Chandrakant Hiester is a senior teacher and seminar leader at the Amrit Yoga Institute in Salt Springs, Florida. He prepares, presents, and leads professional trainings, both nationally and overseas, in Amrit Yoga and Amrit Yoga Nidra, as well as a variety of other yoga and stress-reduction programs.
For the last eleven years, Chandrakant has been instrumental in developing and presenting programs for the Amrit Yoga Institute. As a student and practitioner of yoga and meditation with Yogi Amrit Desai for forty-seven years, his experience has given him a solid foundation for implementing programs that nurture and encourage positive changes in behavior, understanding, and practice.
For over two decades, Chandrakant served in various capacities at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Among them was his service as executive chef, supervising the preparation of tasty vegetarian meals for 500 to 700 guests daily. He also served as Yogi Desai’s personal valet and chef for twelve years, where he learned authentic Indian cooking from Yogi Desai’s beloved wife Mataji.
Chandrakant is a preacher’s son, a Vietnam-era veteran, a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in psychology, and a longtime practitioner of martial arts. He brings a unique blend of street-level experience, understanding, and practical psychology to all his seminars and workshops, conducting programs for educational organizations, recovery groups, community service agencies, hospital staff, and large corporations, as well as yoga and meditation groups.
March 2024 Cruise Classes:
I AM Method: The Experience of Indivisible Happiness
Chandrakant Hiester
Yoga very simply means the direct experience of indivisible happiness. All of us are interested in experiencing happiness. And, we have all had what we refer to as the “experience of happiness” when it seems to be broken into happiness/unhappiness. This session reveals the direct experience of indivisible happiness, an evenness of mind. The experience of happiness that we all long for is, in fact, an evenness of mind in all situations.
I AM Method of Integrative Relaxation: Breaking the Momentum of Stress
Chandrakant Hiester
The first step towards genuine health and well-being is freedom from the effects of stress. Integrative Relaxation is a guided series of simple techniques that can be done lying on the floor or sitting comfortably in a chair. The combination of these simple techniques facilitates immediate access to a state of complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. This deep state of relaxation is the entry portal into a state of consciousness where, with repetition, the causes of stress, tension, anxiety and fear can be effortlessly dissolved and resolved. The session also includes a twenty-minute Integrative Relaxation experience.
I AM YOGA: MEDITATION IN MOTION
I AM Method of Meditation in Motion is a unique yoga that starts from the inside out. We begin with an inner attunement to the innate intelligence of the vital life force, Prana. This inner attunement is your experiential guide. It prompts movements and physical positions that are uniquely appropriate for your body. The uniqueness of these sessions allows everyone to participate – from experienced practitioners to those who are new to yoga. These sessions focus on cultivating and maintaining a recognizable inner attunement of absorbed stillness while engaged in action, any action regardless of flexibility. With practice, this not only transforms ordinary physical yoga postures, but also the ordinary activities of daily life into a Meditation in Motion.
I AM METHOD OF INTEGRATIVE RELAZATION: BREAKING THE MOMENTUM OF STRESS
The first step towards genuine health and well-being is freedom from the effects of stress. Integrative Relaxation is a guided series of simple techniques that can be done lying on the floor or sitting comfortably in a chair. The combination of these simple techniques facilitates immediate access to a state of complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. This deep state of relaxation is the entry portal into a state of consciousness where, with repetition, the causes of stress, tension, anxiety and fear can be effortlessly dissolved and resolved. The session also includes a twenty-minute Integrative Relaxation experience.
Individual Consultations and/or Workshops Available:
WORKSHOP: I AM Method: Yogic Sleep ** EXTRA FEE
Scientific medical research reveals that the effects of stress are the root cause of most health-related issues. Regardless of the symptoms, the ultimate solution to all stress-related disease is learning how to be relaxed on the physical, mental, and emotional levels. A profound state of deep relaxation is effortlessly available to everyone through the I AM Method of Yogic Sleep. This state of relaxation unleashes the innate natural intelligence of the vital life force, Prana, to dissolve and resolve the physical, mental, and emotional accumulations held at the subtle energetic level.
This deep state of relaxation also yields much more. It gives access to the domain of consciousness that enables the creation and shaping of the quality of life you have always wanted, using the creative energy of the vital life force, Prana.
$35/person, 75 minutes
