Yogic Self-Development Seminars

The Yogic Self-Development Seminars are a series of six self-help seminars that explore three important facets of life; concentration, willpower and love, that are necessary for success in any spiritual or material undertaking. These seminars combine all aspects of yoga–hatha yoga (yoga exercises), meditation techniques and other yoga self-management techniques to develop these three essential elements of life. The contents in the seminars are based on the training that I received from my guru, the late Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, who taught me that yoga is not limited to spiritual efforts and goals. His training was practical and based on doing mundane day to day chores to profound life transforming projects. His perspective of yoga was that all of life, even doing the simplest chore such as sweeping the floor is yogic effort. Yogic effort is in fact 24 hours a day, even as we sleep. From this point of view even working to fulfill desires whether they be spiritual or material is part of achieving yogic mastery of life.

It is general knowledge that the most powerful human organ is the brain. However, do you know how to harness its latent powers to conjure up its powerful potential? It has to do with developing conscious and subconscious concentration of the mind. Learn how to develop this storehouse of positive force within you using methods drawn from Ashtanga Yoga. Techniques involve learning specific Hatha Yoga exercises, breathing techniques (prananyama) and affirmations (effective subconscious auto-suggestion).

Seminars Two, Three and Four of the Yogic Self-Development Seminars are dedicated to the study of willpower. Willpower is a most crucial element in making all things happen in life whether they be for material or spiritual purposes. Willpower is comprised of three faculties and states of mind. They are desire, determination and discipline.

Seminars Five and Six explores the power of love and how it can take us to the heights of achieving our ideals and beyond into God Realization, the ultimate prize of yogic effort.