Swamiji gives guided meditations, but he always stresses the value of Reflection, that is, holding an idea within the space and silence available to us in meditation. Insight comes from the realm of Insight, not from the mind. This is why he calls his guided meditations, ‘Journeys in Advaita’.
Vishuddhi Chakra
Recordings series compiled from a recent online course. This recording is an introduction and a guided reflection to Vishuddhi Chakra. The text books, especially those written by Swami Nishchalananda (see…
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Anahata Chakra: part 2
When the mind is still then automatically the Heart is lucid. Thinking takes us away from the moment, thinking takes us into the past or future whereas the Heart brings…
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Anahata Chakra: part 1
Within the realm of Anahata chakra, ‘…there is this sense of being in the moment, and flowing with all the ups and downs of life, and this is Surrender.’
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Manipura Chakra
Recordings compiled from a recent online course, and including content from the archives; the Chakra course at Mandala Yoga ashram in 2002. This recording is an introduction and a guided…
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Swadhishthana Chakra
Recordings compiled from a recent online course, and including content from the archives; the Chakra course at Mandala Yoga ashram in 2002. This recording is an introduction and a guided…
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Mooladhara Chakra
Recordings compiled from a recent online course, and including content from the archives; the Chakra course at Mandala Yoga ashram in 2002. This recording is an introduction and a guided…
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Network in Consciousness
Everyone and everything in the universe, known and unknown, comprises the network of Reality. We may love and hate, we may accept and not accept, but these attitudes are just…
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Vigyana Bhairava Tantra – continued
The next two sessions in the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra series are now live. Subscribers to the series can find them in the subscription section on the main menu or the…
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Vigyana Bhairava Tantra – The Practices
As the editor of this blog, I’ve gone through all the archived recordings of Swamiji’s teachings on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra from around 20 years ago. In terms of audio…
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Vigyana Bhairava Tantra – Introduction
A series of recordings on the Kashmir Shaivism text ‘Vigyana Bhairava Tantra’, taken from a series of talks and practical lessons given by Swami Nishchalananda from 2002 through to the…
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The Practice of Antar Mouna
This is a basic practice of classical Yoga, but in truth it probably is a fundamental technique for anyone wanting to explore the ‘inner world’.
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Portal to Consciousness (4)
The final part of the second series on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, given online to the Sheffield School of Yoga. Swamiji begins by noting that we seem to have ‘deified’…
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Portal to Consciousness (1)
Part one of a further series of seminars on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra given to the Sheffield School of Yoga by Swami Nishchalananda. The session starts with Dharana number 72…
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VBT5 – Conscious Presence – final session
The last in the current series of seminars and meditations taken from the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, delivered to Sheffield School of Yoga by Swami Nishchalananda. Concepts are there to take…
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VBT4 – Conscious Presence – Deepening
Continuing the series of discourses on, and practices from, the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, given by Swami Nishchalananda to the Sheffield Yoga School. This is one of Swamiji’s areas of expertise;…
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I am Conscious
Swami Nishchalananda gave this meditation as part of the Advaita online course given in October 2020, hosted by Mandala Yoga Ashram. If one could truly connect with the simple truth…
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Short meditation on inner space
A short guided Meditation taken from the end of a satsang with Trainee Yoga Teachers. ‘You’re not denying thoughts… or anything… but you are identifying with inner space’.
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Meditation on the Heart Space
A guided meditation given on the ‘Song of the Heart’ course at Mandala Yoga Ashram, Wales.
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Two Meditations
Two meditations from the recent course at Mandala Yoga Ashram, in October 2019. Who it is that feels, sees, thinks through the medium of this body? Can the mind be…
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Silence – a guided meditation
What is the basis for the underlying silence? Is it because your mind is quiet, or is it because the silence is there anyway and the fact that we are…
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