Monday, August 30, 2010

Yoga on the banks of the Ganges River - India Tour

Do you long to experience spiritual India, and do yoga on the banks of the sacred Ganges River?

Breathe in India is for people who long to experience the magic of spiritual India. Participants will watch the Taj Mahal float in a iridescent sunrise, explore the ghats of Varanasi, the world’s oldest city, bask in the sublime beauty of Khajuraho’s temples and do yoga on the banks of the sacred Ganges River in Rishikesh.

The tour dates are February 5 to 18, 2011 (with a six-day extension in Rishikesh, Haridwar and Aurovalley Ashram).

This is your opportunity to travel in India with an experienced traveler and yoga teacher – someone who can share her discoveries, teachers and experiences and help you have a richer journey.

Tour group size is restricted to 10-18 to ensure group intimacy and the opportunity for authentic travel experiences.

For more information visit http://breathedreamgo.com/2010/08/breathe-in-india/

Friday, July 30, 2010

INDIA The Mother Of Spirituality

India, was well trained in spiritual philosophy and science ages before the Romans, or Alexander the Great ever dreamed of world empire, and when nought but savages roamed over the vast prairies and through deep forests of what is now proud America. This science was familiar to the great Teachers of India long before Egypt came to be regarded as the word's repository of occult knowledge. In fact Egypt took her first lessons in such knowledge from the great Mahatmas of India.

Dear old India! The world owes her a debt of gratitude it is slow to repay. All the round world has sat at her feet and learned the ancient wisdom. But not all the world knows the soul of India. The West does not yet understand her. Many look upon India as the land of mystery or of poverty and ignorance. The look only at the drifting tide of human life breaking upon her unhappy shores in vast lacs of incarnations. They know not the real India. They know not her great Teachers; for they are her soul. From them streams of life have gone forth to heal the nations, during immemorial ages. They have always been the world's light bearers. The sunrise of India's spiritual glory is only just now breaking upon the world. That glory is not a thing of the past ages. It consists not int he wisdom of her ancient Vedas, nor in the life and words of her adorable Buddha. IT IS EMBODIED IN HER LIVING MASTERS. In them this wisdom of the ages takes living form and is more vital today than ever. In them the word of truth has become flesh and dwells among men.

Source: From the book "The Sar Bachan - The Yoga of the sound current." http://www.scribd.com/doc/30633238/The-Sar-Bachan-Prose-Swami-Ji-Maharaj


"what literature we, here in Europe, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more universal, in fact more truly human, again I should point to India."

"If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed the choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solution of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant-I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thought of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life-again I should point to India." --Max Muller


Pope Pius IX says:—"India alone has remained true to the heart of the spiritual motives." (From Sir Woodroffe's book—"Is India Civilized?"

Friday, January 15, 2010

Shakti Spirit Yoga Teacher Training - Goa, India, 2010

6 Week Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher Training - Goa, India with Rachel Hull.

Yoga is about transformation and freedom! The Shakti Spirit Yoga Teacher Training is designed for practitioners who love the Hatha Yoga system, including Vinyasa Yoga, and would like to learn more about integrating their practice with Ayurveda and Yoga philosophy.

The training also spends considerable time learning safe alignment in more static postures, and includes the use of 'props' where appropriate.

The training is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level and will be the fourth training we have run in Goa.

Teachers include Rachel Hull, Jodi Boone, Emil Wendel, Chris Kummer and Sue Pendlebury.

Rachel Hull is the training director and senior teacher, and has taught close to 20 Yoga trainings - including in Australia, Bali, Goa, Malaysia and China.

This training will be held at the lovely Satsanga Retreat Centre, in Parra, Goa. The centre has a lovely, wooden floored Yoga Shala, clean and new private accommodation rooms, an Ayurvedic cook, a large pool, and a lovely atmosphere. It is designed to be a fully residential training.

Please see our website for more details on the course content, teachers and venue.

Price: Yoga and Ayurveda Tuition - US $2,900 (to Shakti Spirit Yoga).
Private Accommodation (payable to the Satsanga Retreat Centre) with daily breakfasts and dinners 5 nights per week, for 42 nights (the length of the training) = Indian Rupees
61, 200 (as of 27 March, 2009, this amounted toUS$ 1,207.

As currency exchange does vary daily, please re-check with a currency converter to see todays rate. For a daily currency converter try this link: www.xe.com/ucc/

Please see the website for more details:
www.shaktispirit.com
For a direct link to the Goa TT page:
http://www.shaktispirit.com/2010GoaLevel1TT.htm


Time: February 7, 2010 to March 21, 2010
Location: Satsanga Retreat Centre, Goa
City/Town: Parra
Website: http://www.satsangaretreat.com
Event Type: yoga, &, ayurveda, teacher, training
Organized By: Rachel Hull