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Timetable 2006

Markus Sieber, Berlin - guitar and vocals
Angelika Baumbach, Mexico - harp and vocals

“... In the light of Time
With the light of the Wind
Through the light of your eyes,
the night shimeres ...“

The Ayur Veda generally knows valid rules which help to us to stay healthy and facilitate our life. We find the bases in the order of the laws of nature which regulate day and night and the seasons. If we get ourselves in the mood for them, we are " healthy, wealthy and wise". If we know around the peculiarities of the Doshas, our own constitution, (basic knowledge is assumed!) we can get on ourselves and other better and so some bone of contention becomes superfluous.

Music, meditation and lecture

On May 27th 2006, a year of extraordinary festivities will begin, starting from Balighai in India and continuing in 100 cities world-wide. Students of the great kriya-yoga master and philanthropist Paramahamsa Hariharananda (May 27th 1907 - Dec. 3rd 2002) will organize events throughout the world to honour and celebrate the unique life of their teacher and to open his teachings to a wider public. These celebrations will close on May 27th 2007, on P. Hariharananda's 100th birthday, again in India. The 100th birthday of a spiritual master is a very special day in India and is accordingly celebrated.

The centenary celebrations in Berlin to honour Paramahamsa Hariharananda will be held from 25. - 27. August. Talks, music and meditations will remind of Baba while spiritual masters of different religion will reflect on his immortal spirit. Interested visitors will have the rare opportunity to receive initiation into the ancient technique of Kriya-Yoga from Swami Mangalananda Giri and Rajarshi Peter van Breukelen.

www.kriya-berlin.de

Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched.

Bikram Yoga's twenty-six posture exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as Nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well-being will automatically follow.

Your progress

How quickly you progress will depend entirely on you – upon your natural ability to a small extent, but mostly upon the time and effort you give to Yoga. It will have little to do with how "perfectly" you can do the poses.

Few of us ever do the poses "perfectly". Instead, it will have to do with how well you understand what you are trying to accomplish in each pose, how you try to accomplish your goal, and how supple your muscles and joints have become in comparison to the point at which you began. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. To be 'Perfect' in Yoga is to do the best you can do.

www.yoga-berlin.de

Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched.

Bikram Yoga's twenty-six posture exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as Nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well-being will automatically follow.

Your progress

How quickly you progress will depend entirely on you – upon your natural ability to a small extent, but mostly upon the time and effort you give to Yoga. It will have little to do with how "perfectly" you can do the poses.

Few of us ever do the poses "perfectly". Instead, it will have to do with how well you understand what you are trying to accomplish in each pose, how you try to accomplish your goal, and how supple your muscles and joints have become in comparison to the point at which you began. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. To be 'Perfect' in Yoga is to do the best you can do.

Gentle yoga class for older people

Many people would gladly learn the conscious relaxation techniques of body of the yoga. But from age or health reasons they avoid to learn the classic yoga on the mat. Exactly these people will feel by this new form of the yoga addressed, because virtually each can implement it. All the same whether they feel too thickly, too rigidly, too old or too little self-confidently. The exercises in this course can be also implemented by handicapped people in the wheelchair.

The core of the soul mirrors the foundation of heaven. Through our actions it's possible to express this spark of God into the world. Yoga can show us how.

When the ancient wisdom of Patanjali is embedded in a well-constructed Asana Practice, and is combined with responsibility, discipline, devotion, common sense and a sense of humor, one walks the path towards individual, true expression.

Through the descent into ones own depth, through taking on ones own life, (which is a gift from God) we will find heaven on earth -right here inside us, around us, not far away - In the Mitte of Berlin.

Kundalini Yoga unites twenty-two different types of Yoga. It was brought to the West in 1968 by Yogi Bhajan and is mainly aimed at modern people of our times. Kundalini Yoga teaches a variety of movements, breathing techniques and posture. Since 1990, Kundalini Yoga teachers are trained in Germany. In almost every bigger city Kundalini Yoga centres can be found. In addition, several hundred Yoga teachers offer the techniques in private classes or fitness studios.

The core of the soul mirrors the foundation of heaven. Through our actions it's possible to express this spark of God into the world. Yoga can show us how.

When the ancient wisdom of Patanjali is embedded in a well-constructed Asana Practice, and is combined with responsibility, discipline, devotion, common sense and a sense of humor, one walks the path towards individual, true expression.

Through the descent into ones own depth, through taking on ones own life, (which is a gift from God) we will find heaven on earth -right here inside us, around us, not far away - In the Mitte of Berlin.

Kundalini Yoga unites twenty-two different types of Yoga. It was brought to the West in 1968 by Yogi Bhajan and is mainly aimed at modern people of our times. Kundalini Yoga teaches a variety of movements, breathing techniques and posture. Since 1990, Kundalini Yoga teachers are trained in Germany. In almost every bigger city Kundalini Yoga centres can be found. In addition, several hundred Yoga teachers offer the techniques in private classes or fitness studios.

We will explore yoga from various traditions. VinyasaFlow, Classic Hatha Yoga postures, Kundalini Yoga and elements of dance will be taught.

Breath, movement and sound will be used as tools for assisting inner flow. The balance of Moon and Sun or Organic and Muscular energy is something we will look at closely in our yoga practice.

Classes are held to live Indian Mantra, spiritual songs from different cultures, along with vocal improvisation and experimental sounds. These devotional chants are passionately and freely sung by Regina Berger. Songs that open heart and body and create a sacred yoga space.

We feel that a good yoga practice is one that helps us to accept and honour our abilities and limitations with love.

Traditional Hatha Yoga as practiced for thousends of years in the tradfition of Swami Sivananda from Rishikesh. Sivananda-Yoga uses the techniques of pranayama and asanas to strengthen the body and prepare the mind for meditation. The different asanas activate the specitic chakras of the astral body and lead to inner balance, flexibility and Raya-Yoga (self realisation).

Petra Proßowsky has been teaching yoga to pre-school kids for over 14 year. The children learn Yoga during the sports lesson, in additional classes, or even during the regular school lessons. Yoga supports concentration and increases attention. By practicing Yoga, restless children learn to relax and to communicate with other pupils in a peaceful manner. Yoga also helps to pick up new languages.

Traditional Hatha Yoga as practiced for thousends of years in the tradfition of Swami Sivananda from Rishikesh. Sivananda-Yoga uses the techniques of pranayama and asanas to strengthen the body and prepare the mind for meditation. The different asanas activate the specitic chakras of the astral body and lead to inner balance, flexibility and Raya-Yoga (self realisation).

Shiva Shakti - Rotations (parivrta asanas)

Enjoy bhakti yoga in action: Sing your heart´s love out to embrace and celebrate our Oneness!

The magic of the Crystalbowls

We live in a sea of vibration. Everything vibrates, everything is energy. Energy manifests itself as vibration. This is a fact agreed upon by even the more conservative scientists. We can experience vibration differently according to the frequency - with the eyes as light and as color, with the ears as sound with different sound qualities/tones and with the whole body with its different resonant spaces.

Sound Diving is a very simple and effective method, and we let the body decide according to its need what to regulate and balance. Patterns and blocks in the body are loosened. Everybody finds their own way to listen, to feel and to take in the vibration. More specifically, our individual path to awareness, unhampered by conditioning, can unfold.

Yoga in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar is also known as Vini Yoga or Yoga of the personal training program. Vini Yoga focuses on the amount of time a practitioner is able to spend on Yoga, the physical limitations and the different goals which can be achieved through Yoga. A Vini Yoga instructor creates a training program for each individual participant that suits the current bodily and mental fitness. These exercises are then practised until the next session with the instructor.

The Yoga of Speech is the practical aspect of the Sanskrit grammar of Panini, wich is the oldest extant description of Sanskrit. This grammar is preceded by the Shiva Sutras, which, according to tradition, were immediately revealed by Shiva; they contain the key for the understanding of the main Sutras of the grammar. By reciting the Shiva Sutras all the sounds of Sanskrit are trained in a special way; this training has simultaneously a deep effect on the speech centre of the brain. The praxis of the Shiva Sutras can therefore be understood as a Yoga of Speech. In the workshop, the Shiva Sutras are presented and practiced.

Gong meditation is a powerful experience of sound and energy. The tones produced by the gongs bring us in a certain trance state which helps to clear energy patterns deep in the sub-conscious and brings us to a higher level of consciousness.

B.K.S. Iyengar is one of the best-known yoga masters. The 86-year old lives in Puna, India, where he operates the internationally-known Iyengar Yoga Institute (RIMYI) together with his two children. The Iyengar method focuses on physical exercises (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayama). BKS Iyengar thoroughly re-worked the original exercises with understanding of anatomy and physiology. Today, Yoga is instructed with a precise and understandable methodology. IYENGAR®Yoga specialises on strong and precise posture work using belts, chains, blocks and other props.

Historically, Ashtanga Yoga is an eight limbed path to enlightenment. Ashta = eight, Anga = limb, Yoga = union.

More familiar to our time is the Ashtanga Yoga taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore India. Vinyasa is the linking of one asana to the next by using breath (particularly Ujjayi Pranyama), bhandas (yogic body locks) and movement.

The Mysore style of Ashtanga Yoga taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois recognises three groups of sequences, the Primary Series (to detoxify and align the body), the Secondary Series, (to purify the nervous system,) and the Advanced Series, which brings together the first two and requires extreme flexibility in both body and mind. The "It's Yoga System" of Ashtanga Vinyasa recognises the value of the teachings of the masters and endeavours to bring those teachings into an accessible format for the modern day western practitioner. Primary focus is on Asana practice (postures) with Vinyasa, and Pranyama (breath control).

Anusara Yoga™ combines classic hatha yoga with the knowledge and principles of modern biomechanics and has become one of the fastest growing hatha yoga systems in the world.

In Anusara Yoga's life affirming philosophy and the universal principles of alignment are integrated into a positive and thoroughly enjoyable yoga practice. The Anusara yogi learns to explore the boundaries of his creativity, to express joy through his yoga practice and to experience personal freedom without boundaries. Body, mind and soul come into union (yoga).

Meeting with the self

B.K.S. Iyengar is one of the best-known yoga masters. The 86-year old lives in Puna, India, where he operates the internationally-known Iyengar Yoga Institute (RIMYI) together with his two children. The Iyengar method focuses on physical exercises (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayama). BKS Iyengar thoroughly re-worked the original exercises with understanding of anatomy and physiology. Today, Yoga is instructed with a precise and understandable methodology. IYENGAR®Yoga specialises on strong and precise posture work using belts, chains, blocks and other props.

Petra Proßowsky has been teaching yoga to pre-school kids for over 14 year. The children learn Yoga during the sports lesson, in additional classes, or even during the regular school lessons. Yoga supports concentration and increases attention. By practicing Yoga, restless children learn to relax and to communicate with other pupils in a peaceful manner. Yoga also helps to pick up new languages.

Sincere seekers who actually want to live the message of Jesus in their everyday lives will simply get frustrated, if they simply try to rely on the tradition of the Bible. After all, the few words (nevertheless powerful) by Jesus himself which have been handed down comprise hardly an evening's lecture. Considering the bad state of the world today one might question, if the supposedly 2 billion Christians worldwide failed to grasp the very core of Jesus' message.

By an encounter with the essence of the Yoga scriptures and self realized souls, who actually represent this essence, it becomes obvious that it is here where the life and the teachings of Jesus are actually to be found in complete detail. Anyone who seriously opens himself or herself up to this fact will experience the practical reality of following in the footsteps of Jesus.

The ancient Indian description of dance as cosmic dance of Siva reflects creation and destruction - the dynamic nature of the universe, (described in modern terms as the ever changing but constant flow of energy caused by the dynamic interaction of minute particles constituting and connecting the whole - an interactive process causing continuous motion in rhythmic oscillation where creation and destruction dissolve into constant change). In Indian dance the inherent cosmic geometry of movement in the human body is explored, enabling the experience of these ceaseless energy patterns. These movements connect and integrate in their entirety, clarity and precision:

a) various parts of the body known as anga in ancient terminology of Indian Dance,

b) the ancient and modern (tradition and innovation),

c) space and time (movement and rhythm),

d) rational and spiritual (awareness and consciousness) and finally micro- and macro-cosmos (body/mind and soul).

This aspect of pure dance called nritta is the auspicious aspect, tracing back its association with the temples and Vedic rituals. Expression of the experienced (feelings/Bhava), both divine and emotional constitutes the narrative aspect of dance called abhianya. The Divine in Indian dance is the description of Gods and their attributes, where in modern terms, the dancer contemplates on and projects the formless attributes (energy). The emotional is the experience of joys and sorrows of life. The dance style bharatanatyam is a product of the ever-changing but continuous tradition, being explored today with a new awareness through the scientific analysis of movement in the 20th Century - a re-visiting of the ancient.