Third Annual 24 Hours of Yoga Marathon
Who: Calling all Yogis and Yoginis and New Years Eve celebrators!
It's time once again to come out for the Third Annual 24 Hours
of Yoga New Years Eve Celebration! Marbles is hosting a rare opportunity to spend New Year's
Eve into New Year's Day in the healthiest ways possible for you and the
planet with a 24 hour schedule of back to back yoga classes. There will
be ongoing classes with teachers volunteering from yoga studios from around
the St. Louis area, teaching for 24 continuous hours.
Classes start on
the hour. Teacher schedule
will be posted at the studio and at www.marblesyoga.com
New
this Year: This year 24 hours of Yoga is growing
into a New Years Eve celebration. Music will be preformed from local musicians. The movies: "What the BLEEP
Do We Know!?", "Naked
in Ashes" and "Origins of Yoga" will
be played and a silent art auction to benefit Hope Happens will shown throughout
the studio. Come for one hour or stay
for the whole 24 hours! Movie
watchers bring a pillow or cushion.
What: 24 hours of Yoga offered to all levels of yoga students. Live Music, Movies and a Silent
Art Auction to benefit: HOPE HAPPENS.
Hope Happens is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a
cure for ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease and for those who suffer from other
neurological disorders like Alzheimer's, stroke, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis,
spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy.
Tickets: Tickets are $20.
pre-purchase price. $30. door
price. Tickets will admit you
throughout the 24 hours to all of the events. Tickets will have in and out privileges. Tickets for sale at Marbles Yoga
Studio
When: December 31, 2006 at 5pm through January 1, 2007 at 5pm.
Where: Marbles Yoga Studio 1905 Park Avenue St. Louis / Lafayette
Square, MO 63104
Volunteers needed: 1. Ticket
sales and ticket takers needed. 2. Flyer and
postcard delivery people need. 3. Artist needed to donate artwork for the silent art auction.
4. Musicians needed for 2 hour performances.
For more information: Visit our website at www.marblesyoga.com or call 314-621-4744
For more information
about Hope Happens, visit www.hopehappens.org
watch a film clip: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5086158606413726218&q=Naked+in+Ashes&pr=goog-sl
Chronicles the Yogis of India, including 14-year-old Santosh
Giri, who follows his teacher Shiv Raj Giri in probing the deepest mysteries
of life on a 6,000-year-old Path. The Yogis leave all worldly things to
quest for the Divine, and travel barefoot in the snow on pilgrimage from
the high Himalayas to the holiest festival, to wash themselves in the waters
of immortality. Along with Santosh Giri and Shiv Raj is Raman Giri ("Standing
Baba"), who remains standing for twelve years. Others pull trucks with
their genitalia--or hold one arm in the air for 12 years--on a quest to
understand ultimate Truth.
watch a film clip: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8920937881517834844&q=yoga&pr=goog-sl
ORIGINS OF YOGA features the world's leading authority, Georg
Feuerstein, Ph.D., who has written thirty-six books on the subject. The
Yogis of India themselves are interviewed on location as they describe their
quest, their lifestyle, and the true meaning of Yoga.
ORIGINS OF YOGA documents the lives of these sages - who are
on the same exact Path as the Westerners who follow yoga.
This eclectic parade of Indian ascetic yogis (sadhus) is a
nice shorter follow-up to the director's own feature "Naked in Ashes"
(2005), which was one of two outstanding films covering the huge 12 year
holy gathering called the Kumbh Mela - the other film was "Short Cut
to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela" (2004). "Origins of Yoga" admits
that said origins are actually lost in the mists of time (mountain fog illustrates
the point), so the title might better be lifestyles of yogis, as several
of these bizarre gentle men (female yoginis are only mentioned) share anecdotes
about how they live. Yogis
explain that their nakedness and long unkempt hair discourage vanity, while
ashes rubbed on the skin actually help to close pores and keep in some warmth
(not enough though to explain how they survive in snowy Himalayas and forests).
One metal pot is all yogis own, to carry water, cook, etc. - assuming they
use food and water at all, since many consume only air! Several yogis demonstrate
obsessive talents like standing for years (we trust, since the film isn't
years long), repeating prayers nonstop, and twisting their bodies unbelievably,
although the know-it-all Mr. Feuerstein berates us Westerners for expecting
contortionist postures, because we should know that yoga encompasses a variety
of enlightenment practices to hold body and mind together
A complaining
young woman's daily life is turned upside-down when she begins to encounter
the quantum effects that make reality the product of our thoughts. She decides
to release emotional addictions and treat herself better with positive thinking,
as top scientists and mystics are interviewed documentary style, and vivid
computer animations illustrate possible realities and brain chemistry.
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part
documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects
and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds
herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired
life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum
field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.
She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences,
while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden
knowledge she doesn't even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda
is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life
that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships
with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn't
reality at all!
Done with humor, precision, and irreverence, these scenes are only part of what makes this film unique in the history of cinema, and a true box-office winner.