Brisbane Yoga Expo Video Footage

Thi s is a couple of minutes of lo-fi video footage that Vraj shot of the Yoga Expo on his camera.

The day was an unqualified success. This year it was all about bringing the yoga community together, and not so much about reaching out to the general public. Next year it will go ballistic.

Most of the people I spoke to were either doing yoga regularly already at a school, or else, in a large number of cases, a yoga teacher. We got to meet people we hadn't had the opportunity to meet yet, such as Adam, Akash, and Radha Bornstein from Radiant Light Yoga, and Har Simrat, who recently moved up to Brisbane from Sydney, and is teaching Kundalini Yoga at Zen Central in West End. We also got to catch up with old friends, such as Johnathon Murphy, who organized the event, Kate Pell from West End Yoga, who lead our yoga teacher training last year, Tamara James, and a whole lot of others.

There were classes all day, and I attended one, Tamara James' class where we worked on shoulders. I would have liked to have gone to Kate's class and Adam's class, but we were organizing our stall and the prasadam, so it wasn't possible.

At the end, after a beautiful set of devotional songs by Radha Bornstein, there was a kirtan with Radiant Light and Atma Yoga fielding a kirtan group each. There were about 100 people there for that. It was awesome. Radiant Light would do one kirtan, then we would do one, back and forth. Then for the final kirtan everyone got up and danced with wild abandon.

Then Johnathon came and stood in the center of a circle of everyone who was there, and we pronounced our blessings on him for his service to the yoga community, intoning the sacred syllable OM three times with our palms raised toward him. It was quite powerful.

Then we went to Govindas and broke fast with some curd subji!