The India Connection
February 2009
David Harshada Wagner, an occasional Life Positive contributor, writer and meditation teacher who has trained under Siddha Yoga Guru Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, is now going places.
The-India-Connection - Harshada with meditators A popular meditation teacher in New York specialising in one-on-one meditation training, he also holds public programmes and small-group retreats. Founder of the New York-based Banyan Tree under whose auspices he conducts his meditative activities, in recent years he has also started a new organisation called Adhisthana (foundation) in India. The activities here include: teaching meditation, doing retreats and Self-knowledge workshops, designing playing and learning environments for city children; creating educational programmes for young people, and conducting medical, educational and self-empowerment programmes for Indian street children. A lover of India and its wisdom tradition, Wagner recently led a group of mostly western meditation students on a pilgrimage retreat to some of Maharashtra's sacred sites. Over ten days, the group, made up of seven western students and a few Indians, visited Nasik, Trymbakeshwar, Alandi and other 'power spots' to meditate, and study ancient texts like Yoga Sutra and the Upanishads, and even perform a traditional Vedic yajna. Undaunted by the Mumbai terrorist attacks, he shares, 'It was clear that the attack was meant to scare people exactly like us away – to keep us from spending money in the Indian economy. It felt important to not let such an ugliness step on such beauty and to not allow a change in our plans to be a 'ripple' created by those dreadful acts.'.
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