Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Recently I was visiting Sri Sri center in Poland. It is located in beautiful
forest near Piotrków Trybunalski ( about half hour drive ). Being exact,
it is in Taraska, very small village where perhaps 10-15 houses exist
appart from the center. This time I spent there about 5 weeks. Met
some new friends and also some old ones. I was doing seva, which means
service. When you are there on this option, you are expected to work
6 hours for the ashram. I did many things among them: cleaning floors,
washing dishes, helping in the kitchen, ironing, eating :), hugging people,
preparing christmas tree. The main practice of this man called Sri Sri is
sudarshan krija, which is yogic breathing technique. So, this practice you
do in the morning around 7 a.m., it takes about 30-45 minutes together
with relaxation/meditation afterwards. Than in the middle of a day you
have 20 minutes meditation and in the evening satsang, which means
singing bhajans together and/or listening to some words of inspiration by
Sri Sri. During my stay we had one advanced course with woman from UK.
Definitely, this are most exciting times, usually more people come and
there is more presence. Maybe the sad part was that we couldn't
participate in evening satsangs because of energy concerns from the teacher.
Personally for me I had one of the most imortant krija next day when the course was already over. This was long krija in the morning, long krija is 10 minutes longer than short one and usually more emotional healing takes place. However for me I was a bit afraid that it might be too strong and put me in the state of imbalance. This wasn't the case, I was crying and definitely some garbage came out. So, this is important part of the process, another part takes place in the interactions with other people, some push your buttons, some give you support in more gentle way, you always get what you need. I went there because I had some sleeping, meditation problems at home and wanted to ground myself better. After first week I started to have a good sleep, daily seva really did it's job and often I would feel tired and sleep also some during the day. Food is really excelent and if you have some bad eating habits you can be greatly helped here. I am not that case, but feel very lazy to prepare my meals, so in any case I was
eating better than in my hometown Pcim. Taraska is kind of windy place
and I don't mean the wind but people who are coming and going like
wind. So, you can easily get the feeling of impermanence of material
structures. Some people stay for weekend, some for week, some just
pop in for one day. Some have paid positions here and are for instance
few months or a year (which is really rare stuff indeed). Ten minutes
walking from ashram is river, that is especially joyful during summer
time but even in this winter season it was beautiful place and bringing
quietude to your soul. And the river is hugged by pine trees forest, which
is fresh and quite clean. If I am not wrong they have here kind of national
park. So, now and then we were walking on this path to the river and
sometimes I was walking alone.
When advanced course was over it become more lonely, more empty place. If you are not used to be with yourself much,
you might have hard time in such periods. Imagine, you are in a nowhere
land and you speak little during the day, strange kind of silence starts
to work on you. You slowly start to notice wail of pine trees, knocking
of woodpeckers and barking of dogs. Yes, there are two half-wild dogs
here, people from the ashram started to give them food and builded
kennel for them. When it comes to english, Sylwia, who is now secretary
there speaks very fluent english, other people usually speak good enough
that you can have some conversation. I left for the Christmass to my
family in Pcim and didn't know what will happen next, if I will come again
to this weird, mysterious place in Taraska or not. Perhaps yes, but I wanted more this course feeling, when there is more people, despite that, work was basicaly all the time physical and I started to be a bit tired from it. However I was clearly better than when I came. Sitting in a bus back to Pcim I was very sensitive to the people's energy and felt it very sharply, like seeing light or darkness in the eyes ect. So, if you ever want to come to polish asharm you may check out Taraska.
forest near Piotrków Trybunalski ( about half hour drive ). Being exact,
it is in Taraska, very small village where perhaps 10-15 houses exist
appart from the center. This time I spent there about 5 weeks. Met
some new friends and also some old ones. I was doing seva, which means
service. When you are there on this option, you are expected to work
6 hours for the ashram. I did many things among them: cleaning floors,
washing dishes, helping in the kitchen, ironing, eating :), hugging people,
preparing christmas tree. The main practice of this man called Sri Sri is
sudarshan krija, which is yogic breathing technique. So, this practice you
do in the morning around 7 a.m., it takes about 30-45 minutes together
with relaxation/meditation afterwards. Than in the middle of a day you
have 20 minutes meditation and in the evening satsang, which means
singing bhajans together and/or listening to some words of inspiration by
Sri Sri. During my stay we had one advanced course with woman from UK.
Definitely, this are most exciting times, usually more people come and
there is more presence. Maybe the sad part was that we couldn't
participate in evening satsangs because of energy concerns from the teacher.
Personally for me I had one of the most imortant krija next day when the course was already over. This was long krija in the morning, long krija is 10 minutes longer than short one and usually more emotional healing takes place. However for me I was a bit afraid that it might be too strong and put me in the state of imbalance. This wasn't the case, I was crying and definitely some garbage came out. So, this is important part of the process, another part takes place in the interactions with other people, some push your buttons, some give you support in more gentle way, you always get what you need. I went there because I had some sleeping, meditation problems at home and wanted to ground myself better. After first week I started to have a good sleep, daily seva really did it's job and often I would feel tired and sleep also some during the day. Food is really excelent and if you have some bad eating habits you can be greatly helped here. I am not that case, but feel very lazy to prepare my meals, so in any case I was
eating better than in my hometown Pcim. Taraska is kind of windy place
and I don't mean the wind but people who are coming and going like
wind. So, you can easily get the feeling of impermanence of material
structures. Some people stay for weekend, some for week, some just
pop in for one day. Some have paid positions here and are for instance
few months or a year (which is really rare stuff indeed). Ten minutes
walking from ashram is river, that is especially joyful during summer
time but even in this winter season it was beautiful place and bringing
quietude to your soul. And the river is hugged by pine trees forest, which
is fresh and quite clean. If I am not wrong they have here kind of national
park. So, now and then we were walking on this path to the river and
sometimes I was walking alone.
When advanced course was over it become more lonely, more empty place. If you are not used to be with yourself much,
you might have hard time in such periods. Imagine, you are in a nowhere
land and you speak little during the day, strange kind of silence starts
to work on you. You slowly start to notice wail of pine trees, knocking
of woodpeckers and barking of dogs. Yes, there are two half-wild dogs
here, people from the ashram started to give them food and builded
kennel for them. When it comes to english, Sylwia, who is now secretary
there speaks very fluent english, other people usually speak good enough
that you can have some conversation. I left for the Christmass to my
family in Pcim and didn't know what will happen next, if I will come again
to this weird, mysterious place in Taraska or not. Perhaps yes, but I wanted more this course feeling, when there is more people, despite that, work was basicaly all the time physical and I started to be a bit tired from it. However I was clearly better than when I came. Sitting in a bus back to Pcim I was very sensitive to the people's energy and felt it very sharply, like seeing light or darkness in the eyes ect. So, if you ever want to come to polish asharm you may check out Taraska.
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