Jules Febre was born and raised in a section of New York City known as the Lower East Side. At the age of 13, Jules spent three months in India; two of which were spent in Mysore studying Ashtanga Yoga with Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois. During that time he was invited to share satsang with Swami Nirmalananda and Shyam Das, two radical yogis that have each contributed greatly to the progression of yoga in the West. At the age of 16 Jules began working at the Jivamukti Yoga School helping to clean, and is now considered one of the leading teachers of the Jivamukti Yoga method, teaching the method world wide as well as facilitating at the very highly regarded teacher training programs.
Jules travels and teaches for a major part of each year, including Europe, Australia, Asia, and more. His classes offer a wide range and depth of understanding of Yoga Asana as well as Meditation, Chanting, and Yoga Philosophy.
Breathwork is an active meditation practice that uses a repetitive breath pattern to drop into an altered state. A powerful self-healing practice, breathwork can help you shift out of old patterns, confront limiting beliefs, and move stuck emotions. Regular practice allows you to experience more clarity, bliss, and presence.
George Ramsay is a certified breathwork facilitator who has worked with over 500 clients and companies. He’s been invited into law firms, tech companies, nonprofits, and schools who want to integrate coaching, enneagram, and breathwork to support cultural transformation and well-being. With a background in education, George creates a comfortable environment where everyone feels fully informed of the practice. As a result, everyone gets something in return. He is known for bringing harmony and ease in the midst of big transformation. George currently lives in Asheville, NC.
Reconnect Sessions with Primavera include different practices such as meditation, visualization, breathwork, relaxation and a guided journey through sound.
During this session you will be laying down while your body will enter a state of pure relaxation, releasing the heaviness created by daily stress and restoring a sense of well-being.
Benefits from this experience may include stress reduction, mental clarity, better sleep, heighten state of consciousness, self-awareness, emotional release and spiritual connection.
It is an opportunity to “Reconnect” to yourself and access a sense of peace, relaxation, clarity and belonging.
10% discount for SOUK ALL-IN Members
Primavera is Meditation and Breathwork teacher with 20+ years of experience and has added Sound Healing to her sessions to enhance the benefits of these practices.
With great joy we welcome our circle to reunite. Sarah and Jarrod are honored to come together to serve cacao and create a nurturing evening of healing and connection.
In this sacred ceremony, we will honor Mother Earth & expand our potential through the medicine of cacao and of sound.
The cacao spirit is a feminine and powerful teacher, who can assist us in:
-releasing old stories
-cleansing negativity
-opening your heart
-connecting to the feminine/ Mother Earth
-increasing creativity
-feeling uplifted
-remembering the divine within you!
With the Cacao Spirit and the healing power of gong and drum, let us receive divine messages and inspiration!
We will sit in a traditional circle and drink ceremonial strength cacao at the beginning of the ceremony.
Please do not eat 2 hours before the ceremony to let the cacao goddess have her full effect.
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”- BKS
Iyengar.
It is well known that the practice of yoga can help one gain a fresh perspective on life. According to BKS Iyengar, Yoga can ‘Touch the life of the practitioner at every level… making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.’ The question is how to explore one’s purpose when on the mat utilizing the only tool we have: the body. In this two part workshop we will look at how to integrate the mind and body for a practice aimed to shake things up and explore.
In Part 1: “The inner workings of Surya Namskar” we will workshop a fundamental practice, familiar to all, The Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar). The precise rhythmic linking of poses in Surya Namaskar are well known for developing mobility and physical power in the body. These dynamic rhythms can give greater access to a sharp mental capacity, a sense of wellness and intelligence.
In Part II: “An approach to Arm Balances” will focus on harnessing that spark of energy from Sun Salutations into the steadiness and strength needed in the arms, shoulder and abdomen, to develop a sensible, exacting and harmonious approach to Arm Balances. This approach expands one’s sense of self, and builds confidence towards a brighter future in learning poses of Handstand ( Adho Mukha Vrksasana) and Firefly Pose (Tittibhasana).
These two, 2-hour workshops are appropriate for practitioners beginner to advanced, and are designed to work together as a series but can also be explored individually.
10% off for All-In Members
The Alchemical Sacrament: A Ritual of Manifestation With Live Music, Meditation & Movement
Alchemy Vibrations invites you to The Alchemical Sacrament, a 3-part evening where music, spirituality and movement intertwine. This is a transformative experience designed to help you remember and reveal the golden essence within.
Psyche: Vision Odyssey with Live Music & Somatic Transformation Techniques.
Embark on a guided visionary journey through the 7 stages of alchemy. This experience unfolds through an opulent sonic tapestry of live vocals, harp, flute, and electronic beats, seamlessly interwoven with spoken visualizations. The integration of Breathwork, EFT, and EMDR techniques fosters profound emotional transformation, evoking a sense of deep remembrance and awakening. This distinctive combination not only enriches the journey but also naturally stimulates the brain’s release of psychoactive compounds like DMT (without taking external substances), leading to deeper understanding and pathways to manifestation.
Gnosis: Alchemical Insights & Integration
We will offer teachings on the classical philosophy of Alchemy as a path to manifesting your dream life. Embark on a transformative journey towards enlightenment and self-mastery by remembering revealing the true golden essence within.
Symposium: Celebration & Communion
Lose yourself in an ecstatic dance experience, with Alchemy Vibrations weaving their original organic house beats with live vocals, harp, and flute. Immerse in the rhythm and energy of the gathering, as the music and movement lead you deeper into a state of unity and transcendence, symbolizing the final transformative stage of the alchemical process. This is a space to connect with a like-minded community, fostering a sense of belonging and shared spiritual journey, where each individual’s presence amplifies the collective energy and intention.
About The Presenter:
Alchemy Vibrations (Antonia Cove & Daren Broxmeyer) creates sensorial sacraments. With pulsating electronic beats and soundscapes merging seamlessly with live vocals, harp, flute, and spoken visualizations, listeners are enveloped in an immersive experience encoded with intention. From intimate gatherings to large-scale festivals, each session is a careful orchestration of energy, creating euphoric meditative moments intertwined with danceable cosmic rhythms. Participants find themselves in a dance of harmonizing frequencies, unlocking potent energies, and potential for manifestation. This isn’t just a performance; it’s a journey to transcendence. Their sound is encoded with intention, designed for a cosmic journey, to remember and reveal the golden essence within.
As NYC natives who carry the energy from the city they call home, they travel the world offering rhythm as ritual via the sacrament of sound through their Live Performances, DJ sets, Music Productions, Sound Journeys, and Transformation Workshops.
We invite you to delve into the following links and explore Alchemy Vibrations, our past events, and the unique experiences we offer:
Monthly KIRTAN & Sacred Sanga with Dayal Gauranga and Friends
Workshop Teacher:
Dayal Gauranga
Workshop Location:
12 West 27 St., 2nd Floor New York City
Workshop Date:
Saturday, September 21 2024
Workshop Time (EST):
5pm - 7pm
Workshop Price:
By Donation: $5-$20
**This is a monthly event. Please see below for dates.**
Sanga is a time to come together as a community and connect through deep spiritual principles. We sing in kirtan with a common purpose of uplifting our consciousness via sacred sound and we share wisdom and stories from the yoga tradition that inspire us and give insight how to navigate the challenges and circumstances that inevitably come in life. It doesn’t matter your background or level of experience. All that is required is an open heart and enthusiasm to connect to something beyond the material.
Dayal Gauranga has been on a spiritual journey leading kirtans and sacred sangas for more than 20 years. At 18 years old, he became a monk and dedicated himself to a life of inner study, reflection, and service. One year later he made his first trip to India and has since traveled back numerous times throughout the subcontinent, as well as to countries and communities around the world to learn, discover and share. After 10 years of monastic life, he transitioned out of the monastery, met his wife, got married, and currently lives in Brooklyn with their dog Jiva. He, along with a group of talented friends and yogis, seek to share the gifts they’ve received as a means to spread inspiration and joy around the world.
Offer yourself the gift of this two hour sonic meditation experience to deepen your practice with breathwork, vocal toning and a soundscape developed with a range of overtone-emitting instruments including drum, chimes, antique Tibetan singing bowls, Symphonic gong, and more, created by Sound Meditation facilitator George MacPherson.
This extended, guided sound meditation guides you, as the active participant, on your own journey toward the neutral, equanimous mind; an expansive, spacious state of consciousness. The focus and invitation lays the path of re-establishing harmony, within, and without.
Led by Big Joe Fauria, this 90 minute breathwork journey will focus on activation style breathing techniques to balance and heal. Big Breath is a method that includes ancient pranayama, rhythmic breathing patterns, and curated music to allow your body, mind and spirit to drop into an altered state. Big Joe went from playing in the NFL to now sharing his method with more than 10,000 souls around the world for the last 6 years. This journey will aim to empower you and will be guided intentionally to help you surrender and safely release.
This 4 part class is an ongoing study of the YOGA SUTRAS (one of the main texts of yoga philosophy) with Reverend Jaganath Carrera, author of the highly regarded ‘Inside the Yoga Sutras: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for the Study and Practice of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras’.
The course is for those who are interested in having a spiritual + philosophical viewpoint to help with navigating gracefully the ups & downs of life, along with a more academic or scholarly approach. SOUK SUTRA STUDY can be jumped into at any time even though the text will be presented in chronological order.
All levels are welcome and encouraged.
We would also love to have you livestream as a group from SOUK but advance registration is registration is required.
About Reverend Jaganath Carrera:
Reverend Jaganath Carrera has shared the joy and wisdom of the Yoga Sutras with thousands of students since 1975. A direct disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda, he is the founder and spiritual head of the Yoga Life Society and author of the highly regarded Inside the Yoga Yoga Sutras: A comprehensive Sourcebook for the Study and Practice of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Awaken: Inside Yoga Meditation. He has taught all facets of Yoga since 1975 at universities, prisons, Yoga centers, and interfaith programs. In 1980, under the guidance of Sri Swami Satchidananda, he established the Integral Yoga Ministry and in 2006, the Yoga Life Ministry-ministries that are rooted in the full spectrum of the theories and practices of the major branches of Yoga, and in living a life of selfless service to all.
The Sound Meditation is a transportive sonic journey meditation which starts with a talk about sound, spirituality, and consciousness. It’ll be followed by breathing exercises, toning and vocalization, and guided visualizations to bring the body to a state of attunement to go inward, which will be followed by the sound work with a collection of instruments such as gongs, Himalayan singing bowls, and other various overtone-rich instruments.
The goal is to enable participants to disengage their undesirable habitual patterns and to empower positive cognitive change.
SOUND + BREATH EXPERIENCE with George MacPherson & Joseph Fauria
Led by George MacPherson and Joe Fauria, this 2-hour breath and sound workshop will offer guests a deeply transformative experience that harnesses the potency of active participation; the innate power of our own breath, and the potential within a heightened awareness of sound available in deep listening.
This experience brings together two modalities of breathwork and sound meditation; which flow together to help us connect with what is real, create space and observe what arises, listen to what our body is telling us when we finally allow ourselves to surrender, still our minds and feel into the present moment.
Big Joe will expertly lead you through breathwork transitions, using a range of curated, rhythmic breath patterns for you to safely release, and allow your body to drop into an altered state. From here, a soundscape created by George, working with various over tone emitting instruments such as symphonic gong, chimes, Himalayan bowls and more – becomes your guide to your inner journey of self reflection, potent contemplation and experiencing the unstruck sound within – Anahata.
We will close with an opportunity to share and hold space for each other in this co-created container.
Get smarter in your practice and stronger in your shoulders with physical therapist and LYT yoga founder, Lara Heimann! Did you know that our shoulders are the most mobile joints in our body? The shoulder complex is not merely a single ball and socket joint but an intricate system of joints and connective tissue that allow us to have full range of motion.
The head of the shoulder is highly mobile and often the area where we can feel compression, pain, or discomfort while the shoulder blades/scapulae serve as anchors for the shoulders, keeping our shoulders pain-free and durable. The scapulae need to move well for shoulder function but the surrounding muscles are also the key stabilizers for shoulder health, especially when the upper body is weight-bearing.
Get ready for creative moves and some sweaty energizing sequences to set the scapulae up for success and keep our shoulder movement sustainable!
15% discount for SOUK ALL-IN Members
ABOUT LARA:
Lara is a practicing physical therapist and yoga teacher for 28 years, Lara received both her undergraduate and graduate education from Duke University and as a licensed physical therapist, continued her studies with a Post Grad specialization in Neurodevelopmental Training with Recovering Function Organization through Stanford University. Combining her educational background in physiological studies and her passion for movement, Lara completed her 200-hour teacher training.
In the years to follow, Lara began to define the LYT Yoga Method, combining physiology, kinesiology, neurology, and functional movement patterns to yield a more cohesive movement philosophy. In 2011 Lara opened the first official LYT Yoga Studio, Yoga Stream, in Princeton NJ, and began to share her teachings through an online platform, the LYT daily.
www.lytyoga.com
IG @lara.heimann
*Not valid for livestream, Frequency Breathwork, workshops, or special classes/events
** To be purchased in person. No refunds or price adjustments for prior purchases.
*** Valid only for NY-NJ residents
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