Dr. Swami Shankardev The Experience of Prana (life-force) - for vitality, mental strength and higher awareness Date: Oct. 20-22, 2006 Location: Moksha Riverwest Printable Flyer

Friday 6:30-9pm
Foundations of working with Prana

Information will be presented on prana as intelligent life-force and on how we will approach working with prana over the weekend. There are 3 levels of prana: gross, subtle and causal, and techniques will be taught to move consciousness into these three levels. Methods of focusing on our inner tensions and obstructions will also be given. The weekend will teach asana and other techniques from the Tantric tradition in ways that are rarely taught, to both increase healing and consciousness.

Saturday 10am-12:30pm
Awakening prana

This session works with asana and breath to awaken the experience of gross and subtle prana. This process leads to spontaneous meditative experience.

Saturday 2:30-5pm
Removing gross and subtle obstacles

You will learn how to pulsate prana into different areas of the body. Healthy parts of us are further balanced and strengthened. Parts of us that require healing can be worked on individually. The aim of this process is purification and integration.

Sunday 10am-1pm
Distributing prana

We will learn how to move prana as a wave through our whole being. This session integrates processes taught in previous sessions. The technique taught integrates all of our parts into a more conscious and powerful self.

Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati is an eminent yoga Acharya (authority), medical doctor, yoga therapist and internationally acclaimed author. As a direct disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, he lived in the Bihar School of Yoga India for 10 years (1974-1985), where he was trained to teach the highest practices of yoga-tantra. During this time he wrote and edited many of the books on Yoga and Yoga Therapy published by the Bihar School of Yoga. His innovative teachings integrate western psychological medicine and psychotherapy with eastern methods of mind-body development.

A highly sought-after teacher, Dr Swami Shankardev has toured extensively throughout India, Europe, the USA and Australia teaching yoga, meditation, psychology, philosophy, yoga therapy, and Ayurveda. Regardless of his subject, his seminars always focus on helping people expand their awareness of their individual physical, emotional and spiritual development, and on restoring their unlimited potential. His in-print books on yoga therapy include: Yogic Management of Asthma and Diabetes, The Effects of Yoga on Hypertension, and The Practices of Yoga for the Digestive System. òDr Swami Shankardev is presently developing several training tools to support students in healing and self-knowledge. The major dissemination of this work is through the website www.bigshakti.com which presents authentic knowledge of yoga, meditation, tantra and healing arts.