About

About Me

My name is Linda Madani (born Linda Grondin) and I have the good fortune to lead yoga classes on the island of Bali, in Indonesia. I am a registered yoga teacher with the international Yoga Alliance (R.Y.T 500), a certified yoga therapist both from India and USA, as well as a spiritual healer.

I teach yoga pranala a combination of asana, pranayama, meditation, mudra pranala (Balinese qi gong) and yoga nidra to students in either English, French, Indonesian or Mandarin. A student of a Balinese shaman Cokorda Rai since 1996, I integrate the knowledge that I have received from my teacher into my own teachings.

It is with great pleasure that I share my web site and open my heart to all of you. This site is dedicated to all of you who are committed to the path of self-healing.

My Journey

Becoming a yoga teacher came to me unexpectedly. Although I was a yoga practitioner, it had never crossed my mind that someday I would become a yoga teacher. One day a friend of mine won a scholarship to become a yoga instructor. It was at this point that I knew it was what I needed to do next.

I always knew that my mission in life was to help other people. Although it was a strong calling, somehow at the beginning, I was afraid. Yet, it was the most natural thing for me. All my life I was at service but something was missing. I had no boundaries and people took advantage of me.

It's only when I understood that being at service didn't mean being a servant that I could be a true healer. When I understood this: doors opened in front of me and my direction in life became very clear.

I'm on a spiritual path. I don't pretend to be ahead. There is no order of things on the path. We are each other's teachers. My students are my teachers. They help me to go further on my path.

Having said that, through the years, I feel that I have made my way to a very comfortable place, a place where I love being me, a place where I am in love with myself. Along the way I had all sorts of experiences that made me who I am now and many more will come. I do not worry; I welcome new experiences because I see them as learning experiences. As we are being tested, we learn and grow. In the 90's, I moved to Taiwan where I studied Mandarin at Tunghai University for one year and then for the next few years I worked as an English teacher in a private school. My years in Taiwan were very pleasant. I had good fortune. Looking back at it, I realized that in my profession as an English teacher I was utilizing my skills as a healer. A lot of the students that came to my classes were young men and women with low self-confidence. For some reason, I attracted these kinds of students. I realized very quickly that I had the ability to give these people self-confidence. For those who were even less self-confident, I would put them in a little bubble and attach the bubble to my heart and forget about them and just go on with my teaching. I have no idea where I got this idea. It just came naturally to me. I could see without doing anything special these students metamorphosing themselves as the class progressed. Light would come into their eyes. Even their complexion looked clearer. It's as if I was putting light into them. What is interesting is that this was happening without me really trying. It just came through my intentions.

After five years, I still loved being in Taiwan but something was pushing me out. My life felt incomplete. I decided to travel for a while and to make my way down to Australia from Thailand. During that time I traveled through Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. I was struck by the different interpretations of the divine in the different cultures. Witnessing all these different manifestations of the divine made me realize that there had to be a God. The divine just came in different packages according the different interpretations of the different cultures.

When I arrived to Bali, I was, like everyone else's, overjoyed by the beauty and the energy of the island. I had just read Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist. In the book the Alchemist says to the little shepherd: "When you really want something the universe conspires to make it happen." I would go to the rice field and yelled, "I want to stay here for ever."

I did end up staying in Bali. Only later did I understand that we can indeed force our will to obtain something we really want but since we don't have the whole picture we may be hindering the cosmic plan and limit our own possibilities.

During my first year, I was doing meditation and practicing yoga daily. Very quickly I had a streak a good luck. I found a job, a boyfriend, a nice little studio and a beautiful little kitten named Black Magic. I thought that I couldn't possibly desire anymore. I was so grateful that I decided to surrender every thing to God in my meditation. I don't remember how this came to my mind but I surrendered my job, my boyfriend, my studio and my kitten.

Within a week I had lost everything. I was in shock. I knew I had gotten God's attention but I didn't know what it meant. I was scared but I knew deep inside that I had done the right thing. I never doubted that. I had really no one to talk to. It was the beginning of my spiritual journey.

One month later, I had a new job; much better than the previous one, a new house, a new boyfriend and a cat came into new my house and gave birth to five kittens. I had everything and more. You see, I had limited myself in the past. What I had previously I had thought was the best that I could desire. But God had better plans for me and when I surrendered to him, I went beyond my five-sense mind and attracted more than what my mind had previously restricted me to.

Only later, when I had read Marianne Williamson's, A Return to Love, did I understand what had happened. She says: "When our lives are given to the Holy Spirit for his purposes, new talents emerge within us. As our heart opens, talents and gifts start to blossom." During my second year in Bali, I developed a chronic pain in my lower abdomen. I saw a few doctors in Bali but none of them could help. It is at that time that I was introduced to my teacher. I eventually went to Singapore and consulted a gynaecologist. After tests, he said I had a cyst on my ovary and needed surgery. The doctor said that he didn't think it was life threatening. He did a blood test which he said wasn't 100% accurate but indicated that it was probably not cancerous. I am grateful to this doctor because he wasn't an alarmist and didn't try to influence my decision.

With that information, I went back to Bali and returned to see my teacher whom I didn't know very well then. I don't know, looking back, what pushed me to do that. I asked him if he could help me. He said he would try. He gave me natural medicine and put me on a diet. I followed each and every bit of his advice. I would meditate daily and do yoga regularly. I was very committed to my spiritual path and my self-healing. I was conscious that I needed to heal more than my ovary.

At that time I came across a book that really helped me: it's a book by Louise Hay called: You can heal your life. I did all the exercises in the book. I knew that I wasn't at peace with myself and couldn't continue to live this way. I was living far away from my family and friends. I couldn't fool myself anymore. I had nothing to loose. I decided to jump into the void and heal myself.

Six months later, I went back to see the doctor in Singapore. He was astonished. The cyst had gone. He said, what ever you did continue because it worked. Again, six months later, I went to see him for another check up and on his bookshelf were books on alternative medicines. He said that when he felt it was appropriate, he would tell women they could also consider alternate medicine.

I'm not against surgery or western medicine. On the contrary, I have great respect for the work western physicians, surgeons, etc, do and I believe when one is sick, one must utilise all the resources available to heal, western as well as eastern medicine and alternative medicine. My decision was appropriate for me at the time. Surgery is very traumatic for the physical memory of the body and I felt it should be done only if it was necessary and if there was not other means.

During that time a friend also gave me a book on Runes and the Book of Changes (yijing). The runes and the yijing were important allies during all these years, when doubt came to me I could consult them for their wisdom. For all those years, a series of people came into my life and tested my boundaries. The tests were getting stronger and stronger because I wouldn't get it. Until one day I was pushed against the wall, so to speak. During the writing of this web site, while I proclaimed to be free of boundary problems, the universe tested me several times. But this time, like a pro, I overcame these situations easily and effortlessly.

When we keep facing the same situation, we must have the awareness that this is a situation we need to overcome before we reach the next level in our growth. The faster we understand this, the quicker we grow.

One day someone gave me a small book called "The Abundance Book", by Randolph Price. I read that book with so much interest. In this book there is a 40-day spiritual program of meditation. This program really helped me to reprogram my mind and open my consciousness. I redid this 40-day program many times.

Actually, every year, I redo it just to make sure that I am still atoned. Our outer world mirrors of the inner world. This book is not about money. It is about abundance in all areas of our life: abundance in spiritual life, abundance of health, abundance in family life, abundance in love life, abundance in professional life and abundance of material life. Our natural state is peace and it is our mind that allows it to be disturbed. We just need to be sincerely confident and to stop controlling things, people, and events. Fear and negative thoughts sabotage our life whereas love and trust are the foundation in our life.

People accept more readily that illnesses are caused by our negative thinking. However, just as sicknesses are caused by emotions that get stuck inside of the body, setbacks in our life are caused by negative thoughts.

What you invest you get back. If you invest in negative thinking you reap negativity. If you invest in positive thoughts, you reap abundance. But most importantly is your intention. One has always to be sincere with oneself. One cannot fool the cosmic law.

During the time that I was healing myself, I came to the realisation that I was attached to both my physical pain as well as my emotional pain. This is the biggest stumbling block on our spiritual journey. We have to be willing to let go.

It's about surrendering and living in the present. I found this beautiful quote in Deepak Chopra's a path to love: "Spirit is always with me. It wants to lift my pain, it does this not by abolishing the painful memories but by putting me totally in the present, where the past doesn't exist."

My Mission

For me yoga is a form of spiritual development, which fortifies our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual body. It's not about religion but about connecting with our divine self. The divine is interpreted in many outer forms according to the different cultures within the different religions. In yoga we learn to connect our individual consciousness to the source. Yoga is complementary to any religion. Yoga is a safe place where we can all unite.

I usually start my yoga class with a practice of mudra pranala (Balinese qi gong/energy work) to train my students to switch from thinking to sensing. In a yoga pranala practice we merge our left brain functions of intellect and individual will with our right brain functions of receptivity, intuition and instinct.

The practice always begins by opening one's heart. Only when the heart is open can the energy flow into the body and we can connect with our divine consciousness. We learn to feel, to follow and to channel the energy in our body by increasing our sensibility to the energy of mother-earth (feminine, negative) and to the energy of the universe (masculine, positive). The fusion of both poles manifests itself inside the body as prana: the life force energy. Prana and energy movements are essential for healing mind, body and spirit. In Balinese lontars, pra means first, prana power, nala inner fire and pranala circulation.

At first, it is the mind that leads the energy but eventually it is the energy that leads the mind. Once we become sensitive to the energy and allow it to flow, our life also begins to flow.

There is harmony, peace, and tranquillity for those who dare to go inside of themselves. We just have to be aware, to understand and to know that the divine already exists within each of us.

When our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies are in alignment, we are healthy. Energy blockages in any of these bodies cause illnesses. When the different bodies are in balance, one has limitless health and energy. We need to tap into the self-healing wisdom within the energy fields of our different bodies but most importantly, we need to anchor our consciousness into the earth plane.

Yoga teaches us to go beyond our limits. As we stretch our muscles past our limit, we learn that we can go beyond the limits we have set ourselves in our life, beyond the limits of the 5 senses mind. This is the journey that I have set for myself and I wish to invite you to take it with me.

Classes and Retreats

Sanctuary for Yoga and Healing

Intuitive Flow is a sacred healing and yoga center inspired by Balinese and Indian wisdom. At the sanctuary, people can receive refuge and reconnect with themselves through a wide spectrum of healing and yoga practices. This includes yoga classes, yoga therapy, healing sessions, therapeutic massages, hands on healing, reiki, sacro-cranial treatments, and more. Intuitive Flow also hosts regularly workshops on various healing arts from throughout the world.

At the sanctuary, everyone is welcomed at its own level and guided further on its own path and practice in an authentic environment.

The Sanctuary Location

The sanctuary is located on the breezy hills of Penestanan Ubud, offering a stunning view of Bali's sacred mountain Gunung Agung and the Campuan valley. It is a sacred space where the energy integrity is maintained and enhanced by the teachers, practitioners and participants.

The upper level studio is designed with large panoramic sliding windows to allow light and breeze in, a beautiful wooden floor, high ceilings. This creates a space which facilitates the connection with nature and the elements during the practice. The two storey sanctuary has a separate private space for individual treatments.

The sanctuary is easy to get to from Penestanan village, the Campuan steps or a short walk from Bintang Supermarket.

Yoga Classes

Yoga Pranala is a combination of Vinyasa Flow (inspired by several yoga schools including the Sri T.

Krishnamacharya lineage, Bihar School of Yoga and Hatha Yoga) and Mudra Pranala (Healing art based on energy movement transmitted by Balinese shaman Tjokorda Rai). Yoga Pranala is highly effective to increase inner and outer strength, enhance mental clarity, relaxation, total presence and harmony.

Linda Madani's passion is to pass on her deep understanding of this powerful combination of self-healing techniques. She can help you learn how to focus on breath and re-connect with the energy of the earth and the universe. Through Yoga Pranala you activate life force by connecting the two major energy poles inside the body, which manifest as 'Prana'.

In ancient Balinese, Pra means first, Prana power, Nala inner fire and Pranala circulation or energy flow. Prana and energy movement is the essence of healing mind, body and spirit.

Once a week I teach a gentle class of yoga in Indonesian.

I am available for at my private sessions.

Yoga Therapy

Yoga therapy is very effective in treating and managing a wide range of conditions including headaches, anxiety, back pain, slipped disc, sciatica, arthritis, hypertension, heart conditions, asthma, digestive and respiratory disorders, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, thyroid, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, to mention a few. Yoga therapy activates inner healing resources and creates harmony in our lives. It also revitalizes various functions of the body. Each yoga therapy session is specially designed including asana (posture), pranayama (breathing), dhyana (meditation), mudra pranala (energy flow), yoga nidra (deep relaxation) and chanting. All of these self-healing tools affect the nervous system and rebalance mind, body and soul.

Private Healing Session

We all have been wounded at some time and we usually hold the memory of past wounds in our bodies, which can cause us to repeat patterns over and over again. Our bodies, minds and spirits are our greatest teachers, and physical or emotional pain can helps us to reconnect with and focus on healing. To release wounds we often need support and a non judgmental environment where we feel safe to do so. Each healing session with Linda is unique. She channels and receives guidance from Spirit on how to best assist healing and guides you through rebalancing energy and releasing blockages, using different tools. These may include stimulating pressure points, crystals, vibration sounds, healing herbs, channeled meditation, visualization, and other techniques. A healing session with Linda is an excellent opportunity for self discovery, reconnecting with our five senses and going beyond. Sessions are held in a private and safe space where you can freely explore your inner self.

Guidance and Healing

In this section I offer guidance for self-healing and give suggestions to those who need assistance facing their spiritual, emotional or physical challenges and don't know where to turn to. You will find meditation programs, daily meditations, relaxations, yoga for special ailments, affirmations for special ailments as well as a light body awakening section to help you with your spiritual growth.

If you are currently under professional care, know that this section aims at accompanying you on your journey of self-healing not replacing professional help. Let's put all the chances on our side to heal.

Meditation Programs

In this section I have put different meditation programs that require a long time commitment. These programs aim at changing deeply our consciousness to go further on our spiritual path.

Abundance Program - This program changes our consciousness to create an abundant prosperity in our life and our affairs. It is not about money. It's about allowing ourselves to live our life to the fullest. Our outer world of form and experience is a reflection of our inner world of thoughts and feelings. It is necessary to do this program for 40 days so that our consciousness carries out and recognizes this truth.

Location

telephone: 0812 392 4649 [in Indonesia], +62 812 392 4649 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +62 812 392 4649      end_of_the_skype_highlighting [International]
fax: +62 361 977824

email: contact@intuitiveflow.com