Coming in 2025
Please scroll through this page to see my various events in the next year. I am also planning addiitional events through the year. I will continue to revise and update this page, so please return to it occasionally.
*** 21-Day Online Course ***
“The Triumphant Heart:
Lessons from The Bhagavad Gita on Yogic Living in Challenging Times”
with Barrie Risman
January 25 – February 14, 2025
Said to have been imparted in ancient times to a brave warrior at a deeply challenging moment of outward uncertainty and inner questioning, the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita can help us, in our own time, respond to the challenges we find ourselves in right now.
The course will consist of teaching sessions, integration sessions, asana classes, and guided self inquiry.
For information and to register, press here.
*** Free online contemplative gatherings ***
I plan to continue convening periodic, live, 50-minute online conversations I describe as “Hearing, Remembering, Coming Together” (Sanskrit: Śravana, Smaraṇa, Saṃsthāna). I will start each session by sharing a teaching from yogic and other spiritual philosophies. We will then sit together with that teaching in a spirit of contemplation in a way that I hope supports us in applying it in our lives. Each session would end with a short period of meditation.
Your participation is be free of charge and you do not need to commit to the on-going series. Anybody and everybody would be welcome for any session.
Next gathering:
Sunday, February 23, 2025
1:00–1:50pm Eastern US/Canada time
To get the Zoom link, please write me via the “Connect with Bill” tab, above.
*** Four-week live-streamed online courses ***
I plan to continue teaching these courses under the general title Studies in Textual Foundations of Yoga Philosophy.”
These courses will meet virtually on four consecutive Sundays from 1:00–3:00pm Eastern US/Canada time.
Each course will focus on passages from an important and influential yogic text presenting various philosophical perspectives. I will distribute my own translations of the passages we will study.
A previous course in October 2024 was on Vedanta philosophy and drew teachings from the Upanishads. I envision subsequent courses in 2025 on the philosophy presented by representative texts from Classical Yoga, Nondual Tantra, Bhakti, and Buddhism.
I envision the next course to take place in late February and early March 2025.
Please return to this Schedule page in the latter part of January for more information and registration.
*** Week-long Exquisite Love Retreat in Sweden ***
August 3-9, 2025
So’Ham Retreats, Nora, Sweden.
Within the challenges brought to us by an often-difficult world, heart-centered contemplative practices can open us to the experience spiritual love: for others, for ourselves, for life itself, for divinity. The complexities and possibilities of life’s journey give us an opportunity to strengthen, deepen and clarify this love.
Yet, the contours of life can also draw us away from the experience and expression of spiritual love, or what is known in yoga philosophy very broadly as bhakti.
In this retreat at a beautiful site in rural Sweden we will take time to understand, cultivate, and refine spiritual love through contemplative study, meditation, chanting, and integrating the heart and body through physical yoga practices.
As a way to focus our contemplative practices, we will turn to my translations of passages from the Bhakti Sūtra, an important text on spiritual love composed in the tenth century in India.
For full information and to get a link to register, please press here.
*** Week-long Yoga and Contemplative Philosophy Retreat in Portugal ***
With Bridget Woods Kramer
November 14-20, 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.”
And please also return to this Schedule Page on my Website over the coming weeks for more information.
