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REDISCOVERING THE SELF

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  REVERSING LIFE-DISCOVERING MYSELF   Covid, Pandemic, Lockdown, Deaths, Masks sanitization, fear with a Do not tag are the seven words I have been hearing and yes LISTENING TO with all my senses since 2020.   So, first of all, whether we like it or not we LISTEN – which happens all the time without asking our permission. We have to remind ourselves that our thoughts keep reverberating around the same words 24/7. Prior to 2020 my waking thoughts would have been “What do I do today in Storytelling?” or “Should I apply for my visa today to travel to Norway? Or what would be the climate now in Ludhiana? “Should we reorganize the way we work and our modules for storytelling?” So it took me a while to realise that as I was normally driving through the city in heavy traffic, I was suddenly asked to put my brakes at the signal and our visitor Inspector Corona   comes up to my car and announces “ You may have to wait at this signal indefinitely, madam !!! ” Switching off my engine watch
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SILENCE BECKONS -THE NORWEGIAN TRAIL

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                                SILENCE BECKONS -THE NORWEGIAN TRAIL Storytelling took me all the way up to Norway close to the poles in 2008 I was invited as a special guest speaker and trainer to talk about Indian myths parallel to myths from the Norwegian folk tales at a Folk house school in Kristanstad -Northern part of Norway.     I was lucky to be invited for both training and sharing stories to the young students . Traveling that far I also planned to visit the Fjords to experience the path of the Vikings.  Vikings  were the seafaring Norse people from southern Scandinavia (in present-day Denmark,  Norway  and Sweden) who from the late 8th to late 11th centuries pirated, raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of Europe, and explored westward to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. I traveled overnight by a train from Gothenberg in Sweden to Kristanstad in Norway.   I was welcomed by my host at the Folk high school  (folkehøgskole )- (Norw
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    Power of a story A journey into the Himalayas is a life-altering experience for many as we realise our place in this existence.     BY:  GEETA RAMANUJAm Before the beginning of time, a story was born. Her name was  Shakti.  There was initially nothing and we may call ‘it’ Shiva. From this  Shakti  there emerged movement, sound, light, elements and evolution. The Story merged with the trees, flowers, earth and the elements. Those who paused and listened could hear her stories. This story wandered about from place to place, was told from person to person in the form of folktales around the fire in every part of the Universe. In India, she also became the fire around which people felt warm listening to stories. She was part of the rivers on whose banks saints and people meditated and listened to her stories. She merged into the great Himalayan mountains and spread herself so that people could listen to her silence. She can never be forgotten, and she never will be as long as the m
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A Storytellers Experiences with Divinity -Satkol by Geeta Ramanujam

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                                          Journey to the Source of the Himalayas                                        The Indian tradition of storytelling  A tradition means along established custom or belief passed on from one generation to another. In India storytelling has been this movement, which they passed on to us from the time of creation through Yogis, saints, grandparents and Gurus.  Epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are the offspring’s of such a culture and we need to continue to be the keepers of this tradition.  In the Indian tradition this is precisely how we have preserved and passed on the stories not just as entertainment but more important for learning. The Gurus and masters in the Gurukula system of education using ‘Stories’ as a tool of learning taught concepts and values.  Through stories older generations passed on their oral laws and understanding of the subtle laws that constitute human existence. Thus by studying oral stories, we understa
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