Hi, I also give books, so if you are interested, send me an MP. Unexpected Freedom Ajahn Munindo Rude Awakenings Part 1 and 2 Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott Seeing the way Volum 2 Monks and Nuns from Theravada Forest Sangha Bodhinyana Ajahn Chah and in French Le livre tibetain de la vie et de la mort ...

I live in a boarding school, surrounded by excited teenagers, running up and down and shouting all day long so I know what you mean by meditating with noise and don't be afraid of that, the mind can get used to everything. At the beginning I meditated ON the sound, seeing that it is just what it is ...

If you want to read something about it from a monk, let's read this :
http://bhanterahula.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... ix_07.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Bhante Rahula is a Theravadan monk and also yoga teacher.

Well, Ashtanga is a really good workout to strenghen your body and is said to be a meditation in movement...I still pratice it because I like the way it feels to be concentrated only on your posture and on your noisy breath DURING the session, so it's a kind of meditation in a way, but just after th...

I practice yoga since a long time, before practising meditation and I just can say that it has guided me to meditation and Buddhism. I practice both everyday, meditation straight after yoga, just after waking up each morning. I practice Hatha, Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga, so it's quite challenging and...

Thank you all for your answers, I know that all this is very personnal, I was just asking for opinions, no more, then of course I will try by myself the monasteries which seems the most suitable for me.
Really nice to see that there are monks reallly good yoga practionner.

Hello everybody, First of all, I must confess that I am french, so sorry by advance for all my mistakes and then what a wonderful forum with a lot of informations! So I am 25 years old and thinking about ordination since a couple of years, I just discover the "Broken Bouddha", this famous ...