InSpirit - A Yoga Lifestyle festival with His Holiness Devamrita Swami

Whoever said Yoga is just a classroom experience? Yoga, in its true sense, is an exciting adventure leading to self awareness. This spring, we invite you to be a part of the Ultimate Adventure – Inspirit - a yoga lifestyle festival from April 17th to 25th. This festival is designed to give you a holistic experience of a Yogic Lifestyle and demonstrate how yoga entails much more than a few muscle movements. Check festival details at www.UrbanEdgeYoga.com .

InSpirit 2009
Experience a spectrum of workshops - from mantra meditation and ecological sustainability to spiritual accounting - facilitated by Devamrita Swami, an urban monk from New Zealand with over 35 years of spiritual practice. A student of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, he comes to share with us knowledge passed down in the 5000 year old 'Gaudiya Vaishnava' tradition. Join us as several Yoga studios like Moksha, Jivamukti and Yoga Sanctuary join hands with York and University of Toronto to welcome Devamrita Swami and host various events around the city to learn from his deep experiences.

Accompanying him is Badahari Dasa, a yogi and a seasoned musician who has released several albums on devotional music. At every session, he will lead us through a guided mantra meditation experience – transcendent beats which are certain to capture your heart and engage your soul.

These events are specially designed to present an authentic philosophical alternative to today's changing paradigms. They offer a unique opportunity to network within the booming yoga and spiritual community in Toronto. Each event will be marked with gourmet vegan meals and snacks – something you will not want to miss. This is a non-profit initiative, and all events are in the range of $10 – $20 (pre-registration).

The festival schedule for this year is:

Friday, April 17: Earth Alert – Raising environmental consciousness
Saturday, April 18: Beyond Vegetarianism - Mouthful of spirituality
Sunday, April 19: Sacred Activism
Tuesday, April 21: Spiritualizing relationships
Wednesday, April 22: Yoga of money: Art of happy living
Thursday, April 23: Battle against time - Gita Uncovered
Friday, April 24: Roar Sound – Mantra Meditation Workshop
Saturday, April 25: Perfect Escape – A spiritual retreat

About the facilitators:

Devamrita Swami graduated from Yale University in 1972. At this time he came in contact with the ancient teachings of the east. His attraction to this transcendental information was immediate and the effect profound. Ever since Devamrita Swami travels around the world constantly to inspire people to embrace the knowledge locked in Bhagavad Gita and awaken oneself to adopt a Vegetarian, Environmentally Conscious and Yoga lifestyle. Traveling at least 10 months every year he stops at many countries like Australia, New Zealand, USA, South, Africa, Russia, India, Argentina, Chile, the UK, Scandinavia, and Central Europe. His strategic guidance has proved invaluable to students, executives and yoga enthusiasts seeking to balance their spiritual and professional life. He has presented to the Russian chamber of commerce on Spiritual Economics and is also the guiding and directing force setting up the 'Institute for a sustainable society' in New Zealand, an interesting and much needed project the details of which can be checked at http://sustainablesociety.org.nz/.

Devamrita Swami is the author of several books like the ‘Searching for Vedic India, Perfect Escape, Beyond the barriers of limited science and Spiritual Greed. Book excrepts and details can be seen at http://www.urbanedgeyoga.com/index.php?p=devamritaBio .

This is his third annual visit to Toronto. In his past visits he has addressed over 1000 people on topics as diverse as Power of mind, Yoga, Vegetarianism, Spiritual economics, Environmentalism and much more. His presentation at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, attracted an audience of over 100 business professionals eager to explore the offerings of ancient knowledge of yoga and its application to Spiritual Economics. At the York University, students experienced a different flavor, when he engaged them in a deep discussion about Trance Dancing in the Material World. For details of these and more of our previous events visit http://www.urbanedgeyoga.com/index.php?p=inSpirit .

Badahari Das grew up is Southern California and from an early age, performed with jazz and classical groups. He received a degree in Music Composition from USC and spent two years in Europe with the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies Orchestra and Composition departments. In 1975, he became involved in an intense spiritual pursuit and spent the next years practicing Bhakti Yoga, studying the Vedas and learning Sanskrit and Bengali chants, songs and mantras. Check out a sample of his music at http://www.chandramedia.com/

InSpirit 2009 promises to be a festival that you will always remember and cherish. We invite you to be a part of Inspirit – The Ultimate Alternative. Event details are available at www.UrbanEdgeYoga.com. Please contact us at urbanedgeyoga [at] gmail [dot] com or 647 261 7499 with any questions.