Hari-kirtana is an author, mentor, and yoga teacher who shares his knowledge and experience of how the yoga wisdom tradition can guide us toward meaningful and transformative spiritual experiences.
Principles of Spiritual Leadership
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Greetings Reader - If you do a search on “spiritual leadership,” you’ll find descriptions that assume “spiritual leadership” means leading people along a spiritual path or inspiring people to engage more fully in their spiritual lives. That’s one way to think about spiritual leadership, and it’s a great way, but I prefer to think of spiritual leadership as the exemplary application of spiritual ideas and values to solving the problems of the material world. Among all yoga wisdom texts, the Bhagavad-gita specifically encourages us to make our participation in creating a better, kinder, safer, and more beautiful world part of a fully integrated personal spiritual practice. And the Gita gives us the tools we need to take our practice off of our mats and meditation cushions and into a world that needs us to embody spiritual values. Whether it’s small problems close to home or big problems that affect everyone, we’re all called upon to lead by example by embodying spiritual values in the course of our engagement with the world. This is why my next monthly wisdom workshop will be PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP Live via Zoom on Saturday, October 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT TUITION: $37 This workshop will be recorded and available for replay
Beyond maintaining a solitary yoga practice for the sake of one’s own liberation is the higher practice of taking action based on spiritual principles for the sake of the world’s welfare. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna glorifies living for the welfare of others as a symptom of an advanced yoga practice. If you're ready to integrate principles of spiritual leadership into your practice, this workshop is for you. If you have any questions about the workshop, please just reply to this email. Thanks – I’m looking forward to sharing these principles of spiritual leadership with you. Hoping you're well in all respects, - Hari-k PS: Members of Yoga Alliance can receive 1.5 hours of CE credit for this workshop. And it will be recorded – you can watch the replay at any time. |
Hari-kirtana das
Hari-kirtana is an author, mentor, and yoga teacher who shares his knowledge and experience of how the yoga wisdom tradition can guide us toward meaningful and transformative spiritual experiences.
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