Reisverhaal «One month intensive yoga-course!»

Thailand | 0 Reacties 06 Maart 2007 - Laatste Aanpassing 15 April 2007

For those who are new to yoga as I was one month ago;
All forms of yoga start from 2 fundamental ideas: 1. The human being is a miniature copy of the Universe, and 2. The principle of resonance.
According to the Yogic point of view, the universe is made of seven different vibratory levels, and differ in their vibratory rate (the frequency). Each level of the Universe has a corresponding point within the human microcosm, these centres of force are called chacras. The aim of yoga is to arouse and develop all seven chacras by placing them in resonance (same frequency, like the tuning of a radio) with the cosmic and (earthly) telluric energies.. 

The agama yoga school is an international school of spirituality, established in 1998 in Rishikesh, India, and since 2003 has been headquartered on Koh Phangan, with branches in India and some western countries.  Teachings are from authentic Tibetan and Indian Yoga and are promised to be "university-level" covering all aspects of Yoga, from healing and self-development to the paranormal and highest metaphysical goal; Enlightenment     They're teaching a tantric form of yoga; it is an approach that focuses on body and mind, on the circulation and the awareness of energy in the body, it trains the ability to feel the energies in oneself and others, and the ability to move and control them... 
The main practised form of Yoga is Hatha Yoga, the most famous in the west, based upon the balancing of the fundamental polarities of the being, solar (+) and lunar (-). It aims for a perfect mastery over the body, the recovery or maintaining of health, and perfect control over the vital energies.

Teachings are under the brilliant guidance of Swami Vivekanada Saraswati, a Romanian scientist turned yogi. After his studies of the mind, parapsychology, and a university degree in engineering, he became "deeply and intensively" involved in tantric yoga at the age of 19. After training and studying with his guru in the west, he completed his tantric studies for several years in India. In 1998, he opened his first school in Rishikesh but because of his succes (as a foreigner!) and attracting most of the foreign students, the corrupt Indian government refused to renew his visum in 2003, on which he had to leave the country. Several attempts to sneak back in remained unsuccesfully, on which he deciced to open a new school in Thailand, the Ananda resort at Ko Phangan...
Most of the evening lectures are given by him, and he will arguably stay the most talented lecturer I will ever encounter in my life... Such a charisma, such a knowledge and wisdom, such a self-confidence... After each lecture you could ask him anything about life, health, nature, moral or ethic issues or spirituality, he gave you a long satisfying answer. Actually, he's most common sentence was "to make a long story short, or shorter..." Brilliant, and personally, I adored his metafors!

The length of the course is 4 weeks, 6 days a week and each day consists of two classes of each 2 hours, one in the morning 08.30 to 10.30 and one in the afternoon, 16.00 to 18.00. After, there are relevant evening lectures, taking another 2 hours average... Topics from only the first month includes an overview of yoga and its principles, discussion of the polarity of energy, Kriya Yoga and purification, issues of diet, macrobiotics and alternative healing like ayurveda..., ethics and morality of Yoga, initiation in Llaya Yoga (meditation through mantras), the indriyas and the chacras, the 8 stages of Yoga, the five bodies of man, music meditation, the Yoga of conscious sleep, the sublimation and transmutation of the sexual energy to call a few... After the lecture, sometimes a movie was played like 'the life of Gandhi', 'what the bleep do we know', 'yogi's from Tibet'...

More information and contacts on www.agamayoga.com and www.anandaresort.com