Yogi Desai
Yogi Desai is an internationally recognized authority in the field of yoga and health and has authored many books on personal growth health and transformation. He began teaching in 1960, making him one of the earliest pioneers of yoga in the West. He is the founder of the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, one of the largest holistic centers in America. The multi-level inner depth of yoga he developed has been so widely adopted, that today more than 5,000 yoga teachers and thousands of healing professionals teach his methodology in more than 40 countries around the world. He continues to provide accredited professional Yoga Nidra and Yoga Teacher Trainings (200- and 500-hour Yoga Alliance approved) through the Amrit Yoga Institute in Salt Springs, Fl. Over the past 50 years his teachings have made a powerful and profound impact that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. His innovative Amrit Method® teachings are universal, insightful, experiential and easily adaptable by everyone, regardless of religious or cultural background.
Lectures, Workshops and Private Consultations for the 2010 Cruise
Keynote Lecture: STRESS - The Hidden Source of all Addictions and Self Destructive Patterns
The term addiction often refers to alcohol, food, sex or drugs. These behaviors are adopted to temporarily relieve symptoms of stress: anxiety, fear, depression, insomnia, shame and blame. Addiction appears as many different effects but its cause, chronic stress, remains hidden within.
If you approach the world from a place of stress, you suffer from self-created problems where there are none. But if you are relaxed and content, you see solutions where you once saw only problems.
When the roots of a plant are fed, the whole plant is nourished. When you connect with the infinite source of power within, all manifestations of stress dissolve. All my workshops are focused on how to release chronic stress by practicing the simple yet powerful techniques of yoga, yoga nidra and quantum breath meditation. These ancients techniques have been time tested and perform miracles in healing from the Source.
Lecture: 1 Quantum Breath Meditation - Entering the Zero Stress Zone
Learn the ancient secrets from world-renowned yoga master, Yogi Amrit Desai. Managing stress is the number one problem we face and is the cause of 85% of all physical, mental and emotional illnesses. Instead of using medication that only treats the surface symptoms or effects, learn how meditation can eliminate the very cause of dis-ease.
The Quantum Breath Meditation Technique is so easily adaptable, 95% of beginners can successfully practice it. Even if you have found meditation difficult in the past, this technique can take you to deeper level of integration, harmony and peace. Come and experience the non-mental, meditative Zero Stress Zone with the ease of seasoned practitioner.
This meditation technique provide you with the "master key" to unlock mental and emotional traumas built into your biology and psychology that consume your life force, destroying your love life, family life and business life. Drop out of doing meditation into being in meditation.
Lecture 2: Healing Through Yoga and Ayurveda
The ancient art of Ayurvedic detoxification initiates deep and subtle levels of healing on physical, mental and emotional levels, enhancing natural restorative regeneration.
The combined power of Yoga and Ayurveda at the Amrit Yoga Institute greatly accelerates healing processes not be easily achieved by the exclusive practice of either modality.
The unique Amrit Yoga approach dismantles stress producing patterns held rigidly in the unconscious, while Ayurveda helps release toxins at an accelerated pace.
Most healing approaches are designed to treat an average person, which doesn’t exist. Each person carries individual karma and cosmic makeup, unique to themselves. Ayurveda prescribes treatment that is precisely directed according to the constitution of that individual, incorporating specific herbs, medicated oil massage, sauna, diet and lifestyle changes adjusted to the imbalances of Vata, Pitta and Kapha, restoring balance and harmony in the body.
Workshop 1: Diet and Stress
No matter how nutritious your diet may be, toxins fed to your body through emotions such as anxiety and fear, creates deeply held psychosomatic stress. Emotional stress that lives in our invisible unconscious is impossible to correct through diet alone. When your life force is consumed by chronic stress diet can only nourish your cells, but it cannot restore balance, health and vitality. The major source of stress you suffer is from psychological sources.
Learn the powerful tools of Quantum Breath Meditation, Yoga and Yoga Nidra to enter the zero stress zone. Thus when stress is removed from its very core, surface symptoms appearing as physical manifestations of immune disorders, premature aging, insomnia, anxiety, depression and fear will vanish on their own. A well-balanced diet, healthy lifestyle and stress-free perspective on life have the potential to dismantle self destructive behavior and habit patterns, allowing you to life freely and joyously.
Workshop 2: Relationships as Transformation
Christ taught: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." The meaning of this teaching is that what you seek from another must first be found from within. What appears to be coming from the other is a reflection of who you are. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; so is love. When you are loving; love appears everywhere, but when you are judging, judgment appears everywhere.
In this workshop, we will explore how relationships hold the power to dismantle unconscious self-destructive patterns that ruin relationships with others. Once you learn the secret of how to give rather than demand love, communication comes naturally and the foundation of relationship forms, empowering you to turn conceptual attachment and demand into a transformative relationship of trust and growth.
Rather than:
- demand love, be loving
- look for acceptance, be accepting
- seek to be understood, be understanding
Practice: Experience of the Dimension of Timelessness - The Zero Stress Zone - $75/person.
You will be guided into an indepth experience of inner harmony, integration and balance.
The practice of Yoga Nidra takes you effortlessly into deeper states of relaxation than most people are able to achieve after long years of meditation. When you are submerged in the slower alpha brain waves, your entire body and being merge into tranquility and stillness. This zero stress zone is the master key that frees the trapped healing forces in your muscular and neuroglandular systems. This creates an opening for you tap into your source of restorative, regenerative and healing life force.
In Yoga Nidra you:
- Connect with your higher self where all prayers and affirmations are actualized with effortless ease. Healing that happens on this level is often perceived as miraculous.
- Stimulate the hormone melatonin which can:
- Reduce stress and induce restful sleep
- Accelerate healing and prevent premature aging
- Strengthen immune system
- Decrease high blood pressure
Personal Lifestyle Counseling and Coaching - $250/person.
Learn simple new techniques to handle stress-in conflicting relationships in your business life, personal life and family life.
- Discover the power of your untapped bio-spiritual healing dimension and apply it to any crisis you encounter.
- Receive personal counseling from a world-renowned yoga master whose teachings have transformed the lives of thousands since the 1960s.
- Bring the secrets of the ancient teachings of yoga to your life in a practical, applicable way.
Yogi Desai sheds new light and psycho-spiritual insights that are unique to his methodology and far from conventional approaches to today's problems, particularly in areas of personal health and intimate relationships. His counseling can help turn difficult transition times into personal transformation that will impact all areas of your life.