Hridayam Yoga - Olga Louchakova


The biography of Olga Louchakova From a Russian mystery school to a California transpersonal institute

Olga Louchakova is a core faculty professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and a founding director and Master teacher of the Hridayam® School of Yoga, where she combines her academic studies and research with her spiritual teaching. Her teaching mandate came in 1988 from an underground spiritual school in the former Soviet Union. Since then, Olga has taught and studied spiritual awakening in Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, England, India, Turkey and United States.

In the 80s Olga was a neuroscientist at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her pioneering work in the biotechnological diagnostics of autoimmune diseases of the nervous system was acclaimed by grants and patents, as well as published in many medical journals in Russia. Later, personal spiritual experiences led Olga to meet a spiritual elder, Vladimir Antonov. She soon afterward became a full time spiritual teacher herself. Since then she has served as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and at the Graduate Theological Union, bringing her expertise in Eastern Christian Mysticism and Kundalini Yoga.

In the 90s, Olga was lucky to meet many remarkable awakened people in different cultures from different spiritual traditions. This led her to discover the unique concepts of the Hridayam® method of Kundalini Yoga.

A versatility of knowledge, an ability to connect with different audiences, a gift for passing to others the direct experience of spirit, and a very strong academic background. These have allowed Olga to teach the practices and theory of spiritual awakening in many different communities worldwide. She is a welcome teacher at the Catholic Mercy Center in Burlingame, California, at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, at a Phenomenological conference in Oxford University in U.K., and at the conventions of the American Psychological Association and the European Association of Transpersonal Psychology. Olga has established the Hridayam® School in order to train professional guides in spiritual awakening and has been conducting ongoing longitudinal spiritual training seminars and retreats since 1992. She currently offers workshops and maintains a private practice in Kundalini process guidance in the San Francisco/Oakland bay area of Northern California.

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