Creative Writing – AZIMVTH Ashram

Breath-work and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

August 28, 2020September 7, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Astrology, Creative Writing, Education, Mantra, Medical Arts, Meditation, Online courses, Photography, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

An online virtual programme of meditation aimed at those persons with OCD / related condition or their care-givers who are resident Indian citizens.

Stories of Breath & Death, the Dying & Dead, and Beyond

August 22, 2020August 24, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Festivals, Mantra, Meditation, Online courses, Performance Art, Photography, Studio, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

A fortnight of virtual art residency exploring death and beyond.

Protected: Environmental Sound Art: Learning Concepts, Crafts, Technique, and Spiritual Works

August 11, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Artists, Creative Writing, Education, Festivals, Music, Online courses, Performance Art, Photography, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

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Breathing into Aromatic Alchemy

August 9, 2020August 22, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Artists, Creative Writing, Education, Medical Arts, Online courses, Photography, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

2 weeks online programme on meditation and aromatic alchemy conducted jointly from Haridwar India and Alberta Canada.

Lets Read The BhagvadGita

June 16, 2020June 22, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Education, Mantra, Meditation, Online courses, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

Appreciate, Understand, and Mploy the message of BhagvadGita for the betterment of all the sentient beings and the nature.

Virtual Residency: Meditative Paintings of Breath and Wind

June 5, 2020July 31, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Calls Residency, Creative Writing, Drawing, Education, Mantra, Mantra Chanting, Meditation, Online courses, Performance Art, Sculpture, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

A virtual residency having 2 hours of coaching per day. On painting and guided meditation with breath.

Virtual Writing Retreat for Spiritual Memoirs & Resolve

January 24, 2020August 18, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Artists, Calligraphy, Creative Writing, Education, Online courses, Photography, Virtual residency, Writing creatively

Write your own spiritual memoir.

Images of the Worlds: Introduction

July 25, 2019July 26, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Photography

Introduction to the collection - Images of the Worlds.

Protected: Images of the Worlds

July 22, 2019July 26, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Photography, Virtual residency

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Who is the Goddess of Yoga?

Featured by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Yoga

If there were to be a Goddess of Yoga, who could she be?

In the play ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’ of Kalidasa (400 C.E.), King Dushyanta forgets the name and identity of Shakuntala. The name is the identity. However, Shakespeare (1564), the Kalidasa of the West, had a different view on names in his play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Goethe (1749) doesn’t agree with Shakespeare in his play ‘Faust’.

“Juliet:

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Romeo:

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”

Goethe doesn’t follow this argument of Shakespeare as seen his play ‘Faust’, the following epigram based on Kalidasa’s ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’.

“Wilt thou have charms and delights,
Wilt thou have strength and support,
Wilt thou with one short word encompass the
earth and the heaven,
All is said if I name only, Shakuntla, thee.”