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Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti Yoga is the yoga of devotion and is perfect for people who are emotional by nature. Through prayer, worship and ritual, one comes to see the Divine as the embodiment of love. Chanting mantras is an essential part of Bhakti Yoga.  Read more about Bhakti Yoga in Our Teachings section.

Seven Practices to learn how to Love

Seven Practices to learn how to Love

Love is selfless and unconditional. Conditional love is selfish and emotional. Emotions need to be purified to become pure love. Emotions come from our lower mind and our subconscious mind which carries impressions of the past. Yoga teaches us to purify the usual, habitual, tainted love, in other words, our lower mind and to activate our higher mind.

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Transition in Relationships

Transition in Relationships

Today we continue the topic of the Yoga of Relationships and how to handle transition. How do we manage our relationships? We said yesterday that everything just flows from one thing to another. Life is in transition at all times. Life is a flow. We just need to follow the flow in its many different aspects. One of the aspects is relationships, human relationships.

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Yoga of Relationships in the time of COVID 19 crisis

Yoga of Relationships in the time of COVID 19 crisis

In this webinar, we will address the question of how to be with ourselves and be happy no matter the outside interpersonal conditions and collective conditions (social distancing, be in isolation or working with groups, living with families and community, in intimate relationship, being alone or in search of close relationships).

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Lord Siva and Detachment

Lord Siva and Detachment

On the occasion of Sivaratri, the festival of Lord Siva, celebrated by millions, this is an offering to help understand how contemplation on Lord Siva can guide us in our life.

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Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 2

Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 2

In this talk Swami Sitaramananda will teach about our negative emotional patterns and we can turn this instead into Selfless love.  The main practice to do this is through Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion).  By doing this we uplift our self and others...

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Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 1

Yoga Teachings on Selfless Love | Part 1

In this talk Swami Sitaramananda will teach about our negative emotional patterns and we can turn this instead into Selfless love.  The main practice to do this is through Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion).  By doing this we uplift our self and others...

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Understanding the Addictive Mind

Understanding the Addictive Mind

In this podcast Swami Sitaramanandause talks about the use of yoga to heal addictions.  Yoga teaches us to practice self surrender and by doing this we can understand better how the mind works.  When the mind is very active there are many thought waves which...

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Why We Chant

Why We Chant

Why we Chant by Swami Sitaramananda There is another way to connect to the inner truth within you. That is through chanting. If I go to a restaurant in China, I want to order food and communicate with people, then I have to speak Chinese. If I go to Spain, then I have...

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How do emotions work?

The first thing to know is how long has that negative emotion like anger for example has been there. How long have you been depressed?  Some people would say that they have been depressed all their life.  Others would say, I have been depressed for one month...

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Yogic Tools for Transforming Negative Emotions

To work with the emotions, we need to understand their forms and manifestations and learn how to properly handle them. All emotions are forms of Love, but distorted. Because love is at the root of every emotion, we can learn to bring the emotions back from negative...

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9 Ways to Practice Bhakti Yoga in Daily Life

9 Ways to Practice Bhakti Yoga in Daily Life

Bhakti Yoga is the branch of yoga that focuses on devotion and devotional practices. God is love and love is God. Bhakti yoga uses our fundamental emotional relationships and sublimates them into pure, selfless, divine love. There are 9 traditional ways to sublimate...

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