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Sankalpa: Creating And Manifesting Powerful Intentions

With Andreas Zioerjen

Over ten sessions, each made up of theoretical input and practical meditations in equal measure, you will explore the basics of creating your personal Sankalpa, the higher Intention used in yoga as a tool in meditation and to manifest your own goals. You will learn how to distinguish between conditioned and authentic desires, receive many examples for possible spiritual intentions, and get to know yourself and your world better through self-study, svadhyaya.

Learn to use Sankalpa, a yogic technique, to uncover your desires and manifest them effortlessly through your subconscious.

10 Days

272 students

4.8 stars

18 min / day

English

About this course

Sankalpa Practice (Yogic Resolve)

Intention Setting Visualization

Mantra Focus

Meet your Teacher

Andreas Zioerjen

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Andreas is an energetic healer and meditation guide rooted in the teachings of yoga and Hawaiian spirituality. Born in Switzerland and now based in the Canary Islands, he has been exploring meditation and the chakras for many years, teaches in Spain and internationally, and is the author of several books on yoga, meditation and the spiritual experience.

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10 Days

272 students

4.8 stars

18 min / day

English

Lesson 1

How We Make Decisions

Every day, we make thousands of decisions about what to do with our lives. Most of them are simple, often subconscious repetitions of previous decisions. Only a few are made out of a real, conscious desire. The achievement of conscious goals and objectives is often hindered by these subconscious imprints. Learn how a Sankalpa anchors conscious intentions and dissolves blockages.

Lesson 2

Fully Embrace The Here-And-Now

If we do not fully accept the here and now, this paradoxically hinders us from manifesting a different future for ourselves. Non-acceptance ties up vast amounts of energy that we could use in other ways. When we begin to formulate goals, this kind of acceptance frees us to recognize our deeper desires and not just act out of learned patterns.

Lesson 3

What Is "Free Will" Really?

Among philosophers and also in yoga, it is controversial whether free will is just a useful concept or a reality. Regardless of this, we must act as if we have a choice, as this is a basic condition of our lives in duality. In any case, our decisions are much more strongly determined by memories and subconscious imprints than we usually realize. So how do we distinguish between goals that actually help us move forward and those that are not really "our own"?

Lesson 4

The Positive Outcome

When you formulate a Sankalpa, it is important that you set yourself a goal that resonates with a deep need. It is not for nothing that the Sankalpa is sometimes also called the Heart's Desire. To recognize whether you have only set your goal with your head or whether your whole being is supporting it, we will work with the technique of positive outcome visualization.

Lesson 5

Needs And Strategies

Needs are behind everything we do and want. On this course day, we look at what needs are and what role they play in formulating our Sankalpa or objectives in general. This ensures that we do not produce undesirable or counterproductive results by working with Sankalpa, because - by nature - we cannot be aware of all of its implications in advance.

Lesson 6

Gratitude And Letting Go As Helpers Of The Sankalpa

Gratitude and letting go can massively increase the effectiveness of a Sankalpa. If you manage to cultivate gratitude as a basic attitude in your life, you will create a fertile breeding ground in your subconscious in which the seed of your Sankalpa can germinate and grow. On this course day, we will discuss how to cultivate gratitude and look at things from different angles.

Lesson 7

How To Create Your Sankalpa

In this lesson, we put the basics together and looked at the basic rules for formulating an effective Sankalpa or any other type of goal. In the guided meditation you will receive inspiration for formulating Sankalpas in the areas of self-love, career and finance, health and healing, and spirituality, as well as your own space to let your intention arise.

Lesson 8

The Sankalpa In Meditation

On this day of the course you will learn about the three main ways to incorporate the Sankalpa into your meditation practice for maximum benefit and effectiveness. In the included meditation you will plant the seed of your current Sankalpa in your Inner Garden.

Lesson 9

Applying Your Sankalpa In Everyday Life

In this lesson, we will explore which methods you can use to support the manifestation of Sankalpa in your everyday life. The three most important of these are repetition, blessing, and letting go of our need for control. The included meditation is about letting go of the breath.

Lesson 10

What Really Matters

In this final lesson of the course, we wrap up the learnings of the previous days with a short exploration into yoga philosophy, seeing how you can continue to work with the list of objectives introduced in session 4 and conclude our journey with a mantra meditation using the raw power of affirmation.