{"id":1233,"date":"2019-03-27T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:22:11","slug":"yoga-and-meditation-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2019\/03\/27\/yoga-and-meditation-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga and Meditation Festival 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 March 2019, the UKC Krishna Consciousness Society hosted this year&#8217;s Yoga and Mediation festival in Darwin Lecture Theatre 3. The theatre was transformed with a table offering spiritual literature, a variety of entertaining performances including a\u00a0drama performance by the Bhaktivedanta Players, a poem written by devotees and much more.<\/p>\n<p>The final event involved the audience dancing and singing to The Maha Mantra, with the accompaniment of a Mridanga, which is a type of drum, an accordion and kartalas (small brass symbols). The finale was followed by a vegetarian feast from Govinda&#8217;s restaurant based in London.<\/p>\n<p>Many people left the event feeling entertained and enriched and it was all for free. The Krishna Consciousness Society were part-funded by International Partnerships through the Multicultural Events Fund. If you or your society are interested in organising a multicultural event, you can find out more about how to apply for funding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/global\/partnerships\/multicultural-fund.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 March 2019, the UKC Krishna Consciousness Society hosted this year&#8217;s Yoga and Mediation festival in Darwin Lecture Theatre 3. The theatre was transformed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2019\/03\/27\/yoga-and-meditation-festival-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52823,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26858,189858,189859,56815,6598,705,1479,189857,189856,189835,51540,57890,37405,95611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}