PRE-REGISTRATION & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The Best of 50 Years of Dharma Yoga...
Sri Dharma Mittra (NYC) in Berlin for the first time ever

ATTENTION! NEW BIGGER LOCATION: SOHO HOUSE, TORSTRASSE 1 (details below). Due to bigger location we also have spots for all three workshops available again. Tickets can also be bought at the venue. But please come early!

Jivamukti Yoga Berlin is extremely happy and feels very blessed to be able to bring, for the first time ever, renowned yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra for a workshop series to Berlin. This will be his only workshop dates in whole of Germany since some years and as such a very rare chance to meet this famous yoga teacher in Europe. Make sure you book early as tickets will sell out fast!

Dates:
Fri., 08/13/10: 6-8.30pm
Sat., 08/14/10: 10am-1pm & 2pm-4.30pm

Costs:
60 EUR each for the Friday and the Saturday 2pm workshop and 65 EUR for the Saturday 10am workshop.

Description of Dharma Mittra's Berlin Workshops:

Fri., 08/13/10: 6-8.30pm
Maha Shakti: The Illumined Path of Dharma Yoga
Sri Dharma Mittra shares a lifetime of experience in these powerful yet subtle basic practices to help bring radiant health, fitness and self-knowledge quickly to all students. This regenerative and invigorating graceful posture practice purifies the physical and causal bodies of toxic impurities, evoking sattvic thoughts and leading to higher states of well being. It includes a Dharma talk on practical, spiritual, and philosophical methodology, discourses on karma and reincarnation, yogic diet, as well as, classical breathing techniques to settle the mind.

Sat., 08/14/10: 10am-1pm
Maha Sadhana: The One Great Eternal Practice
Sri Dharma Mittra masterfully helps students develop the confidence to surrender to the divine in everyday life through this comprehensive program. Dharma III-IV, a challenging, meditative, and unique sequence that involves complete movement of the spine in order to unleash the life force within it, is taught in this session. Evolving after 50 years of intensive practice, it is popular with students from all backgrounds. With regular practice, you'll bring an end to weight problems and diseases, attain health and stamina, and advance toward Self- realization. Included will be a guided deep relaxation, pranayama, a Dharma talk, and his joyous Asana Satsang Jam which instills compassion and dedication.

Sat., 08/14/10: 2-4.30pm
By His Grace Purification Sadhana
Sri Dharma Mittra will dispense his special cleansing detoxification program to all in order to help purify the mind, the gross physical body, and the subtle astral body. The class will include ancient breathing and sound techniques, mantra japa, as well as, relaxation and meditation practices. This purification leads to higher states of physical and mental health, clearing a path toward blissful Self-realization. Key benefits brought about are removing negative states of mind, and promoting positive thinking in order to manifest what students desire in their lives. The techniques and lectures bring clarity which leads to freedom (Vairagya), remove toxins from the body non-invasively, open the chakra centers, and unblock the flow of prana, the life giving force which links breath, body and mind, improving concentration and intuition.

Reservation procedure:

Due to the limited number of spaces available for this workshops we only accept binding reservations with full pre-payment of the workshop fees. With full payment of the workshop fee your are firmly booked for the workshop. In case you cannot come, you can name another person who can come instead of you.

By booking workshops with us, you are accepting our standard booking conditions for workshops and seminars. You can read these conditions by clicking here. Please note: Once we received your payment your spot at the workshop is firmly booked and the workshop fee cannot be refunded. However, if you are prevented to come, you can name a replacement person, who has not yet registered with us, who can come instead of you. In case the workshops sell out, spots will be given in the order the payment is received. We suggest to reduce your financial risks that you cannot come to a workshop you booked by getting a workshop- and seminar insurance, which you can buy for little money by clicking here.

For a binding reservation with advance payment we offer the following four options:

1. Directly at the Jivamukti Yoga Loft Berlin with cash or all major debit and credit cards (you can also call or email CC details).

2. By sending the applicable amount (see above) to our bank account as follows:

Jivamukti Berlin GmbH
Account #: 52427703
Routing # (BLZ): 50890000
IBAN #: DE34508900000052427703
BIC/SWIFT#: GENODEF1VBD
Volksbank Darmstadt
Payment note: "Dharma Mittra" + name of the student + sessions booked

Immediately after receipt of your advance payment you are registered and your spot at the workshop is reserved for you.

* NB: The reduced worshop fee isonly valid if full payment is received by 08/01/10.

3. Through our JYB online store where you can also book and prepay for multiple persons, easily by ACH, credit cards, bank transfer etc.

4. Via the PayPal button below with all major debit and credit cards etc. The prices are increased by 2 EUR or 5 EUR to partially cover the Paypal fees. Thank you for your understanding.

N.B.: In case the name of the owner of the PayPal account is different to the name of the person registering for the workshop, please enter the later name in the "Message for Merchant" field at the PayPal shopping cart.

Sri Dharma Mittra, now 70, was the first main independent Yoga teacher on the US East Coast, initiating hundreds of thousands on the path of Yogic practice and teaching. Dharma began disseminating this knowledge before "styles" of Yoga became popular, and has remained truthful to the original classical practice. Students from all walks and styles of Yoga love his teachings. Dharma has literally been teaching classes continuously every day since he started in 1967. To this day he still makes himself available regularly to anyone who walks thru the doors of Dharma Mittra Yoga in need of help and direction. For his dedication and fortitude, he is known as "the Rock of Yoga", and for his experience and knowledge the “Teacher's Teacher".

In 1984, Dharma Mittra created the world famous Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures as an offering to his beloved Guru and for all Yoga aspirants. This original masterpiece was meticulously assembled from over 1,350 posture photographs he took of himself. In 1975 Dharma made the Sun Salutation and Yoga Course Poster. Dharma is the author of the book "Asanas 608 Yoga Poses" and of various best-selling Yoga DVDs, is featured in "American Yoga: The Paths and Practices of America's Greatest Yoga Masters", and is the inspiration for Yoga Journal's book "Yoga", which is dedicated to him.

Dharma Mittra's center in the West Village in the mid 1980's brought two adoring students sitting at his feet: Sharon Gannon and David Life, the founders of the Jivamukti Yoga method. Sri Dharma Mittra gave them a blessing to open their own school. Before starting his Dharma Yoga Life Of A Yogi Trainings, Sri Dharma often referred his students to Sharon and David to become certified yoga teachers. Sri Dharma Mittra and Ismrittee Devi continue a close friendship with Sharon Gannon and David Life along with mutual students and teachers worldwide.

Dharma Yoga and Jivamukti Yoga, amongst other aspects, especially share one majorly important approach to Yoga which these days is diluted by many other "styles" of Yoga: Dharma Mittra, as Sharon Gannon and David Life, diligently teaches the Yamas, the first step of Yoga, as he sets the greatest example for it in his life. In every class you will hear “without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga”. He tirelessly continues to promote Ahimsa thru veganism, a live food Yoga diet, and kindness to all living beings, especially our inferior brothers, the animal kingdom.

In August 2010 finally, Sri Dharma Mittra enthusiastically returns to Europe. Having taught in Cologne, Vienna, Zurich, and other European cities, this will be the very first time he brings his profound and inspirational teachings to Berlin. Don't miss this very special life-changing opportunity.

From New York Magazine’s Best of New York:
Dharma Yoga Center-For the Challenge Hungry. Star Teacher Dharma Mittra: “This year Dharma has turned 70, and he continues to blow people’s minds with his posture practice, as well as, bring them the divinity of the scriptural teachings in each and every class.”

Vanity Fair in its 20 page article on "The world's greatest yoga masters": "Dharma Mittra is known as the elder statesman of yoga..." For the full page on Dharma Mittra click here.

For more information on Dharma Mittra also see www.dharmayogacenter.com

ATTENTION! New Location: Due to the large demand the workshops of Sri Dharma Mittra will not take place at the Jivamukti Yoga Loft Berlin. Instead we have found a very special location for you: A great gallery space at Berlin's latest top-spot, the newly opened Soho House Berlin, which with it New York flair just fits right for Sri Dharma Mittra. Only about 10 minutes from JYB at Torstraße 1.