Events!

Amma Satsang

MONTHLY SATSANG: The 1st Sunday of EVERY MONTH at 5:30pm *oh hold until the coast is clear*
FREE and Priceless.

Satsang is a Sanskrit word meaning a close association or companionship with a Self-Realized Soul. It can also refer to discussion or hearing of spiritual truths expressed by Self-Realized Masters. In the scorching heat of worldliness, being in the presence of a Master or a Master’s teachings is like a cool breeze in the shade of a huge tree. Although Amma is the inspiration for this particular gathering, devotees of all traditions are welcome.

Please join us as we gather with some of Amma’s longtime devotees for an inspiring evening of prayer, puja (sacred ceremony) and song. We often begin the evening with a short video of Amma or her teachings, followed by a little song (bhajans/kirtan), meditation, and Aarati. In Sanskrit, the word arti – written as aarati – is composed of the prefix aa, meaning complete, and rati, meaning love. Aarti is thus an expression of one’s complete and unflinching love towards the Divine. It is sung and performed with a deep sense of reverence, adoration, and meditative awareness.

Amma (Mother) has physically hugged more than 34 million people from all parts of the world. Her tireless spirit of dedication to uplifting others over the past 38 years has inspired a vast network of charitable activities through which people are discovering the beauty and sense of peace that comes from selflessly serving others. We hope that you will join us in immersing ourSelves in the nectar of devotion and bringing boundless love to life here in Athens!

(It is customary to bring an offering to the symbolic feet of the Master…whether that be Amma or to whomever you bow, and offerings often include incense, flowers, fruit…whatever you would offer the Divine. Please know that this is not a requirement, just a tradition.)

For more information, please see the organization’s website at www.amma.org or call Meghan Madhavi Burke at (706) 613.1143

Community/Open Meditation

EVERY MONDAY 4-4:45pm in Sangha Yoga Studio

Uma Rose and the Healing Arts Centre are bringing the community this donation based opportunity because we believe that the world feels like a better place when one meditates. Not only are we emitting peaceful vibes when we meditate but by being still and silent we are also bringing balance to a busy, chaotic world. And with a Ph. D in Meditation, Uma can give you a long list of the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of meditation!

This weekly Community Meditation is designed to help guide us into stillness and silence and is accessible to all levels-a welcoming experience for beginners and seasoned meditators! We will converse about Mindfulness as well as exploring silence. Don’t be intimidated, we will not be meditating for 45 minutes (unless you want to).
Uma Rose, Ph.D, has been teaching meditation for over 48 years. Uma was personally trained by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and continued her training in India under the guidance of Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).
You can enjoy a “sit” with Uma on Sangha’s Youtube channel anytime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95R8bHffMH0&t=14s

LIVE MUSIC Ecstatic Dance!

Live Music Ecstatic Dance Experience with vocalist, beatboxer & live-looper, Cornflower is an all-improvised, all-vocal, live-looped, soul-activating Live Music Ecstatic Dance. With special guest facilitator ANGELA BURGESS!

🎟️ Admission $25 (ages 13 and up)
PLEASE PRE-RESERVE/ PRE-PAY:
sangha@healingartscentre.net
(706) 613-1143
https://www.venmo.com/u/SanghaYogaStudio

Doors @ 6:30pm/ Event @ 7:00pm

The Evening will include:

• Yoga for Ecstatic Dance w/ Angela Burgess
• Opening Circle
• Ecstatic Dance w/ Cornflower
• Closing Circle

→ YOGA for Ecstatic Dance with Angela Burgess

Generate presence, fluidity, and warmth in this 30-minute yoga practice to prepare for the dance. Open the gateways of illumination & insight through elemental patterns of movement and breath. This yoga flow primes the body for a harmonious & ecstatic dance practice.

→LIVE MUSIC ECSTATIC DANCE with Cornflower

Cornflower, the genre-bending vocalist, live-looper, beatboxer, and sound alchemist creates a series of all-vocal sonic landscapes and songs that build from stillness, then grow and expand and elevate into an ecstatic dance of music and movement medicine and then weave the music back to stillness completing with a sound meditation that supports reflection, connection, presence, and embodiment.

Cornflower has brought his Living Music Dance Medicine Experience to Ecstatic Dance communities across the United States… and soon to a the HEALING ARTS CENTRE!

“This man’s music and heart will BLOW YOUR MIND!!! Do yourself a favor and put some time aside and breathe this beautiful music in.” — Jeff Pevar – Guitarist, Instrumentalist & Producer (David Crosby, Ray Charles Orchestra)

“Cornflower is a truly divine, loving soul whose attunement to his audience turns the ordinary into an alchemical celebration of open hearts moving into a lyrical expression of jumping feet, flowing arms, and true “perma-grins” of bliss. His amazing vocal talents plus a loving passion for harmonious, healing vibrations come through his deep bass, bouncing rhythms, and very soulful melodies, singing beautiful words. I’m still in awe of the variety of both mystical and “real” sounds that resonate from Cornflower’s mouth, and in awe of the journey he opened for us. GIFT YOURSELF this LIVING opportunity!” — Lisa Diane, (HeartBeat Ecstatic Dance, Mt Shasta, CA)

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→ Standard Ecstatic Dance Guidelines apply (and then some):

1. Ecstatic Dance is freeform movement—without verbal guidance—to dance in whatever ways feel good to you. Dancing solo or with partners is equally welcome (consensual dancing only.)
2. Ecstatic Dance seeks to build community connection in many ways, including circling together at the opening, mid-dance, and/or closing of dance, however, please no hanging out or smoking (of anything) in the parking lots.
3. No colognes or perfumes, but please wear clean clothes and bless us with good personal hygiene (you are worthy!)
4. No children or pets
5. Please participate as a dancer – not as a performer or spectator.
6. Please arrive on time, participate in the opening circle, and stay for the closing circle.
7. Please no conversations on the dance floor. If you want to talk with someone go outside to the lobby or outdoors.
8. Ecstatic Dance is held to support a safe, healthy, clear-minded space (No alcohol or drugs; everyone is expected to move with awareness & care & respect; no scents; no shoes except as needed for medical reasons)
9. Please remove shoes when entering (or change into your special dance shoes)
10. Ecstatic Dance is held free of social distractions (no conversations, no cell phones, no photography, no videos)
11. You must honor your own boundaries and the boundaries of others at all times. Always get consent when connecting.
12. Please leave your clothes on at all times.

// ABOUT CORNFLOWER //
Cornflower’s sound emerges from the moment connecting you to your Soul. His voice calls us deeper into Presence utilizing modern mantra-like lyrics upon a landscape of vocal loops, he builds layers and dimensions of harmony and groove like a sonic tapestry into an anthemic chant to set your body ablaze in movement and prayer.

With influences ranging from Phish to Michael Jackson and Al Jarreau to Björk, Cornflower’s music is a mix of experimental vocal soul, world-funk, jam & electronica layered over a delicate balance of structure and improvisation.

Cornflower has shared stages with the likes of Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten, Jeff Pevar, Ayla Nereo, Mike Love, DJ Drez, Indubious, Desert Dwellers, The Everyone Orchestra, Zach Gill of ALO, Dubconscious, Signal Path, LYNX, Jamie Janover, Jai-Jagdeesh, Fanna-Fi-Allah, Jaime Janover, Alcyon Massive, Shamans Dream, EntropyFunk, Scott Huckabay, Sol Seed, Yoga with Janet Stone, scientist and author Nassim Haramein, and best-selling authors Gary Zukav, Linda Francis, Neale Donald Walsch, Gregg Braden, James Twyman, and Dr. Joe Dispenza.

After his debut album “Journey Into Sound” in 2009, his newest release “Explorations, Vol. 1”, “You Are The Medicine feat. Indubious” & “Monks on Main Street” are his most potent material to date. ⨳

https://www.cornflowermusic.com/

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Saturday, February 18th

Restorative YOGA with Live Sitar Music followed by a Hindustani Indian Classical Music CONCERT

Restorative YOGA with Live Sitar Music from 5:30-6:30pm.

Hindustani Indian Classical Music CONCERT from 7-8pm.

YOGA, SITAR, and LOVE!

Suggested donation: $20 per event, or $35 for both. There will be appetizers and wine bar for the concert (snacks for those doing both events).

Restorative YOGA Flow to live Classical Hindustani Sitar music: All are invited to Relax and Rejuvenate to the soothing sounds of a live sitar performance integrating gentle flow yoga. No yoga experience necessary.

Join Lynn and Jimmy Wolling of STRING of the HEART for a multiple sensory experience with the sounds of a meditative, groovy sitar. The live music shall infuse a gentle flow yoga practice, embodying stationary and moving sound waves and yoga postures.

We will begin with restorative movements to the soothing sounds of melodic improvisations to set the mood. Plucking seven strings with a plectrum vibrates and resonates this unique sound. The thirteen sympathetic strings vibrate along with the plucked strings creating this distinctive harmonious sound that pulls at the strings of your heart. As the tempo increases we will move into a gentle flow integrating slower paced movements.

We will focus on alignment, balance, strength and flexibility for the physical body. The mind will focus on spatial orientation stimulating the hippocampus a/k/a the map reader of the brain. Good spatial orientation includes visual, auditory and vestibular sensory inputs to balance mind, body and spirit. Sitar sounds are noted for evoking diverse emotional responses that have been scientifically confirmed to promote healing and relax your mind, body and soul. The sitar’s unique sound and yoga practice are filled with elements of nature, relaxing and strengthening postures, pranayama, meditation and sounds that stir and calm the soul.

Looking for that extra shot of equilibrium? Come see, hear and feel in a new dimension! The yoga class will be followed by: Hindustani Indian Classical Music CONCERT from 7-8pm: Sitar and Tabla for a true journey into the soul!

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Sunday, February 12th

Self Love Celebration with Lexa Tavernier

SOUND BATH. CACAO CEREMONY. YOGA. REIKI INFUSED GUIDED MEDITATION. GEMSTONES…and more, with Lexa.

Join us as we make our Hearts the guests of honor and gather in ceremony to share cacao, sound, and energy to create a safe container for deep nurturing of the heart, mind, body and soul.

PLEASE RSVP by 2/10 so we can have all that we need for you.
(706) 613-1143 OR sangha@healingartscentre.net OR Fb message. $35-55 sliding scale of generosity, and you can pay afterward. public facebook link

The sounds produced by Crystal Tones alchemy singing bowls are not just heard by the ear, you feel them in your body, with certain tones affecting your energy centers for activation, creativity, healing, balancing & meditation. Cacao is a gentle yet powerful plant medicine that invites us to become more fully embodied as it teaches us how to let go of the ways we are holding ourself back. When used in a ceremonial setting, the benefits are exponential. Gentle yoga stretching will assist us in integrating our experience throughout this self-lovefest.

DETAILS:
1 HR Chrystal Alchemy Sound Bath-
The sound waves from the bowls shift the brain wave states into Alpha, Theta and Delta waves where healing, meditation relaxation, deep rest and renewal take place. The healing frequencies from the bowls help to balance the hemispheres of the brain which leads to feelings of deep inner peace. In addition to these benefits, sound healing also helps to relieve chronic pain, migraines, reduce stress and anxiety, improve quality of sleep and enhance overall feelings of health, well-being and happiness.When the body’s messenger system becomes overworked, stress levels rise. Prolonged elevated stress hormone levels can affect bodily function and ultimately lead to disease and illness if left unchecked. Restore balance in your body by allowing the healing sound vibrations to shift your brain wave states and create space for enhanced immune function, mental clarity and emotional resilience. Allow yourself the time and space to engage in self-care while you lay back, relax and soothe your mind, body and soul.

Cacao Ceremony-
Within the container of ceremony you will:
• Learn a bit of background info about cacao
• Connect with cacao and the essence of the plant medicine through meditation.
• Be given a mug of cacao to sip throughout our time together
• Integrate breath work, guided meditation, meditative journaling and group sharing (if you feel called). Cacao not only offers medicine and healing at the spiritual and energetic level but it also offers great physical benefit as well. Carrying impressive amounts of antioxidants, nutrients and neurochemicals that promote bliss, restoration and self remembrance. Integrating this plant medicine into a weekly routine, amplifies its benefits and allows for the continual unfolding and anchoring of the healing properties.
Cacao facilitates:
-Heightened somatic awareness
-Access to our body’s wisdom
-Emotional release and processing
-Integration of lessons and teachings
-An activation of remembering and access to self- knowledge
-Opens and clears creative and energetic channels.

Facilitator Lexa Tavernier is a brain cancer survivor who is inspired by her own healing and uses that as motivation to help others heal. She is a passionate, nurturing soul who specializes in Holistic stress reduction through Energy Healing, Yoga, Mediation, Herbalism, Sound Healing, Somatic Trauma Work and the art of gemstone resonance. She has a compassionate love for all of humanity and has an insatiable drive to share practices that help people heal their nervous system.

Thursday, Feb. 2nd / 7:30-9pm

Sound Healing w/ Kennedy Oneself

This is a Sound Healing like nothing you’ve ever experienced.

Kennedy weaves vibrations so fluidly people often imagine he has six arms. Participants in this voyage through vibration simply lay down and relax. When we listen with conscious alertness, simply noticing the melodically pulsating conversation of harmonic frequencies, we can experience a deep serenity that lingers long after the last sound. These sonic symphonies are designed to be a foundation for our journey towards greater wellness of spirit.

Come be bathed in the sounds of Didgeridoos, Handpan, Asian Harp (Guzheng), crystal & tibetan singing bowls, Gongs, Flutes (Chinese, Indian, American, Harmony, Drone), Shruti Box, bells, Kalimba, Unity Harp and more.

Limited audience, must pre-reserve: (706) 613-1143 or sangha@healingartscentre.net or
Fb message. $25-$45 sliding scale of generosity.
Listen to the album, music videos & learn more at: www.SoulMedicineVibrations.com

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Friday, Jan. 27th / 7:30-9:30pm / free and priceless

Bhajans (Devotional Singing) with Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya

Please join us for a soulful bhajan evening led by Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya and utilize this time to dive deep within, connect with ourselves, and unburden. This event is FREE and all are welcome.

The evening will consist of:
* Brief guided meditation to center
* Chanting names of the Supreme
* Bhajans (devotional singing)
* Arati and Prayer for World Peace

Br. Rāmānandāmṛta Chaitanya is a monastic disciple of Amma, one of the greatest humanitarians of our time. Br. Ramanandamrita directs Amma’s organizations and its activities in the eastern US and Canada. He travels around the US and Canada conducting satsangs in various cities; delivering talks at Universities; sharing Amma’s message of selfless service and love; and travels with Amma around the world. He has written and composed many devotional songs (bhajans) and his melodious voice can often be heard alongside Amma’s during many bhajans. One can feel the divine grace flow through his soulful singing.

www.amma.org

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Friday, Jan. 6th / 7:30-9pm

Mantra Music New Year Celebration!

Open your heart and feel the bliss of 2023! Live Mantra Music of the Bhakti and Nāda “sound” Yoga tradition facilitated by kirtaniyas Radha Rose & Josh Klein. Bija, “seed sound” mantras, will be chanted in unison as a vocal toning meditation with a variety of instruments – including crystal singing bowls and Shruti drone – to invoke the deep vibrational sound potencies of divine mantras to Ganesha, Lakshmi, Shiva, Radha-Krishna, Buddhist Green Tara & more. This musical journey will steadily evolve into an ecstatic kirtan “call-and-response” experience that is guaranteed to elevate your spirit into a blissed-out state of being, feeling a lasting fullness from within.

Please RSVP by pre-paying $20-30 (sliding scale) via Venmo or Cashapp @theradharose. Cash payment can also be made after the event according to your level of post-shanti satisfaction! Tulsi tea and props will be provided. You will also receive a mantra guide sheet to take home with you as a gift. Happy New Year!

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Cacao Ceremony: Dec. 18th/ 5pm

Cacao is a gentle yet powerful plant medicine that invites us to become more fully embodied as it teaches us how to let go of the ways we are holding ourself back. When used in a ceremonial setting, the benefits are exponential.

Within the container of ceremony you will:
• Learn a bit of background info about cacao
• Connect with cacao and the essence of the plant medicine through meditation.
• Be given a mug of cacao to sip throughout our time together
• Integrate breath work, guided meditation, meditative journaling and group sharing (if you feel called)

Cacao not only offers medicine and healing at the spiritual and energetic level. But, it also offers great physical benefit as well. Carrying impressive amounts of antioxidants, nutrients and neurochemicals that promote bliss, restoration and self remembrance. Integrating this plant medicine into a weekly routine, amplifies its benefits and allows for the continual unfolding and anchoring of the healing properties.
Cacao facilitates:
-Heightened somatic awareness
-Access to our body’s wisdom
-Emotional release and processing
Integration of lessons and teachings
-An activation of remembering and access to self- knowledge
-Opens and clears creative and energetic channels

Join us in at solstice season as we gather in ceremony to share cacao and create a safe container for deep healing of the heart, mind, body and soul. I look forward to sharing this space with you!

Facilitator Lexa Tavernier is a brain cancer survivor who is inspired by her own healing and uses that as motivation to help others heal. She is a passionate, nurturing soul who specializes in Holistic stress reduction through Energy Healing, Yoga, Mediation, Herbalism, Sound Healing, Somatic Trauma Work and the art of gemstone resonance. She has a compassionate love for all of humanity and has an insatiable drive to share practices that help people heal their nervous system.

Please pre-reserve so we can have cacao prepared for you:
(706)613-1143
sangha@healingartscentre.net
or Fb message

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Yoga and Live Mantra Music

EMBODIED BLISS! Friday, December 2nd/ 5:30-7:30pm
Join us for slow flow and restorative yoga with live mantra music. Open to a deeper experience of your grounded, blissful nature!

Gina Minyard and Gershone Hendelberg have more than four decades of practice, teaching, and experience between them in yogic arts and bhakti bliss. Together, they commit their body, mind, heart, breath, and voice in service to the Most High and the majesty of its manifest expressions. In their offerings of yoga, music, meditation, kirtan, and satsang, they invite others into the grounding, elevating, and ever-expanding process of tuning their own divine instruments, and to come together in transformational alchemy, joyful communion, sacred embodiment, and ecstatic celebration.

Cost: Sliding scale $22-44
Please pre-reserve, space is limited, yet we welcome you to pay after class so that your offering has the opportunity to reflect your experience.
Fb message (Healing Arts Centre) or sangha@healingartscentre.net or
share your voice (706)613-1143.
We look forward to shining with you!

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FREE INTRO to BELLYDANCE: Wed, Sept. 28th!

BEGINNERS BELLYDANCE with Sonya Finlay!
This class with Sonya is a great first step into the world of bellydance!
We will focus on isolations and muscular control, which is the foundation for any dance stylization. Suitable for all fitness levels, this class is for anyone who wants to move and have fun while learning a new movement practice. See you on the dance floor…let’s shimmy!

Wednesdays 6-7pm
FREE INTRO Sept. 28th! 6 week course 10/5-11/9 ($84) Please pre-register: sangha@healingartscentre.net -or- (706) 613-1143

Instructor: Sonya Finlay first came to love Bellydance after taking a class at Sangha in the spring of 2010.  Immediately smitten, she began her journey by taking classes and workshops over the next 12 years.  She is a member of the troupes Haraka Thar, Intisam, and the Rak Sat.  All making their home at Sangha.  She has studied under the tutelage of Mahsati and Samira, and also been lucky enough to attend workshops with some of the greatest dancers of today.  She is happy to be teaching and sharing her knowledge and excitement about Belly Dance with new students in the newly created troupe Haya Jamal.

Thursday, Oct. 20th-Sunday, Oct. 23rd

Saturday, August 20th / 3-5pm

Please join facilitators Rosemary Kimble and Emily Salguero for a heart stimulating event with two of the most ancient modailites for healing on the planet, Cacao and Sound. In this ceremony we will each set our own intentions, inviting cacao and sound to co-facilitate in opening our hearts and bringing us to a state of harmony with our souls in order to create the best reality possible for ourselves and our future world.  Saturday, August 20th from 3-5pm. $20 at the door.

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Saturday, March 12th / 10-11:45am

Energy Medicine Yoga

Friday, March 11th / 5:30-6:45pm

MOVEMENT as MEDICINE is a new monthly FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR class in Sangha! Yep, this special event is about moving in ways that make you happy!

Movement as Medicine is an inspirational combination of breath work, yoga, body weight conditioning, and improvisational movement. The intention of this class is to help you align your physical and energetic self for your healthiest you. All fitness levels are welcome! Come as you are, and gently move towards your own functional goals.

Saturday, Oct. 23rd / 2-5pm

Open Air Yoga Studio GARDEN PARTY!

In response to Covid and doing our best to offer the safest possible practice space, Sangha Yoga Studio now has classes on the lawn alongside the Middle Oconee River in Beechwood Hills!

Our GARDEN PARTY will feature an open air exhibit of the latest works by visiting artist Debby Bloom. Raised in Northern California and then living in Alaska for many years, her paintings embrace the warm sensibilities of the beach and also the cold, wild extremes of the very far North. We are so very fortunate that she is coming to share her art and good cheer with us! www.DebbyBloom.com

A book release on the first night of Navratri!

You are invited to the launch of the 2nd edition of

THERE IS A SEASON: AN INTENTIONAL APPROACH TO SUSTENANCE

Editors Suzanne Keifer & Rita Mathew

Thursday, October 7th from 6pm – 7pm* (5:30pm Navratri introduction)

Healing Arts Centre, 834 Prince Avenue, Athens GA.

 Program is OUTDOORS, Free and Open to All!

If you are motivated to explore the benefits of being in tune with the rhythms of nature, building community and reaching your true potential, this book offers many ideas. 240 local and international recipes, beautiful artwork by award-winning artists, practical tips, and evocative poetry, it focuses on seasons that are based not just on a calendar, but on cycles of life as sources of nourishment.

In addition to food and festivities, there will be talks on: Environmental Stewardship by Keith Delaplane, MBE, Professor, Walter B. Hill Fellow & Honey Bee Program Director, Paul Matthews, PhD, Associate Director of the University of Georgia Office of Service-Learning (OSL),  Nancy Stangle, Co-Founder, Athens Land Trust,  Virginia Nazarea, PhD, Professor Emerita Department of Anthropology.

The first edition sold out within months of being on the market, and we raised $4500 for educational programs at the Athens Clarke County Extension.

Proceeds from the sale of the 2nd edition will benefit Athens Land Trust, whose “mission is to improve quality of life for all by preserving, protecting, and strengthening the fabric of the community through education and the stewardship of land for purposes of affordable housing, conservation, agriculture, and economic development”.

* From 5:30-6:45pm author Rita Mathew will be giving a little chat introducing Navratri (Nine Nights of Transformation) and the significance of this book launch being on the inauguration evening of Navratri.

Thursday, Sept. 30th

LAUGHTER YOGA REBOOT with Rebecca Shah!

Thursday, Sept. 30th 5:45-6:45pm / OUTDOORS, riverside on our private lawn.

Cost: $16. Location: Beechwood Hills. Exact address will be given when you register.
(If you pre-paid for previous date we can easily transfer payment, or reimburse if necessary.)

We fully express our smiles and laughter with every muscle in our face and want to be able to share that contagious beauty without the obstruction of a mask. So, we will be laughing outdoors alongside the Middle Oconee River. Thanks for your support and we look forward to laughing with you.

Laughter is contagious. What begins as fake laughter for some soon turns into real laughter. The body cannot distinguish the difference between real and simulated laughter. As long as you engage your diaphragm, you will benefit.
Laughter Yoga: reduces stress, promotes cellular renewal, bolsters the immune system, boosts energy, oxygenates the blood, removes carbon dioxide from the lungs and helps concentration and confidence. Laughter is a universal language that can be enjoyed by all ages.

Laughter Yoga was founded by Dr. Madan Kataria of India in 1995. As of 2020, Laughter Yoga can be found in over 110 countries with over 20,000 Laughter Clubs. Research found an array of benefits for mental and physical well being. Laughter Yoga is endorsed by AARP, Cancer Centers of America and the Mayo Clinic.

Rebecca Shah is a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and has been leading workshops in Atlanta to max capacity audiences…we are so lucky to have her introduce Athens to this joyful opportunity!
Curious about Laughter Yoga: laughteryoga.org (official website)

Saturday, April 25th, 2020

Thursday, April 16th

Thursday, Jan. 16th / 5:45-7pm

Friday, Oct. 11th / 7-8:30pm

Saturday, Oct. 12th / 9-11am

Community Drumming Circle & Fundraiser

FRIDAY, JUNE 7th / 5:30-7pm / $ Donations

You are invited to this festive Community Drum Circle in support of Drumming For Success, a motivational youth program created by Dr. Arvin Scott more than 2 decades ago! Drumming for Success makes learning how to drum accessible to under funded children. Benefits in the program include increased ability to focus & concentrate, improved self-esteem, stronger skills in math & science, improved self confidence, expanded creativity, improved problem solving skills in academic & social settings, reduced stress, and other qualities that attribute to well-being & success in life. It is a huge victory for our community.

A selection of Dr. Scott’s signed percussion instruments will raffled off to add to the fun, excitement, and generosity of the event. (Oh, and this gathering will be on Arvin’s birthday…lets celebrate!)

There is no drum circle admission charge. 100% of all donations will directly go towards sponsoring children in the Drumming for Success program. Lets put our hands and hearts together for the children of Athens!

Dr. Arvin Scott is a multi-award winning percussion artist, youth program developer/coordinator, and educator with over three decades of national and international experience. Dr. Scott was on the faculty at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, and was guest faculty at The New England Conservatory before relocating to his present home in Athens, GA. where he has taught at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music since 1991.

AMRITA YOGA WORKSHOP: Tuesday, May 14th / 5:30-8:30pm

The BLISSFUL PRACTICE of MANTRA MEDITATION

Insight Mindfulness Meditation Retreat