Nada Yoga Workshop with Sn. Mahesh

It is our great pleasure and honor to welcome Sn. Mahesh to Neda Yoga Shala for the second time, for a Nada Yoga Workshop.

The seminar is open to both students and yoga teachers who wish to deepen their knowledge of Bhakti, Mantra, and Nada Yoga.

Mahesh will first introduce us to the theoretical foundations of these practices and then guide us through the Yoga of Sound experientially, with mantra recitation, meditation, and Nada Yoga practices involving the body, breath, and voice.

➵ Don't miss this opportunity to learn alongside an experienced teacher rooted in the traditional practices of Nada Yoga

We look forward to sharing this experience with you!

*The workshop will be held in English.

Awakening the Sun Within

Mantras for vibrant health, activation of vital force, enlightening the intellect, and eliminating negativity, apathy, and dullness from the mind.

Join us for a weekend full of sunshine - whatever the actual weather may be.

The mantras we are about to learn and experience have been chanted since ancient times in order to remove all kinds of tamas (darkness, dullness, chaos, heaviness…):

• Ignorance, fears, phobias and anxieties
• Diseases in general
• Low-energy emotional states
• Mental stupor, “brain rot” and confusion

And so much more…

Our current civilisational drives are mostly tamas-inducing, appealing to the lowest instincts in us - from chemicals in processed food to social media feeds that make people doom-scroll and sow division among our communities. The devices, apps and artificial intelligence we’re spending so much time using are designed and sold to us by people who put profit far above mental health, nature, and even the survival of humanity…

But the source of human life is light, not darkness, and no matter how much we may be enveloped it, there is always a way back to the light.

The mantras in our upcoming seminar are among the most direct such paths, and will be taught in a way that will make it easy for you to use them in your own home setting.

Over the weekend we'll:

• explore how sound relates to body, mind and prana (vital force), and why these mantras matter so much now
• learn what each mantra means, what it's for, and how to pronounce and use it
• bring mantra into Sun Salutation and pranayama, so that movement, breath and sound work as one
• work with mantras for clearing obstacles, integrating the personality, and awakening inner strength
• chant together in kirtan (call-and-response singing) and other types of chanting
• on Sunday, based on how the first day develops, we will either deepen the material from Saturday, or learn longer traditional invocations of the power within.

Note: this schedule is elastic and will adapt based on group progress, dynamics, and interest

Saturday Morning: mantra in asana & pranayama

1. Introduction

• Introduction to Sanskrit as an energy-based language
• Basic overview of how mantric sounds relate to body, mind, and prana
• The power of Surya mantras and why they’re necessary today

2. Surya mantras: light that moves

• Meaning, sound quality, purpose / use
• Beejas: seed sounds to enhance the effects of mantra
• Practice 1: Sun mantras, beeja mantras, combinations, and inclusion in Sun Salutation.
• Practice 2: Learning Surya Beeja Mantra and invocation, as a chant and meditation

3. Gayatri: light that supports

• Origin and uses; relationship with Surya
• Different types of Gayatri
• How to use in pranayama
• Practice: core, standard, and extended gayatri mantra in Nadi Shodhana Pranayama (alternate nostril breathing)

Saturday Afternoon: Mantras of inner power and awakening - Surya, Ganesha, Hanuman

1. Introduction

2. Ganesha: power to place and remove obstacles

• Gradual elimination of ego as the barrier between lower and higher self
• Reconciliation of conflicting traits and tendencies for an integrated personality
• Beeja mantra, invocation mantra, and Ganapati Gayatri

3. Surya Gayatri(s)

• Surya Gayatri
• Bhaskara Gayatri

4. Hanuman: the Sun-eater; Power Incarnate

• Introduction
• Hanuman Beeja Mantra
• Hanuman Gayatri

Sunday Morning: going further with mantra

Depending on how Saturday pans out, there are two options:

Α) Deepening material from the previous day, based on feedback

Β) Going further into solar and additional mantras:

• Sankatanashana Ganesha Stotram
• The 108 names of Surya
• Hanuman Chalisa
• Kirtan

➵ You can attend the sessions separately, but we highly recommend participating in both parts for a complete and integrated experience.

➵ Due to limited space, priority will be given to those who wish to attend the entire seminar.

Cost

Total seminar ➵ 90 euros

Saturday 14 November
Nada Yoga | 13:30 – 18:30 ➵ 65 euros

Sunday 15 November 
Nada Yoga | 11:00 – 14:00 ➵35 euros