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Here at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, Rishikesh, we have just completed a nine-days international children's and youth's meditation retreat. Over 150 children from different countries participated---together with 75 'guardians.' The children speaking Korean, Dutch, Italian, German etc. had no problem in developing loving communication. It was one single family. The details of the happy events can be read in the newsletter of our AHYMSIN at www.ahymsin.org

One ten year old child has written me (in Italian), translated as follows:

My name is Daniele. I am a great lover of all nature, be it animals, plants or rocks. I know that our earth is suffering because we humans are destroying it. I wish to know: How can I possibly help Nature so that it may be saved and returned to the state of paradise that it was in before?

Swami Veda invites you to join him for the Full Moon Meditation Monday, January 9th

"Full moon is a symbol of complete enlightenment. This day we celebrate to remind ourselves that the aim of life is to attain spirituality. All the things, all the means we have in the world, they should be applied to attain that. This is my message to you. I want to pray for you, and I'll pray for you, and I love you.

God bless you. Peace, peace, peace."

— Swami Rama "Guru Purnima"
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by Joanne Sullivan

One bright day in early December, Dr. Shirley Telles, the world's most published yoga researcher, came to Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama with her research team from Haridwar's Patanjali Yogpeeth and with Cambridge University's Dr. Robin Monroe. After meeting our lab team at SRSG's Meditation Research Institute, they all took a rare day off to share a meal overlooking Ma Ganga upstream.   
                   
There are several research studies which Dr. Telles presently co-directs at SRSG.

Namaskar!

We have more articles and photos than any other issue to date! They include:

Happy 40th birthday to The Yoga Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA! Swami Rama created the Milwaukee center in 1971. May this anniversary be a celebration of the past forty years, of the present, and of the promise of future growth and potential.

Congratulations HYT-TTP on your biggest class yet at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama!

The Children are Here! Enjoy the photos from the Opening Ceremony of the Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat at SRSG.

A new Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama video produced by AHYMSIN Publishers!  See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=DaHoC3lNImA

A new book by Swami Rama. A Shiva Sutra Series download. A February retreat with Swami Veda in Thailand. A Shri Vidya Sadhana in March. And more….

Please click here to view the AHYMSIN December 2011 Newsletter.

What was the Something Swamiji Said that impacted your life?

We hope you enjoy the shared experiences from individuals in our Sangha in this newsletter and invite you to also share.

By Giancarlo Colombo

A new important project has begun in Ahymsin. A group of people from all over the world has been selected and invited to SRSG by Swami Veda Bharati with the purpose of translating and recording numerous meditations in the respective languages.

As Swamiji said during the course, our Tradition is probably a unique reality all over the world; the amount of recorded meditations at all different levels is a treasure that no other schools possess. So a desire to make such a patrimony available for all humanity is now the driving purpose of this project: to translate and record the selected meditations in all the different languages so that the barrier of language would be overcome allowing the teachings and guidance of the Masters to achieve anybody in need.