Erich Schiffmann Awakened Heart, Embodied Mind Master Class

This Sunday, Erich Schiffmann is teaching a 3 hour Master Class at Exhale Yoga in Venice, California. I am so grateful for Erich’s mentoring; he is one of the main reasons that I teach in the way I do. I will be there on Sunday and hope to see you too.

This is a rough recording of Erich Schiffmann’s (Moving into Stillness & Freedom Style Yoga) Opening Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation at the beginning of class January 27th, 2011… I created Y Yoga Movie and it is awesome to continue to capture the alumni teachers from Y Yoga Movie. See Erich in Y Yoga Movie available here on DVD and for download

If you enjoyed “Y YogaMovie”, you’ll definitely love the film “BoardHeads”. This incredible feature length documentary from Davo Weiss, one of my producers on “Y Yoga Movie” truly brings the spirit of boarding to the movie screen. To fully disclose my bias in this recommendation I must reveal that I am one of the producers on “BoardHeads” so please take my rave review with this in mind. But with that said I sincerely feel that “BoardHeads” is to boarding what “Y Yoga Movie” is to Yoga & Meditation; an honoring and an invitation to perhaps a new vision of these subjects.

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“BoardHeads” is a collection of touching and heartwarming stories of an international community of adrenaline junkies who find a spiritual home on a board and want to ‘share the stoke’ with those who need it most. “BoardHeads” features boardsports superstars and stories about special needs riders like the physically impaired and disadvantaged—filmed in exotic locations around the world.

This documentary takes an inspiring look into the worldwide community of BoardRiders. It defines what boarding culture is about and shows the impact of boardheads in unique and empowering ways. Individually and collectively, the global tribe of riders makes the world a cooler place.

Starting with a brief history of the evolution of board sports, the film takes you around the world and into the lives of some not so typical, yet very inspirational riders. The rugged, soulful voice of narrator Michael Madsen helps guide viewers on a journey into the boarding culture and the empowering experiences shared by this worldwide community. From voices of pros, enthusiasts and novices, this informational and uplifting movie also presents powerful life lessons. The sense of freedom one gets from being on a board and “sharing the stoke” is echoed throughout all board sports, giving the audience a sense of unity and community. The deeper messages are subtle using board riding as a metaphor for living a full and complete life. One of the powerful message that emerges: there is a global connection all humans share with one another whether riding a board or not.

The film also visually invites the viewers to travel to beautiful exotic locations around the globe and shows the influence boarding has on the economy and lifestyle.

Locations include natural settings like the Brisbane River in Australia, lakes and beaches from Hawaii, South Africa and California, to Miami and the Caribbean…even Thailand, high in the mountains of New Zealand and Europe, and famous landmarks such as New York’s Times Square and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

In a world where the population continues to grow, technology continues to advance and problems and solutions rise and fall like the waves of the ocean, it is refreshing to see a community redefining itself to serve a greater purpose of compassion, connection and contribution to humanity. “BoardHeads” captures this culture in an entertaining and uplifting style. And Madsen’s final voice over sums things up perfectly: “We’re all just boardheads at heart!”

My good friend and fellow filmmaker Davo and I have followed similar paths creating our films. Instead of getting funding from studios, we decided to use our years of experience and our own money and equipment to create films that showcase communities making a difference. I’m proud to have helped him produce such an inspirational and touching film.

Om Mani Padme Hum,

Arthur Klein

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This is a rough recording of Erich Schiffmann’s (Moving into Stillness & Freedom Style Yoga) Opening Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation at the beginning of class January 27th, 2011… I created Y Yoga Movie and it is awesome to continue to capture the alumni teachers from Y Yoga Movie. See Erich in Y Yoga Movie available here on DVD and for download

I don’t believe in coincidences. I don’t believe that any of us ever connect by accident. I believe that every situation we encounter & that every person we meet during our life time has a soul purpose in our life. I further believe that over time we can see how all the pieces of our past life experiences & encounters fit together as one to complete the present image we are living in our dream of life!

Had I not dabbled in yoga around 15 years ago, my life path would not have led me to “Y Yoga Movie” & then onto becoming friends with filmmaker Arthur Klein. Had I not dabbled in yoga & then made it part of my daily life I would never have realized what a powerful tool for creating World Peace it truly is! Had I not been in Egypt on that fateful day of Sept 11th 2001 I am not sure I would have been led to what I feel is now in this presented moment of now, my present God Given life purpose on earth which has again connected me to Arthur Klein.

This re-connection has very clearly reinforced my belief that YOGA is a powerful loving energetic key to World Peace. Yoga is breath & breath is life & as I breath I center in peace & as I am centered in peace, peace is all I have to offer life. Yoga heals, yoga realigns, yoga expands us way beyond our physical. Yoga reveals the truth of spirit & in spirit we are all ONE, & in spirit there is only Love. Yoga clearly teaches us we are each responsible for shaping our well being in life. No-one can do it for another but as one by one we live in personal peace & wellness before we know it; so too is all life around us!

I would like to now briefly outline how the universe initially connected Arthur & I and then how my proposed Mt Sinai Sept 11th 2011 FORGIVENESS – PEACE VIGIL reconnected us but this time so much more strongly as we join forces with one focused intent of burying pains of the past so that we can step into life unencumbered & free to live as one unified humans race in Peace Love & harmony. We both strongly believe its time to let go of the hell of the past so that we can begin live Heaven on earth.

I’m an Australian who lives in Egypt by choice or perhaps I should say by spirit! In the year 2009 I went home for a brief holiday. My daughter Sam who dabbled in yoga with me all those years ago had by then become a yoga instructor so when we are together yoga is quite prevalent. During this trip home the “Y Yoga Movie” DVD was advertised on TV & we immediately both wanted one & of course each got one. Arthur Klein’s opening words on the video relating to Sept. 11th struck a cord with me because of the way yoga had helped center him in peace after the collapse of Twin Towers which had simultaneously collapsed his idea of the world. That was powerful!

I had already known that if I was the least downhearted as I entered a yoga session I always came out of it feeling good but I had not even considered that it could overcome something as devastating as the effects of Sept. 11th! Yet Arthur’s voice sincerely echoed joy in its every note & his spirit was so open & inviting, so obviously it must have! I remember thinking if yoga has this great an effect then it definitely had the potential to rid the world of hatred & all related emotions. Yoga could heal the world – Yoga could center the world in peace! Was bending, stretching, breathing all that was needed to reshape our war torn world to a love healed world!

That was a fleeting thought which I let it go of as I got on with my day to day life with no more consideration until recently when Arthur & I connected regarding my Mt Sinai Sept.11th FORGIVENESS-PEACE VIGIL.

Arthur & I are facebook friends who had an instant rapport once we started posting comments & on each others wall. As I said earlier I believe there are no coincidences in life- I feel Arthur & I were destined to meet. If I recall correctly he added me as a friend as my profile states that I like yoga! I had no real idea who Arthur was in the yoga world but readily accepted his friendship as it felt good & I liked his profile picture! When I saw “Y Yoga Movie”, I thought ‘Wow he’s my facebook friend’. It was during my trip to Australia that he & I got to know each other a little better basically because of my daughter’s yoga connection as I am much more verbal about yoga in Australia. In Egypt I talk to myself about it as none of my close friends in Egypt practice yoga.

Since then we have popped up in each others facebook lives from time to time with the rapport as strong as ever. When I posted my September 11th FORGIVENESS-PEACE VIGIL Proposal & Arthur was the first to respond & offer his full support. He & yoga people have been my biggest supporters so far in this upcoming event which clearly confirms my original fleeting thoughts about Yoga’s potential in regard to being a World Healer & World Peacemaker when I first heard Arthur on the Y Yoga DVD speaking of how yoga helped him heal after that disastrous day.

My Vigil is for all people not just Yoga people but Yoga by its very nature & Arthur by his very nature – which these days is Yoga – immediately showed me Yoga’s natural pull & desire to heal where healing is needed as it breathes peace & love into life just by being Yoga. Yoga’s automatic response in every situation is to heal. I feel this so strongly that Arthur is meant to be on Mt Sinai with me on September 11th 2011. I believe September 11th 2001 connected us in a strange way as I was here in the midst of the Middle East & Arthur was in the US on that fateful day. He saw the effects it had on life there. I saw the effects it had on life here. We both know its time to symbolically bury the past & we both know the power Yoga yields to do just that!

As I have previously said, I believe that every situation we encounter & that every person we meet during our life time has a soul purpose in our life. In addition I believe that many of us connect to live out joint soul purposes for the good of all humanity & life. Arthur & I are not alone in our passion to Forget & to Forgive so that humanity can live as One in Peace, Love & Harmony but we both know that we are meant to work together on this project for the good of all.

It is time to bury all hatred of the past & to end all resistance of letting go of the pain of the past & walk one by one with focused intent into the dawn of new way of living as one unified human race in peace love & harmony.
Please join us.

Namasté
Kerrie

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Bhakti Yoga Shala Benefit Concert for Bonobo Conservation Initiative January 15th, 2010 Donna De Lory & Wynne Paris performing Sanctuary.  Captured & shared by Arthur Klein of Y Yoga Movie and pursuit of Happiness YOGA.

Diamond Dallas Page from Y Yoga Movie & professional wrestling fame is on Fox TV show “my FOX” in Atlanta talking about YRG …
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Updated: Tuesday, 05 Jan 2010, 9:24 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 05 Jan 2010, 9:24 AM EST

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