Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian - Kriya Yoga Teacher and Author

Ellen Grace O’Brian

Author • Teacher • Yogacharya

Yogacharya O’Brian is an award-winning author, poet, radio show host, and spiritual teacher who makes the ancient wisdom of Kriya Yoga accessible to the modern mind.
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Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian is a teacher in the tradition of Kriya Yoga who makes this ancient philosophy and practice accessible to the modern mind. Through her many books, events, and programs, she inspires both newcomers and experienced practitioners to create lives of abundant wholeness, purpose, and wisdom. She is the founder and spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (CSE) with headquarters in San Jose, California. CSE is a meditation center and spiritual community in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, based on the teachings Paramahansa Yogananda brought to the U.S. in 1920.

Yogacharya travels internationally as a sought after teacher, speaker, and retreat leader. She leads two successful nonprofit organizations and has been the recipient of several awards for community service, including the Mahatma Gandhi Award for the Promotion of Religious Pluralism from the Hindu American Foundation. Just as important, she is a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her life in all of its fullness brings the timeless Vedic teachings out of ancient India and into the modern lifestyle of seekers of all faiths who yearn for a more spiritually conscious, fulfilled way to live.

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Four Stages of Life

Vedic teachings offer a model for a lifetime of spiritually conscious, purposeful living by suggesting that we view our lives with four significant stages or ashramas. These four stages of life are related to age […]

Practical Steps to Experience Spiritual Clarity

Beyond the ability to make good choices, we all have a greater capacity to develop spiritual clarity — a more comprehensive way to approach life. By seeing ourselves and the context of our life clearly, […]

Intentional Living through Kriya Yoga

I was first drawn to the path of Kriya Yoga because of its mystical orientation as a way to directly experience the ineffable Absolute Reality and realize what we are as spiritual beings. And, since […]

Powerful Benefits of Silence

Those who practice meditation soon learn that silence is much greater than not speaking words or even the absence of sound. What is silence, then? From the spiritual perspective, silence is empty of words, sound, […]

Discipleship in the Kriya Yoga Tradition

Today, we can find almost everything on the internet, including Kriya Yoga teachings and meditation practices. While some of that may initially satisfy curiosity, provide some guidance, and help a seeker get started on the […]

Five Elements of Nature as Auspicious Healing Shrines

I am the wetness of water, the radiance of the moon and the sun, the sound in the air, and the sweet fragrance of earth. I am the brilliance in fire and the life in […]

Yoga, Consciousness, and Climate Change

Walking is a life- and sanity-saving daily practice that has supported my overall well-being during these times of challenge. I walk somewhere in nature every day if I can. Even if that walk is just […]

A Dharmic Life of Higher Purpose

To live with a higher purpose requires the continual practice of discriminative wisdom. We naturally yearn to live in the highest way, meet life’s challenges and grow stronger through them, find unshakable inner peace and […]

Kriya Yoga Benefits

Kriya Yoga, the scientific technique of God-realization will ultimately spread in all lands, and aid in harmonizing the nations through man’s personal transcendental perception of the Infinite... [1] Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought the spiritual science […]

The Healing Power of Contentment

Contentment requires us to release the ego-based identification of ordinary states of consciousness and live from the awareness of our spiritual nature. It is human nature (and the nature of all beings) to seek happiness […]

Ellen Grace O’Brian

Author • Teacher • Yogacharya

Live the
Eternal Way

The Art and Practice of Self-Realization

the Jewel of
Abundance

Available Now!

Artha 365!

Decide to Thrive.

Dharma 365!

Live Your Higher Purpose.

Study with Yogacharya O’Brian

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Kriya Yoga for Today

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