Internal Practices & Meditation Retreat

This coursework is a continuation of Part 1 based on Advaita Vedanta (Non-dualism), and Tantrika Shaivism. While the first part of this coursework provides skillful ways of breaking down your illusion of yourself and the world around by working through Vasana (tendencies), Samskara (repeated patterns developed in past lives), and Runanu Bandha (debts of Karma accumulated through relationships), in Part 2 we reintegrate the universe within the pure self. It is as if after tumultuous pilgrimage and effortful cleanse in the holy ocean (Part 1 - disintegrate and dissolve), you emerge and work with your pure consciousness (Part 2 - reintegrate)!

While Part 1 was effortful, Part 2 teaches how to be effortless. Participants learn highly advanced techniques and sequences of meditation that take them to the very razor’s edge of moving from the ‘created’ to the ‘creator’. Without the understanding and the deep work in Part 1, the subtle workings of Part 2 would not be feasible. You will learn how to surf a field of spiritual bliss using the finest qualities of your pure consciousness, helping you experience a state as close to Samadhi as is within your capacity to experienced.

You will learn:

Waking up and embracing the Divine

While Kundalini Shakti is the essential start of Tantrik path of samadhi, the journey continues into transcendence - the absorption of the AnandaMayakosha. Here instead of spending any energy, you will learn to produce seeming limitless energy through blissful cultivation of Amrita. None of the techniques for Part 1 will be revisited here. You will practice and master specific techniques for:

• Highly advanced, secretly-held Mudra and Pranayama combinations from Himalayan yogis to unlock the key to higher consciousness

• Invoking and interacting with the Deva Loka or the layer of Astral Beings

• Moving through three stages and layers of consciousness development

• Allowing the state of Turiya to be the ever-present canvas of existence and the opening of wisdom eye

• Full absorption of mind through techniques of infusion of prana in Nadis

• Navigating fear and pride generated from the presence of luminous consciousness prior to selflessness and emptiness

The above and much more. The nature of these practices and techniques will unveil your own approach to knowing the deepest embedded divinity that will allow a path for your ego to merge into the absolute. It is highly experiential and personal and hence stating the coursework in words feels limiting — similar to, say, creating a guideline on falling in love — let alone, love of the highest order.

You may walk away with:

All the mythological stories you have read about yogis and their secret, esoteric, and even impossible practices will get somewhat demystified through your own experience. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra will feel unveiled, decoded and approachable to a much greater extent than before. Finally, “dissolving of the ego” will have a personal meaning through glimpses in this retreat.

Expected outcome from this retreat: You’ll take with you a specific “sequence” of meditation that will enrich your daily practice and your experience of Samadhi, by realizing the Brahman within You move from the state of a meditator to the state of a Yogi - the one in Union.

Program Structure: FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. Limited spaces.

This curriculum is designed for in-person participation.

Mandatory Session (Online): June 15 - 2 to 4 PM Pacific: Start of the program with some critical instructions and advanced techniques that require some effort to master. The hope is that with the week between now and the actual retreat you can become familiar and well-versed with such.

Event start: June 21 at Noon. Event end: June 27 at 3 PM. Everyday full participation is required from 8:30 AM to 5 PM in between, as all aspects of the program are specifically designed for progressive immersion and advancement. Each day will consist of morning practice followed by explanation and techniques; a 90 minute lunch break; afternoon theories and lectures and practice, with a closeout for the day. Evenings should be reserved for self-practice, self-reflection, and nourishing meals. Ample rest and a quiet mind are critical throughout the journey of this curriculum.