Create              Empower               Unite                 Liberate                  Transform               Love      
10:00-10:30am      PEL: Classes are rated by level of "Physical Exertion Level" (PEL)
Registration & Refreshments - FREE Breakfaston a 5 point scale. 1/5 to 5/5, from least to greatest physical exertion.
10:30-11:20am
Keynote Speaker - Adi Carter
"Redefining Balance: taking your yoga practice into action in service and life"
11:30am-1:00pm
Session I
- "Expanding Your Aura of Peace through Kundalini Yoga"  PEL: 4/5
                 with Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa

-  "Kula For Karma-Turning Passion Into Action"   PEL: 3/5
  with Geri Topfer and Penni Feiner
1:00-2:00pm
FREE Lunch  - vegetarian Indian food - Guest Teacher Intros. - Q&A
2:00-3:30pm
Session II
- "Detox Series"  - Detox Your Life  PEL: 3/5
  with Adi Carter

- "Self Care and Becoming Sustainable Agents of Change"  PEL:  1/5
  with Teo Drake
3:45-5:15pm
Session III
- "Practicing Ahimsa (non-violence) On and Off the Mat"  PEL: 2/5
  with Nancy Candea

- "Chakra Tuning Vinyasa Flow"  PEL: 5/5
  with Christian Valeriani
5:30-7:00pm
Session IV
- "Mastering Savasana"  PEL: 1/5
  with Andrea Sacchetti & Elizabeth Piccard
7:00-10:00pm
Dinner-Break

LoveYourBody.Dance After Party
10:00-11:30pm
- "JourneyDance"
  with Antoinette Simms
11:30pm-1:00am
- "African Drum Circle Dance Party"
  with Jim Davidson
KEYNOTE SPEECH

"Redefining Balance: taking your yoga practice into action in service and life"    w/ Adi Carter
In this discussion Adi will speak about how yoga practice can generate a desire to do more off the mat. She will discuss service work and donation based events and classes as ways to raise awareness that the time is now to create change not only in our own lives but in our communities and the world we all share.  Inspired by a long time passion for the environment and the outdoors, Adi’s focus is environmental awareness and the importance of simple eco-conscious initiatives we can all commit to on a daily basis through the practice mindfulness. She will discuss her “trash tour” and “Mindfulness Challenge” which were two grass roots initiatives that helped her to raise over $25,000 in less than one year for the Off the Mat into the World Global Seva Cambodia challenge by only spending $56 as an initial investment.


CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

SESSION I

"Expanding the Aura of Peace with Kundalini Yoga and Meditation"w/ Mahan Rishi     PEL:  4/5
Join us for an intensive workshop in opening your magnetic field and etheric energy centers for both personal and planetary peace, through Kundalini Kriyas and Meditations using Gurmukhi and Sanskrit mantras with the harmonium, guitar and gong. Mahan Rishi will talk about the expansion of your luminous field and how this is important for your personal mind/body health as well as enhancing the global healing energies.


"Kula For Karma-Turning Passion Into Action"w/ Geri Topfer & Penni Feiner      PEL:   3/5
Open the door to your passion and renew your sense of purpose and connection. This workship will integrate postures, chanting, and breathwork to help you discover how to live your life with clear intention and make choices that really serve you. In this workshop, you will

*Cultivate witness mind through the exploration of meditation and yoga
*Practice a chakra-clearing sequence to release trapped emotions in the body
*Dive into yoga nidra( a deep relaxation practice)
*Experience Kirtan Kriya(chanting) and its power to focus the mind
*Remove the obstacles that prevent you from awakening

Penni Feiner and Geri Topfer will inspire you to turn your passion into action. You will leave ready to devote yourself to a life inspired by sense of purpose, filled with excitement, inspiration and imagination.


SESSION 2

"Detox Series"w/ Adi Carter     PEL:  3/5
Detox to re-tox? The pattern might seem like a never-ending cliché, however there are several considerations and choices one can make to avoid feeling completely taxed and overwhelmed by our fast paced lives.  Join Adi Carter for a workshop focusing on physical toxicity in the digestive system and the core region of the body.  This workshop includes a detailed discussion on how our diet, lifestyle, and products we consume affect our bodies and the way we feel. Suggestions for dietary and herbal considerations will be discussed before moving into a vinyasa practice detox yoga sequence created to flush toxins from the body and bring awareness to the digestive system and core muscle groups. Filled with twists, abdominal work, arm balances and creative yoga sequencing, this workshop will leave you with an awareness of your digestive region and knowledge about what changes and considerations you can make in your diet and lifestyle to help reduce toxicity on a daily basis.


"Self Care and Becoming Sustainable Agents of Change"w/ Teo Drake          PEL:  1/5
Often while making in a difference in our own lives and in the world, we sacrifice rest, time, play, money and all too often health and well-being. What if it were possible to create change in our own lives and in the world that was sustainable from a personal perspective? Whether making a difference is defined as being a mentor, parent, loving partner, healing through gender transition, coming into our own authenticity and coming out or creating global change, it is possible to do so effectively without sacrificing ones well-being. This workshop will encourage supportive dialogue and problem-solving around defining purpose and action through the lens of sustainability and self-care. This workshop will encourage supportive dialogue and problem-solving around defining purpose and action through the lens of sustainability and self-care. Special attention will be paid to meeting the needs of LGBTQ yogis.


SESSION 3

"Practicing Ahimsa (non-violence) On and Off the Mat"w/ Nancy Candea                PEL:   2/5
This workshop will explore how we can practice our yoga to learn strength with grace, assertiveness with breath, mental clarity with relaxation, and confidence with compassion. We will explore how the quaities of a flow practice can help us create a more peaceful inner life that will help us expand our yoga practice into our lifestyle and work. This session will include a mix of yoga, breathwork, meditation, philosophy, and discussion. Open to all levels.


"Chakra Tuning Vinyasa Flow"w/ Christian Valeriani          PEL:   5/5
Do you feel that life is a constant struggle and nothing is ever easy?  Do you experience the same negative issues over and over?  Are you content and looking to take your energetic body to the next level?  Luckily, Yoga always offers  a solution to reverse the negative and enhance the already positive ways of life.  Join seasoned yoga teacher  Christian Valeriani for an uplifting and energizing chakra tuning workshop designed to vibrate the cellular body to align, shift and explore the depths of positive prana flow  This session will consist of a deep understanding of the chakras, or energy centers, and pranayama through a vinyasa practice laced with vibrational chanting while in asana.  All levels are welcome as the engineered sequence can accommodate even the newest practitioner.  Please bring your positive energy and your open mind for this amazing investigation of your life purpose!!

This workshop begins with a Dharma Discussion, a conversation that embodies the Yoga practice as a whole and explains the implications of today's work.  Once this intention is set, we will enter into a  brief Metta, or loving kindness,  Meditation that calms the mind and purposely directs our collective conscience. The Chakra Tuning Vinyasa Practice is designed to vibrate the innermost cellular body to awaken spirit and facilitate change.  When practiced as a community, the Chakra Tuning extends the boundaries of the individual intention, therefore creating a group prayer that asks for world peace, universal understanding and equality for all living beings.


SESSION 4

"Mastering Savasana"w/ Andrea Sacchetti & Elizabeth Piccard    PEL:  1/5
Learn about and practice techniques that will support you in receiving  the full transformational gifts of this pose that B.K.S. Iyengar  describes as "one of the most difficult to master," and also "the best antidote" for the stresses of modern life.  Enjoy a brief gentle yoga practice, guided relaxation and yoga nidra (yogic sleep). Take-home written material with principles and practices to do anytime.


LOVE.YOUR.BODY. DANCE.

"Journey Dance" w/ Antoinette Simms
This unique style of expression is based in yogic philosophy of the chakra system as well as utilizing shamanistic/native American influences that capture the entire being from physical to emotional and spiritual.  Although this is a movement class, there is a lot of focus on freedom of the body and its natural ability to experience form through incredibly enticing music and visualizations. Absolutely no dance experience is necessary.


"African Drum Circle Dance Party" w/ Jim Davidson
Learn different hand positions, drumming techniques, and rhythms to listen and entrain as one drum body. Drum together to rhythms of the Mandingue culture of West Africa, as taught by Mamady Keita and Famoudou Konate. When going strong experiment with call and response as well as tension and resolution that is so central to African rhythms. Feel the rhythms guide your body into spontaneous movement and dance! Together our goal is to carefully raise the drum energy of the circle, slowly picking up the cadence until we are flying at maximum energy!

Drumsound rises on the air
It's throb my heart
a voice inside the beat says
I know you are tired,
but come, this is the way
----Rumi
2nd Annual
Yoga for Unity 
Conference
Saturday, November 13 2010   10:00am-1:00am
at Princeton University - Mathey Common Room
Inner change for
global change
Free vegetarian Indian
food for lunch!

Registration is closed online, but open the entire event, come and go throughout the day!