Peter Marchand
Key-note Speaker
Peter Marchand teaches Jnana, Karma, Bhakti, Ashtanga and Tantra Yoga. As a personal coach living in Belgium, he guides people from around the world towards happiness, inner peace and deeper meditation. He is a tantric healer, following an ancient Nepalese shamanic tradition. He teaches online and offline, also leading a variety of mantra and bhajan chanting sessions. Until 2020 however, all this was just a hobby, in addition to a busy job.
Originally inspired by his teacher Harish Johari from when he was 20 years old, Peter is one of the founders of Sanatan Society. This association of family and students of Harish Johari was dedicated to spreading his teachings after he left his body in 1999. Peter started teaching in India in 2005. In 2006 he authored “The Yoga of Nine Emotions”, followed by “The Yoga of Truth” in 2007.
Around the same time, Peter created his channel on YouTube, where in the following decade he shared over 100 hours of free teaching. The YouTube channel now has over 10,000 subscribers and about 2 million views. Somewhat accidently, Peter wrote the booklet “Love Your Ego” in 2019, stirring his appetite for more. The next year, he left his regular job, now focusing entirely on teaching, writing, healing and coaching. Early 2022, Peter published “Tantric Advaita – Energizing Nonduality“, detailing the most basic philosophy behind his teachings.
Soon after, he started working on a new book project on deep meditation, which took over 2 years. It lead to the publication in the autumn of 2024 of a 2-volume ‘everything you want to know’ handbook on meditation :
Workshop
Main Afternoon Workshop | 14:30 – 16:30 (Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday)
Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The Tantric tradition recognizes 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions: love, joy, wonder, courage, calmness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness. Our emotions are continuously affected by the interplay of our senses, the elements, food, and the life force in our body. During this week, Peter Marchand offers many practical physiological and philosophical tools from Tantric and Ayurvedic traditions that can help the participants to change their emotional patterns. He explains the nature and purpose of each Rasa and how we can strengthen or weaken one Rasa through another.
Language
French – English translation
