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Life out of BOX
how Jayadevi combined Tantra and physical disciplines
to support people in their spiritual growth
In a pracaraka’s path, it is common
to have many challenges,
joys, and even shocks.
It is that way in Tantra — when
one light comes on, another
needs to be changed.
The trajectory of Jayadevi (Germana
Lucena), who comes from the capital
of Paraíba, Brazil, has also been
marked by restlessness, searches,
tumbles and flights. Before graduating
in physical therapy, while still in college
she was not satisfied with what
traditional health care offered: negotiation
with insurance health plans, limitations
on the number of sessions
and focus on removing pain and inflammation.
“I wanted to work with
body awareness, to see the whole
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person, beyond the pain, the protagonist
of one’s own self,” she tells us.
In the pursuit of a parallel training,
Jayadevi found hatha yoga and also
met Buddhism. But it was when she
heard Baba nam kevalam for the
first time, 15 years ago, that the angels
breathed into her ears a sense
of peace and bliss. “The kiirtan touched
me deeply,” she recalls. At the
time, she met Avadhutika Ananda
Sutapa Acarya and Avadhutika Ananda
Mitra Acarya, who invited her to
participate in the program called
Stress a seu favor (Stress in your favor,
free translation). “The scientific
and integrative format of redirecting
stress interested me a lot, connected
with my professional search.”