Events for
November 21st - 23rd 2014
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and other yoga related information. Following is information about
things happening this weekend at the Couch, along with other local and
upcoming events.
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Movie Night
Movie: 56-Up
Date:
Friday November 21st
Time: 8:00pm (optional: bring a dish or snack)
Optional: Yoga and the Movie ... Yoga from 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Starring:
Bruce Balden, Jackie Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield,
John Brisby, Peter Davies, Susan Davis, Charles Furneaux, Nicholas
(Nick) Hitchon, Neil Hughes, Lynn Johnson, Paul Kligerman, Suzanne
(Suzy) Lusk, Tony Walker
Directed by: Paul Almond (Seven Up!) Michael Apted (all subsequent films)
Produced by: Granada Television
Narrated by: Douglas Keay
Genre: Longitudinal study Documentary
Directed by: Paul Almond (Seven Up!) Michael Apted (all subsequent films)
Produced by: Granada Television
Narrated by: Douglas Keay
Genre: Longitudinal study Documentary
Running Time: 97 minutes
The
Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada
Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children
since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected
to represent the range of socioeconomic backgrounds in Britain at that
time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class
predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael
Apted, films material from those of the fourteen who choose to
participate. The premise of the film was taken from the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man", which is based on a quotation by Francis Xavier.
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there.Traditional Reiki Treatment
by Pamela Brown
at
Vishnu's Couch
By Appointment Only
for more information, please contact: Pamela Olivia Brown
(347) 458 - 1133
Group Meditation
Sunday November 16th
1:00 - 2:15pm
Using the techniques of Ho'oponopono and
the musical toning of Tom Kenyon
followed by:
Knowledge Cinema
Sound of the New Earth
Tom Kenyon defines himself as a musician, and a researcher on the brain and how
sound influences brain states. Meanwhile he was experiencing psychic,
spiritual or paranormal events that most of us would love to experience –
such states named samadhi by the yogis or satori by the Japanese
Buddhists. Abandoning all conventional musical forms, Tom has invented a way of
chanting or “toning” using his nearly four octave voice and taking
audiences on sound journeys to deeper states of consciousness. As a filmmaker, I was intrigued to make a film about one man’s
relationship to and use of sound. Secondly, I saw a film that might
normalize psychic experiences. Thirdly, I wanted to make a film that
might challenge an audience to go within for some insight. And lastly, I
saw a film that carried a message for a planet in peril.
--Ward Serrill
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Tai Chi Zen Workshop
with Master Ping Zhen Cheng
Sunday November 23rd
from 3:00 - 5:30 pm
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Address: FMK Karate
782 Chenango St, Binghamton
Cost: $50 by Nov.18th, $65 at the door,
free for Instructor Training registrants.
Please dress warm, bring yoga mat, pillow & blanket for floor meditation.
For additional infomation or to schedule a private session with Ping,
free for Instructor Training registrants.
Please dress warm, bring yoga mat, pillow & blanket for floor meditation.
For additional infomation or to schedule a private session with Ping,
contact: Sifu Rick 296-1385
About Taichizen
Taichizen is a modern holistic mind-body integrative system promoting “Enlightenment Living”. It was developed in the 1990's by Master Ping Zhen Cheng in New York, a modern reformer of traditional Zen & Tibetan systems of meditation. Ever since he brought the teaching back to China after the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, there are over 30 branches of Taichizen in China today. Ping is a rare lineage carrier of the Zen, Tibetan and Taoist systems of treasured knowledge, as well as a coach of international Tai Chi Champions.
Taichizen contains a simple 15 minutes energetics & meditation sequence. It utilizes five simple postures for mind-body-spirit re-alignment in standing, sitting, walking, lying down & free style. Multiple Mandela figures of three vertical energy channels and seven spiraling Chakra loops are activated for the balance and transformation of one's energy, emotions and consciousness.
For modern living with pressures and time restraints, this system is pioneering the utilization of ancient energetic components of Tai Chi together with other internal and yogic arts as a tool for enhancing and embodying the timeless transformation wisdom of the East together with the modern illumination of Western transpersonal psychology.
About the Teacher
Ping Zhen Cheng is currently the director of the Zen (Chan) meditation program at Beijing's Dharma Online Institute. It is China's first & largest non-denominational online meditation studies program. A guiding advisor in multiple monasteries in China & Tibet, a rare lineage carrier of Zen, Tibetan & Taoist systems, as well as a reformer of the traditions, he is the founder of Taichizen International, a network of more than 50 centers throughout the US and Asia teaching a modern holistic mind-body integrative system promoting the principles of "Enlightenment Living" utilizing "Taichizen" & "Heart Illumination Yoga" as tools.
After graduated from China Qigong Science Institute of Beijing, he served as director of Physical Arts Dept. for the New York College of Health Professions, Graduate School of Oriental Medicine in Syosett, NY where he lectured on Chinese Medicine & Qigong, coached national & international Taijiquan & Kung Fu champions. He was the first to develop a Medical Tai Chi Instructor Certification curriculum based on oriental medicine principles in the US. As a US citizen, Ping relocated to China to teach after the Sichuan earthquake of 2008.
Integrated with the essential principles of Soto & Yunmen Zen,Dzogchen,Taoist Alchemy,non-dual teachings of Christian mysticism and transpersonal psychology, as a modern reformer of traditional systems, his teachings has been well-received in China National Buddhist Council at Guangji Temple in Being, Shambala International, Unity Church, & many other institutes of multi-spiritual faiths throughout Asia & US.
About Taichizen
Taichizen is a modern holistic mind-body integrative system promoting “Enlightenment Living”. It was developed in the 1990's by Master Ping Zhen Cheng in New York, a modern reformer of traditional Zen & Tibetan systems of meditation. Ever since he brought the teaching back to China after the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, there are over 30 branches of Taichizen in China today. Ping is a rare lineage carrier of the Zen, Tibetan and Taoist systems of treasured knowledge, as well as a coach of international Tai Chi Champions.
Taichizen contains a simple 15 minutes energetics & meditation sequence. It utilizes five simple postures for mind-body-spirit re-alignment in standing, sitting, walking, lying down & free style. Multiple Mandela figures of three vertical energy channels and seven spiraling Chakra loops are activated for the balance and transformation of one's energy, emotions and consciousness.
For modern living with pressures and time restraints, this system is pioneering the utilization of ancient energetic components of Tai Chi together with other internal and yogic arts as a tool for enhancing and embodying the timeless transformation wisdom of the East together with the modern illumination of Western transpersonal psychology.
About the Teacher
Ping Zhen Cheng is currently the director of the Zen (Chan) meditation program at Beijing's Dharma Online Institute. It is China's first & largest non-denominational online meditation studies program. A guiding advisor in multiple monasteries in China & Tibet, a rare lineage carrier of Zen, Tibetan & Taoist systems, as well as a reformer of the traditions, he is the founder of Taichizen International, a network of more than 50 centers throughout the US and Asia teaching a modern holistic mind-body integrative system promoting the principles of "Enlightenment Living" utilizing "Taichizen" & "Heart Illumination Yoga" as tools.
After graduated from China Qigong Science Institute of Beijing, he served as director of Physical Arts Dept. for the New York College of Health Professions, Graduate School of Oriental Medicine in Syosett, NY where he lectured on Chinese Medicine & Qigong, coached national & international Taijiquan & Kung Fu champions. He was the first to develop a Medical Tai Chi Instructor Certification curriculum based on oriental medicine principles in the US. As a US citizen, Ping relocated to China to teach after the Sichuan earthquake of 2008.
Integrated with the essential principles of Soto & Yunmen Zen,Dzogchen,Taoist Alchemy,non-dual teachings of Christian mysticism and transpersonal psychology, as a modern reformer of traditional systems, his teachings has been well-received in China National Buddhist Council at Guangji Temple in Being, Shambala International, Unity Church, & many other institutes of multi-spiritual faiths throughout Asia & US.
website: taichizen.com.
e-mail: pingeastwest@yahoo.com
e-mail: pingeastwest@yahoo.com
Raja Yoga Class and Satsang
Raja
Yoga is the royal yoga that brings the nature of our True Self to our
awareness. This awareness cannot be gained through perception or
intellectual knowledge, it can only be known through cognition, like the
knowledge that I am, that I exist, it needs no proof, but without this
knowing, experience remains limited and misunderstood. Come join us as
we explore our True Self through:
Silence, Meditation, Breathing, and gentle relaxing Postures.
Silence, Meditation, Breathing, and gentle relaxing Postures.
at the Indian Community Center (ICC) building
1595 Route 26, Vestal NY
Sundays 8:30-10:00am
with Edmond Cotton
Cost: $ 10.00
Bring your own yoga mat
For more information
Expressive Drum and Chant
Saturdays 3:00 - 4:30pm
Connect with others * Feel free to play a variety of instruments * Learn new
songs
Come and sing or drum! After learning suggested rhythms, people are encouraged to improvise within the songs with an instrument of your choice.
During the music meditation, we create "in-the-moment" music together.
If you would like to attend, please preregister by email to rosehusted@gmail.com
Unity In the Southern Tier
Featured Speaker: Rev. Ann Marie Acacio Her message for this week is:
"The Eleventh Commandment"
November 23rd at 11:00 am
Location: The Community Hall, 300 Lincoln Ave Endicott,
(enter from Park St., the Community Hall is on your right).
(enter from Park St., the Community Hall is on your right).
For
more information, contact:
Barb Parcells: parcekb@gmail.com or visit the website: Unity in the Southern Tier
Mondays, 6-8 pm
30 Main Street, Binghamton
Meet greet and connect with healers, artists, and many like-minded individuals.
Explore, learn and experience different avenues of spiritual expression.
Discover ways to heal ourselves, help the planet and expand our vision of community.
Renée Guidelli 607-656-5194
Theosophical Society Study Group
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to be announced.
