MANTRIC FIRE WORKSHOP AND NEELAKANTHA MEDITATION INITIATION
Shaiva Tantra Teachings on the Freedom of Consciousness
with Professor Paul Muller-Ortega
and Ezgi Fisher, Susana Garcia Blanco, Jayendra Hanley
June 15-18 2018 (+ June 14)
Zurich, Switzerland
There are 2 parts for this event. Please register for each part separately. If you will attend the whole event, please register for Part 2 first, and then you will be able to apply a 30% discount for registration of Part 1.
PART 1:
MANTRIC FIRE WORKSHOP
Shaiva Tantra Teachings on the Freedom of Consciousness
with Paul Muller-Ortega
June 15-16 2018
Friday, June 15, 2018 • 1:30pm-8:30pm
Saturday, June 16, 2018 • 9:00am-6:30pm
Location: Zollikerstrasse 76 8008 Zurich Switzerland
Registration: $250 USD Early Bird, $295 USD Regular.
Early bird rate ends May 13, 2018
** People pre-enrolled in the Initiation Course receive 30% Discount on the Satsang.
Asana (yoga posture) practice sessions are included in the workshop at no cost.
Questions: SvatantraStudy@gmail.com
Local logistics questions: info@stambha.yoga
Mantric Fire Practices from the Shaiva Tradition encompass a rich array of offerings and experiences applicable to life in the world. Ancient in origin, these practices and teachings open a Universal portal into a more liberative trajectory of life and allow the modern practitioner to gain direct access to the interior, subtle spaces of living Consciousness.
This experiential journey is accessible to everyone, regardless of background or belief. Each Mantric Fire Workshop is unique, and invites you deeply into your own Heart in a rare gathering of profound consideration and learning. Join us to consider sacred truths and learn rich practices in the Tantric tradition.
Specific practices taught may include the Release Practice, the Intention Offering practice, the Amrita Guru practice, Japa or chanting, the study of sacred texts, and other group practices that raise the vibration of our awareness. Join us for this workshop to pierce into the heart of awakening that is already moving inside each person, inviting you to live in a higher and more evolutionary way!
Professor Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D.,
is a world-renowned scholar in the eld of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra. He is the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, which teaches the elegant Svatantra philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism, based on the practice of Neelakantha Meditation. He has taught meditation to thousands throughout the world, and
served as Professor of Religion at Michigan State and the University of Rochester. Paul brings to his teaching the rare combination of knowledge and experience, taking his students on a profound guided tour of consciousness that is life-changing and enlightening.
more about Paul and Blue Throat Yoga: http://www.bluethroatyoga.com
Ezgi Fisher, Susanna Garcia Blanco, and Jayendra Hanley
will offer high-quality asana instruction and support for this auspicious event. With decades of combined study and teaching experience, they will provide a grounded environment for the heart-opening teachings of the Mantric Fire Workshop. All asana sessions are included at no extra cost. Please indicate on the registration form if you will be participating in the asana portion. To learn more, visit their websites:
Ezgi Fisher, Stambha.yoga
Susana Garcia Blanco, RasalilaYoga.com
Jayendra Hanley, JayendraHanley.com
Online link to event flyer: http://www.bluethroatyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BTY-Flyer-June-2018-Switzerland.pdf
* Tuition is discounted if also enrolled in the weekend Initiation Course. To receive the discount, please register for Initiation (Part 2) first.
REGISTRATION form:
(if you have any trouble filling the embedded form below, you can also open the form in a new window via this link: https://bluethroatyoga.formstack.com/forms/ss_zurich_2018 )
"Hotels, restaurants and transportation information document" can be downloaded here.
Please feel free to email info@stambha.yoga for any local logistics questions.
PART 2:
NEELAKANTHA MEDITATION INITIATION
Two Days of Personal Instruction, 18 Months of Support, a Lifetime of Practice
with Paul Muller-Ortega
June 17-18 2018
The Course begins with two days of formal instruction:
Sunday, June 17, 2018 • 9:00am - 6:00pm
Monday, June 18, 2018 • 10:00am - 5:30pm
Location: Zollikerstrasse 76 8008 Zurich Switzerland
Registration: $550 USD Early Bird, $600 USD Regular.
Early bird rate ends May 13, 2018
Questions: SvatantraStudy@gmail.com
Local logistics questions: info@stambha.yoga
***The course session on Sunday, June 17 has filled. We opened a second day for learning Neelakantha Meditation: Thursday June 14, 10:00am-5:30pm. Both groups will reconvene to finish the course on Monday June 18th from 10:00am-5:30pm. Please fill in the form below to register as soon as possible, the spots will also fill up soon for the Thursday session. Thank you!
Please note that: The location for the extra day (Thursday June 14th) is different than the other days.
The location for Thursday 14th only: Schreberweg 8 8044 Zurich Switzerland.
A Foundation for a Lifetime of Deep Meditation Practice
Neelakantha Meditation
A Formal Initiation with Professor Paul Muller-Ortega
Neelakantha Meditation is the practice of deep meditation that works to bring about transformation, healing, and benevolence in your life. It is a daily meditation practice that is governed by the principle of effortlessness, which is easy to learn and practice and is accessible to everyone.
• Transform and grow in the direct experience of your own deepest reality and live everything that you are meant to live.
• Journey into the deeper spaces of consciousness to more fully access freedom, creativity, ease, clarity, and riches of life itself.
• Easy to learn and practice, and is governed by the principle of effortlessness.
• A beautiful and elegant practice which does not involve concentration, controlling the mind, or other forms of effortful manipulation of awareness.
• It is not necessary to have any particular beliefs, previous study or background in order to learn and practice with great benefit.
Neelakantha Meditation allows you to establish a direct connection to your own deepest reality and reconnect with your innate nature of freedom, creativity, clarity, bliss and everything wonderful in life.
This two-day course is the beginning of a lifetime of practice. You will learn the practice itself and the specific context and foundational principles underlying the practice, which is rooted in SvaTantra - the Tantric teachings of the ultimate freedom of Consciousness.
The 18-Month Course Includes:
• Welcome audio message
• Two-day course of formal personalized
Initiation into Neelakantha Meditation • Ongoing Live Meditation Practice
Teleseminars
• Original translations of Tantric texts
• Online Wisdom Library
• Auditing Day 2 of Initiation events at no cost • Special Audio Satsangs
• Additional Supporting Practices and
Materials
• Invitations to attend Meditation Retreats and to receive Advanced Initiations
Online link to event flyer: http://www.bluethroatyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BTY-Flyer-June-2018-Switzerland.pdf
REGISTRATION form:
(if you have any trouble filling the embedded form below, you can also open the form in a new window via this link: https://bluethroatyoga.formstack.com/forms/ini_zurich_june_2018 )
*** The course session on Sunday, June 17 has filled.
*** We opened a second day for learning Neelakantha Meditation: Thursday June 14, 10:00am-5:30pm. Both groups will reconvene to finish the course on Monday June 18th from 10:00am-5:30pm. Please fill in the form below to register as soon as possible, the spots will also fill up soon for the Thursday session. Thank you!
*** Please note that: The location for the extra day (Thursday June 14th) is different than the other days.The location for Thursday 14th only: Schreberweg 8 8044 Zurich Switzerland.
REGISTRATION form:
(if you have any trouble filling the embedded form below, you can also open the form in a new window via this link: https://bluethroatyoga.formstack.com/forms/ini_zurich_june_2018_overflow )
"Hotels, restaurants and transportation information document" can be downloaded here.
Please feel free to email info@stambha.yoga for any local logistics questions.
Blue Throat Yoga is a School for Meditation Studies designed to help you establish deep freedom and joy in everyday householder life.
About Paul Muller-Ortega
Professor Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D., is recognized internationally as one of the world's most highly respected and renowned academic scholars in the field of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra. He is the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, which teaches the elegant Svatantra philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism and the practice of Neelakantha Meditation.
For more than forty-five years, Paul has been a pioneer in the technology of Consciousness, lecturing and teaching about meditation and Indian philosophy to hundreds of thousands of people in North and South America, Europe, and India. Through his books, articles, essays, commentaries, and translations, Paul has earned a reputation for his unparalleled scholarly authenticity, as well as being a charismatic teacher with a remarkable capacity to convey esoteric truths and teachings in ways that are fully accessible, relevant, and comprehensible to the western mind.
Paul Muller-Ortega is the author of the highly acclaimed book, THE TRIADIC HEART OF SHIVA: KAULA TANTRICISM OF ABHINAVAGUPTA ON THE NON-DUAL SHAIVISM OF KASHMIR, (State University of New York Press, 1989) in which he examines the "Heart" as the mystical core of Consciousness. He is also one of the co-authors of MEDITATION REVOLUTION as well as numerous scholarly articles on aspects of Tantric Studies.
Professor Paul Muller-Ortega earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California after many arduous years of studying Sanskrit, Indian religions, and Asian philosophy and culture. For twenty-five years he was a Professor of Religion at Michigan State and then the University of Rochester, and was known for his passionate and innovative teaching style and enrolled-to-capacity classes.
Paul Muller-Ortega has been a practitioner and teacher of meditation for more than forty-five years. He has formally studied with several of the greatest meditation masters of our time, and subsequently has organized and taught hundreds of meditation seminars disseminating potent practices of meditation to thousands of individuals. With this rare combination of training, experience, skill, spiritual practice, and profound insight, Paul takes his students on a profound guided tour of consciousness that is inspiring, life changing and enlightening.
More information about Blue Throat Yoga and Paul: