Yoga in India – Sivananda Ashram 07-08 – Omshanti

www.omshanti.cat Sivananda Ashram, Kerala hivern ‘07 – ‘08

Dr. David Frawley & Shambhavi Chopra @ the Yoga Retreat- Bahamas

Featuring Dr. David Frawley & Shambhavi Chopra at the yoga retreat. Dr. David Frawley Dr. David Frawley is regarded as an authentic Vedacharya (Vedic teacher). Over the last 20 years, he has written numerous books and created several courses on Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedic astrology, and Tantra. His works have been translated into 15 languages and [...]

Classical Indian Music & Dance Festival in the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Bahamas

During this festival we had exquisite evening performances of classical Indian music and dance. We had performance each evening by a different classical Indian musician or dancer. It is a rare occasion for such accomplished Indian musicians and dancers to come together in the West and to share their mastery with us and with each [...]

SAYR hosting Swami Shantananda

The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Hosting Swami Shantananda of the Chinmaya Mission. This video is featuring the 2010 program with Swami Shantananda. In March 14-20, 2011 Swami Shantananda will present “Sat Darshana – 40 Verses on Reality by Ramana Maharshi”.

Simhavlokanam

Simhâvalokanam (August, 1919-20, pp. 103-104) Yoga and Nature By Swami Ramakrishnananda Books are nothing other than the records of men’s experiences about Nature; so in reality Nature is our teacher. Whenever Nature teaches us,we become really learned and gain something thereby not only for ourselves but for others. When young James Watt studied the action of steam in the boiling kettle before him, he made a valuable contribution to the progress of the human race. When Benjamin Franklin was flying the kite and detected the existence of electricity in the clouds, he gained a new and most useful servant for man. Similarly by studying Nature George Stephenson was able to invent the locomotive engine. All these incidents clearly show that Nature is the book the study of which gives us the greatest return. Our Indian Yogis, knowing this, deeply studied the book of Nature and ultimately found out the methods which took them beyond Nature. Through the study of the inner aspect of Nature they opened a channel of unlimited knowledge; they could subsist without food any length of time; and they gained supernatural powers which our modern science cannot even dream of. That a man can become practically all-knowing they seem to have at first learnt from studying the property of a convex lens. Ordinarily the solar rays have no burning power; but if brought together at the focus of the lens, they will begin to burn. This burning power is brought about by the convergence of the scattered rays of the sun to a single point. This fact suggested to the mind of the Yogi that because the mind is distributed through the senses and as such is scattered in all directions, it has only the ordinary power of knowing what is visibly going on in this world and of knowing that but very partially. If, however, he could call his mind back from all external pursuits and concentrate it on one idea or at one point, as in the case of the focused solar rays, then why should it not be able to perceive both these ordinary things and many extraordinary things also? He made the experiment and was successful. This intense increase in the power of the mind was learnt also from the current of a stream. If we build a dam across a flowing stream, keeping only a very small aperture in the embankment, the water which then comes out of that aperture has a thousand fold more power than the ordinary current of the stream. This suggested to them the idea that if by shutting up all other outlets of the mind, it is made to flow through one outlet, it must acquire powers unknown to it before: In this manner the Yogi discovered the extraordinary powers which mental concentration can produce. T h e V e d a n t a K e s a r i ~ 2 9 0 ~ A U G U S T 2 0 0 9

Ganesha Medley

Kailash leads devotional chanting of the Sound Form of Ganesha, the Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles, at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Bahamas, on December 14, 2009. Please visit Kailash’s website at: omkailash.com

Mahamandaleshwar Swami Jasraj Puri Ji On Yoga And Physiotherapy

Mahamandaleshwar Swami Jasraj Puriji spoke 2008 in Jaipur in a very practical way about Yoga and Physiotherapy. Swami Jasraj Puriji is a long time disciple of HH Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandaji, the founder of Yoga in Daily Life System. More from Swami Jasraj Puriji on Youtube: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com and Swami Jasraj Puriji’s blogspot on Jadan [...]

Mahasivaratri 2010 @ Sivananda Yoga Ranch (pt. 1)

Clips of some early chanting and the first Puja from the February 2010 Sivaratri celebration at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne NY with Swami Sadasivananda and Srinivasan.

What Is Shared During Shaktipat?

What is the energy shared during Shaktipat? What is the nature of Grace? The descent of Grace in Shaktipat is a coming together, a oneness, in stillness. It might be said that it is a reminder to the pure consciousness which is within the seeker of it's true nature providing a sort of reference point [...]

Six Syllable Mantra

Kailash leads devotional chanting of the Sound Form of Avalokiteshvara (Tib. Chenrezeg), the Bodhisattva of Compassion, at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island, Bahamas, on December 17, 2009. Please visit Kailash’s website at: omkailash.com