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RETREAT WITH SHRIKRISHNA BUSHAN
PRANAYAMA: DOOR TO INNER SILENCE
Time: 29 August to 4 September 2011
Venue: Park Place Pastoral Centre, Fareham, Hants. (www.parkplacepastoralcentre.co.uk)
Cost: £530 (including single room accommodation and vegetarian meals)
The focus will be on developing the practice of Pranayama and how to use it for improving the state of Mindfulness in daily life activities. The emphasis will be on experiencing the inner silence which comes from this practice. The theoretical, philosophical and technical aspects of Pranayama will be discussed with this emphasis in mind.
Dr Shrikrishna's retreats give yoga instructors and advanced students an opportunity to experience a unique combination of yoga philosophy and yoga practice. He skillfully leads participants into meditative states through Pranayama, yoga philosophy and inner inquiry.
Many of the Pranayama and Meditation techniques require sitting. Participants should have prior experience of sitting quietly for periods of at least 20-30 minutes.
These retreats provide optimal conditions for participants to cultivate and deepen their awareness and inner silence. They are not intended as an opportunity for academic study or as relaxed vacations. Instead, participants come prepared to enjoy gradually increasing periods of silence, exploring in playful ways how to carry out the day's activities without speaking, and using this freedom from incessant talking and thinking to develop mindfulness.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Shrikrishna was born to a father who was a close colleague of Swami Kuvalayananda, one of the
foremost pioneers of modern yoga. He grew up in an atmosphere saturated with yogic culture.
He qualified as a medical doctor and took a PhD on the physiological effects of Pranayama at the prestigious All India Institute of Medicine.
After graduating, Dr Shrikrishna succeeded his father as Director of the Kaivalyadhama
Institute of Yogic Health in Mumbai, where he developed a flourishing programme for training yoga teachers and therapists, as well as daily yoga therapy sessions for people with health problems.
In addition to Dr Shrikrishna's knowledge of medicine, physiology and yoga practice, he has an excellent mastery of Sanskrit and yogic literature, both ancient and modern, upon which he draws as an aid to conveying the deeper insights of yoga. His emphasis is on awareness and experience, rather than
theoretical knowledge. This rare combination of experience, knowledge and skills gives a breadth and depth to his teaching, which is probably unique.
Dr Shrikrishna sees yoga as acting on two levels: as a science of health paving the way to positive health and personal development, and as a facilitator for entry to transcendental transpersonal states. Recently he retired from his position at the Kaivalyadhama Institute in order to devote himself to his own Sadhana and teaching.
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Dr Shrikrishna's Retreat, Park Place, 29 August to 4 September 2011
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