Yoga Research and Education Center often receives calls for help from individuals who are experiencing spiritual breakthroughs that they cannot handle or actual breakdowns as a result of premature spiritual awakening. Our Center is not able to deal with such cases directly, and we hope that the following comments and suggestions will be useful to people who find themselves in a spiritual crisis. (more...)

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A lot of people ask us the difference between “yogic love” (known by many different names and forms, such as Tantric Love) and non-yogic love. Yogic Love is primarily a lot of the divine, by whatever name you know it. A desire to feel the ocean of universal love/spirit/energy. I like the way one of [...]
One of the purposes of yoga is to prepare one for meditation, by releasing any stress and tension held in the body and increasing the strength of the body for a long meditation sit. One can study yoga without practicing meditation, but eventually, the need for meditation emerges.
Why Meditate? Some of the benefits of meditation [...]