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Class Descriptions Free, Low Cost & Benefit Classes Qigong for Healing Self & Others <<NEW!! Experience
the Joy: Kirtan, Third Saturdays, 7:30 - 9 pm When Fear Falls
Away: Evenings with Jan Frazier |
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Qigong for Healing Self & Others Thursdays 7:00 - 8:30 pm (July 10 - Aug 21, no class July 31) Join us for this six-week series and learn internal martial arts forms designed to sense, transmit, and cultivate qi, or life force energy, for the purpose of healing self and others. These simple and gentle forms have been passed down for centuries through monastic lineages of Chinese Medicine by Taoist priests and Buddhist monks. A moving meditation, Qigong practice will prepare students for the introduction to sitting meditation offered at the end of class. For more information or to pre-register, contact Robin Jameson (413-768-9586 or robina@crocker.com). |
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Experience the Joy: Kirtan with Rick Roberts Experience the Joy! Join us every 3rd Saturday for an evening of devotional chanting and meditation with live accompaniment on harmonium and drum. Chanting practice opens the heart, clears the mind and relaxes the body. When we chant in joyful communion with others, our boundaries soften allowing us to touch the joy, inner peace and bliss residing inside us all. Chanting is said to be the easy path, the escalator next to the Yogic stairway to Heaven. It requires no expertise, no membership, and no special equipment, just a willingness to open your heart and sing. For more information, or to be added to the mailing list for this event, contact Rick Roberts (413-367-9777 or Rick@PioneerValleyYoga.com).
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When Fear Falls Away: Evenings with Jan Frazier Last
Sundays 7:00 - 8:30 pm (Jun 29, Jul 27, Aug 31, Sep 28, etc.) If you would like to learn about decreasing suffering and increasing awareness of the enlightened consciousness within us all, join us for this series of informal talk with local author Jan Frazier. Until the summer of her fiftieth year, Jan Frazier lived a life typical for a well-educated, middle-class American woman. A divorced mother of two teenagers, she was making a modest living writing and teaching writing. Following a Catholic childhood in Miami in the 1960s, she had studied English in college and graduate school. In her late twenties, longing for hills and snow, she moved to New England, where she was active in the peace movement. But the inner peace she sought always eluded her. Then, in August 2003, she experienced a radical transformation of consciousness. Fear fell away from her, and she was immersed in a state of causeless joy that has never left her. While she has continued her life as writer, teacher, and mother, she has discovered it is possible to live a richly human life free of suffering. Her wish now is to communicate the truth that within every person is a pool of calm well-being that waits patiently to be stirred to life. When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening (Weiser Books, 2007) is Jan's day-by-day account of the shift in consciousness and its alteration of her life. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. Her poetry collection, Greatest Hits, was published by Pudding House, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has been inspired by Gurumayi, Krishnamurti, and Eckhart Tolle, but the joy she lives in belongs to no particular tradition, and is available to all. For more information, contact Marilyn Hart (413-367-0054 or mhart@crocker.com) or visit Jan's website www.whenfearfallsaway.com. |
Green River Yoga
& Movement Arts, 158 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Greenfield, MA 01301
413-772-2050 or
info@GreenRiverYoga.com
Last updated 6/30/2008
