Maha Shakti (the Great Energy) Practice: 

This Maha Shakti class, modelled on the teachings of Dharma Yoga, delivers a beautiful, highly introspective experience that offers challenges on multiple levels! It starts off with a heat-building vinyasa sequence of yoga postures linked together in a seamless and exceedingly graceful fashion to help build a collective consciousness among the group.  This is followed by a series of postures that are held longer with an aim to allow the practitioners to go inward and find stillness in body and mind.  Pranayama techniques and visualization exercises help calm the mind and foster the imagination. Spiritual teachings are interspersed throughout the practice to help keep the focus inward. We will conclude with a guided savasana to offer a final chance to experience meditation through another method.

Kirtan – Responding to the Call of the Heart:  

“Get together in large numbers and share the Way and mantras together!” ~ Sri Dharma Mittra 

The OMBuds & Friends will be guiding you through this devotional practice called kirtan, a practice of the heart that reconnects you to the Divine Love that resides within us.  Through repeatedly chanting the mantras and bhajans (spiritually themed songs), we produce vibrations that help to calm the mind, purify the heart and evoke feelings of bliss. This shall be a practice of the heart; all you need is to be receptive and enthusiastic like a child!

Schedule of Activities

2:00-3:00 Yoga

3:00-3:30 Chai break 

3:30-5:30 Kirtan

5:30-7:30 Meal, chai and social time