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Reinhard Gammenthaler (born 9 May 1953) — yoga adept and renowned teacher from Switzerland and disciple of Indian yogi Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari, who himself was the successor of the great seer and saintly yogi Shri Maharshi Kartikeya. Author of the book ''Kundalini-Yoga-Parampara: the living tradition of Kundalini-Yoga'', a comprehensive work about philosophy and practice of Hatha Yoga. Practices yoga since 1979 following the teachings of his guru. In 2002, he started to teach yoga and founded a school for traditional Hatha or Kundalini yoga in his hometown Bern (Switzerland). == Biography == Reinhard Gammenthaler was born in 1953 in Bern, Switzerland. Since his early age he opposed the way of ordinary lifestyle and society and became a hippie dropout, spending his youth in vast travels through Asia, Arabia, Africa and America in search for true happiness and freedom. By the age of 25, finding himself in deteriorating physical and mental condition, he realized that he had exhausted his life-energies with a wild, destructive lifestyle and bad habits. He clearly understood the necessity to change his life to prevent further decline and to restore the health of body and mind. He started to seek for a way to realize this and eventually, in 1979, his general interest for Yoga was aroused.〔 He was very impressed when he read the Indian classical epic ''Bhagavad Gita'' and ancient scriptures such as the ''Hatha Yoga Pradipika'', the ''Shiva Samhita'', the ''Gheranda Samhita'', the ''Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'' and others. Finally, in 1980, he discovered the books of Dhirendra Brahmachari ''Yoga hilft heilen'' and ''Yoga progressiv'' (English titles: ''Yogic Sukshma Vyayama'' and ''Yogasana Vijnana''). He was strongly fascinated by these books because the instructions were very clear and precisely corresponding to the original Hatha yoga methods laid down in the yoga-shastras, the old textbooks of yoga. He started to follow the instructions in the books of Dhirendra Brahmachari and immediately felt a powerful and good effect of this system of exercises. Regular and steady practice of yoga had a very beneficial effect on his life, and he decided to dedicate his entire life to yoga and become a real yogi. Since then Reinhard assumed an isolated lifestyle and devoted as much time as possible for the yoga practice as laid down in the books of his guru.〔〔 After years of preparatory practice in Switzerland and West Africa he was finally ready to visit India and meet his teacher Dhirendra Brahmachari. He arrived in Delhi in the year 1989, and Dhirendra Brahmachari accepted him as his last student, because Reinhard showed great devotion and enthusiasm to become a yogi. The guru sent him up into the foothills of the Himalayas, to the mountain village of Mantalai in a remote valley in Indian Kashmir, where he lived and practiced in complete isolation in the Aparna ashram. There he spent a long period of rigorous sadhana and learnt the manyfold ancient techniques and aspects of pranayama, mudra and svara laid down in the yoga-shastras.〔〔〔 Years of empirical studies followed, which were always adventurous and sometimes dangerous. In 1993, Dhirendra Brahmachari gave him final initiation (diksha) into the tradition (Parampara) of authentic Hatha or Kundalini yoga. This initiation by his guru was performed at the Naina Devi mandir on a mountain near village Mantalai. He was advised to take care of all he had learnt and continue the work of his guru. This was exactly what he did, and after the sad demise of his master in 1994 he continued his sadhana.〔〔〔 His guru had admonished him many times «not to become a Yoga teacher, but a real Yogi»,〔〔〔 and following this advice Reinhard focused all his attention and efforts on the practice. To maintain a simple lifestyle he worked periodically as a hand in a local Swiss post office, until he began teaching in 2001. He founded a school for traditional yoga in his hometown Bern (Switzerland) where in 2002 he started to teach in public.〔〔〔 In 2005, he was invited abroad for the first time and gave a seminar in Moldova. Then followed numerous workshops in Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, India, Israel, France, Germany, Austria, Thailand, Nigeria and Australia. Reinhard Gammenthaler lives and works in his yoga-shala in Bern, travelling every year to various countries where he gives international seminars and workshops. In 2010, he published the book ''Kundalini-Yoga-Parampara: the living tradition of Kundalini-Yoga'',〔 a comprehensive work about philosophy and practice of Ashtanga yoga.〔 This book is based on the two books of Dhirendra Brahmachari, ''Yogic Sukshma Vyayama''〔 and ''Yogasana Vijnana'',〔 completing them with a third part about mudra and pranayama and much information about general important aspects of genuine yoga, like food, lyfestyle, chakras, nadis, marmas etc. The book has so far been published in German,〔 Russian and Czech languages. Reinhard Gammenthaler is featured in a documentary film ''Yoga – Der Ruf der Stille''〔''Yoga – Der Ruf der Stille'' (in English: ''Yoga – The Call of Silence''), film by Kurt Widmer, NZZ Format, 2009〕 in which he explains his approach to yoga, performs advanced yogic purification techniques and asanas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reinhard Gammenthaler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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