Michael BelovedMichael Beloved (Yogi Madhvāchārya) took his current body in 1951 in Guyana. In 1965, while living in Trinidad, he instinctively began doing yoga postures and tried to make sense of the supernatural side of life. Later in 1970, in the Philipines, he approached a Martial Arts Master named Mr. Arthur Beverford. He explained to the teacher that he was seeking a yoga instructor. Mr. Beverford identified himself as an advanced disciple of Śrī Rishi Singh Gherwal, an Ashtanga Yoga master. Beverford taught the traditional Ashtanga Yoga with stress on postures, attentive breathing and brow chakra centering meditation. In 1972, Michael entered the Denver, Colorado Ashram of kundalini yoga Master Śrī Harbhajan Singh. There he took instruction in bhastrika pranayama and its application to yoga postures. He was supervised mostly by Yogi Bhajan's disciple named Prem Kaur. In 1979 Michael formally entered the disciplic succession of the Brahmā -Madhava-Gaudiya Sampradaya through Swāmī Kirtanananda, who was a prominent sannyasi disciple of the Great Vaishnava Authority Śrī Swāmī Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, the exponent of devotion to Sri Krishna. However, yoga has a mystic side to it, thus Michael took training and teaching empowerment from several spiritual masters of different aspects of spiritual development. This is consistent with Śrī Krishna's advice to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gītā tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva darśinaḥ This you ought to know. By submitting yourself as a student, by asking questions, by serving as requested, the perceptive, reality-conversant teachers will teach you the knowledge. (Bhagavad Gītā 4.34) Most of the instructions Michael received were given in the astral world. On that side of existence, his most prominent teachers were Śrī Swāmī Shivananda of Rishikesh, Yogiraj Swāmī Vishnudevananda, Śrī Bābāji Mahasaya - the master of the masters of Kriyā Yoga, Śrīla Yogeshwarananda of Gangotri - the master of the masters of Rāj Yoga (spiritual clarity), and Siddha Swāmī Nityananda the Brahmā Yoga authority. Śrī Rishi Singh Gherwal, who is deceased, inspired this translation and commentary of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. It has the details of the complex mystic actions involved in kundalini manipulation using breath infusion and deep meditation using naad sound resonance absorption. Read More Read Less