Baker Street Yoga – Maplewood, New Jersey
Yogamaya Studio, NYC
Siddha Yoga, Philadelphia
Diwali at Broome Street Temple – NYC
Jivamukti, NYC
Kula Yoga, NYC
Arlington Yoga Center, TX
Core Power Yoga Studio, LA
Heights School of Yoga, TX
Nia Moves Studio, Houston, TX
November 26, 2010
Monday November 22 Radhanath Swami spoke at a yoga studio in Maplewood, New Jersey. He met Clair, one of the co-founders of Baker Street Yoga, before the program. She told him, “not everybody can do what you did – hitchhike from London all the way to the Himalayas and get all kinds of lessons on the way.” “Clair you don’t have to, you already took a shortcut. We all have to go through what we have to go through but if we’re sincere everything is revealed to us,” the swami...
November 13, 2010
View Slideshow On Sunday, November 7th, 2010, Radhanath Swami spoke at Yogamaya. a yoga studio in Manhattan in New York City. The event was hosted by Bryn Chrisman, the director of Yogamaya. In her introduction Bryn mentioned recently seeing the New York City Marathon, and Radhanath Swami continued on the same topic, specifically elaborating on winning in life. “Yoga is about harmonizing the body and mind with the needs of the eternal soul. Not everyone can get win the event and get the trophy, and that happiness doesn’t last for...
November 10, 2010
Radhanath Swami appeared at Siddha Yoga in Philadelphia on Nov 5 in an event hosted by Joel Pier. Joel is a student of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and he is considered one of the best yoga teachers in the Philadelphia area. Joel graduated from one of the first intensive Bikram’s yoga teacher training programs offered by Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram’s Yoga College of India. Joel then proceeded to open Siddha Yoga, one of the first Bikram’s yoga studios in downtown Philadelphia. Radhanath Swami was asked to speak on...
November 9, 2010
View Slideshow On November 4, Diwali, the Festival of Lights, was celebrated at the Broome Street Temple, a popular spot in lower Manhattan for kirtan, puja and the study of sacred teachings. The experience of stepping off the New York streets and up a flight of stairs into the temple felt like being transported into an authentic South Indian holy place. Within this Soho loft reside separate shrines to Ganesh, Sri Sri Radha Damodara, and Mahadeva (Shiva). In the mornings, the same space serves as Ashtanga Yoga New York, one...
November 8, 2010
View Slideshow On Tuesday November 2nd, 2010 Radhanath Swami spoke at the Sunset Gita program at the Jivamukti yoga studio on Broadway in Manhattan. Jivamukti hosts active and energetic yoga classes seven days a week at their Manhattan studio, mixing vigorous Hatha Yoga with a enlivening dose of spiritual thoughts and vibrations based on the teachings of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the bhakti tradition. Their mix of ahimsa, music, meditation, and down-to-earth yoga makes them one of the busiest, most popular, and most innovative yoga centers in...
November 3, 2010
View Slideshow On Friday, October 29th, 2010, Radhanath Swami spoke at Kula Yoga, a popular yoga studio in Tribeca, New York. Regularly featured in the best of issues of Time Out NY and NY Magazine, Kula is known as a studio for serious practitioners. Kula’s director, Schuyler Grant, was recently singled out by the NY Times as the go-to teacher in NY for an advanced level yoga practice. The evening was hosted by resident teacher and renowned New York yogi Raghunath Cappo. Every year he leads a group of yoga...
November 1, 2010
Radhanath Swami appeared at the at the Arlington Yoga Center (AYC) Saturday morning, October 9th, 2010. He led the program with a traditional Sanskrit chant, or bhajan. He then proceeded to speak on the topic of compassion. Radhanath Swami explained how one should be compassionate towards each other, to everything, and to everyone. In regard to the Gulf oil spill, he said that if we are not compassionate towards Mother Earth and towards every living entity, then we will continue exploiting all of these for our own selfish desires. He...
October 24, 2010
View Slideshow On October 13, 2010, Radhanath Swami gave a presentation on his book The Journey Home at the Core Power Yoga Studio in Aliso Viejo, CA. Run by yoga instructor, Kumudini, Core Power leads lifestyle and teacher training programs, yoga retreats and conferences, and has students numbering in the thousands. The 100 people in attendance were treated to a high energy devotional chanting led by local kirtan diva CC White. Radhanath Swami began his talk by discussing his motivation for writing his memoir, then, at Kumudini’s request, proceed to...
October 19, 2010
On the morning of Saturday Oct. 2nd Radhanath Swami spoke on “Overcoming Obstacles in Yoga and Life” at the Heights School of Yoga. Several students from Iyengar Yoga Studio also attended. He fondly recalled his times living on the River Ganga, how she flows around all obstacles to reach the sea. He also spoke at length at how great bhaktas or devotees such as Hanuman overcome the most formidable obstacles by the grace of God. He recounted how ISKCON founder-acarya Swami Prabhupada overcame incredible obstacles when he sailed to America...
October 18, 2010
On Friday, Oct. 1st Radhanath Swami spoke at Nia Moves dance and yoga studio in downtown Houston on “Transcendental Ecstatic Dance” from the perspective of Bhakti yoga and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition. Radhanath Swami spoke on compassion and the nature of selfless love, expressed through ecstatic dance. Before leading the dance kirtan, Radhanath Swami explained “Saranagati Asana” of call and response, by folding hands in a mood of accepting love, when the lead singer calls and raising arms in a mood of surrender when everyone responds..He ended with a rousing...