News from the HYT-TTP office in Rishikesh
Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama hosted two training sessions of the HYT-TTP during the months of March and April. In those two retreats, a total of 41 students received certificates of participation.
The first training was held between March 2nd and 16th. Seventeen students received the precious teaching and guidance of Swami Ritavan, Maya, Ashutosh, Peter, Vishnu and Swami Atma. Two TTP graduates also joined the HYT-TTP international faculty for that event. The level one students attending the session had the privilege to be taught by Marilou Hermens (TTP Graduate - 2005) and Sonia van Nispen, also general secretary of AHYMSIN (TTP Graduate - 2007), both coming from Holland especially for the occasion. That training also witnessed a strong increase in the number of Indian students coming from outside the ashram to join TTP. A total of six Indian students were present, coming from as far as the states of
Even if Swamiji was not physically present at the ashram during the training, his presence was strongly felt throughout the two weeks.
The second training was held from March 24th to April 4th. This session was a very special one, as a group of 24 students came from in association with the Chinese Youth Corporation. With Ashutosh back in
Swami Veda distributed the participation certificates to all the students and in a gesture of gratitude to him, all the participants sang traditional Chinese songs in the honor of Swamiji.
Please congratulate the new teachers in-training and provide them with your support! A list of their names is provided below.
We also would like to proudly announce the graduation of seven new students who have now completed the HYT-TTP program and have successfully gone through all the examinations and evaluations. There names of the new HYT-TTP graduates are:
- Daniel Hertz, from 
- Chuck Linke, From
- Willem Meijer, from
- Louella Gerritsen van Bakel, from
- Kye, Mi Ryang, from
- Choi, In Sook, from
- Mary Bowman-Cline, from Minnesota
Please visit our new TTP web site at www.himalayanyogatradition.com and join Swami Veda and the HYT-TTP faculty at Rancho
For more information on the Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program, please contact the Rishikesh office of HYT-TTP at the following email address hyt.ttp@gmail.com or info@himalayanyogatradition.com
March 2007 Teachers in-Training
Name Country Level
1. Anil Trikha One
2. Vani Shukla One
3. Theo Gielis 4. Gajendra Badwal One
5. Ramdev Chakradhar One
6. Rekha Rani One
7. Richa Yadav One
8. Zsuzsanna Hajdu One
9. Nicolle Schyns 10. Crista Eikens 11.
12. 13. Pamela Khudan
14. Nancy Neede 15. 16. So Mei wan Hong Kong Three
17. Irma de Boer Three
Taiwanese Level One Students
Lee, Yi-Miao Jen, Wei-Hui Ho, Wan-Ju Li, Chun-Fang
Lee, Kuei-Lien Lin, Shu-Chin Chang, Chiung-Pin Liang, Hsiu-Ling
Chuang, Su-Chao Chen, Ya-Wen Tseng, Hui-Ling Huang, Cheng-Hsun
Kung, Li-Yin Huang, Yun-Ju Ou, Pei-Chun Cheng, Su-Chen
Tai, Hsiao-Mei Hsueh, Chin-Lien Su, Hsiu-Ning Wang, Hsueh-Yen
Lin, Ling-Ji Lin, Yi-Ting Hsu, hung-Ying Siauw, Fei