Shivcharan Kaur, Renate Lomberg

The love for music and the pursuit of a connection to the sacred have accompanied me throughout my life.

PERSONALLY, I FIND IT EASIEST TO KNOW GOD IN MUSIC OR, TO USE A BROADER TERM, IN SOUND.

Birdsong, wind, water and compositions in perfect harmony have always allowed me to sense that there is something bigger than my own existence.
Something that is even bigger than any human existence.

Touched by my mother’s piano playing, I learned this instrument from an early age and soon favoured it
as a tool for expressing my emotions. This way I could free myself from exhausting and burdening experiences.

My musical path initially led me to Cologne, where I studied the piano as well as Instrumental Pedagogy.
After my examinations, I went on to Aachen and Amsterdam for postgraduate studies of historical keyboard instruments.
Ever since my studies, I have been giving both solo concerts as well as concerts in different ensembles.

More important to me personally, however, is the understanding of myself as a teacher who fills young people with enthusiasm for music.
This may also mean rekindling a spark or preserving enthusiasm already in existence.

Since 1980, I have been teaching children the piano and at times worked as a music teacher at a comprehensive school.
I still enjoy the spontaneity, joy of living and creativity of young people.

My spiritual path was not as straight forward and easy as my musical path. As a child I felt protected by God, angels and saints.
The Catholic Church and my parental home, especially my mother, offered me this wonderful framework I could have conversations with God in.
The worship of the divine followed mystical rituals I took to.

In my mid-twenties, a great spiritual crisis began. I left the Church and bitterly denied the divine.

It took about seven years until I could no longer stand the meaninglessness and turned both to Kundalini Yoga and myself.

THIS TURN TOWARDS THE INSIDE ALLOWED MY SELF-AWARENESS TO GROW. WITH IT, THE UNDERSTANDING
THAT THE DIVINE RESTS BOTH WITHIN ME AND IN EVERYTHING ELSE ALSO GREW.

Ever since my qualification as Kundalini Yoga teacher at 3HO I have been working with children and young people for 10 years.
Mostly, I teach in nurseries and schools. My aim is to reach as many young people as possible and strengthen their togetherness.

Since 2004, I am a trainee teacher at 3HO and pass on my experiences in teacher training courses of Yoga for children throughout Germany.

MY GREATEST PASSIONS MUSIC AND YOGA HAVE RUN PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER FOR A LONG TIME. MY INTUITION KEPT TELLING ME
THAT THE TWO OF THEM HAD A LOT TO DO WITH EACH OTHER AND THAT I SHOULD COMBINE THEM.

I began including Yoga in music lessons at school in order to guide the class energetically, to improve their hearing abilities or simply
to make musical structures tangible through exercise.

In Yoga classes for children, I added rhythmic, listening and singing exercises as well as sounds.

At the European Yoga Festival in 2008, I met Professor Surinder Singh of the Raj Academy London.
He taught a Naad-Yoga workshop.

NAAD YOGA, THE YOGA OF SOUND! MY YOGA!

In this workshop, my two greatest passions music and yoga blended into one.

Still in the same year, I began a 3-year-course to become a „Naad Yoga teacher trainer“. I learned to play dilruba,
about Indian vocal techniques and rhythms and experienced the effect of Raags on myself.

Since my examination in 2011, I have been teaching Naad Yoga to children and young people.
As a member of „Gurprasad Jatha“ I give international Kirtan concerts. In special family concerts
for children and their parents, I make the elements of Naad Yoga tangible through entertainment.

MY DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING YOGA AND MUSIC TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF NAAD YOGA HAVE URGED ME TO CONCEPTUALISE ANOTHER QUALIFICATION:
NAAD YOGA FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE – TEACHER TRAINING COURSE. FOR EVERYTHING WE DO NOT SHARE IS LOST.

I would like to thank my venerated teacher Prof Surinder Singh for all his support, advice, encouragement and supervision
of the development of the course!

Also, I would like to sincerely give thanks to my teachers, who have taken on the responsibility of accompanying and guiding me on my way:
Manfred Schiefen- the inspiring piano teacher of my youth.
Anneke Uittenbosch- the harpsichord teacher who gave me structure.
Shiva Kaur Khalsa- the spiritual teacher who challenges and encourages me.
Yogi Bhajan- the Kundalini Yoga master who pushes me on.