User:Skandha ji

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I am a Sivananda Yoga teacher, currently based in London. I've just started contributing to these pages and encourage guidance from anyone who has looked at my additions. (I am trying to look at the help notes!).

I've started an entry for Marina Hyde, a Guardian columnist who I think is hilarious, and added a few bits of background on the blogger Guido Fawkes (who is at least making politics slighty more interesting than it usually is.

However, my main project here will be to add to my entries for Swami Vishnu-devananda and the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams that he founded.

I did my yoga teacher training at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram in Kerala, India and I teach at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Putney, London. This isn't self-promotion (see PS below), by the way, just a reminder for me to check that these pages don't already exist and if not, to start them! I realise that some of my additions currently feel a bit 'promotional' rather than encyclopedic. For example on the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course - it might seem a slightly unusual entry, but I have plans to develop the scope of the information in it. Such contributions are very much FIRST drafts and I will edit and expand all of them in due course, as well as helping to tweak some related entries.

Also, I've just added a entry on Skanda Upanishad which is just a translation. Not sure that this is appropriate, and welcome guidance on that. It may be that I should move this to Wikibooks or Wikisource, if I can find the original sanskrit translation.

My names derives from the Hindu God of war Skanda, although I spell it with an h so that it is Skandha.

Om Shanti

Skandha ji

PS Although my contributions may focus on Sivananda Yoga and related topics, I'm adding them entirely as a private individual and it lies within my range of (relative) experience. Which is to say that entries on other styles such as Iyengar and Ashtanga might need additional work, and I will try at a later date. Skandha ji

Random links: One-Dimensional Man; Candlemakers' petition