Events
Kindle Soul Awakening
Learn about Yogacharya's Upcoming Events — Including Public Talks, Classes, Satsangs, Retreats, Ceremonies and more.
ONLINE
Meditation and Devotional Service
SELECT THURSDAYS 6:30-7:30 AM (PT) / SEE DATES BELOW
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - Online via Zoom
DESCRIPTION
This online service reflects the daily devotions and silent meditation.
Meditators from all traditions or none are welcome.
Dates: 3/12, 3/19, 4/2, 4/9, 5/28, 6/4, 6/18, 7/23, 8/20, 9/10, 9/24, 10/29, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/17.
ONLINE
Bhagavad Gita Inspiration and Study
SELECT THURSDAYS 6:30-7:30 AM (PT) / SEE DATES BELOW
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - Online via Zoom
DESCRIPTION
The Bhagavad Gita guides seekers to Self- and God-realization, highlighting our true essence and harmonious living. Join Yogacharya O’Brian to explore its themes, from inner peace and discernment to true happiness and the fulfillment of one's purpose in life.
Dates: 3/12, 3/19, 4/2, 4/9, 5/28, 6/4, 6/18, 7/23, 8/20, 9/10, 9/24, 10/29, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/17.
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
2026 Satsang Series
Feb 1, Mar 1, Apr 12, May 3, and Jun 7 / 10:00-11:30 AM (PT)
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA & Streaming Live
DESCRIPTION
Health, Healing, and Awakened Living
Don’t fight sickness. Bring in health.
Don’t fight darkness. Bring in light.
You are warmly invited to join Yogacharya for a monthly community satsang beginning February 1st as she guides us in discovering our innate soul power of health and healing for ourselves and our world.
Insights from Kriya Yoga philosophy and the world’s wisdom traditions, along with sacred music, poetry, stories, and spiritual practices, create an uplifting, healing atmosphere where transformation can begin.
Music starts at 9:45 am (PT). Everyone is welcome.
IN-PERSON
Silent Meditation Retreat
April 23-25, 2026
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA
DESCRIPTION
Enter the Peace of Inner Stillness
Silence is an opening to divine presence, creative energy, peace, and bliss. Like the flower’s scent attracts the bee, the resonant vibration of silence attracts our awareness into the experience of superconscious meditation.
This silent meditation retreat invites us to step away from daily activity and enter a space of deep listening and spiritual renewal. Through meditation, contemplation, and quiet reflection, the mind and heart gradually settle into calm awareness.
During the retreat, Yogacharya O’Brian will share teachings from the Mandukya Upanishad, a Vedic text that illuminates the meaning of OM and the nature of consciousness. Meditation on OM and contemplative reflection on these teachings support deeper awareness and insight. The quiet atmosphere of retreat encourages a direct experience of the peace and clarity described by the sages.
Retreat practices include:
• Guided silent meditations throughout each day
• Daily teachings and practice sessions with Yogacharya O’Brian
• Meditation on OM and teachings on states of consciousness
• Walking Tai Chi instruction and practice
• Silent contemplation in the meditation garden or temples
This retreat welcomes both experienced meditators and those newer to silent retreat practice. Periods of silence are balanced with guidance and teachings that support a natural and easeful experience.
You are warmly invited to enter this sacred time of silence, meditation, and spiritual renewal.
IN-PERSON
Living Kriya Yoga Retreat
May 17-22, 2026
Center for Spiritual Awareness - Lakemont, GA
DESCRIPTION
This retreat will focus on the essentials of Kriya Yoga philosophy and practice, emphasizing the connection between superconscious meditation and spiritually conscious living. We will explore what it means to live with an awakened heart—how inner clarity, strength, and devotion naturally guide us to act in harmony with what we know to be true.
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Summer Kriya Yoga Meditation Retreat
June 25-28, 2026
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA & Streaming Live
DESCRIPTION
Join Yogacharya O’Brian and CSE Kriya Yoga teachers for this opportunity to experience the complete practice of Kriya Yoga, which includes contemplation of higher realities, instruction in pranayama and superconscious meditation, and essential guidelines for health, vitality, and harmonious relationships.
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Kirtan: An Evening of Chanting & Meditation
July 25, 2026 / 7:00-8:30 PM (PT)
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA & Streaming Live
DESCRIPTION
Let your mind become quiet, and your heart overflow with the soul’s natural devotion as you listen, chant, meditate, and enjoy the delight of kirtan with Yogacharya O'Brian and Gitanjali.
Come celebrate the upcoming Guru Purnima with us! Everyone welcome.
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Guru Purnima: Prayers for Purification, Healing, and Harmony
July 28, 2026 / 6:00 AM-12:00 PM (PT)
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA & Streaming Live
DESCRIPTION
You are warmly invited to participate in our annual Guru Purnima yajna, an ancient Vedic ritual for healing and spiritual realization, being offered online and onsite at CSE world headquarters.
During this extended time of prayer, mantra recitation, ritual offerings, and meditation, we contemplate rita—the cosmic order—and seek to bring our will into harmony with divine will for the benefit of all beings. We contemplate guru—the light that dispels the darkness of ignorance. We offer our gratitude for our spiritual teacher, for our lineage of yoga masters, and for God as the Guru of all. We open ourselves to the purifying influence of the ritual and dedicate our participation to individual and global healing and spiritual awakening.
Everyone is welcome!
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Kriya Yoga Retreat for Disciples
October 15-17, 2026
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA & Streaming Live
DESCRIPTION
This retreat is open to those who have formally entered into discipleship on the Kriya Yoga path.
With discipleship, we evolve from being a seeker of the way to being one who has found a path of spiritually awakened living and the disciplined life it requires. We embark upon this journey with hope and faith, discovering its riches as love and grace guide us.
This retreat offers teachings, practices, and inspiration from Kriya Yoga masters and their disciples for remaining steadfast on the path, living in the highest way, and fully embracing the opportunity of a lifetime.
Included in the retreat:
• Teachings on the purpose, practices, requirements, pitfalls, and blessings of discipleship;
• Essential Kriya Yoga meditation practices for disciples;
• Spacious schedule for immersion in meditation, contemplation, and strategies for healthy living.
IN-PERSON & ONLINE
Meditation for the Holy Days
December 23, 2026 / 6:00-8:00 PM (PT)
Center for Spiritual Enlightenment - San Jose, CA & Streaming Live
DESCRIPTION
In the heart of winter’s dark days, we naturally seek the light of peace that only presence can bring. Paramahansa Yogananda offered this prayer: Teach me to find Thy presence on the altar of my constant Peace, and the joy that springs from deep meditation. He offered the example of setting aside time in the holy season to pray, meditate, and enter the deep peace of this season.
CSE’s Meditation for the Holy Days is held annually on December 23rd. You are warmly invited to stop for a moment, to sit in silence, breathe, and remember the divine light within you.
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