Tuesday October 7th, 14th & 21st

Hybrid | $30 per session | $75 for all three sessions

6:30pm - 8:00pm ET 

Anxious and overwhelmed with worldly responsibilities? No time or space for meditation and cultivating inner peace? The Bhagavad Gita has the remedy for that and more.

For over two thousand years, the Gita has provided centering tools and strategies for deriving enlightenment and joy from the activities of daily life. Join us in three sessions as we familiarize ourselves with this globally cherished text, and drawing on varied wisdom traditions, apply guided meditation, breath work and posture to incorporate its teachings.

Session One: The History, Philosophy and Cultural Impact of the Bhagavad Gita
Narrative Structure, Themes, Cross Cultural Influence – Dharma and Karma – Skill in Action: Neurophysiologic Strategies for Resilience on the Battlefield

Session Two: Sacred Weaponry- Cognitive Instruments of Emancipation
Allies and Antagonists – Detachment and Renunciation – The Field and the Knower of the Field – The Three “Gunas” : Raising Your Vibration

Session Three: Defeating Duality: Merging the Sacred and Secular
 The Wisdom Sacrifice – Bhakti Yoga: From Form to Formlessness – The Power of Surrender

BIO 

Mary Reilly Nichols, Director of Nalanda Institute’s Yoga, Mind & Spirit, has been teaching meditation and yoga philosophy for over 3 decades. She spent ten years teaching a breath based therapy in the treatment of stuttering and now teaches breathing, mindful practices and stress management in corporate and medical settings. Mary holds a BA in anthropology from Harvard University, and completed five years of residency in the meditation ashrams of Swami Muktananda both in India and in the US.