Through “Beyond Yoga,” Bharat helps students and seekers discover greater health, deeper awareness, mental clarity, emotional balance, and a more joyful way of living. His classes emphasize simple, practical techniques that can be practiced anywhere, anytime, and by people of all ages and abilities. 1. Yoga Kriya 2. Pranayama 3. Asana 4. Meditation 5. Eye Exercise 5. Tongue Exercise 6. Laughter Exercise

The workshop will have goal of how to incorporate indian music on the saxophone to expand improvisation vocabulary. The workshop will cover basic indian music grammar and what challenges might be encounterd on western instruments. Michael will attempt to show how indian melodic systems offer expanded vocabulary for the saxophone as a way of shaping phrases and emotional intention in improvisation. A gradual build of complexity Culminating with a performance of a soulful Sufi melody.

Rukhmani Mehta takes audiences inside one of India's oldest educational traditions — the guru-shishya parampara — through the story of her own journey from student to teacher. With live demonstration woven throughout, this artist talk and conversation traces what it means to surrender to a form, to trust a teacher completely, and to discover that discipline is the path to freedom. Through personal story and live demonstration, audiences will encounter the parampara not as history but as a living tradition — one with the power to transform everyone it touches.

This interactive workshop explores how foundational concepts from North and South Indian rhythm traditions can be translated into body percussion, vocalization, and movement-based ensemble practice. Drawing from tabla and konnakol pedagogy, participants will learn how rhythmic syllables (bols), cyclic structures, subdivision systems, and compositional forms can be embodied through clapping, stepping, vocal percussion, and coordinated movement. A central focus of the workshop is making the sophistication of Indian rhythmic systems approachable, physical, and accessible to learners of all backgrounds.

Women have been learning and singing Hindustani (North Indian Classical) music for over two centuries. The first students of Khayal were female, and the first recording of a female singing voice in Hindustani Music (1902) is of Gauhar Jan, the renowned tawaif (courtesan) and classical musician from Kolkata. But rarely does one find bandishes attributed to women composers. This seems curious since much of Khayal is improvised music, and in a sense, one is always composing. Perhaps they did not compose in deference to their Ustads/Gurus or shadow-wrote under a different pen-name, much like Victorian era women writers? This program by Srivani Jade Ensemble presents compositions by women artists over the ages, and restores credit to their genius and creativity. From devotional composers like Meera Bai and Pratapbala, to Thumri singers like Girija Devi and Naina Devi to Khayal singers Prabha Atre, Veena Sahasrabuddhe and Ashwini Bhide, and now Srivani herself - we will hear a variety of beautiful compositions born out of the minds of women and their experiences.

The workshop will feature how by leveraging Cymatics, the physics of visualizing sound, along with other multi sensory elements such as Sign language translation and dance one can make Music accessible to people with hearing impairment or language barriers. Nivi, in the second part will demonstrate how technology assistive tools can make dance immersive and accessible to Artist with varying abilities.