The Live Your Spiritual Practice program is devoted to developing a steady meditation practice and grounding our life in spiritual principle. This foundational program focuses on learning practical skills for awakened living, as taught in the Kriya Yoga tradition. As we develop a deeper practice of living a conscious life, we become aware of what we can do to experience more joy and how we can contribute to our awakening world. The time-tested skills of meditation and healthy living taught and practiced in this course will transform your body, your mind, and your life.

If you have not previously completed the Live the Eternal Way Course we recommend that you do so in tandem with this course. 

HOW IT WORKS

•  VIEW THE INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE BELOW
•  ENGAGE IN THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND LESSON VIDEOS OFFERED EACH MONTH  
•  PRINT THE PDF MATERIALS (Meditation Log, Slides, Journal Questions, Yoga Article)
•  PARTICIPATE IN YOUR MONTHLY ONLINE SMALL GROUP MEETINGS

QUESTIONS?

Please submit any course questions or comments to Acharya Sundari

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

OCTOBER: DISCIPLINE, STUDY, SURRENDER

SEPTEMBER: CONTENTMENT

SEPTEMBER GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• When we are present to the Higher True Self, and Its goodness, we attune to contentment and experience joy in enlightened living.
• Acceptance is an essential element that opens up space for Divine Grace to flow into our lives, often bringing what we did not expect but is our heart's desire.
• Sat. Chit. Ananda.
• In the present moment, our "crown" of contentment frees us from attachment, judgment, and preferences. Sweet surrender and every new joy overflow, we rest in the happiness of the soul.
• Knowing joy is the nature of the Self, we practice contentment through superconscious meditation and trust inner wisdom to lead us.
• When life’s undertow sweeps us off balance, our spiritual practice keeps us safely on the shore of contentment. 
  

AUGUST: PURITY

AUGUST GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• When our intentions and actions are without attachment, PURITY shines through.
• Purity comes from within through our process of joyful illumination.
• Cleaning and simplifying our inner and outer environments supports us in carrying the Peace of the Soul back into our Life.
• The practice of purity allows us to witness our patterns, to offer self-compassion and love, leading to a kinder, more creative response.
• From purity arises clarity and a sweet deepening of trust in God, faith that all is okay, resilience and joy are our companions in the midst of ever changing circumstances, skillfully we thrive moment to moment.
• Purifying within, without, and around us, allows the True Self to be known, releasing Its qualities including joy and peace. We are works in progress! 
  

JULY: NONATTACHMENT

JULY GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• Freedom is living by the promptings of the soul without attachment to the outcome.
• Surrendering our actions and desires to the Self by turning within gives freedom and lasting happiness.
• Let go and fall into the arms of Oneness.
• Our practice of nonattachment opens us to other viewpoints, so we can be free to recognize the divine.
• Carried freely by grace, we float, buoyant in the timeless, unhurried universal flow - nonattachment removes burdens, expands our capacity to step back, to see clearly with heightened awareness - we are exalted joy!
• Practicing nonattachment to things, routine, and outcomes reveals the Real and allows us to experience the joy and freedom of letting go. 
  

JUNE: RIGHT USE OF VITAL FORCE

JUNE GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• Let Divine Grace nourish your life by tuning in, balancing your activity, and allow prana to flow freely.
• Superconscious meditation provides the clarity to focus on what matters.
• As we cultivate silence we find access to inner guidance and live in harmony and balance with vital force. We find silence, spaciousness and just being so enlivening.
• Discernment over the course of time invites balance in our use of vital force.
• We practice Brahmacharya to uncover the blocks to limitless prana; through spending time in meditation, nature, silence and conscious use of electronics.
  
• As authentic spiritual beings, we inquire with awareness, does 'this' warrant our time and energy? The practice of Brahmacharya guides us with prudence, moderation, simplicity and spaciousness to live our lives as the blessings we are.

MAY: NONSTEALING

MAY GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• Trust your own generosity, and give fully to yourself and others because everything is God.
• Realizing that everything belongs to God, we consciously give and receive Divine abundance and experience ever-present Grace.
  
• In non stealing we experience freedom, awareness, generosity, wholeness, abundance and contentment.
• True generosity must include deep listening and generosity to one’s Self.
• Be generous in offering loving attention to the Guru and the Beloved in every One, including our Self.
• Give, and experience abundance.
• It is our Dharma to find what is ours, let go of that which does not serve and be content with what we have.

APRIL: TRUTHFULNESS

APRIL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• Courageously stand in truthfulness to deeply heal ourselves and the world.
• Living in integrity as Ultimate Reality requires courage, faith, and authenticity.
• We recognize our unapologetic authentic True Self, and use discernment to practice truthfulness without harming, which brings joy to ourselves and others.
• The lion of Truth always prevails reassuring us of our ultimate freedom - we are empowered, fearless, courageous, harmonious, awake and conscious observing non-harming self expression, in all its forms.
  
• Truthfulness allows us to relax into being authentically our Self.
• On the direct path, we experience absolute truth by living our intentional practices with compassion, and letting our intuition guide our creative power.
• Truthfulness, being authentic, mindful and compassionate, inspires deeper truthfulness in each of us, moving towards the part of us that is not changing and is Real. It is a challenging process made easier by meditation and quietly listening within.

MARCH: HARMLESSNESS

MARCH GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

• Meditation helps me cultivate harmlessness and allows me to have discernment, compassion and forgiveness, and let go of my expectations of others and myself.
• Practicing the subtleties of kindness and harmlessness is an opening for well-being and connectedness in our life, infused with grace, synchronicity and unbounded support for our spiritual growth.
• Steadfast practice while supported by spiritual friends leads to cultivation of Harmlessness to oneself and nourishes compassion for all beings.
• Practicing ahimsa, when I accept myself as I am, I can be genuinely kind to myself and others without effort.
• Ahimsa begins with awareness of compassion, kindness , positive thinking, and guides our relationship to the world around us and the ways in which we serve.
• Tune in to the Self, find balance through Grace, and befriend the Oneness in all.
• Ahimsa is action without action; it is surrendering into Love.
• Bathed in self-compassion, surrendered prayer, and divine love, peace springs forth.

9-MONTH SCHEDULE OF TOPICS

1. FEBRUARY: Introduction to the Course
2. MARCH: Ahimsa (harmlessness)
3. APRIL: Satya (truthfulness)
4. MAY: Asteya (nonstealing)
5. JUNE: Bramacharya (right use of vital force)
6. JULY: Aparigraha (nonattachment)
7. AUGUST: Shauca (purity)
8. SEPTEMBER: Santosha (contentment)
9. OCTOBER: Tapas, Svadhyaya, Ishvara Pranidhana (self-disipline, self-study, self-surrender)