” Feel the silence, hear the silence, touch and taste the silence. Silence is the music of your soul.
Be One with this Silence. “
Swami Vishnudevananda-ji
Silence
Tag: meditation
Friday 29 August, Hatha Yoga Class and Satsang
The next Satsang and additional Hatha Yoga class is already this Friday 29 August 2014. Relax your body and nourish your soul:
Where: Raceview Scout Hall, Taylor Street, Eastern Heights
What: Hatha Yoga Class (breathing exercises, sun salutation, 12 basic postures)
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Cost: $14.00 or regular class pass (no free trial class on this day).
What: Satsang (silent meditation, uplifting Sanskrit chants, an inspiring reading).
Time: 6:45pm – 8:15pm
Cost: $7.00 or FREE if you come to the 5pm class
In between the two sessions we have a cup of (herbal) tea and some raw carrot cake I made earlier.
You are most welcome to join for just one of the classes. If you like an extra exercise session you come to the Hall for 5pm.
If you like to learn/practice meditation and get deeper into the yoga philosophy or if you like the Sanskrit Chants (Kirtan) please come to the hall for 6:30pm.
Looking forward to seeing you soon. Please contact me if you have any questions.
© Photography Maria Steiner
Healing Meditation
Healing Meditation
By Swami Chidananda as written in his book “BLISS IS WITHIN”:
Meditation for improving and building up your own health is to be practised at bed time, just before you go to sleep. The preparations for it are all the same, identical. Sit upon your meditation posture. Keep the body erect and straight. Sit steadily without any movment. But always be entirely relaxed. You must feel totally at ease. You must be feeling so restful that you can gradually forget the very presence of the body. The body should not make itself felt by you at all. The posture should be so restful and so relaxed. Then only you will not feel that you are sitting. Thus you can continue for a long time without any discomfort. Now in this state of quiescence and restfulness, take the mind inward and feel strongly the powerful presence in the innermost centre of your being. Feel that it is the Universal Spirit, in its indwelling aspect, making itself felt as Divine Presence. The Universal Spirit is all-perfect. It is a source of all-blessedness. It is all health, strength, vigour and power. Visualise mentally the centre and source of all health and of all healing. Feel your unity with that Divine Centre. And now gently assert to yourself:
- The source of all health is within me Om Om Om
- God is my healer Om Om Om
- I am ever united with that Being Om Om Om
- I am a mass of radiant energy Om Om Om
- I am disease-free Om Om Om
- I am in a state of perfect health Om Om Om
In this way draw up yourself a suitable list of affirmations which are appropriate and suited to your particular state of health requirement, and inwardly feel the required state is now being created within you. Everything that is wrong is being set right in all parts of the body. Restoration, repair and healing is taking place in every specific part and total state of perfect health is being established within. Have clearly before your mental vision the word health in luminous letters. Visualise ‘health’ clearly. Visualise the centre of your being as an inexhaustible source of energy and health. Feel the power of health radiating from that inner centre and spreading in all directions throughout your body and brining about a state of radiant health in every part of the body. Feel your body growing with perfect health from head to toe. Accompany this feeling with quiet affirmation. Keep yourselves in this state for some minutes continuously and conclude with the peace chant: Om Santi, Santi, Santih. This kind of meditation may be done within a period of five or six minutes. If you can prolong it longer, it is well and good. If your concentration is very good, even four minutes will suffice. But if you have got any specific health problem in any particular part of your body, you may particularly direct the healing Prana towards that part and make the meditation a few minutes longer. And always conclude with the Peace Chant and finish by saying “Thank you God”.
“I pray to the Lord that He may bestow upon you inner strength so that you will attain steady success in your daily meditation. Hari Om Tat Sat.” Swami Chidananda.
way of life
The way you start your day, is how you live your day.
The way you live your day, is how you live your life.
© Photography Maria Steiner
Satsang Friday 25 July
The next Satsang and additional Hatha Yoga class is on Friday 25th July 2014. Relax your body and nourish your soul:
Where: Raceview Scout Hall, Taylor Street, Eastern Heights
What: Hatha Yoga Class (breathing exercises, sun salutation, 12 basic postures)
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Cost: $14.00 or regular class pass (no free trial class on this day).
What: Satsang (silent meditation, uplifting Sanskrit chants, an inspiring reading).
Time: 6:45pm – 8:15pm
Cost: $7.00 or FREE if you come to the 5pm class
In between the two sessions we have a cup of (herbal) tea and something sweet.
You are most welcome to join for just one of the classes. If you like an extra exercise session you come to the Hall for 5pm.
If you like to learn/practice meditation and get deeper into the yoga philosophy or if you like the Sanskrit Chants (Kirtan) please come to the hall for 6:30pm.
Looking forward to seeing you soon. Let me know if you have any questions.
© Photography Maria Steiner
Wise words by Yesudian
…. more wisdom from the book YOGA and HEALTH by Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich, first published in 1953.
The entire system of Hatha Yoga is based on returning to a natural way of living, an intuition which guides the human mind from a higher plane. It is based on a return to an inspiration of the mind and thus becomes a valuable asset for the new world now being born for the new generation which will lead a happier, more natural life. As the clamour of weapons dies away, a new, freer world will be born, and the time is fast approaching when we shall have to bind and heal man’s wounds and train his body in a healthier, and more conscious manner.
May God grant that the three greatest gifts of Hatha Yoga — health, strength and youthfulness — may be transmitted to this new generation.
Satsang Friday 30th May 2014
The next Satsang and additional Hatha Yoga class for that week is on Friday 30th May 2014. Relax your body and nourish your soul:
Where: Raceview Scout Hall, Taylor Street, Eastern Heights
What: Hatha Yoga Class (breathing exercises, sun salutation, 12 basic postures)
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Cost: $14.00 or regular class pass (no free trial class on this day).
What: Satsang (silent meditation, uplifting Sanskrit chants, an inspiring reading).
Time: 6:45pm – 8:15pm
Cost: $7.00 or FREE if you come for the 5pm class
In between the two sessions we have a cup of tea and something sweet.
You are most welcome to join for just one of the classes. If you like an extra exercise session you come to the Hall for 5pm.
If you like to learn/practice meditation and get deeper into the yoga philosophy or if you like the Sanskrit Chants (Kirtan) please come to the hall for 6:30pm.
Looking forward to seeing you soon. Let me know if you have any questions.
© Photography Maria Steiner
Banner
Since a couple weeks I finally have a Banner with phone number and website, that I display at the Scout Halls while we have the Yoga Class.
Both these community halls are in residential areas, so for many it is actually walking distance to attend the weekly yoga classes.
© Photography Maria Steiner
Friday Class 14th March
The next Satsang and Friday yoga class is on Friday 14th March 2014:
Where: Raceview Scout Hall, Taylor Street, Eastern Heights
What: Hatha Yoga Class (breathing exercises, sun salutation, 12 basic postures, guided final relaxation).
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Cost: $14.00 or regular class pass (no free trial class on this day).
What: Satsang, we begin with silent meditation, then Kirtan Mantra chanting and a lecture about some of the yoga philosophy, finishing with a purifying light ceremony (arati).
Time: 6:45pm – 8:15pm
Cost: $7.00 or FREE if you come to the 5pm class
In between the two sessions we have a cup of tea and something sweet.
You are most welcome to join for just one of the classes. If you like an extra exercise session you come for 5pm.
If you like to learn/practice meditation and get deeper into the yoga philosophy or if you like the Sanskrit Chants (Kirtan) please come to the hall for 6:30pm.
See you soon.
Namaste
Prema Maria
© Photography Maria Steiner
New Brochure
Back in November I created a new brochure promoting the yoga classes I teach and services I offer.
With the summer in Australia I forgot to write a post about it. So last but not least here it is. Just a short note. Most of you have a copy of this brochure already, if not pick up yours next time I see you.
Hatha Yoga Ipswich 