Bindu 23 - engelsk 7.p65 - Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School

Apart from Swami Satyananda, who
during those years often visited the
school, yogis came from India, Europe
and USA. Yoga teachers and pupils,
artists, psychologists, sociologists,
musicians, people from the film world,
philosophers and therapists met and
received inspiration, attended courses,
lectures, meditations and concerts.
Swami Janakananda is the leader of
the school’s comprehensive yoga teacher
education, a process that gives a stable
personal experience of Tantric yoga and
meditation. Besides training yoga
teachers he teaches the annual 3-month
courses and a few shorter courses at Håå
Course Center. He also gives lectures,
satsangs and meditation courses at the
different city schools. From 1979 Swami
Janakananda has travelled a lot, teach ing
in America, Australia, New Zeeland,
Singapore and around Europe. He now
spends more time writing, but he still
finds time for his international students,
for example a tour to Australia is
scheduled.
As the yoga teachers gained in
experience and became independent
many chose to continue the co-operation
with the school and founded new
branches. Today the Scandinavian Yoga
and Meditation School consists of ten
mutually independent schools.
Apart from the ordinary classes, the
teachers of the school have taught in the
most varied of places over the years:
hospitals, sports clubs, associations and
music festivals. Major companies and
banks, health fairs, prisons and
orchestras invite us to teach. We arrange
courses on charter- and health tours to
the Mediterranean and on holiday camps.
Schools and other educational
establishments frequently employ us for
theoretical and practical introductions.
Meditative art
Swami Janakananda was one of the
pioneers of the 1970 Poex-exhibition in
Copenhagen and Århus, when meditative
art, yoga and meditation could be
experienced together for the first time in
Denmark. In the course of time the
school has on several occasions held art
exhibitions on its premises.
In this silver jubilee year we have
opened the doors to an exhibition of
meditative art by the internationally
recognised artist, Sohan Qadri (see
illustrations on pages 2 and 35). He was
born in north India and raised with the
Tantric tradition, but today he lives
mostly in Copenhagen.
The exhibition is in Hannover until
Oct. 15th, then in Århus, Stockholm and
Copenhagen.
The goal of the school is:
l to raise the teaching of yoga to a level
where it is free of all superstition and
with no extras attached, based on a
profound knowledge that stems from
the sources of the tradition, personal
experience, human contact between
teacher and student, and the research
of modern psychology and medicine.
l to be able to offer a practical yoga
ranging from physical and mental
well-being to spiritual insight, which
for instance C.G. Jung asks for in our
culture, where man not only lives
superficially, but has a creative and
conscious relationship to all of
himself and to life around him.
l to be an independent school where
people can come and go as they like,
with no attachment other than the
teaching they participate in.
Franz Jervidalo q
Contents
Editorial 2
25 years with the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School, a
historical retrospect.
Yoga for pregnant women 4
- before, during and after birth. The yoga courses for pregnant
women are very popular, and are recommended by doctors and
midwives.
Kriya Yoga III 9
- Time for learning... time for insight... time for teaching...In this
silver jubilee article, Swami Janakananda delves into his own
background within meditation and yoga.
Savasana 29
To lie completely still on the back - a simple, but nevertheless
deep-reaching method...
Håå International Course Center in south Sweden 30
Holiday and initiation in Tantric meditation.
Programme for autumn and winter, plus the 3-Months Course
from January to April 1996
Yoga, Tantra and Meditation in daily life 32
Swami Janakananda’s book on yoga from
a yogi’s point of view.
The Yoga shop 33
Neti pots, tapes, books...
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