Yoga Ecology Events
How to Unite a Divided Society
We are facing unprecedented uncertainties. However, these come with tremendous opportunities to create a more caring, inclusive universal humanity.
When we see human society as one integral whole, a glaring hole within our society, is the disparity in disposable income, access to education, to health care, to name a few.
Thus at YogaEcology we bring forth interesting and timely perspectives for your consideration.
You create the light
Speakers
Dr Jose Ramos
Dr. Jose Ramos is an action researcher, futurist and social innovator with a focus on the commons. His work uses vision driven social experimentation, anticipatory governance and participatory futures. He has 20 years experience as an advocate, writer and organiser, which includes ethnographic study of alternative globalisations and sustainable development pathways, writings on collaborative governance, and research on applied foresight and social change. He is the director for Action Foresight, a boutique futures practice; he is co-editor of the Journal of Futures Studies; and is co-founder of the Participatory Futures Global Swarm (a group that emerged from the Nesta research).
Didi Ananda Shamita
Didi Ananda Shamita has been a yoga nun and social service worker of Ananda Marga for more than 30 years. Before becoming a yogic nun, Didi worked as a high school teacher in Johannesburg, South Africa. The deep impact of the meditation practices and the comprehensive philosophy of Ananda Marga inspired her to quit her teaching profession and to dedicate herself to bringing these practices to the world. After completing her ordination training in India in 1987, she set about doing just that, establishing a women’s retreat centre in Central California and kindergartens in South Africa, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Currently based in Brisbane, Didi teaches the practices of meditation and yoga in Australasia
Dada Paramatmananda
Dada P is a yogic monk and the chief inspiration for the YogaEcology Festival. Born in then apartheid South Africa, Dada had very personal experiences of the inequities and injustice prevalent within our human society. He thus began his fight for social justice becoming an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. While working as a computer engineer, he began searching for a deeper, more profound calling which lead to him learning about the practice of meditation and yoga. Since leaving South Africa and completing his monastic training he has worked in a number of countries, including Holland, Italy and England and has been teaching in Australia and the South Pacific for the last 20 years.
Katana
Raised in Seattle, and based in Aotearoa, New Zealand, Katana offers a passionate vocals that bridge ancient wisdom with future vision. Inspired from over a decade of training in the Coromandel mountains with the Kahuna master, Kumu, Katana sings from the soul. She also studied and finds deep clarity from our ‘Lady of Victory’, Guru Jagat. In both of these ‘rebel lineages’, Kahuna and Kundalini, ancient teachings were revealed for western consciousness in assistance of a great shift. Katana sings, “this time is now.” Through inspirational melodies and sacred chant, this songstress calls upon the power of sound to awaken and unite.
Shiva
Shiva is a musician who not only has studied audio engineering, but also has a qualification in Information Technology. He enjoys all types of music including hip hop, R&B, Latin, symphonic, Celtic and Indian Classical. He loves producing his own music and has a collection of his music on sound cloud. Shiva is involved with charity work for refugees and was moved to produce a powerful and moving piece called, " A Refugee's Story", a song about the struggles of escaping one's country.
Rebel Layonn
Is a songwriter/performer from the Carribean country of Haiti or Ayiti. He has been in this industry for almost twenty years, performing professionally at major concerts and international festivals. Apart from recording his songs, Rebel also collaborates with other artists, and is involved in various projects. His music is inspired by many factors:- the world, its cultures, social and political conditions, inequity, injustice, nature and all the beauty that comes with it. As he says, "Music doesn't make sense if it is not for a rightful cause." Rebel is one artist who lives in a climate of poverty, threat of mother nature, social and political exploitation.
Presentations
What Drives Division
In our evolutionary march, we have made much progress through the use of science and technology. However, to date, we have not created a social order worthy of the true meaning of the word “society” – moving together. Rather we have imported the ‘survival of the fittest’ into our socio economic order. Thus, at a time when we are generating more wealth than at any other time in human history, we also have the greatest amount of social disparity. Why? Can we do better?
Nurturing a Cosmolocal Era
The Crimson Dawn
After ten thousand years of empirical yogic research, we now have a deep understanding of human beings as an individuated intelligent, infinite consciousness. All life throbs with this vital, essential consciousness. Dada will tease out these implications on socio economics, politics, culture and other aspects of our society. We begin an amazing vision of a united, caring, sharing human society.
28-November-2021
Yoga Ecology Introduction
Are you curious to know how we can collectively pave our way forward out of this pandemic and become a more united human society? Rarely do we find the opportunity to draw from 7000-year-old yogic knowledge, but in this complimentary event, you will hear from Yogi’s who have devoted their lives to supporting the evolution of consciousness.
You will hear about the application of ancient Yogic principles to the problems of life in the 21st century.