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What would it take that more non-Germans would come to Yoga Vidya Ashram Meinberg?

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on February 8, 2009 at 8:37am in Yoga Seminars in Yoga Vidya Ashrams
Yoga Vidya Ashram Meinberg/Germany is most likely the biggest Yoga Ashram outside India. 140 Yoga aspirants live there permanently, 200-350 guests are there every day for Yoga Seminar, teachers Training Courses, Intensives, Continuted Training etc. We have lots of English-speaking Yoga Teachers and Masters teaching here. So we have quite a lot of English Yoga programs here. What would it take that more non-Germans come to participate in these seminars? Do you have any suggestion what we can improve? Thank you for any suggestion!

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  • Premadevi May 27, 2009 at 6:19pm
    Perhaps ads in Facebook will help. And also the information that it is possible to come, even if you don´t have any money, as you will be able to work for your yoga lessons. So many young people don´t know what to do with themselves after school. Why not get them into coming for a couple of months for a special "after school course" that includes some hours of karma work and let them learn yoga as a basis for their life-to-come. This is the best that YV can offer to young people after the Pisa desaster. That concerns Germany but also foreigners, as it could be an international course, including German lessons. What a chance!
    • krishna Raja > Premadevi June 26, 2011 at 9:30am
      So many people come to India learn Yoga stay in Ashrams. Same way you can invite Yoga teachers from India to visit the Ashram and learn and also teach for beginners the proper way of practicing Yoga-not limited to only Postures.
      Krishnaraja
  • Gregg Hill Gopal May 15, 2009 at 8:20pm
    Swami Vishnu said, "He wanted places where everyone could practice Yoga." That's Yoga Vidya. Will give Sukadev a contact for Yoga Journal. Jai Hanuman.
  • Sukadev Bretz May 15, 2009 at 7:33pm
    Namaste,
    thank you for your question.
    The Telephone Number of Bad Meinberg:
    +49-5234-870 - please make sure you call at a time when somebody is in the office (8.30 am - 7.30 pm Central European Time).

    Email is info@yoga-vidya.de

    Om Shanti
    All the best,
    Sukadev
    http://cms.yoga-vidya.de/english.html
    vidya.de
    This domain may be for sale!
  • Gregg Hill Gopal May 15, 2009 at 4:50pm
    Go today, it's the best. You'll have it the rest of your life what you get from there. It's a blast.
  • Gregg Hill Gopal May 14, 2009 at 4:24pm
    Better to have a "Full Moon" than a thousand blinking stars." Srila Prabhupada

    I stayed at Yoga Vidya last March 2009. It's all about Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda. Such a beautiful place. Ashrams are where you bring something, your talents etc. It's such a great place to serve. I've been in Yoga 30 years. Yoga Vidya is the best. I hope my lifetime offers me the time to be Staff. Put me in with all those Germans and whoever else, I'll serve them, nicely. Ruby Blue said," If Master Sivananda blinks his eye it will happen." I told everyone I knew about Yoga Vidya after I came back to the USA as I had never heard of it in 30 years.

    Get a story in Yoga Journal USA and the people will come in for sure.

    Let them hear Swami Vishnu's & Master's voice and they will stay. Many people live in Ashrams to get their head together and grounded then they leave and go back out into the world. Many people would never live in an Ashram. Each individual can go there for a set time period and Sivananda will show them something they need on many different levels. Jai Sivananda. Jai Vishnudevananda.
    • Kulananda > Gregg Hill Gopal May 15, 2009 at 4:12pm
      Well i e-mailed Bad Meinberg and tried to call the number. What is the number anyway? I could not get through. I guess it would be easier for me to go to SYVC as i am in the states. I suppose they follow the same formats and general teachings. I would love to go and live in Gemrany at a yopa center for a long time though, continue yoga and learn German. I'm a good karma yogi as well as like asana etc. the whole routine.
  • Kulananda May 13, 2009 at 8:47pm
    I have never hear of it, would love to go one day. Many ashram are just in it for the money, costs are to high for many people or have restrictive entry requirements. How can one find out more about it?
  • Lalita Devi May 11, 2009 at 8:10pm
    What about ads on Googlemail? They're personalized and many people already use Googlemail. I think this would draw some people.
  • Swami Atma May 9, 2009 at 10:01am
    The biggest obstacle is your email system. You and I have discussed it before and the problem has not been resolved at all.

    Bluntly your email spam filter is horrible and I know of several non Germans who had the sincere intent to visit Bad Meinberg or Westerwald and never got a reply to their one or several emails.

    Otherwise people from outside the country feel intimidated to visit a German ashram in Germany. Most of it is perception which is unwarranted in my opinion. Publishing testimonials of foreigners who have visited the ashram could help. Germany still has a bad rep abroad but that will change.

    Good luck with all your projects.
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