Course
Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) practices, taught over five-day courses, from Yoga Nidra (psychic sleep meditation), the hallmark of the Satyananda Bihar School of Yoga, to the meditations of mantra and inner silence.
Pratyahara practices · 5-day courses
Yoga Nidra
The best-known practice of the Satyananda Bihar School of Yoga. Lying down, awareness moves step by step from outer sounds through body, breath and mind to the deep subconscious, releasing tension and opening deeper consciousness.
Deepening
Five or more advanced practices, including Creative Visualization, Chakra Visualization, Healing Visualization, Facing Fears and Phobias, Inner and Outer Space, Peeling the Onion (examining your life roles), Forgiveness, and Creating Your Future.
Foundation
How to sit comfortably and still, how to begin meditating, how to steady a wandering mind, how to deal with pain, and how to go deeper into your present practice.
Breath
Meditation on the breath with a universal or personal mantra, calming, focusing and purifying the mind and turning it inward. The breath becomes a constant companion and a faithful guide.
Witnessing
Antar mouna is inner silence: witnessing the senses, thoughts and emotions, stepping back from them, and settling into the quiet inner space of energy and awareness.
Gazing
For those who find closed-eye meditation difficult: steady gazing at a candle flame, sunrise, sunset or another natural point of focus. Traditionally used to calm a restless mind, improve concentration and support sleep.
Mantra
Mantra chanting in its three forms, Vaikhari (aloud), Manasic (mentally) and Upanshu (silently), with Likhit Jap (writing the mantra), Chankramanam (walking with mantra), and the yantras associated with them.
Inner screen
Exploring and experiencing the inner mind screen of our own consciousness, and actualising what is seen there through artistic expression.
Chakras
Purifying, balancing and energising the chakras through breath, visualisation and mantra. A complete practice in itself, and preparation for Kriya Yoga and a safe kundalini awakening.
Personality
Devised by Swami Niranjanji to look plainly at your own Strengths, Weaknesses, Ambitions and Needs. A practice for cutting through confusion, finding your focus and making a future real.
Sound
The varieties of Om chanting, taken inside the vibration of a group, where many chanting as one becomes its own experience of yoga, of union.
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Dates and fees are on request. Please tell us when you would like to come and what interests you.
