Kriya Yoga Blog
Enhance Your Life with Gratitude
The simple practice of cultivating gratitude, an appreciative awareness, and thankfulness, can powerfully transform our everyday experience of life. For some people, this is a natural and easy thing to do. For others, keeping gratitude […]
What is Dharma and Dharmic Life
What is Dharmic Living? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious dharmic life? ~ Mary Oliver ~ How will I live? is a question that has been […]
The Four Goals for Living Consciously
Purpose, Prosperity, Pleasure, and Freedom As I studied the teachings of Kriya Yoga, and learned about the four goals for spiritually conscious living, it was heartening to discover that the spiritual life could and should […]
Superconscious Meditation: Experience Wholeness
Through superconscious meditation, we are able to guide our attention and awareness to consciously rest in our essential, unbounded, spiritual nature—that which is full, whole, and complete. The experience we have of our essential nature […]
3 Practices for Conscious Living
3 Practices for Conscious Living Do not make light of your failings, Saying, “What are they to me?’ A jug fills drop by drop. So the fool becomes brimful of folly. Do not belittle your […]
The Path of Kriya Yoga and Self-Realization for Seekers Today
Kriya Yoga’s Birth in the West Kriya Yoga practice removes all obstacles to Self- and God-realization. —Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 2.2 When Paramahansa Yogananda came to America in 1920 with the blessings of his guru, Swami Sri […]
Literacy of the Heart: Mystical Poetry and Prose
Literacy of the Heart, a mixture of mystical poetry and masterful fiction, gave us Yogacharya Ellen O’Brian (The Moon Reminded Me) and award-winning author (think most recently of And the Mountains Echoed and previously, The Kite […]
Mystical Poems and Music: Transformative Evening of Fire and Grace
At the official launch of Yogacharya O’Brian’s newest book of mystical poems, The Moon Reminded Me, a mesmerized audience sat under a hanging silver moon created just for the event, near a living tree that […]
When Mystics March
How to Connect Your Spiritual Heart and Your Activist Feet Without Losing Your BalanceThe heart of yoga is mysticism, the universal experience of conscious communion with God or ultimate Reality. Mystics arise in all religions […]
Inaugurate Peace – A Prayer to Stand Upon
Wondering What to Do After the Election? Start Here: Inaugurate Peace Even those who avoid getting too involved in politics have not escaped the pervasive tensions in the U.S. To say it is a time […]
Simplify and Live Well: 3 Ways to Live a Simpler Life in a Modern World
Thoreau’s call to “simplify, simplify” resonates deeply with me; I have contemplated it often. When I first encountered his words, I wondered why he repeated the phrase.
Spirituality in the Context of Universal Values
The gift of Satyagraha that Mahatma Gandhi gave the world—the revelation of the nonviolent force for good that is born of truth and love was, and continues to be, illuminated by his life.