PAST EVENTS:
OCTOBER 12th - 15th SPECIAL
Entire Week Course in Dharma Yoga: $100
Open to all levels.

10/12 Monday: 7:00 - 9:00 pm (Single Drop in $25)
Asana/ Intro to Pranayama

10/13 Tuesday: 6:00 - 8:00 pm Asana / Focus on Inversions (Drop in $25)
Headstand, Forearm Stand, Handstands

8:00 - 9:00 pm Pranayama and Meditation (Drop in $15)
3 main Pranayamas and Bandhas

10/14 Wednesday: 7:00 - 8:30 pm Asana (Drop in $20)
8:30 - 9:30 pm Psychic Development and Meditation ($15)

10/15 Thursday: 6:00 - 9:00 Maha Sadhana (Drop in $30)
Asana / Pranayama
Discourse: The 5 Causes of Pain and Suffering
Satsang Jam: Signature of Sri Dharma Mittra

* Morning classes will be available Tues. Wed. Thurs. 9:30 - 11:30 am
* Seperate cost per class $20 but if you can't make an evening class
and wnat to take the entire course you may mix and match morning
and evening classes.

DHARMA MITTRA YOGA
New Years Workshop 2009

Jan 2nd, 6:30 - 9:00 pm  $30
Jan 3rd,  1:00 - 4:00 pm  $40
Jan 4th,  1:30 - 4:30 pm  $40
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entire weekend discount   $90 

January 2nd 6:30 - 9:00 pm:  
8 Main Asanas with Psychic Develpoment Meditation

8 Main Poses: in actuality there is only one pose we need to master in order to become self realized. But most of us just can't sit down in lotus for hours on end to reflect on the meaning of life. Therefore, over the years, realized yogis have offered more asana in order to prepare our bodies and minds for meditation. Yogi Gupta, otherwise known as Swami Kalishananda, shares in his book Yoga and Long Life the 8 main poses for maintaining our natural state of health, perfect and radiant! This is a wonderful alternative to those who don't have 1.5 hours a day to practice.

Psychic Development
Teaches a special series of mental exercises to improve your psychic abilities and projection of your thoughts. They include specific breathing exercises, directed visualizations, and these two powerful mantras:

• Mantra for Purification
• Mantra for Unification

They will establish perfect psychic rhythm to mental patterns which put power behind your thoughts, making it easier to achieve your goals and desires in life. These ancient techniques have only been passed down by word of mouth from teacher to disciple and continue to be taught this way. This class culminates in a final meditation to make your personal dreams a reality.

January 3rd 1:00 - 4:00 pm: 
Shiva Namaskar Vinyasa, Chakra Tuning, Letter to the Universe for 2009.

Dharma Mittra Yoga Shiva Namaskar Vinyasa Series is a stairway to bliss that reintegrates the continuous flow of prana (cosmic energy) through the spinal column, emanating deep into all areas of the physical, metabolic, intuitive and bliss bodies. The carefully selected inspirational Yoga postures in Sri Dharma's Shiva Namaskar Vinyasa series for all the levels are a culmination of his 40 years dedicated organization. They will unify the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Practice of these asanas strengthens and tones muscles, glands and internal organs. The postures are performed with slow graceful movements, so fantastic inner calm and self-control are felt immediately. With regular practice problems and disease are gradually brought to an end & self-realization comes easily.

Charkra Tuning

Bija, or seed, Mantras are used to stimulate and awaken the seven spiritual centers, known as Chakras, in the subtle body.  Chakra location, descriptions, and beautiful visualizations for each Chakra bring a deeper sense of our spiritual anatomy, or the subtle body. Based on this knowledge, we will write letters to the Universe that call upon our every aspect of existence, material, physical, mental, emotional, intuitive and spiritual.

"Knowledge of the subtle body helps the Yogi to "ranscend the experience of existence within a physical body. " DM

Maha Sadhana
The Great Divine Whole and Complete Eternal Practices of Sri Dharma. This amazing session begins with spiritual Purification discourses from the aster conveying the ancient teaching into our modern lives. It continues with in-depth, long and challenging Shiva Namaskara posture practice, including healing deep relaxation and a meditation practice. Dharma joyously includes his Devotional Dharma Asana Satsang Jam. Personal attention and helpful hints are given throughout the session as well as direction toward the real true goal of Yoga. For Intermediates thru Advanced Yogis.

Purification
Includes ancient breathing and chakra techniques, mantra japa, relaxation, chanting, and meditation. This purification leads to higher states of physical and mental health, culminating ultimately in blissful Self-realization. The session:

• promotes clarity leading to freedom (Vairagya)
• removes negative states of mind and activates positive thinking to help manifest your desires
• opens chakra centers and removes blocks to the flow of prana
• improves concentration
• purifies the five koshas (sheaths), bringing health and integration of the body, mind and spirit.

             At The Yoga Hut:  Wednesday, Oct 1st.  6:00 - 9:00 pm $25

ALIGNMENT:

                               Align yourself with God...
                                                               

Yogasana is much like geometry, but with the body. We know that certain geometric shapes are able to activate, stimulate, or draw in various energies. Consider the wonders of the Egyptian Pyramids, the mysteries of the Bermuda Trangle, or even the ancient techniques of combining geometrical shapes to form yantras,  a visual mantra. 
("The purpose of a Yantra is to focus spiritual and mental energies, to improve health, wealth, childbearing or the invoking of one God or another. It is made is such a way that the male and female energy patterns of the universe interact and produce a high level spiritual energy." )
  
                                                      
                                    
Similiarly, each asana is designed to create a certain energy within our body.  Imagine that the wisdom of the earth is resting above us, in the stars, the planets, galaxies and universe, and from down here we can align ourselves in specific ways to pick up those signals. Somewhat like an antenna....by partial definition:
"a conductor by which electromagnetic waves are sent out or received".
We too are great transmitters of energy and the idea is to align ourselves in a way that is harmonious with that of our mother earth and father universe. When a being is a host to a body of inner harmony, that being is then able to transmitt love, light, joy, compassion and kindness towards all beings everywhere. (Even our inferior brother and sisters, the animals!  DM adaptation) Dharma often suggests the benefits of "pretending" to have the same virtues someone that God manifest through more than you.   

With this in mind, we will  take a look at the mechanics and structure of the
body. We will perform exercises that help us connect to the "core" of our being so we can move from that space. We will create space in the lumbar spine and SI joint in order  to move out of our "lower back" and into our hearts. We will learn rotation that allows the shoulders to relax so we are not continuing to build tension in an already "overstressed" area.  The idea behind proper alignment,
from  this perspective anyway, is not to get stuck in the physical plane, or even
to say that one way is right and another wrong.  Every pose should always bloom through  "organic expression", something that comes form within you, nothing that can be taught. Well, can be taught, but only psychically. Asana can help us open  to higher frequencies and become receptive to higher wisdoms.  Align yourself witin, then outwardly express. Even better is when the posture is an expression of inner devotion and love, free from ego. When this level of purity is reached, one rarely gets injured.
Even when we do get injured, it's all part of the divine guidance.  Injuries teach us so much that it is really a purification process. Often to do with losing the ego, but not always.   However, with an understanding and awareness of some fundamental principles, we can align ourselves in a way that is safe and most effective for revealing a deeper truth.  Free from struggle, we can go beyond the physical and start to recognize more of the subtle effects of our asana practice.


APPLICATION:   DHARMA MITTRA SHIVA NAMASKA VINYASA  7 -9pm

"Carefully designed, fluid posture series which allows students to gradually advance the core of the practice to higher levels.  It strengthens and tones muscles, glands and internal organs by igniting the continuous flow of prana (cosmic energy) up through the spinal column emanating into all areas of the physical, metabolic, intuitive and bliss bodies; helping to attain a powerful state of conscious relaxation.  Series includes balancing, stretching, back bending, twisting, and inverted poses followed by a series of specific stationary, meditative poses. Series concludes with a deep, healing relaxation, ancient breathing techniques and sitting meditation pracice.  With regular participation, problems and disease are graduually  brought to an end. You will experience radiant health, great inner calm and self control...unfolding the open road to quick and potent Self  Realization!"                                          ~ Dharma Mittra Yoga NYC