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Led By :  Yuriy Time : 8:00pm - 9:15pm, weekly Location : Shambhalah Yoga & Dance, 367 Saint Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Price : Only $10 All are welcome. Wear comfortable clothing. Pillows and blankets will be provided to sit on. Arrive on time to settle in and avoid disrupting the group meditation.  Email with any questions or to be added to our weekly email that goes out about this group to yuriy@ivs-vedanta.org, indicate the group name. Description: Attend the whole workshop or drop in to heal and grow using guided meditation and led classes on the four spiritual yogas of Hinduism: Jnana Yoga (embodying discernment and truth), Bhakti Yoga (growing with love and devotion), Karma Yoga (purifying our daily actions), and Raja/Ashtanga Yoga (exploring the inner world). The four yogas are complimentary pieces of a jig-saw puzzle that when combined in consistent practice, produce healing and inner freedom while harmonizing living and working in the world. We ...

Led By :  Yuriy Time : 11:50am - 1:20pm, weekly ongoing Location : Atmananda Yoga NYC, 112 E 23rd St #200, New York, NY 10010 Price : Any amount or $3 accepted as contribution All are welcome. Wear comfortable clothing. No physical postures involved. Pillows and blankets will be provided to sit on. Email with any questions or to be added to our weekly email that goes out about this group to yuriy@ivs-vedanta.org, indicate the group name. The agenda for the classes is: 11:50 Introductions 12:00 Meditation Begins 12:20 Sharing and Questions 12:30 Yuriy Gives Class 13:00 Sharing and Questions Meeting Description: Drop in to any one of our classes to heal, understand and grow with guided meditations and led classes on the four spiritual and universal yogas from Hinduism: Jnana Yoga (embodying discernment and truth), Bhakti Yoga (growing with love and devotion), Karma Yoga (purifying our daily actions in service), and Raja/Ashtanga Yoga (meditating and exploring...

Led By : Yuriy Time : 13:30 - 14:30, meets weekly Location : Midwood Branch Library (Basement, large room), 975 East 16th Street, Brooklyn, NY Price : Contributions of any amount or $2 suggested. Class Description: All are welcome to these Sunday classes on the enlightening wisdom and healing practices of the timeless Yoga Vedanta tradition. Wear comfortable clothing. No physical postures involved. Pillows and blankets will be provided to sit on. Arrive on time to settle in before the start of group meditation.  Email with any questions or to be added to our weekly email that goes out about this group to yuriy@ivs-vedanta.org, indicate the group name. Agenda: 13:30 Introductions & Overview 13:40 Meditation Begins 14:00 Sharing and Questions 14:05 Yuriy Gives Class 14:25 Sharing and Questions Drop in to any one of our classes to heal, understand and grow with guided meditations and led classes on the four spiritual and universal yogas from Hinduism: Jnana Y...

Led By : Yuriy Time : 10:00am - 11:00am, meets weekly Location : Carmine Carro Community Center (in Marine Park), 3000 Fillmore Ave, Brooklyn, NY Price : Any amount or $1 suggested donation. Agenda: 9:55 Introductions 10:05 Meditation 10:25 Sharing and Questions 10:35 Yuriy Gives Class 10:50 Sharing and Questions Wear comfortable clothing, chairs to sit on provided. Attendees must be 60 or older to participate, and must register with the community center (free). Email with any questions or to be added to our weekly email that goes out about this group to yuriy@ivs-vedanta.org, indicate the group name. General Description: Our individual mind, the inner spirit or Self, our health, and the surrounding social community are very much connected and interrelated. This group will help lift the spirits of the attendees by learning about our inner nature, practice mindfulness, expand the heart, and sit for meditation together. Members will understand the relationship betwee...

Event Title : The Psychology and Healing Power of Yoga Vedanta: A Timeless Spiritual Practice for the Modern Day Life Led By : Yuriy Time : 12:00pm - 1:20pm, Sundays 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, and 3/10. Location : Atmananda Yoga NYC, 112 E 23rd St #200, New York, NY 10010 Event description: In this five-week workshop, we will learn the system of Vedanta that when contemplated and practiced in daily life, will take us across the river of sorrow and suffering; permanently establishing ourselves in the True Self - the pure consciousness behind it all. Through Vedanta, we transform our lives into ones of love, peace, connection, understanding, and unshakeable inner strength and dignity, allowing suffering to dissolve like a mirage. These teachings have been practiced and passed down in India in their pure form for over 7000 years, creating enlightened souls like the Buddha, Sri Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Nisargadatta, Michael Langford, and Sri Sri Bhagavan. Our ...

Event Title: Vedanta and Yoga: The Raja/Ashtanga system of Patanjali for Settling the Mind and Having Vision of Self / God. Led By: Yuriy Time: 12:00pm - 1:20pm, Sunday January 20th, 2019. Location: Atmananda Yoga NYC, 112 E 23rd St #200, New York, NY 10010 Event description: We will gather for an uplifting meeting on Vedanta, have group meditation, chant sacred mantra, and learn the intricate path of Raja / Ashtanga Yoga that calms the mind and grants vision of Self or God.  Through this way of settling the mind, people can get liberated from their daily stresses and worries of the world, and get established in the supreme bliss and peace of the Self. Everyone is welcome! Note: Arrive early, meeting will start on time. Admittance: is free, by voluntary donation.

Event Title: The Yoga of Love and Devotion to Realize the Supreme Speaker: Yuriy Time: 12:00pm - 1:20pm, Sunday December 9th, 2018. Location: Atmananda Yoga NYC, 112 E 23rd St #200, New York, NY 10010 Event description: The Yoga of Love and Devotion is a sweet and easy path we can walk on to realize the inherent pure consciousness within us. Vedanta teaches that Love is the basic nature of our own True Self. Practicing it we can become established in that reality of Oneness that is a part and behind all of us. Through this universal love, we will become liberated from the daily stresses, worries and burnouts of the world. Everyone is welcome! Note: Arrive early, meeting will start on time. Admittance: is free.

A talk on the complimentary practices of Psychology and Spirituality. Speaker: Yuriy Time: 12:30pm - 2pm, Thursday December 6th, 2018. Admittance: This event is open only to BC students.  Location: Student Building 2705 Campus Road 5th floor (Occidental Lounge), Brooklyn, NY 11210 Event is co-hosted by the BC Psychology Club and BC Society of Bioethics and Medicine. Synopsis: What do western psychology and the Vedanta spiritual tradition have in common? The former aims to heal psychopathology and the latter to realize one's True Self. Delving in we find that many of the practices overlap. The continued advances in modern psychology across schools of thought are beginning to correlate with the attainments of knowledge by Vedantic practitioners thousands of years ago. In this lecture, Yuriy will introduce the practice of Vedanta to the audience and discuss the common theories and practices with modern psychology. Yuriy's Bio

Event Title:  The Yoga of Truth (Jnana Yoga) and Devotional Kirtan Speaker: Yuriy Time: 12:00pm - 1:20pm, Sunday November 11th, 2018. Location: Atmananda Yoga NYC, 112 E 23rd St #200, New York, NY 10010 Event description: Jnana Yoga is the path of truth. It is the path of discerning what is real from what is false by using our faculty in the heart called the “buddhi”. We practice honesty and stick to what is proper in daily situations, and thus purify our mind and proceed towards realizing the Supreme. The Self or God is the Truth Itself, says Sri Sri Bhagavan. Slowly we can get established in this truth and realize the pure consciousness that is our own very Self. Join us for this lively discussion, led by Yuriy from International Vedanta Society. We will sing devotional kirtan together and have brief meditation. Note: Arrive early, meeting will start on time. Admittance: is free.

Event Title:  Discovering The Truth and Love Within: A Gathering for Kirtan, Vedanta Talk and Meditation Speaker: Yuriy Time: 12:15pm - 1:15pm, Sunday November 4th, 2018. Location: Atmananda Yoga NYC, 112 E 23rd St #200, New York, NY 10010 In this one-hour gathering, we will discuss the timeless wisdom of the Vedanta tradition. It is a culmination of all spiritual currents from ancient India that matured to one aim - the realization of the Self. We are all striving for this one aim, knowingly or unknowingly - to know who we are. We look for happiness, seek unconditional love, and try to secure some sense of permanence in life. Yet unbeknownst to most, the very source of these treasures is at the core of our own being, and not somewhere outside. The more of it we discover within, the more of it we reflect out. And our whole life becomes transformed, no matter the circumstance. At this meeting at Atmananda Yoga Studio, we will introduce the teachings of Vedanta, sing s...

The talk at the NYU psychology club concluded successfully. In attendance were undergraduate students majoring in psychology, in their junior and senior years. Some were familiar with spirituality, to others it was a new subject. The discussion was lively.  Here is a recap:  - What are all people striving for, what is everyone searching for in life? Students gave answers: a sense of meaning, to attain happiness, exercise power, leave a legacy behind, and others. - We discussed the evolution of various schools of psychology. Psychodynamic school arrived at intersubjectivity. Child Psychology arrived at the true self. Behavioral/cognitive school and its ACT theory arrived at the observant self. Humanistic school with Gestalt Psychotherapy arrived at the field of awareness and idea of wholeness, and Carl Rogers centered on the agency of the self. - The tradition of Vedanta was introduced and described for its focus on realizing this very Self that is in all of us. Yuriy disc...

A talk on the complimentary practices of Psychology and Spirituality at New York University. Speaker: Yuriy Time: 6:30pm - 8pm, Monday October 29th, 2018. Location: Kimmel Center for University Life, Room 904, 60 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012 Event is organized by the NYU PSI CHI, The International Honors Society for Psychology. Synopsis: What do western psychology and the Vedanta spiritual tradition have in common? The former aims to heal psychopathology and the latter to realize one's True Self. Delving in we find that many of the practices overlap. The continued advances in modern psychology across schools of thought are beginning to correlate with the attainments of knowledge by Vedantic practitioners thousands of years ago. In this lecture, Yuriy will introduce the practice of Vedanta to the audience and discuss the common theories and practices with modern psychology.