Events with Lorin
Past Events
December 2-6 2016 in Long Island, New York. At Absolute Yoga, absoluteyogastudio.com
- Meditation Made Easy, Friday December 2 6pm-9pm
- The Radiance Sutras Workshop. Saturday December 3, 12pm-6pm and Sunday December 4, 12pm-6pm
October 9 2016 1pm to 6pm, in Ocean Beach, California. Meditation Teacher Training at Elka Yoga. We will be playing with The Radiance Sutras and exploring what appeals to each person. Register here $60 or $75 at the door. SOLD OUT
October 16 in Santa Monica. Meditation for Lovers of Life. Paul Teodo and Leah Santa Cruz are organizing it. Info here.
October 22, 2016 Camille and Lorin will be presenting The Radiance Sutras on Saturday October 22 at the SAND conference in San Jose, California. 11:50 to 12:30 in the Morgan Hill Room. Information and register here.
Read an essay on the SAND website: Where Body Meets Infinity
October 27 2016 at Loyola Marymount University. Lorin will be presenting information about using meditation to balance your life energies, with Siva Mohan and Felicia Tomasko in their Ayurvedic Studies class. Info here.
November 5 2016 at Loyola Marymount University. In the Yoga Teacher Training with Terra Gold.
November 11-13 2016 in Ridgefield Connecticut. The Radiance Sutras. Meditation Teacher Training and workshop. At the Yoga Shala (203) 240-5412.
- Friday 5-8 pm
- Saturday 10 am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
- Sunday 11:30 am-3:30pm
November 20 2016 at Ceremony Meditation in Venice, California, 4-7 pm.
Ceremony is at 417 Rose Ave in Venice, CA 90291
Sept 7-12 2016 Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California
http://west.bhaktifest.com
Bhakti Fest celebrates the devotional paths of yoga, Kirtan (sacred music), and meditation. Our festival is a drug and alcohol free vehicle for evolution of human consciousness through a heart-centered revolution. Bring your yoga mats this September to the idyllic Joshua Tree Retreat Center, located in the beautiful region east of Los Angeles. Practice with the best yoga teachers in the world, dance to sacred music by world-renown Kirtan artists, and take workshops with leaders in the field of personal growth. Camp out beneath the stars or stay at one of our many accommodations on and offsite; enjoy the swimming pool and free filtered drinking water; stop in at The Bhakti Family Village and expose your children to other enlightened youth and families; enjoy the best vegetarian food at any festival. We offer Student, Senior, Military and Local Resident discounts. We are building community—please join us!
August 21-26 2016
The Radiance Sutras Five Day Retreat
at Kripalu
Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski
register here.
August 21–26, 2016
Sunday–Friday: 5 nights
At Play with the Radiance Sutras
A Meditation Retreat and Teacher Training
Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski - visit Cobyk.com
Musical accompaniment by Jim Gelcer - visit gelcer.com
All levels of experience are welcome. If you have a desire to learn meditation practices that suit your individuality and your inner nature, you are welcome. This workshop is also, as an option, certification hours for those wanting to improve their skills at teaching meditation.
Meditation is one of life’s great pleasures, a vacation in the vibrant present. There are hundreds of meditation techniques, and, when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. This retreat explores the luminous teachings of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text that describes 112 meditation practices for touching the sacred in daily life. The teachings are playful, instinctive, down-to-earth, and transcendent.
Meet yourself where you are in a retreat that emphasizes naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You learn
- A variety of meditation practices
- How meditation can be more restful than sleep
- Skills for handling emotions and sensations that arise in meditation
- Techniques to blend meditation and movement.
Note –– For those interested in the Yoga Alliance accredited meditation teacher training, there will be extended hours. This counts as 40 hours of teacher training (contact and non-contact hours). For further information, visit meditationtt.com.
The training includes
- Specific techniques to guide students into meditation
- Skills for honoring individuality and modifying meditation practices to suit individual preferences
- Effective language for guiding students into healthy practice
- 112 ways to refresh your approach to meditation
May 26-29 2016 Lightning in a Bottle
Lorin will give a talk –– Meditation as Microdosing
Beyond Tantra: Integrating Science, Spirit and Sexuality
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
March 20-25, 2016
Science Spirit and Sexuality
Join Shauna Shapiro, Margo Anand, and Lorin Roche as we weave together ancient wisdom traditions of Tantra and meditation with modern neuroscience. Think of Tantra as a loom – the framework for weaving together the threads of body and soul, spirituality and sexuality, and individuality and universality.
This workshop is designed to expand your understanding of sexual energy to bring about the deepest transformation, joy, and healing. You will be taught simple yet potent meditation and tantric practices to experience the nature of ecstatic vibration as an energy that can be channeled and transformed to bring about greater states of health, creativity, and vitality. You will also learn about revolutionary research in neuroscience that offers this hopeful message: We can change and reshape our brain to live lives of greater energy, ecstasy, compassion, and joy. As a group, we will immerse ourselves in the practice of being fully present, re-training our minds, hearts, and bodies toward pathways of greater sensual aliveness, greater compassion, gratitude, and joy. Esalen’s natural beauty will support us as we engage in sunset meditations, listen to the sounds of the ocean, walk through the vibrant gardens, and open ourselves to the wildness and wisdom of nature. This workshop will deepen our connection with ourselves, one another, and the larger web of life. Be prepared for unexpected delight.
Please note: This is a meditation workshop, we will be wearing clothes.
register here
Saturday Feb. 20th in San Diego: Meditation Teacher Training
MODERN-DAY MEDITATION AND TANTRA WORKSHOP
with Lorin Roche
Saturday Feb. 20th 1:30 - 6:30pm
Meditation is the instinct to savor life's beauty and wonder. This is a workshop devoted to the skills of meditation and teaching meditation.
Dr. Roche is the author of The Radiance Sutras, Meditation Made Easy, Breath Taking, and Whole Body Meditations. With his wife, Camille Maurine, he is the author of Meditation Secrets for Women and Meditation 24/7. Dr. Roche coaches individuals wishing to evolve their daily meditation practice and trains Yoga teachers to effectively teach meditation.
Lorin is a master of modern-day meditation and tantra. Don't miss this opportunity to discover The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Made Easy by this amazing author and teacher. Lorin will have his books available and be available for book signing!
Wild Serenity in Love
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
January 24-29, 2016
To live and love fully takes courage and all the inner resources one can muster. Embodied practices such as meditation and movement bolster the heart and inspire the expression of love in all its forms. Life is relationship — with the self, nature, creativity, and one another. Meditation can be defined as intimacy with life. Through meditation we pay attention to the current of vitality and love flowing through us, and ride it inward to our essences. This is an instinctive ability and we all can do it. Nature is wild and serene, and so too is our inner nature. In this approach, you embrace the fullness of being — vastness and vulnerability, sensuality, and surging power. The course alternates sitting and moving meditations that gently awaken the senses, open flow in the body, and stretch the mind in wonder and awe.
This workshop is for everyone on the path of intimacy. Drawing on four decades of teaching and thirty years of relationship, authors Maurine and Roche will share their experience with humor and compassion. If you want to tap into more joy and inspiration, if you long for more intimacy with yourself and others, then perhaps it’s time for Wild Serenity in Love. This course is also useful for those in the helping professions.
Recommended reading: Maurine and Roche, Meditation Secrets for Women; Roche, The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Made Easy.
Esalen is the most physically rejuvenating place I know.
Registration has opened at Esalen, so put it on your calendar and send me an email - lorin@lorinroche.com.
FEBRUARY 6-12, 2016
A FEAST FOR THE SENSES:
With Coby Kozlowski
AN ECSTATIC MEDITATION, MOVEMENT, AND MAMMA-EARTH RETREAT
“All around you, in every moment the world is offering you a feast for the senses”—
Join this 7-day (6-night) retreat to where we will unplug to plug-in. Come uplift your spirits and tap into the pulse of life as you celebrate, flow, move, dance, surf, play, sing, and meditate like never before.
This is a journey and experience of living life fully, letting the entire self be expressed, and soaking in the bliss of being alive.
During our time together you will experience:
Morning meditation
Silent breakfasts to soak in the joy of a new day
Daily yoga, meditation, or philosophy interactive lectures
Ecstatic Prana Dance
1 surfing lesson and daily beach trips
3 delicious meals a day
Singing your heart out in our ecstatic meditations—bring your instruments to play along!
Free time to journal, explore, receive a spa treatment or join other Costa Rican excursions
Lots of laughing, story telling, wonderful people, and time to simply chill out!
DATES: FEBRUARY 6-12, 2016
Where: Costa Rica Yoga Spa www.costaricayogaspa.com (it is a 10 minute drive away from the beach, but we will have daily beach trips)
sold out
2015
SAND - Science And Non-Duality Conference
October 22-25 2015
San Jose, California
Instinct to Meditate
Lorin will be giving a presentation on "The Instinct to Meditate," summarizing his research with meditators who are thriving in their practice, year after year. As part of his PhD research at the University of California at Irvine, Lorin conducted hundreds of two-hour interviews with meditators of all types, simply listening as they described, moment-by-moment, what they were experiencing. One finding is that no matter what the brand of meditation you practice - Zen, Vipassana, Sikh, Christian, Catholic, yoga, Buddhism, or self-taught and self-invented, meditators who blossom over the long term seem to make subtle internal adaptations so that their technique has elements of homing, exploring, communing, bonding, resting, loving, and taking nourishment – the deep instinctive motions of life.
Consciousness is the greatest mystery ever encountered by humanity.
Mystics of all traditions have described consciousness as the ground of being in which the dance of life unfolds.
See more at: http://www.scienceandnonduality.com
Events for 2016
Wild Serenity in Love
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
January 24-29, 2016
To live and love fully takes courage and all the inner resources one can muster. Embodied practices such as meditation and movement bolster the heart and inspire the expression of love in all its forms. Life is relationship — with the self, nature, creativity, and one another. Meditation can be defined as intimacy with life. Through meditation we pay attention to the current of vitality and love flowing through us, and ride it inward to our essences. This is an instinctive ability and we all can do it. Nature is wild and serene, and so too is our inner nature. In this approach, you embrace the fullness of being — vastness and vulnerability, sensuality, and surging power. The course alternates sitting and moving meditations that gently awaken the senses, open flow in the body, and stretch the mind in wonder and awe.
This workshop is for everyone on the path of intimacy. Drawing on four decades of teaching and thirty years of relationship, authors Maurine and Roche will share their experience with humor and compassion. If you want to tap into more joy and inspiration, if you long for more intimacy with yourself and others, then perhaps it’s time for Wild Serenity in Love. This course is also useful for those in the helping professions.
Recommended reading: Maurine and Roche, Meditation Secrets for Women; Roche, The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Made Easy.
Esalen is the most physically rejuvenating place I know.
Registration just opened at Esalen, so put it on your calendar and send me an email - lorin@lorinroche.com.
Beyond Tantra: Integrating Science, Spirit and Sexuality
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
March 20-25
Science Spirit and Sexuality
Join Shauna Shapiro, Margo Anand, and Lorin Roche as we weave together ancient wisdom traditions of Tantra and meditation with modern neuroscience. Think of Tantra as a loom – the framework for weaving together the threads of body and soul, spirituality and sexuality, and individuality and universality.
This workshop is designed to expand your understanding of sexual energy to bring about the deepest transformation, joy, and healing. You will be taught simple yet potent meditation and tantric practices to experience the nature of ecstatic vibration as an energy that can be channeled and transformed to bring about greater states of health, creativity, and vitality. You will also learn about revolutionary research in neuroscience that offers this hopeful message: We can change and reshape our brain to live lives of greater energy, ecstasy, compassion, and joy. As a group, we will immerse ourselves in the practice of being fully present, re-training our minds, hearts, and bodies toward pathways of greater sensual aliveness, greater compassion, gratitude, and joy. Esalen’s natural beauty will support us as we engage in sunset meditations, listen to the sounds of the ocean, walk through the vibrant gardens, and open ourselves to the wildness and wisdom of nature. This workshop will deepen our connection with ourselves, one another, and the larger web of life. Be prepared for unexpected delight.
Please note: This is an experiential, fully-clothed workshop.
register here
PAST events - 2015
August 23–28, 2015 Sunday–Friday 5 nights
The Radiance Sutras at Kripalu in August 2015
August 23-28, a 5 - day intensive at play with The Radiance Sutras
At Play with the Radiance Sutras: A Meditation Retreat and Teacher Training
Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski
Lorin Roche, PhD, has been teaching meditation since 1968 and has a doctorate from the University of California for his work on the subjective experience of meditation.
Coby Kozlowski, MA, E-RYT, is a faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga.
For all levels; optional meditation teacher training for yoga teachers.*
Meditation is one of life’s great pleasures, a vacation in the vibrant present. There are hundreds of meditation techniques, and, when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. This retreat explores the luminous and juicy teachings of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text that describes 112 meditation practices for touching the sacred in daily life. The teachings are playful, instinctive, down-to-earth, and transcendent.
Meet yourself where you are in a retreat that emphasizes naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You learn
- A wide variety of meditation practices
- How meditation can be more restful than sleep
- Skills for handling emotions and sensations that arise in meditation
- Techniques to blend meditation and movement.
Note For those interested in the Yoga Alliance accredited meditation teacher training, there will be extended hours. This counts as 40 hours of teacher training (contact and non-contact hours).
The training includes
- Specific techniques to guide students into meditation
- Skills for honoring individuality and modifying meditation practices to suit individual preferences
- Effective language for guiding students into healthy practice
- 112 ways to refresh your approach to meditation.
CE Credits
This program is eligible for
- 25 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $30 additional charge
- 25 credits for Yoga Alliance (YA), $30 additional charge
BHAKTI WEST
SEPTEMBER 9 – 14, 2015
West Coast Bhakti Fest, Joshua Tree, California
Join Lorin and Camille in playing with The Radiance Sutras at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree. In these workshops, we will be improvising with the Sutras, exploring the relationship we have in this moment with life’s inward and outward call, letting the text remind us of the richness of the life force permeating our bodies at all times.
Wonder Friday 9-11 12 noon to 1:30 PM Workshop Hall 2. The sense of inquiry, awe, amazement, and wonder as opening the doors of perception.
Adventure Saturday 9-12 11 AM to 12:30PM Workshop hall 3. Embracing each moment as a surprising journey, expedition, and pilgrimage to the holy now.
Elixir Sunday 9-13 11 AM to 12:30 Workshop Hall 1. Savoring the juicy essence of life, soma, the body’s own natural happy chemicals.
Wonder opens the doors of perception. Vismaya, “wonder, surprise, amazement, bewilderment, perplexity.”
The sense of Adventure is openness to experience, willingness to embrace each moment as yatra (yātrā), a journey, march, expedition, pilgrimage.
Soma, the juicy elixir of life, is a byproduct of being in love with the essence of life. Mythically, soma “juice, extract, juice of the soma plant” is the exhilarating psychedelic herb that gives visions. Physiologically, soma is the body’s own natural capacity for divine perception.
SAND - Science And Non-Duality Conference
October 22-25
San Jose, California
Instinct to Meditate
Lorin will be giving a presentation on "The Instinct to Meditate," summarizing his research with meditators who are thriving in their practice, year after year. As part of his PhD research at the University of California at Irvine, Lorin conducted hundreds of two-hour interviews with meditators of all types, simply listening as they described, moment-by-moment, what they were experiencing. One finding is that no matter what the brand of meditation you practice - Zen, Vipassana, Sikh, Christian, Catholic, yoga, Buddhism, or self-taught and self-invented, meditators who blossom over the long term seem to make subtle internal adaptations so that their technique has elements of homing, exploring, communing, bonding, resting, loving, and taking nourishment – the deep instinctive motions of life.
Consciousness is the greatest mystery ever encountered by humanity.
Mystics of all traditions have described consciousness as the ground of being in which the dance of life unfolds.
See more at: http://www.scienceandnonduality.com
Past Events
The Radiance Sutras at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
June 19-21 2015
Friday night through Sunday noon
with Camille Maurine and Dave Stringer
Join author Lorin Roche, his dancer-yogini wife Camille Maurine, and musician-songwriter Dave Stringer for a weekend of meditation, movement, and song. Come sing your heart out, dance, and rock the poetry of one of the most beautiful yoga texts in existence.
Come play in the luminous world of The Radiance Sutras, a sensuous, poetic version of a classic yoga text, the Vijñana Bhairava Tantra. The name means “The terror and joy of realizing oneness with the Soul,” and the text describes 112 meditations, each a doorway from our everyday life experience into contact with the sacred healing powers of our inner world.
The essence of these meditations is simple:
· Select some aspect of life that you love, and dive in
· Allow your love to attract you inward toward inspiration
· You don’t have to change yourself
· You don’t have to sit still
· You don’t have to sit cross-legged
· You don’t have to make your mind blank
· You don’t have to calm down
· The more real with yourself you are, the better
Recommended reading: Roche, The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight.
Link to Esalen Workshop Page
The Radiance Sutras at Kripalu in August 2015
August 23-28, a 5 - day intensive at play with The Radiance Sutras
The Embraceable Universe
by Dr. Lorin Roche
When the dog jumps up on your lap, how do you hold her? What about when the cat glides onto your lap? When you are walking down the street and see a friend, how do you hug him? What if it has been a really long time and you are flooded with surprise and delight? Or if it is a “shaking-hands” kind of relationship, what is the quality of that contact? How do you hold a baby, a 5-year old child, a teenage boy? And when you are alone with your lover, how do you hold them?
Holding is a sweet science. In every moment, each creature in our lives, every being, needs and deserves a different way of being held. A different nuance of holding is called for in every instant – holding tight, or touching lightly. When we are away from the people we love, we hold them in our hearts and cherish the communion. Holding is not just physical, it is mental, emotional, passionate and sensitive.
Yoga, our favorite word, refers to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual holding. The Sanskrit root of yoga is yuj, “to join, unite, connect, to embrace," and a range of extended meanings including, "exciting, an exciter.” This makes sense because where there is union, there is an exciting embrace, a continuous continuum of communion. (Yuj, along with yoga, have vast semantic range. These links are to the Monier-Williams Sanskrit English Dictionary online.)
Dharana is “holding, keeping in remembrance,” and is one of the angas (limb, member, subordinate division or department) of yoga. Dharana invites us to pay attention to a thousand ways of holding – hold a pose, hold your breath, hold the sound of a mantra (tool of thought) in your awareness, hold the image of a mandala (circle) or yantra (diagram) in your mind’s eye. In meditation, select an aspect of the life force – pranashakti – you love, hold it in your awareness, and then allow yourself to dissolve into it. While you are practicing meditation, the manner of holding changes as rapidly as when we are holding anything in the outer world – a continual adjustment and dance of responsiveness, changing many times per second.
Meditation is intimacy with the energies of life. When we practice, we are in close communion with the vibrancy of pranashakti. As with any intimate relationship, we are continually called to improve our skills at noticing and responding to the ever-changing moods of our lover. In each moment, there is a particular way of embracing, cherishing, and adoring the rhythm. For example, if we are alert, each moment of breathing is an interplay of nourishing, purifying, soothing, exciting, inspiring, and informing. When we breathe in, we embrace the incoming air and may hold it for an instant at the end of the inhalation; when we breathe out we give our breath to the world. At the end of the exhalation, in that emptiness, we may experience being held by the ocean of air. An essential gift of the experience of holding is being held by something larger, embraced by the benevolent forces of creation.
Many kinds of people in the world are skilled at touching. Dancers are in touch with every part of the body as it moves. Race car drivers have incredible kinesthetic awareness of the vibration of the engine as it comes through their feet, legs, and seat, and can feel the road with their fingertips. People who love babies know how to hold them just right. Horse riders and whisperers can communicate with the animals through minute touches of their hands and legs. Musicians of all kinds know how to caress their instrument, whether they are touching strings, drums, or keyboards. Sex is an unlimited universe of touching, holding, and embracing. We all love touch, each in our own way, and touch is ecstasy.
Embracing, holding, touching – these are central skills to meditative practice. What we learn in the outer world, as we greet our friends, hang out with people we love, and interact with animals, teaches us how to be in touch with the inner world. Over the past 45 years of teaching meditation, it is always great fun to work with people who are skilled at touch because their ability to tolerate intimacy lets them become advanced meditators, right from the beginning. They may have only been meditating for a day, but when I listen to them describe their experiences with touching and being touched by the flow of prana in their bodies, it sounds like poetry, and a fresh revelation of the yoga texts. Meditation invites us to engage with the internal music of mantras, the inner massage of breathing, and the inner artwork of mandala visualizations. Paying attention in this way, we continually learn subtle nuances of what it is to hold and cherish one another.
The wrong approach to meditation can damage your capacity for intimacy. There are thousands of styles and techniques of meditation, and many of them were developed as a support for those on the path of denial and detachment. For centuries, meditation teachers have tended to be lonely males who are out of touch and desperately lonely. They set themselves up as gurus in order to have control over other people, because they know so little about a relationship built on equality. This is the Wizard of Oz complex – a lost professor who puts up a screen and creates a grandiose persona. This particular type is over-represented in the field of meditation, and the language they use tends to be distancing, cold, and elitist.
The best meditation teachers are those who are good at intimate communion, in whatever field interests them: sex, babies, therapy, sports, music. Blind people would be great meditation teachers because of their alertness to sound and touch. So come on, all you people who are good at embracing in any realm: learn to meditate, and learn to teach meditation in a life-affirming way, and bring the warmth of your love of life to this aspect of yoga. We need you.
Past Events
Shakti Fest
May 15-17 2015 in Joshua Tree, California
Bodysurfing in Australia March 22-26
photo by the amazing Mark Tipple
Bali Spirit Festival - link
Ubud, Bali - March 31-April 5 2015
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Margot Anand |
Elixir Release Party
Thursday, February 26 7:30 PM 2015
FULL CIRCLE VENICE
305 Rose Avenue
Venice CA 90291
Buy tickets here.
Songs ◆ Kirtan ◆ Celebration ◆ Sutra Poetry Jam ◆ DJ ◆ Reception
Join us for the Release of "Elixir: Music from the Radiance Sutras" and upcoming U.S. Elixir Tour Launch on Thursday, February 26th at the The Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA featuring and interactive night of song, Kirtan and Sutra Poetry Jam with Dave Stringer & Donna De Lory. Guests will also experience readings with Dr. Lorin Roche translator of the Radiance Sutras and Camille Maurine as they ecstatically explore the meaning and practices of the Sutras.
Also featuring Dave Allen, Mark Gorman, James Harrah, Sheela Bringi & Jeff Andrews.
In association with Sounds True.
Listen to a track from ELIXIR at iTunes.
Buy tickets here.
Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California
September 4-7 2014
October 5–10, 2014 Sunday–Friday 5 nights
Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski
Lorin Roche, PhD, has been teaching meditation since 1968 and has a doctorate from the University of California for his work on the subjective experience of meditation. Together, he and Camille Maurine are the authors… full bio & programs
Coby Kozlowski, MA, E-RYT, is a Kripalu faculty member and director of Kripalu’s 200- and 500-hour yoga teacher training programs. Her vibrant style as a life coach trainer, yoga, dance, and meditation educator, inspirational speaker,… full bio & programs
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For all levels; optional meditation teacher training for yoga teachers.*
Meditation is one of life’s great pleasures, a vacation in the vibrant present. There are hundreds of techniques, and, when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. In this retreat, explore the luminous and juicy teachings of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text that describes 112 meditation practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The teachings are playful, instinctive, both down-to-earth and transcendent.
In this retreat, you learn
- A wide variety of meditation practices so you can pick the one you need each day
- Ways that meditation can be more restful than sleep
- Skills for handling the emotions and sensations that arise in meditation
- Techniques to blend meditation and movement.
Note *For those interested in the Yoga Alliance accredited meditation teacher training, there will be extended hours. This counts as 40 hours of teacher training (contact and non-contact hours). For further information, visit www.lorinroche.com. The training includes
- Specific techniques to guide students into meditation
- Skills for honoring individuality and modifying meditation practices to suit individual preferences
- Effective language for guiding students into healthy practice
- 112 ways to refresh your approach to meditation.
This program is eligible for
- 23 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $30 additional charge
- 23 credits for Yoga Alliance (YA), $30 additional charge
Visit Kripalu.org for more information and to register
Keep alert for the next incarnation of this workshop:
December 13, 2014
THE RADIANT BODY - at Prana Yoga in La Jolla California
Saturday 12/13/14 11:45 AM to 4:45 PM (that’s 12 13 14 at a bit before 12)
The message of the chakras (energy centers) is very simple: your entire body, from head to toe, is sacred, pulsating with light and delight, and your yoga practice can be a celebration of this embodiment. Meditation is an effortless and natural rejoicing in the body’s ability to heal and rejuvenate itself. In this workshop,you will learn how to create a meditation practice that goes with your inner nature.
We will be exploring the subtle energies of the body in a series of playful meditations and pranayama exercises. We will be looking at traditional yogic maps of the chakras and modern scientific maps of the nerves, and doing meditations so that you can make your own map of your body, because everyone is different.
Prepare yourself for one startling insight after the other. For example, that meditation is a relief, not an effort. Minds do not wander during meditation, every movement of attention is part of the process. Most of what people think as noise in their heads is actually just the chakras talking to each other and lining up their sequences to do the movements of life.
In meditation, everyone is a beginner, in every moment - because the nature of the life force is to be dynamic, ever-evolving, always moving forward into exciting new levels of perception and expression. You are welcome to come whether you consider yourself a total beginner or an expert.
REQUIRED: The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight (Sounds True, 2014). The Radiance Sutras is a fresh version of the classic yoga text, Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, which presents 112 methods of approaching yoga meditation.
Lorin Roche has been teaching meditation for more than 40 years, and practicing Tantra for all that time with great delight. He is married to Camille Maurine, with whom he wrote Meditation Secrets for Women. Lorin is also the author of The Radiance Sutras, Meditation Made Easy, Whole Body Meditations, and Breath Taking. Dr. Roche has a Ph.D. from the University of California where he did research on the language of meditative experience.
1041 Silverado Street
La Jolla, CA 92037
call 858.456.2806 to register
email info@prana-yoga.com
http://www.prana-yoga.com
Prana Yoga on Facebook
August 4-7 Denver Yoga Fest 2016
The schedule is here.
Thursday August 4 at 5:15 pm Meditation Made Easy
Friday August 5 starting at 9:30 am Soma Practices in The Radiance Sutras
Saturday August 6 2 pm Meditation and Tea
Sunday August 7 8 am Coming Home to Yourself
Bodysurfing Australia!
photo by the daring Mark Tipple - visit marktipple.com
Australia Tour April 2016
- Lorin and Camille will be in Australia for all of April
Sydney - InYoga April 6 to 10
Meditation Teacher Training
with Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine
also in Sydney — Meditation Made Easy
April 8 6:30pm —9pm
Sutra Jam
Saturday April 9th 6:30pm - 9pm
Sunshine Coast April 15
Friday 15th April, 2016
Being Yoga, Maroochdore.
$65 pre-paid or $80 at the door
Organized by Natasha Patten
email info@tashyoga.com
Brisbane - Shri Yoga April
Meditation Made Easy
20 April 7.30-9.30pm
Your inner world is a vast playground, and under the guidance of one of the world’s preeminent authorities on meditation, this is a perfect opportunity for total beginners to play with a variety of fun and life-affirming meditation techniques, and for experienced practitioners to hone their skills.
Shri Yoga
Meditation Secrets for Women
26 April 7.30-9.30pm
with Camille Maurine
Shri Yoga in Brisbane
In these wildly challenging times, having a daily meditative practice is one of the best forms of self-care available. In order to get the greatest benefits of meditation, you must find the ways that suit your nature.
May 13-15 2016 Shakti Fest
in Joshua Tree, California
http://shaktifest.bhaktifest.com
PAST EVENTS
Moksha Festival - LA's only yoga festival: July 11-12 2015. Los Angeles Convention Center
Sunday Afternoon, July 12, 1:30 to 3 pm
We will be playing with The Radiance Sutras, in both English and Sanskrit, and then diving into a meditation in which you will be invited to discover your own mantra.
Lorin has been teaching in New York, Connecticut, Bali, Australia, San Diego, everywhere but in LA - so come if you want to play with The Radiance Sutras or tune up your meditation practice.
Register for the Moksha Festival here.
The Radiance Sutras at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
June 19-21 2015
Friday night through Sunday noon
with Camille Maurine and Dave Stringer
Join author Lorin Roche, his dancer-yogini wife Camille Maurine, and musician-songwriter Dave Stringer for a weekend of meditation, movement, and song. Come sing your heart out, dance, and rock the poetry of one of the most beautiful yoga texts in existence.
Come play in the luminous world of The Radiance Sutras, a sensuous, poetic version of a classic yoga text, the Vijñana Bhairava Tantra. The name means “The terror and joy of realizing oneness with the Soul,” and the text describes 112 meditations, each a doorway from our everyday life experience into contact with the sacred healing powers of our inner world.
The essence of these meditations is simple:
· Select some aspect of life that you love, and dive in
· Allow your love to attract you inward toward inspiration
· You don’t have to change yourself
· You don’t have to sit still
· You don’t have to sit cross-legged
· You don’t have to make your mind blank
· You don’t have to calm down
· The more real with yourself you are, the better
Recommended reading: Roche, The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight.
Link to Esalen Workshop Page
Bodysurfing in Australia March 22-26
photo by the amazing Mark Tipple
Bali Spirit Festival - link
Ubud, Bali - March 31-April 5 2015
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YogaPata in Danbury, CT
February 13, 14, & 15, 2015
Let Your Mind Fall Utterly in Love
Dr. Lorin Roche has been teaching meditation for over forty years and is author of several books including his widely praised, Radiance Sutras. To study meditation with Lorin is a gift for new students who are interested in learning how to find an approach that speaks to them, and for seasoned meditators who long to refresh their technique. Lorin brings with him an innovative, progressive, and delightful rich education into the worlds of meditation. He uses movement, stories, studies, and improvisation to welcome every level student into a weekend of wonder and utter joy. Students will leave a session with Lorin feeling energized, revived and inspired. This is not your ordinary meditation experience. Absent is the austerity and obligation to sit for hours..Lorin’s conversation, and approach combined with his iconic wisdom and authenticity empowers students to see that meditation is at play in our lives at all times. We just need to recognize that. Full weekend $250 or purchase sessions individually.
Delicious Freedom with Lorin Roche
Fri Date: Feb 13, 2015 From: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Meditation as a delicious rest: Summing up 45 years of medical research on meditation: it's relaxing, healing and enlivening. A rest deeper than sleep. $45 members/$50 nonmembers.
Rhythm in Meditation with Lorin Roche
Sat Date: Feb 14, 2015 From: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Meditation is a rhythm of rest and activation. Understanding the cycles of restfulness and restlessness that are the basic structure of meditative experience. The skill of flowing with your go. $40 members/$45 nonmembers
Working with Individual Differences with Lorin Roche
Sat Date: Feb 14, 2015 From: 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Every one of us has a slightly different gateway into meditation. There are no "standard" techniques because everyone modifies the standard. When you find the approach that suits your individual nature, it feels natural and there is a sense of effortless spontaneity to meditation. Members $40 Non-members $45
Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi with Lorin Roche
Sat Date: Feb 14, 2015 From: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
These are the "inner" four angas of yoga's eight-limbed model (ashtanga). We will be exploring the definitions of these useful words, and the skills involved in each during meditation. Members $40 Non-members $45
The Wild World of Emotion and Sensation During Meditation with Lorin Roche
Sun Date: Feb 15, 2015 From: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Meditation experience includes a vast set of ever-changing emotions and sensations. Members $40 Non-members $45
Understanding and Working with Stress-Release During Meditation with Lorin Roche
Sun Date: Feb 15, 2015 From: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The intense restfulness and relaxation during meditation allows the muscles and nerves to release accumulated tension, a process called "unstressing". This is healing and also a challenge to handle. Members $40 Non-members $45
Creating and Modifying a Daily Practice with Lorin Roche
Sun Date: Feb 15, 2015 From: 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Meditation has to fit into our daily life, in order for us to benefit from the practice. We will be exploring the practicalities - how many minutes to meditate, what kinds of techniques work for you, what postures (standing, walking, dancing, sitting, lying down) to use. Members $40 Non-members $45
sign up here.
Yogapata - 203-210-7750
Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California
September 4-7 2014
Past Events 2014
Come join us at Esalen
June 22-27
The Radiance Sutras: The Yoga of Wonder and Delight
Register online or call 888-837-2536
Come discover the luminous world of The Radiance Sutras, a fresh translation of an ancient yoga text. In this tradition, meditation is innate, natural, and playful. The Sutras sing of passionate serenity, and being at home in your body with all your senses awake to the vibrancy of life. The Radiance Sutras describe 112 ways to touch the sacred in the midst of everyday life, such as gazing at nature, cherishing breath, listening to music, bathing in silence, dancing, chanting, savoring tastes with intense awareness, and loving and praying continuously.
Embraced by the earth, ocean, and sky at Esalen, this inspiring retreat is a chance to explore a variety of embodied meditations and develop an individualized practice you can take home. All levels of experience are welcome, and all bodies.
Lorin Roche began practicing with the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra in 1968 and brings over forty years’ experience teaching its methods. Camille Maurine brings her deep understanding of movement as our nature. The couple share thirty years of creative teaching together. 
This workshop counts as 26 hours toward Yoga Alliance Meditation Teacher Training.
CE credit for MFTs and LCSWs
Esalen Institute in Big Sur is the most physically and emotionally rejuvenating place we know.
Wild Serenity in Love
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9-14
To live and love fully takes courage and all the inner resources one can muster. Embodied practices such as meditation and movement bolster the heart and inspire the expression of love in all its forms.
Life is relationship — with the self, nature, creativity, and one another. Meditation can be defined as intimacy with life. Through meditation we pay attention to the current of vitality and love flowing through us, and ride it inward to our essences. This is an instinctive ability and we all can do it.
Nature is wild and serene, and so too is our inner nature. In this approach, you embrace the fullness of being — vastness and vulnerability, sensuality, and surging power. The course alternates sitting and moving meditations that gently awaken the senses, open flow in the body, and stretch the mind in wonder and awe.
This workshop is for everyone on the path of intimacy. Drawing on four decades of teaching and thirty years of relationship, authors Maurine and Roche will share their experience with humor and compassion. If you want to tap into more joy and inspiration, if you long for more intimacy with yourself and others, then perhaps it’s time for Wild Serenity in Love. This course is also useful for those in the helping professions.
To find out more or register, click here.
http://www.esalen.org/workshop/week-february-9-14/wild-serenity-love
Friday, March 7 - Sunday March 9th, 2014 in West Palm Beach, Florida
THE YOGA OF WONDER AND DELIGHT
MEDITATING WITH THE RADIANCE SUTRAS
The Language of the Senses
All around you, in every moment
The world is offering you a feast for your senses.
~ from The Radiance Sutras
Join us for this meditation immersion with internationally renowned meditation teachers, Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine. We explore the luminous world of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin’s sensuous version of the ancient yoga text, the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra.
This workshop is devoted to the skills of practicing and teaching meditation. If you don’t have a daily meditation practice, you’re missing out on some of the great benefits of yoga.
This weekend module focuses on the senses. In yoga the senses are called the indriyas, a term implying that they are intrinsically sacred. Each sense speaks its own language—touch is a very different language than taste, smell, vision, hearing, or balance.
The senses connect us with our inner and outer world and are doorways to wonder and delight. The more you are alert to your senses, the more engaged and absorbed in meditation you will become.
In this playful training, you will practice these skills:
Scout out your own natural sensory pathways
Listen to and honor another person’s inner language of the senses
Design a satisfying daily meditation practice for yourself and others
Receive coaching from Lorin and Camille on how to modify the classic meditation practices to suit your inner nature. You will also get a chance to practice guiding others in meditation.
Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine are the authors of Meditation Secrets for Women, published by HarperOne. Lorin is also the author of The Radiance Sutras, Meditation Made Easy, and Meditation for Yoga Lovers. Lorin has a Ph.D. from the University of California for his research in the language of meditation.
Qualifies for 20 hours Meditation Training with Yoga Alliance
This will be module 1 of 4 in the 100hr. Yoga Alliance approved Instinctive Meditation Teacher Training. This training is OPEN TO ALL and can be taken as an individual module or you may take all 4 to complete the requirements for the 100hr. certification.
Investment for full weekend: $375
Friday, March 7th....7-10pm
Sat, March 8th....12-6pm & 8-10pm
Sun, March 9th....10am-1pm & 2-5pm
http://www.bindu-studio.com/id2.html
The Art of Meditation & The Radiance Sutras
Yogapata in Wilton, CT
with Lorin Roche
Friday, June 6 – Sunday, June 8
All sessions pass for yoga teachers, meditation teachers, and yoga teachers in training $235
The Art of Teaching Meditation (For yoga teachers and trainees)
Friday, June 6 - 3pm – 8pm
This is a workshop devoted to the skills of meditation and teaching meditation. Meditation and yoga go together and flow together. Asana and pranayama prepare the body for meditation. We can think of meditation as internal yoga, an inner asana flow. Because meditation is internal, there is no one to watch or imitate, so we need to be gentle and follow our instincts.
In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them in the process.
A Day at Play with the Radiance Sutras – Open to the Public
Saturday, June 7 - 10am – 5pm (1 hour lunch)
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. During these sessions, we explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. THE RADIANCE SUTRAS is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight.
The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality ~ accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation). Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move and breathe this luscious reality.
Inner Asana – an Open Meditation Class
Sunday, June 8 - 12-1:30pm
Come learn the secrets of how to allow meditation to feel as natural as breathing, a joyous relief. Hundreds of major scientific studies have documented the benefits of meditation for physical, emotional and mental health.
In this open class, we explore the four “meditative” angas or limbs of Yoga – pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi. This is a fun, flowing, breezy 90 minute session anyone can do. Every 5 minutes or so we flow from one posture, and one form of meditation to the other.
Beginners are welcome as are yoga teachers interested in teaching meditation.
The Yoga of Wonder and Delight
Week of June 22-27
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
Come discover the luminous world of The Radiance Sutras, a fresh translation of an ancient yoga text. In this tradition, meditation is innate, natural, and playful. The Sutras sing of passionate serenity, and being at home in your body with all your senses awake to the vibrancy of life. The Radiance Sutras describe 112 ways to touch the sacred in the midst of everyday life, such as gazing at nature, cherishing breath, listening to music, bathing in silence, dancing, chanting, savoring tastes with intense awareness, and loving and praying continuously.
Embraced by the earth, ocean, and sky at Esalen, this inspiring retreat is a chance to explore a variety of embodied meditations and develop an individualized practice you can take home. All levels of experience are welcome, and all bodies.
Lorin Roche began practicing with the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra in 1968 and brings over forty years’ experience teaching its methods. Camille Maurine brings her deep understanding of movement as our nature. The couple share thirty years of creative teaching together.
This workshop counts as 26 hours toward Yoga Alliance Meditation Teacher Training.
register here.
Shakti Fest in Joshua Tree May 16-18 2014
Shakti Fest is coming up May 16-18 2014 - and the time to start planning is NOW. Reserve your room or house. Get your travel plans together.
Click on the poster above or click here for the Shakti Fest website.
Freedom Meditation
Practicing with The Radiance Sutras
Saturday, May 31: 12-5pm
Sunday, June 1: 12-5pm
at Prana Yoga in La Jolla, California
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. We will explore the luminous teachings of The Radiance Sutras, a fresh translation of an ancient yoga text.
The Radiance Sutras is an accessible version of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a yoga text describing 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. Meditation techniques are presented as natural gateways we can find in the midst of breathing, listening to music, chanting, dancing, eating, gazing at the horizon, greeting a friend, gazing at the horizon, communing with nature. In this approach to meditation, every breath, sensual experience, and emotion is accepted as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life.
You will learn mudra (energy gestures), mantra (sounds you can use to access your inner life), pranayama (ways of breathing that soothe and energize you), and dhyana (personalized meditation practices that work for you.) This is Freedom Meditation - you select the practices that work for your individual nature and learn how to modify them to feel natural and effortless. Be ready to fall in love with meditation.
La Jolla at Prana Yoga
November 22-24, 2013
RADIANT BODY Meditation Immersion and Training with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine ~ La Jolla, California ~ Lorin and Camille give another scintillating meditation weekend at Prana Yoga Studio.
The Radiance Sutras at Esalen
WEEK OF DECEMBER 8-13
Luminous Being: Embodying the Radiance Sutras
WEEK OF DECEMBER 8-13
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. We explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years.
The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality — accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet.
This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
To find out more, explore here.
http://www.esalen.org/workshop/week-december-8-13/luminous-being-embodying-radiance-sutras
2013
November 1-4, 2013 ~ “THE YOGA OF WONDER AND DELIGHT ~ Meditating with THE RADIANCE SUTRAS” ~ Workshop and Training with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine ~ Frederick, Maryland ~ Camille Maurine and husband/co-author Dr. Lorin Roche give a meditation training and immersion in The Radiance Sutras. Includes a workshop for women on Monday evening. At Ananda Shala Studio in Fredrick, Maryland.
November 15, 2013, Friday 12-4pm ~ “RADIANCE SUTRAS & the Poetry of the Senses” ~ with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine ~ Laguna Beach, CA ~ A meditation workshop and training with Cloud Nine Yoga.
November 22-24, 2013 ~ “RADIANT BODY” Meditation Immersion and Training with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine ~ La Jolla, California ~ Lorin and Camille give another scintillating meditation weekend at Prana Yoga Studio.
Luminous Being: Embodying the Radiance Sutras
WEEK OF DECEMBER 8-13
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. We explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years.
The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality — accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet.
This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
To find out more, explore here.
http://www.esalen.org/workshop/week-december-8-13/luminous-being-embodying-radiance-sutras
July 2013
Moksha Festival
Saturday July 13 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
We will be doing a series of brief meditations to activate the senses - human beings have a dozen or more senses. You need to know them all!
For more information: mokshafestival.com
In Topanga Canyon
August 2013
August 11-16 at Kripalu
Rejuvenating with The Radiance Sutras
A retreat and optional meditation teacher training
Register here.
August 11–16, 2013 Sunday–Friday 5 nights
- At Play with The Radiance Sutras: A Meditation Retreat and Teacher Training
Lorin Roche and Coby Kozlowski
Lorin Roche, PhD, has been teaching meditation since 1968 and has a doctorate from the University of California for his work on the subjective experience of meditation. Together, he and Camille Maurine are the authors… full bio & programs
Coby Kozlowski, MA, E-RYT, serves on the Kripalu faculty, and is a professional life coach, inspirational speaker, yoga and dance teacher, expressive arts therapist, and expert in transformative leadership. She is the founder of Souluna…
For all levels; optional meditation teacher training for yoga teachers.*
Meditation is one of life’s great pleasures, a vacation in the vibrant present. There are hundreds of techniques, and, when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. In this retreat, explore the luminous and juicy teachings of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text that describes 112 meditation practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The teachings are playful, instinctive, both down-to-earth and transcendent.
In this retreat, you learn
- A wide variety of meditation practices so you can pick the one you need each day
- Ways that meditation can be more restful than sleep
- Skills for handling the emotions and sensations that arise in meditation
- Techniques to blend meditation and movement.
Note *For those interested in the Yoga Alliance accredited meditation teacher training, there will be extended hours. This counts as 40 hours of teacher training (contact and non-contact hours). For further information, visit www.lorinroche.com. The training includes
- Specific techniques to guide students into meditation
- Skills for honoring individuality and modifying meditation practices to suit individual preferences
- Effective language for guiding students into healthy practice
- 112 ways to refresh your approach to meditation.
This program is eligible for
- 23.5 credits for Yoga Alliance (YA), $20 additional charge
- 23.5 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $20 additional charge
November 1-4, 2013 ~ “THE YOGA OF WONDER AND DELIGHT ~ Meditating with THE RADIANCE SUTRAS” ~ Workshop and Training with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine ~ Frederick, Maryland ~ Camille Maurine and husband/co-author Dr. Lorin Roche give a meditation training and immersion in The Radiance Sutras. Includes a workshop for women on Monday evening. At Ananda Shala Studio in Fredrick, Maryland.
November 15, 2013, Friday 12-4pm ~ “RADIANCE SUTRAS & the Poetry of the Senses” ~ with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine ~ Laguna Beach, CA ~ A meditation workshop and training with Cloud Nine Yoga.
Past Events - 2013
March 1-3
March 2013 in Australia
Lorin is off to Australia for most of March.
March 1-3 Byron Bay Spirit Festival
We will be rocking the Radiance Sutras at the Spirit Festival, with Dave Stringer.
Sunday March 3 at 2pm, Civic Hall - At Play with The Radiance Sutras. A Sutra Jam with Dave Stringer, Lorin Roche and musicians.
I might be able to join Dave here:
BRISBANE, QLD, AUSTRALIA
Thursday, March 7, 5:30 PM
Yoga Class accompanied by Live Music
with Julie Smerdon, Dave Stringer & Band
Shri Yoga
26 Burnett Lane
Brisbane, QLD, 4000
www.davestringeraustralia.com/
March 8-10 in Sydney
FRIDAY 8TH MARCH
6.30pm – 10.30pm
SATURDAY 9TH MARCH & SUNDAY 10TH MARCH
At Bodymindlife Yoga
10.30am – 4.30pm
This workshop offers 12 hours towards BodyMindLife’s 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training.
register here.
March 15-17 Brisbane
At Shri Yoga with Julie Smerdon
March 22-24 Sunshine Coast
I will then go to the Sunshine Coast to do something with Tash & friends.
that’s Tash Patten and Tashyoga.
April 2013
April 26-28 Sonic Yoga in New York
The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Teacher Training
Skill building for yoga teachers and others who want to guide meditation
Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine: The Art Of Meditation & The Radiance Sutras
Posted on April 23, 2013 by admin
AT PLAY WITH THE RADIANCE SUTRAS with Lorin Roche And Camille Maurine
Sat 4/27 @ 11:30 am – 6:30 pm
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. During this weekend, we explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. THE RADIANCE SUTRAS is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality ~ accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation). Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move and breathe this luscious reality. 6hrs. $120
INNER ASANA ~ AN OPEN MEDITATION CLASS with Lorin Roche And Camille Maurine
Sun 4/28 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Meditation is the instinct to savor life’s beauty and wonder. The basic motion of attention is as natural as listening to music you love, gazing out over the horizon, or taking a deep breath as you smell something delicious.Come learn the secrets of how to allow meditation to feel as natural as breathing, a joyous relief. Hundreds of major scientific studies have documented the benefits of meditation for physical, emotional and mental health.
In this open class, we explore the four “meditative” angas or limbs of Yoga – pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi. This is a fun, flowing, breezy 90 minute session anyone can do. Every 5 minutes or so we flow from one posture, and one form of meditation to the other.
Beginners are welcome as are Yoga teachers interested in teaching meditation. $25 drop in $20 TT or Sonic Grad
THE ART OF TEACHING MEDITATION with Lorin Roche And Camille Maurine
Sun 4/28 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
This is a workshop devoted to the skills of meditation and teaching meditation.Meditation and yoga go together and flow together. Asana and pranayama prepare the body for meditation. We can think of meditation as internal yoga, an inner asana flow. Because meditation is internal, there is no one to watch or imitate, so we need to be gentle and follow our instincts.
All human beings have the ability to meditate. Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana. When we find the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action.
The English word “meditation” encompasses four limbs of Yoga – pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. These are all natural motions of attention. A meditation teacher needs to be perceptive and supple to cooperate with life’s impulse toward enlightenment.
In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them in the process. 5hrs. $100 drop in
The Radiance Sutras May 3-5 Beloved Yoga in Reston, Virginia
More info here.
May 12-17 Esalen 5-day Workshop Embodying the Radiance Sutras
May 2013
May 12-17 2013 Esalen 5-day Workshop The Radiance Sutras
sign up here.
You do not need any prior experience with meditation to come. All levels of experience are welcome, because we are each beginning anew each day. Come enjoy a healing and rejuvenating vacation at Esalen in Big Sur, California, and come back with a thrilling and relaxing meditation practice that will enrich your life.
The Radiance Sutras at Esalen
1. Esalen is one of the most magical, physically healing places I have ever been.
2. Camille and Lorin, plus Dave Stringer, will be guiding you into the delight of meditation - your way.
3. You will learn techniques you can take home with you to enrich your daily life.
Come join us for five days of rejuvenation in the sanctuary that is Esalen.
Renew and recharge your body, Develop a daily meditation practice.
Hear the new versions of The Radiance Sutras put to song by Dave Stringer and Donna DeLory
Counts as 20 hours toward Meditation Teacher Training with Yoga Alliance.
May 19 Shakti Fest at Joshua Tree, California
Sunday Morning - A Radiance Sutras Jam
Past Events
Events for Winter 2011
December 9-11: The Radiance Sutras at Esalen in Big Sur
Come immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement, in the gorgeous world of Esalen. We will explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality—accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
Register online or call Esalen at: 831 667 3005.
Events for Winter 2012
January 6-8, 2012 WILD SERENITY Retreat with Lorin and Camille – Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
Camille Maurine and Lorin return to Esalen for a weekend immersion into delicious meditation and movement called WILD SERENITY. Spectacular healing center, marvelous staff, scrumptious food, healing natural baths! Contact Camille with any questions, and visit Lorin's website for more about his work. Register at Esalen online or call Esalen at: 831 667 3005.
Events for February 2012
Sutra Jam - Sunday February 5 at 1 P.M. in Encinitas $15
We will be jamming’ and dancing and chanting with The Radiance Sutras
Seaside Center for Spiritual Living
1613 Lake Drive
Encinitas CA 92924
(760) 753-5786
FEBRUARY 24-26th at Bindu Yoga in West Palm Beach, Florida
Instinctual Meditation Training
Bindu Yoga Studio
5913 S. Dixie Highway
West Palm Beach, FL 33405
www.bindu-studio.com
Tel: 561-233-9882
Events for April 2012
Wild Serenity Teleconference - 4 Class series, Tuesdays starting March 27th through April 17th. We will be exploring Wild Serenity meditation and movement practices. Check out here for more.
Yoga Loka in Reno, Nevada
MEDITATION IMMERSION and TRAINING - A Zestly Life-Affirming Approach to Meditation
with Lorin Roche, Ph. D & Camille Maurine
April 20-22; Fri 7:30-9:00 p.m. Sat & Sun 12:30-5:30 p.m.
All human beings have the ability to meditate. Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana. When we tend the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action.
In this workshop you will get an opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You will get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them.
The training is for everyone.Yoga teachers will find it particularly valuable. Continuing education credits are available.
Sign up here.
Events for May 2012
May 13-18, 2012 – A 5-day retreat with THE RADIANCE SUTRAS with Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA.
Come immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement, in the gorgeous world of Esalen. We will explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality—accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
Go deeper into the body, breath, and movement of these vibrant energy practices. Receive personal feedback and support from Lorin and Camille, in the synergy of the group field and spirit. The sensuous, poetic language of The Radiance Sutras, Lorin’s new translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, is our text.
Register at Esalen online or call Esalen at: 831 667 3005.
Events for June 2012
Prana Yoga in La Jolla, California
A weekend of Meditation Teacher Training
June 8-10
Saturday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
Sunday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
For more information or to register go here.
For a flyer, go here to svarasa.com
All human beings have the ability to meditate. Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana. When we find the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action. In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them in the process.
Events for July 2012
Prana Yoga in La Jolla, California
A weekend of Meditation Teacher Training
July 28-29
Saturday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
Sunday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
For more information or to register go here.
For a flyer, go here to svarasa.com
Meditation is Instinctive
Modern scientific research indicates that meditation is innate - a built-in ability all human beings have, which gives access to profound restfulness and relaxation. This is in accord with the ancient yoga traditions, which present meditation as svarasa - a skill that emerges from one’s own essence and instinct, and leads you there. In this workshop (actually, a series of mini-workshops), we begin at the beginning and build a foundation with the naturalness and spontaneity of meditation. We will review the scientific research on the physiology of meditation, which indicates a state of restfulness deeper than sleep combined with enhanced alertness.
Meditation is Sensuous
Meditation techniques use the senses (indriyas) - balance, touch, motion, oxygen sensing, hearing, vision, and other senses – and we will explore basic meditation practices using each of these – prana (breath), mudra (gesture and motion), mantra (inner sound) and yantra (visualizations).
Meditation is Rhythmic
During meditation, some rhythms are once a second or so (heartbeat), some are every couple of seconds (breathing), others are several times a minute (the basic rhythm of restfulness and activation), and some take several minutes. We will explore all these rhythms and you will be able to apply them to develop your own meditative practice and use them in teaching yoga and meditation. When you learn to accept these rhythms, meditation ceases to be a struggle.
Meditation is Play
Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana.
Meditation is a Skill that can be Learned and Taught
When we find the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action. In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them in the process.
All levels of experience are welcome - if you have never meditated or if you have been practicing for years. All you need is a desire to meditate, a longing to be able to access your inner world.
The hours of this workshop count toward a Yoga Alliance 200-hour Yoga Meditation Teacher Training certificate.
Events for August 2012
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
Wild Serenity 5-day
August 19-24, 2012
Wild Serenity is a radically liberating, deeply revitalizing weekend of meditation, movement, and energy practices. The workshop explores the interplay between meditation and expression—the way that contact with the soul inspires dynamic engagement with the outer world, which in turn contributes to a rich inner life.
Meditation can be defined as paying attention to the current of life and love flowing through us and riding it inward to our essence. This is an instinctive ability, a way of accessing inner wisdom, and we all can do it. The course alternates sitting and moving meditations that awaken the senses, soften the heart, and stretch the muscles of the mind. Through body awareness, sound, and breath, you gently and gradually let more life force stream through you.
In this approach, you learn to embrace the fullness of your nature—vastness and vulnerability, sensuality and surging power. You will discover that what might seem like obstacles—raw emotions, restlessness, desire—are actually gateways into vitality, renewal, and creativity.
Living and loving fully takes courage and all the inner resources one can muster. Drawing on three decades of teaching and twenty-nine years of relationship, authors Maurine and Roche share their experience with humor and compassion. If you’ve given up on meditation, or are ready to take your practice to a new level; if you want to tap into more joy and inspiration; if you long for more intimacy with yourself and others, then perhaps it’s time for Wild Serenity. This course is also useful for those in the helping professions.
Recommended reading: Maurine and Roche, Meditation Secrets for Women (published by Harper); Roche, The Radiance Sutras (available at www.lorinroche.com) and Meditation Made Easy (published by Harper).
sign up here.
Wild Serenity counts for 26 contact hours of Meditation Teacher Training with both Pranava Meditation and the Pranava Meditation Teacher Training Yoga Alliance Certification.
Events for September 2012
Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California
September 6-9
Events for October 2012
Ananda Shala in Frederick, Maryland
Events for October 2012
Ananda Shala in Frederick, Maryland
A weekend of Meditation Teacher Training
Dates: Fri 10/5 5-9p
Sat 10/6 8:30-12p & 1:30-5pm
Sun 10/7 8:30-12p & 1:30-4pm
For more information or to register go here.
For notes on content, go to svarasa.com
Meditation is Instinctive
Modern scientific research indicates that meditation is innate - a built-in ability all human beings have, which gives access to profound restfulness and relaxation. This is in accord with the ancient yoga traditions, which present meditation as svarasa - a skill that emerges from one’s own essence and instinct, and leads you there. In this workshop (actually, a series of mini-workshops), we begin at the beginning and build a foundation with the naturalness and spontaneity of meditation. We will review the scientific research on the physiology of meditation, which indicates a state of restfulness deeper than sleep combined with enhanced alertness.
Meditation is Sensuous
Meditation techniques use the senses (indriyas) - balance, touch, motion, oxygen sensing, hearing, vision, and other senses – and we will explore basic meditation practices using each of these – prana (breath), mudra (gesture and motion), mantra (inner sound) and yantra (visualizations).
Meditation is Rhythmic
During meditation, some rhythms are once a second or so (heartbeat), some are every couple of seconds (breathing), others are several times a minute (the basic rhythm of restfulness and activation), and some take several minutes. We will explore all these rhythms and you will be able to apply them to develop your own meditative practice and use them in teaching yoga and meditation. When you learn to accept these rhythms, meditation ceases to be a struggle.
Meditation is Play
Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana.
Meditation is a Skill that can be Learned and Taught
When we find the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action. In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them in the process.
All levels of experience are welcome - if you have never meditated or if you have been practicing for years. All you need is a desire to meditate, a longing to be able to access your inner world.
The hours of this workshop count toward a Yoga Alliance 200-hour Yoga Meditation Teacher Training certificate.
Events for December 2012
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California
The Radiance Sutras
Weekend of December 14-16, 2012
Luminous Being: Embodying the Radiance Sutras
Camille Maurine & Lorin Roche
Immerse yourself in love-drenched meditation and movement. We will explore the luminous teachings of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient text that describes 112 awareness practices for touching the sacred in the midst of daily life. The Radiance Sutras is a musical, sensuous translation of this tantra by Lorin Roche, who has lived and breathed these yogas for forty years. The Radiance Sutras evoke a world of wonder, awe, and delight. The focus of this workshop is on full-body spirituality—accepting every breath, sensual experience, and emotion as a doorway into deep and intimate contact with the energies of life. The practices include mudra (energy gestures), pranayama (breath), mantra (sound), and dhyana (meditation).
Anyone can practice these methods. The emphasis is on naturalness, spontaneity, and being at home in the universe. You meet yourself wherever you are, whether you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into the Sutras that are calling you and receive coaching from Lorin and Camille to make them your own, so that you can embody, move, and breathe this luscious reality. All levels of experience are welcome.
Sign up here.
Past Events 2011
When we find the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, meditation feels natural and we relish it. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action.
The Radiance Sutras in Boston at the end of July
sign up for either or both events here:
July 31-August 1, Radiance Sutras Meditation Retreat in Boston’s beautiful North Shore
or email me directly, lorin@lorinroche.com
Later in the Summer:
August 26-28: Wild Serenity at Esalen Institute in Big Sur
Fall 2011
September 8-11 Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California
October 4-30 The Australian Tour - Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
Prana Yoga in La Jolla, California
A weekend of Meditation Teacher Training
April 13-14-15
Friday night April 13 7pm - Radiance Sutras Jam Session with Steve Gold, The Sutra Jam Session Musicians, Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche. Open to all.
Saturday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
Sunday noon to 4 PM - Meditation Teacher Training
For more information or to register go here.
For a flyer, go here to svarasa.com
Instinctive Meditation is a way of learning and practicing meditation in accord with your unique and individual inner nature, your prakriti. When we meditate in this way, we thrive.
Yoga Loka in Reno, Nevada
MEDITATION IMMERSION and TRAINING - A Zestly Life-Affirming Approach to Meditation
with Lorin Roche, Ph. D & Camille Maurine
April 20-22; Fri 7:30-9:00 p.m. Sat & Sun 12:30-5:30 p.m.
All human beings have the ability to meditate. Meditation is a name we give to a universe of techniques for accessing our own innate ability to heal, rejuvenate, and be in love with life. Meditation is intimacy with life. Practicing can feel as natural as breathing. The techniques are ways of perceiving and delighting in the life essence at play in us as prana. When we tend the internal styles and practices that match our inner nature, our prakriti, then meditation feels natural and we relish our experience. Meditation becomes an internal vacation and healing Temple that helps us balance our energies and prepare for loving action.
In this workshop you will get an opportunity to explore a variety of different approaches and find what works for you, and also learn from other people what works for them. You will get to practice creating meditations for yourself and for others, and guiding them.
The training is for everyone.Yoga teachers will find it particularly valuable. Continuing education credits are available.
Sign up here.