Sitikukayika kuti Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram, ku Neyyar Dam pafupi ndi Trivandrum ku Kerala, ndi wotchuka kwambiri. Koma kodi ndi imodzi mwa malo abwino kwambiri a ku India , makamaka aphunzitsi a yoga?
Wowerenga, yemwe adayamba mwambo umodzi wa Teachers Training Course, adandilembera za zomwe anakumana nazo. Anati adapeza ziphunzitso za Swami Vishnudevananda, yemwe anayambitsa chipani, kuti akhale ndi mtengo wapatali.
Komabe, adafunsa ngati aphunzitsi ndi makalasi anali pamwamba. Makamaka, iye sanaganize kuti kalasi ya filosofi inali yabwino, pamene aphunzitsi ankavutika kuti afotokoze ndi zochitika zenizeni zomwe anali kunena. Kuwonjezera pamenepo, malangizo aumwini anali pafupi nil.
Kodi zochitika zake zikufanana ndi za ena?
Zoona, zomwe munthu aliyense amakumana nazo ndizofunikira. Ngakhale kuti anthu ambiri ali ndi zochitika zodabwitsa, kusintha moyo pa ashram, ena amakhumudwa. Zimatengera zambiri pa zomwe mukuyembekezera, ndipo pali zinthu zina zomwe muyenera kukumbukira.
Zimene Mukuyenera Kudziwa Zokhudza Kuphunzira pa Ashram
Sivananda amadziwika kwambiri ngati sukulu yabwino kwambiri ya yoga, ndi maphunziro olimba. Mukhoza kuyembekezera kulipira madola 2,400 a Teachers Training Course. Izi ndi maphunziro ochuluka kuposa ena ambiri ku India koma pang'ono kupatula kuposa kumadzulo. Dziwani kuti pali malo ambiri a Sivananda Yoga kuzungulira dziko lapansi, ndipo simungapeze luso labwino kapena chidziwitso pakuchita maphunziro ku India kusiyana ndi kwina kulikonse.
Ziphunzitso ku Sivananda ndizochikhalidwe ndipo zimayang'ana ku Vedanta, yomwe ndi yoga filosofi, m'malo mochita asanas (postures). Ndicho chikhalidwe cha Chihindu ndipo pali mbali yaikulu yachipembedzo kwa izo, kuphatikizapo maola atatu kapena anai akuimba patsiku, kuphatikizapo mapemphero kwa milungu yachihindu ndi ashram's founding gurus.
Anthu ena amawona kuti kufotokozera tanthauzo la mapemphero ndi nyimbo zikusoweka, kotero iwo sangathe kuwauza iwo motsimikiza.
Phunziro la Aphunzitsi, mumaphunzira za nkhani zambiri zokhudzana ndi filosofi ya yoga, koma palibe ngakhale imodzi yomwe idzakumbidwe mozama. Malangizo a momwe angapangire asanas amakhalanso ochepa. Maphunziro a sukulu akuyang'ana makamaka pazochita zawo, popanda kukambirana pang'ono za momwe angaphunzitsire ndikupanga zokonzekera. Izi zimachititsa ophunzira ena akudzimva kuti sangakwanitse kuphunzitsa akamaliza maphunzirowo. Ngati mukufuna kuphunzira yoga ndi kukwaniritsa zolemba zanu ndiye izi sizomwe mukuchita.
Ambiri mwa ogwira ntchito pa ashram ndi anthu omwe amaliza maphunziro a Teachers Training Course ndipo akugwira ntchitoyi mwaufulu kuti athe kuthandiza pa masukulu a yoga (anthu okha omwe amapatsidwa ndi anthu omwe akugwira ntchito monga kuyeretsa). Kawirikawiri malingaliro amasonyeza kuti sali okondwa kapena othandizira.
Mndandanda wa ashram ndi wovuta kwambiri ndipo mlengalenga ikulamulira mmalo mosamalira. Maphunziro onse ndi oyenerera ndi owerengedwa pamsonkhanowu, kuyambira 6 koloko mpaka kuunikira nthawi ya 10 koloko masana (mukhoza kuona ndandanda pano).
Mudzapeza tsiku limodzi la sabata pa sabata, Lachisanu, ndipo mukhoza kusiya ashram mpaka lero.
Chifukwa cha kukula kwake ndi kutchuka, kerala ashram imakhala wotanganidwa kwambiri pa nyengo yapamwamba (kuyambira October mpaka April). Kawirikawiri Maphunziro a Aphunzitsi amalandira ophunzira pakati pa 100 ndi 150. Mwezi wa January ndi mwezi wapamwamba, ndipo Teacher Training Course nthawi zonse amalembedwa, ndipo ndi anthu okwana 250. Kuwonjezera pa izi anthu amakhala pa ashram pa yoga maulendo ndipo pangakhale anthu 400 omwe angakhale nawo, kuwapangitsa kukhala ochuluka kwambiri.
Ngati maphunziro a aphunzitsi akukufunirani koma mukufuna kuti muphunzire kwinakwake, Sivananda Madurai Ashram ndi njira yabwino ndipo amalandira ndemanga zabwino.