Yoga: Coming to a Theater Near You
We all know someone who is a yoga skeptic. This person doesn't get it no matter how many times you try to explain the wondrous benefits of the practice. If only you could drag her to class and make her feel it for herself, you know she'd become a yoga devotee, too.
Film director Kate Churchill has taken a yoga skeptic and immersed him in the practice, convinced that he will have a life-changing experience in the new film Enlighten Up. The film, which has been highly anticipated in yoga circles, will finally open on April 1st in New York and April 17th in Los Angeles. (For a full schedule click here.) It features many familiar yoga teachers such as BKS Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, Sharon Gannon, David Life, and Cyndi Lee (who is featured in the clip below).
If you haven't seen it already, watch the trailer at http://enlightenupthefilm.com. Then, comment below and let us know how you think this is going to turn out. Will the skeptic embrace yoga?
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Comments
good idea. When in iTALY?
Posted by: TITE | March 30, 2009 09:40 PM
I think this film is going to be fabulous and will be of interest to practicing yogis and non yogis alike. It seems like there are elements of humor, spirituality, honesty, confusion, frustration, etc. ... just like everyday life AND yoga.
I can't wait to see it and have a feeling that I'll leave the theater feeling a little more comforted to see the range of human emotion on the big screen that I experience on my own journey.
Good luck "Enlighten Up!"
Posted by: Jennie Wilson | March 30, 2009 11:43 PM
So far the film doesn't have Boston on its schedule, bummer but I'll get the DVD when it comes out. I laughed at the video, I loved his face in some of the poses and I know exactly what he is feeling... that was me! I won't go as far as to say I was a skeptic but I thought exercise had to be fast. See I considered yoga exercise. It takes a while (or at least it did for me) to realize that its much more then the postures. I don't know if the skeptic will embrace yoga but if he sticks with it I think he will walk away with great respect for it even if its not for him.
susan
Posted by: susan Kelly | March 31, 2009 12:01 PM
Oh and lastly you get to see more at youTube, our skeptic goes to India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQw0-IlJiY
Susan
Posted by: susan Kelly | March 31, 2009 12:16 PM