Chandrika is the vice-president of the Humaniversity, an international institute of therapy in Egmond aan Zee. It was founded by Veeresh who originally worked with addiction therapy and made it into a centre for personal growth. It’s a holistic approach, takes persons with all their issues. The big problems are usually easy to work through but to take the nourishment in is more difficult, because of our conditioning. As pure small children we have to adapt to an imperfect world.
Chandrika grew up in Switzerland in a good family but when she was 12 years old her mother had a nervous breakdown, which brought up a lot of questions for her. How can I help somebody? What is life all about? A psychoanalyst helped her for 3 years which set her on the path to study psychology. When at a certain point she realised ‘this is not it’, she discovered yoga and became interested in Eastern philosophy. When a friend told her about Osho combining Eastern and Western approaches she went to Poona to see Osho.
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Meeting Osho, seeing him sitting so quietly in the middle of people dancing wildly around him, and seeing the love, compassion and depth in his eyes, there was no doubt left. She took sannyas, became a disciple, wanted to learn from him.
Osho told her to go and support Veeresh and also to do the dynamic and kundalini meditations. After some initial resistance she did the meditations for years, which learned her to be present, to be able to witness, and enjoy and celebrate life! Now she helps people in the Humaniversity with active meditations, social meditations and intensive workshops and trainings.