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 2012 Cruise
Keynote Lecture: Prosperity Consciousness vs. Poverty Consciousness
Scarcity or poverty consciousness is an experience of insecurity we carry within us. What we carry within gets reflected in what we perceive and create in the external world. Our ability to create gets smothered by self concepts, fears and anxiety. Regardless of how much success we have in terms of money, popularity, recognition or power, there is a sense of incompleteness that drives us for more of the same.
When you are possessed by a sense of insecurity, no amount of prosperity will ever fill the dark hole it creates. This is why it is rare to find material prosperity and happiness co-existing in harmony. When we are insecure, that which we seek will create more insecurity. Seeking external objects can provide a temporary sense of completion, but to experience prosperity consciousness it must be combined with a sense of inner harmony and balance that is only found within. Most people don’t mind being miserable in order to be happy in the process of succeeding. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is security. A life of prosperity happens all along the way, rather than a goal to be achieved in the future. Prosperity consciousness is not what you have but who you are. Join Yogi Desai as we discover the power of true prosperity consciousness where you can learn how to be prosperous and happy.
Lecture 1: You Can Only Heal What You Can Feel
Often we do not know the difference between the words “feeling” and “feelings.” When “I feel” I am in touch with reality. Feeling is impersonal. Feelings are personal. Through feelings we distort our perception of reality. When we are mentally and emotionally preoccupied with feelings, they block our capacity to feel.
Feelings are in response to our mental and emotional reactions against a feeling that is present. Being conscious allows us to detect feelings that are psychosomatic in origin from the feeling that is biological. Feelings create a separation of the ego mind from the wisdom of the body within. Feelings are antagonistic to our physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing. Feeling directly connects us to the wisdom of the body and allows us to live in response to our biological needs for sustenance, survival, health and wellbeing. This is fundamental to the restorative, regenerative self-healing wisdom of the body.
When you learn the secret of how to create a quantum leap from feelings to feeling, it can create a shift from living with your preprogrammed self-image to the Self or god within. Converting feelings to feeling creates an opening to the being that you are.
Lecture 2: Meditation - A Medium for Connecting to the Power of God Within
In meditation, if you don’t mind your mind, the mind is not a problem. Meditation is a powerful medium that turns your mind into your best friend. We compulsively think and react to our lives, and there seems to be no end to the aggravating emotional dialogues the mind creates. The mind seems to have a mind of its own! All that you experience in your interaction with the external world is created by your perception conditioned by your past. Every problem you face is caused by a distorted perception of reality.
The question is: how do you learn not to react to the reaction in your mind. It is called witnessing. Meditation is watching, watching, watching. Observing without interpretation. Understand that in meditation you are watching your thoughts, you are not the thoughts you are watching. This opens a portal for you to go beyond your restless agitated mind - and meditation happens. Meditation is moving from unreality to reality, untruth to truth. “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” How do you know the truth? Christ says, “Be still and know that I am God.” Meditation is a way of entering the inner stillness in order to discover the god within. Meditation is a “Self” discovery process. Meditation is a link to connect to the power of god within. Join Gurudev and experience how easily you can enter the deeper states of meditation.
Lecture 3: Detoxifying and Healing Impact of Ayurveda and Yoga
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 greatly accelerates healing processes not 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.
Lecture 4: Stress - The Invisible Silent Stalker
Stress is violence against yourself. You are the predator and the prey. Under stress we see problems instead of solutions. When you carry stress and conflict within you, it is created wherever you go, with everyone you meet, and through everything you do. Stress is epidemic. It is the invisible underlying cause of common physical and emotional-based disorders that surface as symptoms of cancer, hypertension, insomnia and anxiety.
85% of all health problems are caused by stress. Psychosomatic stress creates conflicts that cause degenerative self-destructive physical, mental, emotional disorders and habit patterns. Stress is their hidden cause. When you remove the "cause," all the symptoms you experience as effects begin to heal and disappear.
Live life in a Zero Stress Zone, relaxed and free from stress-producing, conflicting forces of thoughts, feelings and emotions. Integrative relaxation creates balance and harmony and unleashes the self-healing, restorative, regenerative wisdom of the body: increasing digestive fire, accelerating metabolic and catabolic processes, and restoring health and vitality.
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 to tap into your source of restorative, regenerative and healing life force.
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.