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Free Completion & Yoga Sessions (English) – Banyan Pavilion, Daan Park
Tue, Thu, Sat 18:30–20:30 | Max 3 people | Cost Free
✨ What we’ll do
• 19:00 – 20:30 Completion Process (guided journaling ▸ mirror work ▸ optional partner sharing)
• 18:30 – 18:50 Optional Yoga warm-up (āsana + prāṇāyāma)
Completion and yoga are taught in the lineage of Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. Sessions foster inner peace, clarity and vibrant health.
👤 About the host
Dmitry – 25 years practicing Completion & meditation, including 45-day daily immersion and a near-monastic year in Indian ashrams. I’ve guided 50 + one-hour sessions; participants often report that long-held emotional burdens finally lift.
Note: I am not a formally ordained ācārya; I share these practices with sincerity and respect.
📍 Location
Banyan Pavilion (白石涼亭), Daan Forest Park
• From MRT Daan Park Station Exit 3: walk straight south on the central path ≈ 4 min. The white, open-sided pavilion under large banyan trees is on the left.
• Light rain? We stay – the roof keeps the floor dry.
• Heavy rain? We’ll post a 30-min-prior update and shift 3 min south to the covered amphitheater stage.
🧳 What to bring
• For Completion: nothing – thin notebooks, pens & mirrors supplied.
• For Yoga: mat or towel (grass/stone floor is fine).
• Optional: small seat-cushion, mosquito repellent.
⚠️ Disclaimer
This peer-led session is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment. If you are under professional care, please consult your provider before attending.
📈 Why it matters:
Benefits of Completion:
Completion is a transformative practice that guides you through a four-step reflection: recall a memory, fully feel its impact, observe the story you've created around it, and remain present until the associated emotions dissipate. This process, when done honestly and authentically, has profound effects on personal healing and spiritual awakening.
💉 Immune lift – Four honest-writing nights kept infection-fighter cells higher for 6 months—akin to adding a second HIV drug.
🏥 40% fewer clinic visits – The same four sessions slashed sick-day appointments the next term; no other 1-hour self-help drill compares.
💓 Blood-pressure dip – Eight weeks of forgiveness coaching lowered mild hypertension ≈ 6 / 3 mm Hg—matching a first BP pill.
🛡️ Year-long PTSD relief – EMDR-style “relive-to-relieve” keeps symptoms down for 12 mo, rivaling the hospital gold standard.
🔄 Stress bounce-back – Compassion practice raises heart-rate variability ≈ 10%, a bigger reset than months of distance running.
⏳ Slower cell ageing – Twelve weeks of loving-kindness halted telomere shrinkage; only intense cardio shows similar protection.
⚡ Sharper short-term focus – Writing-and-reliving before a stress test cut attention lapses 43%—outperforming coffee or HIIT for the next hour.
These outcomes come from expressive writing, forgiveness classes, compassion meditation, and EMDR—each using a similar core sequence: recall → fully feel → let meaning reset.
Benefits of Yoga:
Yoga here means āsana, regulated breathing, and mantra-centered attention, practiced about 3 × 60 min per week unless noted.
🧠 BDNF (brain-growth protein) – Twelve weeks of daily yoga-meditation doubled serum BDNF in adults with major depression—comparable to an SSRI.
💆♂️ GABA (natural calming transmitter) – One 60-min Iyengar class raised cortical GABA 27%, roughly 50% more than HIIT.
💓 Vagal tone (HF-HRV) – A 17-RCT meta-analysis found 8–16 weeks of yoga lifts HF-HRV ≈ 10–15%, beating endurance training.
🩺 Blood pressure – A 30-RCT meta-analysis (n = 2 283) showed average drops of 7.9 / 4.9 mm Hg—on par with starting a first-line antihypertensive.
🛌 Sleep quality – Within 6–8 weeks, yoga cuts PSQI scores ~2–3 points, similar to low-dose benzodiazepines but without dependency risks.
🛡️ PTSD symptoms – Ten weeks of trauma-sensitive yoga lowered checklist scores ~33% and retained more participants than talk therapy.
🗄️ Hippocampal volume – A 12-week Kundalinī program enlarged the right hippocampus ≈ 3%—gains usually seen only after vigorous cardio.
⚡ “Insight” gamma waves – A 10-min set (bhrāmarī breath + inversions) boosts 25–42 Hz γ power ≈ 10%; seasoned meditators show 3–8 × higher γ.
Science still has limits around identifying the effects of Completion and Yoga on spiritual growth, but the measurable physiology is already compelling.
Research References - Completion:
Petrie 04 Psychosom Med; Pennebaker 86 J Abnorm Psychol; Tibbits 06 J Pastoral Care; Shapiro 24 Eur J Psychotraumatol; DiBello 20 Neurobiobehav Rev; Le Nguyen 19 Psychoneuroendocrinol; Frattaroli 06 meta-analysis.
References - Completion:
Tolahunase 18 RNN; Streeter 07 JACM; Zou 18 J Clin Med; Xie 25 Eur J Prev Cardiol; Gao 24 J Clin Sleep Med; van der Kolk 14 J Clin Psych; Ibrahim 22 Int J Yoga; Vialatte 09 Con Cogn; Lutz 04 PNAS.