"Awake: the Life of Yogananda" - This Week on SUMMER OF PEACE

 

THIS WEEK ON SUMMER OF PEACE:

• **TODAY** TUESDAY, September 2nd, 9:00am Pacific
  Interview with the Filmmakers of "AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda" with Lisa Leeman & Paola di Florio & Peter Rader
• **TODAY** TUESDAY, September 2nd, 11:00am Pacific
  The Global Coherence Initiative and the Global Care Rooms with Deborah Rozman & Claudia Welss
• SUNDAY, September 7th, 9:00am Pacific
  Spirituality & Peace Sunday with Sister Draupadi

Dear Ron Alexander,

Today, our first session is with Paola di Florio, Peter Rader and Lisa Leeman, the directors and producer of Awake: The Life of Yogananda.  I recently had the delight of attending a screening of this film and was deeply touched by the ground-breaking impact Yogananda has had on the world.

Yogananda arrived in the United States from India in 1920 and began teaching the “scientific” method of Kriya Yoga. He had to overcome racism and death threats, yet he and a group of monastics paved the way for the mainstreaming of yoga and meditation in the West.

Yogananda referred to concepts of energy and consciousness decades before scientific research could prove them.  While the United States was dropping the atomic bomb, Yogananda was teaching how to transform oneself through yoga and then, by example, inspiring others, similar to Gandhi - “be the change.”

It is clear now to see that this timeless science of yoga was intentionally brought to the West to help humanity find peace in this critical and precarious atomic age.

TUESDAY, September 2nd, 9:00am Pacific Interview with the Filmmakers of "AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda" with Lisa Leeman & Paola di Florio & Peter Rader  Indian mystic Paramahansa Yogananda brought yoga and meditation to the West in 1920 and authored the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi.” By personalizing his own quest for enlightenment and sharing his struggles along the path, Yogananda made ancient teachings accessible to a modern audience. This documentary examines the world of yoga, modern and ancient, east and west and explores why millions today have turned their attention inwards, bucking the temptations of the material world in pursuit of Self-Realization.