WORKSHOPS

Guru Purnima: A Full-Moon Celebration Of Teachers Friday / July 18 / 7:00 pm / Any Love Donation Is Appreciated The full moon day in July (18th) brings the celebration of Guru Purnima, a special time to honor our teachers. "Guru" literally means "remover of darkness" and so we take this day to celebrate those whose presences emanate love, light and divinity and whose teachings transform the darkness within us. It is a time to take fresh resolves to tread the path of yoga and renew our intentions and aspirations. Traditionally, Guru Purnima is a day to celebrate the great Sage and teacher, Vyasa, who is honored for bringing immeasurable wisdom to the world by compiling the Vedas (traditional Indian scriptures), the Mahabarata and the Puranas, which are a reader-friendly collection of stories and parables written specifically so that the common people could also benefit from the knowledge of the Vedas. Vyasa was a great guru who believed that learning should be accessible to absolutely anyone. Our Guru Purnima celebration will include a puja (an offering of love, thanks and praise), meditation, discussion and chanting in celebration of our personal teachers and the great universal teachers. Please bring a photo, statue, or other reminder of your teacher and anything you might like to contribute to the teacher altar we'll create together. This might be fruit, flowers, a candle, incense, etc. Consider joining us for the Yin/Yang class preceeding our celebration! (5:30 - 6:45pm)

Gina is committed to bringing the full spectrum of yoga's teachings to the community, extending beyond just the physical postures. This commitment is part of what makes Kansas Siddhi Yoga such a special place to practice yoga. She believes that the postures alone do not serve to enlighten students and strives to go beyond the mainstream to bring yoga's treasures into your lives.

Practicing yoga offers us opportunities for profound liberation and Gina believes those opportunities are exponentially multiplied when we chose to continue the exploration beyond the rhythms of our regular yoga practice. She feels that workshops are fertile ground for our own yogic evolution.

Gina gives a deep bow to all of her teachers and vows to continue their teachings for as long as she is alive.