With Dr. Christopher Hareesh Wallis:
professor, author, meditation and relationship coach
A 4-Part Series & Life-Transforming Weekend on the Teachings and True Art of Yoga.
The Yoga Center is thrilled to welcome back Christopher Hareesh Wallis for a weekend workshop centered around philosophy, meditation, mantras, lecture, and open discussion. Join us for an easy and open environment to delve into not just living, but living well.
Friday Oct. 21 6-9pm
What is Awakening: Actualize the Goal of Yoga
This provocative workshop will present powerful teachings from the yoga traditions that clarify the nature of the path, the goal, and the obstacles along the way. When these become clear, our road suddenly seems shorter, we see that we have what it takes to walk it, and our whole life in energized by that conviction. Join us for uncensored straight talk about the ups, downs, and apparent shadows of the journey.
Saturday Oct 22 10:30 am-1:30 pm
Awakened Relationships: A Practical and Heart Centered Guide to the challenge of Human Relating
The arena of close relationships is often where we struggle most in life. We need a new paradigm, a value set that brings clarity to the ways we relate, coupled with modes of compassionate communication that help us understand each other. This groundbreaking workshop draws on key teachings of the original Tantrik tradition that provide the clarity so needed in this area of life. Previous participants in this workshop describe it as “veils of confusion being torn away” and have felt empowered and inspired to relate to others from the place of their deepest truth.
Saturday Oct 22 3-6pm
A Wellspring of Power: The Practice of Yoga in Trantric Mode
Empower your practice of Yoga by exploring what practice in a Tantric mode means, and why it accelerates the effectiveness of yoga on all levels. Explore the influence of Tantrism on modern yoga, and the historical connection between the two. Discover what the term “yoga” really means in the original Sanskrit texts, and how Tantrism refined the nature of yoga for the modern age. Explore practice on a subtle level, analyzing the challenges that arise in our practice and how they can be overcome.
Sunday Oct 23 9am-12pm
The Secret Science of Sound and Mantra: How Mantra Practice can invite Health, Prosperity, and Happiness
American yogis are increasingly awake to the joy and power of kīrtan, or singing Sanskrit mantras. In this new workshop, you will learn from a Sanskrit scholar about the six kinds of mantras and how to use them to cleanse the mind, open the subtle centers, and create greater ease and flow in your life. Mantra practice has a unique power to increase the “juiciness” of life! Since it can only be learned from a qualified scholar-practitioner, join us for this rare offering.
Location: The Yoga Center
Date: October 21,22, 23
Time: Friday 6-9pm; Saturday 10:30am-1:30pm; 3-6pm; Sunday 9am-12pm
Early Bird PRICE: $35 individual session; $125 entire weekend
Day of PRICE: $40 individual session; $160 entire weekend
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Christopher Wallis, also known as Hareesh, was introduced to Indian spirituality at the age of seven and initiated into the practice of yogic meditation at sixteen. His degrees include a B.A. in Religion and Classics from the University of Rochester, an M.A. in Sanskrit from U.C. Berkeley, an M.Phil. in Classical Indian Religions from Oxford, and a Ph.D. on the traditions of Śaiva Tantra from Berkeley. He received traditional education at yoga āshrams in upstate New York and India in meditation, kīrtan, mantra-science, āsana, karma-yoga, and more. He currently teaches meditation, yoga darśana (philosophy), Tantrik philosophy, Sanskrit, mantra-science, and offers spiritual counseling.
