I’m usually not much on the email — sorry you seem to be getting a barrage!! I finally watched your movie. An excellent accomplishment with a powerful message and very impressive list of resources — a plethora of talent! Great job connecting with so many that have such unique insight. Lots of love and light!
I personally also enjoyed seeing instructors I recall from yesteryear still in it, happy and reaching out to others to spread the gift around. I practiced yoga at ‘s Gurmukh’s studio with first husband Brian when we were just babies in our 20′s. On occasion, I went to her home to practice (I think her husband made really yummy cookies sold in health food stores, if memory serves). She recommended a doctor who delivered Dillon into this world–a small world at that.
Thanks, I enjoyed watching your movie today! I feel like I have a better understanding of your message of Pursuit of Happiness YOGA.
I Declare World Peace, today more than ever! Lets heal together. Please take a moment to Declare World Peace, here on Twitter, even to anyone in earshot. We are a wounded world… Personally Declaring World Peace not only helps us all externally but also internally. Time to embrace each other and move together to a new day of mutual peace love and support. Our leadership needs to be led by us…WE THE PEOPLE!
I am in total gratitude for all your encouragement, love & invitations to your circles of love.
Now that we are in 2011 I am finally responding to invitations manifested over the last several years & am currently scheduling 2011 & 2012 Workshops, Master Classes, Retreats & a Vigil of Peace! Idaho, NY, Mass. Florida, England, France, Egypt & Canada are already in the works. Dates to be announced soon.
Many of these invitations have been inspired and are being manifested by you from grass roots screenings of “Y Yoga Movie” where i have Skyped a Q&A. Please contact me if you would like 1 of these events to come to your local community.
Thank you for thinking of me and supporting Yoga, Meditation and Peace.
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.
Heidi Rayden one of the Y Yoga Movie tribe has this amazing new DVD which chronicles her yogic and spiritual journey through Northern India. Enlighten your soul and support one of our tribe at the same time. click below to check out her trailer.
On my first trip to India eight years ago, my guidebook said that Rishikesh was the yoga capital of the world. After seeing Y Yoga Movie, I Wonder if LA now has that title.
Arthur Klein, director and narrator, poses the question, “What is yoga, and why does practicing it make you happier?” For six years, he traveled extensively, exploring the terrain of th American yoga scene, to find out.
Insightful and candid interviews with celestial yogis Shiva Rea, Erich Schiffmann, Gurmukh, Seane Corn, Dave Stringer, and otheres reveal juicy teaching tidbits. But Klein’s scope also spans beyond the celebrities, successfully showing how yoga works its magic in an underprivileged charter elementary school and offers respite for Marines, in Iraq. Yogis and yogis-to-be will find inspiration, gratitude, and resonance in this thorough yet playful probe into the diverse ways that yoga fulfills its promise of happiness. (more…)
Diamond Dallas Page from Y Yoga Movie & professional wrestling fame is on Fox TV show “my FOX” in Atlanta talking about YRG …
Check out what he is up to:
Former world champion professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page is making a comeback, but this time the wrestling ring has nothing to do with it. For the past 10 years, he has been working on a revolutionary new fitness program called the YRG Fitness System . YRG’s development came to life when doctors told Dallas that his professional wrestling career was over due to a ruptured vertebrae.
I watched "Y Yoga Movie" this am. My bladder (or the moon) woke me and I just had to watch it, beginning to end, through all the namastes. I'm typing to you under my covers with a gorgeous glowing full moon shining through the french doors. The beauty of being a creative communicator is skill and exercising the courage to reveal and express yourself to anyone listening. Thank you for inspiring me to honor that creative warrior in me and for making a piece I can show my friends and family in Wisconsin, marine cousins, fitness fanatics... Those are the boundary walls I've experienced, and haven't known how to reach or teach them. As the moon dips into the treeline beyond my balcony, I feel blessed and guided that I am on my path of living yoga and I saw this full moon from the warmth of my bed and your movie! I'm thankful there are male yoga instructors, business men, and filmmakers getting "the word" out in the west. Be yoga.
So many yoga studios are full of women... Let's turn on a few more good men and activate the emerging yoga community as citizens of a better world.
Ps. In 4 years of living here, I've never seen the moon set from my bed. Namaste — Stephanie Larson, Los Angeles, CA
You don't have to be a yogi to love this movie.
It's creator, Arthur Klein
has made this classic, with his whole heart and soul. It was meant to be shared - with a lot of people. That's why,
when stuck for a gift idea for friends or family, I always give a copy of this DVD.
For any occasion, the YYmovie is a treasure.
If it inspires the viewer to take a swing at practicing yoga, so much the better. If not, at least they will know what all the ruckus is about.
Buy it, recycle it. Spread the joy.
— a.karno, Venice CA
Dear Arthur
i saw your movie yesterday and i loved it so much. there were scenes that tears were in my eyes. it was very sensitive approach of the meaning of yoga and i was and i am indeed very happy that yoga changed so many lives and i hope that it will do the same for me too...you are so kind. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.... — Sofia Georgiadou, Greece
This was a really fantastic movie!
I feel so inspired after watching it and I recommend it to everyone!
Thank you Arthur for making/sharing it!!! — Justin Quinn, Boston, Mass
Gratitude from the filmmaker
Thank you for your purchase of this download & for all the global support of Yoga - Meditation & "Y Yoga Movie". The feedback has been touching!
"Y Yoga Movie", is an award winning feature documentary which premiered during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Since then, many people have discovered a better & healthier life having experienced; "Y Yoga Movie" and/or a Pursuit of Happiness YOGA event.
"Y" has had amazing resonance with school children, soldiers, maximum security prisoners & people from all walks of life, on every inhabited continent including Donna Karan, Larry Payne, Bill Clinton (now vegan, maybe even a little yoga, who knows), & many health professionals.
It is your generosity that makes new projects of Love, Light & Peace possible.
In Gratitude,
Om Mani Padme Hum,
Arthur Klein
Filmmaker ~ Yoga & Meditation Activist
P.S.:
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Please Consider Making a Donation in the spirit of what Vipassana Meditation & my teacher Bryan Kest have instilled in my heart. The opening to possibility in the trusting arms of the Universe... and using Fear as my Greatest Courage.
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