The most impactful periods of my life were the five years I spent at Kripalu Ashram [1989-95] and the first five+ years I spent on Maui [1996-2001].
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to live in a spiritual community where personal growth and spiritual development were prioritized over all else. We were very successful operating a large beautiful yoga and health center, hosting 300+ guests a night. For a while we worked 6 and a half days a week; yet work stopped if there was an issue to be dealt with. Love, insight, consciousness were our values. We developed presence: compassionate, loving, intelligent.
After leaving the ashram I moved to Maui to be with two of my Kripalu brothers. This beautiful island with powerful healing energy turned out to be a wider, bigger ashram, a source of inspiration and consciousness. I was nurtured by the aina [the land], Hawai’ian language and culture, the ocean waters, the rainbows and waterfalls, the whales and dolphins, the relaxed way of life, the racial diversity, and the Aloha of the aunties.
Significant biographical information:
Sachin Hazen with Cia Ricco
- cum laude Phi Beta Kappa Wesleyan University (CT)
- twenty years psychotherapist, hypnotherapist CT, NYC, Maui
- studied with, worked closely with prominent body-centered psychotherapists, Cia Ricco and the late Douglas Brady
- eight years worked with prominent Jungian analyst Richard C. Lewis, Director Jungian Institute NYC
- five years residential staff – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
- developed powerful healing modality there
- certified, massage therapy and rebirthing
- studied, worked at Boston Institute for Social Therapy and Research
- medical software engineer / manager in corporate high tech
- restaurant chef
- massage therapy practice ten years in Boston
- studied, practiced, taught yoga, shiatsu massage, natural foods cooking
- studied, practiced Embodyment (body-centered psychotherapy), social therapy, oriental medicine (Kushi Institute), palm healing, REIKI, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, core and cellular transformation (Ger Lyons)
- extensive travel and student of languages – French, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Hawai’ian
- plays keyboards – piano, organ, harmonium
- founder/director Keiki Ananda residential center on Maui
- personal tour guide to sacred sites on Maui
- practitioner of kundalini yoga
- intuitive reader using essential oils
- developed, led LIVING AS GODS Spirit Development Circle
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