A short 15 minute practice with Swami Nishchalananda, taken from a morning chanting and meditation session here at the ashram.
This session begins with a beautiful meditation in which Swami Nishchalananda utilises Bija mantras. These mantras, also known as 'seed' mantras, have the potential to take us beyond our thinking...
This session sees Swami Nishchalananda continue his exploration into the Bhagavad Gita, focusing this time on Chapter 7. Swamiji touches on themes such as Gyana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, discussing how...
This session begins with a peaceful meditation, in which Swami Nishchalananda reflects on our essential nature and invites us to identify with it.
Swamiji then continues his exploration of...
This session begins with a lovely, simple meditation on the chakras and their bija sounds.
Swamiji then continues his reflection and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, looking at...
by Swami Nishchalananda
Antar Mouna is one of the core meditation practices of the yoga tradition.
It is a precise, systematic process of cleansing the mind of its accumulated tensions and...
This sweet 15 minute guided meditation takes you on a journey to experience your body as an expression of the divine feminine essence.
by Tulsi
In this 30 minute meditation practice you will be guided in gentle process of chakra location and sensitisation, through each of the main chakras from Muladhara through to Sahasrara ...
by Tulsi
Trataka is a concentration practice. The word translates as 'steady gazing'.
In the practice an object of awareness is taken up and the gaze placed steadily upon that object. In the...
by Swami Satyadaya
Vigyana Bhairava Tantra is a Shaiva Tantra, of Kashmir Shaivism.
The teaching is conveyed as a dialog between Bhairava (Shiva, God) and Bhairavi (Shakti, Goddess) unfolding the...
by Swami Nishchalananda
'When we find the basis of our own individual existence we realise that the same basis in underlying everything'
Swamiji starts the session with a simple / profound...
The theme is a pressing one.... respect for planet Earth. Personify as the 'Goddess' Gaia if you will.
We know well how the planet's ecosystems struggle under the burden we inflict on them by being...
by Swami Nishchalananda
Where do we find the Timeless?
Our mind is in Time.
The whole Universe in in Time.
Time is a projection out of the Timeless.
by Swami Nishchalananda
What are We and what is Love?
How can we enjoy the joy, the love,
that is within the experience of Conscious Presence, Awareness?
The way is Meditation which reveals the...
a 15 minute practice by Tulsi
The Nirvana Shatakam is a Sanskrit chant composed by the great sage and teacher Adi Shankara over a thousand years ago.
The chant expresses the core doctrine of...
Swami Nishchalananda's Archives series.
A talk given to visiting Foreign Students at the South Asian Centre, Bangalore, 8th December 2001. The quality of the recording is quite poor in places,...
By Swami SatyaDaya
This 30-minute guided meditation recorded at the Ashram in 2021 gives us the opportunity to truly welcome home, into the heart space, those aspects of the personality and...
By Swami SatyaDaya
Imagine the whole surface of the body to be breathing. The breath fills the whole body on inhalation and is given up to space on exhalation. It may be that after some time the...
By Swami Nishchalananda
We can observe the senses, the act of seeing, of hearing, tasting.... but who is that observer? Who is the 'I' that sees or hears?
In this 40 minute meditative session,...
with Swami Krishnapremananda
This meditation was given by Swami Krishnapremananda at the Ashram in 2021. The focus is on forgiveness and kindness. The suggestion is to look at people we usually...
The history of yoga begins around 3000 years ago in the days of the Vedic culture that flourished in north-western India from 1500 – 500 BCE.
Due to the absence of any historical...
By Swami Nishchalananda
The Path to Realise Our Fullest Potential and Fundamental Identity
The chakras are centres of energy within each human being.
They function in each moment of our lives...
By Swami Nishchalananda
Kriya Yoga is a sophisticated method of harmonising and synchronising the natural energies of our being.
It channels our energy so that it flows in a creative direction...
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