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You see, you don’t have compartments inside. There’s not a spiritual you, and a real you. Inside, in the deeper level called turiya, you find you. Now you show up for life, including spiritual practices, as well as relationships and responsibilities. Spiritual living is that you bring your wholeness with you everywhere you go — open mind, open heart, open breath, deep inner center, grounded in the inner infinity of your own Divinity.
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Bliss & Beyond“
If the Guru shares their home with others, the residents live in a microwave of Grace. And they’re usually quite busy with many and varied responsibilities. Baba kept us very busy. No time for idle hands. No time for idle tongues. No time to nurture old habits and self-defeating patterns. Beyond the benefit that the residents get personally from their immersion, they serve as conduits of Grace, making the Guru able to uplift more people and support them in their inner process.
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sacred Site“
By TC (Tattvananda) Richards
After the opening chant, a Swami welcomes us in-person and online attendees.
Then she introduces Gurudevi and reads a quote from Baba Muktananda, Gurudevi’s Guru. As a satsang subscriber, I’m there online every week.
For her discourse, Gurudevi unpacks Baba’s quote, explaining its layers of meaning. She calls this riffing on Consciousness!
Gurudevi has an incredible ability to make these ancient teachings pertinent to modern life. Whatever she is saying always feels like she is giving a personal teaching for me. It’s always exactly what I need.
I know in reality she is speaking to the One Self in all. I am not alone in feeling these teachings are just for me.
I feel that I am sharing a private moment with Gurudevi as I’m listening to her profound teachings. I love her informality, which opens me into Self. So I receive her teachings deeply. I am shifted inward by the meaning of her teaching as well as her presence.
She has told us many times that when we are based in Self, Consciousness shines through our mind. We get to see this in her satsangs. The light of Consciousness clearly shines through her genius mind.
Her devotion to Baba Muktananda also flows through her teachings. Feeling this gives me an even stronger sense of connection with Gurudevi as my beloved Guru.
Wednesday satsang is complete with a long chant, a delicious teaching and deep meditation. This supports me through the hardest part of my work week — Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Settled into my Self, I can do what needs to be done to serve clients effectively. My energy is not depleted. I can bring living yoga into my work.
By Swami Shrutananda
Have you lost some of your flexibility and strength, mental clarity, vitality and happiness? Most people lose more every year due to stress, illness, a chronic condition, an accident or simply getting older.
Yoga therapy sessions help you to regain it all, as a recent client describes:
After the 3rd session I began to feel a return of my self-confidence. I was getting my mojo back. As my body began to soften, I could feel the changes happening in my mind. I was feeling stronger and empowered both physically and mentally.
Each session includes therapeutic yoga poses. They are specifically tailored to begin the decompression of your spine at your tailbone. Your session continues the release up your spine through your sacrum, waist, ribcage and neck.
This release improves your whole body, from toes to head. You become more flexible and stronger at the same time.
Benefits go beyond physical. Your mind gets a rest from habitual worries, running memories of the past and planning for the future. Releasing tension along your spine quiets, soothes and settles your mind. After your session you have more clarity. You can focus and make effective decisions.
Your session frees up your own energy. The energy that was sustaining tightness — the muscular contractions — becomes available to you. Prana, your own life force, is amped up. You have more vitality and energy to accomplish what you want in the world.
With tensions released, there’s an upwelling of happiness from within. This happiness is independent of anything happening on the outside.
Joy, creativity and enthusiasm arise from deep within and overflow into your life. This upwelling is your own mystical power. You feel more like you.
Mojo is your personal power, confidence and enthusiasm — the spark that makes you more alive! Get your mojo back!
Therapeutic yoga sessions are available online and in person. Sign up today.
The mantra is the portable Guru, because the word Guru means energy. A specific type of energy, Shiva’s Divine Energy of revelation, revealing your own Self to your Self. The person of the Guru is a concentrated form of this energy, like a lightning bolt is a concentrated form of energy. It isn’t about…
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Spiritual Power“
Join us for a yoga class On-Site or Online.
Every class welcomes new students of all body types, while also inspiring experienced yogis.
Sign up today,
or call one of our Swamis at 484.678.2078
Marinate in Grace at Gurudevi’s Swami Sunday meditation program (On-Site or Online).
You slip easily into meditation by chanting with her and receiving her teachings from the ancient tradition. Her talk always applies to living well spiritually in our modern world.
Sunday, September 27 is especially auspicious for your spiritual advancement. We formally celebrate Baba Muktananda’s Punyatithi. In yoga, we celebrate the life of a Great Being on the anniversary of their departure.
We remember the greatness of his service to the world. Gurudevi honors Baba as the one who gave her own Self to her, the one Self being all. Thus, she can give you your own Self.
This program also celebrates Gurudevi’s founding of Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram on September 28, 2009. The Ashram houses the Guru’s physical being, as well as the Shakti, the Divine energy of Grace, that flows through the Guru.
The Ashram’s purpose is to support you in finding and experiencing the Divine within. All of Gurudevi’s guidance and teachings serve this ultimate purpose.
Through the Ashram, Gurudevi makes herself and the teachings available in so many ways. She brings them to us through an amazing network of programs offered On-Site at the Ashram as well as Online. I love the availability of her writings and talks. I am blessed by the Ashram that gives so much. — Barbara (Girijananda) Hess
Online or On-Site — this satsang is not to be missed!
Just like Baba said, “Most people who meditate make the same mistake. When they sit for meditation, they do not focus on the Self, instead they run after the mind trying to find out what it is doing.” So, focus on your own Self. Use the mantra, this ancient sacred formula, to pierce through the mental activity that you usually find so intriguing. Mantra gives you your own Self.
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sublime Spiritual State“
By Agnes (Aikya) Hetherington
Driving along, I realized that an oblivious driver was pulling out into my path.
To avoid the collision, I stomped on the brake and wrenched the steering wheel sideways. The fright and violent movements put my SI joints into spasm. My sacrum caught fire.
A month later the pain had not abated, even with my regular home yoga practice. Exhausted by relentless pain, I said to my sister, “I just want to go back to normal, or is this my new normal?” What a depressing prospect!
So I decided to get help from the experts. Five Svaroopa® Yoga Therapy sessions online with Swami Shrutananda brought temporary relief. Still, the activities of daily life continued to fire up the pain. Shrutananda observed that I was doing everything with my back muscles. I needed to strengthen my abdominals and legs to give my back a rest.
Evidently, my regular practice was no longer enough to combat the effects of time and gravity. At age 72, I had become weaker with every passing year, but without noticing.
Over the next three months, Shrutananda patiently guided me through a delicate balancing act. We worked simultaneously on strength building and pain management. This took us into April, and in May I put it to the test.
After my back seized up in December, I was dubious about attempting anything strenuous. But my siblings and I had arranged our May hill-climbing vacation a year in advance. Shrutananda’s advice was to spend at least as much time doing yoga as I spent hiking.
So I brought my yoga props along and continued with the therapeutic poses Shrutananda had taught me. On non-walking days I did lots of strength poses.
During one uphill walk, I realized I was flagging, leaning heavily on my walking poles. I told myself, “You’ve been working on strengthening your legs and abs. Use those muscles!” I straightened up and engaged my abs and hamstrings.
I picked up the poles and carried them. Instantly I felt better, more energized. I used this reminder multiple times during the trip.
Now back home, I continue with my twice-daily practice incorporating the therapeutic poses. The sacrum pain has dissolved and I have a spring in my step. Better yet, my new practices are also improving my mind and mood. Someone recently told me I was glowing.
This is my new normal! It’s even much better than the old version before the driving incident. I am deeply grateful for the gift of Svaroopa® Yoga Therapy.
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