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The founder of Body Transformation Deva Daricha has lived a rich
and varied life. A qualified teacher at the age of 18, he taught
in primary and secondary schools for seven years before he was invited
to take up a teaching position in Philosophy at Melbourne Primary
Teachers College.
For the next 13 years he taught Philosophy and developed some of Australia's
most innovative programs for training teachers. With degrees
in History, Philosophy and Education, in 1982 he resigned
as Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the Melbourne Campus
of the State College of Victoria in order to establish a meditative
healing community with his wife Shivam Rachana.
In order to balance his studies in the Western Tradition in 1974
he had begun to study yoga philosophy and practice with Margrit
Segesman the first yogini to bring these teachings to Australia.
His seven years of study and practise in this area were complimented
by intense study of the works of Rudolph Steiner and Christopher
Hills. This was followed by additional exploration of the healing
power of breath with Dr.Stanislav Grof and Jai Daemion.
He established Melbourne's first Breath Therapy Centre in 1981.
In 1983 he began bodywork training with Dr. Joy Johnson of the Florida
Institute of Psychophysical Integration and became a practitioner
of Postural Integration.
Advanced studies in the U.S.A. with Dr. Johnson and Dr. Jack Painter
(the founder of Postural Integration) led to him becoming a Master
Practitioner, and then an internationally certified trainer of this
discipline.
Practitioner studies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Rajneesh
Psychic Massage were followed by qualification in Accelerated Learning
and Psychoneuroimmunology from the John David Learning Institute
in San Diego in 1988.
Initiated into the Spiritual traditions of Tantra and Shamanism in
the 1970's his original insights in these areas have led to the publication
of "The Tantric Path" (co-authored with Shivam Rachana),
and "Shamanism and Nature" which is currently being edited.
Daricha has spent the last 15 years
developing Body Transformation as a state-of-the-art training in bodywork and wholistic body re-education.
During that time he has trained over 100 bodywork practitioners
and given and supervised over 7,000 bodywork sessions.
Five graduates from his trainings have gone on to develop their own
bodywork schools. He brings a keen intellect, penetrating insight, a
compassionate heart and joyful humour to the trainings.
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