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Speaker Profile & Program Detail of IBMF 2009
PLENARY/PANEL
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ANAND KRISHNA
Anand Krishna was born in Solo, Central Java, on the 1st of September 1956. He earned his Master degree form a recognized university. He was at the top of his career as a Director and Shareholder of a Garment Factory in Indonesia, when he faced almost certain death by Leukemia at a critical stage, in 1991. After months of suffering and a mysterious meeting with a Tibetan lama in the Himalayas, Anand Krishna experienced a miraculous recovery from his illness. At that moment in time, Anand decided to devote his life to share his joy, peace, love, healing and meditation. He defines meditation as the flavor of life and daily living. His spirituality covers as aspects of life. He was the one who first popularized ‘meditation as a way of life’ when the word ‘meditation’ itself was not popular yet in Indonesia. Anand has appeared on major nation media outlets, both in prints and electronic. He has a weekly column in one of the major print Medias, and a monthly TV as well as Radio Shows – all on the island of Bali. He also writes regularly for several other Medias nationwide. However, his most outstanding contribution and legacy are the 130 over books published within last 12 years with more than half million copies sold all over Indonesia. LIFE IS A SONG TO BE SUNG
PANEL 1: RATU BAGUS & PRABHU DARMAYASA
Ratu Bagus is a self realised master, whose teaching has been received direct from the light. Ratu Bagus (meaning good king) is an extraordinary spiritual teacher. Ratu has the ability to develop our lives beyond what we could ever have imagined. He shows us how to truly heal ourselves by opening our hearts and helping us to connect to divine love. Those that meet him are touched by his sweetness, his love for humanity and endless compassion. Ratu is endlessly creative in his approach to awaken our desire for freedom, he is both humble and powerful, with a wonderful sense of humour, he is completely accepting of everyone, he sees the light that is who we truly are, and invites us to realise this too. Ratu has touched the lives of many, to meet him is a truly life changing experience. Meditation on Numbers by Prabu Darmayasa
Prabhu Darmayasa, a spiritual seeker since young age, was born in art village, Ubud, Bali. He is a Kundalini Master, the only disciple of Siddhayogi Acharya-Shri Kamal Kishore Gosvami, a prominent Priest at a most famous and holy temple in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India. Prabhu Darmayasa is the President of International Divine Love Society, Indonesian Coordinator for the World Ramayana Conference, also actively takes part in Sanskrit Bhasha Prachar Samiti, an institution that spreads out the Sanskrit knowledge. He fully comprehends in the Vedic verses particularly Bhagavad-gita. He wrote numerous poems in Hindi, Sanskrit, Balinese and Indonesian as well.
PANEL 2: MERTA ADA & BR INDRA UDAYANA
Founder of Bali Usada Meditation, Merta Ada has thought meditation to more than 80,000 thousand students since 1993. His programmes are broadcast over the airwaces and internet by GlobalFM Bali. Merta Ada also host of popular meditation session (including Q&A) on Global FM Bali twice daily and teaches healing through the gross (physical) body, meridians, chakras, and mental body, and memory techniques. The Bali Usada Meditation Technique is based on years of intensive research of the ancient lontar (palm-leaf) books of Bali, teachings from respected meditation practitioners, traditional healers, doctors, books of science and Merta Ada’s personal experience as a healer. Now through this technique, people can learn how to detect or create vibration for better health.
Ashram Gandhi Puri was established in 2001 in Denpasar by BR Indra Udayana and inaugurated and given name by Ibu Gedong with BR Indra Udayana as its Chairman. BR Indra Udayana took on the responsibilities of running the ashram and engaged fully in the endeavor of promoting interfaith dialogue activities and organizing prayer gatherings and events. Soon, Indra was inspired to create another. Cooperation Circle in Denpasar, the Ahimsa Satya Karuna CC. The dream was “to empower people to become truly independent and free through living and practicing the Gandhian lifestyle and simplicity and refusing to harm anyone or any creature in our daily life.” PANEL 3: PEDANDA MADE GUNUNG & L.K SURYANI
Meditation is a basic necessity of life that opens our awareness to divinity through servitude towards God, humanity and the environment. Meditation brings us closer to our Creator. Ida Pedanda Gede Made Gunung was born in 1952 in Gria Gede Kemenuh Prunawati Blahbatuh, Gianyar, Bali. He finished his study in Institute of Hindu Dharma (IHD) in 1986. He has been the Head of PHDI Bali Campuhan from 2001 to 2006. He has been known as a man of vision. He has achieved excellence in explaining the essence of religiosity in a simple way. He also has a good sense of humor. He believes that meditation leads to devotion to God, love to others and compassion to the environment.
Meditation towards a Happy Life by L.K. Suryani
Prof. Dr. dr. Luh Ketut Suryani is a psychiatrist. She has learned about meditation since she was 14 years old. She was encouraged to learn mediation for curing her mother. Until then, she has practiced meditation and developed new methods of meditation combined with her medical and psychiatric background. Her point of view about meditation and socio-cultural bio-psycho-spirit has been spread around the world.
PANEL 4: AMINA WADUD & MARGOT ANAND She will discuss the development, forms of practice, and benefits of zhikr as supererogatory worship in Islam. In addition, she will introduce the attendances to some of this practice in simple exercises as well as share in a listening exercise some of its more elaborate forms as they have been practiced among the sufis.
A Sound and Light Journey through the Chakras by Margot Anand
Ms Anand is the founder of eight SkyDancing® Tantra Institutes worldwide. She is also an author of The Art of Every Day Ecstasy, and The Art of Sexual Ecstasy. In this presentation, Margot Anand will take you on a journey through the chakras using sound, color and light. And each of your chakras will be like a door opening into a different level or consciousness and perception until we reach stillness and bliss.
WORKSHOPWORKSHOP 1 – MAYA SAFIRA MUCHTAR Living in Meditation Free yourself of fear, anxieties, worries. Fear shall make you weak. Free yourself of illusory bondage. Get started on this journey into the unknown. Set yourself free for it is only in freedom that you can turn your life in a celebration. The short exercise will be given to lead you to feel light and free. A taste of freedom which could bring you to the state of meditation.
WORKSHOP 2 - MARILYN SALAS Self Healing “LOVE is the HEALER!” Marilyn has been a hands-on-healer since 1993. Guided by Spirit, her natural healing abilities have evolved over time. She learned about her healing gift from her Yoga teacher, Anand Krishna, in Indonesia (www.anandkrishna.org). With that information, she has worked with Spirit to understand and “remember” her own inner knowings about energy flow and connecting with Source to accomplish the “healing.” Later, Marilyn trained in Reiki and Pranic Healing, but relies predominantly on her connection with Source to facilitate Love’s Healing Energy. WORKSHOP 3 – SUNDARANANDA DAS (SAKKI-HARE KRISHNA) ‘Japa’ Meditation Chanting the Devine name HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, privately through Japa Meditation and collectively through sankirtan with music, will purify your heart, control your desires, and create peacefulness. This practice will help you to be full of joy and happiness, reducing your suffering from birth and death.
Meditation with Nature Elements by Surapsari Megumi Since the ancient times, people around the world have acknowledged and worshipped the elements of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. In this workshop, the participants will be guided through meditation on the four elements using the chakras, sound, movement, visualization, and stories. We will further explore the fifth element, Space, which holds a potential to harmonize the four elements. Sufism and the Alchemy of Happiness by Saddiq Pablo This workshop will comprise of ancient Sufi practices from esoteric and philosophical alchemy. Participants will be guided through both active and passive meditation in the pursuit of the Sufi message of love, harmony, and beauty. We will apply movement with different forms of Zikr (divine affirmation), meditation, and sound with wazif (transformational alchemical practices), as well as story, and metaphor, in the pursuit of transformation. This workshop will leave us spiritually renewed, as well as inspired. No prior experience is required to participate in this seminar.
Shaktifat Cahaya Padma is a channeling process of the energy of love to the universe. This energy called Cahaya Padma (a light above the lotus in waskita way). During meditation, meditator uses this energy as a focus in meditation. Passing the energy through all parts of our body, make resonance effect to every cell, vibrating, and then the meditator be a new resource of energy Cahaya Padma. Now they are ready to give the energy of love to the earth and all the people. Like a candle in the dark, after flamed the candle will illuminate itself and bright love and peace to others. |
Meditation is not merely a concentration. Basically, concentration will make you restless because concentration is only a step toward meditation. Silent sitting for several minutes or hours is not meditation. Meditation has the same meaning with expansion of consciousness. The final result of meditation is samadhi or genuinely balance. After attaining self-balance, you will be restless no more, worry no more, fear no more, and anxious no more. Actually, we just begin to live after this self-balance attained.
A happy and peaceful world needs mankind’s cooperation for universal awareness. Universal awareness happens when we are aware of our unity with all beings in the whole universe. This awareness is often called ‘cosmic awareness’; an awareness each and every one of us must nurture for a better, harmonious world.
“Anka-dhyana” (Meditation on Numbers) was born in February 2000 in Bali, Indonesia, through the process of Samadhi by Acharya-Shri Kamal Kishore Goswami. It is a very simple but powerful meditation method for the realization of Divine Love inside of the heart of every human being on the earth. Number as a medium of meditation is just a method. Number is capable of uniting the multi diversity of human beings. Besides, number has “secret power” which can be used in realizing the Self and makes Divine Love in the heart of human being possible. With number as medium, the technique can be simplified and accepted universally. This meditation is owned by each and everyone, every ethnic, group or religion. Through the number meditation one is able to awaken the Kundalini in order to help others to awaken spiritual love or Divine Love.
Bali Usada Meditation provides a technique called “Usada Meditation” which aims to control our mind to become harmonic. It takes us to a high level of concentration, followed by positive attitudes such as calm, balanced, proactive, patient, affectionate, aware and wise. This leads to the understanding that body and spirit will always change according to the conditions.
ven as drops of water make the ocean, so we, through friendship, can become an ocean of friendliness. The shape of the world would indeed be transformed if all of us live in a spirit of love, amity with one another and harmony between body, soul and mind.
Meditation is one way towards happiness (ananda). It makes you confident and relaxed; able to do all activities and solve any problems. Your peacefulness and happiness will spread to the people and the environment around you. Your love will light the love within their heart, calm their heart, and inspire their empathy to others. Do whatever you want to do with your heart. Only your hearts know the truth. If you know yourself, you will realize that your experience is the best teacher besides God.
The word Zhikr comes from the Arabic root form zh-k-r which means to remember, or to repeat. By a simple or elaborate form of verbal repetitions, Muslims augment their five times daily prayer with the practice of zhikr. Most often they repeat the ninety-nine names or attributes of God, al-asmaa al-husnaa. The basic idea is to evoke a state of remembrance, which according to the Qur’an is the best. For the sufis, the mystics across Islamic history and through-out its vast cultures, zhikr has been performed from the simple repetitions to more elaborate musical forms with various wood and wind instruments, but mostly with the voice.
A native of France, Margot Anand received her degree from Sorbonne University in Paris. She has extensive training in Gestalt Therapy, Hindu and Buddhist Tantra (having studied with several spiritual Masters including the great mystic Osho in India), bioenergetics, massage, meditation, Arica and Integral Yoga. Over the past two decades, Ms Anand developed and taught the “Love and Ecstasy Training”® a method of healing and enhancing sexuality to its ultimate potential: Ecstasy.