This is the fourth video in a four part Interview I did with the Founder of Anusara Yoga, John Friend. If you’ve missed part one, you can find it by clicking here.

In Part 4, John shares his intention for Anusara in 2010 and beyond. John’s vision for Anusara includes an increase in performance art and digital media, including social media, to spread the word about Anusara across the world quickly, even into China. Notably, as of late, John has collaborated with Be Network, and created a Shiva-Shakti Tantra video. Also, in San Francisco on February 12th was the theatrical Dharma-Experience celebrating Mahashivaratri with hoopers.

I, for one, would love to see more art offerings and digital media with John.  Anusara coverage helps draw us closer as an extended kula, especially for those teachers and students who are the only Anusara enthusiast for miles and miles.  Digital / social media with its lightening fast delivery speed is a mechanism for a radical shift of heightened communication and therefore, accelerated expansion of consciousness. John reminds us, as many environmentalists are telling us, that the world needs our help in the next decade. Whatever we can do to help heal the world and reveal it’s intrinsic goodness is good work.  Digital media and performance art are means of expression, which can be used to uphold the highest and enhance the light.

John encourages us, as Anusara enthusiasts, to be a merry band of bohemian artists. During the Immersion, he said that we all have unique talents. He cannot do what you do. Only you can do what you do. Only you can shine your unique light into the world as a great offering.

If you are interested in spreading your light and giving back your own unique offering to support the vision of Anusara, please contact Katrina Knudsen for Seva opportunities, as noted in the recent Anusara newsletter, which also outlines the vision for 2010 in more detail.

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Transcript Part 4

{Ginger} So, in closing, John, what do you expect for Anusara, what’s your vision, what’s your highest intention in 2010 and beyond?

{John} In this year and in the immediate years to come for the decade, I think one of the key ways that I can serve and Anusara can serve is spreading the message through making it easier for people to connect to and hear about it. I think it’s going to be through the digital media, through the internet, through DVD’s, through television, audio type of things, it’s going to be in different formats as well, it’s not necessarily only asana. It can be in breathing class, you know specific type of more intermediate breathing classes, meditation classes, even things that are connected to Anusara’s main practice of yoga in terms of dance, music, performance art, it’s interwoven into our vision and that is what I’m going to be putting more out in a much broader sense through the digital media, like what we’re doing here and that message spreads, so what you’re doing is very much in line with my vision and that’s just to, put things out that are very positive and that we can have people apply into their lives immediately. So, I feel like that’s going to happen a lot more this year and for all the years to come. We’re going into a lot more countries and a lot of different places were yoga is fairly new and that’s quite exciting. I mean even in China, and China, which has been quite restricted in many ways philosophically, religiously, politically, it’s being the biggest country in the world and arguably soon to be if not the most influential, a very key factor of the whole decade. Instead of moving away from them and not engaging with them because we don’t have the same basic philosophy, I want to use Anusara to penetrate and get more things going in there that we can really serve their culture in ways that also can be very uplifting and connect China to the rest of the world in a deeper fashion and in a positive way, revealing the beauty of China and letting some things dissolve that have been blocking them I feel from really integrating with the rest of the world and then that goes to say with all of us, so here in the United States, around North America and everywhere, definitely this world tour is about getting people to melt their heart, be more compassionate, sensitive to each another and from that, aligning with Grace, which will blow their mind.

{Ginger} Right on! Thank you so much, John.

{John} Thank you. Thank you, Ginger. Thanks so much.

{Ginger} Thank you.

John Friend’s 2010 Melt Your Heart, Blow Your Mind World Tour

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