In the 11th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna sees All in the One. In January the following courses ended: Meditation, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga 1, and Yoga 3. During Satsang, Swami Shambhudevananda gave an inspiring talk on practical instructions for spiritual practice by Swami Sivananda. There is nothing new in yoga. There was the continuation of a Raja Yoga course with a little group of motivated students. There was an online positive thinking starting with 33 motivated students. Dr. Padma taught Beginners’ Yoga with students very happy with her classes. As we received many requests for morning courses we offered an early morning Beginners’ Yoga course. To start the new year we offered a new Beginners’ Yoga course, a gentle yoga and a yoga challenge course. A few ATTC students also arrived to the Ashram to start with their asana practice prior to their course, preparing themselves well ahead of the program. Sureshji who taught the online TTC, joined with his laptop, technical karma yogis and cameras for the teachers and students of the online TTC to share in the blessings of Sri Ganesh for a good start to teaching and learning. In spite of the winter holidays, the snow, and the strikes, the Masters continue to send good numbers of students and precious help.

Four new online courses began - Swami Hridyananda, together with Narayan Jyoti, taught students the sacred music of kirtan in Yoga and Chanting for Peace of Mind and Heart; Swami Paramananda commenced Cultivating the Power of the Mind and a new session of Asana Challenge, while Swami Brahmananda began teaching the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. We had a group of new practitioners as guests for the "Basic Asana Practice Week". Group performance of asanas brings about awareness of collective energy. Yogic postures (asanas) are internally oriented, non competitive, and meditative, promoting calmness and helping the practitioner to transcend identification with the body; this is as opposed to our over-attachment to the body and to external beauty. Based on his experiences that he has been teaching yoga at mental hospitals for a long time, he shared with us his knowledge and skills such as recommended postures for them to practice, suitable words for us to use when teaching yoga to them.

A new Yoga 1 course has started on Saturdays with 5 students attending. The students began their teaching groups enthusiastically and also appreciated the shift to Anatomy and Physiology classes. The project of HD recorded classes progressed well and so we looked into the marketing aspects. Teachers from all over Brazil will help to teach classes and different programs in Portuguese. However, with continual practice the chanchalata, the restless mind, will quieten and we will reduce the thoughts to fifty, then thirty a minute. Yoga regards the individual in its totality, as a whole, not just as a physical body, or just as an ungrounded mind, or just as a disembodied spirit. Raghu Rama, former Ashram manager and long time disciple of Swamiji, joined us for a month of karma yoga. We began this year’s study with Chapter Three where Lord Krishna speaks about Karma Yoga. Karma Yogis have been jet hosing pathways and walls clean of the usual Kerala algae.

Placebo means that when you have faith in something, that faith itself can heal you. With this faith the paradigm of the possible is expanded, and we can envision physical and mental health. Mid January: Yashashvin who taught Vedanta at the Tokyo Centre gave a workshop for yoga teachers, focusing on what Yoga can do to help people who have mental health problems. People who act in sattva become stronger and more knowledgeable. We had more than 100 students on the standby list of participants, whom we send the link for the upcoming asana class every day. We were around 25 people in the Main Hall for the class (the maximum allowed for asana courses). We also taught a private online class for a group organized by one of our students. During mid-January Ananta Chaitanya taught workshops on the Four Path of Yoga which was well received by the staff and seva-studies.

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