Yoga means unification 'union' and with meditation you can learn to experience this unity on a deep level, inner silence and infinite peace. To learn this we need a good Master teacher, who knows the way and has gone the way himself.
A teacher in meditation can help you in your spiritual development and is necessary for pure energy transmission to find the path to your heart, the silence of the mind, and to deepen your spiritual process. It is a search for most people to find their connection to a personal yoga master and experience which tradition over lifetimes maintains the most important connection for you and helps you in your further spiritual development.
A master who has achieved a certain state of self-realization in this unification is called a yoga master or guru. Gurus are rare in this world and their 'being' on this earth is very special. I would like to tell you about my experiences ...
On my path I have encountered several masters. Around age 20 I was given some books by Sai Baba by my father, although my father himself did not believe in Spiritual masters he bought these books for me and I read them... I didn't have the physical strength to travel in those years, but a little later in life I felt individually drawn to start with meditation. Several years ended up going by there before I really found the spirit to do my meditations on a deeper level. When I started meditation on 'being of service' then things moved quickly, I received a call from a Tibetan nun as you may have read, and experienced the divine opening of light when I met her at the entrance of the Boddhanat temple in Kathmandu. In my quest after this initiation to integrate the light deeper into my body, I met the kundalini yoga teacher Gurbatschan in 2006. He invited me to his home, but he told me he could not teach me much, that my heart was already opened at a high level. I felt some disapointment, but not long after, I felt the power from within to deepen my process and for two months I was in a state of silence, deep meditation - an experience of trance and cosmic awareness. I received inspirations, visions and information.
During this period we sold our house and since we couldn't move into our next house yet, we put our belongings in storage for a period, then we traveled for almost two months and went to Switzerland to camp in the mountains with our three children. During a storm, we got shelter in an apartment with a Swiss woman and she reached out to me the book written by Paramahansa Yogananda. As soon as I received the book “Autobiography of a Yogi” in my hands, I again experienced the transcedental state of breathlessness, just as I had experienced it after the initiation of the Tibetan nun, and a deep inner peace came over me. I knew I had found a home. I immersed myself and began the original exercises and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda's Kriya Yoga from the SRF in Los Angeles.
Shortly thereafter, I came into contact with Prema Baba Swamiji. At first I had doubts about taking on Prema Baba as a master teacher as well, since I had found my home with the SRF - Kriya Yoga. The same day I turned deep into meditation and received a beautiful vision of Paramahansa Yogananda, who was clearly visible in our bedroom and spoke to me. He told me about the importance of the special energy transmissions that Prema Baba could give me directly in the lineage of Babaji. That it was an opportunity I had waited many lifetimes for and that the intention was that I would be Prema Baba's disciple and accept him as my personal Master and stay with him. I had found my personal teacher, guru, on earth and was grateful for the tremendous deepening of my process and the connections and energy, the Prema Shakti of Babaji, to receive directly from Prema Baba. For the first few years Baba worked with me remotely, guiding me by phone and online for many years and reaching out to me with his teachings and initiations on many levels. His teachings and personal worldly approach have been of unprecedented value to my process and development. To experience a guru like Prema Baba up close, the divine experience in a human body has been very special and enriching in my process of trust and my spiritual development.
In the following years my process deepened, but I was also frequently sick, my entire body had to undergo the transformations to the higher light frequency. During our first trip to Mount Shasta in 2011, I received a particularly life-like vision of the Divine Mother Amma, Amritananda Mayi Devi, where she held and nurtured me in a lake like a baby. Then we visited her and a deep loving relationship developed. She is an avatar on earth, mercy itself, an inspiration and a beacon of light for many in this world.
In the Chinese tradition in earlier years I met Master Lin Ji (Lin Dzi), she is a great Qigong master and radiated a visible light when practicing Qigong. Through meeting her, I understood the power of nature and the confidence that we can experience and express inwardly in simplicity and through body exercises. She gave me a special transmission of energy.