{"id":124,"date":"2011-02-23T23:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/?p=124"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:47:35","slug":"yoga-science-yoga-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2011\/02\/23\/yoga-science-yoga-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga science, yoga silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we visited the <a title=\"Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, Rishikesh\" href=\"https:\/\/yoga.in\/explore\/centres-and-ashrams\/swami-rama-sadhaka-grama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama<\/a> ashram, which follows the teachings of the Himalayan\u00a0Yogi Swami Rama, who was also a master in controlling body functions\u00a0like heart beat. One of the central ideas of the center is to scientifically\u00a0prove the benefits of yoga.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening we were invited for a dinner and private audience with the\u00a0current Swami &#8211; Swami Veda Barathi. We were very lucky to be part of such an excellent talk (pictures and video coming soon) as from March 2013 Swami will start a prolonged\u00a0period of silence, and\u00a0this talk would not\u00a0have been possible. By the way, &#8220;prolonged&#8221; means 5 years of silence (maybe even 10)!<\/p>\n<p>You can read Swami Veda Barathi&#8217;s silence announcement here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahymsin.org\/main\/index.php\/Swami-Veda-Bharati\/one-must-run-ones-life-by-a-spiritual-plan.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ahymsin.org\/main\/index.php\/Swami-Veda-Bharati\/one-must-run-ones-life-by-a-spiritual-plan.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More details about this ashram and their courses at:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, Rishikesh\" href=\"https:\/\/yoga.in\/explore\/centres-and-ashrams\/swami-rama-sadhaka-grama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.yoga.in\/centers\/swami-rama-sadhaka-grama-130.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we visited the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama ashram, which follows the teachings of the Himalayan\u00a0Yogi Swami Rama, who was also a master in controlling body functions\u00a0like heart beat. One of the central ideas of the center is to scientifically\u00a0prove the benefits of yoga. In the evening we were invited for a dinner and private&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2011\/02\/23\/yoga-science-yoga-silence\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20013588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[185104493,6943699],"tags":[3054,309378,176832376,212453,7371],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-ashrams-centers-and-schools","category-yoga-travelling-in-india","tag-india","tag-rishikesh","tag-swami-rama-sadhaka-grama","tag-travel-india","tag-yoga","col-sm-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-large":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-large":false,"newspack-article-block-square-large":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-square-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-square-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-small":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-small":false,"newspack-article-block-square-small":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-square-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-uncropped":false,"ippo-archive-featured-image":false,"ippo-carousel-slider-image":false,"ippo-sticky-featured-image":false,"ippo-single-featured-image":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"yogadotin","author_link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/author\/yogadotin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Today we visited the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama ashram, which follows the teachings of the Himalayan\u00a0Yogi Swami Rama, who was also a master in controlling body functions\u00a0like heart beat. 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