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Certificate Course: Creative visualisations and positive affirmations
Sunday, June 19 Friday, June 24
Certificate Course: Creative visualisations and positive affirmations
19 June – 24 June 2022
Arrival: 3pm, Sunday 19 June Departure: 2pm, Friday 24 June
With:
Swami Bhagavatananda
Budget:
Rates for 5 nights all included => tent space 385 €, shared room 440 €, double room 510 €, furnished bungalow tent 1 bed 510 €, double room with bathroom 615 €, single room 615 €, single room with bathroom 705 €.
Minimum stay: 4 nights
Discover practical tools for concentration and calmness of mind!
Although silent meditation on a Lakshya (meditation object) is the main method of meditation for a yoga practitioner, guided meditations are very useful for strengthening concentration and developing positive thinking methods through affirmations and visualisations.
Topics of the lectures:
- meditation in relation to lifestyle
- how to develop will power
- how to transform emotions and attachments into pure love
Practical exercises
- chanting and meditation on OM
- guided meditation on a flower
- contemplation on gratitude to channel excessive desires
- Tratak: fixing the gaze on the flame of a candle
- affirmations to develop perseverance and will power
- chanting and meditation on the Vedantic mantra Soham and its meaning
- contemplation on courage to overcome fear
- positive affirmations to develop unconditional love
- Guided meditation to adapt joyfully to life’s changes
- Mantra recitation to develop pure love and devotion
- Vedantic meditation on cosmic form
- chanting and meditation of the Divine Mother’s mantra to give energy and health to the body and mind.
The rest of the programme follows the yoga vacation daily schedule.
Recommended reading: “Meditation and Mantras” by Swami Vishnudevananda
With certificate of participation.
A negative COVID 19 test is required before arrival (please send your test result via email to orleans@sivananda.net on the eve of arrival).
Swami Bhagavatananda
Swami Bhagavatananda is a long time disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda and the co-director of the Ashram de Yoga Sivananda. She teaches regularly in the Sivananda teachers trainings courses in France, India and Eastern Europe. She is also very knowledgeable in the fields of vegetarianism and ayurvedic nutrition.