Antoaneta Gotea
Antoaneta Maria Gotea was born in July 1972, in Bucharest, Romania. Memories of his early age about his father practicing complicated physical exercises (known in yoga as uddiyana bandha) and unusual breathing (pranayama) synergistically connected with his mother's teachings on the existence of subtle bodies and reincarnation, and this flourished later in true spirituality. aspiration.
Her search for an authentic spiritual path led her at the age of 21 to a yoga course while studying at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. She studied Raja yoga, Mahavidya yoga, and Kashmir Shaivism at a yoga school in Romania. In 1997 she started leading women's groups to practice Mahavidya yoga, her favorite branch of yoga.
The first encounter with meditation was in 2000 when she joined her partner, Sahajananda, for a meditation retreat in one of the remote caves of the Romanian countryside. The 3 weeks he spent in solitude and silence made him understand for the first time how difficult it is to calm the mind, how much discipline and perseverance it is necessary to have to deepen meditation and what determination is needed for those who aspire to know the truth. The confrontation with herself was harsh but she woke up. After this experience, a deep longing for solitude and meditation awakened in her. The following year she rejoined her companion in the cave for a second remote meditation retreat. The deep happiness he felt when he returned to the same cave where the first glimpses of meditation appeared is very difficult to describe. Another significant retreat was an 18-day kaya kalpa (dark retreat) retreat that he did together with Sahajananda.
She has continued on the path of meditation by joining the Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats led by Sahajananda in Romania, Mexico and Thailand.
In 2008, she graduated from a 500-hour teacher training course and began teaching in Thailand and Romania.
In 2010, he had a great opportunity to get more in touch with the depth of Tibetan Buddhism when he attended the Dalai Lama's teachings in Bodhgaya, the 10-day Phowa retreat with Grandmaster Ayang Rinpoche, and the meditation course "The Art of happy life. " with Mingyur Rinpoche at Tergar Monastery in Bodhgaya, India. Since that time, Buddhist teachings on compassion and bodhichitta have been fused with the Hridaya yoga practice based on the non-dual teachings of the great sage of Arunachala, Ramana Maharshi.
In 2011, Sahajananda and Antoaneta, working together, gave birth to the first Hridaya Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Course. She had the great opportunity to be the coordinator of the first HTTC and also to teach an incredible group of students, lovers of meditation.
And the spiritual journey continues... Meditation retreats continue... Meditation is a continuous transformation of the mind. Until the mind becomes completely internal and sinks into its source, which is the Spiritual Heart (Hridaya), effort is necessary.
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