Please consider attending Bhakti Fest 2011.  I am so grateful and excited to have been invited to offer some "Nashville Kirtan" in the high desert of California!  The dates for the 2011 fall festival are:  September  8-11, 2011.  There is on site housing and camping as well as nearby hotels to stay in.  There is 24 hour kirtan going on, a wide variety of yoga classes with world renowned teachers, seminars, workshops, & lectures with inspiring speakers & delicious food!  It takes place in Joshua Tree, CA, in the Palm Desert.  It's a very powerful place to be.  Connecting with the bright souls that attend from all over the world is a big part of what makes the event so special.  Check out the site at: www.BhaktiFest.com .  You can purchase tickets from the site.  If you have any questions about it, please let me know.

5th Annual Bhakti Yoga Retreat at Gray Bear Retreat Lodge.  September 30th - October 2nd, 2011.  Join us for this weekend in paradise, only 2 hours from Nashville.  The 2010 fall workshop was pure bliss!  Gray Bear is one of the most healing and rejuvenating places on the planet...with a wood fired sauna & spring fed cold plunge, natural hot tub, watsu pool, waterfalls, and the most delicious local & organic food!  Please check out Gray Bear at:  www.graybear.org and feel free to email me when any questions you may have.  
The sacred ground of Gray Bear calls us to connect & harmonize in the natural elements; offering a wood fired sauna with spring fed cold plunge, natural stone hot tub, watsu pool, exquisite waterfalls, and delectable vegetarian cuisine.  October is a beautiful time of the year to be there, in the season of the turning leaves. 
“A bhakti yoga weekend retreat with Amy Barnes more than amazed me.  It fulfilled my deepest desire to find a teacher on the yoga path that lights up my soul fire.  Her "Bhakti soup" cooks up so artfully the blend of yogas - the fluid, flowing hatha, pranayama breathing, repetition of mantras to music, and the Bhakti, the yoga of love and devotion expressed through her presence, voice and healing touch.  The feeling that Amy exudes is imbued with her special musical talent and the vibrations of all of her teachers, and the delightful essence of Shakti. If passion for the Divine is your calling, she might just be the one with whom to fly to the Higher Planes of existence.”     ~Kathleen Rosemary

WHERE:        Gray Bear Yoga Retreat Center, www.graybear.org  

TO REGISTER:         Call Amy at 615.400.0908, or email:  amy@amybarnesyoga.com  

Sri Chakra ~ the Wish Fulfilling Tree
These classes are grounded in Kundalini Tantra & Bhakti Yoga practices.  Each session is designed to awaken the sacred energy of each chakra, illuminating the entire spinal channel, Sashumna, and blossoming the wish fulfilling tree of the heart. We will cultivate our intentions, our heart's longing, (Sankalpa) as the guiding center of all our efforts, connecting with the inner Source of our creativity, gifts, & life purpose.  Each session will include elements of sacred sound and mantra chanting, asana & creative movement, kriya, pranayama, puja/ritual, offerings & prayer… ordinary magic making! 

These classes are created for those who want to deepen, enrich, & integrate their inner & outer devotional lives; increasing one's capacity to contain expansive states of awareness, joy, and energy; living in the grace of self responsibility.  Blissfulness and being fully alive is our true nature.  Why live any other way?

“The deeper you go, the less you know, the more you are.” 
~ Ram Dass