Spirit Led - A Monthly Kriya Yoga Podcast

Patanjali gives instructions in the Yoga Sutras on how to overcome obstacles to spiritual enlightenment beginning with the Yamas (the restraints). In this episode Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses each of the five Yamas: Harmlessness, Truthfulness, Non-stealing, Right use of energy, and Non-attachment. He provides practical advise on how to incorporate these into daily life. 

Based on the teachings of the Yoga Sutras, Senior Minister Ron Lindahn explains the concept of the intellect (buddhi), and how it differs from the mind (manas). He explains how we become identified with the outside world, and how this identification results in feelings of limitation, suffering, and separation.  He then discusses ways to overcome the enchantment of mis-identification so that pure a...

Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses different aspects of the mind such as what motivates us, the physiological aspects of anticipation and the importance of keeping a routine to balance mind and body.  He also discusses balancing inner processes and reviews the layers of subtle bodies - physical, energy, mental, intellect, and pure awareness. 

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn continues lessons on the Yoga Sutras Chapter 2. This talk discusses Karma, the effects of the Gunas on our lives and how to maintain balance using Ayurvedic principles. 

Senior Minister Ron Lindahn reviews chapter one of the Yoga Sutras and continues the discussion of chapter two; with a focus on how to make practical changes to improve our lives and live more effectively. 

In this talk based on Chpt 2 of the Yoga Sutras, Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses the nature of consciousness and how to move through the layers of consciousness so we can reach ultimate awakening and experience the truth of who we are. Also, practical suggestions for dealing with fear and anxiety. 

Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses Samadhi (Superconscious states) as explained by Patanjali in Chapter One of the Yoga Sutras.  Including the types of Samadhi and how we can remove obstacles and experience our true nature. 

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses the Yoga Sutras and reviews Patanajali's guidelines for creating tranquility of thoughts and achieving a luminous state of mind. 

CSA Minister Leode Franklin discusses the three basic disciplines we can utilize to assist us in making progress on the spiritual path.  

CSA Minister and long time disciple of Roy Eugene Davis, Michael Gadway discusses the meaning, origins, and resolution of karma and the power we have as spiritual beings to choose.

In this workshop CSA Minister Michael Gadway, discusses and defines Prana and Pranayama, followed by a practicum where he provides instruction and a chance to practice several pranayama techniques. 

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses how to use your creative imagination to best fulfill your worthwhile purposes and experience rapid spiritual growth. 

In this workshop Leode shares practical ways to bring the sacred into our daily lives.  Leode G. Franklin has been a disciple of Roy Eugene Davis since 1971 and was ordained by Mr. Davis in 1980.  Leode has conducted various study groups and meditation classes.  She is currently a Board of Trustee member for Center for Spiritual Awareness.   

CSA Minister Marty Wuttke is a long time disciple of Mr. Davis and has spent the past 35 years researching and practicing brainwave biofeedback, neurofeedback, and is on the cutting edge of the new paradigm of neurotheology.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn reviews previous talks and discusses the four main objectives in life: Dharma (right action), Artha (right livelihood), Kama (pleasure) and Moksha (liberation).

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses the movement of life force (prana) in the subtle channels (nadis), and four of the five koshas, or bodies: food body (annamayakosha), energy body (pranamayakosha), mental body (manomayakosha), and intellect body (vijnanamayakosha).

CSA Minister Katherine Geddes-Lovkay shares some practical advice for removing obstacles and living more consciously.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discuses purifying the mind-brain-body-spirit and the effect of prana moving in the chakras.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses the definition of Kriya yoga, some obstacles to tranquility and the usefulness of om as a focus of attention.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses the beginning of the first chapter of the Yoga Sutras regarding the nature of awareness, mental processes (knowledge, mis-perception, concept, sleep, and memory), discernment, and tranquility.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn shares an overview of the spiritual path in the Kriya yoga tradition. He also discusses chitta vrittis (fluctuations in the field of awareness), and vasanas (impulses), and how they effect thinking and actions.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn begins this program talking about Roy Eugene Davis and Lahiri Mahasaya. He then goes on to discuss the practice of pranayama, its effects on the physical body, and shares some techniques.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn shares stories about the the great saints who serve as examples and teachers in the direct transmission of Kriya Yoga philosophy and practice.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn discusses listening to om and the process of cosmic manifestation according to samkhya philosophy. He shares guidance on how to live in harmony, to cooperate with life, and to use creative imagination.

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn explains the definition of Kriya Yoga as given in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. He discusses how to incorporate Kriya Yoga practice in daily life, discipline, Self study, and letting go of the ego, and the nature of suffering it is designed to relieve.