Questions and Answers from student teachers
on the 2019-22 Teacher Training Course at Mandala Yoga Ashram, including:
How can we promote diversity in our Yoga classes?
What is the ‘virtuous path’ in a world of conflicting moral beliefs?
What is the difference between relaxation and meditation?
The different paths of Yoga.
The different traditions of Vedanta, Samkhya, Yoga, Tantra, Ashtanga.
A Satsang given on the evening of May 2nd 2019 to students on the third of the Kriya Yoga course sessions.
Topics include a discussion on –
Kriya Yoga
the limitation of concepts
the speeding up of life
modern life helps to liberate us from prejudice
being receptive but transparent
yoga helps us to find meaning and balance, and releases our potential
my life in India
and finishes with a short meditation centred on the Heart.
The final question and answer session from the 2019 Chakra course.
topics include:
The Chakra paradigm and Kriya Yoga
The value of the Ashram
‘Ashram is a refuge, you come here to deepen your understanding’
Swami Nishchalananda’s life in India
Behaviour and archetypes, the evolution of behaviour patterns
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A wide ranging question and answer session, themed by the worldwide expressions of alarm at apparently uncontrolled burning of many locations in the Amazonian Rain Forest.
So themes include :-
Environment and playing our part in tidying up the planet
‘We are ruining this Planet far faster than we thought……..
…….. Don’t underestimate the part that you can play in trying to bring some harmony… ‘
The Heart Chakra
Feminine Power
Follow your own heart to find happiness
Quantum Physics
Materialism doesn’t fulfil us on a fundamental level
‘The materialistic paradigm gives us so much in terms of possessions, but it doesn’t really nourish us. It just creates a distraction for a while…’
And finally a short meditation on Gaia.
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Topics raised in this question and answer session include
‘The Inner Space’ in meditation practice.
‘Meditation has nothing to do with whether your eyes are open or closed’
The significance of Mouna (the practice of keeping silent).
The positives and negatives of focussing on the individual Chakras.
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Discourse given at Mandala Yoga Ashram in August 2019. The context is the 4 day course on Advaita, non-dualism, under the title ‘The Essential I’.
Investigating the “I” based on the Kena upanishad.
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This recording is a satsang given at the culmination of the recent 1-year course on the Kriya Yoga.
The fundamental meaning of life is not found so much in what we do, but rather in identifying with the awe-inspiring fact that we are Conscious Beings.
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This satsang was given at Mandala Yoga Ashram on the 8th of June 2018, on ‘Guru Purnima’, a day traditional in India for acknowledging the role of the ‘Guru’ or Teacher.
“I don’t think an external teacher really teaches you anything…… except to show you, directly or indirectly, where you are stuck in a particular way of thinking……. what we are, fundamentally, is always there.”
Swami Nishchalananda Saraswati
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Swami Nishchalananda 