Event Title: Dancing the Chakras through Improvisational Movement with Robin Bryant

Location: RVML - 258 A St, Ashland

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Dancing the Chakras through Improvisational Movement
With Robin Bryant

Cost: $25.00 - $40.00, Sliding Scale




Presentation Description:

"Dancing the Chakras" through improvisational movement invites and welcomes us to listen and move to the various states of consciousness and basic human "rights" of the 7 chakras located in our bodies. The chakra system came to the west through the tradition and practice of Yoga, defining each chakra as a center of activity that receives, assimilates and expresses life force energy. We will dance the "basic rights" associated with each charka that every individual is given at birth, which include the right to: belong, �feel,�act,�love,� speak,� see� and� know.

Everyone is Welcome! Whether you are a first-timer in expressing yourself through spontaneous movement, or have had experience in improvisational dance, you will quickly come to know the ease and grace of this time together. You will be given some tools of dance improvisation that will lead all of us into experiencing the wisdom and healing aspects of each chakra. Please call for more information.


Presenter's Biography:

Robin Bryant, Ashland teacher, choreographer and artistic director of HeartDance Repertory Company, studied dance for ten years with master teacher, Gloria Newman (of NYC), and intensively with Ethel Winters of the Martha Graham Company and Betty Jones of the Jose Limon Company. This training launched Robin's career producing her own programs of dance, choreographies, workshops, master classes, concerts and companies.

Robin's work expanded from California to Oregon, New England, Canada, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Her approach to dance has opened people's hearts at numerous educational, health, business, spiritual and dance conferences around the world.

Robin has introduced many people of all ages to the adventure of dance as a magical entry into one's own unique expression of creativity. Currently she teaches seven weekly classes in dance improvisation and modern technique as well as seasonal workshops. Her company, HeartDance, is in their third season of creating dance that speaks a universal language, uniting us in the wonder of life.


More Information: (541) 488-9504

Website: http://www.HeartDanceCompany.org

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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml

Event Title: Meditation with Swami K.M. Tayumanever (Swami Ty)

Location: RVML - 258 A St, Ashland

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Meditation with Swami K.M. Tayumanever (Swami Ty)

January 19, 2007 and February 16, 2008 7-9pm

Free admission, donations appreciated, everyone welcome.



Description:

Swami K. M. Tayumanavar (Swami Ty for short.), and the Jothy Marga Meditation group have been quietly meditating in Ashland for about 15 years, have recently decided to go a bit more public.

Swami Ty is an accessible teacher of meditation. He was under formal discipline for 15 years with a traditional Yoga Order. He lived and taught in India, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Hawaii. A tradition in his order was that sometime after 12 years one had to decide to go on retreat, or leave and teach others. Swami was planning on retreat, but felt a call to go out and make some of the ancient teachings a bit more available in the West.

We ask questions of Swami for a while. Nothing is off limits, but we try to keep it spiritual. Then Swami leads a meditation using a mantram language that is mostly unknown in the west, but is a very powerful tool for self-exploration even when first introduced to it.

If you are having fun, you are doing it right. We wish to help people become whole in body, emotion, mind, and spirit. We are all in this together and the more we can get a degree of enlightenment in the world the transitions now underway will be easier.

There is never a charge for these teachings, however Swami puts out his begging bowl and hopes to receive enough to pay for gas food and rent of the room. He lives in the Northern California Desert, about 3 1/2 hours away by truck.


More information: Swami Ty at (530) 640-0811

Website: http://www.jothimarga.net

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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml