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Listings May, 2008

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Thursday May 1

Narberth, Pembrokeshire, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Street: info: Bodhi 07863 200953 or 01646 683848: bodhiwales@yahoo.co.uk: Kundalini and other Meditations, Monday and Thursday evenings at 7pm

A good Introduction to Osho. A good reminder for old-timers. Well led. Osho Meditation and Osho Audio or Video Evening on Thursdays near Arnos Grove, from 7-9:30pm. Details from: Nityananda 020 8361 4288 - 07952 006919

Osho Meditations from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month 6:30-7:30pm at 3 Vineyard, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HW. Cost: £7 each session or £30 for block of 6. For more information contact Nikhila and Naresh. Please call beforehand as space is limited: 01803 868766 - 07812 998047. See Vigyan Bharirav Tantra website for more details

Edinburgh, Quaker Meeting House, Madhu: 07722 099029 or infinite_reiki@hotmail.co.uk. Osho Active Meditations every Thursday, noon - 1pm

Friday May 2

Puravida Bank Holiday Weekender: 02 May 2008 - 05 May 2008. Dancefloor hedonism meets meditation as Puravida returns to celebrate the Celtic Fire Festival, Beltane. Meditations, workshops, and chilling throughout the day, bands night-time, and 2 rooms of DJs playing through til 4am. Expand and relax in the UK's only conscious clubbing weekender. This Puravida runs from Friday evening through to Monday evening and features a night-time Yurt Sauna, a Big Beltane Bonfire + all the regular Puravida favourites. Meditations from the world of Osho and the Humaniversity. Workshops in Biodanza, Bioenergetics, African Dance or Samba, Tibetan Bowl Healing, Drumming, Yoga, and more. Cost £81.00 / incl food + camping. £95.00 / incl food + dorm accom. Places: 100. More information online at Puravida

Saturday May 3

8 - 9am: Osho Nadabrama Meditation. Details of venue, etc. click to website

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to website

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms Saturday dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 10pm. 0845 458 8251 for details

Sunday May 4

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to website

Pankaj Meditation Centre, North London. Contact Pramila Bharti 0208 902 4984 Nadabrahma, Kundalini and Osho Video Discourse every Sunday from 3-8pm, pls contact Pramila before attending.

Monday May 5

Bank Holiday UK

Tuesday May 6

Wednesday May 7

Tibet Vigil outside Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, London. Every Wednesday at 6pm. For a meaningful policy towards Tibet. For more information click to Tibet-Vigil

Biodanza: 7.15 - 9.15 pm: Creative dances aimed to develop health, self-esteem and communication. Venue: The Octagon, St Saviour’s Church, Eton Rd, London NW3 Contacts: David 020 8348 5935, Anna Maria 020 7794 9175

Thursday May 8

Narberth, Pembrokeshire, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Street: info: Bodhi 07863 200953 or 01646 683848: bodhiwales@yahoo.co.uk: Kundalini and other Meditations, Monday and Thursday evenings at 7pm

A good Introduction to Osho. A good reminder for old-timers. Well led. Osho Meditation and Osho Audio or Video Evening on Thursdays near Arnos Grove, from 7-9:30pm. Details from: Nityananda 020 8361 4288 - 07952 006919

Osho Meditations from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month 6:30-7:30pm at 3 Vineyard, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HW. Cost: £7 each session or £30 for block of 6. For more information contact Nikhila and Naresh. Please call beforehand as space is limited: 01803 868766 - 07812 998047. See Vigyan Bharirav Tantra website for more details

Friday May 9

Weekend of Yoga with Ma Penny at Osho Leela. May in the countryside, twice daily yoga class (Sivananda/Iyegar style) to relax and de-stress you, dancing/sitting/Osho meditations to uplift you, (all optional). Time to chill out and delight in who you are. Friendly, easy, supportive atmosphere, delicious vegetarian food. Beginners to intermediate. Including pranayama (easy breathing exercises) and fun. Detail: Osho Leela

“WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET”: A Workshop on Letting Go into Living and Dying, 9th eve 10th 11th  MAY, at ‘Chy Gwella’, PENZANCE, Cornwall. This workshop is suitable for anyone facing death with the next 90 years !!!  with Archa Kate Robinson   RGN. ONC. OHMT. Phone: Archa  01736 799231 or  07814314639. Cost £95 or e mail for information: :-  archasans@onetel.com

RHYTHM OF LIFE RETREAT – FRI 9 May - SUN 11 MAY - OSHO LEELA, DORSET, A joyful & relaxing rhythm (re) treat. Drumming, Dynamic Drum Circle, Ecstatic Trance Dance (with live drumming) & Yoga in the beautiful heart space of Osho Leela, Gillingham, Dorset.  General information: email shivani@drumjam.co.uk Bookings: email info@osholeela.co.uk

Saturday May 10

8 - 9am: Osho Vipassana Meditation. Details of venue, etc. click to Website

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to Website

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms Saturday dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 10pm. 0845 458 8251 for details

OshoNow with Swami Akhil Saraswathi: OSHO Meditation Workshop is happening in Chennai conducted by Swami Akhil Saraswati & Ma Anand Divya.You are invited to Participate and Celebrate your life. 3 days, starting May 10. OshoNow Chennai India. Contact: Swami AmritRaj, email: mystery1861980@yahoo.com Telephone: 9840970449 About Oshonow

Sunday May 11

Pankaj Meditation Centre, North London. Contact Pramila Bharti 0208 902 4984 Nadabrahma, Kundalini and Osho Video Discourse every Sunday from 3-8pm, pls contact Pramila before attending.

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to Website

Humaniversity Aum Meditation, London. Venue is St George's Church Hall, Crayford Rd, London N7. Start 1.30pm. Ring 07799407900 for details

OSHO Humaniversity AUM Meditation in Brighton: details click to Brighton Aum

Monday May 12

7.15 - 9.0pm. Osho Kundalini Meditation. Details of North London venue, etc. click to Website

London South, East Dulwich, Maggie 0794 121 8662, 51E East Dulwich Road, London SE22 9AP. (Entrance is under the white porch on the corner of Worlingham Road. Press the big bottom buzzer.) maggie@meditationatmaggies.co.uk Osho Active Meditations: Mondays at 7.15pm (for 7.30pm start) Website

Tuesday May 13

Every Tuesday: Introduction to Meditation North London Buddhist Centre 7.15pm First visit free, then £7. The Centre is at 72, Holloway Rd, London N7 8JG Tel: 020 7700 1177

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 9.30pm. 0845 458 8251 for details.

Penzance Osho Meditations at ‘Chygwella’ Healing Centre, Morrab Rd, Penzance info: Sans or Archa on 01736 799231 archasans@onetel.com Weekly Osho meditations on Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm

Wednesday May 14

Tibet Vigil outside Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, London. Every Wednesday at 6pm. For a meaningful policy towards Tibet. For more information click to Tibet-Vigil

Biodanza: 7.15 - 9.15 pm: Creative dances aimed to develop health, self-esteem and communication. Venue: The Octagon, St Saviour’s Church, Eton Rd, London NW3 Contacts: David 020 8348 5935, Anna Maria 020 7794 9175

Thursday May 15

Narberth, Pembrokeshire, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Street: info: Bodhi 07863 200953 or 01646 683848: bodhiwales@yahoo.co.uk: Kundalini and other Meditations, Monday and Thursday evenings at 7pm

A good Introduction to Osho. A good reminder for old-timers. Well led. Osho Meditation and Osho Audio or Video Evening on Thursdays near Arnos Grove, from 7-9:30pm. Details from: Nityananda 020 8361 4288 - 07952 006919

Osho Meditations from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month 6:30-7:30pm at 3 Vineyard, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HW. Cost: £7 each session or £30 for block of 6. For more information contact Nikhila and Naresh. Please call beforehand as space is limited: 01803 868766 - 07812 998047. See Vigyan Bharirav Tantra website for more details

Edinburgh, Quaker Meeting House, Madhu: 07722 099029 or infinite_reiki@hotmail.co.uk. Osho Active Meditations every Thursday, noon - 1pm

Friday May 16

Intimacy, a weekend workshop with Lucy & Navajata. 16 May -18th May at Osho Leela. Intimacy is one of the seven qualities described in the Karma Sutra as an element of higher spiritual love. It is something we all long for and yet are the most afraid of Important Booking Information - if you're a first-timer to Humaniversity/Leela workshops please call before booking for a phone interview, 01747 821221. Details click to Osho Leela

Ecstatic Trance Dance & Dynamic Drum Circle. CAMDEN, N. LONDON 6.30-8pm Dynamic Drum Circle, 8.15-10.15pm Ecstatic Trance Dance with Live Drumming & Percussion www.ecstaticdancetemple.com email: shivani@drumjam.co.uk 

Tony Parsons, author of The Open Secret and ex-sannyasin: . 3 day residential in Wales. 16-19th May. Phone 01722 330111 for details and booking.

Saturday May 17

8 - 9am: Osho Nadabrama Meditation. Details of venue, etc. click to Website

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to Website

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms Saturday dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 10pm. 0845 458 8251 for details

Sunday May 18

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to to Website

Pankaj Meditation Centre, North London. Contact Pramila Bharti 0208 902 4984 Nadabrahma, Kundalini and Osho Video Discourse every Sunday from 3-8pm, pls contact Pramila before attending.

Monday May 19

7.15 - 9.0pm. Osho Nataraj Meditation. Details of North London venue, etc. click to Website

London South, East Dulwich, Maggie 0794 121 8662, 51E East Dulwich Road, London SE22 9AP. (Entrance is under the white porch on the corner of Worlingham Road. Press the big bottom buzzer.) maggie@meditationatmaggies.co.uk Osho Active Meditations: Mondays at 7.15pm (for 7.30pm start) Website

Tuesday May 20

Every Tuesday: Introduction to Meditation North London Buddhist Centre 7.15pm First visit free, then £7. The Centre is at 72, Holloway Rd, London N7 8JG Tel: 020 7700 1177

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 9.30pm. 0845 458 8251 for details.

Penzance Osho Meditations at ‘Chygwella’ Healing Centre, Morrab Rd, Penzance info: Sans or Archa on 01736 799231 archasans@onetel.com Weekly Osho meditations on Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm

Wednesday May 21

Shamanic Trance Dance with Archan and Friends: Celebration of the full moon. 8 - 10pm. Trance dance is a natural way to experience ecstasy. At Harry Rice Hall, Hargrave Park, Archway, London N19. Cost £8. Details Archan 07914920567 archan@onetel.com Website: Meditationplus

Thursday May 22

Narberth, Pembrokeshire, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Street: info: Bodhi 07863 200953 or 01646 683848: bodhiwales@yahoo.co.uk: Kundalini and other Meditations, Monday and Thursday evenings at 7pm

A good Introduction to Osho. A good reminder for old-timers. Well led. Osho Meditation and Osho Audio or Video Evening on Thursdays near Arnos Grove, from 7-9:30pm. Details from: Nityananda 020 8361 4288 - 07952 006919

Osho Meditations from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month 6:30-7:30pm at 3 Vineyard, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HW. Cost: £7 each session or £30 for block of 6. For more information contact Nikhila and Naresh. Please call beforehand as space is limited: 01803 868766 - 07812 998047. See Vigyan Bharirav Tantra website for more details

Friday May 23

Giving and Receiving Love: a workshop with Vasumati at Croydon Hall 23-25 May phone Amitabh on 01984 642208 for enquiries, or full details at Website

23 May - 26 May: Music Festival at Osho Leela. Praful, Somesh, Rishi, Tarisha and more will spoil you with day-time and evening gigs, live music meditations and impro sessions round the fire, so bring your instruments and your voices. Workshops, art space, healing centre, Kids Club with Madhu, Humaniversity AUM Meditation, hugs, brownies and yummy treats. Come join the party and celebrate the beginning of summer with us. Cost: £89.00 / Camping, food not included £129.50 / Camping, food included. £110.00 / Dormitory, food not included. £150.50 / Dormitory, food included. Details click to Osho Leela

Saturday May 24

Osho Satsang Meditation with live music. A relaxing sitting meditation, using tranquil music, silence, and audio quotes from Osho. All are welcome. at Space Upstairs, Ashburton (Devon) Unit 2, 31a East St (an industrial unit near the end of Chin’s Yard, an alley up from, and opposite the Café Green Ginger) May 24th 6.30-7.45pm – come early to start on time. £4 donation. Any questions? Call 01364 654 732 – 0787 161 1692 or email: premyatro@hotmail.com

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms Saturday dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 10pm. 0845 458 8251 for details

Sunday May 25

Pankaj Meditation Centre, North London. Contact Pramila Bharti 0208 902 4984 Nadabrahma, Kundalini and Osho Video Discourse every Sunday from 3-8pm, pls contact Pramila before attending.

Monday May 26

Bank Holiday UK

MEDITATION RETREAT with PREM SHUNYO A week-long meditation retreat, a magical journey towards witnessing and celebration of life.The workshop price includes full daily programme, daily breakfast and lunch. Tao's Centre Greece, Naoussa Paros. Contact: , email: taos@taos-greece.com Telephone: +30-22840-28882. Retreat & meditation centre on the Greek Island of Paros, an ecological place, combining the spirit of Tao, Zen & Zorba. About Tao's Centre and details of this retreat:at Taos-Greece

Tuesday May 27

Every Tuesday: Introduction to Meditation North London Buddhist Centre 7.15pm First visit free, then £7. The Centre is at 72, Holloway Rd, London N7 8JG Tel: 020 7700 1177

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 9.30pm. 0845 458 8251 for details.

Penzance Osho Meditations at ‘Chygwella’ Healing Centre, Morrab Rd, Penzance info: Sans or Archa on 01736 799231 archasans@onetel.com Weekly Osho meditations on Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm

Wednesday May 28

Tibet Vigil outside Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, London. Every Wednesday at 6pm. For a meaningful policy towards Tibet. For more information click to Tibet-Vigil

Biodanza: 7.15 - 9.15 pm: Creative dances aimed to develop health, self-esteem and communication. Venue: The Octagon, St Saviour’s Church, Eton Rd, London NW3 Contacts: David 020 8348 5935, Anna Maria 020 7794 9175

The Great British Yoga Festival at Osho Leela - 28 May - 01 June For more information please contact Adi Kaur on 020 8361 0881, email gbyf@btconnect.com click to Website

Thursday May 29

Narberth, Pembrokeshire, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Church Street: info: Bodhi 07863 200953 or 01646 683848: bodhiwales@yahoo.co.uk: Kundalini and other Meditations, Monday and Thursday evenings at 7pm

A good Introduction to Osho. A good reminder for old-timers. Well led. Osho Meditation and Osho Audio or Video Evening on Thursdays near Arnos Grove, from 7-9:30pm. Details from: Nityananda 020 8361 4288 - 07952 006919

Osho Meditations from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month 6:30-7:30pm at 3 Vineyard, Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6HW. Cost: £7 each session or £30 for block of 6. For more information contact Nikhila and Naresh. Please call beforehand as space is limited: 01803 868766 - 07812 998047. See Vigyan Bharirav Tantra website for more details

Edinburgh, Quaker Meeting House, Madhu: 07722 099029 or infinite_reiki@hotmail.co.uk. Osho Active Meditations every Thursday, noon - 1pm

Friday May 30

Love Spirit: A long weekend group with Veeresh in Holland. A chance to participate in a Master class. Click for more details to Humaniversity

Saturday May 31st

Workshop: Gibberish and Laughter weekend North London venue: click to Website

8-9am. Osho Vipassana Meditation. Details of North London venue, etc. click to Website

9:30-11:00am. Osho Dynamic Meditation. Details of venue, etc, click to Website

Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms Saturday dance class. St George's Church Hall,Crayford Rd, London N7. 7pm to 10pm. 0845 458 8251 for details

UPCOMING

OSHO Celebration Weekend with live music from the band "One Hand Clapping" Thursday 10th July -- Sunday 13th July 2008. at Croydon Hall. Tel: +44 (0) 1984 642200 Email: info@croydonhall.co.uk

Swami Arun from Nepal in the UK: : Brighton,- 03-05 May, Wembley, 9 to 11 May, Edinburgh, Scotland -16 to 18 May, -Ealing --23 to 26 May: More details next month

ONGOING

There is a regular programme of daily meditations at the Osho Resort in Pune, India. The daily programme mirrors to some extent what happened whilst Osho was alive. The day begins at 6.00am with dynamic, and the day includes the whirling, vipassana, Nataraj and Kundalini meditation finishing in the evening with high energy dance followed by a silent sitting. There is also a community work experience programme, Recommended. See osho.com website for further details

Ashburton: venue: Space Upstairs, Unit 2, 31a East St (opp. Cafe Green Ginger), Ashburton info: Chetan and Diana 01822 88027. What do they offer? Tue 5:30pm (Kundalini), Thu 5:30pm (Nadabrahma) and other things.

Drop in Dynamic Meditation every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings at 'Revitalise' (formerly Planet Janet) opposite Hove town hall (use back door). Every Tues morning 730-830, every Thurs morning 730-830 every Sat morning 8-9. Price donations, or month's season ticket for £20. Contact John Kapp (Vivek) johnkapp@btinternet.com or phone 01273 417997

London Sharing Group every Thursday 8:00pm till late. We get together to be as authentic with each other as we dare, encouraging ourselves to look beyond our conditioning to a way of relating that is spontaneous, real, alive and fun! Contact Ryan trueryan@aol.com for more information. 

Tyohar's satsangs. See Tyohar for details

Maitreya Satsangs: He is now often in Europe and giving satsangs details: Maitreya satsangs

Both Croydon Hall community and Osho Leela commune run ongoing sannyas community experience programmes where one can simply go and work and meditate in a community for one or two weeks to try it out. It costs, but may prove a valuable experience.

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