Vaishali has two weekly offerings to support you through this period of social distancing. Both are facilitated via Zoom. Please feel free to join from wherever you are in the world—just make sure the time suits you in your time zone. Yin Recovery (via Yoga in Common) This gentle class is designed to ease stiffness, … Continue reading Livestream Classes
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A Path Through The World: Navigating Life with the Four Noble Truths
These sessions are grounded in the framework of The Four Noble Truths, the Buddha’s first teaching after his Awakening. The Four Noble Truths—dissatisfaction, desire, cessation and the path—offer us a perspective on the inevitable joys and disappointments that life brings, as well as a way to integrate our spiritual understanding with the ordinary experiences of … Continue reading A Path Through The World: Navigating Life with the Four Noble Truths
The Inner Compass: The Journey of Ethical Living
This series of sessions is based on the yamas and niyamas outlined in the Yoga Sutras. The yamas and niyamas offer guidance for interacting with the world and for our relationship with ourselves. They include values such as truth, discipline, non-possessiveness, self-enquiry and so on. These values form the basis of our personal growth and … Continue reading The Inner Compass: The Journey of Ethical Living
Everyday Spirituality
These sessions are designed to help us bring spiritual teachings into our day-to-day life. They will cover areas such as work, marriage, children, religion, freedom, and so on. The sessions will be based mainly on the Bhagavad Gita and the Prophet (by Kahlil Gibran). Each session will begin with a talk, which will be followed … Continue reading Everyday Spirituality
Your Life’s Work: Finding Your Calling
This is a set of individual sessions with Charu, designed to help us understand our propensities and the type of work that is aligned to them. Most of us divide our lives into sections like work, family, interests etc., and look for each of these to provide us with different types of satisfaction. We then … Continue reading Your Life’s Work: Finding Your Calling
About Karma
This is a short course on karma that covers topics like: what is karma; how does it affect us and our day-to-day life. These classes will be interactive to provide clarity and actionability on the concepts. Join us as we seek to unravel the mysteries of karma over three sessions – the first one will … Continue reading About Karma
Awake With Others: A Circle on Enlivening Relationships
This circle aims to help us enliven our relationships by developing self-awareness and inner stability. It is suitable for anyone who is interested in enriching their relationships with family, friends, partners and the world at large. The group will be interactive, focusing on Identifying particular issues that show up repeatedly in our interactions; Understanding these … Continue reading Awake With Others: A Circle on Enlivening Relationships
Let Your Body Speak: Discovering The Messages of Illness
When we are ill or injured, we rarely step back and explore whether there is a message or meaning to the situation we are in. We may dislike our illness and its symptoms, but the reality is that they are windows into discovering what is actually going on with us. Symptoms and sensations are part … Continue reading Let Your Body Speak: Discovering The Messages of Illness
The Essentials of Meditation: A 5-week course with Charu and Vaishali
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes. —Chogyam Trungpa Come and … Continue reading The Essentials of Meditation: A 5-week course with Charu and Vaishali
Bhagavad Gita Study Group & Classes
The Bhagavad Gita ('Song of the Lord') is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. It guides and teaches us how to live a joyful life, in the midst of difficulties, sorrows and the unsolvable conundrums that life brings us. These sessions cover Chapter 18, and complete our study of … Continue reading Bhagavad Gita Study Group & Classes
