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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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 […]

Spiritual Awakening is Unavoidable

We belong only to God and are restless like a river until we find our way to the ocean of divine Reality. When we are ready and hear the truth of our existence proclaimed, we […]

Love Abundantly: The Divine Meeting of Heart and Mind

Love abundantly is consciously living in and being guided by divine Love. Spiritual realization opens the heart, purifies the mind, and empowers our visionary capacity. This intuitive, visioning power is what we need now to […]

Simple Living: The Auspicious Way

This world is an auspicious place, favorable for spiritual awakening. We can attain Self- and God-realization even while living in perilous times. Subscribe on YouTube

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 […]

What Makes the Heart Sing

Learning to attend, to listen deeply, to what stirs the heart with divine remembrance infuses our days with hope and profound well-being. Pay attention to the lighted path. Subscribe on YouTube

Necessary Imagination: See It, Be It

What does it take for us to live a divine life and contribute to a just and merciful world? Discover three steps for embracing the highest good for your life and our world. […]

Let Your Mind Sink into Your Heart

There is a natural harmony to the universe that brings forth healing and the fulfillment of divine potential. To cooperate with that principle of harmony, we must open our mind beyond what has been and […]

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