Rocque Lobo

Rocque Lobo (born March 4, 1941 in Pune , India ) is a health educator and emeritus professor of social work and social education. As a health educator, he researches yoga and Ayurveda from a natural, social and philosophical point of view in order to make traditional Indian teachings and techniques usable for health care in modern society. In a critical examination of the western adaptation of yoga - especially in the context of the fitness and wellness movement - he developed the Marma Yoga from the classic Indian Hatha Yoga and finally the Shake-spear activation training .

Life

Lobo studied science and then Latin and rhetoric at the seminary in Mangalore (South India). From 1961 to 1963 he continued his studies in philosophy, Indian music and yoga at the papal seminary in Pune, from which he graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Philosophy. His further studies took him to Eichstätt and Munich , where he graduated in 1967 with the state examination in Catholic theology. During these four years (1963 to 1967) he also dealt intensively with classical Western music.

His subsequent studies in Indology led to a dissertation in philosophy on the subject of "Samkhya Yoga and the Spirit of Late Antiquity". In 1971 he received his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and immediately afterwards took over the management of the departments of religion, yoga, health and the supervision of foreign workers at the Munich Adult Education Center.

Since 1977 he has headed the research center for yoga and Ayurveda (since 1988: Institute for Health Education). The research center was initially sponsored by the professional association of yoga teachers in Germany . It was then supported by the Friends of Yoga and Ayurveda e. V. taken over. From 1981 to 1986, Lobo headed a model project at the advanced training institute of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich , funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture , to create an advanced training course for social pedagogues in the context of stress research and stress management ("Integrated Psychosomatic Health Training", IPSG)

In the summer of 1986 Rocque Lobo was appointed professor for social work and social pedagogy with a focus on “health education” at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. From 1981 to 1985 he designed and directed programs on Bavarian television for exercise and breathing in yoga and Ayurveda. In March 1986 the symposium he organized "Man in space and time from the point of view of eastern wisdom and western science" took place in Munich under the patronage of Prof. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . In addition, Lobo initiated and organized the first scientific planning committee of the international congress "Spirit and Nature", which was organized in 1988 by the Lower Saxony Foundation in Hanover; In addition to the then Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht, the patron was again Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. In 1990 he organized another international congress for the Lower Saxony Foundation with the title “Health in Own Responsibility”. This congress was the prelude to another project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich under the direction of Lobos, in which a postgraduate course in health education should be created and carried out for postgraduate students of social education . The successful model course ("Body-Oriented Social Intervention", KSI) was then taken over in 1996 by the Munich University of Applied Sciences in the standard course offer.

Focus

Rocque Lobo has been working intensively on the phenomenon of war socialization since 1990. He was inspired in this topic by studying the ancient Indian Ayurveda doctor Sushruta . Sushruta was a "military doctor" and provided posterity with the first systematized results of "surgical research" from pre-Christian times. Since 1994 Lobo has devoted himself to the question of increasing mobility in industrial society and the resulting consequences for the self-regulation of the human organism. In this area he has been working intensively with research institutes of major car manufacturers since 1996 to research possibilities for advance warning and avoidance of the dreaded “ second sleep at the wheel”. He integrates his knowledge of yoga and Ayurveda.

Publications

Monographs

• Yoga - sensitivity training for adults. Vol. 1: Basic knowledge and exercises. Hueber-Holzmann, Munich 1978
• Yoga - elementary course. Vol. 3: Circulation. Pantainos 2004
• Ayurveda - living better with the rhythm of time. M & T-Verlag, Zurich a. Chur 1987, ISBN 3726531017
• Dream and Karma in Ayurveda. Philosophy and practice. Diederichs, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-424010220
• Amphidromy horizon. Institute for Health Education, Munich 1992, ISBN 3928772007

editor

• Yearbook for Yoga. Prana 1980 - East Asian meditation technique and its application in the western world. Scientific Advisory Board: Johann Kugler, Paul Matussek u. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . Barth bei Scherz, Munich 1980, ISBN 3502677026
• Yearbook for Yoga. Prana 1981 - East Asian meditation techniques and their application in the western world. Barth bei Scherz, Munich 1981
• Yearbook for Yoga 1982/83. East Asian meditation techniques and their application in the western world. DuMont, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3770114434

Web links

• Literature by and about Rocque Lobo in the catalog of the German National Library
• MarmaYoga and Shake Spear Activation Training (Institute for Health Education)