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Who are we after all?

Since Yoga and Tantra are fundamentally about recognizing our true inner nature, from a certain perspective we can say that we are, who you will find yourself to be after years of intensive training and inner transformations. Natha Yogacenter fundamentally consists of two equally important uniquums: Its teaching system and its students. Natha Yogacenter has for the last 15 years had a privileged position in the alternative environment of yoga and meditation schools in Denmark.

First of all, we became known for being the only school for many years beside ‘Vækstcenteret’, who were teaching the ancient practice of Tantra and its exemplary induction into the mysteries of human consciousness, through a genial elaborated teaching system equilibrating the Western science of matter and the Eastern wisdom of spirit.

Who are you?

Becoming a student of Natha, you follow the spiritual journey of thousands of people who during the years have got to taste the powerful reality of beauty and serenity experienced through yoga and tantra and thus transformed inspiring teachings to fruitful self knowledge. 15 years ago Natha Yogacenter was seeding what is now aspiring to become a silent implosion of consciousness within our society.

The profound understanding of life and inner maturity which goes in lovers hand with a genuine understanding of Tantra has, through the broad variety of students from all kind of social, religious and ideological positions, created an opening in society to integrate in our everyday life, for example a more profound understanding of our sexuality (our basic life resource), our consciousness (our essential identity) and our purpose for being here and now (our destiny).

We do not expose students or former students to cheap PR. Still it is no secret that you today can hear a famous sexologist promoting the tantric ideas, or find well-known actors, dancers, musicians, screen-writers, scientists or businessmen relating to their work of life in a tantric way.

In this way our yoga school is discretely and indirectly awakening and amplifying certain positive and harmonious creative forces in our society and contribute to the higher common goal of developing the beneficial structures in our culture.

’Den Folkeoplysende Foreningen Natha Yogacenter’

We cannot be so surprised to find that Natha Yogacenter since 4 years (1st July 2005) has been acknowledged as a ‘Folkeoplysende Forening’ (a people enlightening association) by Københavns Kommune providing an environment for studying and teaching yoga, tantra and meditation.

As a result of several years of research and studies of the effects of our teaching system it has been recognized as being highly competent. First by the students who intensively practised the different yoga and tantra techniques, and then by the society as catalysing the development of certain admirable human qualities.

That actually means that all the courses we are teaching are acknowledged as being based on scientific methods and facts concerning the information you will receive in the written course material. Also the practice of yoga, tantra and meditation got the blue print to have incredible beneficial effect on the physical and psychic health of the human being.

It was a great step for Natha Yogacenter and also for the recognition of yoga and tantra as practices and disciplines, being a field of experience where science and spirituality meet and even merge together.

The generous support from the Kommune has given the privileged opportunity for our yoga school to employ several yoga teachers and thus secure a much higher degree of stability and progress of the activities, by helping the teachers to dedicate more time and energy to their important role as trainers for the students of the school.

Nevertheless like in any other association, one of the main pillar principle of our yoga school is that it belongs to those who involve themselves and who take initiative, and in this way gradually transforms the teachings of yoga and tantra from theory to a way of life.

Therefore the yoga school insists in its entire structure and works on the principle of voluntary work integrated in the course material as the practice of karma yoga: how to turn any exterior action into a profound inner experience of awareness.

The daily routine

The daily routine of the yoga school is structured as in any ‘folkeoplysende forening’ with an executive board elected on the yearly general assembly for all the members. The board are responsible of carrying out the administrative tasks and legal procedures of the association.

That does not mean that they are doing it all on their own. The yoga school can be compared with a living organism, where different teams are taking care of vital functions, necessary to keep the school running.

We have thus a teacher team, an office team, a communication and press team, a reception team, a restaurant team, a cleaning team, a ‘genitor’ team and presently we also have a ‘construction team’ organised by the male students of the school, who are finishing the last details on our new yoga house, Concordia.

For about 15 years – as long as the yoga school has existed – all the ‘vital organs’ have only been running on voluntary work, thus secured by dedicated students and teachers of the school spending all their spare time on maintaining important tasks.

The teacher team

If the board care takes the administrative management and decision making part of the association, the teacher team is in many ways its beating Heart, from where the teaching are supposed to radiate the legacy and both guide newcomers to discover the profound and mysterious world of meditation and give more advanced students the chance to go even deeper in their yoga practice and comprehend its results through consulting experienced yoga teachers.

The teaching system of Natha is a system developed by many years of experience and kept on the same direction by a senior teacher, having the role as coordinating yoga teacher. The role of that teacher is to coach the other teachers and to secure that the teaching is kept according to the copyright teaching system, thus making sure that any student who sign up for the courses will be taught an efficient, safe and authentic yoga, which has proved to carry beneficial fruits for thousands of people.

Presently the coordinating yoga teacher is Mihai who for the last seven years has been guiding and coaching the other teachers.

A harmonious integration in society

Being a very charismatic person with a great human understanding and spiritual clarity Mihai easily gains the sympathy and respect of the people around him. Often you will find a queue of people waiting to seek his advice in many different matters of life. Sometimes you might even find members of the board lined up in the queue, asking his advice on vital matters for the school.

Natha is thus an excellent example of how a yoga school with a traditional legacy and an authentic teaching system can be integrated harmoniously in a modern society and even in a governmental support program.

As all the members of the board are either dedicated students or yoga teachers it is their responsibility and also their challenge to translate the legacy of yoga, tantra ad meditation into a practical context, taking decisions about vital matters as economy, press and other administrative priorities.

Thus, the yoga school becomes the perfect playground for people to practice yoga and tantra and at the same time contributing in a beneficial way to build within our society some important social meeting places where people of common interest in personal and spiritual transformation can develop within everyday life.

In the general assembly, on the 16th of March 2008, the great decision of moving to Concordia on Nordre Fasanvej 230 was taken. The decision had major consequences for the yoga school in all aspects.

Even though it was a big step and some had their doubts about its impact, now, one year after the move, we have created the perfect nurturing environment for the further development of what might become a whole new way of life.

Who is Grieg?

Natha yoga center has received all of its teachings from yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru, or Grieg, as he is called by those who are close to him. Grieg is the founder of this remarkable and unique yoga system, which is combining the ancient Oriental spiritual teachings with modern Western science, in a perfectly coherent synthezis. To learn more about this true spiritual master and amazing and fascinating being, you may visit www.gregorianbivolaru.com.

Grieg first established the Romanian yoga school M.I.S.A (the movement for spiritual integration with the Absolute), from where the teachings then spread to many other countries around the world, through the openning of new yoga schools, all of which are also following the teachings of Grieg. Natha yoga centre is the first of these schools to be founded outside Romania. All these yoga schools, including M.I.S.A, are now part of the Atman yoga federation, which is founded on the spiritual teachings of Grieg. For many years, Natha yoga centre received its teachings from M.I.S.A, including thousands of written courses of yoga. In the last years, Natha has begun to also contribute to the creation of new teaching materials, by forming new courses, and sharing these teaching materials with the rest of the schools within the Atman federation.

The new tantra course

Natha yoga center is having the first tantra course which is structured, containing material and techniques which are taught progressively, in weekly courses, over a period of many years. This course is combining theory with practicing of techniques and thus allows the ancient tantric wisdom  to become easily grasped and put into use by the modern human being. Indeed, this tantra course, by combining the age-old tantric teachings with modern theories, is holding within it a valuable key for resolving many of the problems of the modern age and for assisting each of us in the quest for fulfillment, happiness, harmony, love and personal transformation. The tantra course introduces the notion of sexual continence – meaning the perfect and effortless control over the sexual energies. This control allows both men and women to make love indefinitely, to experience many orgasms, even hours at a time, without the sexual discharge which brings with it the loss of the energy. In this way, both men and women develop an enormous energy within their being, which will be at their disposal in any aspect of their lives. The sexual continence, as taught in Natha’s tantra course, is empowering the human being on a process of releasing and dissolving of all the frustrations, conditionings, limitations and stress which are keeping him in a state of inner lack of freedom and unhappiness. Through the teachings contained in this tantra course, life itself becomes a spiritual practice – a spiritual journey of the human being on his way to discover his true nature.

Yoga teacher training course

Natha yoga centre also holds a course of training for aspirant yoga teachers. This in-depth training course lasts five years, and at the end of which, after passing a written and practical exam, and after handing in a special project, the graduates receive a diploma of being a certified yoga teacher. Natha’s teacher training course is developing new generations of yoga teachers in all the schools of the Atman Federation. The new yoga centre of Natha – Concordia, in Nordre Fasanvej 230, is a perfect facility for hosting this teachers training course, offering appropriate space for the large number of teacher aspirants as well as yoga halls of a high quality.

At the end of February 2009 we celebrated the graduation of over 80 new yoga teachers, who are now offering the ancient wisdom teachings of yoga all over the world, each of them working selflessly to serve his/her own community in this manner.

Graduation

Natha and the Atman Federation

Natha is a Danish people’s association, being in the same time part of the Atman International Federation of yoga schools. While Natha is completely independent from an administrative perspective, nevertheless, it has a very fruitful spiritual cooperation with the other schools of yoga within the Atman Federation. This cooperation is taking the shape of the sharing of the spiritual teachings and written materials and the exchange of teachers between the schools. Yoga teachers from Natha have gone to teach in other yoga schools in different countries, and even started other yoga schools within the Atman federation. In this manner, Natha, along side its sister schools from the Atman federation, work together in harmony to make the spiritual teachings available to people in many countries around the world, considering that spirituality is necessary for the human fulfillment and happiness, now more then ever. Thus, Natha yoga centre is dedicating itself completely to the purpose of serving human beings, and helping them to achieve spiritual transformation and a harmonious life full of joy, on every level.

Continuous Transformation

Today, the teachings of Grieg continue to be the living spirit at the heart of Natha yoga center. Grieg’s teachings have influenced hundreds of thousands all over the world and have introduced many revolutionary notions such as ”the law of resonance”. For all those who know him or have encountered his teachings, Grieg continues to be an ever radiant source of inspiration and guidance on the spiritual path, manifesting through his own being the very ideals that all spiritual seekers aspire to. His recent announcement of the new spiritual community ”for God, through God, with God, in God” which will be formed in Romania in the summer, as well as the invitation to join this community, which he has extended to all those who feel God’s calling, have both awakened great enthusiasm in many spiritual practitioners around the world.  To know more about this amazing being, to read his biography and much more, you may visit www.gregorianbivolaru.com/whoisgb-1.php. It is Grieg’s teachings which make Natha yoga centre be a spiritual school full of life, enthusiasm and vitality, always growing and improving, a school in continuous transformation, a school for continuous transformation.

Written by Sahajananda Porslund and Arthur Lederer

natha.dk, 24.05.09