Learning, laughing, chanting, eating, shopping, and doing yoga — what more could you ask for? The Svaroopa® Yoga Conference has it all! It’s only a week away, and it’s not too late to register and find that inexpensive last-minute airfare!
As with all things Svaroopa®, choices abound. You have a choice of workshop tracks: a blissful yoga weekend, meditation in the Ashram track, continuing education updates in the Teacher and Foundations tracks. You could also chose a full-day Warrior Vinyasa pre-conference workshop on Friday and/or a half-day Inversions post-conference workshop on Sunday, both with Vidyadevi.
Choices abound in the shop, with everything that Master Yoga and the Ashram have to support and inspire your yoga practice. Find DVDs, CDs, posters, books, tee shirts and NEW exclusive items only available at our Conferences and special sales on items from Conferences past.
More choices in the popular Silent Auction! Cast your bid on sacred treasures donated by the India 2013 participants, purchased during their pilgrimage: colorful shawls, sweet murtis, Ganga-dipped items and much more. Take home a bit of the Kumbha Mela and Ganeshpuri if you were unable to attend the trip this time.
Photos from the India trip will be projected onto a screen in a side-dining room, and you may well feel as though you are there. To enhance the visual experience, India trip participants will be on hand to describe their personal experiences. Swamiji will be announcing her plans for the next trip. Perhaps a visit to the “India” dining room will propel you and prepare you to make the journey.
Another side dining room calls out to all Mentors and Mentees. Could you pick your DTS Mentor out of a crowd? You spent some intense hours together by phone. What is your Mentor like in person? Don’t you want to put a face to a voice? If you are a Mentor, imagine sharing lunch with the Svaroopis that you have coached into full-fledged teachers!
After seeing photos of India, get a new photo of You! As a Svaroopa® yoga teacher, you should have a new “head shot” every year. This year’s conference makes that easy with a booth featuring a professional photographer. Ladies, pack a scarf in your favorite color! Gentlemen, don’t forget your favorite teaching shirt! Then sign up “attendants” to fix your hair and to converse with you during your photo shoot. Swami Nirmalananda says she always does this to ensure photos with a natural, spontaneous quality.
Yoga is all about you. This conference is all about you, and the ways in which your yoga organization serves you. It’s all about the choices you make in deepening your experience of yoga, and of your Self. All the choices lead you back to You. Shiva is always having fun being You. Have fun!
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