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The Team

Ulrich Freitag

Ulrich lived in Canada for 35 years where he developed and taught professional trainings in Bodymind Therapy and later in Bodymind Intelligence for over 25 years.

His many trips to India have enabled him to integrate the aspects of meditation and intuition. Today it is a great pleasure for him to accompany people on this “passage to India”.

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Hardy Kern

Dipl. Ped. Psychotherapy. 35 years of body-oriented therapy work and continuing education with individuals and groups. Focus areas: Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics, Rites of Passage (Paul Rebeliot’s Hero’s Journey), Nonviolent Communication, Dance. Currently, he provides legal guardianship for district courts. He is also a musician and enthusiastic painter. Initially used as a creative medium for the therapeutic process, painting has developed for him into a passion.
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Contributing musicians

Andres & Navino Condon

Andres is a musician, music producer and sound engineer. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1957 and grew up in a family with a great musical tradition. His music has a particularly deep relationship with nature.

Navino followed the call of her heart and became an Osho disciple in 1983. In 1984, together with some friends, she founded the Osho Lebensgemeinschaft Gut Hübenthal. The result was an association for self-awareness, meditation and creativity called Parimal.

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Ulrich Freitag

Ulrich Freitag, certified therapist and teacher, director of the Tao Centre, shares the fruits of more than 35 years of experience and research in the field of bodymind oriented therapy and bodywork. He has developed and taught professional training in Bodymind Therapy (TPCE) and Bodymindintelligence for more than 20 years.

Ulrich worked in adult education and taught counselling in Germany. This experience made him realise the limitations of verbal therapies and led him to pursue other forms of professional training that integrate the reality of the body and its memories. He continued his studies in Bioenergetics (Lowen Institute), Neo-Reichian Therapy, Jin Shin Do Acupressure, Chinese Medicine, Kinesiology and various massage techniques. At the Multiversity in Pune, he completed training programmes in esotericism, psychic reading and massage, among others. His personal and professional training programmes represent a truly integrated and holistic approach.

His many trips to India enable him to integrate the aspects of meditation and intuition. Today it is a great pleasure for him to accompany people on this “passage to India”.

 

Individual consultations

Bodymind Intelligence and Therapy (also via Zoom and Skype)

Conscious counselling and psychic reading from the heart: to solve health and life issues where the mind and information do not provide sufficient answers and solutions, we will use the intuitive intelligence and healing powers of our heart.

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Group counselling

We are also available for web conferences and training for organisations, institutions and companies on the topic of heart coherence and mind-body intelligence. See our professional programme and heart intelligence trainings.

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Andres Condon

Andres is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, music producer, and sound engineer. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1957 and grew up in a family with a great musical tradition. His music has a particularly deep relationship with nature, which led to him being invited to participate in music productions within Chilean educational and environmental protection programs. In 2000, Andres Condon received the “Chucao Prize” from the Chilean Ministry of Education for this work. As one of the most important Chilean musicians in the field of “world music”, Andres has been heard in numerous international concert halls and festivals for years. He was a guest at the “Latin American Festival” at the Royal Albert Hall in London/England and at the “State of the World Forum” in San Francisco/USA. For seven years, Andres was part of the award-winning TV series “Al Sur del Mundo” (In the South of the World) – as a composer of background music and sound engineer. During this period, numerous pieces of music were created for TV series, which he not only composed but also performed and professionally recorded.

To help Chilean musicians make their music better known in Chile and abroad, he and his colleague Subhira founded a new independent music label: Mundovivo (www.mundovivo.cl), under which music from Chile, North America, and Europe has been released and marketed since then – including productions by Andres himself, such as the CDs “Caminos del Agua” (Paths of Water), Nomad “(Nomad), Waves of Silence” (Waves of Silence), “Dharma Moments”, “Corazon de Aguila” and “Cuerdas al Viento”.

Andres Condon has been living in Germany since 2004 and regularly undertakes major concert tours abroad, especially to Canada, Chile, the USA, and numerous European countries. His music always makes his great love for nature, as well as his deep, interfaith spirituality, audible.

Andres is always experimenting with sounds that he records directly in nature and mixes with the emotional expressive sounds of voices as well as various instruments (guitars, bandurria, mandolin, viola caipira, tiple, cuatro, charango).

Navino Condon

Navino followed the call of her heart and became a disciple of Osho, a renowned master of India, in 1983. In 1984, she founded the Osho community Gut Hübenthal with some friends and established an association for self-exploration, meditation, and creativity called Parimal (www.parimal.de). Over the 30 years since its inception, Parimal has developed into a spiritual village with over 70 inhabitants.

Navino studied at the Osho Commune’s Meditation Academy in Pune, India, for seven years, focusing mainly on Vipassana, Zazen, and various other techniques to observe the body, mind, and feelings and attain stillness. She received several certifications as a meditation leader, Prana healer, Reiki master, and dance therapist.

As singing, dancing, celebrating, and making music are part of everyday life in the Osho Commune, Navino discovered the beauty of her own voice. She received vocal training in Drupad singing, the oldest Indian style of singing.

Navino assisted in many Sufi camps. Through practices such as whirling dance and Zikr, she recalled the hidden unity and ecstasy. Since then, she has been sharing her experiences in events, workshops, and concerts. Navino and her partner Andres Condon, whom she met in 2000, have been giving concerts in and outside the country, interpreting poems by the Sufi master Mevlana Rumi and composing their own songs.

In Parimal, a music group called the Parimal Band emerged among many friends. The initial cultural association Parimal Gut Hübenthal e.V. was recently converted into the cooperative Parimal Gut Hübenthal e.G. Many concerts and events with musicians from all over the world are held annually.

Excerpt from Chapter 1

The Eternal Wisdom of India

When people in the West seek for the deeper meaning to Life, they make the mistake of assuming all religions are some variation of Christianity. 
But the spiritual Traditions that come from India are drastically different to Judaism, 
Christianity and Islam in how they practice, yet there is a common substratum that
underpins them all. 
 
The most common assumption is that religious people believe in God. 
Belief means to put your faith in something you don’t know is true.
If I ask you “do you believe the Sun exists?”
You will reply, “no! It is more than that!  
I see it everyday and feel its warmth!”
 
The Indian traditions speak of something INTRINSIC to you and help you discover and experience this. 
Yogis are not believers!  
They are seeking an experience of the Divine.
They aspire to become KNOWERS of the deepest Truth of Life.  
They know there is no God in the sky.
 
That is why I call it a wisdom tradition …. there are layers and layers to this, which may reveal themselves to you when you are sincerely seeking.  
It is an organic, flowing, living river of wisdom, of seekers and finders, and of great Souls who have reached God realisation and left a message for us. 
 
This is an experience of Life that is available to every human being, whether you are an atheist, a religious person, or simply on your own personal spiritual path. 
 
You don’t have to believe anything.
You just have to see a different way of looking at life.
 
“God is the beauty and force of Life itself.
God is Mother Nature.
I am born from Mother Nature.
Mother Nature is my Mother.
God is my Mother.
Life literally physically gives birth to us.
We are made of the five elements.  Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Space.
When we breathe, we breathe life in …. and out …. 
The Whole Universe is connected to itself.
The more we realise our connection, the less problems we experience in Life.
Differences between races and religions fall away as we realise we are all just different versions of Life – in different shapes and form and sizes.
With this way of life, we and GOD are connected.
God is no longer a man with a white beard in the sky!”
– Satpal Singh on explaining the wisdom traditions of India.
 
A deep reverence for life takes hold, when we realise that all living things have this same God force making them alive.  
With this way of looking at life, we become protectors of Life and Mother Nature. 
That is why we stop praying and start praising.  
 
It’s about spending your whole life in appreciation for what life is.

Contents

Chapter 1:  THE ETERNAL WISDOM OF INDIA       

Chapter 2:  IT ALL BEGINS WITH GANESHA   

Chapter 3:   CREATING CONNECTION WITH GANESHA  

Chapter 4:   THE SEARCH IN TRADITIONAL INDIA     

Chapter 5:   WHAT IS SANATANA DHARMA?  

Chapter 6:  ARE SEEKERS BORN OR MADE?   

Chapter 7:  FREE WILL?  

Chapter 8:  RISHIKESH – ABODE OF THE RISHIS   

Chapter 9:  DEATH AND REBIRTH OF A SEEKER   

Chapter 10:  A SURPRISE MEETING WITH BABAJI       

Chapter 11:  EXPLAINING SHIVA AND SHIVA LINGAM  

Chapter 12:  PILGRIMAGE TO PURI IN ORISSA 

Chapter 13:  THE CHAI SHOP 

Chapter 14:  THE DREAMERS AND THE DREAM  

Chapter 15:  THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED

Chapter 16:  THE WORLD IS A STRANGE PLACE  

Chapter 17:  THE MYSTERIOUS SUBJECT OF DEATH

Chapter 18:  IF GOD IS ONE, WHY MANY DEITIES?   

Chapter 19:  THE HINDU TEMPLE

Chapter 20:  PILGRIMAGE TO THE HIMALAYAS   

Chapter 21:  SADHUS, YOGIS, AND MYSTICS   

Chapter 22:  HARIDWAR MAHA KUMBH MELA  

Chapter 23:  THE LIVES OF THE BABAS   

Chapter 24:  THE LIFE OF SRI GNANANANDA  

Chapter 25:  THE INDIAN BUS STAND  

Chapter 26:  THE GURU-DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP  

Chapter 28:  BENARAS – CITY OF LORD SHIVA   

Chapter 29:  STRANGE STORY OF TRAILANGA SWAMI  

Chapter 30:  SOUTH INDIA – LAND OF THE SIDDHAS

Chapter 31:  TIRUVANNAMALAI – ABODE OF SAINTS  

Chapter 32:  SELF REALISATION BEYOND RELIGION – SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI  

Chapter 33:  THE QUEST FOR ENLIGHTENMENT   

Chapter 34:  A TRUE SHIVA STORY

Chapter 35:  TRAUMA – A CATALYST FOR THE SPIRITUAL SEARCH 

Chapter 36:  ON THE ROAD TO NOTHINGNESS