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Contains 194 Results:
Summer Sounds on the Plaza: Sara Hickman and Family , 2014-06-19
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 94, Folder: 105
Identifier: 31.94.105
Abstract
Official State Musician of Texas Sara Hickman returns to launch the Rothko Chapel’s 2014 Summer Sounds on the Plaza series featuring Texas artists and their children. Sara, husband Lance Schriner, and daughter io hickman-schriner rock the plaza with joyful, captivating music. Sara has released more than 15 albums, the most recent of which is Shine. She is an avid supporter of various charities benefiting children, women, and health. In addition to a litany of music awards, she has been...
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Event: 2014-06-19
Summer Solstice Observation, 2014-06-21
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 94, Folder: 106-107
Identifier: 31.94.106
Abstract
In observation of the Summer Solstice, the Rothko Chapel will be open from sunrise to sunset (approximately 6:20am-8:25pm). In addition, the Chapel hosts a sunrise Vedic fire ceremony and yoga, and Marimba music at sunset.Yogis have used Vedic Fire ceremonies with Sanskrit chanting for thousands of years as a tool for personal and planetary healing. The ceremony starts with 10 minutes of chanting powerful Sanskrit mantras, followed by 15 minutes of silent meditation, and ends...
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Event: 2014-06-21
Charity and Compassion: Lessons from Zen Garden , 2014-06-29
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 94, Folder: 108
Identifier: 31.94.108
Abstract
Karen Maezen Miller
Suggested donation $10How can we access the spiritual in everyday life? Author and Zen Buddhist teacher Karen Maezen Miller shares the wisdom she has gleaned from our natural world, ending with a seated meditation. A former Houstonian, Miller is a priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles and the author of several books on finding spirituality in ordinary places. Her most recent is Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden about the lessons of...
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Event: 2014-06-29
Symposium – Mel Chin, 2016-03-31 - 2016-04-04
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 96, Folder: 22
Identifier: 31.96.22
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Event: 2016-03-31 - 2016-04-04
Confronting Inequality: Alternative economies, resilient communities, 2016-03-31
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 96, Folder: 23
Identifier: 31.96.23
Abstract
Symposium keynote by Terry Tempest Willams. Other participants includ Reverend Sally Bingham, Reverend Fred Small, Kristin Barker, Dr. D. Z. Cofield, Zahra Jamal PhD, Margaret Swedish, Janet Redman, Jim Blackburn, Makani Themba, Tom Ricker, Monica White PhD, Anne McClintock PhD, Gita Sen, Gloria Lowe, Elizabeth Gregory PhD, Frank Joyce, Carl Gibson, Pam McMichael, David Benson, M. NourbeSe Philip, Rick Lowe, Mel Chin, Carrie Schneider.Sessions included:
A Faithful and Moral...
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Event: 2016-03-31
Twelve Moments: Gurdjieff Tradition , 2014-07-02
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 95, Folder: 01
Identifier: 31.95.01
Abstract
Marlis Hodges, Gurdjieff Tradition
Suggested donation $10In the Gurdjieff Work, meditation is called a “sitting,” or a guided meditation to help participants find inner attention and awareness. Participants quietly follow the leader’s suggestions, while sitting in a relaxed, but straight posture. Marlis Hodges was a charter member of the Gurdjieff Foundation of Texas and is on the leadership council and Vice President of the Foundation. Having practiced the forms of the Gurdjieff...
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Event: 2014-07-02
Summer Sounds on the Plaza, 2014-06 - 2014-08
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 95, Folder: 02
Identifier: 31.95.02
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.
Dates:
Event: 2014-06 - 2014-08
Twelve Moments: Sikh and Kundalini Yoga Traditions, 2014-08-06
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 95, Folder: 03
Identifier: 31.95.03
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Sat Kartar Singh Khalsa, Sikh and Kundalini Yoga Traditions
Suggested donation $10 Sat Kartar Singh Khalsa has been a student and teacher of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan for 37 years. Yogi Bhajan said "Kundalini Yoga is...a practice of experience of a person's own excellence which is dormant and which is awakened." Sat Kartar is a Minister of Sikh Dharma and a Texas Licensed Acupuncturist with a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine. The series is co-sponsored by...
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Event: 2014-08-06
Public Program Guide, 2014 - 2015
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 95, Folder: 04
Identifier: 31.95.04
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.
Dates:
Event: 2014 - 2015
Free Day of Yoga Houston , 2014-09-01
File — Container: Shelf 31, Box: 95, Folder: 05
Identifier: 31.95.05
Abstract
Presented in partnership with Texas Yoga Association
Suggested donation $10
The Houston yoga community celebrates the Ninth Annual Houston Free Day of Yoga this Labor Day.
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Event: 2014-09-01