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Hi! and Welcome to the Personal Page of Deolal Mahabir
My name is Deolal. For those who find that it a challenge to pronounce, we will do it
phonetically...try "Day-O-Lahl", now put it all together and you get Deolal.
There, now you are hooked on Phonics!
Here are Pictures of My Family, my wife Pratibha and our daughter Aditi
at 4 months old; the picture below includes our son Vivashwan
Photo by Wesley Lester
With Mayor Peyton of Jacksonville
I am a Holistic Health Consultant and Integrative Bodywork Therapist and
have doing this for over twenty five years. I now live Jacksonville, Florida,
after having lived in Buffalo, NY for over ten years.
My work as an Integrative Bodywork Therapist combines Eastern and Oriental
Medicine and I have embraced other various form of Western Therapies. These altogether
form a very powerful tool that can be used for therapeutic intervention.
This page is to introduce some of my background, the many years of my lifetime,
practicing and training on many levels, many disciplines, techniques that is related to
Holistic Health, Rejuvenation and Longevity.
This short journey started when I was very much a child. My mother was my first
teacher. From then onwards I have many teachers and I was fortunate to have the tutelage
from only the top master in each field.
These masters taught me, encouraged me, criticized me and sometimes scolded
me...sometimes physically, but lovingly. I would either be put in a situation and had to
figure it out, or was taught various methods and skills that helped me understand not only
the physical but also the energetic, mental, intuitive and cosmic levels as my
capacity grew.
My background over the last forty years includes Yoga, Meditation,
Martial Arts, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Gymnastics, Classical Vocal music,
Engineering (both Electrical and
Mechanical), various modalities of therapy which include, Shiatsu, Zen-Shiatsu,
Ohashiatsu, CranioSacral therapy, Myofascial Release, Reiki, Polarity Therapy, Thai massage,
Ayurvedic massage. My main focus however, is in Yoga and Meditation, Zen-Shiatsu,
CranioSacral Therapy as instructor and practitioner Lic # MA25282.
In the last six years I have also developed many new protocols that I have
not given any name. I did not and could not see the need for more names for
healing techniques. In my seminars I offer these techniques. Some of these
materials have been written in manuals although much more advanced methods
cannot be put into written form because personal guidance is needed.
I have been privileged to practicing techniques that takes an individual from the body
consciousness through the energy, the mind and beyond the mind, and as a labor of love I am happy to
share with you many such secrets of the Himalayan Masters to whomever is ready for it.
Having been a therapist for over thirty years I have come to understand and reach
many people. I wish to bring the same to you not by force, but as a
consequence of my own evolution.
Education and Development
Over the last thirty five years of so, since 1972 I have been deeply
involved in holistic health first as a student and then practitioner. I was
introduced into this lifestyle since the "granny" (mid-wife) use to come and
give my mother a "rub-down" as it called in that village/country. At that time
the word massage was not popular (this was in 1967). While the granny worked on my
mother, her husband worked on my father. Being a kid of seven years old, I was on both
sides and learned by doing many things from both the granny and her husband. And I had many
opportunities to practice them.
Over the course of time I gave up this intent because in that country
especially at that time, in order to be considered intelligent you either had to have a
degree in engineering, law or medicine, at least that was my impression at
that time. Financially medical school was way out of the
question. My shy nature had no room for debating and that ruled out Law. So my fascination with Engineering developed and grew. But alongside
engineering, my interests for knowing the "human person" also escalated in
periods of effort, sometimes exponentially. During this time also I spent many years in
monastic training developing a variety of skills. One of my fellow villagers
looked at me as I was then just a young boy and said every experience is an
asset and never discount any of them.
In the course of time I have developed many protocol and refined
them for dealing with pains and miseries. I have been teaching folks how the break
the cycles of pain and miseries through various techniques and the deep
philosophies of the Yogic Science. True healing is not in the technique by
itself but in understanding oneself and removing destructive behavioral
patterns.
Spirituality runs deep in my ancestry. My grandfather was a
seer, my grandmother's brother was the 'Dharmacharya' or a particular sect
called 'Kabirpathi-s', followers of the Saint Kabir. as a little boy I only
remember everyone referring to him as 'Mahant'. Their spiritual ancestry goes
back to India.
During the 70's and 80's I had the opportunity to study with
many world renowned teachers, amongst them were
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Swami Dayananda Saraswati, who was the first to open
my understanding of Vedanta;
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Dr. Swami Gitananda whose depth and mastery of
Classical Hatha Yoga still remains unmatched. I was invited one fine August
to spend one month with Dr. Swami Gitananda in Cornwall, England and during
the same time I got an invitation to be with Swami Rama. At the time I could
not fund my journey to England and my elder brother in the tradition
Alakshindra Chaitanya could fund my visit to Swami Rama. I presented my
dilemma to Swami Gitananda and he graciously said to me to go ahead and study with
Swami Rama. He further said to me, "you cannot serve to gurus, but I will
keep you on my list of international yoga teachers, under the auspices of
Swami Rama", with his blessings I went to spend on six weeks with Swami
Rama.
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Sant Keshavdas who was always engrossed in
meditation and devotion that often he seemed unaware that there is a
physical world,
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Yogi Bhajan from who I learnt a system of kundalini
yoga
who treated me for some condition that I suffered.
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Pt. Pro. B. Bhattacharya, (author of "Saivism and the
Phallic World" - two volume set). I began studying sanskrit and 'the
Mahabharata' from Pt. Bhattacharya. It was he, who in the course of his
teaching made one sweeping statement comparing Dr. Usharbudh Arya (Swami Veda Bharati)
and Swami Chinmayananda and providing Sri Swami Rama as the tie
breaker, one of the greatest gurus of the time. He claimed that both
intellectual giants Swami Chinmayanand and Swami Veda (Dr. Arya) was only separated by
the fact that Swami Veda had Swami Rama as his Guru and Swami
Chinmayananda did not.
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Prof. H. S. Adesh, through whom I came to know many
of the great facets of Indian wisdom.
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Dattatriya, for a brief moment as I was making my journey to
meet Sri Swami Rama.
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Dr. Sri Swami Rama who took me "under his wings" nurtured
me, and gave me the opportunity to go to University and study my chosen
field of engineering. He was the only "guru" who never asked for anything
from me; or anyone as far as I know; he just gave and gave. One day I uttered a wish that that would like to be a
disciple and practice disciplines, and that it did not matter to me whose
disciple I was. Just that I become a disciple of someone, some great
teacher. He replied, with great depth of fatherliness and reverence in his
demeanor saying, I have already accepted you as my disciple. He is the one
who revealed to me, whatever depth of Yoga I have. There is a
relationship between the Guru and disciple that remains unbroken even after
the 'Embodied form of the Guru' is no longer existing, but it is not easy to
explain. Any true disciple would know what this is.
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Swami Veda Bharati and Pt. Rajmani Tigunait
helped me to understand Swami Rama's teachings.
Both Dr. Swami Gitananda and Dr. Swami Rama guided me to an
experience that goes way beyond euphoria, and with Swami Rama the experience was
taken beyond eupsychia and eulogia. There is no way to compare the two, they were the twin banks of my life.
Authorship
My latest project was working on the course
Yoga Neuro Reflexology. This is a unique
system of techniques which works on connecting afferent and efferent nerve
endings that
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