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

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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The Healing Power of Contentment

It is human nature (and the nature of all beings) to seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. How can we set ourselves up for the highest success? Is it possible to know unalloyed, unconditional […]

Happiness: Three Types Motivate Everything We Do

How important is it for us to be happy? A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found “clear and compelling evidence” that—all else being equal—happy people tend to live […]

Kriya Yoga Study and Satsang

The three essential spiritual practices of Kriya Yoga listed in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are discipline, study, and surrender. Study stands out like a bridge or a connecting link, right in the middle between self-discipline and […]

Meditation Practice: How to Enjoy It and Why

The purpose of meditation practice is not necessarily to enjoy it, so why make that a thing? If you are a regular meditator, you know that some days of practice are delightful, and others are […]

What is Kriya Yoga? Philosophy and Practice

Kriya Yoga is an integral body-mind-soul methodology for spiritual awakening. Self-discipline, self-study, and self-surrender remove impediments to direct knowledge of our essential spiritual nature, and the natural experience Self-realization ensues. Fall in Love with Your […]

Words to Heal and Bless

The power of our creative imagination rests on the divine cosmic Word. It takes form through our speech. Like a chariot that rides from the heavens and traverses the earth, our truthful words light up […]

The Key to Living a Joy-filled Life

Discover how the practices of Kriya Yoga awaken the heart and reveal innate divine qualities such as self-restraint, generosity, humility, and perseverance on the spiritual path. Listen to the podcast episode below where Yogacharya Ellen […]

Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: Pada Two – Kriya Yoga

Both practical and profound, Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, yoga's quintessential guide for the spiritual life shows us how to find peace and live with purpose. Segment One: Master Your Mind In our discussion […]

Kriya Yoga Living: Freedom from Anger

When we free ourselves from the stronghold of anger, we gain access to the transforming graces of love—a far greater power. Subscribe on YouTube

The Power of Breathing: Pranayama Practice

One may definitely overcome the obstacles to yoga (samadhi or the realization of wholeness) by the practice of pranayama. – Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 1.34 Many people who begin to meditate have the idea that they […]

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