It’s Going To Be “Megha”

It’s going to be Megha for yoga enthusiasts in the North this summer. World class teacher of yoga and dance Nancy Buttenheim, whose spiritual name is Megha, will lead the way at the North’s most popular yoga festival.
Megha, one of America’s top yoga icons, has been booked as the key attraction at the weekend long Durham Yoga Festival organised by the British Wheel of Yoga.
This year the theme of the event will be “Going with the Flow”. Organisers are hoping Megha, will help teach everyone to dance with life. She is known for her passion to help heal the earth through yoga, dance and meditation plus helping people to tap into their own true spirit.
Her yoga and movement style known as Danskinetics has been described as “a prayer, a gift of harmony and healing to the Earth.” She is also a holistic health teacher and trainer as well as being a singer and actor.

The Durham Yoga Festival 2008 will run from Friday July 4 until to Sunday July 6. It is being held at a new venue this year, Ushaw College and Conference Centre, an impressive building set in 30 acres of beautiful countryside near Lanchester, four miles west of Durham. The college, which since its opening has helped train Catholic Priests for the North of England, is celebrating its 200th birthday this year. It will be an idyllic setting for the festival offering a tranquil retreat from the rush of everyday life.
Megha holds retreats throughout the USA and the world in her own movement expression, Let Your Yoga Dance: Grace in Motion. She also works at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. She has two CDs: Moontides, a yoga, meditation and chanting CD, and Power and Grace, co-led with Devarshi Steve Hartman. Megha’s Animal Songs album of original songs is loved by both kids and big people alike. Her main focus is on healing body, mind and spirit, as well as treading as lightly as possible on the planet to bring healing to Mother Earth and all the beings who dwell here. You can learn more about her at her official website to be found at www.Meghadance.com

About "Let Your Yoga Dance!"

The festival will also offer visitors a chance to take part in a wide range of yoga classes taught by yoga teachers from different paths. There will be something for everyone from the beginner to the more experienced yoga practitioner. There will also be a chance to book mini-taster sessions with alternative therapists and a market place selling yoga related items including books, CDs, clothes and equipment.

Vera Oates, regional officer for the BWY in the North said: “It’s quite a coup for us to bring Megha over to the North of England for the festival and we are all looking forward to the experience of working with her.”

To book a place please download the Festival Information and booking form via the link below, print it out, complete and forward to Gill Gittins, full details on the form. Also now available below is a draft Programme of events at the festival, this is subject to change.

Festival Information and Booking Form

If you wish to join the BWY to obtain the discounted prices please follow the link Join BWY here or at the top of the page.

Festival Programme

Additional Information on Kripalu Yoga

Deadline for bookings 13 June 2008

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