautiful boy.” All the sounds inside my veins and mind went quiet. And I wanted to be a peekhole, the centre between the index finger and the thumb, a window, so that the future person this boy would one day be – so that he could sit in my chair, eves-dropping on his child self and his young father. And that this memory moment would arrive unexpectedly, in a second of doubt, uncertainty, loneliness. So he would hear what we all need to hear. An honest voice speaking of love, a truth, a precious thing. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
memory issue launch party
December 9th, 2008 by roseanne Posted in ascent, community
Michael Franti interview Click here to listen to part of the conversation, which was broadcast on CKUT radio’s The Monday Morning After show on December 8th. The introduction is by Fred Anderson, the guest of the conversation. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
More than 40 people turned out on a chilly Montreal Friday night to celebrate the release of ascent’s Memory issue. The evening featured an engaging conversation on “What helps us remember what we already know?” organized in collaboration with University of the Streets Cafe; a Bharata Natyam dance performance with Ginette Dion-Ahmed; and a whole lot of mixing and mingling.
dvd review: yoga flo for peace
November 21st, 2008 by roseanne Posted in ascent, community
I’m especially excited about Jennifer’s project because it’s local and ethical ~ $1 from each DVD will go to Equiterre. I love Jivamukti yoga and there are only a handful of certified teachers in Montreal, but I have yet to attend one of Jennifer’s real life classes due to timing (I seem to always be teaching or working during the times she offers her classes). So I’m grateful that I’m able to have the experience without leaving the comfort of my home. Jennifer is a wonderful teacher with a soothing, competent presence. For a home practice guide which is invigorating yet peaceful, this DVD is a good way to start the day. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Jennifer Maagendans, a Jivamukti-certified teacher at Centre Luna Yoga, has created a flowing yoga routine as tranquil and beautiful as the studio she owns and manages. Filmed in the Old Montreal studio, the DVD is simple and concise, with the option of 40, 60 and 70 minute routines available in French or English. The sequences are accompanied by Jason Kent’s relaxing indie-rock-esque music, which follows the tempo of the practice.
karen armstrong & the charter for compassion
November 13th, 2008 by roseanne Posted in ascent, community
A couple of years ago, ascent spoke to religious scholar Karen Armstrong about the global necessity for the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have done to you. “Compassion is the core value of all the major world religions,” she said. “It’s the ability to feel for others, to have concern for all people… It’s something that we must do if we are to survive as a species. If we preserve that in a global way, as well as just an individual way, the world will be a more peaceful and sacred place.” In March 2008, Armstrong was awarded a TED Prize ~ $100,000 and “one wish to change the world.” Her wish was the creation of a Charter for Compassion (watch her inspiring TED Talk here). Today, her wish is one step closer to coming true as TED announced the launch of an inspiring global endeavor to celebrate compassion. Using collaborative web tools, people from around the world are encourage to contribute their words and stories to creating the Charter, based on the fundamental principle of the Golden Rule. The website, charterforcompassion.com, is a platform for a truly global initiative to make religion a source of peace in the world, rather than division. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
growing community through photography
October 27th, 2008 by Vienna Posted in community, rad'a
This weekend, rad’a hosted an art opening for an In Focus event, “Femmes dans la Mire.” The event is the third in a series of international exhibits originating in Tanzania. On a rainy Saturday night, rad’a drew a large crowd of friends, family and supporters of the refugee and immigrant women who discovered photography this year. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
bryant terry interview on national public radio
October 14th, 2008 by roseanne Posted in ascent, community
Click here to listen to Bryant Terry
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the underbelly, wooof wooof
September 22nd, 2008 by gem Posted in community, reflection, urban yogi/ni
Now, I sit here trying to write about living in New York. Hmm, tonight is kind of fitting to my stereotyped idea of this city before I came here - under my window is a large group of wannabe gangsters, pumping-up rap music from their sooped-up Honda’s, with steroid injected stereo systems. Boom Boom Bang Bang If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
ascent, in the world
September 20th, 2008 by vanessa Posted in ascent, community, independent media, small mags
THOUGHTS FROM VANESSA, EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER Here at ascent, we think a lot about letting go into the change that wants to come. After all, we are deeply involved in, and committed to, the practices of karma yoga, not being attached to outcomes, listening deeply to our inner wisdom and collective intelligence … This isn’t always so easy, as a organization. And there is also the responsibility to take action, to set intentions, to purposefully cultivate the grounds for the inner and outer worlds we want to live in and pass on… So how do we live this as a magazine? As an organization? And how do we work with, and thrive in, the context of an increasingly chaotic external environment? We see political, environmental and global stresses and a publishing industry in crisis. ascent magazine has been witnessing fellow independent publications like Bitch Magazine in the US live the roller coaster of staying alive in an industry whose corporate values are incongruous with being true to authenticity and the expression of diverse voices. ascent magazine, as a small, independent, non-profit publication is not exempt from this. As independent presses we are all responding to - and pioneering within - this rapidly changing media environment where print and social/web media are in a dynamic negotiation, and conglomerates are the norm. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
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