SPANDA

Introduction

Education goes beyond accumulating information and pursuing careers. The current education system heavily focuses on developing the left brain, which represents intellect, while neglecting the right brain, responsible for emotions and creativity. Emotions play a crucial role in shaping behavior and handling life’s challenges. Without nurturing emotional intelligence, individuals struggle with conflicts, blocks, and psychological issues, leading to unrest and psychosomatic diseases.

“It is short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry, because what the delicate little plant needs most, apart from initial stimulation, is freedom; without that it is surely destroyed”.

In the yogic system, knowledge assimilation occurs spontaneously at deeper levels of the mind. The pineal gland plays a significant role in this process. However, over time, it has degenerated, with its influence diminishing with age. Yoga recognizes the pineal gland as the monitoring and regulating station in the brain, balancing its activities and maintaining receptive order. In yoga, the pineal gland is said to be the physical correlate of the Ajna. Yogis refer to it as the third eye, while philosophers call the supermind.

Yoga, an art and science of living, encompasses various disciplines for the holistic development of individuals. Beginning with the physical body through the practice of Asanas, yoga gradually integrates the mind and body. Pranayama, the control of breath, oxygenates the brain and directly impacts emotions, fostering emotional stability and unleashing mental and creative energies. Relaxation techniques reduce stress, quiet the mind, and channel focused mental energy, leading to equanimity.

In summary, education should transcend the mere accumulation of information and career goals. By embracing the principles of emotional intelligence and incorporating practices like yoga, we can foster a harmonious integration of mind, body, and emotions, leading to a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Yoga serves as a comprehensive education system applicable to all students, cultivating physical strength, mental discipline, attention, concentration, and latent creativity. It promotes a balanced and total personality, making it a valuable tool for personal growth and development.

Programs Offered

Short-Term Certificates Program

IYA Courses

YCB Courses

Workshop on specific Yoga related topics

Our Mentor

Mary Cecil

Yogacharya

Yogacharya Mary Cecil is the HOD, Department of Yoga, NSHM School of Health Sciences., NSHM Knowledge Campus WB.
She is the Chairperson (Academics) Indian Yoga Association, WB Chapter.
She is a Visiting Teacher at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh.
She is a Council Member of WICCI West Bengal Yoga Council.
She is the Yoga ambassador of FitExpo, the largest fitness expo of Eastern India.
She is a Life Member of Indian Yoga Association.

A practitioner & teacher of yoga for over 25 years, she started her yoga journey from Bihar School of Yoga.

She has completed YIC CYAI & MSc in Yoga securing a First Class with Distinction from SVYASA Yoga University, Bangalore. She specialises in Therapeutic Yoga from the same university.

She also holds a MA in Economics from Annamalai University, Chennai.

She has completed RYT-200, RYT-300 : RYT500 from Yoga Alliance, USA

She is a Level 1 certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, Kundalini Research Institute, USA
She has studied Ancient Indian Scriptures from Harvard University’s online program.

She has studied Vedic Chanting under the tutelage of Swami Prajnatmatananda ji Maharaj who was heading the Dept of Indology at Ramakrishna Institute of Culture, Kolkata

She has studied Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga at the prestigious KPJAYI Mysore under the tutelage of Saraswathi Jois (daughter of Vidhwan Pattabhi Jois).

She has studied Nada Yoga at ICYER, Pondicherry and was honoured with the title Yogacharini for the same.She has been the Senior Yoga Teacher at the prestigious Health Club ‘Solace’ in Kolkata.

She collaborates with ace golfer Indrajit Bhalotia and has trained golfers at Tollygunge Club under his Academy.

She collaborates with New-York based Yoga Teacher Eddie Stern, who is famously known as the yoga teacher to Dr Deepak Chopra.

She has conducted sessions in Corporate Houses and has remained Personal Trainer to A list Tollywood actors, industrialists, and Sportspersons.

In her free time, she involves actively in raising awareness for causes affecting the underprivileged society especially children & women.

Explanation of SPANDA

SPANDA is a Sanskrit term that refers to the subtle creative pulse of the universe as it manifests into the dynamism of living form. When we can sense the throb of SPANDA inside us, we are sensing our personalized spark of the omnipresent and vast primordial life force. SPANDA vitalizes every movement – the breath, cellular metabolism, thoughts and feelings. By attuning to SPANDA and working with it, we not only release contractions on the physical level, but go deep into ourselves to reveal our authentic, multidimensional wholeness.

Yoga Darshana of Maharishi Patanjali , based on the Samkhya Darshana, is perhaps the earliest philosophy to emerge from the Vedic corpus. It encourages aspirants to undertake a discriminative analysis of creation, and thereby realise one’s true nature. Samkhya postulates two eternal realities:

PURUSHA : the witnessing consciousness , and PRAKRITI : the root cause of creation, composed of three GUNAS SATTVA, RAJAS & TAMAS.

When all the three gunas are in harmony and balance, prakriti is in its unmanifest form. The manifest evolution begins with that first SPANDA – the subtle vibrational essence, leading to the first evolute of Prakriti : MAHAT, the supreme intelligence, metaphorically referred to as HIRANYAGARBHA : the womb of creation.

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