Windhorse Thanks

SHIVAMOKSHANANDA

He was the change he wanted to see in the world~a light and a beacon

APRIL 2, 1998

Today is the Birthday of a great man...He is sorely missed on this planet~He was a person of integrity; a centered Being That taught about Metanoia; change of consciousness. I learned more about Jesus from him than l8 years in the Catholic Church taught me. I learned of Yoga, that it is a way of life~I learned of the depths of paying attention~ on all levels, in all things, at all times.  Samkya Yoga is the Yoga of Psychology ~Metanoia~ Change of consciousness into Consciousness and Ultimately to achieve Being... Not a human doing, not a human being, but A NEW BEING;  an actual HUMAN, no longer animal; no longer lead by automatic responses.  Able to respond rather than to reACT.

All this he espoused, taught, practiced, emulated.   He taught us to define, redefine, consider our values, re-evaluate...redefine, re-evaluate and to change ourselves, not seek to change anyone or anyTHING else but to stay focused on a WILLINGNESS TO BE WRONG which is the title of one of the books created by his students' compilations of the many eclectic talks given out of his extensive knowledge of any subject; and always linked back to a premise focused upon METANOIA, TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE~~not to ego be true...

He explained the image of Shiva, the Creator as well as the Destroyer of "Illusion"...that which we know and consider "Life."  Attached to Earth with one foot, and free of Earthly concerns with the other, Shiva (Siva, Sva) practices Lila; the Dance of Life.   Having extra arms and hands, Shiva tends to all things; accomplishes great things out of the ordinary...is capable of miracles.  The man's name is ROBERT C. SOHN and he must have made Shiva proud!

He and his wife, Tina Sohn, began the Five Towns Karate School, the Wholistic Health Center, The Church of the Realization of the Word of God, then The New Center for Wholistic Health, Education and Research, Sunsource Supplements, including Ginsana, Rejuvex.  They then expanded the school and Institute for Self Development and became forerunners in the marriage of the Wholistic and Allopathic worlds.  The New School for Wholistic Health Education and Research became a certification-granting massage school.  After years of scrutiny by educational boards, the NCWHCER became a two-year degree-granting college called simply The New School, still in the forefront of the union between western and eastern healing therapies.

 

Mrs. Sohn introduced AMMATHERAPY(tm) to the United States, and Amma (which in Korean means "push-pull," and Swedish Massage along with Traditional Chinese Medicine was  the basis of the College.  At this rewriting in 2005, you know the school the Sohns perfected as The New York College.   Ammatherapy is no longer part of the curriculum and none of the original creators or staff are involved with it.

What great changes in the world these people and their original students have made...and on it goes...and on lives beloved

ROBERT C. SOHN,

A GREAT TEACHER

A GREAT MAN