Coming in 2025
Please scroll through this page to see Bill’s various events coming this year. He Is also planning additional events and will continue to revise and update this page, so please return to it occasionally.
*** Free online contemplative gatherings ***
Bill continues to convene periodic, live-streamed, 50-minute online conversations he describes as “Hearing, Remembering, Coming Together” (Sanskrit: Śravana, Smaraṇa, Saṃsthāna).
He begins each session by sharing a teaching from yogic and other spiritual philosophies. He and the group then sit together with that teaching in a spirit of contemplation in a way that Bill hopes supports participants in applying it in their lives. Each session ends with a short period of meditation.
Participation is free of charge and participants do not need to commit to the on-going series. Anybody and everybody is welcome for any session.
The next gathering will be scheduled for the earlier part of the Autumn.
Please return to this page occasionally for further information.
Bill will also send out a notice to his mailing list. To place your name on that list please go the the “Join Bill’s Mailing List” tab on this Website.
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*** Week-long Yoga and Contemplative Philosophy Retreat in Portugal ***
Theme: “Know Stillness within Activity and Activity within Stillness”
With Bridget Woods Kramer
14-20 November 2025
Cocoon Portugal
Produced by Georgie Fearn Yoga
For full information from Georgie’s Website, press here.
As Georgie says there, “We loved this venue so much in 2024, it was one of the reasons that we knew that we had to come back! The venue is a 275 acre farm on the coast of Southern Portugal. The farm grows much of it’s on food (which is quite possibly the best retreat food I’ve ever had,) it has a beautiful freshwater lake and is only 10 minutes from beautiful stretches of untouched coastline.”
As one way to explore, ground, refine, and apply our understanding of our theme — “Know Stillness within Activity and Activity within Stillness” — we will turn to teachings in my translation from the Spanda Kārikās (“Verses on Vibration”), Pratyabhijñā-Hṛdaya (“The Heart of Recognition”), the Vijñāna Bhairava, and other texts from from the yogic philosophy of Nondual Tantra.
Bill will lead contemplative study and discussion of these teachings and Bridget will guide us in her most excellent manner in integrating them into our physical yoga practices. Each day will include ample time for the practice of meditation and to delight in the retreat site’s physical surroundings. And we will all enjoy each other’s company.
You can find information regarding pricing, descriptions of the retreat site and how to get there, representative daily schedules, and so on, by pressing here.
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*** A Weekend of Yoga Philosophy and Practice in Spain ***
Theme: Yoga and the Refinement of the Emotions
With Gisela Vázquez Rodríguez
29-30 November 2025
At Gisela Yoga
Marqués de Jura Real, 13, 28019
Madrid, Spain
Bill will speak in English, which Gisela will simultaneously translate into Spanish in her superb way.
For information and to register write [email protected]
Heart-centered forms of yoga recognize the value of our emotions as gateways to deeper experiences of the Self. Yet, we can also get ensnarled in them and stumble in our progress in the yogic life. This may be even more the case in today’s seemingly crazy world.
Over the weekend we will explore the nature of the emotions from yogic perspectives. We will focus on the concepts of bhāva and rasa. Bhāva means not only “emotion” but also “inner state, mood, attitude.” Rasa — literally “juice, essence, nectar” — is the purest quality of an emotion. In yogic thought, there is a single essence to all emotions, and that essence is the very nature of the true Self . Yoga involves the refinement of the emotions in order to know the true Self.
Bill will focus on ideas, insights, and perspectives presented by a variety of texts from yogic philosophical traditions, particularly the Abhinavabhārati, by the great 12th-century sage in Kashmir Shaivism, Abhinavagupta.
We will also reflect on some similar ideas and perspectives presented in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu by Rūpagosvāmin, a 15th century philosopher and teacher from the Vaiṣṇava Bhakti tradition.
Bill’s style is to present ideas from the texts we are studying and then to welcome, encourage, and support participants’ contemplation of them through group discussion. Gisela both skillfully translates simultaneously and artfully weaves these and other themes in leading voluntary sessions of āsana.
For information and to register write [email protected]
To see Gisela’s Website, go to giselayoga.com
