Fr.Joe IYENGAR YOGA™ dated 4 Feb 2022 KRIPA FOUNDATION (KFIY)
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Concerned about the increasing number of people suffering from addiction and the ignorance prevailing in society regarding the same, Padma Shri Rev. Father Joseph Pereira, (Residential Priest, Mount Carmel Church, Bandra), founded the Kripa Foundation and his extraordinary ideas of Kripa Model, Iyengar Yoga and Wounded Healers for saving many lives from the clutches of addictions. An adjunct professor, yoga trainer, and spiritual healer, Father Joseph, for the last 55 years, has been devotedly rehabilitating and taking care of those affected by chemical dependency, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS. Corporate Citizen brings you his extraordinary and compassionate journey. We are dealing with all types of people who are affected by addiction and teaching them how to deal with their afflicted loved ones Fr. Joseph Pereira He got into this extraordinary journey of jana seva, at the age of 38. Fr. Joseph recalls, “The beginning of the Kripa Foundation happened after my interaction with Mother Teresa. She asked me to stay in the institution to do something for the institution, even if it takes ten years.”
The importance of Brahmacharya A significant aspect of his extraordinary journey was the influence of his guru, BKS Iyengar. Though he had been practising priesthood for years, he actually emerged as a priest with the blessings of his guru. Fr. Joseph recalls, “I went through 10 years of spiritual training required for becoming a priest. After those 10 years, when I got into working with people, I realised that I had no idea of the requirements of my body. Because of my improper understanding of Brahmacharya, I was always falling sick. I was known as a singing priest, but every time I had to perform, I had problems with my throat. When I met Guruji, I started practising yoga. Not only did I get rid of all the physical ailments, but Guruji also led me to understand that the body played a big role in maintaining mental health and spirituality.”
After acquiring deep knowledge of yoga and meditation, Fr. Joseph developed special programmes, namely the “Wounded Healers,” the Kripa Model,” and the “Iyengar Yoga”—a holistic approach that combines medical care, psychological support and spiritual guidance. These techniques have reached across 130 countries. The Kripa Foundation, says Fr. Joseph, has become a fast-growing global organisation. It is the inspiration of Mother Teresa to reach out to the suffering people, and his guru BKS Iyengar gave him this dimension and spirituality of the body, which forms an integral part of the programme.
The Kripa Model includes an alcoholic anonymous yoga, followed by 20 minutes of meditation, and 10 minutes of thought for the day, which is generally taken from the Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous literature that sets the program for the whole day.
The Kripa Model programme is followed by an aftercare programme, where the people of the Alcoholics Anonymous group or the Narcotics Anonymous group, who are recovering addicts, come together to follow the four benchmarks: speak up every day, “I am an addict and I am an alcoholic;” “I can do this alone, I need help,” third is, strict time management and fourth is, seeking help through prayer and meditation.
Today people are craving for peace, love, joy and health. Your body never lies, and that is why we make people go through this particular type of assessment because it's only then that people can really know that the change has taken place.
In 1981, when Fr. Joseph began this work, he said the average age of an addict used to be 25 to 55 years and today it is 14 to 55 years. And recently, the youngest addict he came across while working in the slums, was eight years old. “You can imagine how this addiction disease is becoming a universal problem,” he added.
There is a lot of ignorance in society about people suffering from various addictions. The foundation gets people with addictions through the police or through their loved ones. “We have observed the recovery rate of those who have been brought by someone for detoxification treatment is higher than those who walk in themselves saying that they want to get well, but lack motivation,” mentions Fr. Joseph.
In the corporate world, says Fr. Joseph, there are many people who display signs of alcohol addiction, but they hide it because they drink only at night, and in the morning they are fresh and normal. He says, it continues for some time, but then it later breaks them down. “The most powerful way to get people into treatment is to have an intervention. As counsellors, we confront them and tell them that they can’t keep on denying because they have messed up their life. Someone has to take his wife and his job, and he thinks that the reason for that is not alcohol. His life has become unmanageable because he is not dealing with the problem of addiction,” explains Fr. Joseph.
Later, in 1992, Fr. Joseph discovered that a lot of people who were injecting drugs were getting HIV infected. These people were being thrown into prison in Imphal, Manipur. “I approached the then Director General of Police, asking him whether it is right to imprison them for drug addiction, due to which they often get infected with HIV, which is a disease and it can be taken care in Kripa Foundation,” he says. Today these afflicted people have been treated under the Kripa model and have become “wounded healers” after their recovery.
The “Wounded Healers” are those who have been wounded with addiction and HIV/AIDS and have undergone treatment to recover from addictions. After their recovery, some choose to stay with the foundation, and they become a source of help as counsellors, for recovering other people from addictions, and they are known as Wounded Healers. “It is inclusive of our work. We have special clinics where we treat people with opportunistic infections. If you treat a person with HIV/AIDS with proper medical help, they can get well and they can go back to work, and they can live a normal life with HIV/AIDS symptoms; there’s no problem at all,” expresses Fr. Joseph.
Fr. Joseph's pioneering works came with 16 prestigious accolades, including the Ati Param Visisht Sewa Medal for Social Sciences from Association of College of Chest Physicians, New Delhi (1997), the Mother Teresa Memorial National Award (2008), the Padma Shri Award (2009), and the Life Time Award by the President of India (2014). Reflecting on these accomplishments, he says, “I always say what we say in Latin ‘Soli Deo Gloria’, which means ‘All glory goes to God’. I really believe that it is all because of the vision of Mother Teresa and Guruji BKS Iyengar.”
Today, with 22 residential facilities of Kripa Foundation, across India and they are soon to open their 23rd residential place in Jammu and Kashmir.
Fr. Joseph believes, “If you really develop a transformation of your consciousness, then the whole world can get healed.” The message that he would like to give people who have gone through addiction and want to really maintain their recovery is to keep practicing the recovery programme.
Fr. Joseph says, is integrated into the practice of yoga, you are doing Satvik yoga—the yoga for purity, positivity, healthy mind and body, well-being and peacefulness. Otherwise, you're doing Rajasik yoga—jumping like monkeys, thinking that you're doing yoga—and then you separate your exercise from the meditation. In Iyengar yoga, meditation is the part of your Yoga practice.
As said in the Bhagavad Gita “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self”; and reflecting on the same premise, Fr. Joseph Pereira, through his unique models of healing, has levelled up yoga and meditation and used it in bringing change to the lives of over 70,000 individuals affected by addictions. “What I am doing is Jana Seva as Janardhana Seva (Service to mankind is service to the Almighty). It's a blend of Mother Teresa and my Guruji, Yogacharya BKS Iyengar. Mother Teresa taught me to go to the poorest of the poor, and Guruji taught me to go to the poorest of the poor in health,” said Fr. Joseph.
The journey of jana seva began in 1971, when Fr. Joseph completed four years of priesthood. It was a time when six of his colleagues from Pune and Mumbai quit priesthood, and he too was wanting to quit. However, an interaction with Mother Teresa encouraged him to not quit, and
Mother Teresa assigned Fr. Joseph to teach sisters of Missionaries of Charity how to handle the addicts, especially female addicts. After his training, she built a special institution in Tangra, Kolkata, for nuns to carry out the work of dedication treatment in Kolkata. “I kept on working in her charity centre, and in 1981, I was doing a programme at Ashadan in Byculla, Mumbai. That's where she came with the superior of the home, Sister Kabriam—an Australian girl, who shared the problem of alcoholics, and asked for the guidance of Mother Teresa. So Mother Teresa asked me to “help those who come for rehabilitation”, he said. He also added, “Sister Teresa, as she was called, was as well serving at Mount Carmel in Bandra, in Mumbai, and started Kripa Foundation in a church annex in Bandra. This foundation began only with the addicts and homeless, which gradually got recognition within the church, instead of leaving the church.”
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Fr. Joseph Pereira is the founder of the Kripa Foundation, which focuses on the care, support, and rehabilitation of people with chemical dependency, HIV, and AIDS. Established in Bombay in 1981, the foundation now operates in 11 states of India and has affiliations in Europe, the US, and Canada. Fr. Joe completed his education at the Theology Department of the University of Bombay earning a master's degree in psychology and philosophy from the same institution. In addition to holding various counseling certifications, he specialized in Theory and Practice (Carkhuff Model) at the Minnesota Institute. As a certified instructor, Fr. Joe is a partner of the Guruji B K S Iyengar School of Yoga, offering online and in-person training in this field.
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