Namaste and Welcome to the Kriya Yoga Mandala
The Kriya Yoga Mandala is a community of compassionate souls who have come together to help awaken and uplift humanity through our own self-realization. This is our online portal, dedicated to the dissemination of Kriya Yoga.
Though Kriya Yoga has spread around the globe as predicted by its originators, it is again time to revive this sacred practice and share its potency with the world at large.
My mission is to offer a pure undiluted version of Kriya based in my years of practice and communion with the Masters, one that retains the original technique in all of its beauty, while also offering a modern and integrated perspective.
The Earth is on the precipice of a great transformation and Kriya is as relevant as ever.
Let us together reignite the flame of Kriya Yoga and let it stand strong as a beacon of light for all awakening souls.
What is Kriya Yoga?
Kriya Yoga is an ancient esoteric yoga practice kept alive through the millennia by a lineage of awakened mystics. It is a system of meditation and pranayama (energetic breathing) through which we consciously activate our life-force, and realize our True Nature through direct experiences of pure awareness.
It is an extremely powerful evolutionary technology that zeroes in on the natural process of spiritual awakening and accelerates it directly.
Because it works on a universal level of our consciousness, Kriya transcends dogma and serves as a powerful ally in our evolution no matter our religious or spiritual orientation, and supports all energetic endeavors whether creative, intellectual, or spiritual.
Kriya provides us with a steady container for our spiritual unfoldment, creating a space for us to consistently unravel into deeper layers of our soul and have direct experiences of Truth that even the loftiest of philosophies can only hint at.
An ancient practice that was revived in the 19th century, it is often considered to be the “lightning path” because of its remarkable effectiveness in awakening transcendent states of consciousness within us.
It is also referred to as the Crown Jewel of yoga practices in this age of the householder yogi, where we need a technique powerful enough to balance our spiritual unfoldment alongside our worldly responsibilities.
In practice, Kriya is like a distillation process, each breath refining our awareness until we arrive back at the original purity of our soul. ‘Kri’ signifies action and ‘Ya’ indicates the soul, so Kriya Yoga is union with the Divine through soulful effort.
Kriya helps us rewire our entire nervous system and align our consciousness with our innermost heart. It purifies the mind, senses, and all energetic currents flowing through our system, and empties us of all transient thoughts and imprints of reality so that we may experience the purity, peace, stillness, and ecstasy of the eternal Self.
Kriya also helps strengthen our basic functioning by building our digestive fire, giving us energy, reducing fatigue, charging our creative and sexual force, promoting healthy sleep, energizing the brain and intellect, and is deeply restorative and nourishing. It helps us to become more in tune with our emotions and more fluid mentally. Kriya truly is a support to every dimension of our existence.
It is a path that, if approached with respect, humility, love, and dedication, has the potential to see us through to the experience of Self-Realization.
There really is no way to exaggerate the potency of this practice. My prayer is that you come to understand just why that is.
My Background
One evening, at the age of 19, I was playing music with my friends when I heard an unexpected voice whisper to me “go to the bookstore.” Following this mysterious guidance, I arrived just 5 minutes before it closed and immediately was entranced by a beautiful face staring at me from a book cover. It was Paramhamsa Yogananda, who took me on a profound and mystical journey over the next few weeks with his Autobiography of a Yogi. Through immense grace and a series of serendipities, I was connected to a Kriya Yoga teacher to whom I made a pilgrimage just a few months later. I had a powerful initiatory experience as I felt the blessings of the Kriya masters pour through me. I knew immediately that my entire existence had been revolutionized.
The practice felt familiar and natural to me, and I dedicated myself to it wholeheartedly. Within a couple months I started to experience ecstatic Kundalini awakenings and began to untether my consciousness from the material world. I went celibate for 5 years, experimented with fasting, and would sit blissfully for several hours daily. Throughout this time I was initiated into several different lineages — I learned the Hariharananda version in Florida and was refreshed by Swami Prajnananda in Amarkantak, India. I went to a retreat and learned the version taught by Satgurunath Siddhanath in California, and later on took initiation from Lahiri Mahasaya’s great-grandson, Shibendu Lahiri, in Varanasi India. I also learned the Self Realization Fellowship version and read many books about Kriya and its many masters. I was totally enamored by the practice and learned as much as I could both through practice and literature.
A couple years into my Kriya journey, I took a higher initiation from my original teacher and prepared for the greatest initiations of all. In 2009, during a peak of my spiritual unfoldment, I was involved in a severe car wreck which left me hanging onto life by a thread. During my coma I traveled far and wide to many different planes of reality, meditating in the heavens with Siddhas, traversing through the dark underworld, and receiving further initiations from the Kriya masters in mystic realms of rarified consciousness.
The culmination of this journey was when I decided to leave this world for good and was transported into a tunnel of light where I forgot everything about my earthly existence. I felt my consciousness melt away as I merged with pure bliss and dissolved into the ecstasy of complete emptiness. Timeless eternity gave way to a scene of nurses huddled around me as I was shocked back into my body and returned to this world from the inconceivable realms. There are no words that could ever convey this type of experience, but I knew at that point that I was here to serve humanity with what I had experienced in the higher realms, not escape it.
Over the next few years I continued my practice and set out on the next step in my spiritual evolution after transcendence — the journey of embodiment, which was much more intricate and involved than I ever could have imagined. Around the time I started to feel balanced between my transcendent self and my embodied existence, I was initiated as a teacher of Kriya Yoga and began to share the practice through in-person initiations.
Though I had received hints that an online transmission would be part of my mission on earth, it took me a while to get used to the idea. I have a tremendous respect for tradition and understand the potency in keeping a powerful yoga practice secret. But alas, yoga and the way it is shared evolves, just as everything in life does. There are so many ancient esoteric practices available these days that they often get obscured or watered down, and I am passionate about conveying the true power of this sacred path. Through the guidance of the masters and my innermost heart I took on the responsibility of presenting a clear, undiluted version of Kriya based in my 15 years of practice. I pray that it serves you well.
An Ancient Practice Through a Contemporary Lens
I share Kriya through the perspective I have gained over the years by comparing several lineages and versions of the technique, while taking into account modern nuances that shape our daily realities and affect the way we approach spiritual practice. Having noticed many Kriya schools offering a predominantly mechanical, left-brained approach to the practice, I have made an effort to offer a version that is more balanced and harmonizes masculine and mental energy with a more feminine and heartfelt approach. The result is a potent, harmonious, and easily integrated form of the practice that inspires internal balance, fluidity, and a sense of grace.
Course Content
In Kriya Yoga: The Crown Jewel, you will receive full instructions and initiation into the original Kriya Yoga as taught by Lahiri Mahasaya, along with tools to help you establish a deep and sustainable spiritual practice of limitless potential. It is a self-paced course, but is recommended to complete within 2-4 weeks.
I will go over the foundations of the practice, and give an in-depth exploration of the spiritual anatomy, hidden keys & common pitfalls, a map of progression, integration advice, and supportive practices. All of this is shared through my unique lens formed through 15 years of dedicated practice and countless mystical experiences.
Module 1: Course intro
∙ My Background
∙ Gurus and Lineage
∙ Evolution of Kriya
∙ Moral Codes & Agreements
Module 2: Foundations
∙ Preliminaries of the Practice
∙ Sadhana Overview
∙ The Spiritual Anatomy
∙ Kriya Yoga Initiation
Module 3: technique
∙ Ujjayi
∙ Khechari & Talabya
∙ Navi Kriya
∙ Advanced & Alternate Navi
∙ Omkar Kriya
Module 4: technique
∙ Kriya Pranayama
∙ Yoni Mudra
∙ Paravastha
∙ Maha Mudra
module 5: the golden keys
∙ Mapping our Progress
∙ Golden Keys of Kriya
∙ Common Pitfalls
module 6: Integration
∙ Building a Routine
∙ Integration into Daily Life
∙ Supportive Practices
Along with the course you will receive:
∙ An expansive 130 page digital Kriya Companion Guidebook that contains the distilled essence of the practice, an exploration of many subtle nuances that pertain to it, and a modern perspective that will help you to integrate your Kriya experiences into everyday life
∙ A guided audio practice to support you in establishing your personal practice
∙ Access to an online Kriya Yoga Mandala Network to connect with other members of the Mandala. This is a wonderful place to discuss the practice and have your questions answered
∙ Access to monthly Q&A sessions for Kriya Yoga Mandala Members
A Comprehensive Kriya Guidebook
Included along with the course is a comprehensive 130 page guidebook that outlines all of the techniques in detail and includes an in-depth exploration of hidden keys to Kriya I have discovered throughout my immersion. It is the distillation of my many years of experience that bridges the ancient ways with the modern, illuminates the many subtleties that bring the practice to life, and sets us up to experience its full potential. In it, I also include alternate and advanced versions of certain practices I picked up from different schools, along with supportive lifestyle and meditation techniques.
The Exchange
I am offering this course at the cost of $333, but I also recognize that value is fluid and relative to the individual. So I’d like to invite you to make an offering that is proportionate with your capacity to give.
Tune into your heart, and make your offering a significant symbolic gesture that honors the practice and represents the value you are placing upon your spiritual evolution.
I say this while being fully aware that manipulative sales tactics have unfortunately infiltrated the spiritual community. This is why I offer the course at a baseline price, with options to give more or to receive a discount depending on your situation.
I want your heart to feel good and aligned with what you give.
Your contribution will be placed into the KYM Dharma Fund, which goes towards building a temple-space or scholarship program, which supports those who are genuinely interested in taking this course but don’t have financial access to it. You can learn more about our vision on our Support Page, or simply send your donation to kriyayogamandala@protonmail.com on PayPal, Venmo, or Cashapp.
Thank you
It is my honor to offer my life’s work and serve you in your spiritual journey. I pray that my offering helps you to discover the beauty within your own sacred heart.
