Non-Duality West: Neuroscience and Meditations in the Spiritual Heart

September 12 - 19, 2010 (7 days)
at Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA, US

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Recent advances in neuroscience and psychology demonstrate that the experience of non-dual awareness enhances attentional resources of the brain, improves memory, and promotes personal growth. In this retreat, based on research by Olga Louchakova, participants will be introduced to meditations that lead to the emergence of non-dual consciousness, experience the positive outcomes of non-dual awareness, and learn about the relationship between attention and awareness from the standpoint of scientific research into non-duality.

In order to attain non-dual awareness, we will learn meditations on the Spiritual Heart, which is the center of non-dual awareness in the human body. These meditations are at the core of the wisdom traditions of Sufism, Hasidism (mystical Judaism) and Hesychasm (mystical Christian tradition of the internal stillness). In the East, they are found in traditions of Advaita and Shakta Vedanta. Focusing attention in the Spiritual Heart opens access to subconscious and enhances self-knowledge, brings up the direct intuition, expands consciousness, purifies the mind and, above all, leads to the gestalt of the non-dual awareness.

This retreat will include initiations into the Spiritual Heart; work with sacred imagery, periods of guided and silent meditations, discourses on non-dual consciousness and scientific research of the non-dual brain, psychospiritual guidance, and other exercises relevant to the journey into non-duality.

Olga Louchakova, M.D., Ph.D., is a spiritual teacher, medical doctor and neuroscientist. She is the founding Director of the Neurophenomenology Research Center the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the mandated teacher of Advaita Vedanta, Kundalini Yoga and Prayer of the Heart. Her original spiritual training comes from the Russian spiritual underground. Her recent research of visual awareness in Tibetan monks was featured in the Science Daily, on the Discovery Channel, and on BBC News. Dr. Louchakova can be reached via email at info@hridayamyoga.org or call (650) 340-7457

LOCATION:
Mercy Center
2300 Adeline Dr
Burlingame, CA, US

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Spiritual Awakening
and the Prayer of the Heart

By Olga Louchakova

Wednesday - June 2, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Northbrae Community Church
941 The Alameda, Berkeley

Olga Louchakova will speak about the process of embodied spiritual awakening, and the transformative practices supporting it, such as the Hesychast Prayer of the Heart, or the Sufi Dhikr of Divine Names. These practices work with Spiritual Heart, which is the most important subtle energy center in the human body. Using these practices in personal work can become a powerful alternative in psychotherapy, as is true in the Hridayam® method of inner spiritual work developed by Professor Louchakova.

Olga Louchakova, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, neuroscientist, phenomenologist, internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, and a prolific writer. She taught in Russian spiritual underground, and worked as a senior scientist in the Pavlov Institute in St. Petersburg. Her research of visual imagery in Tibetan Monks was featured on BBC News and Science Daily. Her talk will be accompanied by slides of spiritual art.

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The talk is open to the public and free of charge. An optional pasta dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. (Adults $7.00/children free). Call 510 526-3805 to make dinner reservations.