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.
“This is my favorite text of all time.” —Shiva Rea
Summer
The Radiance Sutras at Kripalu
August 14-16, 2009 – Friday through Sunday
In the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts
In a weekend of joyous practice with movement, sound, breath, and meditation, you will explore the teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a classic text describing 112 methods for touching the sacred right here, in the midst of daily life. The Bhairava Tantra sings of passionate serenity, in which all your senses are alive to the vibrancy of the world, with a foundation of inner centeredness.
The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous, and accessible version of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these methods for 40 years. His emphasis is on spontaneity and playfulness, so that meditation can become a natural part of your life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
You don’t have to be good or virtuous to practice these methods. The sutras focus on catching yourself whenever you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. Come immerse yourself in the direct experience of these joyous and life-affirming practices and find the approach that matches your unique inner nature and outer life.
CE Credits
This program is eligible for :
- 8 credits for social workers, $20 additional charge
- 8 credits for certified counselors (NBCC), $20 additional charge
The Body Sutra at Kula Space
I love what Ana Berry is doing heree, rocking Sutra 81. Each person embodying a sutra does so in a different way. The crowd and musicians respond differently each time. This is the only one we have on video.
September
Sutra Sessions at Bhakti Fest, Joshua Tree
September 11-13, 2009 – Friday through Sunday
Joshua Tree is about 15 miles East of Los Angeles, just East and North of Palm Springs
Bhakti Fest is 3 days of Kirtan and workshops out in the beautiful and sacred Joshua Tree desert in California. Among other things, we will have Sutra Session workshops, in which you get to practice embodying the sutras that are calling you. In addition, we are going to be performing The Radiance Sutras out in the open, with Dave Stringer and other kirtan musicians. Sign up now, let’s get the planning for this party started! Festival admission is $200 untir May 1, then it will go up. Commit, then send me an email and let me know. As soon as SRIDHAR SILBERFEIN - executive producer, and KENNETH SCHWENKER invited me to come participate, I had the feeling that Bhakti Fest is going to be huge. The energy of it is already magnificent.
The Radiance Sutras Book is Now Available:
The book, The Radiance Sutras is now, finally, available, as a spiral bound copy. It is beautiful and handy – it lies flat for ease of reading. $25 plus $5 shipping and handling (within the United States.) Internationally, the postage is $12.95 – we send everything by Global Priority. To order, just send an email with your phone number, and I’ll call you back. Or call 310-821-0620, and we will take your credit card number or Paypal account info and mail you out a copy.
You can read the first part of the book here.
"These sutras express the ecstasy of the deep Tantric practices.”
– Dave Stringer
The cover, in case you were wondering, is a photograph of Venus transiting the Sun June 8, 2004, just after dawn, taken by David Cortner. I love this image and licensed it from David.
Read a book!
Meditation 24/7 comes with a CD of 14 different guided meditations.
Meditation Secrets for Women is essential reading for any women who want to thrive in meditation.
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.Instinctive 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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