New YOGA and TANTRA classes starting soon (September 2010)

New yoga and Tantra classes starting soon in London, Oxford, Manchester and Dublin. We can now confirm dates and locations for the new classes in Dublin

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The Spiritual Group for women is a spiritual adventure in experiencing the magic of being a woman. Shakti means in Sanskrit, feminine power, force of nature, energy. She is the expression of the eternal feminine, or the Mother Deity, unifying the femininity and maternity through her manifestation as the force of Nature.

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The new role of monasteries and ashrams in modern society

In modern society we are confronted with a lot of challenges raised by the civilization process itself. The old way of living was swept away by the industrial revolution and the secular traditions were lost. But in most cases we didn’t put anything in exchange. What the ancestors were doing in the daily duties out of natural wisdom so they could stay in harmony and sanctity in the middle of their life, later became a set of traditions that were still keeping people in the spiritual integration yet in a more rigid way, and is now covered insufficiently by the slow progress of science. The cathedrals that were replacing the places of natural energetic power marked in the old times by sanctuaries are now replaced in their turn by shopping malls. What was a place for recovering our forces and giving us a reorientation toward what’s essential in life become nowadays places designed to confuse and make us lose the track of time and our common sense in order to spend more of anything (money, energy, time). The individual is therefore struggling to find a solution to the problematic of the daily life that is too complex to be comprehended by our weak senses and agitated mind.

The fairies are subtle spirits of air, the element with the highest vibration. It is said they live in forests or on top of mountains. They take human forms but only for a short period of time. They are volatile and changeable just like the element that they represent.

The wind is their special vehicle. They are operating with the gaseous substances and ethers on the Earth. They have wings, resembling the cherubs. Because of their connection with the air, which is associated to the mental aspect, one of their jobs is to help people to receive divine inspiration in all domains, especially in the artistic one.

Rudolf Steiner says about them: “The plant which grows in this way, surrounded in the dream of the undines, enters now in a new domain, the one of the spirits of air and warmth”. The ancient spirituality named these spirits of air, sylphs. They are also known under many other names.

The invisible beings, the elemental spirits are playing an important part in the physical world. They can only be well known and understood when observed in all the circumstances of their lives.

To these entities, the world appears in a totally different light as compared to how it appears to the creatures in the physical plane. What they understand and perceive from the universe is completely different from what the human beings understand and perceive.

Our relationship with the angels and with the elemental beings is as precious as it is delicate. Constant effort and sacrifice are needed in order to maintain it. In order for the angels to come into a home, to bless and guide the people, we need to keep an ambiance full of love and harmony. Otherwise, these entities will go far away.

Love is one of the fundamental realities of God. By discovering love, we discover the existence of God. Love is Its essential "substance". The infinite energy of love comes from God and creates everything that is good, divine, harmonious, true, ecstatic. All the wonderful manifestations contain in themselves the mysterious and deeply unifying energy of love. When love is in all of us, then we are all in God. The ineffable energy of love is the endless and all-powerful source of harmonious life that manifests as happiness, Joy, compassion, goodness and ecstasy. Everything that is good, beautiful and true exists through the mysterious energy of love. And nothing that is truly sublime can exist and maintain itself without the energy of love.

by Gregorian Bivolaru

(continues from Part I)
The wise ones have realised a fundamental truth many years ago– in reality what interest can you possibly have to want to dominate others when you are deeply immersed into a state of deep peace and at one with yourself? A human being, who has attained this state of deep harmony, feels no interest in dominating the others in no matter what way, because he/she knows that when we multiply the number of human beings who we dominate, we also multiply the problems that will appear inevitably through this action. Therefore renouncing the position of exercising the tyrannical force upon the others is beneficial to us. Beyond this, we show an attitude of beneficial force when we aim to transform ourselves or to attain an excellent control upon ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda describes the ideal of Karma yoga as follows: "The ideal human being is the one who amidst the deepest silence and the biggest solitude finds the most intense activity, and the one who amidst the most intense activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert." "The Karma yogi doesn’t need to believe in any doctrine. He may not even believe in God, he may not ask himself what is the soul and he may not be attracted by any metaphysical speculation at all" (Practical Yoga).

However, because the spiritual masters from the Orient whose teachings we have inherited are all profoundly religious, it is not surprising that they interpret Karma Yoga from this perspective. Sri Ramakrishna says: "Karma Yoga is the spontaneous communion with God through action". From the perspective of Bhakti Yoga system, this interpretation can be seen as the revelation of the Divine through love and from the perspective of the Jïana Yoga system as the pursuit of the awareness of the Absolute Divine. Ramakrishna said als "The supreme goal in Karma Yoga is the same as in all forms of Yoga: the realisation of the Supreme Eternal or the Impersonal Divine."