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

August 22-29, 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