| Founder - Gregorian Bivolaru |
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On this background he was able to, within very short time, to reach many psychomental effects, which are normally regarded as paranormal, just by practising alone. All these experiments culminated when he was 19 years old, with a crucial breakthrough where he reached the state of spiritual awakening. At the same time as he performed these yogic experiments, he also studied with great intensitt the Eastern texts of wisdom and treatises (which the Romanian expert in yoga, Mircea Eliade, internationally renowned, had already studied thoroughly), and in these texts he found many confirmations of the experiences he had when he practised yoga. Grieg moved deeper and deeper into the yogic practice and in the study of the holy yogic scriptures and works by the more modern saints like Ramakrishna, Shivananda and Yogananda - and the techniques, he encountered, he practised with good results. His building of a Western yogaschool is founded on his own practical experience with the ancient methods of selfknowledge. He began to teach in Bucarest in 1978 and from the very start his yoga was recognized to be revolutionary and extremely efficient. He created a new era for yogapractice in Romania - at that time the Romanians only knew very little about yoga. He participated in vast cooperations with the Romanian department of health and with the society for psycho-somatic medicine in Bucarest where he helped many people cure themselves from mortal diseases by means of yogapractice. In relatively short time Grieg became center for the intellectual elite in Romania, who instantaneously recognized the practical value of yoga, and involved in yoga practice with much energy under the direct guidance of Grieg. After few years, the communist mentality, which opposed all kinds of organized activity (where the government wasn't involved), where people learn to think for themselves began to make huge resistance to Grieg's activities, which were seen as extremely unwanted. The dictator at that time, Nicolae Ceausescu, forbid yogateaching and all teaching in general with an oriental mark (like different kinds of martial arts, transcendental meditation, acupuncture and so on). This law made Romania the only country in the world who officially made a law against all oriental practice of medicine and self-developing). This law doesn't exist anymore, though. Grieg continued teaching yoga underground, and in the following years Securitate, the secret Romanian police, monitored, searched the homes of, arrested and tortured both Grieg and several of his students. Grieg spent almost two years in Romanian prisons - just because he was a yogateacher. He escaped the worst of these prisons (a high security prison in the heart of Bucurest) under protest, which caused stories about his unusual yogic powers, which he later confirmed. When the Romanians made revolution against Ceausescu and the Communist era ended in December 1989, yoga was allowed again and Grieg founded MISA - The Movement for Spiritual Integration in the Absolute. Romanians, who were just as thirsty for outer as well as inner freedom, literally gathered around his courses and in short time Grieg had hundreds of students. Right now MISA has more than 40.000 members, with branches in many other countries. Grieg about Denmark: "... If the Danish intelligence and especially the science would open up to an understand of the principle of resonance, as it is used in yoga, it would be a memorable discovery, who would make many extraordinary results possible. When this priciple is understood, people will begin to discover that intelligence awakens more intelligence, good awakens more good, genius awakens more genius, understanding awakens an even more profound understanding and that all this is connected in a mysterious way through resonance and can amplify each other and thereby lead to a better life. On the other hand scepticism and difference also lead, through resonance, to further scepticism and indifference. Everybody has got to make the choice. Those, who understand this correctly through their own personal experience, will be the first ones to make extraordinary achievements in yoga and in life in general; achievements that will astonish both themselves and others. By obtaining these results they will indeed help others to understand too. When a lot of people begin to understand this principle, et will be possible to make a beneficial shift in the collective consciousness". |
Gregorian Bivolaru (Grieg) - the founder of MISA - Romania was born 12th March 1952 in Tartasesti, a small village just outside Bucharest, Romania. While he was a child he often had recurring dreams about himself being a Tibetan Yogi of a high spiritual attainment. As a result of these dreams, he had many recollections of various yogic techniques that he started to practice with amazing results. Perplexing synchronistic events would link the events of his dreams with the events of his daily life.
