Feedback
Feedback from current and past students is perhaps the best indication of how satisfied they feel after attending the yoga programs that I offer.
Pranayama and Meditation Intensive
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Meditation Intensive Feedback
Excellent! Dharna practice, yoga nidra, mantra meditation More time for Dharana & meditation
- Ashok Mittal
I enjoyed the Meditation Intensive, learned some new things, revisited important practices "- the importance of Dharana practice before meditation - the reasons why we do asana and pranayama before meditation- strengthening of my own meditation practice" I like the format as is! I would like the 4 rounds of surya namaskar everyday, regardless if we do other stretches, simply because I feel that helps me stretch the body and prepare to stay seated for the dharana and meditation portions of the class.
- Ana Cardia
It truly was a journey like Subhasji likes to call these intensive programs. You learn a LOT and everyday is different at the same time he makes sure he recaps the techniques that were taught throughout the program. One Word: Amazing experience and a great soul!" "1.) Course content - It's amazing how much is covered in this program. You learn not only what the program is supposed to cover but also the Yoga philosophy and life style. 2.) Knowledge - His willingness to not only teach but encouraging people to ask him questions all the time is very much appreciated. The spontaneity with which he can answer and refer books and authors is divinely.3.) Professionalism - Whether it's the course content, the timing, the schedule, the emails, the communication, the flexibility, the willingness to share, his genuine interest to make sure people benefit from his teachings is very evident" Looks like many people are benefitting with the online classes. Guess this allows his presence to be reached to many more out of state people, so although we miss the in person experience this format can be continued for a little longer.
- Sridevi Kadari
I absolutely enjoyed the 14-Day Meditation Intensive program. Subhashji's knowledge and passion for Yoga and to teach that to others can be felt by each and every student who attends his programs. His method of teaching where he coupled the sessions with a good mix of asanas and pranayams along with meditation while also explaining certain principles outlined by Patanjali in the Yogasutra made this whole program very interesting. The various Dharna practices helped me focus and made my mind still for a few minutes during Dhyana. I could see that I felt a lot more relaxed and calm through the day after attending the session and found more time in the day as well. Its really an enriching experience and I am committed to continuing with meditation from now on. Thank you so much Subashji! Trataka dharna practice and the countdown to 30 breaths were on the best dharna practices that helped my focus. Mind will get distracted but focus will build over time with continued practice.
- Rashmi Nair
This intensive was a wonderful experience, and I especially enjoyed the variety of topics we were able to cover in each session. As I mentioned before, it felt like we were able to practice or discuss all eight limbs of yoga each time we met! The focus on dharana practices was very helpful, and I liked how we were able to practice a few different forms of dharana on multiple days. This helped crystallize my understanding of the practices, so I can feel confident doing them at home.
- Christina Thompson
Wonderful! Couldn't have asked for more. This course opened up a whole new world - internal world that is. This course offered a nice balance of practices coupled with knowledge sessions. It opened up a whole new dimension for my personal well being!
- Venu Kadari
This is a well running class, a complete package to understand all practices and techniques that lead up to meditation. Any thing that you can add would be an improvement. May be a sharing of how each one’s meditation went would be good like, how many times they got distracted and had to come back to medicate , is it lot of times or few times. Did it that improve with any particular dharana technique or with number of days?
Thank you Subhash ji for your wonderful training, you are contributing greatly to the community by making people’s minds calmer with your well guided meditation and yoga classes that are sincere and based on ancient principles of yogic wisdom.
- Sumana Ramayanam
This is my first attempt to meditate and I was always curious to know what kind of experience will I have, what should I be feeling, am I doing it correctly. I was distracted by thoughts constantly during the first week, my mind naturally pulled me in many directions and was wondering if I will ever be able to meditate properly and that’s where Subhashji’s lecture came to play. When he told us this is exactly what’s going to happen and to just embrace it and that it will take longer than we anticipate. I soon started to let it go and realized that I will sooner or later discover the direction of mindfulness and that the journey is the important part in fact that the journey is the goal.
The class curriculum (stretching, pranayama and meditation) was perfect. The Dharana practices were different each day making it very interesting. The difference between trying to analyze what we are feeling and simply observing it was key to the whole experience.
- Sridevi Kadari
I had a wonderful yoga and meditation class with Subash Sir. My first experience with meditation was completely perfect!
- Shivani Ramesh
This was my first class but definitely not my last. The class totally exceeded my expectations both mentally and physically. The philosophy behind the postures, the importance of breathing properly and what to expect when building your meditation practice.
- Nichole Freeman
14 days meditation intensive, was a very fruitful, very positive and enlightening learning experience with Subash Ji. Starting a day with asana, pranayama and meditation was a really good practice that I have experienced during this course, and I feel calm and very focused on my work throughout the day and I don't even feel tired at the end of the day, I will definitely continue this practice at home.
Subash Ji is an excellent, knowledgeable teacher I love the way of teaching. What I appreciate was the different method of meditation and Philosophy of yoga, that way you'll have a choice to pick one whichever works for you. I must say if you wanna learn yoga and meditation he is the right person.
- Deepti Pradhan
Wonderful! Connecting with Breath through Pranayama techniques; Sense withdrawal and visualization through Dharana practices; Focus development through Mantra Meditation & Backward counting. All in all the content & practice flow from beginning to end is a well thought out framework.
- Jaya Pillai
Excellent!1. Consistency of practice is key; 2. Yoga is so much more than just asana practice; 3. Early morning practice ensures it gets done before ""life"" gets in the way :) It was surprising how much easier it was during the second intensive to get up early (I attended the pranayama intensive in August).
It was a well organized intensive with a nice balance between mindful movement, breathing and meditation. As I said before the fee is on the lower end which is appreciated as it will never be the reason for someone not attending an intensive program.
- Erin Flanagan
Amazing 14 day Meditation Journey: I have just completed my second experience with Subhash, and it has again been a life influencing experience. I appreciate Subhash's focus, wisdom and purposefulness in sharing his knowledge of yoga's asana, pranayama and meditation with a focus in this class on strengthening our understanding and endurance for meditation. My experience is that this class amplified me more than t21 Day Yoga Challenge, which was life changing for me. I appreciate that I benefited and needed the 21 Day Yoga as a basis and foundation to fully extract maximum value from this class. Thank you Subhash for your selfless attention to my learning, gentle yet firm guidance and overarching wisdom. I look forward to continuing my journey and learning at home and of course with you!
- Manal El-Ramly
So very enjoyable! I got a much better understanding of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi; Pranayama is an important part of getting to a meditative state.
- Brenda Cleveland
Amazing! 1. Importance of meditation along with asanas 2. Proper techniques 3. Discipline
- Sushant Patil
"Trying to relieve stress from daily life routine. I am confident in getting there with this class as the first step. Definitely transforming the way I see my daily life in the last 2 weeks." "Understood the techniques of doing Meditation and pranayama. Practice everyday at home."
- Manoj Damodaran
Great, I was looking forward to start my day early and do yoga to start the day. This program is helping even though its still a struggle to work around other commitments.
- Raj Chandran
Excellent!!! "Meditation is the most important part in the yoga practice. Excellent!!! "Meditation is the most important part in the yoga practice. Commitment Discipline "
- Sajini Nair
Awesome! A proper flow of Asana, pranayama and meditation routine is set.
- Ragapriya Eswaragoundan
This class more than met my expectations. I enjoyed each day and new helpful information was presented in each class in a way that helped me assimilate it. You are a wealth of knowledge and I thank you for sharing it with us. Your devotion to Yoga and your students is a great gift to us. This class was a gift to myself to try to reclaim my meditation practice and hopefully improve it.
Meditation is easy to describe, yet hard to do. (1) The focus on dharana practices helped me a lot as I did not really understand how to do sufficient preparation to make meditation easier and more enjoyable. (2) Explaining that meditation comes first, pranayama second and, asana third in priority is profound for me. (3) Thank you for giving us the tools and structure to build a home practice. It is surprising when we have repeated practices so many times that questions still arise at home. I feel much more calm, have been sleeping very well, getting a lot done each day, remaining more focused on each task, managing my time better, enjoyed getting up at 5:15 each morning to get to class, learned I can get up early if I go to bed early. Now I am eating less food, chewing more and eating less at night. This is great because lately I have noticed my digestion at night impairing my sleep, something I never experienced until the last few months. I have made much progress – I remember telling you there was no way I could hop out of bed and start doing asana – that my body would not allow it. Now I happily do that without strain. I look forward to it. Everything is getting easier.
The immersion classes such as this one seem to have many peripheral unexpected benefits. I am now more comfortable sitting on the floor.
- Sherri Harmon
It was a good experience as I learnt more than what I had expected. The theoretical knowledge bundled with the techniques brought things in perspective. Subhashji made it look very simple as he gave us lot of options and now we can pick and choose to make it our practice . He also made it clear what is the the goal and how to achieve it and there are no rigid rules but there are certain guidelines to follow .
I just had my eye check up. Though I don't have high number but still my vision has improved so would be buying new glasses now :) Thank you Subhashji.
- Bhavna Sharma
Very Useful. Three main takeaways: 1. Thoughts will come, just do not hold on to it
2. What we understand as "Guided Medittaion" is really the "Dhaarana" part which is really a preparation for actual "Dhyaana" part of meditation.
3. The Dhyaana part of meditation is where we can use our personal Mantra.
Suggestions for future programs:
1. Have 3 days dedicated to a complete mock trial of Praanayama-Meditation-Yoga combination (minus discussion) which the student can duplicate at home. Having a "rehearsal" flow will help solidify the practicalities of a routine to follow.
2. Also, offer another "Advanced" Course only for those who have completed all 3 individual programs which already had theory plus practice. In the advanced, it will just be practice and very, very minimum theory.
- Uma Venkatraman
I found the meditation intensive to be a good complement to the pranayama intensive. The overlap between the two was good for repetition and helping to remember all of the new terminology, especially the Sanskrit names. I am glad to have taken both of these courses. I have been meditating for awhile and have tried many techniques, but this was the first formal instruction I have had on meditation. The biggest take away for me was the concept that as you get closer to the state of Samadhi, the mantra will have less importance and eventually will dissolve and not be needed. This was a key concept that I have not seen anywhere else and one that I had a great deal of confusion over. I have looked into using a mantra before and also done research on vipassana style, which says just to observe the body and don't attach to anything. I always thought the two methods contradicted each other until it was mentioned that the mantra will dissolve eventually. This really brought a lot of my reading and practice together. Thank you!
I would like to see a course that touches on the Katha Upanishad, how the 5 senses contribute to the fluctuations of the mind, and more techniques on how to tame those thoughts.
- Scott Hicks
Very professionally taught. Always on time. Explained the principles behind the asanas, pranayama and meditation and got me interested to learn about this ancient science of yoga. His website integralyogastudio.com has an abundant wealth of information for his students. Totally the 2 weeks session was a very enriching experience. The group dynamics was also very good!
I learned that yoga is actually a combination of asanas, pranayama, and meditation. Although the morning classes were initially a bit daunting, that is the best time for practice, keeps the energy level high throughput the day. Determined to make it as my home practice also.
- Sudha Sundaram
I came to the program with a good feedback from another friend and was not disappointed. My intention was to learn practices to achieve mental quietness which can lead into meditation. Both the practicals (Asanas,pranayama and methods of dharana) was well balanced with theory behind each and compliment well with Vedentic teachings which I am reasonably well versed with. I always felt cheerful and energetic throughout the day after the program."
My takeaways: "Nirayntarya abhyasa (constant practice) is very important. Mind is very difficult to control and runs in all directions even with small hints of sensory inputs,so again practice is needed for progress but it can brought within a limited field of your focus (mantra and its meaning) by practice. As mind is wedded to body, body too has control over mind and a body trained through asana followed by pranayama helps to achieve a quiet mind to start your Dharana practice"
- Hari Ganapathy
Intensive gave me more awareness in my life and yoga practice. I try to keep the consciousness in all my acts. I started to ask myself whether I use the intellect or ego in my days situations. It gives me the sense more stability and peace. My meditations became longer and deeper. They give me more energy and vitality.
I intend to have my 1.5 hours daily yoga practice with 20 min meditation. I started to read the book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle with interest. I integrate the Pranayama and Meditation’s techniques, recommended Subhash, in my own yoga classes.
Both, Pranayama and Meditation Intensives gave the revolutionary impact in my life. I want to study using the bandhas in the yoga practice more.
- Nina Ellis
Really enjoyed the meditation intensive!
- Ana Cardia
Excellent program. Learned different techniques of dharna.Would like more sessions with longer meditation sessions.
- Bina Thakkar
Absolutely Stunning. Three takeaways: Wake up early morning, Reduced stress, Increased energy!
- Sathish Sundararajan
Really enjoyed the meditation class, learnt a lot of new techniques for Dyana & Dharana. I learned: How important meditation is given in Yoga philosophy; Various stages of meditation; - General Yoga Philosophy"
- Srinivas Sunkara
Wonderful as always! I learned so much because you are so giving with your knowledge! Meditation is the main point to yoga, that there is nothing wrong with me because of my major monkey mind, and that all I have to do is sit down and meditate and I can do that anywhere at anytime.
- Camille Bautista
Excellent, as always. Thank you!
I would like more of the meditation time. We live in a world where everyone's mind is going so fast with so much information. For me, less talk and I learning more by doing than by thinking works better. I can read about the information outside of class. The ENERGY that you create in class is what helps us all focus. I believe that when someone holds that energy of meditation in their energy field and their brainwave patterns, then others can try and copy/resonate with it. The learning comes by osmosis.
- Joanne Healey
I can't say enough how pleased I am with the whole experience of this class. It has been an absolutely amazing experience. Subhash ji is very thorough, and knowledgable yoga instructor. (number of returning students tell about the quality of Subhash Ji class, and his dedication to yoga)
The class has a good balance of teaching meditation techniques, and practice. I highly recommend it, as meditation is the key for mindfulness (awareness) , and I would love to join the next session as well.
- Dharm Gupta
I appreciated each class of the Pranayama/Meditation Intensive. Subhash creates a learning environment that is positive, accepting, and fun. The well-presented lecture content is the glue that makes the practices stick by facilitating understanding and gentle self-care. Students of all stages and skill levels will feel at home in the studio. I feel very fortunate to have had this learning experience and will always look fondly upon these days of finding a new awareness. I have experienced a significant personal world view change.
- Denise Peoples
I have taken the pranayama and meditation classes. It was a great experience to feel the change in my daily existence, feeling calmer, more energetic, more focus. The way that the classes are taught where exercises had a reason to be done and the mind understands the effect on itself, therefore the physical aspect, it is extremely important. The approach to connect with other practitioners, where everybody for different reasons want to improve, heal, help their own situation, encourage each person to continue this endevour pursuing a better self. Thank you very much for helping people to naturally be healthier not only physically but also emotionally.
- Patricia Nadabar
