FITNESS - AGING - POWER - PEACE
The Exhibition of Sri Chinmoy's weightlifting machines
The exhibition Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart is a travelling museum of specially constructed weightlifting machines that Sri Chinmoy used for hoisting immense weights with his arms, legs and shoulders. An enormous 2,600 lb standing calf raise, a unique apparatus for lifting individuals overhead, and an 800 lb bench press form the core of the exhibit. A gallery of photos and short films documenting these extraordinary feats of strength completes the display.
The exhibit was travelling on an European tour, that started in the Czech Republic and then continued in Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
Public Screening of the documentary film Challenging Impossibility
The initial launch of the exhibition took place together with the premiere of the documentary film at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The film Challenging Impossibility focuses on an evening in November 2004 when Sri Chinmoy performed dozens of weightlifting feats – a total cumulative weight of over 200,000 lbs - in front of hundreds of spectators. The film features commentary from bodybuilding legends such as Bill Pearl, Frank Zane and Mike Katz, Canadian strongman Hugo Girard, Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis and others.
Challenging Impossibility has been screened in more than 70 film festivals in over a dozen countries around the world, and has received several film festival awards.
“I am trying to be of some inner service to people who want to go one step forward. They don’t have to lift 2,000 pounds, but perhaps they will take the inspiration that I am offering and make the effort to do something in their own lives which they previously thought was too difficult or impossible. In any field they can get inspiration to do something better than what they have been doing.” - Sri Chinmoy
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