Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Teacher Trainer at Svaroopa Vidya Ashram I am a Teacher Trainer at Svaroopa Vidya Ashram. I teach both yoga & meditation.
My joy and goal is to share what my Guru, Gurudevi Nirmalananda has given to me. This yoga is amazing and I would love to share it with you. 🙏
To see the rest of Gurudevi’s discourse you can check it out in her video archive here:
https://svaroopa.org/deep-teachings-videos
Over a year ago we consolidated our two ashram buildings and moved into Lokananda, our immersion center. While I hung up most of my Guru photos, there have been some I haven’t found a home for yet.
Tonight I found the perfect spot for three of them, right above my closet! Having them so high up on the north wall feels great, like they are watching over me.
The center photo is my Guru - Gurudevi Nirmalananda
To her left is her Guru - Baba Muktananda
To her right is Baba’s Guru - Bhagavan Nityananda
This is our parampara or lineage of great meditation Masters that pass down the highest teachings of yoga and the grace that gives you the direct experience. 🙏
07/29/2026
Happy Guru Purnima!
Many pranams to my Guru - Gurudevi Nirmalananda Saraswati 🙏
She is the Lord of Yogis. A living example of how to be based in Self, bliss-filled while fully present and active in the world.
She is adorable!!! 🥰
And she is fire!!! 🔥
She will not let you stay small and limited. She won’t let you settle for good enough, or even happy. She wants you to be even more than happy - ever blissful, knowing and being your own Self.
While the Guru Gita verse 93 states that the Guru is the physician who cures the disease of worldliness, do not confuse this with world denial. The world is a beautiful manifestation of your own being. The world is Self in form.
Worldliness is getting lost in the form and forgetting that you are the one underlying it all.
The Guru reminds you of your own true nature. You rediscover your own Self and then recognize that same Self in all. Then, instead of worldliness you experience jagadananda - the bliss of the world. 💙
Thank you Gurudevi for being our guide and example of this.
Jai Jai Gurudevi!!! 🔥🧡🙏
Bliss chemicals!! Gurudevi talks all about them and more.
To see the rest of Gurudevi’s discourse you can check it out in her video archive here:
https://svaroopa.org/deep-teachings-videos
This is Anatomy for Yogis!
Today we are looking at the tailbone. And I will explain with the Svaroopa® Yoga Sutra:
“It all begins at your tailbone”
Have you ever seen a puppy when it’s scared how it tucks its tail under between its legs? Well we do the same thing.
Whenever you are anxious, worried, scared, angry, frustrated your body has a physical response. Your tailbone tucks under just like that scared puppy dog. Technically your tailbone tucks under and pulls to one side. This creates a domino effect of tightening all the way up your spine.
This is why in every Svaroopa® Yoga class we always start with a pose to release your tailbone tensions. And then we do more poses to carry the openings up your spine.
What would it be like to live with a long, soft fluffy tail?
Everything is better when you release your tailbone! Come to a yoga class to find out for yourself.
https://downingtownyoga.org/weekly-classes
This story is called Singing for God.
The great musician Tansen and King Akbar go to visit Haridas - Tansen’s Guru. Haridas’s music is so divine that King Akbar cries with joy. He wants to know why Hairidas’s music is so different.
Tansen explains that more important than what you do is who you do it for. Tansen plays for King Akbar but his Guru plays for God.
When you dedicate your actions to God, it makes a big difference. Not just for you but for those around you as well. 🙏
Place God in Your Heart
To see the rest of Gurudevi’s discourse you can check it out in her video archive here:
https://svaroopa.org/deep-teachings-videos
06/25/2026
Today marks my halfway point to becoming a millionaire!
A mantra millionaire that is 🙃
I’ve been doing 10,008 mantra repetitions (or more) a day for 50 days now. 50 more days to go!
What I’ve been finding is because I have a mantra goal each day, my mind turns to mantra on its own more often. If I have a few minutes of nothing scheduled it is a great mantra opportunity. This means my mind doesn’t get as stuck on other thoughts as it used to. Even if I do fall into the same thought cul-de-sac, it doesn’t take long for mantra to come streaming in and save the day.
This means my mind has more space, less crowded and more able to see clearly inside and outside. And it’s still a process. I look forward to the next 50 days of dedicated mantra and inner exploration.
Thank you Gurudevi for always reminding us again and again on how to apply ourselves to the practices and for the Grace you embody and that flows so abundantly through you 🙏
Happy International Day of Yoga! 🎉🙏🕉️
What do you love about yoga?
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To see the rest of Gurudevi’s discourse you can check it out in her video archive here:
https://svaroopa.org/deep-teachings-videos