One day Yoga and Meditation in Kathmandu

This activity begins with a pick up from your hotel in Kathmandu. You will then take a short 25 minute drive to your Yoga Home.

The session begins with a short introduction between Guruji and participants. It then continues for Kriya Yoga. Kriya yoga is an ancient type of meditation technique that, when practiced, is meant to rapidly accelerate one's spiritual progress. Moreover, it is a technique of controlling energy through pranayama and meditation, which speeds up the spiritual process of the aspirant.

The practice of Kriya yoga is taught only through a guru-disciple relationship and after an initiation ceremony. Most practitioners of meditation spend time in self-study and practice until they are ready to be further initiated into the advanced practices of Kriya yoga. Beginning meditators are advised to use a mantra or word in order to focus their attention and progress into deeper meditation sessions.

Hatha Yoga is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word haṭha literally means force, alluding to a system of physical techniques. Some hatha yoga style techniques can be traced back at least to the 1st-century CE, in texts such as the Hindu Sanskrit epics and Buddhism's Pali canon.

After your yoga & meditation session, you will be treated with some delicious vegetarian lunch.

After your morning breakfast, the activity then continues for tarot cards session. The tarot is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. However, there are two distinct types of tarot pack in circulation today: those used for card games and those used for divination. Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual.

Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation

Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism. It comprises all the philosophical investigations and systems of rational inquiry that developed among various schools of Buddhism in ancient India following the parinirvāṇa of Gautama Buddha (c. 5th century BCE), as well as the further developments which followed the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.

Buddhism combines both philosophical reasoning and the practice of meditation. The Buddhist religion presents a multitude of Buddhist paths to liberation; with the expansion of early Buddhism from ancient India to Sri Lanka and subsequently to East Asia and Southeast Asia, Buddhist thinkers have covered topics as varied as cosmology, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of time, and soteriology in their analysis of these paths.

The session after lunch heads towards sound and reiki healing. Sound healing is the use of specific instruments, music, tones, and other sonic vibrations to balance and heal the body, mind, and spirit. It involves using specialized sound frequencies to create a therapeutic atmosphere to promote deep rest, nervous system rebalancing, and emotional release. Ideally, a hypnotic, meditative or theta brainwave state is created which allows access to deeper levels of inner wisdom and healing.

Whereas, also known as an alternative medicine, Reiki is a Japanese form of energy healing. Moreover, its practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing. It is believed that an ‘universal energy’ is thus transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing.

After a successful completion of this one day yoga and meditation session, the participants are dropped back to their respective hotel/apartment in the evening.