Fridays:
Feb 21, Mar 6
Sundays:
April 5, 19, May 3, 17
6:30 – 8:30 pm
This 4 class series is specifically for those who want to explore and also deepen their understanding of this specific path of Self-realization as taught by Paramhansa Yogananda.
“You can be in a room twenty years, trying to get out through the
walls, the ceiling, the floor. It is when you finally discover the door
that you find your way out. That’s how it is with the soul. The average
devotee may struggle his whole life trying to escape the bodily
limitations by unscientific means, and by the paths only of devotion or
discrimination. Kriya Yoga takes one to God by the universal highway:
the spine.”
– Paramhansa Yogananda, from Conversations with Yogananda
All yoga techniques work with this energy, usually indirectly. Yoga postures, for example, can help open up the spinal channels, and balance the energy in the spine. Yoga breathing exercises can also help to awaken that energy.
The Kriya technique is much more direct. It helps the practitioner to control the life force by mentally drawing it up and down the spine, with awareness and will. According to Yogananda, one Kriya, which takes about a half-minute, is equivalent to one year of natural spiritual growth. Kriya Yoga is a powerful and sacred technique taught through initiation and has several prerequisite steps.
$80 (text not included)
$70 if preregistered by Jan 20
We will use Autobiography of a Yogi as the foundational text for discussion but this is an interactive and experiential series which will include pranayam practice as well as the first two (out of 4) of those required steps/practices leading up to Kriya initiation by a qualified Kriyacharya.
*Required text: Autobiography of a Yogi (not included in cost)
Please note all workshops and classes are non-refundable. Credit for future classes can be applied to account if at least a 24 hr notice is received. Thank you.