ISKCON Halifax

Thurs­day Novem­ber 11 the Bhakti club of Rut­gers Uni­ver­sity in New Jer­sey put on a huge event called Sacred Sounds. The club posted 2000 11X17 posters all around cam­pus. More than 500 peo­ple walked in to see Gau­ra­vani & As Kin­dred Spir­its, The Maya­puris, and Rad­hanath Swami.

Today I read an arti­cle that appeared in Bloomberg Busi­ness­week called The Rise of the Power Veg­ans.  The arti­cle men­tioned Steve Wynn, a bil­lion­aire with over 10 000 peo­ple work­ing for him, who recently watched a doc­u­men­tary called Eat­ing by Mike Ander­son. 

Kurma is one of my favorite cooks.  His recipe books are leg­endary.  But recently I was check­ing out his blog and I found him men­tion that there is a dif­fer­ence of 5 ml between the North Amer­i­can table­spoon and the Aus­tralian tablespoon.

Rad­hanath Swami spoke Sun­day evening in New York at Yoga­maya Stu­dio.  Bryn Chris­man made won­der­ful arrange­ments.  She is the Stu­dio direc­tor, a yoga teacher, and kir­tan lover.

Sat­ur­day morn­ing we walked around the Capi­tol Build­ing, the botan­i­cal gar­den near the White House, a few muse­ums, and what looked like Chi­na­town.  All the signs on the build­ings were in Chi­nese, but there were no food mar­kets out­side.  Very unusual for Chinatown.

Cai­tanya Jivan (Joel Pier) hosted Rad­hanath Swami at his yoga stu­dio in Philadel­phia called Sid­dha Yoga on Nov 5. 

Novem­ber 4 we cel­e­brated the Fes­ti­val of Lights or Diwali at the Broome Street Tem­ple in New York.  It was like walk­ing into a South Indian Tem­ple — except hard wood floors instead of mar­ble!  On the week­days start­ing at 5:45 am the tem­ple is open for Mysore style yoga.  The place is so packed, peo­ple wait at the back til those in front fin­ish and move forward! 

On Tues­day I walked 20 min to the Jiva­mukti Yoga Cen­tre and into ‘SUNSET GITA’
with Joshua Greene. 

Yes­ter­day we went trick-or-treating on the streets of New York! 

Yes­ter­day I vis­ited Kula Yoga, a large yoga stu­dio in Man­hat­tan.  The entrance is deceiv­ing.  I didn’t see any sign.  It seemed like an entrance to an apart­ment above a store­front.  As we entered I was amazed to see 2 lines of peo­ple — one going up and one com­ing down — with a few breaks here and there.  We went up 3 flights of stairs to get to the room where the shoe rack was.  Then we back-tracked down nar­row hall­ways and stairs to a large room with huge win­dows on one side.  Wood ceil­ings and a brick wall added to the char­ac­ter of the place.