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Heart Yoga: Awaken to the Joy of Life
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8 Lessons|ByKaruna Erickson and Andrew Harvey

Heart Yoga: Awaken to the Joy of Life

Taken by 2,508 people

Heart Yoga is the marriage of the yoga of the illumined body with the mysticism of the awakened sacred heart. This 8-week course on Heart Yoga is offered to directly initiate participants into the full power of this marriage, which mirrors the sacred marriage of transcendence and immanence in the Divine, and makes possible the birth of the embodied divine human.

This course has been specially designed both for persons who have never before practiced yoga as well as for experienced yoga students and teachers. Heart Yoga brings to all who practice it with devotion a renewed vibrancy of being, a deepening sense of inner peace, and the heart energy to act in the world as a channel of love.

In this course you will experience the union of grounded passion and peaceful joy in the core of your body and heart that we all need now in these difficult times in order to keep inspired and be able to respond to our growing crisis from a place of compassionate wisdom.

This course will present simple yoga postures along with simple mystical practices from all the great ancient traditions. You will learn practices that will root your whole being in the calm and luminous energy which is both our source and the fountain of continual renewal flowing into our hearts from the heart of the universe.

Heart Yoga is a way of joyfully offering gratitude, and of honoring and serving the divine presence in all of creation. The wisdom of the creators of yoga is simply and profoundly expressed in a timeless yogic text, The Upanishads:

"From joy all beings have come.
In joy all beings are sustained.
To joy all beings return.
This is the highest teaching
This is the highest teaching."

 

Awaken the joy in your heart

 

This 8-week course in Heart Yoga will help you to awaken this joy in your heart, your mind, and in every cell of your body, gradually initiating you into that experience of celebration which mystics describe as the essence of life. It is written in The Upanishads that "The wise see Love flaming in all creation, and their hearts are filled with wonder." Heart Yoga offers to everybody, and to every body, a direct path into this vision of Love flaming in all creation, and into the wonder and radical self-empowerment that flows from it. Heart Yoga is a crucible that can calmly and fully birth this third fire, grounding this fire in the peace, strength, and courage which we all are needing in order to respond to the challenges of these difficult times.

What will you receive from this Heart Yoga Course?

  • Direct initiation into the full power of the marriage of yoga and mysticism
  • A renewed vibrancy of being, a deepening sense of inner peace, and the heart energy to act in the world as a channel of love and truth
  • The union of grounded passion and peaceful joy in the core of your body and heart. Stay inspired in these difficult times and respond to our growing crisis from a place of compassionate wisdom
  • Simple yoga postures along with simple mystical practices from all the great ancient traditions. Root your whole being in the calm and luminous energy which is both our source and the fountain of continual renewal flowing into our hearts from the heart of the universe
  • The clarity and power to become an embodied channel of illumined love, grace, and peace, and to act as an instrument of divine creativity and service in the world. The postures and meditations gently guide you into the compassionate oneness with all things and into the celebratory joy that ancient yogis experienced as the essence of reality
  • A deeper awakening of mystical joy in your heart, your mind, and in every cell of your body- an initiation into that experience of celebration which mystics describe as the essence of life

Heart Yoga is a crucible that can inspire you to become a sacred activist, by calmly and fully birthing the fire of love in action, grounding this fire in the peace, strength, and courage which we all are needing in order to respond to the challenges of these difficult times. This practice has been acclaimed by many of the world's leading spiritual and yoga teachers, such as Marianne Williamson, Caroline Myss, Rodney Yee, and Seane Corn.

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Taken by 2,508 people
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
This is the total amount for all lessons.
Pay extra to give more to our instructors and to help create new courses. No matter how much you pay, you'll get the same course as everybody else.
What People Are Saying
“This profound, beautiful, and pioneering work will ground the yoga community in a deeper mystical understanding, taking the worldwide yoga movement to a new level of inner empowerment and outer effectiveness. Whether you’re a beginning student or a life-long practitioner, Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson will deepen your practice with this exalted and extremely practical work.”
Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of Miracles and The Healing of America
“Heart Yoga: The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism exquisitely merges the poetry of the Divine with the power of yoga with inspired precision. Authors Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson have accomplished the rigorous blending of heaven and earth, guaranteed to inspire new and well-seasoned students of yoga. This work is a magnificent accomplishment."
Caroline Myss, author of Entering the Castle and Anatomy of the Spirit
"I thank my friends for this wonderful offering that has arisen from countless hours of work and play, and their lifetimes of devoted practice."
Rodney Yee, international yoga teacher, author of Moving toward Balance
"Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson have written an inspirational and passionate guide recognizing modern-day yogis as mystics on the mat. This is magnificent and timely work affirming that the sacred practice of yoga is a journey of personal illumination, universal recognition, mystical unification, and the inevitable understanding that it is love and action that can transform this planet from one of fear and separation into one united by love, truth, and God."
Seane Corn, yoga teacher, Global Yoga Ambassador for Youth AIDS, and co-visionary for "Off the Mat, Into the World”

Meet Your Teachers

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Karuna Erickson and Andrew Harvey

Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, and spiritual teacher. He was born in South India in 1952, moved to England at age nine, and later attended Oxford University, where in 1973 he became a Fellow of All Souls College. In 1977, he returned to India for the first time since his childhood and underwent several mystical experiences, which began a series of initiations into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality (now Wisdom University), as well as at churches and spiritual centers throughout the United States, England, and Europe. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Son of Man, The Direct Path, Hidden Journey, The Essential Mystics, The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, The Return of the Mother, A Journey in Ladakh, Sun at Midnight: A Memoir of the Dark Night, and his most recent work, The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. Harvey was the subject of the 1993 BBC documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic and has appeared in several others, including Rumi Turning Ecstatic, The Return of Rumi, The Consciousness of the Christ, and a documentary on the life and work of Marion Woodman. His own 90-minute documentary Sacred Activism was produced by the Hartley Film Foundation in 2005. He is the founder and director of the Institute for Sacred Activism in Oak Park, Illinois, where he lives.

Karuna Erickson has lived in the mountains of British Columbia with her husband for forty years. She has been a devoted yoga teacher and psychotherapist since 1970. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of California, Berkeley. Erickson is the director of the Heart Yoga Center, a registered yoga teacher training school with Yoga Alliance. She has trained many yoga teachers for over twenty years and teaches yoga internationally, interweaving Sufi poetry and Buddhist practices of mindfulness and loving- kindness meditation into her classes. She leads annual retreats, yoga teacher trainings, and workshops in Canada, the U.S., Bali, and Costa Rica. She is on the faculty of the Insitute for Sacred Activism and wisdom University. Erickson also teaches courses with Andrew Harvey internationally.

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