Yoga Festival Toronto

If you are in Toronto August 22-24, 2008 I highly recommend participating in the Yoga Festival Toronto. Over the course of the three days there will be a wide spectrum of heartfelt lectures and focused asana classes. This is the first event of it's kind...grassroots, non-profit, urban retreat style... that explores and embodies the true essence of yoga.

Here are a few wise words on meditation from one of YFT's faculty members:

By Dr. Pradeep Kumar

"Meditation is the realization of one's individual and universal nature which brings freedom from fear and allows the person to live in a state of wholeness and well-being. Meditation begins with a technique, an intentional awareness of outer world, sensations in the body and of one's feelings, emotions, thoughts and experiences. During such practice a person discovers that his/her mind was programmed and conditioned by the society and culture. Later on, meditation becomes spontaneous and effortless, and life itself becomes a meditation. Whatever we think, speak or do, positive or negative, is a meditation because meditation is not a virtue, morals, good behavior or thinking; it is the awareness of all that is."