(Audio)
304.1 - Balancing Kundalini with Ayurveda Diet
(Charts Included)
(Audio)
304.2 - Icy Sweetness in the Heart
(Audio)
304.3 - Discoloration of the Skin with Secretions of Oily Ojas and Vibhuti
(Holy Ash)
304.4 - Accumulation of Air in the Center
305
Must We Become
Vegetarians?
(Audio)
306
Vitamins, Supplements and Herbal Remedies
(Audio)
306.1 - Are Herbal Supplements
Essential for Spiritual Development?
307
Hallucinogens and Yoga
(Audio)
307.1 - Dialog on
Ayahuasca, Yoga, Dissociation and Fear
(Audio)
307.2 - Can Hallucinogens Help Health
and Yoga?
307.3 - Getting Together with Old
Friends Who Still Do Drugs
308
Addictions and Flights
of Fancy
(Audio)
308.1 - 12 Step Paths
vs. AYP for Addictions
(Audio)
309
Yoga, Overcoming Hunger, and Weight
Control
(Audio)
309.1 - Obesity and Yoga
(Audio)
310
Fasting - A Powerful Spiritual Practice
(Audio)
310.1 - Why
are AYP Fasting Instructions so Varied?
(Audio)
311
Inner Silence, Eating Habits and
Mind-Body-Spirit Connection
(Audio)
312
Shatkarmas, Bodily Purification and
Enlightenment
(Audio)
313
Cleansing of Mouth, Nasal Passages and
Sinuses
(Audio)
314
Colon Cleansing
(Audio)
315
Intestinal Wash
(Audio)
316
More Shatkarmas and Overall Guidelines
(Audio)
317
Eleven Key Questions on Samyama
(Audio)
317.1 - Loss of
Stillness During Samyama
(Audio)
317.2 - Releasing Interpreted Meanings or
Energies versus Releasing Sutras in Samyama Practice
317.3 - Random Experiments Using Mantras and
Invocations in Samyama
318
Is the Witness the Same as Enlightenment?
(Audio)
319
Amaroli - Urine Therapy
(Audio)
319.1 - Improving the Taste of Amaroli
319.2 - Too Much Amaroli
320
Kundalini and Refined
Sensory Perception
(Audio)
321
An Inquiry about Ending
Suffering
(Audio)
321.1 - Parkinson's
Disease, the Witness and Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
322
The Witness as
Underlying Cause of Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
323
Roles of Knowledge, Philosophy and Direct
Experience
(Audio)
323.1 - Is the Study of Philosophy a
Form of Self-Inquiry?
323.2 - Drug Experiences and
Non-Relational Self-Inquiry
324
Self-Inquiry - From Inspiration to
Realization
(Audio)
325
Relational and Non-Relational Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
325.1 - Cultivating Relational
Self-Inquiry in Everyday Living
(Audio)
325.2 - How Deep Meditation and
Samyama Promote Relational Self-Inquiry
325.3 - The Dangers of Persistent
Non-Relational Self-Inquiry
326
Styles of Self-Inquiry and Bridging the
Gap
(Audio)
326.1 - Self-Inquiry
During Deep Meditation?
(Audio)
326.2 - The Fulfillment
of Affirmations in Stillness
(Audio)
327
The Evolutionary Stages of Mind
(Audio)
327.1 - The Rose of
Enlightenment is Still a Rose by Any Other Name
(Audio)
327.2 - A Dialog on the Dissociation Effect of "I
am THAT"
(Audio)
327.3 - Moving Beyond the Spiritual Dissociation
Stage
(Audio)
327.4 - The Rise of Passionate
Dispassion
327.5 - Navigating through a Period of
Evolutionary Spiritual Dissociation
328
On Becoming "Ripe"
(Audio)
329
Pitfalls of the Mind
(Audio)
329.1 - Stop Meditating
when there is Some Abiding Inner Silence?
(Audio)
329.2 - Can the Mind Understand Ignorance?
(Audio)
329.3 - Practices After Awakening?
(Audio)
329.4 - A Revelation on the Importance of Regular
Practice
(Audio)
330
Self-Inquiry and the Limbs of Yoga
(Audio)
331
Non-Duality and Ecstatic Kundalini
(Audio)
331.1 - The Witness,
Self-Inquiry and Kundalini
(Audio)
332
Darshan, Shaktipat and the Global Web of
Awakening
(Audio)
332.1 - What is Initiation?
(Audio)
333
Dissolving the Witness in Unity
(Audio)
333.1 - Is the
Witness a Retreat from Life?
(Audio)
333.2 - The Mystery of Awareness
(Audio)
334
Advaita (non-duality), Free Will and Karma
(Audio)
335
The Role of Desire in Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
336
A Confirmation of Unity
(Audio)
336.1 - The True Nature of Existence, Life and
Death
(Audio)
336.2 - The Grasping Mind and the Bumpy Road
into Unity
337
Dare to Dream
(Audio)
338
Bhakti - You are the Doorway
(Audio)
339
Your Chosen Ideal
(Audio)
340
Transforming Emotional Energy for
Enlightenment
(Audio)
340.1 - Appreciation and Bhakti
(Audio)
340.2 - Frustrated with
Perceived Lack of Progress
340.3 - How to Handle a Plateau
in Perceived Spiritual Progress
341
Bhakti and Self-Pacing
(Audio)
341.1 - Ruthless
Bhakti
(Audio)
342
Bhakti and Your Yoga Practices
(Audio)
343
What is Karma?
(Audio)
344
Transcending Karma and Putting It to Good
Use
(Audio)
344.1 - The Practical Aspects of Transcending Karma
(Audio)
344.2 - Karma and the 2020 Pandemic
345
The Spiritual Evolution of Action
(Audio)
345.1 - Ken
Wilber and Karma Yoga
(Audio)
346
Mapping the Transformation of Action
(Audio)
347
The Role of Service
(Audio)
347.1 - We the
Householders
(Audio)
347.2
- Service Versus Telling Others What To Do
(Audio)
348
A Journey from Here to Here
(Audio)
348.1 - Overcoming
Attachment to Spiritual Experiences
(Audio)
349
The Convergence of Bhakti and Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
350
Practices for Moving Beyond the Witness
Stage
(Audio)
350.1 - The Witness in Relation to Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
351
Adding Self-Inquiry to Core Samyama
Practice
(Audio)
351.1 - Self-Inquiry
Sutra: Variations and Importance of Habit
(Audio)
351.2 - Ramana Maharshi
and the Samyama Self-Inquiry Sutra
(Audio)
351.3 - Clarification on the "I-thought" in
the Self-Inquiry Sutra
352
Instant versus Gradual Enlightenment - How
to Boil a Frog
(Audio)
353
Alternate Sutra for Self-Inquiry Samyama
(Audio)
354
Is Mind the Enemy?
(Audio)
355
Deep Meditation Reminders
(Audio)
355.1 - Recognizing the Witness
(Audio)
355.2 - How to
Handle the "Monkey Mind" in Deep Meditation
356
How to Recognize Relational Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
356.1 - Wild Emotions
and Relational Self-Inquiry
(Audio)
357
Who is the Perceiver?
(Audio)
357.1 - "Why Am I?"
(Audio)
358
Can I Trust the Mantra?
(Audio)
359
Pratyahara - The Forgotten Limb of Yoga?
(Audio)
360
Acts of Surrender
(Audio)
361
Ramana Maharshi and AYP
(Audio)
362
Ideological Jnana Yoga
(Advaita-Vedanta)
(Audio)
363
Liberation of the One is Liberation of the
Whole
(Audio)
364
Each Practice in Its Own Time
(Audio)
365
The Range of Sensitivities to Deep
Meditation
(Audio)
365.1 - Rising World Consciousness and Sensitivity to
Practices
(Audio)
365.2 - Rising Spiritual Sensitivity Worldwide -
How to Manage It
(Audio)
365.3 - Implications of the Accelerating Rise in
World Consciousness
(Audio)
365.4 - Dialog on Distribution of
Sensitivities in a Large AYP Group
(Audio)
365.5 - What is Spiritual Energy Sensitivity?
366
Suggestions for Under-Sensitive Meditators
(Audio)
366.1 - Plateaus in
Experience versus Under-Sensitivity to Practices
(Audio)
367
Suggestions for
Over-Sensitive Meditators
(Audio)
367.1 - Using Nadi Shodana when Sensitive to Spinal
Breathing
(Audio)
367.2 - For Sensitivity, Meditating Once Per Day?
(Audio)
367.3 - Follow-up on
Breath Meditation
(Audio)
367.4 - Passive Awareness Technique for Very
Sensitive Meditators
(Audio)
367.5 - Meditation: Good Results, but with
Sensitivity
(Audio)
367.6 -
Sensitivity vs. Progress with Different Styles of Meditation
(Audio)
367.7 - Restarting Practices after Discontinuing
Due to Overload
(Audio)
367.8 - Breath Meditation Slowing Overload Down.
Now what?
(Audio)
367.9 - Self-Pacing with Fewer Meditation
Sessions per Day or Week
(Audio)
367.10 - A Case of Well-Managed
Over-Sensitivity to Deep Meditation with Mantra
367.11 - For Sensitive Meditators: When to
Switch from Mantra to Breath as Object
367.12 - A Case of Sensitivity
368
The Solar Centering Enhancement
(Audio)
368.1 - Solar Centering and Sensitivity to Meditation
(Audio)
368.2 - Solar Centering
with Breath Meditation
(Audio)
368.3 - "Clunky Stage"
with the Solar Centering Enhancement
(Audio)
368.4 - "Feeling" the Solar Center
369
Alternate Approach to Mantra Enhancements
(Audio)
369.1 -
Going Beyond the Third Mantra Enhancement
(Audio)
369.2
- Does OM in an AYP Mantra Enhancement Lead to Dissociation and Withdrawal?
370
Clarifications on the Solar Centering
Enhancement
(Audio)
370.1 - Solar Centering
and Heart Opening
(Audio)
370.2 - Is the Solar Centering
Enhancement for Everyone?
371
Self-Directed Mantra Enhancement Strategy
(Audio)
372
Witnessing versus Focused Attention to
Dissolve Obstructions
(Audio)
373
Fear as a Cause of Under-Sensitivity to
Deep Meditation
(Audio)
374
Samyama and Solar Centering
(Audio)
375
Out of Our Heads
(Audio)
376
Beyond Death
(Audio)
376.1 - On Pain,
Suffering, Death and Suicide
(Audio)
376.2 - Transcending the Body/Mind and then Putting
It to Good Use
(Audio)
377
Inner Sound During Meditation
(Audio)
377.1 - Deep Meditation as Cause of Nada (Divine
Sound)
(Audio)
377.2 - Inner Hum - Is it OM or Tinnitus?
(Audio)
377.3 - Tinnitus and Self-Pacing of Practices
378
How Does Pranayama Awaken Kundalini?
(Audio)
378.1 - The
Biochemistry of Prana, and Beyond...
(Audio)
378.2 - Natural vs.
Intentional Kumbhaka (Breath Retention)
(Audio)
378.3 - The Breathless
State
(Audio)
378.4 - Kumbhaka: The
Finer Points of Exhalation and Inhalation
(Audio)
379
Swallowing Air
(Audio)
379.1 - Air Accumulating in the Belly
380
Catching the Attaching
(Audio)
381
Ida, Pingala and Kundalini Awakening
(Audio)
381.1 - Gopi Krishna
and Unbalanced Kundalini Awakenings
(Audio)
382
Is Ecstasy a Prerequisite for
Enlightenment?
(Audio)
383
Yoga Asanas - Traditional or Modern?
(Audio)
383.1 - Enhanced AYP Asana Routine (Illustrated)
(Audio)
383.2 - Maha Mudra
(Audio)
383.3 - Rationale behind AYP Asana Sets
(Audio)
383.4 - Video:
Enhanced AYP Asana Routine
(Audio)
383.5
- About Sirsasana
(headstand) and its Risks
383.6 - Hot
Yoga, Cold Yoga, and Real Yoga
384
Baseline Systems of Practice and Research
on Modifications
(Audio)
384.1 - Regarding
Add-Ons to AYP, and the Relationship between AYP and Kriya Yoga
(Audio)
384.2 - Modifications and Self-Pacing for the AYP
Baseline System
(Audio)
384.3 - Teaching
Modifications to the AYP Techniques is not AYP
384.4 - Mixing AYP Techniques with Present
Moment Awareness Inquiry Method
385
Review on Building a Baseline Practice
Routine
(Audio)
385.1 - Practice Chart and Discussion on Building a
Daily Routine
(Audio)
385.2 - Look for Results in Daily Life
(Audio)
385.3
- Which Practice Chart to Use, AYP or Secrets of Wilder?
(Audio)
385.4 -
Arrangement of Energy Practices and Prayers in the Routine
(Audio)
385.5 - AYP
System Design: An Engineer's Point of View
(Audio)
385.6 - On Mantra: The Difference
Between "I AM" and "i am" in the Secrets of Wilder
386
Group Practice
(Audio)
387
Retreats
(Audio)
387.1 - To Go on
Retreat or Not. Inner Voices?
(Audio)
387.2 - Sensitivity to Meditation and Going on
Retreat
(Audio)
387.3 - Solo Retreats
(Audio)
388
Our Role as Teachers
(Audio)
388.1 - Balancing Our
Spiritual Sharing with the Life We are Living
(Audio)
388.2 - Challenges, Openings, and whether to Teach?
(Audio)
388.3 - Financial
Responsibilities and Teaching Yoga
(Audio)
388.4 - The Emergence of Humility in our Teaching and
Service
(Audio)
388.5 - Suggestions on the Student-Teacher
Relationship
(Audio)
388.6 - Video: AYP Teacher Training Course
Experience
388.7 - Suggestions on Teaching Students in
Pregnancy, for Home Practice and in Retreat Mode
389
Why Won't
You be My Guru?
(Audio)
390
When Will I be Enlightened?
(Audio)
391
Changes in Bhakti from Dual to Non-Dual
(Audio)
391.1 - Bhakti,
Refining Perception and Non-Duality
(Audio)
392
The Aloneness of Enlightenment
(Audio)
392.1 - A Dialog on Rising Unity
(Audio)
392.2 - Something in Nothing
393
On Self-Defense and Forgiveness
(Audio)
393.1 - Samyama and Self-Defense
(Audio)
393.2 - Employing
Kundalini in Martial Arts
(Audio)
394
Satsang - The Importance of Spiritual
Community
(Audio)
395
The Power of the Pen, and the Keyboard
(Audio)
395.1 - On Writing: Sobbing While Journaling
(Audio)
396
Do Online Forums Inhibit Spiritual
Progress?
(Audio)
397
Deep Meditation and Analysis Paralysis
(Audio)
397.1 - Hanging on to
Experiences During Deep Meditation
(Audio)
397.2 - The Pros and
Cons of Discussing Spiritual Experiences
(Audio)
397.3 - Can Sharing Experiences Hurt
Spiritual Progress?
398
Is Self-Inquiry Necessary for
Enlightenment?
(Audio)
398.1 - Is it
Necessary to Do Structured Self-Inquiry?
(Audio)
398.2 - Reconciling Non-Dual Self-Inquiry with Engaging in the World
(Audio)
399
Mind - Faster than the Speed of Light
(Audio)
399.1 - Is the Physical
Universe Infinite?
(Audio)
400
Theory and Practice
(Audio)
400.1 - Science Under
the Hood: Is Prana a Light Wave?
(Audio)
401
Mulabandha and Full Yogic (belly)
Breathing
(Audio)
402
About that word "Advanced"
(Audio)
403
The Question with No Answer
(Audio)
403.1 - More Questions
with No Answer
(Audio)
403.2 - In the
World but Not of the World
(Audio)
404
On Jumping to the Third Mantra Enhancement
(Audio)
405
The Uncertainty of Life
(Audio)
406
Kundalini Conundrum
(Audio)
407
Pranayama for Relaxation or for
Kundalini Awakening?
(Audio)
408
Samyama, Elbow Grease and Non-Duality
(Audio)
409
Asanas (Postures) and Premature Kundalini
Awakening
(Audio)
410
Early Signs of Kundalini Awakening
(Audio)
411
Less is More
(Audio)
411.1 - Is There More?
(Audio)
412
Will Kechari Mudra Practice Deform the
Soft Palate?
(Audio)
413
Is Enlightenment No-Thing or All-Things?
(Audio)
413.1 - Describing the Elephant of
Enlightenment
414
Off to a Good Start with Meditation, but...
(Audio)
414.1 - Off to a Good Start with a Lot of AYP
Practices, but...
(Audio)
414.2 - Signs of
Overdoing After One Year of AYP
(Audio)
415
Samyama and Prayer for Dissolving Global
Problems
(Audio)
415.1 - Curing a Pandemic with Yoga?
416
From Third Eye to Sixth Sense, and Beyond
(Audio)
416.1 - Inner
Seeing and the Secrets of Wilder
(Audio)
416.2 - "Dimensional" Spiritual Experiences Versus
Enlightenment
(Audio)
416.3 - How to Serve Beings in the
Subtle Realms
417
Automatic Yoga Revisited
(Audio)
418
Gurus, Teachers and Self-Sufficiency
(Audio)
418.1 - AYP
Unstructured vs. Structured (certified) Teaching
(Audio)
418.2 - Practitioner
Self-Sufficiency vs. Running in Circles
(Audio)
419
Where's the Shaktipat Coming From?
(Audio)
420
The Doctor Is In
(Audio)
420.1 - Can More AYP Practice plus
Anti-Depressants Reduce Stress?
421
Spirits and Spirit Guides
(Audio)
421.1 - Inner Silence and Spirit Guides
(Audio)
421.2 - Moving Beyond
Those Not-So-Kind Guides
(Audio)
421.3 - Entity Attack
or Excessive Kundalini?
(Audio)
421.4 -
"Spirit Guides" are Driving Me Crazy!
(Audio)
421.5 - Struggling with an Entity after Ayahuasca?
422
Curing Kundalini Excesses
(Audio)
423
Why So Much Fuss about What is So Simple?
(Audio)
424
After the Ecstasy
(Audio)
425
Urgent Bhakti and Overdoing
(Audio)
425.1 - Bhakti,
Kundalini and Self-Pacing
(Audio)
425.2 - A Dialog on Self-Pacing
(Audio)
426
Enlightenment Time Line
(Audio)
426.1 - Enlightenment
Bar Chart
(Audio)
426.2 - Assigning
Enlightenment Status
(Audio)
427
Taking the Leap to Direct Experience
(Audio)
428
The Transformation of Ego
(Audio)
428.1 - Dialog on
"the Ego"
(Audio)
428.2 - Where is the
Boundary Between Ego and Spirit?
(Audio)
428.3 - Sudden vs. Gradual Spiritual Awakening
(Audio)
428.4 - Ego: Friend or Foe?
(Audio)
429
We Can Do This
(Audio)
429.1 - The Trials and Tribulations of
Spiritual R&D
430
Freedom
(Audio)