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profile 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 05 | Dharma for all Journal 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.”
Within a few months, Jayadevi joined the intensive course on Biopsychology, offered by Didi Ananda Mitra, in rural São Paulo state. “It was my first contact with Tantra and Baba. On my way home a week later, my friends were impressed how different I was,” she recalls. Some time later, she was already doing some courses and practicing dharmachakra in Paraíba. She then guided the anatomy content in the training of yoga instructors. In parallel, she met Feldenkrais, a method of approaching experiential anatomy in a practical way, using body awareness. The method is known for its unusual strategies and gentle movements to improve posture, flexibility, coordination, and balance. In joining it with Tantra, Jayadevi says she has arrived “in the formula that united my professional work to the spiritual”. Dharma for all Journal | 06
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