http://svayoga.de/ 2012-05-20T18:02:04+02:00 http://svayoga.de/ http://svayoga.de/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-03-17T19:40:16+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:about_mantras?rev=1237315216&do=diff On Mantra Even though there are yoga traditions where chanting is less emphasized, without mantra there is no yoga. Mantras are by definition composed in the Sanskrit language. They have been used for thousands of years, gathering great power. Their effect lies not so much in their meaning but in their sound. The ancient texts on yoga proclaim that the sound of a mantra and its meaning are actually one. This is why it was always considered to be of a lesser importance to understand what a man… text/html 2010-06-15T14:33:14+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:action_without_entanglement?rev=1276605194&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 This IS a central theme in Yoga: How can you be active in your profession, in your relationships, even in your yoga without creating an ever-growing web of attachments and aversions? With your progressing yoga practice you can see that action creates results, which you have to endure. Try as hard as you will, they will come after you and you will have to bear them. text/html 2009-03-11T20:23:09+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:articles_on_yoga?rev=1236799389&do=diff Published Articles by Uwe Vamdev Franz ---------- Ending the Pain Of Separation How Yoga can heal the heart read online >> [download pdf-file >>] The Yoga of Pure Insight Uncover the wealth of your own wisdom read online >> [download pdf-file >>] text/html 2009-12-03T09:24:25+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:beyond_judgment?rev=1259828665&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 Most people who practice eastern forms of spirituality in the West do it to enable themselves to better endure the challenges of their lives. So even great gifts like mantra and meditation would be used in this way. text/html 2009-06-26T11:25:09+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:contact?rev=1246008309&do=diff Contact mailing address for USA Uwe Vamdev Franz 240 Tice Hill Road Ghent, NY 12075 for Germany Uwe Vamdev Franz Gartenstr. 13 86551 Aichach Germany Phone | Email phone USA 1.888.669.6691 phone Germany 01149.8251.8880987 <uwe@svayoga.com> text/html 2010-04-28T08:26:52+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:contradiction?rev=1272436012&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, May 2 Contradictions in Yoga a Source of Doubt or Food for Contemplation In the beginning of my yoga path everything seemed straight and clear and I knew where to go and what to do. But with the years passing I discovered contradictions in many concepts. text/html 2010-06-15T14:33:15+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:do_you_have_emotions?rev=1276605195&do=diff Do You Have Emotions Or Do Your Emotions Have You? How Yoga can help you harness the power of your emotions Humans have emotions. Although this is everyone‘s experience, most of us are troubled by this fundamental human trait. Is it a blessing, a gift to be cherished, or is it a curse to be overcome, a great challenge, to face, to endure? Is it the pinnacle of our humanity or the source of our bestiality? Is it the reason behind human genius or is it our primordial stigma, a disease, forcing u… text/html 2009-03-13T16:57:06+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:ending_the_pain_of_separation?rev=1236959826&do=diff Ending the Pain of Separation How Yoga can heal the heart In my last article I discussed the yogic approach to our emotions. This time I want to look at one of the roots of our limited and painful experiences in life. Yoga is about overcoming pain and reaching a state of happiness which originates in ourselves and not in the circumstances of our lives. If this can be possible, wouldn‘t you want to find out, how you can get there? text/html 2009-03-27T14:08:48+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:flowers_of_silence?rev=1238159328&do=diff Flowers of Silence ---------- * Traditional Melodies for Meditation * Mantras and Bhajans * sung by Uwe Vamdev Franz * with Tambura and Harmonium * US $ 17,60 * [Audiosample] »Ohne Grenzen bin ich, ohne Grenzen ist mein Glück« - Diese CD bringt dir die ekstatischen Gedichte (Bhajans) der Meister aus dem Mittelalter Indiens. Von Texten der Königin Mirabai, die inmitten ihres Lebens beschloss, mit den einfachen Leuten auf der Straße zu leben bis zu traditionellen Mantras fü… text/html 2010-06-15T14:33:14+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:head?rev=1276605194&do=diff Ich bin Blindtext. Von Geburt an. Es hat lange gedauert, bis ich begriffen habe, was es bedeutet, ein blinder Text zu sein: Man macht keinen Sinn. Man wirkt hier und da aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Oft wird man gar nicht erst gelesen. Aber bin ich deshalb ein schlechter Text? Ich weiß, daß ich nie die Chance haben werde, im “Stern” zu erscheinen. Aber bin ich darum weniger wichtig!!!? text/html 2009-03-13T17:07:44+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:honor_yourself?rev=1236960464&do=diff Honor Yourself! ---------- This is essential, basic and the root of true happiness. Many yoga texts who extol the great good fortune of taking birth as a human being, insist on a practice of honoring ourselves throughout our lives. If we cannot learn this how could we expect to love and honor anyone else, leave alone our environment. This honoring is not easy as it eventually clashes with our self-doubts and our basic disrespect for ourselves. What is so great about ourselves we might ask. W… text/html 2009-03-17T23:47:46+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:interesting_information?rev=1237330066&do=diff Interesting Information ---------- In this section you find information you may have heard about in workshops and classes with me. Please click the links below to get the information you want. Ayurvedic Food Combining [download pdf-file >>] Hints for Your Own Meditation Practice read online >> [pdf-Datei >>] text/html 2009-12-25T15:18:27+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:karma_-_the_constant_urge_for_balance?rev=1261750707&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 This IS a central theme in Yoga: How can you be active in your profession, in your relationships, even in your yoga without creating an ever-growing web of attachments and aversions? With your progressing yoga practice you can see that action creates results, which you have to endure. Try as hard as you will, they will come after you and you will have to bear them. text/html 2010-04-08T10:58:21+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:lokananda?rev=1270717101&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, April 11 For most people love is something that happens to them. In relationships people sometimes strive hard to keep „the flame of love“ alive. And many say that effort is involved on both sides. Many years ago I did not know that love is an inner state. At that time I was certain that love is given and taken. To me love was always coming from another person or a place where I was happy. text/html 2010-11-15T19:47:02+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:mangalam?rev=1289846822&do=diff Mangalam ---------- * Mantras For a Happy Life * sung by Uwe Vamdev Franz * 7 traditional Sanskrit texts, voice and harmonium * US $ 17,60 * [Audiosample] Different situations in life demand action from us. These mantras are there to help us rise up to the occasion, experience the power of abundance, of wisdom, of strength to overcome any obstacle. text/html 2009-03-18T07:32:39+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:meditation_practice?rev=1237357959&do=diff Hints for Establishing Your Own Meditation Practice In ancient times, especially in India, people had very regular schedules. They got up with the sun and went to bed with the sun, with some exceptions. Today, our lives are different, less regular. We cannot just »get up before sunrise«, because that would change a lot during the year. The time you set aside for your meditation should be free from any disturbances (excluding, of course, emergencies). text/html 2009-05-13T10:00:38+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:newsletter?rev=1242201638&do=diff Svayoga Letter and Forum The Svayoga Letter I invite you to subscribe to the SvaYoga Letter. It will inform you about my upcoming programs and publications, such as texts, CDs and more. But more then that it wants to support you on your own yoga path with helpful hints and tips, with discussions of yoga's main topics. You can cancel your subscription any time, just let me know. And of course, I will not pass any of your personal information to anyone else. text/html 2012-03-02T18:52:06+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:next_online_workshop?rev=1330710726&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, March 25 The Path of Surrender Surrender is mentioned in most yoga texts as essential in yoga. In sanskrit there are several words for what we call surrender in English. And in English we also know surrender as capitulation. In yoga it does not mean that. It is a practice and also an understanding. text/html 2009-03-27T14:08:59+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:om_purnamadah_alles_ist_vollkommen?rev=1238159339&do=diff OM purnamadah – All is Perfect ---------- * 8 Traditional Mantras * Uwe Vamdev Franz * US $ 17,60 * [Audiosample] Mantras are supposed to activate the states they describe. Rather than a prayer to forms of God or consciousness outside of us they can make us aware of our own greatness and power and love. This is their role in yoga. text/html 2009-11-10T10:07:28+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:on_mantra?rev=1257844048&do=diff On Mantra Even though there are yoga traditions where chanting is less emphasized, without mantra there is no yoga. Mantras are by definition composed in the Sanskrit language. They have been used for thousands of years, gathering great power. Their effect lies not so much in their meaning but in their sound. text/html 2009-09-04T15:05:06+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:poems?rev=1252069506&do=diff Poems From The Path Forever. | Door of My Heart | I Miss You | Love Notes | Late Visit | Walking Alone | Stop Swaying, Heart! | No Movement | One Day deutsch text/html 2009-03-11T13:11:57+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:recommendations?rev=1236773517&do=diff Links And recommendations www.siddhayogabookstore.org www.hawthornevalleyschool.org that school is still around when I come »back«, I want to go to kindergarten and school there www.sugartistry.com this is the website of my friend Janie Machiz. Look at her art! text/html 2009-03-13T16:58:44+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:relationships?rev=1236959924&do=diff Understanding What Brings Us Together The Promise of Partnerships »There is no pain like relationship pain.« A modern-day yoga master made this statement in a talk in Europe. She said further: »Unless you find out who you are, there will be no end to this pain for you, not in this world and not in the next«. text/html 2010-05-18T10:48:27+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:self_respect_and_weaknesses?rev=1274172507&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, June 27 Self-respect and Weaknesses An Essential Subject in Yoga This was one of my master's main subject. Once he was asked how one could honor and love oneself if at the same time one is so painfully aware of one's shortcomings and flaws. text/html 2009-04-30T15:52:39+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:shop?rev=1241099559&do=diff Svayoga Shop CDs [] Mangalam * Mantras For a Happy Life * 7 traditional Sanskrit texts * Voice with Harmonium * [Audiosample] * US $ 17.60 ---------- [] Your Life in Focus * 4 Guided Meditation Exercises * with introduction * US $ 17.60 text/html 2011-10-09T09:45:36+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:sidebar?rev=1318146336&do=diff * svayoga | home * Uwe Vamdev Franz * Upcoming Programs * Shop | CDs * On Mantra * Interesting Information * Articles on Yoga * poems * Svayoga Letter * Links | Recommendations * Contact text/html 2009-03-13T17:02:35+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:step_out_of_your_past?rev=1236960155&do=diff The fundamentals in teaching your child to be happy The Basis of Self-Esteem The most essential teaching which needs to flow from parents to children is a fundamental sense of innate worthiness and greatness, characteristic to every human being. Learning this at home will create an indestructible basis of self-esteem. Later on in life this kind of self-esteem does not have to be learned, defended or protected. And you do not need others to recognize it constantly. You do not have to invest a f… text/html 2009-03-29T17:56:40+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:svayoga?rev=1238342200&do=diff Without Inner Balance There Is No Lasting Happiness How can we balance our lives in a world which constantly pulls us in so many directions? How can we find within ourselves that power and equanimity which allows us to face the challenges of life with vigor and joy? Where is peace and contentment for us who are intensely engaged in the many demands of a modern life? text/html 2009-03-11T16:52:39+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:take_your_time?rev=1236786759&do=diff Take Your Time The tradition of yoga is ancient and comes to us through many millenniums, inspired by people who did take the time to ask what they called life’s essential questions: These sages conceived a method of asking these questions and offered multiple techniques to penetrate these questions so deeply that life itself became the answer to all of them. text/html 2009-06-27T11:27:10+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:the_attitude_of_yoga?rev=1246094830&do=diff Next Skype Satsang, July 7, 2009 Whether you have come to classes and workshops with me many times or have studied yoga elsewhere. If you have just heard about it or have chosen yoga as your path in life: these programs should be helpful to you. text/html 2009-03-18T07:35:35+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:the_chai_recipe?rev=1237358135&do=diff The Nektar of Chai ---------- Ok, I did not call it the nectar of the Gods. But here on earth it really comes close to it. Please do not confuse it with normal spiced tea, also called chai, but bad for your liver and mucus producing. This Chai has a well-balanced mix of spices which undo the sometimes negative effects of cow‘s milk. As we have bio-dynamic milk here, the nutritional value of it is further enhanced by the spices, most wonderful gifts of nature. text/html 2010-06-15T14:33:15+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:the_yoga_of_nourishment?rev=1276605195&do=diff The Yoga of Nourishment Feeding Your Whole Being There is a big difference between nutrition and nourishment, between being fed and being nourished, between being full (of food) and being satisfied (with what you just ate). In a time of fast »fill-up stations« like the famous fast-food chains, nourishment is in decline while diseases based on malnutrition are on the rise. text/html 2009-03-13T16:57:55+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:the_yoga_of_pure_insight?rev=1236959875&do=diff The Yoga of Pure Insight Uncover the wealth of your own wisdom Just imagine: A friend leaves you a lot of money after he dies. But you cannot get to it because you forgot the password to his account. So you live a life in poverty while in reality you are wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. Insight or intuition, as it is also called, is a talent everybody has, no exception. The question is, how do you access it, so it can enrich your life. text/html 2010-06-15T14:33:14+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:the_yogic_outlook_on_life?rev=1276605194&do=diff Next Skype Workshop, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 Most people who practice eastern forms of spirituality in the West do it to enable themselves to better endure the challenges of their lives. So even great gifts like mantra and meditation would be used in this way. text/html 2009-11-10T10:09:05+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:uwe_vamdev_franz?rev=1257844145&do=diff Uwe Vamdev Franz, R.Y.T. professional backgroud Uwe Vamdev Franz, born in 1955, lives in the Hawthorne Valley area (Ghent, New York) and in Augsburg, Southern Germany. Uwe Vamdev Franz has been teaching yoga since he was 21, all over Europe, in India and the US. He has brought yoga to health insurance companies, to large corporations, colleges and hospitals. He has worked with children, pregnant women, the elderly and many more diverse groups of people. text/html 2009-03-13T17:04:19+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:village_life_in_megapolis?rev=1236960259&do=diff Village life in Megapolis Just imagine: You live in »Megapolis« and drive to and from work every day, a commute of perhaps 20 to 30 minutes. You work a typical American workday, many long hours, but when the day is done you drive home into a very different world – to an environment that‘s almost like going back in time, to a place where people, not cars, are the priority. text/html 2012-03-02T15:09:00+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:workshops?rev=1330697340&do=diff Workshops On Yoga Our lives are busy, full of all our activities to make ends meet, to take care of our families, our things and our bodily needs. We tend to live as if we could just breathe out constantly, without taking a deep breath in. My workshops in yoga want to provide you with a time to breathe in, to retreat, to take care of yourself. text/html 2009-03-27T14:08:33+02:00 http://svayoga.de/en:your_life_in_focus?rev=1238159313&do=diff Your Life in Focus ---------- * 4 guided Meditation Exercises * With introduction * by Uwe Vamdev Franz * US $ 17,60 Unser Alltag, der häufig Stress und Überlastung mit sich bringt, lässt uns oft vergessen, dass innere Ruhe und Gleichgewicht für unser Wohlbefinden essenziell sind. Diese CD führt dich in deine innere Stille, die eine Oase inmitten von Lärm und Hektik sein kann.