“Yoga is a living tradition. Lorin is on the front lines as a meditation teacher, a champion of natural meditation, of awakening consciousness everywhere, in all places, in all times. He is bringing over into the Western world the deepest teachings of Tantra, giving them voice to sing out clearly.” Shiva Rea, Samudra School of Living Yoga
“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."
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.
“If you love Rumi, Hafiz, The Tao, if you love words dancing out of the mystery, welcome to the Radiance Sutras: these are among the most profound, exquisite and luminous verses you will ever read.” - Jack Kornfield, Author of A Path With Heart
“This is my favorite text of all time.” —Shiva Rea
To order a copy, go to our bookstore.
Note the meditation teacher training events!
Events for May 2012
May 13-18, 2012 – A 5-day retreat with THE RADIANCE SUTRAS with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA.
Come immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement, in the gorgeous world of Esalen. We will explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality—accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
Go deeper into the body, breath, and movement of these vibrant energy practices. Receive personal feedback and support from Lorin and Camille, in the synergy of the group field and spirit. The sensuous, poetic language of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, is our text.
Register at Esalen online or call Esalen at: 831 667 3005.
Events for June 2012
Sonic Yoga in New York
Meditation Teacher Training: A Zesty Life-Affirming Approach
June 1 & 2 (Friday and Saturday)
All human beings have the ability to meditate. Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana. When we find the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action. In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them in the process.
Fri. 10am to 12pm
Public Meditation Class 1:30 - 5:30
Meditation Teacher Training Sat. 10am to 12pm
Public Meditation Class 1:30 to 5:30
Meditation Teacher Training with Lorin Roche.
$216 for the 2 days.
sign up here: Sonic Yoga in New York
Prana Yoga in La Jolla, California
A weekend of Meditation Teacher Training
June 8-10
Saturday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
Sunday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
For more information or to register go here.
For a flyer, go here to svarasa.com
Events for August 2012
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
Wild Serenity 5-day
August 19-24, 2012
Wild Serenity is a radically liberating, deeply revitalizing weekend of meditation, movement, and energy practices. The workshop explores the interplay between meditation and expression—the way that contact with the soul inspires dynamic engagement with the outer world, which in turn contributes to a rich inner life.
Meditation can be defined as paying attention to the current of life and love flowing through us and riding it inward to our essence. This is an instinctive ability, a way of accessing inner wisdom, and we all can do it. The course alternates sitting and moving meditations that awaken the senses, soften the heart, and stretch the muscles of the mind. Through body awareness, sound, and breath, you gently and gradually let more life force stream through you.
In this approach, you learn to embrace the fullness of your nature—vastness and vulnerability, sensuality and surging power. You will discover that what might seem like obstacles—raw emotions, restlessness, desire—are actually gateways into vitality, renewal, and creativity.
Living and loving fully takes courage and all the inner resources one can muster. Drawing on three decades of teaching and twenty-nine years of relationship, authors Maurine and Roche share their experience with humor and compassion. If you’ve given up on meditation, or are ready to take your practice to a new level; if you want to tap into more joy and inspiration; if you long for more intimacy with yourself and others, then perhaps it’s time for Wild Serenity. This course is also useful for those in the helping professions.
Recommended reading: Maurine and Roche, Meditation Secrets for Women (published by Harper); Roche, The Radiance Sutras (available at www.lorinroche.com) and Meditation Made Easy (published by Harper).
sign up here.
Events for September 2012
Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California
September 6-9
Shakti Fest is a celebration of life, creation and the Divine Feminine that dwells within each one of us.
Events for October 2012
Ananda Shala in Frederick, Maryland
Events for December 2012
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
The Radiance Sutras
Weekend of December 14-16, 2012
Luminous Being: Embodying the Radiance Sutras
Camille Maurine & Lorin Roche
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. We will explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality—accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
Sign up here.
Instinctive Meditation is a way of learning and practicing meditation in accord with your unique and individual inner nature, your prakriti. When we meditate in this way, we thrive.
see more events
and ask about the meditation practice Teleclass.
Articles
Practice pages: meditation
By Dr. Lorin Roche
Pain as Portal
Ouch. Ooooooowwwwwwwwwwwch. The mantra of pain.
Hurt happens. In sports, we can get blistered, sprained, sunburned, and bruised. In cooking, we can get cut, stabbed, burned, shocked, stung, pepper in the nose, onion in the eyes. Love is a workout too, with its own injuries: heartaches can come as sharp pangs, stabs of pain, aching loneliness, the tearing when something in a relationship rips.
There is a yoga practice for injury, and it is simple and cruel: enter the pain. Use it as a doorway.
read more at svarasa.com
Lorin’s Other Sites
Lorinroche.com has gotten too large, thousands and thousands of pages, so I have a group of other sides which are more focused on specific areas:
Meditation 24-7 is oriented toward Workshop and Class notes, with sections on the 21 senses, the instincts, and the Journey of Meditation.
Bija.biz has notes on meditation teacher training.
Bhairavatantra.com focuses on The Radiance Sutras and has some notes.
vijnanabhairavatantra.com is a new site and I am putting up some VBT-related notes
Spanda.us has some notes about pulsation and the theme of the Return -
Shrutam.com is redundant, a practice site.
Instinctivemeditation.com is mostly just a mirror site to lorinroche.com
svarasa.com has articles and essays.