Energy-based Yoga:
key to understanding Life
"Learn to work with spirituality from the midway point between form and the formless."
Meet our founder, Swami Māntrikadeva
Energy-based approach to Yoga
At its core, Yoga is equally highly intuitive & purely logical. Its essence, today, is often hidden behind layers of historical, type-specific and other baggage that can make it hard to oversee and come to understanding.
On his Yogic path, our founder Māntrikadeva has come to a profound insight: the entire system of Yoga can be much more clearly understood through the lens of energy dynamics.
Learning Yoga directly through the lens of energy dynamics helps us take this hurdle. To start deeply understanding the energy dynamics of our own lives, of the world around us and of (the various forms and types of) Yoga itself.
A New Yoga
From his teacher Śrī Ajīta, Swami Māntrikadeva learned to always dig deeper into the meaning of Yoga. This has led to a series of unique insights that have shaped our approach to Yoga forever into an energy-based approach to Yoga.
These higher insights are part of what we call the New Yoga, which will be the Yoga of the upcoming era. It is not a completely new form of Yoga, but rather a movement — co-created by many teachers and organisations worldwide — that contains all the already existing forms of Yoga in ways renewed, revitalised & rebuilt on a higher level.
In this New Yoga, the focus shifts from the external form of techniques and methods to an emphasis on their essential energy dynamics. Through this lens, the universal principles behind all Yoga practices begin to reveal themselves — making the path clearer, more direct, and more accessible to all.
Yoga of Synthesis
This New Yoga is essentially a Yoga of Synthesis. It is not about teaching you an exact system from the beginning to the end.
Rather, it is about teaching you all the dynamics that exist within Yogic systems and helping you to meaningfully and wholesomely relate them to each other. In this way, any Yogic system will be seen in a new light and different Yogic systems, traditions, methodologies can be combined much more fluently.
We briefly study the basic dynamics of consciousness, and alongside we study the relationships that exist within any object of attention between individual elements within that object, groups of elements within that objects and the object as a whole.
For anyone who has studied various spiritual traditions over time, this is the ultimate practice that will take you beyond all of them and more meaningfully combine them all together.
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About energy-based Yoga
Energy-based Yoga can bring you...
Our energy-based approach to Yoga is a Path to transformation. When approached with sincerity and guidance, it can bring about profound shifts in every area of your life:
A deeper sense of purpose — living each day with more meaning and inner alignment
Relief from depression, pain, and emotional suffering — by reconnecting with your inner strength and peace
Greater vitality, joy, and overall well-being — as your energy begins to flow freely again
A healthier sense of control — learning how to navigate life’s ups and downs with more awareness and presence
Clarity amidst chaos — understanding life’s challenges and discovering how to bring balance where there is turmoil
Renewed sense of direction — reconnecting with what truly matters to you, and gaining insight into the next steps on your path
Direct experience of subtle energy — gaining profound insight into how energy moves through you and shapes your life
Energy, is that even real?
There are many cultures around the world that talk about a subtle life force that sustains all of life. Some call it qi, chi, prana or life force energy. This is all the same energy, that is beyond the physical level, and which permeates our human body, and all other forms of life.
Energy is a reality many find very abstract and it is difficult to fully prove its existence scientifically at this point in time. But for yourself it is not hard to prove at all. Even the fact that your moods may change from joyful to peaceful are an example of this.
You can learn to perceive it if only you know where to look. Our exercises can help you do so. On a more theoretical note: essentially, there are three main ‘modes’ of energy that make up its dynamics.
In Yoga, we call those three modes by the Sanskrit term the guṇas. They are a stable, consistent dynamic called sattva. A contracting, downward one called tamas. And an expanding, upward dynamic that we call rajas.
By learning how to observe, inside ourselves & everywhere around us in our life, how energy behaves in relation to these three modes, we can learn many things about the world around and inside us.
This is the most important key to Yoga and all spirituality in general.
These modes are talked about in many of the world’s great wisdom traditions, under various different terms. Examples are the Holy Trinity of Christianity (Father, Son, Mother/Holy Spirit) and the Trimurti of Hinduism (Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma).
This becomes even more obvious when we takes the three modes and form them into the seven basic energy patterns. They are the core of energy-based Yoga.
Spiritual pattern recognition
Many of the known cultures of the world hold the numbers three and seven central to their mythological and metaphysical explanations. The number seven is usually considered to be one of the most sacred of numbers.
There’s a simple logic to this: there are seven basic energy patterns we humans can experience, seen either below this text or on your the right hand side. They form the very core of our ability for pattern recognition on the most abstract levels of our consciousness.
It is a logical transition from the first three, which are dominated by a single guṇa, to the next four, which consist of the most basic combinations of guṇas. In Theosophical literature, the seven basic energy patterns of energy-based Yoga are called the ‘Seven Rays’.
Each of these seven patterns logically has a characteristic effect on everything it influences. Our mind, our personality, our Soul, or a realm in nature, a type of plant or animal or a planet as a whole. They are also the cause of the seven colours, the seven notes in a musical scale, variations in letters, etcetera.
How they work out can be good, bad or neutral. What you can learn about them is nearly endless. here’s an introduction their characteristics:
Pattern/Ray 1 – sattva – empowering, strengthening, forcing, directing, willing, hardening, stabilising, steadfast, detaching, isolating, sacrificing
Pattern/Ray 2 – tamas – sensitising, magnetising, empathising, calming, softening, feeling, passive, loving, fraternising, conscious, transmuting
Pattern/Ray 3 – rajas – expanding, gathering, intelligent, visualising, scheming, reasoning, diffusing, activity, creating, moviung, grouping, adaptating
Pattern/Ray 4 – sattva + tamas + rajas – synthesising, harmonising, beautifying, intuiting, experimenting, changing, shifting, transitioning, fluid, conflicting
Pattern/Ray 5 – sattva + rajas – structuring, mechanising, concretising, analysing, exacting, detaching, overcoming, liberating, pragmatising, factualising, upward-pushing
Pattern/Ray 6 – sattva + tamas – idealising, romanticising, dedicating, loyalising, vitalising, affecting, warming, soothing, sweetening, upward-reaching
Pattern/Ray 7 – tamas + rajas – perfecting, ceremonialising, ordering, enchanting, formalising, wavering, socialising, collectivising, nobilising, cordialising, decency
Our programmes
Our school’s curriculum consists of two main study programmes, that are complementary to each other. They follow two classic lines of study within the Raja Yoga tradition.
One is centered upon experiencing and understanding the Divine within yourself (Science of Soul), and the other on experiencing and understanding the Divine outside yourself, in the world surrounding you (Science of Divinity). It’s up to you whether you follow them parallel or sequentially.
The programmes are designed to help you learn about spirituality through your own direct experiences. The only dogma they include are the instructions of certain methods that all students learn. This is only to ensure unity in approach, so we can best compare insights and results and more easily learn from each other.
Science of Soul (ātma vījñāna)
- Open to all
- Multi-year, integral Raja Yoga training programme, starting with Hatha Yoga basics
- Includes all a wide range of techniques based on the eight limbs of Yoga described by sage Patañjali
- Teacher-led weekly classes
- Foundational for the deeper levels of the Science of Divinity programme
- Earn a certificate of completion in the end or request recognition as a Yoga Teacher (500+ hours)
Science of Divinity (brahmā vījñāna)
- First level is open to all, other levels require skills or knowledge from certain parts of Science of Soul programme.
- Short programmes, several each year, specialising in certain parts of spirituality.
- Teacher-led classes at lower levels, gradually more equal-level at higher levels.
- Contains many types of Yoga (Mantra, Nada, Jnana, Bhakti, Karma)
- Applied Yogic techniques used for researching and investigating daily reality.
- No certification. But, in combination with a completed Science of Soul programme, the possibility to request recognition as a Yoga Master in the end.
"Master our contemplative pattern recognition methods, to re-unite with the Divine reality behind every form, every tone and every colour of Life."
— Swami Māntrikadeva
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