Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, also known as Swami J, will be guest speaker at the Oct. 6 meeting of the Emerald Coast Meditation Society (ECMS). He will talk on “Self-realization Through Meditation.” The ECMS, nonsectarian and open to anyone without charge, meets at 480 N. Co. Hwy. 393, one-half mile north of Hwy. 98, Santa Rosa Beach.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a 30-minute meditation followed by the speaker and a discussion. A short closing meditation will take place around 8 p.m..
Swami Jnaneshvara, who spontaneously began meditatiing and performing other yogic practices in early childhood, has been a student of the tradition of Himalayan masters since 1986 when initiated by Swami Rama, a world-renowned master yogi.
In 1993 Swami Rama ordained Swami Jnaneshvara as a monk in the Himalayan tradition and the order of Shankaracharya. Subsequently he spent years training in India with other master yogis and he returns to Rishikesh, India, twice yearly to lead three-week intensive meditation retreats.
Locally, Swami Jnaneshvara teaches meditation on a regular basis through Abhyasa Ashram in Ft. Walton Beach. Many teachings on meditation, as well as his calendar of activities, are on the ashram website at AbhyasaAshram.org and his personal website, SwamiJ.com.
He and his ashram are devoted to “training and nurturing those who deeply long for the direct experience of union with the eternal, pure center of consciousness, the bliss of being one with the absolute reality, as the wave that seeks to remember it is one with the ocean. One word for that union is 'yoga.'”
“Yoga is traditionally taught and practiced through a close relationship between the individual mentor and mentee, teacher and student, in a community of noble friends, known as kalyana-mitra. Guru is a force-field driven by grace, a stream of knowledge of direct experience which, though it may operate through a person, is itself not a person.”
Swami J was born in 1948 in Ohio, spent most of his youth in Florida, and has lived in several other states. He holds a B.S. in Management from FSU and an M.A. in Consciousness Studies, with emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology, from John F. Kennedy University in California.
The ECMS meets twice monthly September through June, the first and third Thursdays of the month. Anyone who would like meditation instruction should come at 6:15 p.m. Questions? Contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a 30-minute meditation followed by the speaker and a discussion. A short closing meditation will take place around 8 p.m..
Swami Jnaneshvara, who spontaneously began meditatiing and performing other yogic practices in early childhood, has been a student of the tradition of Himalayan masters since 1986 when initiated by Swami Rama, a world-renowned master yogi.
In 1993 Swami Rama ordained Swami Jnaneshvara as a monk in the Himalayan tradition and the order of Shankaracharya. Subsequently he spent years training in India with other master yogis and he returns to Rishikesh, India, twice yearly to lead three-week intensive meditation retreats.
Locally, Swami Jnaneshvara teaches meditation on a regular basis through Abhyasa Ashram in Ft. Walton Beach. Many teachings on meditation, as well as his calendar of activities, are on the ashram website at AbhyasaAshram.org and his personal website, SwamiJ.com.
He and his ashram are devoted to “training and nurturing those who deeply long for the direct experience of union with the eternal, pure center of consciousness, the bliss of being one with the absolute reality, as the wave that seeks to remember it is one with the ocean. One word for that union is 'yoga.'”
“Yoga is traditionally taught and practiced through a close relationship between the individual mentor and mentee, teacher and student, in a community of noble friends, known as kalyana-mitra. Guru is a force-field driven by grace, a stream of knowledge of direct experience which, though it may operate through a person, is itself not a person.”
Swami J was born in 1948 in Ohio, spent most of his youth in Florida, and has lived in several other states. He holds a B.S. in Management from FSU and an M.A. in Consciousness Studies, with emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology, from John F. Kennedy University in California.
The ECMS meets twice monthly September through June, the first and third Thursdays of the month. Anyone who would like meditation instruction should come at 6:15 p.m. Questions? Contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com.