(Admission to this special event is free, but pre-registration is required.)
This is a third annual yoga conference we are hosting at HTGC celebrating 152d birth anniversary and honoring contributions of Swami Vivekananda, the man who planted seeds of yoga in this country 122 years ago. Yoga is now flourishing and booming in the west because of contributions made by him and many of his successors like Paramahamsa Yogananda. Today it is a $27 billion industry and more than 20 million people practicing yoga in the US alone. However it is discouraging to notice that there is hardly any recognition or awareness or connection to the roots of yoga in the west. In today’s modern materialistic and busiest world, if yoga is like a tree, most practitioners try to reach for the fruits and enjoy the mere physical benefits of yoga on the surface. However as we all know the benefits of yoga are far beyond than just mere physical benefits if only we learn how to go deep within, connect with our inner roots master self. After all tree is only as healthy as its roots are and only by nourishing our roots we can flourish and grow deeper and stronger while enjoying the core benefits of yoga that it is essentially designed for.
Hence we host this annual yoga conference to honor the contributions of Swami Vivekananda and many of his successors and also bring together many paths and traditions of yoga together to deepen and further our practice connecting with inner roots. As you know, Swami Vivekananda brought yoga to the west when he spoke at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893, where he quoted the Shiva Mahima Strotram: “As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take, through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee!”
Admission to this special event is free, but pre-registration is required. Please RSVP to VIEW2015 Conference at https://www.facebook.com/events/285894344940678/
