Why should you do Avatar with me?

I have had a long history of coaching people beginning in the early 70's as a Yoga Teacher in India.  I completed the avatar course in '94 and became an Avatar Master in '95.  Shortly thereafter, I attained the title of  Star Master and Qualified Avatar Master. I completed the Wizards course in '99 and have assisted as a Stars Edge Trainer for the Master's Course in  Orlando April 2000.

I have ran numerous  courses and two day workshops and for the year 2000 more than 50 full course students have successfully graduated. On average a students takes 8 hrs a day and 8 to 9 days to complete the course. This year alone I have spent in excess of 2000 hours delivering Avatar.

Ever since I started delivering the Avatar Course I have received many testimonials from satisfied Avatar Students. Please click here to read them.

Master's Interviews - Avatar Journal - Fall '99

AJ: How did you start on the spiritual path?

Russell: My first spiritual teacher was a Siddha Yogi who practiced Kundalini Yoga. A couple of years later I trained as a Yoga Teacher under Sri Yogendraji and for a while ran a yoga center while attending university. I then joined a seminary where I spent two years studying philosophy and comparative religions.

Several renowned Indian Masters such as Madhusudandasji Maharaj, Swami Parthasarthy, Baktharaj Maharaj, Swami Chidananda and especially Papajii inspired me and touched my life in very special ways. I toured India and stayed at different ashrams seeking out these Enlightened Beings. However, my hidden beliefs continued to sabotage my search for the truth! Long days and nights were spent pouring over spiritual and metaphysical books, pursuing holy men and attending spiritual services with an urgency that sometimes left those around me concerned.

While I was studying Vedanta with a group of close friends I stumbled upon Avatar. It was then that I discovered the monumental difference between "studying what an apple tastes like and eating it." Oddly enough, most of my life until then was spent fearing the apple.

AJ: How would you compare/contrast your life before/after Avatar?

Russell: Before Avatar I was a desperate seeker. I was burdened by the belief that only a lifetime spent on rigorous spiritual practices would take me to Source. I was convinced that just one more book, one more practice, one more master, might finally produce the Eureka! that kept eluding me. Others sold me the belief that it would take several lifetimes of chopping wood and carrying water. Sounds familiar? Maybe if I was lucky and had broad shoulders I would come back with the bucket and axe in the year 3010, to give it one more try. Hey, maybe in lifetime #189 I might finally graduate.

Initially, I called up many Avatar Masters from various parts of the globe in order to get a feel for the subject. What I got was one big feel-it from the other end. WOW!! What a blast! Transmitting this energy through a telephone line from thousands of miles away? "Cool," I thought, "These guys are incredible."

Some organizations I spoke with prior to Avatar informed me that I would need to apprentice for up to five years before I could teach their course. Others said that even after I qualified, I would still need permission from pre-existing masters to teach in their territory. On the contrary, the first Avatar Master that I talked to said "We live in a world of abundance. More masters equals more students." These guys were talking Global Presence, no boundaries. Those thought provoking words have stayed with me ever since!

After Avatar, my whole life took on the quality of an adventure-light, graceful, and easy. The Avatar tools I gained as a Master were so empowering that they enabled me to work by day and deliver Avatar by night. This helped me create Star Master status in a couple of months, despite the fact that I lived in a country where advertising anything even remotely connected to spirituality was taboo. That short spell produced twenty two Avatars, Eight Masters and Two Wizards. I also made new friends, transferred my residence halfway around the world, and turned my work into a labor of love. All of that happened from an intuitive level with such synchronicity that it often left me smiling. Many Ancient Companions, surfaced, and taught me some of life's most illuminating lessons. Most of them were my Avatar students.

AJ: What do you feel is your role in assisting in planetary transformation?

I now see the Universe as a vast, inseparable web of flowing energy and understand that we play a decisive part in constructing reality. We can all live more creatively and deliberately if we choose to.

My role is to awaken all fellow voyagers to the realization that we are spiritual beings, having a human experience. And, also to help eradicate the strong identification that we have with our physical bodies, replacing it with a more expanded viewpoint of Higher Self. On a personal level, I wish to become a Trainer and live more from the heart each day. After all, the mind creates the abyss the heart crosses it.

Early Years spent Seeking the Truth as a Yoga Teacher in Mumbai 1972

Courses taken on my path to Avatar