Ancient yogis believed that we naturally embody an energetic map that can guide us toward greater health, happiness, and inner peace.
This map is expressed through the cakras, known as chakras in the West. Each cakra holds a key to unlocking different elements of the psyche that keep us stuck in recurring patterns that stifle our evolution.
Meditative self-inquiry with each cakra, as master yoga teacher Gary Kraftsow teaches, can reveal and resolve hidden patterns within the psyche — and help us break free from our conditioning, attachments, and cycles of suffering...
... and uncover the true source of freedom and fulfillment in the process.
From the earliest teachings of yoga, sages described a world where every thought, action, feeling, and reaction shapes our experience — and binds us to a self-perpetuating loop of action and consequence that is deeply entangled in the “world of name and form.”
Over time, this loop creates an accumulation of karma — unresolved issues and continuing frustration, tension, and suffering that interferes with our capacity for happiness and fulfillment.
During this insightful online event with Gary, you’ll explore how the cakra map can help you recognize these unconscious, unhealthy patterns — and unravel the programming that keeps you bound to pain and struggling... and only fleeting moments of peace.
Gary will also introduce meditative self-inquiry (svādhyāya) following the map of the cakra-s.
Svādhyāya is one of the most important methods of Antya Krama, an orientation to practice focused on resolving karma that includes many techniques, including movement, breathwork, and mantra that together can help us release the egoic identification that traps us in the ongoing cycle of attachment and aversion.
During this meditative practice, which demonstrates the yogic path to freedom and fulfillment, you’ll reflect on a recent personal experience and witness how it sparked your conditioning — and how your own response to this triggering may have reinforced the cycle of suffering.
Guided by decades of study with legendary yogis T.K.V. Deśikāchar and Tirumalai Kriṣhṇamācārya, Gary will share how you can move beyond surface-level yoga practices into a potent, integrative journey of self-inquiry.
The insights you gain from this practice may help you attain greater clarity, compassion, and release.
If you’ve ever sensed that your deepest patterns are trying to show you something, or if you long to stop circling the same frustrations and start walking a path to real peace — this event is for you.
