Past/Future Events
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Attaining a Mastery of Moods - Workshop
Saturday, May 19 1:00pm to 6:30pm
This workshop will offer a practice to allow the free and conscious expression of emotional states without harming anybody, as well as techniques to silently be with and observe our inner emotional, mental as well as energetic states without having to express or suppress any of them.
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Meditation for Beginners
Saturday, Mar 24 1:00pm - 4:30pm
How to find peace in the world of 1000 & 1 things?
Introduction into a variety of playful meditative exercises offered at the I.M.U. by the Lifesurfing Instructors.
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Spring Celebration - Equinox 2012
Wednesday, Mar 21 6:30pm - midnight
Enjoy! Eat - Watch - Join - Dance
Potluck: Bring Vegetarian preferrably organic food.
Performances, then dance – Music from around the World
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A Taste of Latin America
Wednesday, Feb 8 7:00pm
Enjoy raw vegan food by Chef Nirel. Socializing starts at 7:00 p.m.-- food is served at 7:30 p.m. for more details and to sign up (required) visit:meetup.com/taste-of-Vegan-Chicagoland
currently not scheduled
Earth Fest - One Love - Global Celebration - Guest Event
In the wake of the universal energy shift that's presently occurring, we might find ourselves distracted, confused or even a bit depressed. Don't worry, it's nothing that can't be fixed. There are simple ways to clear the mind, reconnect with ourselves and understand what's happening around us. This month's Earth Fest will explore this subject and bring some clarity and relief. read more
Nov 1 - Nov 6 (or Nov 4 -6)
Bhashkar Perinchery - Meditation Retreat in Wisconsin
This retreat with the initiator of the I.M.U. offers a space for those who want to go consciously and become more familiar with the inner riches, the inner depth and mysteries, and find a balanced and creative approach to life. read more
Sun, Otc 30
Bhashkar Perinchery - Workshop at the I.M.U.-Chicago
A workshop with a mystic provides you with practical tools how to walk your individual journey towards inner fulfillment and peace. This is a chance to learn how to take this quality with you wherever you go and whatever you do. click here
Saturday, Oct 29
Bhashkar Perinchery - Individual Sessions at the IMU-Chicago
Meeting a mystic face to face is a life changing experience. It offers a wonderful opportunity to ask our most precious and absorbing questions or just to sit with im in silence.. click here
Friday, October 28
Bhashkar Perinchery Talk at the I.M.U.
A unique opportunity to meet the initiator of the I.M.U. Bhashkar Perinchery.
A discourse at the I.M.U. with time for questions and answers will be held at
7:30pm -9:30pm - click here
Sun Oct 16
Celebrate: World Food Day 2011
Join us for workshops, organic, GMO-free, vegetarian potluck, open house activities, movie and your creative contributions on World Food Day read more
Sun, Oct 16
Raw Gourmet Non-Cooking Classes - Guest Classes
In this beginner’s class, you will learn the basics for creating delicious raw foods that will heal the body and cleanse the soul. Presentations will show you how to create a variety of delicious, easy-to-prepare raw recipes. read more
Sat Oct 15
Celebrate: 6-Year Anniversary Inner Metamorphosis University
Join us for workshops, movies, buffet and dance on our sixth anniversary read more
Sat, Oct 8 (& Dec, date not finalized)
Developmental Movement Explorations Part 1 - Guest Workshop
Based on the Feldenkrais Method we will explore some of the many movements we learned and played with during our first 6 months of our lives. This is a critical time when our first movements begin to create connections through our nervous system to our brain.
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Sun, Aug 28
Inner Skills for your Work-Life Workshop
This workshop offers a blend between active and silent meditations as well as awareness exercises that make it easy for you to carry alertness, open-mindedness, and a quality of meditativeness into your daily (work) life. read more
Sat, Aug 13
Feldenkrais Workshop
Awareness - Flexibility – Stability – The joy and ease of movement
A workshop designed to increase overall flexibility and coordination through a variety of curiously exploring movement sequences called ATM (Awareness Through Movement). read more
Sun, Aug 7 2011
Cooking with Chinese Herbs - Guest Workshop
Chinese dietary therapy follows centuries-old principles to balance the body and remedy specific diseases. This class will introduce you to basic methods and principles for creating versatile and delicious nourishing medicinal soups and porridges, and...
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Sat, Aug 6 2011
Cooking with Essential Oils - Guest Workshop
Make delicious dishes positively mouth-watering with essential oils! Learn to add extra layers of flavor complexity and discover the myriad ways that these most aromatic components of plants inform not only our palate, but our other senses as well.
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will be offered again
Everyday Awareness Techniques
Can you imagine for yourself to be centered and peaceful in the midst of all the daily pressures, health, people, financial, work? read more
may be offered again
Guest Event - Satsang with Marlies Cocheret de la Moriniere
view her flyer: click here, view her web site: click here
may be offered again
Guest Event - Mindful Music Creativity Exchange
Let’s gather and sink deep into being, listening, watching and sharing with open hearts and voices for an evening of creative exchange. Together we can share a mindful music, improvisation and games, vocal harmonics, interesting discoveries in science or consciousness, kirtan, skits or comedy, works in progress. read more
may be offered again
Guest Event - The Matrix Leadership Model
In the Matrix Leadership model, a group is a set of relationships (or connections between the parts). Leadership is shared and begins with optimizing the connectivity and communication between the individuals (or teams). read more
may be offered again
Guest Event - Shamanic Chakra Journey Circle
Shamanic journeying is a tribal form of out-of-body meditation, used to facilitate an experience of guidance and healing from spirit guides. The workshop will include group drumming and rattling, a ceremony to call in spirit guides, and an opportunity to journey while listening to drumming. Drumming is said to create an alpha brain wave state, enhancing creativity, intuition and ecstatic experiences. read more
may be offered again
Guest Event - Sound, Breath and Spirit
In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore the nature of the coming cosmic changes and what they can do as individuals to prepare for them. read more
may be offered again
Jam Session - evening
Improvising with sounds and rhythms. Allowing the unexpected, the rhythm to evolve; listening, melting, enjoying, and allowing moments of silence, chaos and harmony... read more
may be offered again
Relationship - Workshop
We understand the other through ourselves. As we learn to confront ourselves, we can better confront the other, and as we learn to accept and love ourselves, we can love the other. The commitment in a relationship... read more
Active Meditative Exercises by Bhashkar Perinchery
Offered in some of our workshops
offered in workshops and sometimes in Meditation Introduction
Flowering of the Heart
In this gentle exercise, movements and soft humming are coordinated with the natural cycle of breath. read more
offered in some workshops
Guided Inner Letting Go
Deliberately not holding onto or identifying with any particular role or goal, relaxing into a state of ‘being’ nobody in particular. read more
offered in some workshops
The Inner Metamorphosis Exercise
The Inner Metamorphosis Exercise is a method designed to purify our inner energy. Our imagination plays an important role on how we perceive the reality. read more
offered in the Mastery of Moods Workshop
Navaras
This exercise offers an opportunity to playfully explore within the spectrum of human feelings and emotions. read more
Offered in some workshops
Flowing with Musical Expressions
This exercise is about allowing yourself to create tones similar to those of a child, who does not have any particular image of songs or singing, but simply plays with different sounds. read more
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