General Articles 
Guidelines for the Sangha
22 June, 2011 @ 2:57 pm
He has arranged for us to get the complete recording immediately so we all can listen to it. You can download the entire audio from the given link.
“I’m telling you of the joy I have experienced.” – An Interview with Nina Johnson
18 June, 2011 @ 11:05 pm
Nina indicates that she only teaches what she experiences. She was an only child. She took care of her Mother who passed at the age of 107. Her husband was quite ill during his life. While she would care for these two relatives, she felt sorry for herself. These two relatives passed during the same year - 2005. Thereafter, she was totally free to pursue her spiritual practice. Her first India trip was in 1974 for the Kumbha Mela. The next time she went was in 2006.
Service To Our Elders As A Path Of Love and Spiritual Growth
18 June, 2011 @ 10:57 pm
Mother and Father are two eternal principles in this world. They’re two gods to the infant, and are so important to us both physically and emotionally that the effects of our relationship with our mother and father reverberate throughout our whole life. There is a quote from an ancient scripture of India that goes like this: “The root of comfort and happiness is harmonious relationship and sufficient wealth. The root of harmonious relationships and sufficient wealth are wise choices. The root of wise choices is self control. The root of self control is humility and discipline. The root of humility and discipline is service to the elders. Through service to the elders, one obtains experiential knowledge and wisdom.”
Use of Yoga Nidra for Creativity
22 May, 2011 @ 5:39 pm
What is creativity? It seems an obvious question. We know what it is? Do we? The word comes from Latin “Creo” to make. Who makes? Makes from what? The answer has changed over the course of history and is different in different cultures! Peter Meusberg’s research showed 100 definitions of what creativity is.
A Successful Yoga Nidra Retreat
19 May, 2011 @ 6:39 pm
It came about as a response to the fact that programs teaching yoga-nidra are proliferating worldwide using a wide variety of preparatory exercises that are usually mis-characterized as yoga-nidra. These practices often differ from the processes discussed in traditional textual sources and the oral tradition of yoga. Research on yoga-nidra has tended to focus on alpha and theta wave states that, by definition, cannot be yoga-nidra.
AHYMSIN Annual Report – 2010
27 April, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
Due to Guru’s grace, the collective strength, spirituality and mindshare of each pearl of our Sangha, our universal family our mission experienced yet another successful year. We have progressed and we have learnt. Each experience has contributed towards our endeavor to continuously improve and evolve without losing the sight of our goal i.e. dedicated to making available and teaching the Himalayan Yoga Tradition as taught by Swami Rama of the Himalayas.
What Sannyasa Means to Me
27 April, 2011 @ 3:40 pm
In the booklet titled SWAMI - A LIFE BEYOND KNOWLEDGE, A Garland of Memories by Shri Swamiji, the second chapter starts with the words - “Renunciation is the final forgetting of 'I' and 'mine'."
First Results of Three Years in the Practice of Yoga Nidra
26 February, 2011 @ 2:58 pm
When I was born my head got stuck in my mother’s cervix and for a while I could not breathe. I had a high fever after the birth. The doctors called this status Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral refers to the affected area of the brain, the cerebrum (however the centres had not been perfectly localized and the disorder most likely involves connections between the cortex and other parts of the brainsuch as the cerebellum). Palsy refers to disorder of movement.
Now after Years of Yoga Nidra, I Am Moved from Inside
26 February, 2011 @ 2:43 pm
My illness started in Malaysia in 2005 with sight problems including double vision. In November I was accompanying my son to Singapore by bus when I suddenly became paralyzed from head to toe. I could neither walk nor move my arms; I could hardly swallow and barely breathe. At the same time I suffered terrible muscular cramps. We were close to Malacca, and the bus made an urgent detour to take me to Hospital for Emergency treatment.
Holi Washes, Holi Wishes – February 2010
22 February, 2011 @ 11:04 pm
My memories of Holi are sweet. It is not just pranks and irreverence. It is a mending of all rifts. When you come to India for Holi be sure to bring some old clothes you do not mind spoiling or buy something really cheap and ugly in the bazaar beforehand. I bought a water pistol in town at Anshal Store that makes a very fine stream, but if memory serves, some of our young scamps use buckets and really huge water torches to vault the streams of colored water at you.