Industrialization of our food has led us to become overweight and undernourished, we suffer from chronic fatigue and myriad mystery illnesses, childhood diabetes is skyrocketing, and cancer has touched most of our lives in a deep and personal way.Feel Good Fast is a natural response to a fast-food world - everything instant, factory-farmed, mass-produced and toxic. Feel Good Fast is a powerful quarterly practice - an antidote to pollutants and stresses of the 21st century. Join us as Moira teaches us how we can have renewed energy, glowing skin, improved digestions, an enhanced immune system, fresh inspiration, clothes and fit better and easy-to prepare, incredibly delicious food.

Feel Good Guru

In this episode of Returning to the Body Mind Melissa will discuss the ethical issues facing today's yoga community. Issues of power, sex, money, honesty, unethical behaviour, relationships, and building supportive communities will be covered.

Kylea Taylor

Ayurveda is India's 5,000 year old "Science of Life" and it is the art of living in harmony with nature. Your dosha is your Ayurveda mind and body type. There are three doshas in Ayurveda: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. We each have all three of the doshas in our physiology, just in different proportions, so your dosha is unique and personal; it is like your fingerprint. Join us as Lissa Coffey helps us understand our ayurvedic constitution.

What's Your Dosha Baby?

Michelle Trantina and Kreg Weiss about their online community to promote yoga, health and wellness. Through yoga online they have brough the benefits of yoga, Pilates, meditation, dance, nutrition, and holistic living to everyone, everywhere. Michelle and I share a background in prenatal yoga, thai massage and an interest in mind-body connection. I'm looking forward to talking to Kreg about his passion for local and international charities as well as his support for Doctors Without Borders.

My Yoga Online

With The Hope, Andrew Harvey has given a name to the path that so many of us are now following and to which many are being called: "Sacred Activism". As he explains, "When...the joy of compassionate service is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing economic, social and political institutions, a radical and potentially all-transforming holy force is born. This radical holy force I call Sacred Activism.... My deepest prayer for the vision of Sacred Activism is that it will inspire you to harness the energies of love, both in yourself and with others, and to discover, with wonder and hope, the joy and power of...that fiery passion of compassion that, when allied with grounded wise action, will help us change everything."

Sacred Activism.

Deva Premal and Miten met in India in 1990 and soon began a journey into love and creativity that has taken their inspiring blend of song, mantra and meditation to a worldwide audience. They have released a string of acclaimed CDs with international sales of nearly one million, and their concerts and ecstatic chant workshops are met with rave reviews throughout Europe, Australia, South America, Canada and the United States.

Join Melissa as she discusses how our personal yoga practices are a reflection of how we act in our lives. Melissa will discuss tuning in to your own inner teacher, exploring edge as a place of information and personal transformation and integrating your practice into your everyday life.

Buddhism and yoga share a common history that goes back centuries. But because yoga and Buddhism came to North America from Asia as two separate traditions, their commonalities in the West often seem invisible. Most people choose to study either yoga or Buddhism and generally don't combine the practices. Michael Stone brings together a collection of intriguing voices to show how Buddhism and yoga really do share the same values and spiritual goals. The contributors' themes are rich and varied, yet they all focus on the common threads among the traditions that offer guidance toward spiritual freedom and genuine realization.

Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity

Shambhavi Chopra will connect us to a direct experience of the Goddess and deeper yoga practices. She will talk to us about the essence of tantra and the connection to Goddess in our everyday lives. Chopra will explain how the Yogini is a woman of profound inner experience and realization. Yogini Shambhavi Chopra is the co-director of the American Vedic Institute.

American Vedic Institute

Yoga Festival Toronto is a yearly festival of the Yoga Tradition inspired by content, vision, and community.

The Festival aims to unite, inspire and support local practitioners, teachers, studios, and lineages with a broad range of presentation topics, practical classes, and round-table discussion and debate.

Their goal is to help develop a mature, community-based, content-inspired, de-commercialized, and innovative Yoga culture in Toronto and beyond. Our keynote event is the Festival itself, scheduled for the third weekend in August every year, but we also host community-building events, and publish a bimonthly newsletter featuring news and reviews by YFT faculty and staff -- all with a strong educational and dialectic focus.

We believe that as a nascent global movement growing with fierce momentum, the Yoga tradition is ready for periodic "time-outs", in which mentors, students, and scholars can shape and share the many answers to questions that define a culture yearning for integrity.

Yoga Festival Toronto