Article from Bindu no 5
Another way to celebrate Christmas
... or New Year, or to go on an inner voyage of discovery for 3 months, from Winter to Spring
Håå Course Center has over the years provided many people with the opportunity to discover more about themselves - to gain perspective, insight and energy - Håå has become a spiritual power center, where we build bridge between the inner and the outer life.
The special circumstances, which have been created around Håå, our experience and our teachings, help you, not just to imagine, but to experience that you are one with yourself and your life.
Yoga, meditation, the practical tasks, the leisure-time activities, plus your motivation, make it possible to benefit from this unique transformation.
Håå Course Center is surrounded by forests and fields, with a lake nearby. The center has a number of buildings with single and double accommodation, two fine small dormitories, "pyramid", sauna, common rooms and, most im-portantly two meditation halls. In addition there is horse riding, ecological farming and a fully operational printing room where Bindu is printed.
Obtain the course brochure - it describes the courses thoroughly.
The 3-month Course
"During the 33 days of silence, I realised that Swami Janakanandadid not just want to teach me something, he wished to give me the opportunity to explore dimensions of my being that I hadn't beenaware of before." (Morten Jon Jepsen)
Every winter about 35 people get together in Håå to take part in a process, which, beyond facts and philosophy, gives a profound personal experience.
During the first five weeks, mind and body are trained with yoga and breathing exercises, visualisation, concentration, relaxation, meditation and different types of dancing and music. Your capacity to act is strengthened through Karma Yoga, where the released energy from the meditation hall is transformed in the practical tasks in the kitchen, on the field, in the forest or with the horses. During the free time you can ride, go skiing, skating or canoeing, float in the "pyramid" (p. 9), do bio-feedback, go for a walk in the forest or paint and draw.
The Kriya Yoga period is the peak of the course. A period where you discover what it means to go deep. Various
meditation and yoga methods are used. For 33 days Kriya Yoga is developed under complete silence and without influence from the media and the outside world
. The word awareness
now acquires a whole new meaning, the need for sleep decreases considerably and it becomes more and more difficult to hold on to tensions and depressions. Dreams become clearer and throughout the day "new" memories appear in the mind. Resolutions or ideas, which arise during this period, may, to a great extent, influence your life later on.
During
the last three weeks you start to gain perspective on what you have learnt, your relationship to Kriya Yoga takes root, and you learn to use its different variations. The course has now prepared you to
appreciate Prana Vidya
, a healing method with psychic energy, and you receive the last, advanced instructions in Tantric meditation.
Certain effects are permanent, but the high level of the course is maintained, when, later on, you use some of what you have learnt.
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