Yantra: the Tantric symbol of cosmic unity.
Yantra meant an instrument for restraining or fastening, a prop, support, or barrier, etymologically deriving from the root yam, “to sustain, support” and the -tra suffix, expressing instrumentation. Yantra arises in the medieval period.
A yantra comprises geometric shapes, images, and written mantra. Triangles and hexagrams are common, as are circles and lotuses of 4 to 1,000 petals. Yantras are used for specific benefits, such as: for meditation; protection from harmful influences; development of particular powers; attraction of wealth or success, etc.
This Yantra seminar will be an exploration of the basic yantra protocols: study the different implications on the mind of the simple shapes and forms like squares, circles, triangles and dots with the principle aspects of primary colors.
Brought together, shapes and colors have the capacity to modify our states of mind, going from ordinary perception to psychic discoveries and the different meditative states. Linked to the practices of intense nidra yoga sessions, this exploration will reveal the deeper layers of the mindset along with diving into the shapeless silent transparency were the mind might recognized infinity and eternity as its inner reality beyond any mental understanding.
ABOUT TEACHER:
Yogi Andre Riehl practices Yoga since the age of 11. By the age of 24, he first stayed in a monastery in the Himalayas, before wandering along the roads of India, meeting many traditional masters, studying very specific teachings from classical as well as tantric yoga practices. He met with Kashmiri Babu, a wandering ascetic from the Shaïva tradition, when he underwent a deep study retreat into the spiritual quest.
Also very touched by his meetings with J.Krishnamurti and Sri Ananda Mayee Ma, he studied two other important aspects of the inner path, related to these two great instructors: discrimination and relationship.
It is the final encounter with Chandra Swami, an ascetic from the Brahmanic lineage of the Udasins, which will give a full sense to all the teachings studied before.
Back to France, he studied several years the art of teaching Yoga through the points of view of four different schools: Swami Shivananda, Lucien Ferrer (Yoga of Energy), Nil Haoutoff and Sri T.K.V. Desikachar before becoming himself a teacher. He is currently in charge of Somapa, a yoga study centre in south of France, Prana Bindu, a yoga retreat centre for long time study sessions in Ujjain – Madhya Pradesh (central India), and 7 nidrâ yoga training schools in Luxemburg- Germany, Holland, Finland, Morocco, Switzerland, Romania and France.
Price of seminar is 300€. More info by +387 62 832 308