My main yoga practice is meditation. I learn to meditate by Kriya yoga. I received initiation into Kriya three years ago from my spiritual Guru Sri Prakash Shankar Vijas.

It’s always good to come to Varanasi as I learn a lot there. From my teacher but also from others who do the same practice. If they received initiation by the same Guru they are my Kriya brotha’s and sista’s.

When I was in India in 2002 and 2003 I spent a lot of time together with my Guru brother George. Just like me he has been drawing during most of his travels.

His works are inspired by his own experience in meditation. George is a skilled tattooist and you can see that the way he colours his drawings at spiritual-impressions.com

Later on I will explain you a bit more about Kriya but if you can’t wait and want to know more about the original Kriya yoga check out the site kriyasource.com and buy the book by Kriya sista Heidi Wyder.

You’re slighltly slacking in this asana.
Now, make sure your upper hand is straight above the lower. Extend the neck, turn your nose up to look at your right hand. Keep reaching out while opening that chest area.



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Triangle Pose
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Young Sculptors
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I took this picture in India last September. Varanasi is sprawled with Shiva Lingams. In meditation we call it the “seat of the mind”.

“The non anthropomorphic Lingam form of Shiva is what is held in reverence in temples all over the Indian sub continent. The Lingam is a symbol. It is a symbol of that which is invisible yet omnipresent. It is hence a a visible symbol of the Ultimate Reality which is present in us (and in all objects of creation ).” text from Templenet.

A poster for a Thai restaurant in Amsterdam reminded me of a story by swami Rama:

“I once met a swami who could produce fire from his mouth. The flame would shoot out several feet. I tested him to see if the phenomenon was authentic. I asked him to wash out his mouth, to be sure he was not secreting something like phosphorus in it. I also had my friends examine him. He seemed genuine, so I concluded, “This man must be definitely more advanced than my master.”

Every morning I close my eyes and visualize a color.
Do this every day and you’ll see that each day
has it’s own color.

In the fikr – in what rhythm you began, you should continue to breathe. By losing the rhythm much is lost. Music is the miniature of life’s harmony in sound in a concentrated sense. The person who has no rhythm physically cannot walk well; he often stumbles. The breath, the speech, the step, all have rhythm. The person who has no rhythm in his emotions falls easily into a spell, such as laughter, or crying, or anger, or fear. We should practice rhythm in our lives, so that we may not be so patient and yielding that everybody takes the best of us, nor so carried away by our enthusiasm and frankness that we say things that are undesirable in the world, nor so meek and mild that we fall into flattery, timidity and cowardice. Then, by and by, we may understand the rhythm of emotions, the rhythm of thoughts, then the rhythm of feeling. Then a person comes into relation with the inner rhythm which is the true meaning of the world.” Hazrat Iniyat Khan

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