DEEPENING OUR PERSONAL PRACTICE - THE LONG VIEW
In this final training, we explore the three granthis - psychic knots - that must be loosened in order to continually grow along one’s spiritual path. Through purification of the psyche, we begin to loosen these knots and move progressively upward, from the navel to the crown. Surrender at the heart, mastering the third eye, transcendence through the crown - these are stages we can look forward to and explore as we continue to cultivate a single pointed focus, devotion, determination, self-knowingness, and non-attachment.
In this module we examine the two-fold purpose of practice: how to deepen our connection with the eternal in order to maximize our thriving in this life. As we gain greater and greater clarity around our unique purpose, we find our life not only becomes richer and more joyful, but it also becomes more clearly honed as a form of service to the world.
Up until now, we accessed the higher chakras to gain certain capacities as we travelled down from the third eye to the navel. We now begin an upward journey to explore deeper layers of these same chakras. Key to this upward ascension of consciousness is surrender to a higher reality. The tools we lean into will gently shift and our practice become ever simplified, as we explore the more subtle reality that guides us inward. We dive into the realm of mantra - the very embodiment of the expanded consciousness we seek to absorb. We work with gratitude and devotion, effortlessness and surrender, inner light and inner sound.
Topics Include:
Abhyasa / Vairagya
Physiology of single-pointed focus
Cultivating Self-knowledge
3 Granthis
Karma
Dharma
Dissolution of the ego
Mantra and the science of sound
Group practice of mantra
Master kriya
Ishwara Pranidhana
Iccha shakti / jyana shakti / kriya shakti
Koshas
Siddhis
Purascharana
Fire Ceremony - Havan
Vishoka Meditation
Jatavedas - the ceremony of life