Lorin Roche really knows his stuff.” Jack Kornfield, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
“Lorin Roche is probably the friendliest meditation teacher in America.” James Fadiman, cofounder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology."
“This is my favorite text of all time.” —Shiva Rea
The Radiance Sutras is a fresh translation of an ancient Tantra Yoga text, The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a love song between Devi and Bhairava, (Shakti and Shiva) in which they sing the classic tantra, chakra, kundalini, mantra, mudra practices.
You can order The Radiance Sutras here.
. . . and read the first part of the book here.
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Events
For the next two weeks, March 23 and 30, Lorin is doing a Tuesday Night Class at Aanand Saagar in Santa Monica. It is open, come on by. The location is a new little studio next to the Laemmle Theaters on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. It is called:
A Language of Love
We will explore the yuktis (the yoga techniques) from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra that take us into the heart and help us to develop the strength to stay open. Each week we will learn one word from Sanskrit that speaks of the heart – the human heart as an organ of feeling, intuition, expression and love. You will be given the opportunity to develop and explore your own personal language of the heart, by going inside and sensing your energies, then practicing speaking from the heart.Aanand Saagar is at 1318 2nd Street, #21, in Santa Monica. That is on the second floor, just above the hearing aid store. It is two doors north of Laemmle Theaters. There is a parking structure right across the street. Note that Aanand Saagar has two locations, this is the Santa Monica one.
Upcoming Retreats
Lorin will be in London April 8 to 28. There are three Radiance Sutras events that are open to the public. Email for more information.Radiance Sutras Events
April 9-11 2010. London at TriYoga and Claire Missingham’s Yoga Teacher Training.
August 27-29, 2010
The Radiance Sutras at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Lenox, Massachusetts ~ With Dr. Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine - August 27-29, 2010. Visit Kripalu online or call (866) 200-5203.
September 9-12, 2010, Joshua Tree, CA - Bhakti Fest
Sanskrit Dictionaries Online
The Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary is online, at the University of Cologne:
Here is the advanced search. It defaults to Denagari Unicode.
You may find it more useful to specifiy Roman Unicode, which will give you English.
To get the definitions of yoga, type union into the seach window and specify Roman Unicode:
Another useful dictionary that goes both ways is the Spoken Sanskrit dictionary. You can enter an English word and get Sanskrit words, or vice versa.
The University of Cologne has a list of digitized and scanned dictionaries here.
A Sanskrit scholar has put up a page of links to various Sanskrit resources here.
Wikipedia has many articles on Sanskrit.
Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary is online here.
Lexilogos has a good list of Sanskrit resources here.
Read another book!
Meditation Secrets for Women is essential reading for any women who want to thrive in meditation. It is also handy for guys wanting to understand women and what they need.
Meditation Made Easy is a great review of the essential elements of a meditation practice.
On this site are offerings of books, seminars, and individual coaching to help you thrive with meditation in your daily life. If you are a yoga, meditation, or tantra teacher, I offer coaching in developing your own approach to practicing and teaching yoga meditation techniques. Meditation 24-7.com is one of my other sites and has some interesting notes on the senses and magnetism.
If you feel like meditating right now, you could head over here and listen to 30-second samples of 14 different guided meditations. Or glance through The Radiance Sutras and notice what resonates with you. Keep it simple and be playful in your approach. Give yourself freedom to explore what delights you.
Invite Lorin to come speak to your conference or lead a workshop. One of my favorite things is training yoga teachers how to teach meditation.The Instinctual Roots of Meditation
If you have a body and mind, you can meditate. Learning to meditate is a matter of finding out how to activate your innate abilities, and this is always an adventure. If you want to include meditation in your life, find your personal gateways. These are different for each of us, and also change over time as we evolve.Buddha said that he gave 84,000 dharmas, for all the different kinds of people there are. The good news is there is something for everybody. The downside is that out of the thousands of meditation techniques, most of them will be wrong for your body type and life direction in the here and now. When you practice a technique that is not right for your type, it feels like an imposition and is slightly harmful, and wastes your time.
When you discover your personal gateways, it feels like love. You are falling into the center of your own heart. A relief, and exciting, and restful. The goal of a teacher such as myself is to assist you in spending more time in love with life and less time struggling with techniques that are not right for you in the first place. Instinctive Meditation is a way of accessing the wealth of knowledge of the ancient yoga meditation traditions, and discovering the practices that work for you – your body, your heart and mind, your life.
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