Join us on Facebook Live Saturday April 2nd, 12 pm EST / 6 pm CET for a conversation to celebrate ShyamDas.

A spiritual conversation to celebrate ShyamDas’ life between two friends Adam Bauer & Hari Mulukutla, CEO of Jivamukti Yoga Global.

An intimate look into his life and spiritual practice. A lifetime of Bhakti and Bhav.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Śaraṇaṃ Mama

Sri Krishna, the beautiful attractor, is my refuge

Mantra of the refuge, brought to Jivamukti and Sharon Gannon’s life by ShyamDas.

Learn more about ShyamDas

• ShyamDas Foundation

• ShyamDas Books

After the conversation please join us on the Kirtan Concert with Adam Bauer, Visvambhar Sheth and Petros Haffenrichter

“The Heart of Global Peace” a 2-Day collective consciousness Online Summit is brings together a historic number of luminaries – Influential Yoga Teachers, Artists and Global Peace Activists – to Support UNHCR Fundraising for Ukraine and Shift the Collective Consciousness in Favor of Alternative Peace-building

OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT

This peace-promoting virtual event will be live-streamed
through the Jivamukti and AZAHAR Foundation’s social media accounts:
starting March 26th at 4am EST | 9am CET
and will end on March 27th at 5pm EST | 10pm CET.

AZAHAR Foundation and JIVAMUKTI Yoga® have organized a virtual event that will address how to use yogic values and practices for persons who are finding themselves directly impacted by the current conflict in Ukraine and how to support them, while skillfully carving paths for the voices of wisdom and compassion to be heard.

The summit’s offerings will include spiritual framing, panel conversations, conscious talks, yoga sessions, guided meditation classes, kirtan & music, forums, among others to engage its global audience and provide resources to frame the current contentious context into the personal and global quest for peace.

YOGIC ACTIVISM FOR PEACE-BUILDING

Faced with an onslaught of information about overwhelming arsenals of weapons, propaganda and merciless acts of violence, it is easy to become paralyzed as individuals. Thus, The Heart of Global Peace addresses the need to shift the conversation to one that is positively purposeful.

A series of carefully curated events will tackle the current contentious context in the world and propose alternative perspectives, conversations and practices that connect with our collective consciousness and promote global peace. Over the last decade, the yoga community has become increasingly global, especially so during COVID, where technology has allowed practitioners to maintain precious contacts with the yoga system and within the global community.

DONATIONS

Participants are invited to make monetary donations through The Heart of Global Peace UNHCR Fundraising Page

*The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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Schedule

TEACHERS, ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS

Join us on Facebook Live Saturday March 5th, 11 am EST / 5 pm CET for a discussion on the relationships between Humans and Animals.

The panelists are Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka and Jason McNamara in conversation with Hari Mulukutla, CEO of Jivamukti Yoga Global.

YS II.46 sthira-sukham āsanam 

The connection to the earth should be steady and joyful. 

If we are to survive as a species, we must make the transition from a culture based on slavery, exploitation, violence, and death to a way of life based on kindness, peace, harmony, and wholeness. 

Sharon Gannon, Yoga & Veganism

Support our panelists organizations

• To make a donation on Dr. Gladys’ amazing organization Conservation Through Public Health click here

• To buy coffee to help the Gorillas click on USA link / Global link

• To buy Jay Mar delicious vegan book click here

In the material world of constant change, there are inner forms, outer forms, and spirit that underlies it all. Join us on Facebook Live Friday May 28, 9:30 am EST / 3:30 pm CET for a discussion of gender explored through the lens of the Yogic and Hindu mythological traditions, which tend to speak of fluidity rather than something fixed and fast. The panelists are Devdutt Pattanaik, prolific Indian author and mythologist, Amruta Patil, India's first female graphic novelist, and Hari Mulukutla, CEO of Jivamukti Yoga Global, moderated by Katherine Phipps of Jivamukti Global.

Om purnam adah purnam idam purnat purnam udachyate purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavashishyate

That is whole. This is whole. From the whole the whole becomes manifest. From the whole when the whole is negated, what remains is again the whole. 

—From Yajur Veda and the Isha Upanishad 

Dont miss this special conversation with Sharon Gannon, Kip Andersen, producer of (Seaspiracy), and Hari Mulukutla

Thursday April 22, 2021 at 2 PM EST

Many of you know that Jivamukti’s Birthday is Earth Day, so how perfect that we are holding our next panel on Environmental Consciousness with the producer of NETFLIX’s new film, Seaspiracy, (He’s also a Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher!), along with Jivamukti founder Sharon Gannon, and Hari Mulukutla, CEO of Jivamukti Yoga.

About Kip Andersen

Kip Andersen, environmental awakening came as a result of An Inconvenient Truth. After seeing the film, he began to recycle religiously, turn off lights constantly, shower infrequently, and ride a bike instead of driving. Andersen believed he was doing everything he could to help the planet by following the guidelines of national and international environmental organizations, but his life took a different direction when he found out animal agriculture is the leading cause of environmental destruction. He is the founder of AUM Films and Media, a 501c3 non-profit focused on creating films and media that promote thrivability, compassion, and harmony for all life. He co-produced the films. COWSPIRACY: THE SUSTAINABILITY SECRET and WHAT THE HEALTH. And with NETFLIX, he has just produced and released the 2021 documentary SEASPIRACY.

Join us on Facebook Live 1pm EST / 6 pm CET for a free discussion of the critical question of Veganism. Founder of PETA Ingrid Newkird joins Founder of Jivamukti Yoga Sharon Gannon and CEO of Jivamukti Yoga Hari Mulukutla to discuss what has been done, what there is still yet to do, and why Veganism in the first place.

If we are to survive as a species, we must make the transition from a culture based on slavery, exploitation, violence, and death to a way of life based on kindness, peace, harmony, and wholeness. 

Sharon Gannon, Yoga & Veganism

Our panelists for this upcoming panel of discussion are Marta Bengoa, who is a well-known PhD Economist based in New York, Moritz Ulrich owner of the Jivamukti Yoga Centre - Peace Yoga Berlin, Germany and Olga Oskorbina Founder of the Jivamukti Yoga Barcelona, Spain.This Panel will be moderated by Jivamukti Yoga Global CEO, Hari Mulukutla and will be offered on January 29th at 9am PST/ 12pm EST/6pm CET. Our topic of discussion is Inclusive Leadership , where we will be discussing what environment supports team members to feel welcomed and included at their workplace and the role of proper leadership to support this atmosphere. We would like to highlight the awareness, sensitivity, and behaviors that encourage everyone to feel that their presence and contribution are valued. 

Please read below the biographies of our panel participants:

Dr. Marta Bengoa is an economist at the Colin Powell School, a Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is also a Professor at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI) at the University of Johannesburg. She serves as a Senior Fellow at CIRANO data lab in Montreal and in the Institute of International Economics at University Jaume I (Spain). Currently, she is the Executive Vice-President of the International Trade and Finance Association in the U.S. Most of her research is ininternational economics, trade, growth and innovation. For more details see www.martabengoa.com

Moritz Ulrich has been a yoga teacher for over 15 years including being a part of the international Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Trainings as a mentor, facilitator, sanskrit and anatomy teacher. Being the co - director and owner of the Jivamukti Yoga Centre - Peace Yoga Berlin together with his husband Niklas and having worked for multiple yoga schools teaching thousands of classes he has lots of personal experience when it comes to leadership concepts from different perspectives. 

Olga Oskorbina is the founder and director of Jivamukti Yoga Barcelona. With a strong background in meditation her ability to conduct the energetic environment of a yoga class is unique and profound. She has a clear and concise method of teaching, allowing space for introversion in the practice. With a strong interest in all elements of yoga she continues to study and practice with great enthusiasm. Weaving these attributes together she presents students with a very comprehensive and nourishing experience of Jivamukti Yoga in Barcelona and globally participating as a facilitator and teacher at Jivamukti global. She has a unique leadership approach that led her studio to become one of the most successful yoga studios in Barcelona embracing an international experience in the soul of downtown.

Our first panel of discussion, The Roots of Social & Cultural Unrest, starts with a diverse panelists group providing different angles on this topic. We believe that diversity leads to a plethora of benefits from an internal and external perspective. Please read a brief biography of the panelists participating in the first Charter for Change Panel, moderated by Jivamukti Yoga Global CEO, Hari Mulukutla.

Lucy Koechlin is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research and teaching focuses on governance, political struggles, democratic spaces and urban politics in Africa. Lucy also has long-standing expertise as a consultant on anti-corruption and accountability systems across the world. Further engagements relate to her core interests, mainly in the field of sustainability and development. Lucy is also co-founder of GloCo.ch, an initiative to address global challenges through global direct democracy. 

Yogeswari has been a Jivamukti Yoga teacher for the past 20 years, teaching at the New York Center and around the world. Having had the privilege to learn closely from Sharon Gannon and David Life, she is advanced certified and has been a facilitator of Jivamukti teacher trainings since 2007. As a former dancer/ choreographer, she is known for her seamless sequencing and thought-provoking teachings that often reflect current socio-political issues within the context of yogic teachings. She is the president and founder of AZAHAR Foundation, whose mission is to promote a peace culture through yoga and the arts. Its pilot project is in Cambodia, with a smaller project in Rwanda.

Maria Macaya: María Macaya is an 800hour advanced certified Jivamukti teacher based in Barcelona. María is also founder and President of Rādika, a non profit organization dedicated to mental and emotional well being with a focus on trauma, reduction of mental health stigma, and systemic oppression awareness.

Rama Devi: Raman completed her first Hatha teacher training in Rishikesh in 2014. This is where her love for philosophy and Bhakti grew and being by the river Ganga and attending Arti and hearing the traditional prayers was a feeling that cannot be explained. This led Raman who is an advanced certified Jivamukti teacher completed her training at the Govardhan Eco Village, Maharashtra in India with Sharon Gannon . It’s within these teachings of the scriptures that inspires Raman to keep the teachings alive in everyday life. The teachings are here to remind us that everything is within us not outside of us and how we as individuals and as a collective make changes in the modern world we live in today.

Andrea Kwiatkowski: Andrea is an Advanced Jivamukti teacher and Mentor in the Teacher training program. She trained in 2005 in New York and has been spreading the teachings  of Jivamukti yoga in the UK ever since . She lives and works in Cambridge and set up Santoshayoga donating to and raising awareness of animal charities and organisations that support local and environmental issues through fundraising , events and workshops. 

Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Pol Pot, who radically pushed Cambodia towards communism. It resulted in the deaths of 2 million people from 1975-1979. Rwandan genocide was the mass slaughter of Tutsi, as well as Twa and moderate Hutu, carried out between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan civil war estimated around 500,000 to 600,000 Tutsi deaths.

Our second Charter For Change panel of discussion will be led on the 9th December which is the International Genocide day with Yogeswari and her Azahar Foundation. Peace camp it’s a platform where organizations, artists and beneficiares can meet and share experiences, methodologies and best practices to build peace. Azahar foundation offers many programs at Peace Camp using yoga, mediation, the arts and techniques of non-violent communication, with the goal of improving social issues and not repeating the cycles of violence of past generations.

In this panel of discussion dedicated to genocide the members of the Azahar foundation locals from Cambodia and Rwanda will be participating sharing their experiences with different themes related to peace building, volunteerism, environmental issues, women’s empowerment and inner peace by using the forms of art & yoga that helped them to improve their well-being. Society as a whole helps to elicit goodness inside out. Please read a brief biography of the panelists participating in the second Charter for Change Panel, led and moderated by the founder of AZAHAR Foundation and senior advanced Jivamukti Teacher Yogeswari.

DARA HUOT

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Since 2012, Dara has been the CEO of Phare Circus, a project with disadvantaged youth that he has developed into one of the most successful social enterprises in Cambodia. Growing up, he still was impacted by the last years of the war. He later had the privilege to attend Phare Ponlieu Selpak, a school for the arts that emerged from the healing effects of art therapy on genocide survivors. He joined the first group of performing artists doing awareness tours to educate rural Cambodian populations on landmines, malaria, dengue fever and other public health and safety issues. He became a board member of AZAHAR Cambodia in the spring of 2020.

EM VUN

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Em grew up in rural area Cambodia. She followed the path of many women in Cambodia, working in a garment factory for five years. During this very difficult period, she found time to volunteer for Women’s Agenda for Change, where she began to know activism. In 2017, she became the coordinator for Messenger Band, a garment worker’s music ensemble that quickly became a leader in movements for social justice and gender equality. Em joined AZAHAR Cambodia in 2017 and became a 300-hour certified Jivamukti teacher in 2019.

JEANINE MUNYESHULI

Kigali, Rwanda

Jeanine was born to Rwandan parents in exile. In 1994, she landed in Geneva, Switzerland, to study, leaving behind a million of her people swept away by the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Soon after, she was working in the financial sector. The first time she stepped into a yoga studio, there was an immediate sense of home and childlike happiness. When she met Sharon Gannon (and David Life), she knew she had found the teacher(s) she had been looking for. Jeanine completed her 300-hour Jivamukti Teacher Training in 2012 and has been a board member of AZAHAR Foundation for several years, initiating AZAHAR’s project in Rwanda.

ABDOUL MUJYAMBERE

Abdoul Mujyambere is a Rwandan visual and performing artist and yoga teacher based in Kigali. He discovered contemporary dance in university and has since trained in various movement forms and acting all over Africa and in the US, most importantly at the Ecole des Sables in Senegal. As a visual artist, Abdoul focuses on identity, beauty and human social interaction among others. He is the recipient of several grants and awards. He is certified to teach yoga by Africa Yoga Project in Nairobi and teaches yoga infused with dance for AZAHAR in Rwanda.

YOGESWARI

has been a Jivamukti Yoga teacher for the past 20 years, teaching at the New York Center and around the world. Having had the privilege to learn closely from Sharon Gannon and David Life, she is advanced certified and has been a facilitator of Jivamukti teacher trainings since 2007. As a former dancer/ choreographer, she is known for her seamless sequencing and thought-provoking teachings that often reflect current socio-political issues within the context of yogic teachings. She is the president and founder of AZAHAR Foundation, whose mission is to promote a peace culture through yoga and the arts. Its pilot project is in Cambodia, with a smaller project in Rwanda.