WEDNESDAY 9.8. 15.00 - Arrivals, check in, touring the area and/or resting17.00-18.00 Dinner18:30 Opening Ceremony, Nalanie Chellaram (SP): We Are One

THURSDAY 10.8.

6:00 Meditation6:30 Morning practise, two options:

1 Heike Amma Farkas (DE): Hatha Multilevel Heike will lead us to an inspiring Integral Yoga Hatha Class to wake up to a beautiful day!

2 Reverend Sam Rudra Swartz (US): Accesible Integral Yoga Reverend Rudra explores an Integral Yoga Level I class employing concepts and techniques to make the practice accessible for any and every BODY.

8:00 Breakfast

10:00 Midday Keynote by Swami Ramananda (US): The Source of Oneness in an Age of Fear. We live in a time when our world is filled with conflicts and corruption, creating an atmosphere or tension and fear. These disturbing conditions can put us in touch with the basic uncertainties of human life and the need to ground ourselves in an essential and unchanging spiritual foundation. 12:00-13.00 Lunch

12:00-12:30 Meditation

14:00-15.00 Nalanie Chellaram (ES): ”Living with Inspiration”

15:15 -16.45 Workshops, three Options:

1. Bhavana (UK): Deepen the Connection to Your Voice So many of us believe we cannot sing, or feel we have been silenced, and so lose the con nection to our mostpowerful tool of expression and healing we have… Our Voice. Voicework offers an experience of your voice, your unique expression, using mantras and sounding, in a way that will both support and expand you. This helps to surface the patterns and habits that emerge when we seek to express ourselves authentically. Using our voice in this way can connect us to some of our deepest core feelings and emotions, which can be a powerful tool for transformation and self discovery.

2. Paula Prasanna Kiuru (FI): Yoga Groove – This Is It, the Natural High A dynamic, fun and relaxed yoga workshop infusing music and asanas together. You don’t have to have any prior experience nor is it an aerobics class but joy in movement at your own pace. Music such as ethnic electronica, ambient or brazilian groove leads your way. YogaGroove is all about spontaneity in yoga, fun and easy mindset without any expec tations or competition. This is a yoga class that can spark creativity and deeply open your heart. This practise is not recomended during pregnancy.

3.Usha Piscini (IT): Attributes of the Great Mother Nature: From unconscious identity to conscious identity with the Divine Mother–spiritual evolution towards wisdom and unity: One with Nature

17:00 Dinner

19:00 CHANTING Outdoors by the Campfire with Rasmi & Detlef (DE)

PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 9.8.– THURSDAY 10.8.

Urheiluopisto KisakeskusKullaanniemi 220, 10420 Pohjankurupuh. (019) 223 0300info@kisakeskus.fi www.kisakeskus.fi

FRIDAY 11.8.

6:00 Meditation6:30 Morning practise, two options:

1 Paola Parvathi Faini (IT): Hatha “Chakra Flow – A Deep Connection with the Nature within” Feel the connection with the nature as an Experience from Chakra to Chakra, in a beautiful flowing practise.

2 Tiina Shanti Syrjä (FI): Integral Yoga Hatha Basic Level in Finnish Suomeksi ohjattu Integral Yoga Hatha -harjoitus.

8:00 Breakfast

10:00 Midday Keynote by Swami Karunananda (US) ”The Interconnectedness of all Life” (people, animals, plants, minerals, the elements) and how our thoughts influence the entire world. Continuing with Nalanie Chellaram (SP) :”As you think, you´ll become”12:00-13.00 Lunch12:00-12:30 Meditation14:00-15:00 Dr Erkki Lähde (FI): ”More Interaction than Competition In Nature” Dr Erkki Lähde tells us about his research in Silviculture, indicating that the Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) methods are more productive, economical and profitable than those prevailing practice has used. In addition, they care best for both biodiversity and so-called forest ecosystem services (e.g. taking care of human health) of forests.

15.15-16:45 Workshops, three Options:

1 Shabad Deep Kaur & Brahm Giani (FI): Sizzle & Spark with Kundalini Yoga to live music Venturing an ancient Kundalini kriya with the live music of Brahm Giani, we will make a journey in our body and mind to expand into the Infinity where we are at home, and can enjoy all the creative power to draw from. To open up the doors of the Inner Palace will take a little bit of pressure and squeeze, but we will manage that with a little help from asana and pranayama, the Sacred Naad, music and chanting with the Brahm Giani band.

2 Heike Amma Farkas (DE): Partner Yoga Heike ”High Key” will lead us to a partner yoga that is a fun and deep, dynamic experience. Partner Yoga is simply wonderful, a deeply touching and literally „moving“ experience. With ease you reach a depth and duration in your practice that you simply can not find on your own. It is fun, it is nurturing, and supporting. We will do asanas in pairs – does noThave to be with your life partner. 3 Alessandra Uma Cocchi (IT): Yoga as a Therapeutic Way Health is the result of a balance between the inside and the outside, both at the micro and macro level. Reaching this balance means to re-connect with Nature. So Health can be seen as perfect connection with Nature. What happens physiologically when we practice an Integral Yoga class? We restore that balance…

17:00 Dinner

18.00-19.00 Sari Sharmini Penttilä (FI): Yoga In Nature, Practising yoga outdoors we more easily feel and remember our connection to the whole. Nature in her wisdom has been patiently waiting for us to come and enjoy it´s harmonous beauty and energy. She lovingly welcomes us to Shinrin Yoku, Forest Bathing. As practicing pranayama, asanas and meditation, we are enveloped in the arms of Mother Nature.

18:30 -23:00 Lakeside SAUNA

20.30 Brahm Giani (FI): Kirtan Evening:

Lend your Heart to a hum that we all recognise, the song of your Soul; let kirtan soothe the sorrows and lift up your spirit, open you up to see that we are not alone in this world. There is nothing you need to know, or be, to enjoy kirtan; no need to know the mantras from before, no need to know how to sing. Come as you are and join the sacred sound vibration! Brahm Giani brings you a selection of mantras and banis from different spiritual traditions.

22-23 Sauna still warm…

PROGRAM FRIDAY 11.8

SATURDAY 12.8.

6:00 Meditation6:30 Morning practise, two options:

1 Rowan Cobelli (UK): Hatha Yoga Multilevel – The Wisdom of No EffortThrough exploration and the guidance of inspirational teachers Rowan is sharing a variety of angles from which to approach Yoga. Integrating yoga philosophy as a way of moving; the pace, tempo and quality of attention create the environment for the student’s own depth and inner well-being to be experienced.

2 Reverend Sam Rudra Swartz (US): Kidding Around Yoga – for everyone!No kidding! You are bound to enjoy this class despite your age in years, so welcome kids and grown-ups! Rudra, earned his certification to ”kid around,” as a Children’s Yoga Teacher from Kidding Around Yoga in 2012. He also serves as a Counselor and Assistant Director of Camp Yogaville, at Satchidananda Ashram Virginia’s summer camp, where he was bestowed with the loving nickname, “The Sarge”, for showing an ability to discipline the children in a loving way. He continues to serve there annually, as well as participate in the Kidding Around Yoga Camp in Ellenton, FL in the same capacity.

8:00 Breakfast

10:00 PUJA by Swami Karunananda (US) and Swami Ramananda (US)

12:00 Lunch

12:00-12:30 Meditation14:00-15:00 Gong Relaxation: Let the Sacred Sound Vibration of Gong and Bowls lead you to cleanse away tensions from body and mind!15:15 -16:45 Workshops, three Options:

1 Paola Parvathi Faini (IT): Moving Body and Mind in Harmony with NatureWe are an integrated part of Nature and its Elements, we are a reflection of the perfection of Nature. Moving with the current of Nature can guar-antee us an healthy body and a balanced mind. Listening on the Nature can give us important messages. In this workshop we will explore, through the wise principles of ancient traditions, such as Yoga, Ayurve-da, Chinese Traditional Medicine and of course the repetitive rhythm of Nature, how we can move and take care of our bodyduring different seasons, how we can deal with our emotional mind in a balanced way and be part of the Natural Flow. We will spend a time of observation and practise together indoors and, if weather permits, outdoors.

2 Lucy Lukshmi Cannon (PT): Having Fun With Sun SalutationsWe will explore the Sun Salutation with music, breath and playing with many variations. There are many asanas that can be linked into our sun salutation practice to make it a more dynamic practice. We will play with; basing a full class around the Sun Salutation, how to do it in a chair or against the wall and come up with our own chore-ography within the sequence.

3 Mari Parashakti Rantamäki (FI):Trauma Sensitive YogaMari Parashakti will lead you to a practise to apply your body-mind wisdom, to an insight of it´s functions, to an experience of directing these energies, aiming at an opening up to your spiritual heart, and through that, to healing.In Parashakti´s class we look into what a trauma is and touch on the basics of trauma sensitive yoga. We will find out about the ways of supporting the recovery after a trauma, as well as the post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. You will get an experience of how to apply the basic principles of trauma sensitive yoga into teaching of yoga classes.

17:00 Dinner

19:00 SATSANG led by Swami Karunananda and Swami Ramananda (US)

What is Satsang? In satsang, participants commit to exploring the liberation of truth. It is a formal or informal gathering intended to facilitate the sharing of wisdom and is said to be a particularly im-portant doorway to experiencing inner freedom.

20:30 KIRTAN with Bhavana (UK/ES)

Take a journey through sound and mantra, Bhavana’s kirtans, like their own voices and music, are dynamic and colourful, serving up a full range of chants, easy to follow and join in, for a powerful experi-ence that takes you to the essential stillness inside.

Kirtan is chanting or singing, a form of yoga for the voice done in a group accompanied by music. It requires no background or training, and is easily learnt. Repeating Sanskrit mantras creates a medita-tive and uplifted mental state, and helps to melt inhibitions that can suppress your voice and expression. You add your voice to those around you, creating a sense of harmony. Some people feel a sense of calm, others a sense of elation- it’s a great way to unblock emo-tions and a sense of being stuck. The words and melodies are simple and repeated so that you can get into a rhythm and enter a more meditative state conducive to letting go. Bhavana’s kirtans are unique throughout the world for their dynamism, creative use of the ancient mantras, range of sounds, and ability to access so many routes to the calm place within.

PROGRAM SATURDAY 12.8

SUNDAY 13.8.

6:00 Meditation

6:30 Morning practise, two options:

1 Lucy Luckshmi Cannon: IY Hatha Multilevel Luckshmi will lead us to an inspiring Integral Yoga Hatha Class to wake up to a beautiful day!

2 Rowan Cobelli: IY Hatha Multilevel – Meeting the Game of Resistance Using anatomical orientation as a base, Rowan opens a door to the subtle, where our relation ship to practice takes a whole new direction and experience. You will be invited to find a qual ity of movement that contains reverence, a willingness to look, and a freshness to explore from the familiar to the unknown.

8:00 Breakfast

10:00 Midday Keynote by Swami Karunananda (US): Personal Transformation -- how all of Nature is constantly changing, and as part of Nature, we can make positive changes, too.

12:00 Lunch

13:00- 14:00 ”Closing The Circle” feedback and farewell

14.30 Leaving Kisakeskus for Helsinki – näkemiin!

PROGRAM SUNDAY 13.8

If you have any questions, please don´t hesitate to write us: Integralyogareunion.finland@gmail.com

Urheiluopisto KisakeskusKullaanniemi 220, 10420 Pohjankurupuh. (019) 223 0300info@kisakeskus.fi www.kisakeskus.fi