New Friday Film Series Begins!

The Sat Yoga Institute hereby announces the opening of our New Friday Night Film Series. We plan to show a wide variety of high-quality documentaries and feature films relating to the issues of greatest interest to those on the path of healing, psycho-spiritual development, and global understanding. The films we will show this month are designed to supplement the new free courses we are offering in prema-culture and nutrition. They convey extremely important information relevant to your health and well-being, and we hope you will attend in order to gain the deepest comprehension of these matters possible. As always, there will be a discussion period after the films are screened, so we may recapitulate what has been learned and share insights from our own experience.

Because the Sat Yoga Institute is itself in a funding crisis, we must ask for donations from those who wish to participate. Most of the films we are showing had to be purchased online and shipped here at our expense. This has been true of all the many films we showed on Wild Card nights last year. But now we have run out of money in our budget to continue.  This month's film series will be a test, to see if there is sufficient interest for us to keep on making such acquisitions for our sangha. If people are unwilling to support these educational projects, then we will have to cut back on such offerings in the future. Even to show films that we acquire for free involves a great deal of energy and time on the part of our volunteers and teachers, and we can only do this for so long without having to make different choices, unless the community as a whole is willing to come forward with more generous contributions. Thank you for your willingness to support this unique transformational institute.

Here is a description of the four films we are going to show in April:

April 9: Healing Cancer from Inside Out. This is an extremely powerful, insightful, and inspiring documentary on the nutritional dimension of the causation of cancer, and the proven approaches to healing that do not require chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. The film uncovers the conspiracy of the medical-military-entertainment-industrial complex to keep people uninformed and in ill health. The dark history of the medical industry is revealed, including the sordid blackballing of healers who have shown an alternative path to wellness, that is natural, non-invasive, and far more effective than the hegemonic allopathic cancer industry permits us to believe. Don't miss this!

April 16: The Future of Food. This explosive documentary reveals the even more disgraceful attack on the integrity of our farms and foods by a globalized agro-business that cares only for profits, at the expense of health, taste, and the very existence of our planet's eco-system. Join us for this essential presentation of forbidden knowledge and get the big picture!




April 23: Dr. McDougall's Total Health Solution. John McDougall was one of the first medical doctors to escape being blackballed for going against the mainstream medical ideology, and offering a nutritional cure for most diseases. This shows that a shift in consciousness regarding nutrition was already underway by the time he entered the field. Many would say that his dietary recommendations do not go far enough, but he is aiming at middle America, not the free-thinking fringe, and he and his wife still eat frozen foods and mucus-causing cooked foods that other nutritionists would remove from their diet. Nor does he have an understanding of the role of prana. But his diet is plant-based and mostly vegan; and his warnings against the use of oils, dairy products, as well as animal flesh are filled with facts and statistics proving they are the cause of a long list of diseases. We will only show parts of this video series, but you will get the picture. His presentation is scientific and highly convincing, and will motivate you to change your diet, if you value your life!

April 30: How to Save the World. This is an amazing documentary about the growing biodynamic farming movement in India, and how a single individual (a biodynamic pioneer from New Zealand) has dedicated his later years to educate small farmers throughout India about this spiritually revolutionary way to maintain the integrity and sustainability of organic agriculture against all the assaults of international agri-business. What they are doing there, we can do here! You will learn a lot about how biodynamic farming is actually practiced under third world conditions, and how successful this approach has proven to be. All our future ashram prema-culture farmers should definitely attend!

Donations

It would help us if you would register for the whole month's series of films in advance. So we are offering special discounts for those who do, and a sliding scale between the minimum donation and the higher requested donation.

Requested donation for drop-ins: 10k colones per film. Minimum donation: 7k colones.

Minimum donation for the whole month's series: 20k colones.

Requested donation for the series: 30k colones.

Showtime: Every Friday night at 7:00pm.

Please register with Sadhananda as soon as possible. Thank you and Namaste.

 

Our Premaculture Book Group is currently studying Secrets of the Soil: New Solutions for Restoring our Planet by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Secrets of the Soil transports us into the fascinating world of Bio-Dynamic Agriculture, a permaculture-based style of agriculture with a spiritual background. Secrets of the Soil is a revealing and educational study on the health of our planet as well as the way we interact with it. On Tuesday, April 6, we will be discussing the first few chapters.

If you have any interest in furthering your understanding of the secrets of the soil and the other side of Nature, as well as in gardening or sustainable agriculture in general, you are encouraged to join our discussion on this riveting and controversial topic.

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