Rajanaka News October 11th 2023

 Wednesday, October 11, 2023

 

Aho’ Rajanaka,

 

I hope this finds you well.  We’ve much to talk about this coming week.  We need ways to hold ourselves together in the whirlwind, doncha’ think?

Every time I put myself to writing this note, Sadie the Pup jumps up on my lap, pushes away the computer, and insists on dog kisses.  That’s no excuse but it sure makes a fella think about what’s important in life.   She has finally consented after I explained in full sentences (she so smart she corrects grammar too) that you are important too.

 

This will be especially brief.  I am working on two podcasts for this week that will be published on our Substack.  Remember Substack content is also free, and are also invited you to subscribe with a tuition subscription.  Either way, it’s very cool to be able to put content---notes, chats, podcasts, an entire media offering---all in one place.   Link below.

We have the conclusio of the five Sessions scheduled for Ma Kālī and Krsna Tales this week.   Ma Kali on this Thursday, October 12, 7pmEastern, and Krsna Tales on Saturday, October 14th, 5pmEastern.  Join us, there are recordings, links below.  

I will be writing later this week with Sessions planned to take us to December.  We’re going to have  Poetry Thursdays and Philosophical Saturdays in the coming weeks.  These will be individual Sessions on selected works---things we can read and study in one Session, and our resources will extend beyond the Indian traditions.  I thought folks might enjoy a chance to be exposed to work that may not be familiar or dive deep into particular works that offer important matters for our consideration.  Rajanaka has always been about yoga in the inclusive sense, and that was how Appa taught me.  His interests, like my own, extended across the breadth of Asian literature and into the West from antiquity to modernity. Let’s have a go at a few interesting weeks of learning together.  Schedule and topics will follow later this week.

Okay, I promised to be brief in order to get to the podcasts.  I hope you’re enjoying that work.  Let’s talk soon.

 

Saprema,

Douglas

 

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IF you would like to catch up with KRSNA TALES, you can listen to the previous Sessions from our Dropbox Archive.  Join us next week and in the meantime, have a listen:
KRSNA TALES.  The spin on these stories, whether or not you are familiar with any of them, is well worth the time and the company is good.  Last week went very well (can I say that?) and we have recordings, if you can’t make it to the live Zoom.  Here are the links.
ZOOM: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/95057662268

DROPBOX RECORDINGS: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yns6f7e5ftv0oftngesb1/h?rlkey=v2445440ppmm7llgfj3jn9rm0&dl=0

 

 

 

If you would like to catch up on the Ma Kālī’s Poetry, all previous Sessions are available on our Dropbox Archive. Download, listen, and join us next Thursday Evening at 7pm.

KĀLĪ’S SONG, 7PM EASTERN.  This has been so interesting and fun.  We have two recordings for you ready and three more Sessions.  Join us.
ZOOM: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/98183733328

DROPBOX RECORDINGS: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4iugvd3a6s6x1kkqr7nyn/h?rlkey=yqalpm73mvxpk5c66636bmw7l&dl=0

 

I hope you will subscribe to Substack.  It is free to subscribe and all content will be offered free.  (I will never put up a pay wall, which is a common practice.)  If you would like to subscribe and offer a tuition subscription that will be available on the page and much appreciated for the causes we support.  If you’re not familiar, Substack is a multimedia site that will allow us to put podcasts, blogspots, chats, and newsletters all in one place.  It’s super easy for users, it’s free, and some really good folks make their home, like the wonderful Professor Heather Cox Richardson whose daily Letter from an American is must reaind.  Go here to find the Rajanaka Substack; https://rajanaka.substack.com/
Please?


If you want something personal, just for you or for you and a handful of friends, then I’ve got this for you:

 

RAJANAKA TUTORIAL: PERSONALIZED LEARNING, STUDY, CONTEMPLATION IN EVENING WEEKDAY SESSIONS 

Our community has evolved and matured to the point where many of you are eager for more personal and directed work.  There’s nothing quite like a personal conversation.  Do you want to talk about your life in yoga?  Discuss a particular subject, topic, or vocabulary?  Read a text together?  I’m will make available time on Monday, Wednesday, and some Fridays after 7pm Eastern time.  We can schedule one session, weekly, bi-weekly, whatever suits you.  The model is the so-called Oxford Tutorial or more like what Appa did for me: it was just us.  You can invite friends, you can organize this for your own yoga students for Q&A or teacher training.  You will have your own ZOOM link and all material will be wholly private and confidential.  Learning in good company is what we do.  Tuition can be paid over time.  $165 for Four Sessions, 90 minutes each, or as you please.  Write to me and we will schedule: douglas@rajanaka.com  

 



THE DROPBOX ARCHIVE 

This is truly a vast repository of recorded Sessions, Seminars, Camps.  If you want any past course or session (and find Dropbox less than optimal), just write to me, I will hook you up.
You can access this anytime by downloading from provided links.  And a very select bit is still on the Rajanaka website.  You’ll find the hundreds free Saturday Storytellings, Sunday Mahabharata, our Gita Sessions, and so much more.  I’m trying to figure out how to make this more organized and accessible (currently with Substack, ‘cause it’s got tools).  Look below the line for some selections.  I hope to move most of this to Substack where you can more easy subscribe and purchase.  Proceeds to our good causes.

ALL PAST NEWSLETTERS on the Kalliyam Blogspot here:

https://kalliyam.blogspot.com/2023/01/rajanaka-newsletter-january-10-2023.html
I’m hoping to put all future Newsletters also on Substack.  Our mailing list server is fine but it’d be better to have things all in one place.

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