
{"id":290225,"date":"2023-10-16T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=290225"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:03:23","slug":"the-precursors-of-yoga-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/cuban-history\/the-precursors-of-yoga-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"The precursors of yoga in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the bay, the remains of the fleet commanded by Admiral Pascual Cervera still show the fierceness of the recently ended war. From El Morro the sentinels see the battleships and other vessels arriving from the United States, with military and civilians on board. Among the passengers, a mature woman with a stern face comes down to the dock. It can be seen that she is used to giving orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is Katherine Tingley. She comes with two missions: to help in the organization of the health service and to expand the teaching institutions that she directs, based on a millenary practice, originally from India.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290231\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Katherine-Tingley-El-Figaro-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290231\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Katherine-Tingley-El-Figaro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Katherine-Tingley-El-Figaro-1.jpg 343w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Katherine-Tingley-El-Figaro-1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Tingley, El F\u00edgaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is said that Mackinley, the U.S. president, facilitated her trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has led an intense life, unusual for women of that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Newbury, Massachusetts, on July 6, 1847, she worked as a nurse in 1861 during the Civil War and her interest in the arts motivated her to join a traveling theater group in Europe. When she headed the Ladies Society of Mercy in the late 1880s in New York, she became involved with the Manhattan Masonic group. There she met the Irishman William Quan Judge, a mystical man, esoteric and occultist, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, an organization which Katherine joined on October 13, 1894. Two years later, when Judge died, she was left as leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She actively participated, through talks, lectures and the formation of groups, in a World Theosophical Crusade that took her to several countries and she founded in Point Loma, California, the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity. She also created the International Brotherhood League and Children\u2019s Summer Home, in Spring Valley, New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Exploring the terrain<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On November 19, 1898, Katherine led a charity event on a stage in New York City to raise funds for victims of the war in Cuba. She chose the Greek tragedy \u201cThe Eumenides\u201d by Aeschylus. She understood that the Caribbean island, under the military rule of the United States, due to the high rates of illiteracy, in the midst of the material crisis caused by the armed conflict and the spiritual consequences that war always causes, was fertile ground for the expansion of her educational ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To achieve this, she would create the Raja Yoga Academy in Santiago de Cuba, a branch of the one she founded in Point Loma. She found a powerful ally in the patriot and businessman Emilio Bacard\u00ed Moreau, mayor of Santiago de Cuba, grand master mason, an intellectual who founded several cultural institutions. She met with him in February 1899 and explained her purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katherine Tingley based her pedagogical work on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xuanlanyoga.com\/raja-yoga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raja Yoga<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, native to ancient India, from the 3rd century BC when the wise Patanjali systematized in a philosophical text, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoga Sutra<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, doctrines that until that date were dispersed. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It implies that the mind is king above the rest of our body organs.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eight comprehensive practices are summarized in:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yamas. Codes of conduct focused on self-control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niyama. Observances and commitments to practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asana. Integration of mind and body through physical yoga postures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pranayama. Regulation of breathing leading to the integration of mind and body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pratyahara. The withdrawal of the senses from external distractions to develop insight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dharana. Concentration, unidirectionality of the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhyana. Meditation (leading to samadhi)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samadhi. The state of peace and full consciousness\/supraconsciousness where duality does not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katherine returned to the United States optimistic. On August 18, 1900, the team that would materialize the initial phase of her plan landed in Santiago de Cuba: Dr. Gertrude Van Pelt, L. Wood, B. Knocke and Antonio Castillo, members of the Theosophical League of Universal Brotherhood, according to what researcher and journalist Igor Guilarte Fong, student of the life and work of Emilio Bacard\u00ed, told us.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290230\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Academia-Raja-Yoya-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290230\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Academia-Raja-Yoya-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Academia-Raja-Yoya-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1.jpg 405w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Academia-Raja-Yoya-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raja Yoga Academy in Cuabitas, El F\u00edgaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This advance group was housed at the Cuabitas property, owned by Bacard\u00ed, where they would establish a venue for the Raja Yoga Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katherine returned in 1903, according to the magazine <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El F\u00edgaro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cfounding a school in the city of Santiago, which was attended by about 200 students. Two months later she founded another one with the name of Raja Yoga Academy, which inaugurated her work with children of both sexes belonging to the most distinguished families of the town. This institution occupied one of the most spacious buildings in the eastern city, and not being sufficient for the plans harbored by Mrs. Tingley, it later moved to the nearby town of Cuabitas, to the picturesque property owned at that point by Mr. Bacard\u00ed, who put it at the service of the Institution.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The schools located within the urban center were in no.16 Santo Tom\u00e1s, and in no.7 San F\u00e9lix. Bacardi proudly displayed the academic institutions to visitors. In April 1906, for example, he took the 300 delegates participating in the National Charity Conference to Cuabita, and there he offered them lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Alumnos-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-en-el-consulado-de-Estados-Unidos-en-Santiago-de-Cuba-El-Figaro-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-290229\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Alumnos-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-en-el-consulado-de-Estados-Unidos-en-Santiago-de-Cuba-El-Figaro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Alumnos-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-en-el-consulado-de-Estados-Unidos-en-Santiago-de-Cuba-El-Figaro-1.jpg 395w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Alumnos-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-en-el-consulado-de-Estados-Unidos-en-Santiago-de-Cuba-El-Figaro-1-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Fear of the resurrection of the fakirs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was to be expected that Katherine Tingley would find opponents, due to the strong influence of the Catholic Church in society and the existing lack of knowledge about the practices she proposed. A Raja Yoga School was also created in the city of Pinar del R\u00edo. Indalecio Sobrado, former Governor of the province, and lawyer Ricardo R. Lanc\u00eds, in 1908 asked the U.S. authorities for authorization to use 4,000 pesos of the budget in the educational center. The request caused discomfort in various sectors that were against the introduction of those academies on the island. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diario de la Marina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, edition of May 26, noted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIs theosophy characteristic of the Cuban State? Is orientalism with its old principles and its old dogmas part of the official Curriculum? Do they know what is instilled about spiritualism in young consciousnesses in the Raja Yoga Schools? Their introducers should have started, and have not done so, by disclosing, in a clear and precise manner, their mission, practices and purpose. Not all of us can search libraries, review history and dismantle the annals of old India, to know specifically if fakirs and dervishes are being resurrected, and if after the Raja Yoga classrooms, the pagodas will be reborn and the sciences and rites of the days of Brahminic splendor will return.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with confronting the extensive media campaign of discredit that lasted for years, Katherine had to overcome the destruction of the property occupied in Cuabitas by the Theosophical League of Universal Brotherhood and its attached Raja Yoga academy, due to a fire that occurred on June 27, 1907.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of her educational plans, she took dozens of Cuban children to study at the Academy established in Point Loma, including two of Bacard\u00ed\u2019s daughters. This project also received criticism, in which the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diario de la Marina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Defensa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, published in Santiago de Cuba, stood out. They reported that physical abuse was committed on the students within the schools and the health of the pupils was affected with prolonged fasting.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290228\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Discipulas-de-la-Academia-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290228\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Discipulas-de-la-Academia-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Discipulas-de-la-Academia-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1.jpg 377w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Discipulas-de-la-Academia-en-Cuabitas-El-Figaro-1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disciples of the Academy in Cuabitas, El F\u00edgaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Defensa\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">apparently went too far in the accusations about what happened in Point Loma, facts that warrant future investigations: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cmost of these young people have returned home suffering from tuberculosis, atrophied, fatuous, mutilated.\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Calixto Garc\u00eda Velez, Cuban ambassador to the United States, asked Washington to investigate the situation of student Alicia Gil Gogorza, a victim of abuse, according to the Santiago newspaper. The girl and her sister, fatherless, had traveled with the authorization of their mother, Caridad Gogorza. Katherine ordered that an investigation be carried on the issue and announced it through a letter distributed on the Caribbean island. The Brotherhood paid the fare for the disciple, who returned to her hometown, without the veracity of the case being clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, in Santiago de Cuba, Sidney Turner, director of Raja Yoga, sued the director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Defensa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for insults, in May 1909. And the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diario de la Marina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> continued its criticisms by saying that they practiced witchcraft and that they considered the doctrines promulgated \u201cdangerous, false and a little ridiculous.\u201d On June 24, \u00c1ngel Morales Carvajal, the executive of the Santiago newspaper, was arrested and had to pay a 1,300-peso bails. Then the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 308 pesos.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290227\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Estudiantes-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-El-Figaro-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290227\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Estudiantes-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-El-Figaro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Estudiantes-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-El-Figaro-1.jpg 324w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Estudiantes-de-la-Academia-Raja-Yoga-El-Figaro-1-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students of the Raja Yoga Academy, El F\u00edgaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>The reconciliation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The influential <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diario de la Marina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ended the campaign on February 25, 1910, through an article titled \u201cClarifications,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cin order to prevent public opinion from confusing the Raja Yoga Schools and the International Brotherhood League Institution, of which the former depend, with one or another of the religious sects that are so abundant today.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The academies survived, we do not know if until 1959, since in the press, there are news of the participation of their students in political and cultural events during the republican period. The healthy physical and spiritual exercise ultimately overcame prejudices and ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katherine Tingley died July 11, 1929; her imprint remained as a precursor of the practice of yoga in Cuba. If one day you walk through the city of Santiago de Cuba and arrive at the Rajayoga neighborhood, perhaps you will remember the story that I have told you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Igor Guilarte Fong: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cronolog\u00eda de Emilio Bacard\u00ed Moreu,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d unpublished work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diario de la Marina<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El F\u00edgaro<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xuanlanyoga.com\/raja-yoga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/xuanlanyoga.com\/raja-yoga\/<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogaone.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.yogaone.es\/<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the bay, the remains of the fleet commanded by Admiral Pascual Cervera still show the fierceness of the recently ended war. 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