Communing with AUM - Advanced Practices

2-day weekend

• Aug 10 – 12, 2012

Designed for those with a deep interest in AUM who have a strong meditation practice. For disciples of Paramhansa Yogananda, there will be an additional AUM technique class. If you’re not a disciple and would like to take the program, please call 800-346-5350, and ask to speak with Bharat’s wife, Anandi.

You will learn little-known techniques taught by Paramhansa Yogananda for merging into Sacred AUM. Through visualizations, guided activities, devotional AUM meditations, chanting, inspirational stories, and deep yogic teachings, the Cosmic Vibration will come alive for you as never before.

Saturday will be a dynamic flow of lecture and experiential exercises for deep communion with AUM. You’ll learn how to make your AUM practice more devotional, expansive, and God-reminding throughout the day. You will also hear how saints from all traditions have found God through His Holy Vibration.

Your days will include instruction, guided AUM meditations in nature, guided practices using the gong, and listening to AUM within yourself.

An evening of heart-opening chanting to Cosmic Vibration, interspersed with quiet listening and absorption, will help you draw even more deeply on the sacred vibrations of AUM.

This is a weekend to transform your spiritual life. The course is led by Bharat Cornell and is based on his own reverent study and devoted practice of the AUM technique. Bharat is known for his ability to bring spiritual principles alive through experiential techniques.

After the AUM seminar in Palo Alto, Nayaswami Asha wrote:

“I loved every moment of the workshop. It was superb. Those who have been doing the AUM technique even for decades, came away with deeper insights and renewed enthusiasm for the divine potential of this meditation practice. Beginners were launched into inner space by the power of practicing AUM together.”

After the AUM seminar at The Expanding Light, Teresa, a new guest, wrote:

 

Bharat Cornell

Bharat (Joseph Cornell) is a Kriyacharya, a Nayaswami, and the creator of Ananda’s Meditation Support Site and The Gift of Inner Peace. The Meditation Support Site currently has over 5,000 enthusiastic members.

Bharat has lived at Ananda for 35 years, and is one of the well-loved Sunday Service ministers. His classes and workshops on AUM are extremely popular and well-attended.

Joseph Cornell's first book, Sharing Nature with Children, published in 1979, has sold 500,000 copies in over 20 languages, and sparked a worldwide revolution in nature awareness.

Joseph started the Sharing Nature Foundation in 1978 to help spread his work throughout the world. He is the Honorary President of the Japan Nature Games Association, a group of more than 11,000 Japanese educators who give Sharing Nature workshops in Southeast Asia. Joseph has traveled widely to work with similar groups in other lands, including Germany, Brazil, Taiwan, Slovenia, and Great Britain.

Whether teaching about nature or meditation, Bharat is known for his ability to bring important principles alive through experiential activities.

Prices are all-inclusive and cover accommodations, meals, classes or activities, and course materials.

Communing with AUM - Advanced Practices starts the afternoon of the first date listed. It’s ideal to arrive before 4 pm, if you are able to. That way, you can join in the afternoon session of yoga and meditation, which begins at 4:45 pm. Dinner is at 6:30. The first real gathering of your group is at 7:30 pm. If you need to arrive here after 5 pm, that’s fine, but it helps us if you let us know at 800-346-5350. We can also put aside a dinner for you if you need to arrive after 7 pm. The program ends with lunch on the last date. Please see our Daily Schedule.

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