History of Vibrational Breath Therapy

Mantra Yoga

In 1965, while residing in Sri Lanka, I was introduced to Mantra Yoga by my grandmother to overcome a severe emotional trauma. Om was the main mantra I knew at that stage of my spiritual development. The chanting of the Mantra prefixed to others, progressively gave me a technique to transcend my immediate problems and acquire a reasonable state of natural health and wellbeing to carry on with my life.

Science of Yoga

This naturally led me to take a greater interest in the science of yoga, the mother of sciences, and during the ensuing years I learnt from nine schools of yoga & meditation and also a range of hands-on therapies. I had the privilege of learning under nine distinguished gurus: Yogi Ramiah, spiritual head, Kriya Babaji Sangham, U.S.A.; Swami Satchidananda, spiritual head, Integral Yoga, U.S.A.: Drs. H. R. Nagendra and Nagarathna, Directors, Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, South India; Swami Digambarji, spiritual head, Kaivalyadhama, North India, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, spiritual head, Bihar School of Yoga, North India; Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri, spiritual head, and Smt. Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani, International Centre for Yoga Education and Research, Pondicherry, South India and Yogi Prakash Shankar Vyas, Lahirimahasaya,s KriyaYoga tradition, Victoria, Australia.

Yoga Therapy

In 1988 while practising as a Yoga Therapist in Melbourne it dawned on me that Yoga Therapy was in essence about negating one’s ego consciousness, thus helping the student/patient to rise above the body and conscious mind, and attune to a higher state of consciousness where healing takes place.

The Power of Om

The same year, I travelled to India, and was blessed by a Yogini at one of the ancient Sivan temples in the foothills of the Himalayas. She inspired me to test the validity of the chanting of Om for 81 days on a lady, residing in Bangalore, India, who had been suffering from lumbar spondylitis for three years and was bedridden. The lady recovered completely and was able to walk again.

The Therapeutic Usage of Om – the Science of AUM

From there I proceeded to Pondicherry, India, to learn from Yogamaharishi Dr. Sw. Gitananda Giri Maharaj, a leading authority on Pranayama (the science of breath) and spiritual head of International Centre for Yoga, Education and Research. From him I learnt the science behind breathing and the chanting of Om called Pranava AUM, which incorporates Mahat Yoga Pranayama, the classical & scientific complete yogic breath.

Structuring Pranava AUM into a program

Having learnt the practice from him, I returned to Australia and incorporated this into the same 81-day program, which I had successfully used earlier with the lady in Bangalore. I first used this program on myself and recovered from hay fever which had plagued me for ten years and began to feel more youthful than ever before. 

I also achieved immediate success using this program with patients who were suffering from both physical and mental conditions such as anxiety neurosis, asthma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, psychosis, depression, etc.

I was so impressed with the results that I spent the next few years researching this modality even further, re structuring the sequence, refining and redefining this into an 81 day program, which could be incorporated into daily life.

After studying the commentary on The Bhagavad Gita by Paramahansa Yogananda, I was led to include Meditation in the program, with the most encouraging results. The study of The Mandukya Upanishad was also most inspiring and reassured me that I was on the correct path. The reading of Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber helped me to understand how Vibrational modalities heal.  I soon realised that Vibrational Breath Therapy was a highly superior modality, as it involved the cosmic vibratory energy of Pranava AUM, which creates and sustains all creation.

Chakra Meditation for Healing

My intense daily Sadhana of Pranava AUM from 1989 onwards resulted in my being progressively led from within to take my program to deeper and more subtle levels involving meditation at the Chakras to neutralise traumas and tensions of this and previous births and enhance one’s psychic qualities.

I was able to initiate a process of healing at the three planes of existence separately and finally activate and enhance the process of healing at all three planes of existence with great success.

Please read about the success of VBT programs in ‘What People Say’.