Classes in Kundalini MahaYoga Meditation and Shaktipat--Kundalini is the energy of life, or the Divine, as it is experienced in the individual.

This is an ancient tantric work that allows each individual to deeply experience their own inner connection to the Divine. Kundalini Mahayoga practice releases one's inner tensions and awakens & expands the flow of creative energy called "kundalini."

As we learn to stay attuned to this vital force within, we experience an accelerated process of change and growth that leads to the maturing of love and fulfillment in our lives. The keys to transformation in this work are: Inner Practice, Transmission of Energy, Service, and Conscious Choice & Displined Action. Classes are taught by Swami Khecaranatha, who has been a practictioner and teacher within this lineage for thirty years. Khecaranatha is part of a very old lineage of teaching, which includes Swami Nityananda and Swami Rudrananda. See our website at http://www.sacredspaceyogasanctuary.com (click on this name above)

Swami Khecaranatha began practicing Kundalini Yoga in 1971 under Swami Rudrananda. He was formally recognized as a teacher in 1972. In the past thirty years Khecaranatha has traveled extensively to India, Nepal, and Asia, spending extended periods of time in meditation and practice. Possessing astute spiritual insight, he has dedicated his life to spiritual development and to serving the needs of others in their own spiritual quest.***********************************************************

THE SPIRITUAL LINEAGE

A teacher is someone who has been the student of a real guru and has spent years ardently practicing and absorbing the teaching transmitted by their guru. Before the student becomes a teacher he/she must cultivate a one-pointed focus and deep understanding of the highest power that dwells within. If such a person comes from a lineage and represents a respected tradition, then you can be certain that he/she has been well trained and is teaching from their genuine experience. Furthermore, when such a person has been empowered to teach by their guru it is in recognition of the student’s profound inner gift. The three most recent gurus of the lineage from which Khecaranatha received his training are shown below.******************************************************

BHAGAVAN NITYANANDA

Nityananda, whose name means "bliss of the eternal," lived in southwest India from around the turn of the 20th century until 1961. Nityananda was well known in the major districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka, where he is revered to this day as a great saint.

In its essence, Nityananda's teaching was profoundly simple—to live within the heart of God. He said, “The heart is the most sacred of all places—go there and roam”.

Nityananda demonstrated the goal of spiritual work—which is to merge the individual into the universal. ************************************************************

SWAMI RUDRANANDA (Rudi)

At the age of 30, after many years of spiritual practice, Rudi became a devout student of Nityananda. Even after Nityananda’s mahasamadhi in 1961, Rudi traveled regularly to India to visit his shrine and to study with Swami Muktananda—–recognized by Nityananda as a Swami.

In 1966, Swami Muktananda initiated Rudi as a Swami into the Saraswati monastic order, naming him Rudrananda, or "bliss of Rudra”. One of the first Americans to be recognized as a Swami, Rudi established many ashrams across North America and Europe. He continued to teach until his passing in 1973.********************************************************

KEYS TO MASTERY

The emphasis of our work is on four key aspects:

INNER PRACTICE

The means by which we develop a flow of energy and contact with the divine within. MahaKundalini Yoga is one of the most powerful of spiritual practices.

TRANSMISSION OF ENERGY

The means by which we gather spiritual nourishment. It is very important to have a relationship with a true teacher that can transmit that love and energy.

SERVICE

The means by which we consciously extend our spiritual understanding into life--loving and serving the people whom we say we love and then expanding that love and service to the community around us.

CONCIOUS CHOICE AND DISCIPLINED ACTION

We are either consciously choosing to grow spiritually or we are unconsciously choosing not to. Every day we are faced with important decisions about our the direction of our life. We must have the consciousness to know what we are choosing.

When our spiritual life is our priority it is very important that we make choices that reinforce that priority. That priority is expressed in the actual choices that we make--talking about making decisions based on our wish to grow and making the sometimes difficult choices that do truly contribute to our growth are not the same. Conscious choice is the careful selection of that which truly supports our inner growth, sometimes even at the sacrifice of some worldly gain. This comes not from a rejection of the world but from the understanding of the commitment required to grow spiritually and accepting that some activities, even though they may seem attractive at the time, do take too much energy from us. Recognizing that, we make the conscious choice to not choose them.

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The practice at Sacred Space Yoga Sanctuary is Kundalini MahaYoga, an Indian Tantric tradition. It is a celebration of the creative power in every individual and the recognition of every person's power of free choice. When early kundalini masters looked for ways to talk about their experience of Consciousness, their most basic insight was that the infinite is not merely energy, but conscious energy. It is, they went on to say, a pure awareness that is utterly still. At the same time, this conscious energy is dynamic. This is because life is not only stillness but also motion and vitality. So, right from the start, they were asserting a paradox about the Absolute—–that it is, at once, stillness and a dynamic vitality. God, they experienced, is a dynamic stillness, and the creative power within each of us.*****************************************************

Our practice is about finding that sacred space within where the individual heart merges into the heart of the divine

—– Swami Khecaranatha

Classes are held Monday, Tues, & Thursday evenings. Four day retreats are offered three times a year and 1 day reteats 3-4 times a year. Call 510-486-8700