News from 3HO Europe and the European Yoga Festival

One last year: Fondjouan – August 2-10, 2014!

After the financial support we received from members and businesses in our community, we have enough money to prepare Chateau Anand for the European Yoga Festival. However, the renovations and permits do not leave enough time to move in 2014. Also we want to test the new property by doing smaller events there before moving the festival. So we invite you from our heart to the European Yoga Festival 2014 in Fondjouan and then…. in 2015 to Chateau Anand.

„There is a way through every block.“ 
At the Yoga Festival of 2014 we will work on Yogi Bhajan’s second Sutra of the Aquarian Age: ”There is a way through every block.”
One of the archetypes of the sign of Aquarius is the “inventor.” As we are entering the Age of Aquarius the importance of this quality becomes more and more clear. Not only in the change of our communication methods and economy as brought to us by countless modern inventions, but also in the ability and the necessity of us “thinking outside of the box.” Flexibility of mind and spirit will follow the flexibility yoga brings to our body. In this sense each yoga festival is a celebration of newness as we overcome our limitations and blocks. This is the excitement of the new age. Which contribution would you like to give to the world? Whatever it is, in this age there will be a way to reach it.
More information: http://www.3ho-kundalini-yoga.eu

 “Summer Sangat Days” August 10-15, 2014 at Chateau Anand.

“Sangat means San Gat. Root word is Sana. Sana means love.  Unquestionable love….  Love which has no demarcation, no dimension, love which has no question, no answer.  Gat means done.  San Gat: Where love is experienced.” YB Oct. 1987

With you, who read this, and with everybody who does Kundalini Yoga: we want to have some quality time together! We want to relax, have fun and share profound experiences at Chateau Anand.

Although it is too early to have the festival there, it is not too early to have a beautiful relaxed “après Tantra”. Share the joy and inspiration of being together.

Come alone or bring  your family. Relax in a spiritual environment with:

·         deep experiences like the oracle game of Leela, good Sadhana and many workshops

·         great music of known musicians and until now undiscovered new ones

·         bike rides in gorgeous nature and beautiful walks

·         canoeing, bathing in the river and swimming

·         volleyball, soccer and Gatka tournaments

·         visiting some of the most picturesque villages of France

·         …..and the ocean beach of  La Rochelle only 2 hrs away!

We subsidized the prize for food and camping to make it possible for you  all to come:

49 Euros (discounted price for those, who just came from the European Yoga Festival)

99 Euros for 5 days for the others (still a good price!).

children below 12  are free.

Early registration is very important for us to keep a good organization of this event, so please contact us under Sangatdays@chateau-anand.eu  and we will send you a form.

Nam Anand Kaur

In the fast and stressful times of the Aquarian Age, we might sometimes forget, how easy and uplifting our lives could be, if we weren’t always concerned about our everyday troubles and topics. We can make our world worth living for, if we start to “live for each other”, which was the theme of the European Festival 2013 in Fondjouan this summer. Living for your children for example, can be very satisfying: “Maybe I’ve spend my passed lives as a yogi in a cave, therefore I am very happy right now to have a family”, said Ram Singh from Toulouse, France, who was at the Festival with his wife Gururavi and his two children. “Therefore it is a blessing for me to be here at this Festival as a part of a family. In the Sidh Gosht of the Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Nanak told the yogis in the caves, that the time to meditate in solitude was over, they should go out and be part of the everyday life and benefit others with their elevation. So it is until today very important to benefit your family and other people with your elevation of consciousness. Children are your personal Sadhana. We can all come out of our lonely caves and share our elevation. I try to let people know, that looking after my children is at the moment part of my Seva-service, therefore I cannot do much other Seva. I recognize how graceful people are, because they understand.” But not only doing Seva for your own children can be joyful: “Together with my wife Gururavi, I’ve managed for many years the Teens Camp. It was a lot of fun! Right now my wife manages the Toddlers Camp (1-3 years old). We all share on this Festival the consciousness, that the children are our future.“

Helping people in need within the Sangat, can sometimes even save lives: “ I have ten years of drug history behind me, “ said Kamari from Lincolnshire, England, who performed as a DJ the Live Act on the Rock Out Night on Friday night at the European Yoga Festival. “People were afraid, that I wouldn’t be alive the next day. Thanks to Kundalini Yoga and the support of the Kundalini Yoga Community I am now drug-, alcohol- and tobacco free.” He wants to pass on the good energy to others together with Manvir, his friend and colleague, with whom he runs a record label. “Kundalini Yoga helped me to cleanse up the system and to manifest my intentions: to make conscious, transformative music and vibrations. We want to clear the Karma, change the vibrations of the listeners and liften them up with powerful mantras.”

Yogi Bhajan said on April 2nd 1997: “In the Aquarian Age you don’t pray, you ask God to pray for you. Tell God, ‘Lord, pray for me that I should be as Infinite as You are. Make me as bright, bountiful and beautiful as You, oh Lord. Give me the power of love to serve. Let me know to serve myself. Let my touch heal. Let my sight create miracles. Where I exist and pass, let there be nothing but the enlightened dance of Your Grace.’”

A video of Château Anand

The 3HO Europe Foundation has been searching and working very hard for many years, in order to find a home for Yogi Bhajan’s Teachings in Europe and the European Yoga Festival. The home of 3HO Europe is a beautiful place to be, surrounded by  an intact forest and a fascinating landscape. The Château was originally built in the 15th or 16th century as a hunting lodge for aristocrats from a larger nearby castle, which is now a ruin. The river L’Anglin is the eastern border of the property, which consists mostly of a forest, but it has many open spaces for camping, childrens camp, sadhana, the big top etc. We have our own Sequoia on the land, a huge red wood tree, which is at least 60 meters high. It takes six people to go around the trunk of this tree. Around Château Anand are the most beautiful french villages. The nearest town is the picturesque Le Blanc and the proximate Angles sur l’Anglin belongs actually according to the Association Les Plus Beaux Villages de France to the most beautiful villages in France. In case you’d want to have a first look of how the European Yoga Festival could be at the Château Anand next year, you can have a nice glimpse here:http://vimeo.com/yogiteafrance/chateau-anand

Do good and feel good: Sadhana Sevadar and Karma Yogis for Château Anand

We need a long term sevadar, who can organize morning Sadhana in Chateau Anand. If you have this spiritual ability, please contact us. There also still a lot of other Karma Yoga to do at Château Anand, especially when you are skilled in masonry, plumbing, painting and/or woodworking. So if you would like to work and live in the inspiring environment of sadhana, good food, good housing and good spirit, please contact us at +33 9 66 88 81 01 or by email welcome@chateau-anand.eu

Not sure yet, if you want to come? Watch this movie and start packing your bags:

http://www.timschipper.nl/kundalini-yoga-retreat-france

Thanks to Tim Schipper/Mohandayal Singh, Amsterdam, for this lovely movie.

Do you want to support us, but you don’t have the time to come? Then why not donate? Any donation makes a difference:http://www.3hokundaliniyoga.eu/de/registrierung/donation/

Be the Forklift

The Miri Piri Academy’s Financial Aid Fund

On 17 beautiful acres just outside Amritsar, the famous city in the north-western part of India and home of the Golden Temple, you can find The Miri Piri Academy. Students from 22 countries around the world and a wide variety of religious, economic and social backgrounds, study there not only academic subjects, but also explore their spiritual natures. Yoga, music, 3HO humanology, martial arts, sports, dancing, drama, Punjabi, art,  kirtan, gatka, computer training and an adventure program, which includes trips to the Himalayas and tours of historic religious sites, are also included. More than 60% of the students at the Miri Piri Academy, which represent a microcosm of humanity, depend on Financial Aid to make their education possible. Here is a nice video about the Financial Aid Fund of the Miri Piri Academy:https://www.miripiriacademy.org/donate/reasons-to-give/

All Teachings for all

The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings

Surely you must have heard, that the Kundalini Research Institute KRI ist going to launch this year The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings (LOT). This project will make all 8000 of Yogi Bhajan’s recorded (audio and video) teachings available online for free. His students recorded him from the very beginning, therefore many early clips are in audio. They’ve been transcribing all the teachings for many years now into text in Bangalore, India. That means, that we will be able to watch or listen to any teaching Yogi Bhajan ever gave, with all the wisdom, all the kriyas, all the meditations and all the stories and read along at the same time the transcription of it. Besides that, anyone who wants to, can translate it directly there into another language. A new era of information about the Kundalini Technology will beginn for humanity with this free access for all of us. If you can’t anticipate and are curious to see how the whole project will work and look like, you can watch a movie on youtube: http://youtu.be/WB3RmvpzI4k