{"id":592,"date":"2025-06-30T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:16:29","slug":"yoga-and-alternate-therapies-rdi-a-brief-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/30\/yoga-and-alternate-therapies-rdi-a-brief-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga and Alternate Therapies @ RDI :A brief history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Shat-Kona is known as the Shiva-Shakti triangle.\u00a0 The downward triangle is shakti and upward triangle is shiva.\u00a0 Shakti has grace flowing down, concentration and sadhana flowing upwards.\u00a0 It is also the sign of the heart chakra where the upward and downward forces meet and merge.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                For those who do spiritual practices it may be translated as abhyasa aur kripa<\/u> or sadhana aur kripa<\/u>.  For those who are serving, as in RDI, it may be translated as seva aur kripa<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the early 90s, it was a small team with a huge campus.\u00a0 \u2018Integration of therapies\u2019 and \u2018Healthy Living\u2019 as taught by the founder Dr.Swami Rama were the way forward.\u00a0 We, at the Rural Development Institute participated in doing village studies, bringing out papers on local medicines and practices, the deep insight that the vaids possessed etc. Plantation of trifala and shitopladi was also taken up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the decade of 2000, we did outreach work through the ISMH department (Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy) latter christened as Ministry of Ayush.\u00a0 Under this program 6 NGOs were trained, 24 health Melas organized and\u00a0 200 Yoga classes conducted in 24 schools. \u00a0Within the staff capacity building was done through the professional team trained by Swami Rama (in holistic health and\u00a0 Science of Joyful Living).\u00a0 Yoga awareness camps was also undertaken in 50 schools in collaboration with Swami Ram Sadhak gram and Moraji Desai Institute of Yoga (2009).<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the next decade, the focus was on integration through alternate therapy programs. The RDI team went through extensive training in Wellness Medical Qigong (through Si-fu Tan from Malaysia) and the same was carried out in CRI as well as the outreach.\u00a0 Specialists (especially those connect with Swami Rama\u2019s teachings) came from time to time to give talks on mindfulness, pain management etc).\u00a0 In 2019, the entire RDI staff went for orientation as a team at Sadhak Gram and latter one staff did the teacher training program (TTP) too!<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the last one decade, a two day yoga orientation is being provided (in small groups) for those from the rural areas at RDI-HIHT.\u00a0 As part of the residential program (which is offered free), they visit Swami Rama Center, Sadhana Mandir and Sadhak Gram ashrams in Rishikesh and get exposure to the basic teaching of health and wellness (as taught by Swami Rama).\u00a0 For carrying this task on, the second generation of trainers (three staff) got their TTP at Sadhak Gram this year (with kind contributions)!! A small booklet brought out By Swamiji (in the 60s) was also widely promoted in the rural areas during this time.\u00a0 The staff also helped translate the \u2018Holistic Health Manual\u2019 brought out by the Institute into Hindi.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Shat-Kona is known as the Shiva-Shakti triangle.\u00a0 The downward triangle is shakti and upward triangle is shiva.\u00a0 Shakti has grace flowing down, concentration and sadhana flowing upwards.\u00a0 It is also the sign of the heart chakra where the upward and downward forces meet and merge.                 For those who do spiritual practices it may … Yoga and Alternate Therapies @ RDI :A brief history<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founder","category-holistic-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}