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Meditation Class in New York City
These classes are set up as warm, respectful and fun places of exploration for self discovery and meditation. Each class is divided into 2 parts.
The first half of the class involves learning a spiritual tool that when applied consistently each day can bring about a positive change in your life. These tools are simple and practical,and come with an exercise for the week. This interactive part of the class includes time for questions and answers.
The second half of the class is dedicated to meditation. You’ll learn a simple but highly effective and systematic meditation technique that takes you within yourself and brings you back out. The steps for the meditation including the goal is clearly outlined allowing everyone to easily follow even if you are a beginner.
Do join me in these series of meditation classes in New York City. If you are keen to learn about meditation and to make a change in your life that you can sustain, you’ll enjoy these classes. Students of all levels, including beginners, are welcome.
Next class is Friday, 7pm to 8pm on May 11th, 2012 at
Serenity Center NYC, 118 E. 37th Street, Ground Floor
(between Park and Lexington Avenues), New York, NY 10016
Click here for more info on these meditation classes in NYC.
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Sadhus at the Kumbh Mela
Here’s the final photo in our 14 day series of images of Sadhus. The biggest gathering of sadhus takes place every 3 years at the Kumbha Mela festival. It comes around again next year but time a little special. Every 12 years the full festival is celebrated and this just happens to be in 20...
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Happiness is a Choice
When did we forget that happiness is a choice? It’s a choice that each of us have been empowered with. It’s a choice that each of us need to make each day, each moment of our lives. And when we forget then we leave ourselves subject to the people and environment around us to dictate&h...
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Day 13 of our Sadhu Image Series
The markings on a Hindu’s forehead quite often shares what sects he belongs to. There are four primary sects within Hinduism namely Saivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism and Smartism. The markings on this sadhu’s forehead indicate that he is a Vaishnavite. Members of this sect worship the su...
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Day 12 of our Sadhu Image Series
Well, we are coming close to the end of our 14 day series of images of some of Hinduism’s renunciates that I have photographed over the years. Sadhus are particularly photogenic I must say and the Kumbha Mela festival is probably the best time to photograph a sadhu if you are a photography ...
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Monks embracing technology
For Day 11 of our series of images on sadhus I bring you a photo I took about 3 years back at the Kumbha Mela festival in Haridwar of a sadhu. I was focused on a photographing a parade when I noticed someone standing next to me. I peeked out of the corner of my…
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Parade of Sadhus at the Kumbha Mela
One of the visually striking things at the Kumbha Mela is the parades that take place mainly on the main bathing day during the festival. Here a sadhu dances jubilantly waving a long sword as he parades down the street with thousands of other monastics headed to the sacred Ganges river. The spect...
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