Bringing Meditation to Life
The Wonder of Meditation
Saturday 15 November
9.30am-12.30pm
Venue: Drifter
In this workshop—taught by a former monk with over 50 years of experience—we will not only explore the various building blocks and the many facets of meditation, but we will also have ample opportunity to explore various approaches through guided group sessions, discussions and questions and answers.
The Wonder of Meditation
Saturday 15 November
2pm-5pm
Venue: Mount Pleasant Community Hall
In this workshop—taught by a former monk with over 50 years of experience—we will not only explore the various building blocks and the many facets of meditation, but we will also have ample opportunity to explore various approaches through guided group sessions, discussions and questions and answers.
Mantra Meditation
Sunday 16 November
2pm-5pm
Venue: Mary Potter Centre
In this session, we will explore the various traditional forms of mantra practice, with particular emphasis on working with the breath and the powerful tantric mantra "haṃsa”.
Meet Carlos Pomeda
Originally from Madrid, Spain, Carlos has been steeped in all aspects of the yoga tradition during more than 50 years of practice and study. He spent 18 of those years as a monk of the Saraswati order, under the name Swami Gitananda, including 9 years of traditional training and practice in India.
During this time he learned the various systems of Indian Philosophy and immersed himself in the practice of yoga, becoming one of the senior monks of the tradition and teaching meditation and philosophy to tens of thousands of students around the world. He combines this experience and traditional training with his academic background, which includes two Masters Degrees: one in Sanskrit, from U.C. Berkeley (where he has taught) and another one, in Religious Studies, from U.C. Santa Barbara. He is currently working on a book on the topic of “Karma and the Journey of the Soul”, as well as an updated History of Yoga and a new translation of the Śivasūtra, an important Tantric text of the Kashmiri tradition.
Carlos currently lives in the US, and travels extensively around the world conducting a variety of retreats, courses, seminars, workshops and lectures on the Wisdom of Yoga and related subjects.
