• Table of Contents
  • To That Guru
  • Guru Purnima Message by Swami Rama
  • Guru by Swami Rama
  • Mastering Yoga Nidra by Swami Veda Bharati
  • Anniversary Celebrations by Dr. Shirin Venkat
  • The End of Children's School Year by Mónika Bertalan
  • The Grace of the Guru by Aditi M. Gaur
  • An Intangible Beauty by Daniele Belloni
  • Dear Yoga Mentor, My Question Is ...
  • Walk Up to Guru Purnima 2014 by Joanne Sullivan (Divya)
  • What Is Mastery in Yoga? by Swami Veda Bharati
  • New Book Published: Anant Ki Khoj by AHYMSIN Publishers
  • Some Coming Attractions at SRSG
  • 2014 Events and Beyond
  • Full Moon Meditation Dates
  • Location of our SRSG ashram
• AHYMSIN Newsletter Archive

Anniversary Celebrations

by Dr. Shirin Venkat

Swami Rama HYM Center Pune- June 2014

The third Sunday of June is the Anniversary Day for the Swami Rama Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Center, Pune, India. So far 86 Garbhawatees (pregnant girls) have attended the meditation classes for some part of their pregnancies, on Wednesday evening at 5.30 pm. We will have a mega event once 100 have done the class. On Sunday morning 7 am the class includes Joints and Glands exercises, and so it lasts longer. All are welcome to attend, yet we find only a few regulars coming! That’s OK after all the embrace of sleep is very sweet; few can tear away from such a lover.

This year we had so many lovely babies come too and all well behaved! One of the toddlers held my hand and said “Shirin, come we’ll go upstairs!” I wish I was only a year old and I would have taken that as a proposal!

The celebrations began at 9 am! Maansi Vaidya, one of the regular meditators, had suggested we discuss the topic of “Mindfulness in Daily Life” as the topic of the year. Dr. Shirin highlighted the 5 minute meditation as taught by Swami Veda to be done several times in the day; it helps one take a perspective of the events unfolding and prevents a reactive mode. Two young ladies – Maansi and Alika - both stressed how diaphragmatic breathing worked for them both have delivered healthy baby boys! They found observing the breath and changing it to diaphragmatic helped them immensely to maintain balance to cope with baby, work and husband!

After enjoying the discussion which generated tremendous enthusiasm, each one enjoyed the sumptuous brunch. The girls had brought different dishes all home-made and I guess we put on at least 1 kg weight that day! A photo session brought the beautiful morning to a warm close.

Surrendered at the lotus feet of Gurudev for the Guru Poornima day.

Editor’s Note:

This is the 3rd Anniversary of the Pune center. Congratulations!

In addition to serving as center leader in Pune, Dr. Shirin Venkat is a practicing Gynecologist and Obstetrician and is a member of the AHYMSIN Executive Committee.

For more about the Pune Center, we invite you to read:http://www.ahymsin.org/docs2/News/1304Apr/13.html and http://www.ahymsin.org/docs2/News/1307Jul/09.html