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Swami Sivadasananda, Jogos ačarja ir vyresnysis Svamio Višnudevanandos mokinys, daugelį metų dėstė seminaruose ir jogos mokytojų mokymo kursuose visame pasaulyje. Jis yra dinamiškas, preciziškas ir kompetentingas instruktorius. Jis yra knygų „Sivananda Beginner’s Guide to Yoga” ir „Yoga – Your Home Practice Companion” autorius.
Mon., 27 January 2025, 6 – 7:30 pm CET
Hatha Yoga course introduction (free of charge)
60 minute practice with focus on
30 minute course introduction
A link to the video recording will be made available the day after the event.
Self-reflection is the first step of this year’s course journey.
What is the goal?
What are my needs?
What are my capabilities?
Yoga helps you to awaken and experience other layers of our being. It leads us into a multidimensional world beyond the five senses. Yoga connects through the heart, not only through reason or intellect.
It connects you to your inner Self where you will recognize your true being, beyond time and space. Yoga will open your inner energy where you can find answers to questions such as: What is my goal? What is my dharma (duty)? And lastly: Who am I?
The practice of yogic techniques unravels different levels of unawareness, cloudiness, and awakens the consciousness. With that unfoldment we can go through the pain of losing, the pain of separateness, the pain of unpleasant events.
Through the unfoldment of inner consciousness, we can recognize the play of our individuality, the ego which expresses through thoughts of me and mine. We start to see less separation and more oneness with all beings.
The ancient practices which lead to the secret depths of Yoga are shared with you in this series of courses. You will receive them in the masterly form taught by Swami Vishnudevananda for several decades, with love, patience and compassion.
I am humbled by the role of sharing with you these yogic practices which have served many souls. I am looking forward to your willingness to receive the teachings with an open mind, leaving preconceived ideas aside.
In the words of Swami Vishnudevananda:
“Yogis say that we were not born merely to be subject to pain and suffering, disease and death. The spiritual investigation of life’s purpose requires a keen intellect and strong will, the products of a healthy body and mind. For this reason, the ancient sages developed an integral system to keep the physical and mental faculties strong.
By closely observing the life-style and needs of the modern men and women of this planet I have synthesized the ancient wisdom of yoga into five basic principles, which can be easily incorporated into everyone’s own pattern of life.”
These principles are:
“Proper exercise or asanas act as a lubrication system to the joints, muscles, ligaments, and tendons by increasing circulation and flexibility. Yoga exercises focus first on the health of the spine. As a direct extension of the brain, the healthy spine aids in the health of the whole body.”
“During asanas, internal organs receive massage and stimulation through the various movements of the asanas and are toned into functioning more efficiently. Performed slowly and consciously, the asanas not only produce physical benefits, but are mental exercises in concentration and meditation.”
“Proper breathing or pranayama connects the body to its battery, the solar plexus, where tremendous potential energy is stored. When tapped through specific yoga breathing techniques, this energy is released for physical and mental rejuvenation.”
“When we concentrate and consciously regulate our breathing, we can store a greater amount of prana or vital energy in various nerve centers and in the brain. One who has abundant prana radiates vitality and strength, which can be felt by those with whom he comes in contact.”
“Relaxation is nature’s way of recharging the body by learning to economize the energy produced by our body. The average person expends much energy through needless physical and mental tension. Thus, most of the body’s energy is wasted.”
Perfect relaxation consists of three parts: physical, mental and spiritual relaxation. When we master the art of proper relaxation, we possess a key to health, vitality and inner peace.
“The Yogi considers, using both his knowledge of nutrition and his internal experience, which foods can be consumed in what minimum quantity with the most positive effect on the body and mind, and with the least negative impact on the environment and least pain to other beings.”
“Fasting is also a part of the Yogic dietary regime. Fasting plus rest is Nature’s universal prescription for all ailments, from fevers to broken limbs. Along with prayer, it is recommended by all religions for purification, self-discipline, and self-control.”
“Positive thinking (vedanta) and meditation (dhyana) put you in control. The intellect is purified. The lower nature is brought under conscious control through steadiness and concentration of mind.”
“Meditation leads to the direct intuitive realization of the infinite. It is an inner divine experience which is beyond the reach of speech and mind. It can be realized through deep meditation.”
“Yoga is a life of self-discipline built upon the tenets of simple living and high thinking. Please do not discount the value of the combined approach to yoga self-culture.”
“If you can heal your own body and mind, you will be capable of healing and taking care of the planet.”
“The yogi regards the physical body as an instrument for his journey towards perfection” – Swami Vishnudevananda
Study text: “Anatomy of Hatha Yoga” by David Coulter
Sensory input to the brain and the power of will both ultimately influence the motor neurons, which in turn preside over the actions of the musculoskeletal system.
The reflexes are in the background and out of our immediate awareness, but without them we would not be able to function.
Without the stretch reflexes our movements would be jerky and uncertain.
And without pain receptors and flexion reflexes we would experience burns and injuries.
Without the reflexes from our vestibular system we would teeter about, uncertain of our balance and orientation.
Without sensation from touch and pressure pathways we would lose most of the sensory input.
In the end, the nervous system drives the musculoskeletal system.
The musculoskeletal system maintains and sculpts connective tissues.
Connective tissues passively restrict movement and posture.
All of this takes place within the field of gravity under the auspices of will and creates the practice of hatha yoga.
The five major pranas or vital energies correspond to important body functions such as respiration, circulation, digestion, urinary and fecal elimination, the reproductive function, deglutition and the connection between the physical body and the astral body.
In the pranic sheath, there are 72,000 nāḍis, or astral tubes. To advance in hatha yoga, the purification of these nāḍis is essential.
The six chakras or centres of vital energy and consciousness, and the suṣumṇa nāḍi, the main energy channel, are found in the astral body. In the physical body, these chakras and the suṣumṇa nāḍi coincide with the nerve plexuses and the spinal column, respectively.
Prana (ha) and apana (tha) are united at the manipura chakra (solar plexus). This dynamic process of union and refinement results in a psychic energy, which can be directed at will.
Shakti is the sum total of all energies and manifests both as the outer universe (macrocosm) and the individual universe (microcosm). Yoga sees the individual mind as an expression of the universal shakti.
In the individual, shakti or cosmic energy is sleeping at the base of the spine. “Sleeping” means that we are not aware of her presence. When she is awakened, she is called kundalini shakti. The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to unite the awakened kundalini shakti with Siva or absolute consciousness, at the crown of the head.
The previous course described the gross and subtle structures of the physical and the astral body. Course 3 focuses on the dynamics of practice, the experience of feeling more alive, awake and aware.
In the words of Swami Vishnudevananda:
“Haṭha yoga is not just āsanas and prāṇāyāma. Haṭha yoga is rāja yoga in a scientific and detailed study. All the practical techniques in rāja yoga point to haṭha yoga.”
“Haṭha yoga is the practical aspect of rāja yoga, and rāja yoga is the creative aspect of haṭha yoga.”
“Hatha Yoga gives first attention to the physical body, which is the vehicle of the soul’s existence and activity.”
“Purity of the mind is not possible without purity of the body in which it functions and by which it is affected. Through the practice of asanas and pranayama, the mind becomes one-pointed and thus one can progress quickly in concentration and meditation.”
“By practicing Yama and Niyama at the outset the student gets ethical training and purification of mind. By developing friendship, mercy and complacency, he destroys hatred, jealousy and harshness of heart and thereby gets peace of mind.”
“By practicing Asana one steadies his posture and gets complete control and mastery over the body.”
“Then one practices Pranayama to remove the tossing of mind and destroy Rajas (passion) and Tamas (inertia). The body becomes light and elastic.”
“By practicing Pratyahara (withdrawal of the Indriyas or senses from sensual objects) one obtains strength and peace of mind.”
“Attention plays a very prominent part in concentration. He who has developed his powers of attention will have good concentration.”
„Meditation gives the vision of unity. Meditation leads to the experience of oneness.“
“The fruit of meditation is Samadhi. Samadhi is the super conscious state, wherein the yogi gets superintuitional knowledge and supersensual bliss.”
“The aim of meditation consists of transcending the attachments and the hypnotic state in which we presently are. The idea that I am a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, an Arab, a Hindu, that I am tall, black, British, American, or Argentinian. I am That I am. ‘I and my Father are one’. That is what Jesus said. That I is in you and that I is in me. We are one.“
Mitahara – Moderation in eating
Why to avoid: Meat, fish, poultry and eggs, alcohol, tobacco
Why to avoid: onions, garlic, assefoetida.
Why to possibly reduce/avoid: dairy products and sugar
Benefits of eating: grains, pulses, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds
Sattvic, rajasic and tamasic food items according to the Bhagavad Gita
How to nourish the constitutions of the body (Gheranda Samhita)
Course 1 or 5 | €96 |
Course 2, 3 or 4 | €192 |
Course 1 or 5, price per course | €90 |
Course 2, 3 or 4, price per course | €180 |
Courses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 | €672 |
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