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Workshops

Do you prefer to go deeper instead of staying on the surface? Then our regular workshops lasting several hours offer you a wonderful platform to rediscover yourself. Here you can clarify pressing questions about yoga, here you will find yourself in a process of acceptance of what is. You leave your yoga mat with a deep understanding of your situation in serene serenity and can blossom like the lotus flower.

Upcoming Workshops

Information about the Workshop 27th October, 2024

The 'I' and Its Delusion

 

What exactly is the 'I', called Ahamkara (the I-maker), that turns all the experiences a person has into 'their own' and creates a sense of individuality or even isolation?

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How is it created, and what place does Ahamkara occupy in the structure of the mind, spirit, and intellect?

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Is the 'I' perhaps the ego (Asmita)? Or the 'own' self? And what is the nature of the 'I'? How does it usually behave? And why does it lead to recurring frustration and suffering?

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How can one recognize the 'I' responsible for this suffering (Dukkha) and our dissatisfaction?

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Whether we suffer or are happy is always 'only' a question of consciousness or identification.

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But what does a person identify with when they naively give in to the essential characteristics of the 'I'? And how does this happen?

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Understand the nature of the 'I' and its daily behaviors, and why, when 'unrecognized and unchecked', it traps you in a cycle of suffering existence.

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Learn to recognise the 'I' - which is subject to the usual deceptions (Maya) - and gain the tools in this workshop to free yourself from this illusion that brings suffering, to bloom in fullness, contentment, kindness, compassion, cheerfulness, and equanimity like the lotus.

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Become the 'Lily of the Field' (Kshetram = field, surroundings) and begin to shine in everyday life like the Akanda Jyotir (the continuous, unbroken light) that you are, regardless of the situation you find yourself in.

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Learn the profound meaning of the 'I' according to the Yoga and Samkhya traditions, and understand its true significance through:

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  • Yoga Darshana (philosophy) demystified

  • Asana

  • Pranayama

  • Concentration and Meditation Techniques

  • Mantra and Sound

 

Cost: CHF 150.-

 

Please transfer the amount in advance via Twint, including your name and the workshop date, to 079 416 19 02

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Further workshop dates and topics in 2024 and 2025:

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  • Sunday, November 24th (Sahasrara - see below)

  • Sunday, December 15th (Topic to be announced)

  • Sunday, January 19th, 2025 (Topic to be announced)

Information about the Workshop 24th November, 2024

Sahasrara

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Attempting to express Sahasrara in words is akin to trying to carry water with a sieve. To understand that a vast forest and its trees are one, it is not enough to walk through the forest. One must leave the forest and stand atop a mountain, or else one cannot see the forest for the trees. However, one must not desire to reach this peak, or one will merely climb a molehill.

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Sahasrara is Shoonya – the void. Or more precisely, Shoonya-Shoonya – the void without emptiness, the void of 'TOTALITY', called Brahman in Advaita Vedanta.

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It is everything and no-thing. Anything said about it must be wrong, for in saying something, we immediately limit and categorise it. Even the statement that it is infinite is incorrect. It transcends all concepts, yet it is the source of all concepts. It is the merging of consciousness and prana. Sahasrara is the culmination of yoga. Indeed, it is yoga itself.

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Literally, it means 'one thousand'. Why this is so, I will gladly explain in this workshop.

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It is both: formless (Nirakara) and form (Akara), and yet it is also beyond and therefore untouched by form (Nirvikara). It transcends logic because logic compares one thing with another. Sahasrara, however, is totality, so with what shall we compare it?

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Sahasrara is the highest experience, but even this statement is entirely misleading. Experience implies an individual separated from the experience and experiencing it. Sahasrara is beyond such experience. It implies that the experience, the experienced, and the experiencer are one and the same. The seer, the seeing, and the seen are united into one whole. Even this is a mistake, for they were united all along. So who is there to experience? These are just words, but words that aim to indicate that Sahasrara is beyond all definition – beyond any verbal description.

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Mount Kailash is a famous mountain in the Himalayas in Tibet. It is said to be the abode of Shiva and Shakti, who live in eternal nuptial bliss. Symbolically, the mountain represents Sahasrara, in which consciousness and prana (Shiva and Shakti) are united. Every mystical system in the world has its own unique way of symbolizing Sahasrara.

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You will also learn at this workshop what Sahasrara has to do with Nirvana, Kaivalya, Turiya, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, Baqua and Ain Soph.

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Learn the profound significance of Sahasrara according to the Yoga and Tantra Tradition, and understand its true mystical meaning through:

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  • Demystifying Yoga Darshana (Philosophy)

  • Asana

  • Pranayama

  • Concentration and Meditation Techniques

  • Mantra and Sound

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Cost: CHF 150

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Please transfer the amount in advance via Twint, including your name and the workshop date to 079 416 19 02

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