November 8, 2024 6:30pm

Eightfold Paths and Limbs: Guides to Being a Yogi/ni in the World | A Weekend Workshop with Robert Thurman, John Campbell and Jamie Bonelli

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John R.B. Campbell, PhD | Jamie Bonelli | Robert A.F. Thurman

$35.00$200.00

Description

Friday, November 8 

 6:30-9pm

Saturday, November 9

9:30am-6:30pm

Sunday, November 10

9-11am

Full workshop $200, Friday lecture only $35, Sunday practice only $55

In Person + Zoom

 

This workshop is a comparative exploration of ethical thought and practice on the Buddhist and Yoga paths according to, respectively, Shantideva’s Guide to an Awakened Life and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, both masterpieces of the Indic inner sciences. What is karma, and how do mental and physical actions relate to our experience in the world? What does behavior have to do with cultivating habits of mind, and how do either of these transform the way we experience the world? Through lectures and practice sessions, the workshop engages such fundamental issues relating to the purpose of yoga.

In Friday’s lecture, renowned scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Bob Thurman addresses the topic of ethics described by Patanjali and Shantideva. Observing that both the Brahminical Patanjali and Buddhist Shantideva embrace the possibility of attaining a state of freedom from our root pathologies of attraction, egoism, aversion, and dysfunctional reactivity, Thurman shares profound insights about how the path out of individual suffering is simultaneously described as a path to being the agent of well-being for others. These themes weave throughout Saturday and Sunday’s additional lectures and practice sessions, including guided meditation, vinyasa-based yoga sessions, and Tibetan healing yoga.

Chairs are provided as needed for the Friday night lecture and meditation. Saturday’s yoga practice session involves active movement, so please dress accordingly. All practices can be adapted for students with physical limitations. Yoga mats are provided.

 

Friday 11/8

6:30–9pm Uniting the 8-Limbs with the 8-fold Path  [Thurman]

Saturday 11/9

9:30–11:30am Vinyasa-based Yoga and Yoga Nidra [Campbell &

Bonelli]

12:30–2:30pm The Bodhisattva Ethics of Shantideva and Patanjali’s

“Dharma Cloud” [Thurman and Campbell] 

4–6pm The Bodhisattva Ethics of Shantideva and Patanjali’s Dharma

Cloud part II [Thurman and Campbell] 

Sunday 11/10

9–11am Vinyasa-based Practice and Tibetan Healing Yoga

[Campbell & Bonelli]

 

 

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Pricing Options

Full-Workship In Person $200, Full-workshop Zoom $200, Friday lecture ONLY In Person $35, Friday lecture ONLY Zoom $35, Sunday Practice ONLY In Person $55, Sunday Practice ONLY Zoom $55

Featuring

Jamie Bonelli

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Jamie was born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC and has been practicing yoga in the city for over 20 years.
Jamie views the physical asana practice of yoga as a place to expand the limitations of the human mind. Both in finding joy in breaking perceived physical boundaries and also by being loving, gentle and accepting of oneself when coming up against challenge.
Jamie has practiced the entire old ashtanga yoga asana syllabus and up through the 4th series in the more current structure.
In the past few years she has become increasingly interested and practiced mantra meditation and chanting from the Vedic tradition. Jamie has guided Yoga Nidra meditation for over 10 years.
She graduated with honors from Fordham University studying both media and comparative religion.
She still lingers with the question that led her college studies of how war can be fought over religious reasons and how can it be prevented. Jamie still resides in NYC with her two vivacious daughters.

John R.B. Campbell, PhD

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John Campbell has been practicing yoga and meditation for thirty years, teaching both worldwide for much of that time. A scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, he holds a PhD in Religion from Columbia University. He is a Fulbright Fellow and has taught at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, where he co-founded the Contemplative Sciences Center (https://csc.virginia.edu/) for research and teaching centered on contemplative methods and traditions. From 2018—2021 he was Director of South Asian Collections for the Asian Legacy Library (https://asianlegacylibrary.org/) which preserves of rare and endangered text collections in Nepal, India, and Mongolia. He is currently working on a multi-volume translation from Sanskrit and Tibetan of commentaries on the Guhyasamaja Tantra, a Buddhist scripture. The first volume of that project was published in 2020 as The Esoteric Community Tantra by Vajradhara with the Illuminating Lamp by Chandrakirti. A native New Yorker, he lives with his wife, three children, and various cats and dogs in Newburgh, New York.
Robert Thurman is the President and Founder of Tibet House US. Known in the academic circles as Professor Robert A.F. Thurman, he is a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings and the first Westerner Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A charismatic speaker and author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, Bob was named by The New York Times the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism, and was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri Award in 2020, for his help in recovering India’s ancient Buddhist heritage. Time Magazine chose him as one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1997, describing him as a “larger than life scholar-activist destined to convey the Dharma, the precious teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, from Asia to America.”

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