Event Description:

IMC Canada (Mezz 11 - 601 West Broadway)

Book launch, public talks and yoga workshops with Lama Christie McNally and Ian Thorson

Lama Christie McNally and Ian Thorson want to get you enlightened. Their new book and North American Summer Tour, Two As One – A Journey to Yoga, reveals how: by helping someone else get enlightened.

After 12 years at the feet of her guru and a three-year isolated meditation retreat, Lama Christie McNally has emerged as one of the world’s first female Lamas.

McNally is a holder of a full and authentic lineage of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, one that has been passed down, unbroken, from teacher to student since the time of the Buddha in 500 B.C., and is a highly-trained master of Yoga philosophy.

Creator of Tibetan Heart Yoga and founder of the Yoga Studies Institute (YSI), she comes to Vancouver with accomplished yogi Ian Thorson August 6 and 7 for a two-day yoga asana and meditation workshop based on the teachings of ancient Indian Buddhist Master Shantideva. (video interview available at: www.twoasoneyoga.com/media)

The workshop will include guided meditations by Lama Christie from her recent book The Tibetan Book of Meditation (www.tibetanbookofmeditation.org), as well as special yoga classes by some of McNally's close students – recent graduates of a seven-year advanced Tibetan Buddhist studies program she co-founded in southeastern Arizona. (The complete workshop schedule is outlined below.)

Adept in both the Sanskrit and Tibetan languages, Lama Christie, teaches from original sources, translating them into English, often for the first time. She is author of a number of popular books including The Tibetan Book of Meditation, How Yoga Works and Karmic Management.

“When you work together in a hands-on, visceral way, you tap into the power of the inner body,” says Lama Christie. “It forms a resonance between the two people that is more powerful than anything the individual by themselves can call up. This is a revolutionary concept on how to travel the spiritual path.”

Through nearly two decades of study, training, and deep meditation, McNally and Thorson have mastered the practice of partner yoga. Their visually stunning new book and yoga series integrates philosophy and yoga techniques from many time-honored disciplines to create a synergistic experience for two yoga partners working together. Two As One is a groundbreaking concept that gives each yoga partner the power to support and be supported, to open and be opened.

To Register:

Registration for all three days: $160 before July 24th. $200 at the door.

Public Talk Fri. $20; Sat. Asana Workshop $40; Lecture/Philosophy $40

Please see website for the full event schedule and prices.

On-line: www.threejewelsvancouver.com
E-mail: info@threejewelsvancouver.com
Phone: 604-685-9215

Event Website:
www.threejewellsvancouver.com


Contact Information:
604-685-9215
falbi@shaw.ca


Location:
9 East Broadway
Vancouver,BC

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