YOGALife I Summer 2010 - Sivananda Yoga
YOGALife I Summer 2010 - Sivananda Yoga
YOGALife I Summer 2010 - Sivananda Yoga
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The <strong>Sivananda</strong> <strong>Yoga</strong> Teachers’ Training Course Experience<br />
Personal experiences of the Teachers’ Training Course<br />
So Much Wonderful Prana!<br />
Dear Swamis,<br />
Happy New Year! I wish you all a lot of love, peace and<br />
happiness for <strong>2010</strong>!<br />
2009 was the year that I become a yoga teacher and my<br />
girlfriend a child yoga teacher. <strong>2010</strong> is the year that starts at<br />
“0” again and it also really feels like a new start for us.<br />
The TTC in September in Reith was superb! I learned a lot<br />
and it gave me new insights. On Facebook I saw a couple<br />
of photos of the TTC and it made me a little bit sad. Sad that<br />
I wasn’t there anymore, that the TTC was over. But now my<br />
life is just beginning I was thinking and that gave me a lot<br />
of happiness! But also a little worrying, because at home it’s<br />
not always easy to create a safe and pranaful surrounding like<br />
in the ashram. However the ‘<strong>Sivananda</strong> prana’ is in me, given<br />
by my Swamis, western society is eager to pull me back.<br />
Problems with some family members, because I’m changed.<br />
Troubles with my new job in a wellness resort, because a<br />
rajastic yoga teacher was not really happy with me as her new<br />
colleague (who also knows something about yoga). And<br />
sometimes those and other things worry me, but I know that<br />
what I’m doing is good! I learned it from you and I received<br />
so much wonderful prana in Reith! So I don’t want to see<br />
some family relatives for the next years. And my job at the<br />
wellness resort has already ended. I worked in this company<br />
because I wanted to make a difference in this very<br />
commercial place. That’s why they asked me to make the<br />
place more a ‘yoga place’. And of course it would be nice to<br />
offer my services to build up a better place for the hundreds<br />
of people that come weekly to this resort. To give a little extra<br />
relaxation and peace in this place. Exactly that gave me a lot<br />
of energy to work in a place like this. Sometimes I had one<br />
hundred yoga students a day. To one hundred people I gave<br />
a little yoga prana! Many times I heard people ask each other<br />
if there was also yoga in their village. Frequently people asked<br />
me what yoga I gave. And several yoga teachers asked me<br />
where I did my study. Almost every day I gave one or more<br />
guests the internet address of <strong>Sivananda</strong>. Wonderful!<br />
So I know that what I’m doing is good. For the last few<br />
years I already tried to live like the two first limbs of Raja<br />
<strong>Yoga</strong>. And now after the TTC I’m totally ready for it! (also<br />
ready for the ATTC of course) and I really feel the prana that<br />
I received from you at the TTC! At that time I only thought<br />
I received the energy, …great, super, but that’s it. But for<br />
example, two months later I helped my girlfriend with some<br />
worries. And I was astonished about my own beautiful words!<br />
My girlfriend told me that she heard nice words before from<br />
me, but these were really very wise words! The TTC has<br />
changed me for the better, that’s for sure! Thank you very<br />
much <strong>Sivananda</strong>, Vishnudevananda and the swamis who carry<br />
out this beautiful work!<br />
I hope to be with you again soon.<br />
Om Tat Sat!<br />
Chaitanya (Ron Luttmer)<br />
Important for Humanity<br />
My name is Leonard Radut and I was at TTC in august 2008.<br />
What I want to say is that yoga is now a very important part<br />
of my life. I like to do yoga and that 30 days in Tyrol at the<br />
TTC were very good for me.<br />
Now I am doing yoga 1 – 3 hours a day and, in some<br />
week-ends even 24 hours continous. Now I have a yoga<br />
course in Bucharest with some people and a website in<br />
Romanian with a good visibility in the ‘world’ of Romanian<br />
yoga. At this course we are doing hatha yoga, a ‘how to eat’<br />
course, even a Bhaghavad Gita course and a meditation<br />
course. We are doing a lot of ‘Who am I’ meditation (self<br />
introspection) and meditation that is coming from Christianity<br />
named ‘Isihasm’ (it is something devotional, when the<br />
practitioner is asking for Divine Bliss).<br />
I am not eating meat and I think I have a sattvic eating<br />
style. I am saying this for you to know that the seeds from<br />
<strong>Sivananda</strong> are in good hands. I think your work, karma yoga,<br />
is very good for me and it is having results.<br />
I hope that I will transform and become a good disciple.<br />
I thank you for your yoga course and I think that this action<br />
is very important for humanity.<br />
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much for all.<br />
Have a nice and spiritual life!<br />
Leonard Radut<br />
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