Inspiration
This page contains information about people, places or home pages which have inspired and nourished me and played a significant role in my life.
OSHO
If you are interested in Osho, you can click on the links below (YouTube) and receive an impression of him and hear what he has to say:
Osho 1
Osho 2
Here is a video, which shows a little of his work. You will see the many people who flocked to him in Poona in India in the 70's and 80's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r845fOL5HLs
More information you can find on:
www.osho.com
www.oshoworld.com
See a picture of Osho here.
WUJI GONG
In the spring of 2011, my husband, Sahaj, trained as an instructor in Wuji Gong.
Wuji Gong is a more feminine and simple form than Qi Gong, and it's all about balance, both in life and in the movements.
Wuji is emptiness or silence and Wuji Gong is stillness in motion. Moving out at the extremities (heaven, earth, feminine, masculine) and back to the middle- the center - where you constantly rediscover balance.
Taoist philosophy is, the art of moving with Tao, which is nourishing for the body and mind.
Read more at his website www.stilhedensflow.dk
OSHO RISK
At Osho Risk Course- and meditation Centre you can participate in festivals, courses and trainings. The best introduction you will find at,
www.oshorisk.dk
JYOTI
Jyoti is one of Osho´s first Indian disciples.
She has written a book called" 100 tales for 10 000 Buddha's" about her earliest experiences with Osho. It can be read on the homepage:
One_Hundred_Tales_For_Ten_Thousand_Buddhas.htm
Jyoti is very straightforward, loving and unpretentious, and in a way she seems extremely ordinary if it wasn’t for Osho´s presence being so much around her.
In the summer she travels around Europe and conducts Meditation Camps. Unfortunately she has no homepage, but I will try to list some of her events here on my page.
She also conducts Meditation Camps and Meditation processes (Mystic Rose, Born Again) in this new fascinating Osho place in Dharmasala in the Himalayas. It is called Osho Nisarg and is worth taking a look at more closely www.oshonisarga.com.
Here you can also find pictures of Jyoti.
SUMITO
Sumito lives in the Himalayas around the town of Almora. Here she and Hari Om are building a smaller meditation centre. From the windows in the meditation room you can see the snow-clad tops of Himalaya and sense the deep calm in the mountains. Sumito carries this inner high "space" with herself no matter where she is. She always points to the inner sky.
Sumito also teaches Psychic Massage. You can read more about her, the place and her work on www.sumito.se
MA ANANDAMAYI
In 2002 I travelled to Rishikesh in Northindia, where we stopped shortly in Hardwar. I had read that one (now deceased) female master, Ma Anandamayi, had her ashram and her Samadhi-grave there.
I think it was very exciting to come into contact with an enlightened woman.
When we visited the place, I was completely touched by the calm and presence which was around her Samadhi-grave. Then I got hold of a book "Death Must Die", which is the dairy of one of her, few western disciples known as Atmananda. In some quiet way I fell in love with Ma Anandimayi and visited several of her many, small ashrams in India. Each place I was touched by the spiritual motherliness and joy, which filled me. Ma Anandimayi lived from 1896 to 1982.
You can read more about her on: http://www.anandamayi.org/
Or watch a video/photo tribute on this link (with Chloe Goodchild's beautiful music and song) at YouTube:
Tribute to Anandamayi
If you are interested in the book "Death must Die" – Atmananda´s dairy by Ram Alexander, it can be ordered from:
http://www.vedicbooks.net/death-must-die-p-805.html
ARUNACHALA
When one speaks about the ancient spiritual India, you must also mention Tiruvannamalai in Southindia. Here is the holy mountain of Arunachala, where the mystic Ramana Maharshi had his ashram. The town, the ashram and the mountain are surrounded by an infinite peace and calm. It's as if nature and the divine merge into one and ones interior are filled with gentleness and depth. We sat in Ramana's small hut up in the mountain and meditated - both time and place disappeared.
Here are some impressions at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz4wKhi-Nb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-BeVGCINic
And here you can read both journey advice and get more information about Arunachala:
http://uarelove1.tripod.com/TRAVELTIRU.htm
Or read the book " Living By The Words Of Bhagavan" by David Goodman, who writes about the life around Ramana Maharshi and his ashram - especially through the eyes of one of his disciples Annimalai Swami, who later became enlightened himself.
The book can be bought here: Living by the words of Bhagavan
SUFI
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee speaks about "The Silent Sufis" - he explains the ancient Sufi wisdom as a kind of medium for the sheiks of this Sufi tradition. Sufism is about disappearing into love - that which is named "The Path of Love".
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is disciple of Irina Tweedie, who wrote the book "Daughter of Fire" about her meeting with an Indian Sufi master in the 1970. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is humorous, exact and stimulating and his lectures can be downloaded on:
http://www.goldensufi.org/5-AudioArchive.html
I have been especially touched by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee’s insights into the feminine. His audio discourses about the role of the woman in connection with healing the planet, really dignifies the woman.
Listen to this discourse (11 minutes long):
If you are more interested in Sufism, there is actually a danish website, www.sufi-danmark.dk, it is connected to a different tradition than the one above.
I have also participated in connection with this in a sufi course led by Aziza Scott.
SHAMANISM AND EARTH
The love of the earth and the understanding of our responsibility to care for it, you best find in native people, Red Indians and shamans.
Here are 2 videos about Floyd Red Crow Westerman (American Red Indian), where he speaks about the Indian view of the modern civilization. The other video is a very beautiful tribute to this man and to the Red Indian culture.
Floyd Red Crow Westerman 1
Floyd Red Crow Westerman 2
If one is interested in the essence of Shamanism, which is to heal oneself and re-establish the attitude of nature as sacred, I think the American shaman Sandra Ingerman, is the one that best expresses this simple message.
She has written quite a few books, among other things "Soul Retrieval", http://www.sandraingerman.com/
Further more in connection with Shamanism I would like to mention Birgit Bune, she lives in Alken, nearby Skanderborg. Birgit is educated in different Shamanistic traditions and is also a facilitator for an education with the Siberian shaman Ahamkara.
If you are interested in soul retrieval or other shaman work, you can contact Birgit on tel. 86 57 77 70 or mobil 51 54 13 31 or email: birgit.bastholm@gmail.com. Birgit has a new website, you can see it here: www.shamankvinden.com
SHOCK, TRAUMA AND JOY
Ulla teaches the newer developmental psychology and brain research (e.g. Daniel Stein, Susan Hart), which shows how our early bonding are important for the development of our brain and nervous system. This knowledge combined with Peter Levines Somatic Experience (shock- and trauma healing) and understanding of character structure in Bodynamic (Lowen etc.), gives an exceptional way to heal our earliest traumas.
Ulla is a unique capacity with a fantastic intuition and sensitivity and I can only recommend her education in Shock-, Trauma- and Joy.
It's best to call Ulla at (0045) 49 29 90 99, but you can get some information from her homepage:
Ulla's hjemmeside
AYURVEDA
On this homepage you can download an E book about ayurveda.
Here the most ordinary principles in health, life style and cooking are described.
You can here answer a questionnaire and find out what body type you are: http://www.ayurveda.uk.com/links.htm.
Vandana and Praful teach Ayurvedic Massage. They have training in Stockholm, you can find on:
http://www.ayurtouch.com/index.asp
THE SONG of the HEART
Finally I have put a link to the song "Sweet Kind Sublime" on You Tube. The text comes from the Sufi poet Hazrat Inayat Khan and the music from the group HuDost. This song is about a kind of spiritual friendliness, which is one of the qualities of the heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbvuil2M0IM