As more than just a routine of physical exercises, yoga is increasingly being seen as an overall lifestyle choice, providing tested and prescribed methods for happy, healthy, and holistic living.  In keeping with such ideas, the Fourth Annual Yoga Meltdown will be host to free live vegan cooking demonstrations and seminars that will promote the benefits of meatless, vegan diets and foods.

Yoga Meltdown

Third Annual Yoga Meltdown - July 18th, 2010 As Toronto's largest, free, outdoor spiritual yoga exhibition and festival, Yoga Meltdown has quickly made a name for itself amongst the GTA's multitude of yoga enthusiasts.  The 3rd Annual Yoga Meltdown - held as a part of the 38th Annual Festival of India (July 17th-18th, 2010) - will take place on July 18th, 2010, under the sun and amidst the verdent greenery of Centre Island.  With free outdoor yoga classes, yoga-inspired arts and performances, vegan cooking demonstrations, a free vegetarian feast, and much more, the 3rd Annual Yoga Meltdown celebrates yoga in a dynamic and uniquely holistic way!  

Casa Loma Yoga

Casa Loma is officially on the yoga scene with monthly yoga programs being held at the majestic tourist destination!  Imagine doing outdoor yoga as the morning sun rises over the beautiful gardens of magical Casa Loma! Well dream no further. This month, on Saturday, September 26, 2009, Casa Loma, is presenting a spiritually charged yogic morning! Bring your yoga mat and attend a yoga class in the famous Casa Loma gardens. Following the class, attendees will be taken to the grand Casa Loma Library for a mantra-meditation session. The morning will culminate with a kirtan-concert given by Toronto's very own Gaura Shakti kirtan-yoga band!

The picturesque, serene beauty of Centre Island with its lush parks and cool breezes from the lake will form the backdrop for a feast for the senses. Yoga Meltdown will present attendees with a chance to unwind, rejuvenate and invigorate themselves.

This is the very goal of Yoga Meltdown. To provide an opportunity for spiritual seekers, yoga enthusiasts, vegans/vegetarians and anyone who is curious about yoga to come out and deepen their understanding of yoga and its physical, mental and spiritual benefits.

The event will be highlighted by numerous free activities such as:
- Non-stop outdoor yoga classes and demonstrations
- Vegan and vegetarian cooking demonstrations
- Mantra meditation
- Power-packed chanting and kirtan

The advanced consciousness of human beings is for understanding the deepest mysteries of existence. What is life? What is its origin? Why does it exist? Yet we mostly struggle to find any practical understanding of the difference between spirit and matter. Spiritual knowledge is vague and inconclusive. Although fashionable peddlers of popular spirituality claim we are spiritual beings, there is a huge gulf between chic notions of the spiritual self and clear-cut knowledge about it.

The basic problem in our search for happiness is that our sources of pleasure are limited. Mantra provides means by which we can expand our pleasure beyond our present limitations. ROAR SOUND is a Mantra Meditation Workshop designed to get you in touch with a pleasure principle that operates beyond the bounds of time and space and emanates from the very innermost part of our being.

A warm fuzzy feeling in the heart and a sense of excitement can easily pass as love. In every relation we search for love...at home with family or at school with friends, we are looking for loving relations. We have eternally searched for that perfect relation in the name of love.

Every relationship has its ups and then the downs. Often the downs may seem to stay longer. Our eternal longing unanswered, we may ask is 'happily ever after' true only in fairytale. But the quest for a perfect relationship continues unfettered.

Module 1: Environment Scan: ecology, war, relations
In today’s fast changing world, daily newspapers alert you about impending attacks. Environment, economy, country, relations, and family – everything is under attack. A sense of urgency grips our lives and at such times Yogic Vision helps us view the world around us in a different perspective. In this session we explore a perspective that presents scope for an alternate future of the world around us.

Module 2: Mantra Meditation - kirtan
Experience the power of mantra meditation and transcendent beats. Ancient eastern instruments and experts musicians and yogis take you on an inner journey through the power of sound.