Swami Janakananda – författare

The title Wonderstand is a play on words that speaks for itself and holds a promise, for the seeker, of both serenity and humor. The book includes two collections of texts: Aphorisms and The Dot and the Dots. "We are big fans of Sohan´s paintings and now we are big fans of his poetic voice too!" - Lorna Howarth (Co-Editor, Resurgence Magazine). Aphorisms The truth cast into idea looses its truth the mold takes hold (p. 20) Make me transcend my time my space and break my border to you (p. 36) In the poems the Dot and the dots Sohan carries on the tantric tradition, expanding our minds by placing the dot everywhere, between the lips of lovers, in the northern lights, among the galaxies, and yet we remain right here. I am a dot in the orgiastic ecstasy so spiritual and so mundane at once.(p. 60) "You don't have to know the secrets of Tantra to experience and appreciate Sohan Qadri´s poems - they will inspire you and convey its universal message anyway." - Swami Janakananda (Meditation teacher and writer) "... a garland of pearls of wisdom like Rubayat, a collection of gnomic verse where the world of meaning is pressed in minimum of words. Every piece is commentary on Life at the abstract plane and gives at the same time an easy understanding of life´s rules for an ordinary man." - N. Meera Raghavendra Rao (The Newspaper The Hindu) "What we have in the case of Sohan Qadri’s unique approach to abstraction is not concerned with just self-centred reflexivity, but instead a presentation of universal maxims." - Wariart.com "...Prophetic and sublime quality conveying an overwhelming interest and deep import to an individual soul... In all these aphoristic quotations, we notice Qadri´s breadth of intellect. Wonderstand has very high qualities of proverbial expressions written with great precision and clarity. Sohan Qadri´s eyes are fixed upon the sober enquiry of truth..." - S. Kumar, Cyberwit On Qadris art: "Sohan Qadri with his art liberates the word meditation from its fashionable taste and brings it back to its proper origin, uninfluenced by Western propaganda, misunderstandings and corruptions." - Heinrich Böll (Nobel Prize Winner) "Sohan Qadri, in a few words, believes in an inner and outer sphere in the life of man. Striving to establish contact with this world within, with one´s true self, he sees as utterly essential for all of us. His art belongs to something of the most refined one can perceive, something which touches "the ultimate secret". We can experience his works directly and with strong presence, and thereafter we can slowly decipher and extract their secrets." - Virtus Schade (Art critic and writer, Copenhagen) "There are artists. There are tantriks. There are tantrik artists. As far as I know, there are no tantrik yogis who are artists as well. Sohan Qadri is an exception. He is an exceptional artist." - F. N. Souza (Indian painter and writer) "Qadri’s artistic vision was free and unfettered by the shackles of illusion. Instead, he had command over the forces that blind those uninitiated. He played like a child in the sand with the materials and illusory elements of colour and form. To have a moment of recognition in looking at Qadri’s paintings is like a moment of soul reflection." - Wariart.com Sohan Qadri was a yogi, poet and a renowned painter from India. He grew up in a small village in Punjab but settled in Copenhagen where he spent most of his life. His works evolve from states of deep meditation.

Giv Slip er en yderst generøs bog om den tantriske esoteriske yoga- og meditationstradition. Den indeholder først og fremmest praktiske vejledninger som bygger på en swamis livslange erfaring. Den inkluderer 10 lydfiler med mere end 4 timers guidede meditationer, afspændinger og koncentrationsøvelser. "En virkelig fin oplevelse. En bog man kan gå til og fra og som henvender sig til både den øvede og den nye til yoga. Efterfølgeren til hans bestseller var værd at vente på." – Lars Steen Pedersen, forfatter og journalist Bogen er vævet med relevant videnskabelig forskning og er delvis autobiografisk og fortæller bl.a. om forfatterens læreår i Indien i slutningen af 1960’erne. De ca. 100 illustrationer og billeder knytter bogens praktiske anvisninger og teksten sammen til en kunstnerisk helhed som kan give dig indsigt og inspiration i brugen af meditationerne og afspændingerne for at berige netop dit liv og din hverdag. Forfatteren behandler temaer som: o Savasana - at ligge dødstille i 15 minutter, med lydfiler - som praksis i skoleklasser, og som nøglen til den egentlige yoga o Den åbne tilstand og dens betydning o Meditationen ’Returning’, vejledt som tekst og lydfiler o Chakra og energi - vækningen af et chakra o Vekselvirkningen mellem koncentration og helhedsoplevelse o Nærvær og opmærksomhed o Pratyahara, en tantrisk metode til at give slip og vende tilbage til sig selv o Mantra i tantra og i den nordiske kultur o Meditationsteknik åbner døren til den meditative tilstand og hjælper til med at forblive i den o Det psykiske symbol og bevidsthedens rum o Meditationsforløb som ritual og proces o Yantra - kraftdiagram - om at fastholde sindet ved ét objekt o Bevidstgørelsen af det ubevidste o Meditationen Indre Stilhed, Antar Mauna - lydfiler o Det at blive ét med sin sande identitet o Evnen til at opleve en helhed o Hvile og aktivitet, grundlæggende i yoga o Når meditationen er forbi o Formålet med yoga - at mestre livet Swami Janakananda er grundlæggeren af Skandinavisk Yoga og Meditationsskole, en af de mest respekterede yogaskoler i den vestlige verden. Han lægger særlig vægt på den vitaliserende, stress-reducerende og åndelige kerne af yoga. Gennem sin dybdegående undervisning i meditation, yoga, Kriya yoga, åndedrætsøvelser og yoga nidra, er han med til at bevare den autentiske yoga. Swami Janakananda er kendt for sin bog Yoga, Tantra og Meditation i min hverdag, CD’en, Oplev Yoga Nidra og e-bogen En dybere yoga og Yoga Nidra. Gennem disse værker og med sin undervisning på Internationale Håå Retreat Center i Sydsverige har han inspireret tusindtals mennesker fra hele verden til at lære sig selv at kende og leve et kreativt og harmonisk liv.