EDDIE STERN + CHRIS MARTIN OF COLDPLAY

KARMA

 

SEPTEMBER 24

7:00 - 8:30 PM

 

Ashtanga yoga master Eddie Stern welcomes musician Chris Martin of Coldplay to help address the issues of global warming and help define the role of the global citizen.

 

Tickets: $40.00

Members: $36.00

 

About the Speakers

 

Eddie Stern is the co-founder of Ashtanga Yoga New York, the Brooklyn Yoga Club, and the Broome Street Temple. He currently works on supporting the implementation of wellness programs in public education and has published several books on Pattabhi Jois and Ashtanga yoga.

 

Chris Martin is an English singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and is the lead vocalist and co-founder of the band Coldplay. Coldplay came together as a band in late 1997 when Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin met at University College, London. The band have gone on to become one of the most popular music acts on earth, selling

more than 60 million copies of their six Number One albums. The band has received almost every major music award (including seven Grammys and eight BRITs). With a reputation for spectacular live shows, Coldplay have circled the globe many times. The band’s most recent world tour, the 2011/12 Mylo Xyloto tour, was seen by more than three million people in five continents. In May 2014, Coldplay released their sixth studio album, the lovelorn Ghost Stories, which was heralded by SPIN as containing “some of their finest, most understated work in over a decade.” The album reached Number One on iTunes in more than 100 countries, quickly becoming another multi-million seller. With hits like ‘Magic’ and ‘A Sky Full Of Stars’, the album delivered more timeless Coldplay classics to sit alongside the likes of ‘Yellow’, ‘Clocks’, ‘The Scientist’, ‘Fix You’, ‘Viva La Vida’ and ‘Paradise’. Since the release of their first single, Coldplay have donated 10 percent of their income to charity. The band are committed supporters of a number of causes, currently including Oxfam, Global Citizen, and Client Earth.

 

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gai, can you give us link? or where it will be held? Thankies having a hard time googling it

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right here christa :)

thanks so much, the highlighted ticket prices would not link

Just got my ticket!

yey! keep us updated!

I'm excited! Hoping I learn a lot to report to you all

Great!!! Hope you could record some videos to share with us! :)

Do you think they will perform some yoga moves? I think they should. It would be the right thing to do [emoji15]

Just got back from the Karma lecture at the Rubin Museum with Chris and Eddie Stern. It was so lovely. Will have a nice review for you tomorrow. Will tell you one tidbit, Chris had lots of Love Buttons for the sell out crowd, standing room only! (No pictures or video allowed and I go by the rules) took so many notes in the dark on pieces of scratch paper and back of my shopping lists, forgot my Gal Reporter notebook :(

oh that was today! this is something new from chris. looking forward to the review.

It was very low key, no fanfare at all, but I will collect all my scratch pad notes and tell ya all about it tomorrow :)

I'll be waiting for it :)

Awesome! Looking forward to the review, Christa!

Is there any recorded video that we can all watch?

I NEED a video. Or at least some HD photos :laugh2:

Ok, so I am going to do this is parts, have to leave for work in 15 minutes and still computing it in my head.

 

There were no cameras or videos or cell phones allowed and I go by the rules so sorry no pics or vids

 

The lecture was part of a series run by the Rubin Museum Entitled Karma: Cause, Effect, and The Illusion of Fate and this segment had speakers Yoga teacher extraordinaire Eddie Stern, who is known by everyone in NY and in all the yoga circles in the world and then of course there was Chris Martin. We were in a theater that seated about 150 ppl and there was a stage with chairs where they sat. Chris and Eddie came on and they were so comfortable together, so charming and hysterically funny. You forget how tall Chris is. They tried to be serious for a while..... They played so well off each other. Eddie asking Chris questions about his interpretation of his meaning of Karma and Chris was like, you are the expert, am I answering this right? ha! Eddi was always saying Yes! Perfect!

 

Eddie began speaking with the history and meaning of Karma, Cause and Effect and taking responsibility for your Karma. Eddie spoke of Dogma later.

He also spoke of how there is Karma in Yoga. He asked Chris how/if he uses Yoga and meditation with concerts and Chris said he tries to calm himself before a show and center himself because with all the sound of the crowds you sometimes cannot hear yourself so you need to center yourself before and have quiet and one with yourself so you can be truly there for the audience and others. I am paraphrasing, I was writing in the dark on the back of pieces of paper i found in my handbag, forgot my notebook and I can hardly read my chicken scrawl ughhhh!

 

Chris did say jokingly he does yoga in his underpants with Eddie, Eddie looked at him and said, "Chris I do Yoga in my shorts"

 

Ok with that, I am off to work next segment up in a few hours!

Thanks for the update!

 

Chris did say jokingly he does yoga in his underpants with Eddie, Eddie looked at him and said, "Chris I do Yoga in my shorts"

 

 

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Chris did say jokingly he does yoga in his underpants with Eddie, Eddie looked at him and said, "Chris I do Yoga in my shorts"

 

 

Careful Chris, your gay is showing :heart:

So then Eddie asked Chris what he experienced at concerts and Chris said it's different for all people, magical. He said he once went to a concert with John Williams who wrote the theme to Star Wars and he said "There is a God"

They started to talk about global warming and the Global Citizen Festival and Chris's role. Chris said the festival will probably go all over the world and not just be in NY in the coming years. He talked about "Is it too late? Have we done enough?. Of course it is not to late and to do something, just a little something in your own backyard. Eddie talked about his IPhone and how much he loves it and uses it too much, but who is making that IPhone in China and are they being paid enough and living in conditions that are good enough?

 

Chris then talked about their trip to India last week. He talked about the children and education. Education is the key. He said there were all these wonderful kids at the video shoot who had all these talents but they needed opportunity to let them flourish. Would they get that opportunity? Would they get that chance?

 

Chris talked about being on a boat and there were two men. A man that had something, a bottle maybe and he threw away or in the water or something. The other man picked it up. And the man explained to the first man that he should not litter. He said he was upset at the first man but then he realized the man had not been educated and that is the key to all of this. Being part of the Global Citizen is educating ppl around the world to help save the world

 

Ok, more in a few before I get fired hehe

Thanks for all this. You're so lucky to have been there. Awaiting the next episode .......

Chris then talked about listening to your heart, the heart being a big part of your karma so to speak, when writing a song for an album. He said you have the record companies saying you have to have this big hit and have to the numbers but you have this song that may not have what the record companies want but you know in your heart that this is the song you were meant to write and you write it and it's the right and good and it comes from your core, your apple seed, yes they said apple seed. You having to do what you think is right and positive. This is what I got from it that is, remember I am trying to remember it all. This was really an amazing point in the conversation it really meant a lot to hear from Chris.

 

I'll be back for the big finish in a few!

big finish

 

???!!!!! Can't wait!