Darren’s new book, Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation is now available on Amazon.  This title is a total rewrite of Darren’s third book  with more content, graphics and resources!

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The book, “Yoga in America” is a compilation of essays from yogis around the country, including yours truly, reflecting on various aspects of yoga and how it is changing lives and influencing American culture.

The book is an amazing read and I highly recommed it.  Best of all it is not available in two formats.

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A beautiful chorus of wisdom and inspiration that is sure to excite yogis across this country and around the world.
—Darren Main, Author of Yoga and thePath of the Urban Mystic.

City of Hope is one of the leading treatment and research facilities for Cancer, HIV and diabetes in the world.  Their unique approach to addressing live threatening illnesses by looking at the whole person has resulted many treatments that are being used today around the world and the research they are doing today holds promise for more effective and less invasive treatments in the future.

Yoga for Hope uses the passion people feel for yoga raise money for this important work.  In this interview Mindy Finkelstein talk about this nation-wide fundraiser and talks about how you can get involved.

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The San Francisco Chronicle  wrote a great piece on non-church like activities that are being hosted at churches around the city.  My yoga class on Grace Cathedral’s Labyrinth was featured.

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Highlights:

When Darren Main started teaching Tuesday evening yoga on the labyrinth inside Grace Cathedral in September, there were about 20 people stretching on mats inside the church. Now as many as 100 people jockey for spots to unroll their mats, and musicians sing and play harmoniums, didgeridoos and Tibetan bowls in the center of the circle.

As the evening sun casts its final rays through the stained-glass windows, a woman sings an ancient Sanskrit song. Main leads visitors through a meditation, as they lie on their backs looking up at the vaulted ceiling.

When it’s time to stretch, Main weaves through the mats, helping students with their poses: downward dog, warrior pose, triangle pose.

“Students tell me they were raised Catholic or Protestant and haven’t been inside a church in 15 years,” Main said.

“They were afraid to step back in and now, with yoga, they have permission,” he said.

Striking the warrior pose on the labyrinth is one way Nathan Ohm contemplates his religious journey, from his family’s evangelical fundamentalism, to his switch to the Episcopal Church coinciding with his coming out as a gay man. Twelve years later, at 37, he now calls himself a Unitarian.

“Being in Grace is like coming full circle for me, and doing yoga here is purely magical,” he said.

David Festa, 49, tried yoga on the labyrinth with his wife as something different to do on their wedding anniversary in September, and he kept coming back.

“I grew up Episcopalian, and my church looked a lot like this one, so it’s like going back in time,” Festa said. “Coming here makes me feel much more connected to a certain spirituality. I come straight from work after a full day and it’s a real release.”

CorePower Yoga in Portland recently held a contest to name the three goldfish that live in the studio lobby.     And the winners are:

Quimby, Shiva and Darren Main. . .

That’s right, I now have a goldfish that shares my namesake.   Feed him well (but not too well,  my brother, sister and I learned that the hard way)

Looking forward to coming back to Portland to meet him. . .

Thanks CPY!

I was recently a guest on the 12-step Buddhist podcast.  Really fun conversation with Darren Littlejohn.

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I have opened up registration for the 2010 Pilgrimage to India.  You can learn more about this exciting spiritual adventure and preregister at  WWW.INDIAYOGARETREAT.COM.  Be sure to reserve your space early as this retreat is sure to sell out.

Starting at $995
November 12-21, 2010

Jonathan Wolf is a renown flute player who has shared his music in the classes of such well known yoga teachers Saul David Raye and Sean Corn.  His hand made bamboo flutes are quickly becoming a standard instrument in many devotional yoga classes and musicians and novices alike are connecting to his hand crafted instruments in very moving and intimate ways.  His debut CD, Dragon Flutes Rising has become a deeply emotional, transformative soundtrack in yoga classes, group meditations and for massage and body work.

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Jeffrey Small, Jr. is the author of the forthcoming mystical thriller, The Breath of God, the writer of the spirituality blog, OneReality, and a speaker on religious and spirituality topics. Jeffrey has studied at Yale University and Harvard Law School. More recently, Jeffrey earned a Masters in the Study of Religions from Oxford University in England. He was raised in a Christian environment, and is active in the Episcopal church, but he has also studied Yoga in India and practiced Buddhist meditation in Bhutan.

In this podcast, Jeffrey reflects on the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western forms of spirituality and talks about how East and West can actually complement one another.

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Michael Watson is a highly regarded international presenter and certified teacher of Yoga, Pilates and functional anatomy. He currently resides in Bermuda, and is part of The Bermuda Integrative Health Co-op, a company founded upon the ideals of integration and community. He is also the founder of Mindful Integration, which offers workshops, trainings and classes around the world.

In this podcast, Michael talks about his unique method of integrating yoga practice with KMI (Kinesis Myofascial Integration). By combining these two powerful healing modalities, the therapeutic effects of both are exponentially increased.

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