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Peter Marchand

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John Marchand

BIO

I was born 8 march 1963 in Belgium and studied philosophy, communication sciences, and environmental engineering. Since 1986 I have worked on the development of healthy and environmentally sound products. I became a student of Harish Johari in 1983 and organized the Rasa Sadhana workshop by Harish Johari in 1997. I am also one of the founding members of Sanatan Society.

RASAS BOOK

As Harish Johari left his body in August 1999 without having written a book on the Rasas, the essences of our emotions, he left me with a great challenge and opportunity. The writing of this Rasas book has offered me more in terms of personal growth than the material could ever have given me in any other way. I can only feel very grateful to him.

Since receiving the Rasas teaching, I have been doing Rasa Sadhana and the past few years this resulted in a rather permanent fasting from the disagreeable Rasas Anger, Fear, Sadness and Disgust. It has changed me in a very profound way. Never have I felt more in charge of myself and of my life. While it did not make me an enlightened being or someone saintly like that, a happy being I have become, yes.

THE YOGA OF TRUTH

My newest book - the "The Yoga of Truth" - started as just a few pages that I wanted to write on the subject of jnana yoga, the yoga of true knowledge. Surprisingly, the pages kept coming. Afterward, when I read them myself, they appeared as new. They are not mine. There is nothing new here. Everything I wrote has been written before. Perhaps it is an expression that suits this moment in time, that may suit some people of this time. It brought me so much happiness to write it - maybe some of that joy will also come to those who read it. I can hope for that.

FREE TEACHING

I so love teaching. But I really dislike the idea of making it into a job on which I would come to depend financially. I truly do not mind other people doing that. But for myself, it just seems out of the question. Honestly, it is a very tough job to make spiritual teaching affordable for the students and at the same time financially healthy for the teacher. And it can affect the teacher/student relationships, as well as the teaching. In India, free spiritual teaching is still quite common.

So, for the moment, I really prefer to teach upon occasion and so that is what I am doing. Every week I give one free evening class in Belgium (in Dutch - more details here). Sometimes I also teach while traveling - whenever possible, I will announce it on this page. If you are interested to attend some of these classes or even to organise them, please let me know by using the Contact page. When the opportunity arises, I will then let you know.

Meanwhile I also enjoy teaching through my writing and also the teaching through online video clips. That last bit is just a new opportunity offered by large websites such as Youtube, which make it possible to show video clips without any cost to literally thousands of people worldwide. Even though a clip doesn't come close to the real teaching in person, it has the advantage of reaching higher numbers and of requiring no financial effort on neither side.

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These clips were all taken from a video made during a Rasas Lecture in the Sri Center of New York, July 29th 2006. Shown here with gratitude to Shyam Bhatnagar and his team (see www.innertuning.org), who surprisingly awaited Peter Marchand with a professional video camera.

1. The Yoga of Happiness   02:23
2. The Nine Rasas or Emotional Essences   07:38
3. Emotional Fasting in Yoga   05:02
4. Emotions in the Body   08:26
5. Taste Addiction, Food and Emotions   02:21
6. Emotions and the Senses   03:19
7. Anger Management through Anger Fasts: Part 1   02:10
8. Anger Management through Anger Fasts: Part 2   05:04
9. Anger Management through Anger Fasts: Part 3-1   05:06
10. Anger Management through Anger Fasts: Part 3-2   01:06
11. Anger Management through Anger Fasts: Part 4   04:45
12. Stop Worrying : Fear Fasting in Yoga   02:08
13. The Art of Love in Yoga   09:54
14. The Art of Humor in Yoga   01:25
15. The Art of Wonder in Yoga   03:30
16. The Art of Courage in Yoga   03:51
17. Emotions in Yoga and Meditation   02:15
18. Emotions and Yoga Psychology   02:21
19. Relationships between Rasas in Yoga   03:01
20. Emotional Fasting Yoga in Therapy   01:31
21. Old and New Emotional Patterns   03:19
22. And What about the War in Lebanon ?   03:11

If you like these clips, please show it on Youtube by giving them good ratings, adding them to your favorites or giving comments. That will automatically help to assure that many more people will see them. Thanks !


 
 
 

 

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