On May 5th, 2024 our 100 Seeds of Joy team of volunteers received Congratulations from the City of Burlington for the success and community impact brought by the Festival of New Beginnings
Thank You dear volunteers from Sahaja Yoga Meditation Network and all our Community Partners that helped with this beautiful Festival to have such an impact!
We have an amazing group of dynamic and loving volunteers who prepared intensely for The Festival of New Beginnings celebrating the Seeds and Trees coming from 100 Seeds of Joy
We had Coreen and Lesley
(and other friends from our Orchard Meditation team!) patiently cutting hundreds of flowers for our Tree of Oneness as well helping with typing and printing the Letters and Messages
(enjoy anytime a related article:) Impressions from Spring Meditation Seminar on Forgiveness
Explore More photos to feel the Joy of Creativity and Colllectiveness experiences during the preparations for the Festival of New Beginnings that led to such a Great Impact and Success
As always we meditated together many a times together to find Inspiration
We even prepared a Greek Dance and had many rehearsals at our Classes; even in our backyards and any other welcoming places! We had such a blast with Argy our teacher!
Remember our “We are One” Festival when Everyone joined in the “Zorba the Grek Dance”?
Oh, about the Backyard dance practice? That’s for real and we have the proof, watch:
Life is busy yet when we find time for our sahaj projects we find Life to be also Sweet and Yummy because of our amazingly generous and creative Potlucks:
The following Quote from Shri Mataji – the founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation – explains so clearly our “success” and our experience while “working” on it, without thinking of it at all!
“The achievement has been made only because the “workers” over there have knit themselves in bond of wonderful Love. They never try to complain to anyone about anything but instead overlook and ignore in case someone commits what may be described as an error. This broad-mindedness is capable of generating feelings of happiness in one’s self and acts like a magnet where others are concerned. This Broad-Mindedness is the quality of a human body and gets multiplied with the awakening of the Kundalini. This is the manifestation of Divinity. “
Excerpt from a Letter of Shri Mataji sent to yogis on May 1st, 1977
(read it when you get a minute) Broad-Mindedness Knit in Bond of Wonderful Love – Letter from Yoga teacher
We have more a few more photos to share:
More Appreciation from the City of Burlington, with a City Councillor posted this public note after joining our Festival of New Beginnings celebrated on May 5th, 2024 at Burlington Lions Club:
A Memorable Event – that was one of the feedback notes we received; Take a look at the following Screenshot from the Burlington City Councillor’s posting (thank you Paul!):
(important) Today Meditation is Top News in Burlington!
In Conclusion, our volunteers from Halton’s Sahaja Yoga Meditation Network enjoyed offering the Festival of New Beginnings 2024, and we say Thank You Burlington for loving us back!
If you want to Learn our Greek Dance or Spend More time with the Festival of New Beginnings 2024, explore these video-clips too (and the link provided above!):
A gift from a visiting Montreal filmmaker and student to our 100 seeds of Joy team, enjoy:
So, we wish you all in one voice: Happy New Beginnings!
See You All soon, at our end of year Festival of Inner Lights on Nov 24th, 2024. JOIN us there!
Oh, I see, you already are heading this way?! Wonderful! Looking forward to meeting You All!
Each year our annual festivals are different, yet you can take a peek here:
Feel like A Light among Many Other Lights at The Festival of INNER Lights 2023
A Peek into the Flames that Speak of Inner Lights
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Kuddos to the entire sahaj team congratulations
Being part of Festival of Light and the Greek dance was a proud moment for me. It definitely helped me open my heart for other cultures and communities. The program was put together with so much love, along with meditation and to see the officials acknowledging it and appreciating it is simply amazing. May we continue spread this light around to overcome the darkness.
Amazing to see the energy and love spreading all around. Love to go through all the videos. Fills my heart with joy. All this comes to our community due to immense effort and dedication from the sahaj team and volunteers. It’s what the world needs today. An offering of peace meditation and joy. Thank you! Sahajayoga for making me a part of all celebrations. I feel blessed. With Love ❤️
Love this whole beautiful collective article with tremendous vibrations,I felt inner peace when I saw,the people attending the event they looks like drenched in mothers love by all these meditation and the dances and music,which is filled with divine love.Thanks to the entire volunteer team who put all their genuine efforts to spread the love of sahajyoga.Thanks Ioana and all the volunteers for this sahaj job.
Amazing!! So much to read and feel. and expertience. Is opening a gateway to calmness and peace and joy as I look at teh pictures and read the articles.
Now I am dancing too!! And smiling!!
Thank you all for sharing and helping to make the world a better place
Much Love
Watching the videos, Shri Mataji’s words came into my attention – that we human beings are so delicate – and I felt a beautiful joy inside me.
“We need peace. Human beings have to live in peace. They are beautifully made. They are made with such care. They are delicate beings. They are not to be hurt, they are not to be tortured, they are not to be troubled.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1981.06.29
Joy giving and receiving efforts by the ever dynamic 100 Seeds of Joy what sincere and beautiful combinations of efforts sprouted from the weekly classes and spreading a refreshing breeze of happiness throughout our communities. I can’t tell you the countless blessings I have personally benefited from, after taking just one (free) class that changed my life forever. After over a decade and a half of enjoying this type of meditation and introducing others to “ thoughtless awareness” by various means, music, art , dance, sitting silently or in a guided meditation, exploring poetry, history and celebrating cultures, finding to ties that bind yet feeling fully free, I can say there is nothing that helps me enjoy all the aspects of my life even more! Such endorsements of enjoyment from the city representatives! Bravo and so proud to share something that is literally the key to open the hearts to all cities worldwide