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Contact us: 604.605.0011 <> 728 Main Street

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Highlights

Dinner : Weds-Sat, 6-10

Hatha Yoga classes daily

Radha at the Main Street Farmers Market September 1

Radha at the Main Street Farmers Market September 8

"Breaking Down" Art Opening September 8

Strathcona Harvest Festival September 9

Chi & Chai Open House September 12

DTES Health Fair September 16

Radha at the Main Street Farmers Market September 22

The Wisdom of Fools Workshop September 25

Word on the Street Festival September 26

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This season Radha will be selling our own kombucha, sauerkraut, cookies and raw crackers at the Vancouver Farmers Market (Main Street SkyTrain location) on Wednesday afternoons.  Drop by and pick up some goodies from us on the following market dates: Sept 1, 8, 22

For September and October, Radha hosts art by Emmarin Munroe

Opening Night: Wednesday, September 8, 7pm
with live music by Choo-Kien Kua and Pancakes by Donation

From the artist:
I come from a family of artists.  Having grown up in a creative household, I have enjoyed working in various mediums including drawing, painting, etching, fabric arts, design, photography, sculpture and ceramics.  I did my fine arts diploma at Langara College and am currently in my 4th year of the visual arts degree program at Emily Carr.

For several years I have been intrigued by the aesthetic qualities of rock formations.  I have always felt most at home in nature and my work comes form my search to find sacred space while growing up in the city. I lived my first four years in the Gulf Islands and I believe that in that time, the natural environment became my lifelong home.  From landscapes to the breaking down of asphalt, I explore the earth in her many forms.

Sunday, September 9
12-4pm, McLean Park (at Hawks & Keefer)
FREE

The Strathcona Harvest Festival features local musicians, seasonal crafts and games, a community potluck, a raffle, a pie contest, face painting and more! Radha will be offering a free food fermentation demo.

Sunday, September 12
10am – 8:30pm
By donation

Come and enjoy Radha’s annual open house! Stop by for a class or stay the whole day. Our delicious chai will also be served throughout the day.

10-11am – Hidden Language Hatha Yoga - Come for relaxation and inner exploration in this gentle hatha yoga class. Bring a journal and get ready to tap into your inner wisdom through focus and awareness of yourself in classic yoga postures. No experience necessary. We provide mats.

11:15am – 12:15pm – Cooking Demo – Sit in on a lively how-to session on preparing local, vegan food. Our cooks share their secrets in our Sunday Cooking Classes. This is just a taste of the classes you can participate in throughout the fall, winter and spring.

12:30 – 1:30pm – Community Meal – Join us for a nourishing meal, prepared during the Cooking Demo.

1:45 – 2:45pm – Dreams – They can be your most trustworthy doorway to inner knowing. Join us for an introductory session and find the meaning in the symbols of any dream of your choice. Participate in spiritual practices and learn about a method for understanding your dreams that is both practical and mystical. If you enjoy this introduction, you can join our weekly class on Mondays from 7 – 9pm.

3 – 4pm – Kundalini Yoga – The Kundalini System is a pathway leading to your highest ideals. Come for an introduction on how to use more of your mind, with a focus on the intuitive aspects. If you enjoy this introduction, you can join us in a weekly class on Mondays or Tuesdays from  7 – 9pm.

5:30 – 6:45pm – Hidden Language Hatha Yoga (see description above)

7:30 – 8:30pm – Bhajans and Satsang – Stay for this lively and uplifting time that can serve as an inspiring beginning to your week ahead. Join us in kirtan – devotional song – in a simple and meaningful hour that includes chanting, inspiring readings, and visualizations.  The focus of this satsang will be to honour our teachers and all those who have guided us.

Thursday, September 16
FREE

Radha will be participating in the Carnegie Centre’s DTES Health Fair. The purpose of the Fair is to offer resources to residents of the Downtown Eastside that are interested in improving their health and their lives. Radha yoga instructors will lead participants through hatha postures, chanting, meditation and more.

Saturday, September 25
1-4pm
$30, please pre-register with non-refundable $15 deposit at 604.605.0011 or radhaevents@gmail.com

The Wisdom of Fools will be an interactive body-based workshop led by Lisa Voth.

The clown, or the player, has been around longer than the hills (or so it would like to think). Its presence increases as we recognize it in our lives and as it begins to befriend and comment on various aspects of our humanity. It shows up the moment we catch ourselves in the ridiculous, the vulnerable, the romantic, the intolerant, the uptight or the taboo and are able to find delight. It plays at crossroads, in between extremes, and at the border of what we are able to take lightly. It springs out of the heart, crotch and eyes.

This workshop will be a gentle invitation to connect back to our own unique sources of delight. We will investigate the intriguing landscape of our emotions and bodies and look at the possibilities of how we then share what we discover of our own humanity in connecting with others.

Lisa Voth’s hope is that she would quit taking herself so seriously and that she would have the privilege to play with others who are attempting to do the same. Tom Robbins puts it quite nicely in writing “I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” She has been hopelessly attracted to, and intensely terrified of clowning for the past 8 years. It has called her to study in both Argentina and Manitoulin Island, Ontario. It has been her livelihood while living in Guatemala and Nicaragua where she both taught and performed. She has been honoured by the opportunity to work with David McMurray Smith, John Turner (from Mump & Smoot) and various other clowns (either at heart or in profession) who have inspired and changed her perspective on love and magic. She is completing her Masters in counselling, with a focus on play, and works as a counsellor in the Downtown East Side. She is intrigued by the role of the player in her community and in her work as a therapist.

Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills.

- Czeslaw Milosz

Sunday, September 26
11am-5pm
Library Square & CBC Plaza

Radha and Timeless Books will be participating in the 16th annual Word on the Street book festival. The day will be jam-packed with author readings, exhibits, performances and all-round literary mayhem. Don’t miss it!