The Awake Yoga Meditation Podcast

Awake Yoga Meditation
The Awake Yoga Meditation Podcast

Powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. Techniques and teachings from yoga philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, Kriya Yoga, and more that actually work and help us live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. awakeyogameditation.substack.com

  1. 1 OCT

    How to Know if You’ve Found God (and How to Do It)

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In this episode, Swami Nityananda weaves together teachings from Lahiri Mahasaya, Swami Yogananda, Swami Shankarananda, and more to help us understand how to recognize God’s presence within us and how God’s guidance works through us in the midst of our own lives. She explains how Kriya Yoga, meditation, love, and affection work together to connect us to divine kindness, wisdom, and inventiveness so that the particular song or frequency or vibration that can only be shared through us can be shared into the world for the benefit of all. If you’re reading this in your podcast feed and have not subscribed yet to our official newsletter on Substack, Feel Love Now with Swami Nityananda, consider subscribing for a lot more content like this. We share articles, audios, videos, and eCourses that offer powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. These techniques actually work and help you live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. To subscribe, visit: https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/give. Give to AYM Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/swami-bowl. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    29 min
  2. 10 SEPT

    Impossible To-Do Lists and How Yogis Approach Them

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In this episode, Swami Nityananda weaves together teachings from Krishna, Lahiri Mahasaya, the Bhagavad-Gita, Patanjali, Swami Shankarananda, and the Buddha to help us deepen our understanding of how we are so much more vast than this individual lifetime. She describes how this awareness—which sees from the perspective of our soul—can see beyond the separate self and move beyond stress, constraint, and feelings of sadness and trauma and transform from the feeling of “I’ve got to figure this all out myself” to “I feel God’s presence with me and God's support in this.”If you’re reading this in your podcast feed and have not subscribed yet to our official newsletter on Substack, Feel Love Now with Swami Nityananda, consider subscribing for a lot more content like this. We share articles, audios, videos, and eCourses that offer powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. These techniques actually work and help you live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. To subscribe, visit: https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/give. Give to AYM Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/swami-bowl. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    26 min
  3. 20 AUG

    How Compassion for Others Creates Compassion for Yourself

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In this episode, Swami Nityananda weaves together teachings from the Lahiri Mahasaya, Patanjali, the Yoga Sutras, and the Dalai Lama to help us deepen our understanding of compassion. She describes how a compassionate mind gives us a nonjudgmental, kind, wise, viewing platform from which we can look at the world with love and understanding—helping us respond with wisdom and joy and openheartedness to any human words or situations (even our own).If you’re reading this in your podcast feed and have not subscribed yet to our official newsletter on Substack, Feel Love Now with Swami Nityananda, consider subscribing for a lot more content like this. We share articles, audios, videos, and eCourses that offer powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. These techniques actually work and help you live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. To subscribe, visit: https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/give. Give to AYM Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/swami-bowl. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    27 min
  4. 6 AUG

    What Humans Forget that Blocks Us from Feeling Free

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In this episode, Swami Nityananda weaves together teachings from the Bhagavad-Gita, Swami Yogananda, the Upanishads, and Swami Shankarananda to help us deepen our understanding of the difference between the born self and the unborn self. She describes how understanding this difference can help us release unhealthy attachments in our relationships, to our emotions, and to our life’s experiences—helping us feel instantly free no matter where we are. If you’re reading this in your podcast feed and have not subscribed yet to our official newsletter on Substack, Feel Love Now with Swami Nityananda, consider subscribing for a lot more content like this. We share articles, audios, videos, and eCourses that offer powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. These techniques actually work and help you live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. To subscribe, visit: https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/give. Give to AYM Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/swami-bowl. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    27 min
  5. 23 JUL

    Becoming Aware of the Quiet

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In this episode, Swami Nityananda weaves together teachings from Lahiri Mahasaya, Thich Nhat Hanh, Swami Shankarananda, Kabir, and Ramana Maharshi to deepen our understanding of the pure life energy within us that can heal a broken heart and lead us from darkness to light. She also describes how the sacred holiday of Guru Purnima and meditating in community increase our ability to connect with this pure life energy. If you’re reading this in your podcast feed and have not subscribed yet to our official newsletter on Substack, Feel Love Now with Swami Nityananda, consider subscribing for a lot more content like this. We share articles, audios, videos, and eCourses that offer powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. These techniques actually work and help you live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. To subscribe, visit: https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/give. Give to AYM Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Visit: https://awakeyogameditation.org/swami-bowl. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    22 min
  6. 11 JUN

    Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God - The Seventh Chakra: Sahasraram (8 of 8)

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In the seventh chakra, sahasraram, we realize we are immortal beings. By sitting at “the mystic thousand-petaled lotus,” the crown chakra, we unfold bliss, bliss consciousness, and limitless, unconditional love in our lives. In this episode, Swami Shankarananda describes what might be blocking our hopes and dreams from becoming reality and how to live a life of Self-realization—that it doesn’t happen outside of us or in the future, but from within. To learn more about Kriya Yoga instruction, visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/kriya. To listen to all Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God episodes, visit https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-kriya-yoga-inner-path-to-god. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. About the Series Excerpted from a beloved series entitled Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God, these talks on the “spiritual science of Self-enlightenment” were presented live by the founder of Awake Yoga Meditation, Swami Shankarananda, before he left the body in 2014. Each talk beautifully describes the function of each of the seven chakras in the process of Self-unfoldment and shares some specific techniques that you can use right now to either enhance your existing meditation practice or prepare for your own Kriya Yoga journey. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    27 min
  7. 21 MAY

    Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God - The Sixth Chakra: Ajna (7 of 8)

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, In the sixth chakra, ajna, we see the first glimpse of bliss. Clarity comes and we listen to our inner guidance. We begin to understand that there is something within us that is immortal, eternal, and beyond limitation. We become empowered to let go of negative attitudes, habits, and emotions and no longer find negativity to be to our advantage. In this episode, Swami Shankarananda, Swami Nityananda’s teacher and founder of Awake Yoga Meditation, describes how vibration permeates everything, why self-inquiry is so important, and how our focus helps bring about what we want to experience in our lives. To learn more about Kriya Yoga instruction, visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/kriya. To listen to all Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God episodes, visit https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-kriya-yoga-inner-path-to-god. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at Awake Yoga Meditation P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. About the Series Excerpted from a beloved series entitled Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God, these talks on the “spiritual science of Self-enlightenment” were presented live by the founder of Awake Yoga Meditation, Swami Shankarananda, before he left the body in 2014. Each talk beautifully describes the function of each of the seven chakras in the process of Self-unfoldment and shares some specific techniques that you can use right now to either enhance your existing meditation practice or prepare for your own Kriya Yoga journey. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Give to AYM Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Give to Swami's Bowl This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    25 min
  8. 14 MAY

    Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God - The Fifth Chakra: Vishuddha (6 of 8)

    Dear Feel Love Now Community, The fifth chakra, visuddha, holds our power of freedom of choice. It can lead us towards awareness of our highest self and pure consciousness (pure thoughts) or it can lead us into false pride (impure thoughts). Swami Shankarananda describes how we can choose healing instead of pain, freedom instead of bondage, and compassion instead of suffering. To learn more about Kriya Yoga instruction, visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/kriya. To listen to all Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God episodes, visit https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-kriya-yoga-inner-path-to-god. In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at Awake Yoga Meditation P.S. If you are interested in joining the Karma Yoga Team to expand your practice of selfless service, love in action, please visit https://awakeyogameditation.org/karmayoga. About the SeriesExcerpted from a beloved series entitled Kriya Yoga: Inner Path to God, these talks on the “spiritual science of Self-enlightenment” were presented live by the founder of Awake Yoga Meditation, Swami Shankarananda, before he left the body in 2014. Each talk beautifully describes the function of each of the seven chakras in the process of self-unfoldment and shares some specific techniques that you can use right now to either enhance your existing meditation practice or prepare for your own Kriya Yoga journey. Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga MeditationYour generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s BowlAs the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Feel Love Now with Swami Nityananda is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe

    25 min

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Powerful tools for you to feel love now—and at any moment. Techniques and teachings from yoga philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, Kriya Yoga, and more that actually work and help us live a happier, more peaceful life while supporting wisdom and kindness in all. awakeyogameditation.substack.com

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