Satchi old
bean,
Here is article as it stands, currently being edited in London, so scan
it for typos. Took me forever to get it done with, I guess the days of
polishing off articles ten to the dozen are long gone and I'm a bit
rusty.
I'm in Shanghai now. I'm back for a month to see my love - everything
is going great - very happy. I'm going to Spain in the first
week of January. My Love plans to come over late January or early
February, after I have made a nice soft landing for her. I've got her
into meditation and she's LOVING it. She is about to build her
antahkarana.
Let me know your thought son the article, I'm sure you will. I've added
your contact details and website address at the bottom so people can
get in touch directly. I also have some great shots to accompanying.
I'll scan them in and get to you asap.
All the best, love to Devi,
James
I hope you
enjoy this article.
I have placed
some of the many pictures I took within the article. All of the people seen
below, our old students, Paul, Danisa, L.B., and Lisabeta, have made
testimonials for ENERGY ENHANCEMENT so see them here..
CLICK HERE FOR TESTIMONIALS PAGE. Since meeting us
Danisa De Paul and L.B. have become Yoga Teachers, Dance Teachers, Dance
Performers, Meditation teachers, Lisabeta is still glowing, and Paul and Joseph,
we will hear more about them next year I am sure, are still progressing fast on
their path to enlightement.
SATCHIDANAND
Title: Peace Begins Within, Article for the Yoga Magazine of
Great Britain
By James
Ellerbeck
JAMES ELLEBECK AT SATCHIDANAND'S BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH DANISA DE PAUL
Last summer,
after three years of on-and-off asana practicing, I thought it was about time I
did a few mental exercises too. So in early October I flew to Spain to take part
in my first meditation course and, unbeknown to me at the time, entered into one
of the most grounding fortnights I can remember.
BUDDHA,
SOL CENTER, L'ESCALA
Meditation is
just reflection and observation. But through meditation we can use our will
power to gain control over our unconscious desires and fears – our rampant ego
and insecurities - which can run riot over our lives and get in the way of
reason and our best intentions.
The Energy
Enhancement course is a beautiful course that had an instant, positive impact on
me and the other students. The course is run in Argentina over the European
Winter months, and Spain during the summer. In Spain its home is in L’Escala, a
small coastal town about an hour and a half north of Barcelona by car. The
course promised and delivered exactly what I looking for; we would be taught how
to quieten the mind through meditating and then spend some gentle weeks getting
to know our deeper drives and emotions. That the centre was a stones’ throw from
the Mediterranean didn’t hurt much either.
ENERGY
ENHANCEMENT COSTA BRAVA, SPAIN, L'ESCALA, CALA MONTGO
The meditation
centre is in fact a quiet leafy suburban villa. It also doubles as the home of
the two instructors and long-time meditation and yoga teachers – Satchi and
Devi. Satchi took care of the meditation classes, and Devi led us in hatha yoga
and reiki.
SOL CENTER, L'ESCALA
This was also
where we stayed for the duration of the course. Beside myself just two other
students shared their time – Paul, a 23-yr old just out of university from the
UK and Joseph, a 61-year old master machine worker from Canada. Past students
also dropped in from time-to-time if they happened through that part of Spain. I
took these sporadic arrivals to be a healthy compliment on the teaching and the
friendly open-house atmosphere that Satchi and Devi had worked hard to create.
PAUL,
L.B. JOSEPH AND SATCHIDANAND
The course is
split into three parts or levels and takes about a month to complete. In level
one we learnt how to meditate; the correct posture and breathing, and we were
given techniques to cope with distracting thoughts and to focus the mind. We
also learnt how to use our imagination to picture our connections to the world
and universe around us.
During my two
weeks I made it through level one and onto the foothills of level two. This is
normal progress. Satchi has had some students who race to the end of level three
in the same amount of time but normally the whole course lasts a month. It is
not an absolute science of course, Paul stayed for six weeks, but four weeks is
the recommendation.
The course
Level One of
the course started with the very basics of meditation. By closing our eyes and
counting our breath in and out we learnt how to ignore nagging thoughts – the
“what’s for breakfast” “this isn’t working“ thoughts – that pinch and snipe us
for attention. Then, slowly but surely, as the calm came about, we went on
guided meditations, guided in so far as we were told what to try and picture
before each session, though not during – meditation was always silent affair. We
were told to imagine energy flowing around us, like auras, revolving and
connecting with us. Through repeat sessions we then extended our flows of energy
so that they reached out and fed from different points in an imaginary universe,
a universe we had to build in our mind’s eye. Each time a new level of the
universe was created, so the energy at our disposal was raised by having new
reserves to draw from. Once we could clearly see and feel all energy coming to
us from all these new connections, we then used this heightened mental power to
work towards an ever-deeper state of calm.
JAMES
ELLERBECK GOING DEEPER...
My own
experience of imaging this space was quite fun and exploratory. It was the first
time I had really tried to will something like this together in my minds’ eye.
It took perhaps five sessions before I could clearly see all the components of
my universe clearly, though soon it became quite easy to just close my eyes,
very quickly still my thoughts and then be anywhere in the universe that I
wished. Satchi was a very forgiving guide too, which I think helped. If, for
example, my mind wandered off, he would catch me staring out of the window and
just say something like better luck next time. They were no angry words while I
was there – compassion was the order of the day.
ENERGY
BLOCKAGES
While willing
this imaginary space into existence within our mind’s eye, we were always on the
look out for distractions being brought up on the winds of our unconscious mind.
These distractions can appear on the canvas as all manner of apparitions -
shapes, objects, frustration - anything that draws our attention away from
clearly seeing the picture we are trying to create. For the purpose of the
Energy Enhancement course these distractions were referred to as blockages.
Learning how to control and the remove these blockages from the path of our
meditation is a central aim of the course. We grounded them by circling them in
light and sucking them into the nearest burning centre in the universe, the sun
or the centre of the earth perhaps. Some were stubborn, and some easy to remove.
As the course
progresses, so the low hanging fruit get picked and we move on to deeper
blockages. Once our grounding skills were tried and tested many times over, we
used them to meditate on our lives, our relationships, our characters, and our
work – every facet of ourselves organised and charted systematically. We took
notes after each session and large parts of our free time were spent talking
about our progress and what kind of thoughts and emotions were being unearthed
during own meditations. A blockage, you see, is a symptom of a deeper malady. With
fervour we drew up hit lists of trouble spots in our lives became the next list
of thing to meditate on – so in anyone session different people would be
meditating on different things – one person perhaps on a relationship, another
person might be looking on a part of their character and so on. I found this to
an exceptionally cathartic experience, a real tonic, and it was quite common for
different parts of the house to be full of laughter at any given time of the
day. It was a joyous two weeks.
L.B.,
AFTER HER ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE LAST YEAR, AFTER NO PREVIOUS DANCE, YOGA OR
MEDITATIONAL EXPERIENCE, BECAME A YOGA, DANCE AND MEDITATION TEACHER AND A DANCE
PERFORMER.
Level three is
about mastering relationships, which uses the lessons of levels one and two and
brings them to bear on problems in our social connections in the world and our
“strategies”. These strategies I didn’t really meditate on during the course as
I was only there for half of it, but we did talk about this level frequently.
Strategies are the acts we put on to get ourselves through life. Acting tough,
craving sympathy, constantly trying to please – a whole host of strategies
employed by the ego, some of which are so deeply ingrained with our character
that they have become part of us. Level three teaches nonattachment to these
strategies, students learn how to ground them to rid themselves of the fears and
insecurities that prop the strategies up. This aspect of the course I was truly
fascinated by and I will try and make an effort in 2005 to visit the guys again
to explore this level in more depth.
FOOD
AT THE SOL VILLA AND EVENING MEAL IN THE GARDEN WITH LISABETA, SEBA, DANI,
SATCHI, DEVI, PAUL, AND JOSEPH
All in all
there is far more to the course than I can go into here. Aside from the
teaching, I could talk about the food for days, well-combined vegetarian feasts
by the way, or Devi’s infectious laugh and sense of humour. I also fondly
remember my long talks with Satchi about engaging with the world and generally
look back on the whole experience as a real turning point for me. A time to stop
and take a look at how far we have come.
Arriving back
in England I danced the whole night away, something I hadn’t done in a while.
Energy Enhancement does exact what it says on the tin.
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT MEDITATION
**
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The nearest
airport to L’Escala is Girona, where pick-up can be arranged. Ryan Air flies
direct to Girona from London (see Ryanair.com). L’Escala is also connected to
France and the rest of Spain by train. For a wealth of information about the
Energy Enhancement
visit the Energy Enhancement website at
www.energyenhancement.org
or contact Satchi directly
at
sol@energyenhancement.org.
4 STAR HOTEL PLAZA DEL SOL,
ROSARIO, SEE PICTURES
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ITS ENVIRONS, AND OF COURSE, THE ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE!
CLOTHING and
CLIMATE
Bring comfortable loose
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JANUARY is very hot, but this luxurious hotel with its own private swimming
pool and sauna, jacuzzis in every room, is centrally air conditioned and
you will be extremely comfortable.
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FOUR STAR Plaza del Sol Hotel,
Rosario, Argentina
| Hotel Name: PLAZA DEL SOL HOTEL
City of Hotel : Rosario, Argentina
District: Downtown
Street address : San Juan 1055, Rosario,
Argentina
Location: Located in the heart of Rosario, near
San Martin pedestrian street, the banking and commercial area, with
important malls and in front of the cultural center Bernardino Rivadavia.
Star rating: 4****
Amenities Hotel:
Laundry, Bar, Meeting Rooms, 24 hour room Service, Swimming-pool, Sauna,
Solarium, Gymnasium.
Amenities Rooms : Private Bath with Jacuzzi,
Modem Connection, Phone, Cable TV, Minifridge bar, Electronic locks, Air
conditioning, Safety boxes, Hair dryer.
Number of Rooms : 55 Singles, Doubles and
Triples rooms and 5 Suites.
Rates: All rates are in US dollars, including
taxes and service surcharge, rates are per night, per room.
- Single : $ ON REQUEST
- Double : $ ON REQUEST
- Triple: $ ON REQUEST
- Suite: $ ON REQUEST
Rates Include : Buffet Breakfast.
Type of Credit Cards accepted : Mastercard,
Visa, American Express, Diners
|
PICTURES OF ROSARIO, ENERGY
ENHANCEMENT CENTER
EUROPEAN WINTER IS ARGENTINE SUMMER, BECAUSE IT
IS SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR.
This is the Monument of Rosario. Designed by a Mason,
surrounded by the four elements it is said by Spiritual Masters to be a focus
for the Spiritual Energies which are now energising Rosario.
There are many
clubs in Rosario where people go to dance the Tango and where Tango Masters give
expositions.
The Monument and
flowering Jacaranda Trees down near the river, Rosario. On the other side of the
river you see the sand banks where people take the sun and bathe in the river.
Beneath is La Florida beach in
Rosario and the new bridge on the side of the River Parana, which is 50
kilometers wide at this point. We also take trips to the sandbanks sunbathing on
the other side and over to Victoria and the Benedictine Monastery on the other
side.
Below, This picture is from a satelite on high. The left pink is Rosario and the Right pink Victoria,
the little town on the other side of the river. This picture is from a satelite on high. The blue is
the Parana River - Rosa Rio - the Pink River, the second largest river in the
world. It is 50 KM wide at Rosario. Take a trip over to Victoria by boat and in
10 minutes you are in the depths of nature, of something like you would imagine
the Amazon to be.
For Energy
Enhancement at Iguazu Falls goto
http://www.energyenhancement.org/sol.htm
Testimonials
For
an Energy
Enhancement
Executive Retreat
at
the TAJ MAHAL in India
This testimonial has been provided by
Pierre Morency after his Executive Retreat to the Taj Mahal with us. Pierre is a previous member of International Consultants, McKinsey and Company.
Management Consultants who recruit mainly Rhodes Scholars, universally used by all major
International Companies for consultation and as a selection ground for future Chief
Executive Officers, CEO's.
Energy Enhancement proves its use for
all levels of business and professionals - in fact for anyone who wants to access their
inherent energies. Energy Enhancement speeds up the process of gaining more Energy!
Pierre came on one of our Energy
Enhancement Training Adventures in India, visiting the Taj
Mahal and the Foothills of the Himalayas and travelling from his home in Canada. Usually
we go for one week for one Level of Energy Enhancement, learning the Techniques in 5Star
Hotels. Pierre learnt Two Levels of Energy Enhancement. The process he describes in his case was very quick as is his nature.
Pierre himself is a marketing
consultant to many International Companies and CEO's.
Here's my promised testimonial:
"Last June, I had the privilege
to get my first taste of India, an
Executive Retreat in the Company of two wonderful, knowledgeable and fun
people, Satchi and Devi. From day one, they were able to
stabilize me in this strange and mysterious country.
Being a marketing speaker and a
meditation practitioner, I didn't really know what to expect from my 2 week training. What
I discovered was a powerful systematic way of practicing meditation and other Energy
Enhancement methods.
I'm in the process of fully
testing the techniques and approaches I've learned but can already feel - and prove!-
tremendous changes in my life.
For instance, since I've been working
on "cleaning my base chakra" (The Grounding of Negative Energies -Satchidanand)
everything around me seems to be going through a massive cleansing process - Only 2 days after I returned to Canada from
India, a chain reaction of events led my to change my 5 employees, change some of my major
accounts and delay a move to the United States. 10 weeks after the program, things are
stabilizing.
Looking back, I think the
cleansing process probably saved my business and my marriage.
Thank you for the
Executive Retreat,
Satchi and Devi.
Pierre Morency
Marketing Physicist
President Morency Marketing Inc."
Hope this testimonial can serve you well.
Pierre.
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Here
I am today, sitting down, putting pen down on paper whilst gathering my thoughts
on the amazing Energy Enhancement Course
that I am currently on.
Where do I begin? Firstly, I felt it would be great to
share
my experiences of the Energy Enhancement course with other like-minded people.
The following information is for those interested in
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wanting this world to become a better place - starting from improving
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