Andrew Harvey’s vision was born from a lifetime of inner experience and study of the mystical traditions of the world. To come into union with the Divine is to experience joy and live in it, and serve all sentient beings with its energy of compassion. The world was joy as Rabindranath wrote. The world was service when I woke up. I found service enjoyable. Andrew will explain in detail the five kinds of practice essential for sustaining and deepening the joys and blessings of the Sacred Marriage.

You will be given in this module.

• An understanding of the nature of the Divine as joy
• A rich and inspiring vision of the Sacred Marriage and the five joys it engenders
• A precise unfolding of the five kinds of practice that fill and expand joy in ordinary life

Andrew will present his vision of what he calls the cool practices, which are cornerstones to the birth of sustainable joy. The practices connect the practitioners directly to the peace of Divine being and to the strength, wisdom, and equanimity that come from them.

Imageless Meditation (Session 2) (July 31)

Andrew will focus on imageless meditation that awakens Divine awareness, and share a meditation with images from the Tibetan tradition that helps us unite with the wisdom-mind of the universe.

You will be given in this class.

• A knowledge of why cool practices are foundational
• Clear instruction drawn from the major traditions on how to meditate
• Two core cool practices that can be used in any situation to ground and calm the seeker to open to joy

The Name of God to Clean the Heart (Session 3) (August 7)

Andrew believes that the most powerful way to connect to divine peace and joy is through the saying of the Name of the Divine in the heart. Andrew will present the philosophy behind the power of the Name as well as the sacred technology that makes clear how this great mystery works to awaken fundamental knowledge of Divine reality. Four practices of the Name are drawn from Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, and Christianity.

You will be given in this class.

• A comprehensive introduction to why saying the Name is so powerful
• Instructions drawn from the major traditions on how to best practice saying the Name
• Four essential and transformative heart mantras that build the force of joy

Hot practices are practices of the heart that arouse the clear, golden compassionate passion of the Mother, the embodied aspect of Divine being. Hot practices keep the heart vibrant, juicy and flowing with joy even in the most shattering of circumstances, and so connect the practitioners consciously to the ecstatic energy of the Divine.

The Practice of the Sacred Heart (Session 4) (August 14)

Andrew will offer two great practices: that of the Sacred Heart, adapted from Christian mystics, and the Hindu Tantric practices that allow practitioners to transmute outrage into fierce, joyful, compassionate energy.

You will be given in this class.

• A vision of why hot practices are essential for keeping the heart alive and dynamic
• Detailed instruction in the laws and processes of hot practices
• Two ultimately powerful hot practices that help transmute exhaustion, heartbreak, and outrage into joyful, compassionate energy

The Tibetan Practice of Tonglen (Session 5) (August 28)

In this transmission, Andrew will talk about the Tibetan practice of Tonglen, adapted here for practitioners on all paths, as the essential hot practice for those who want to live in joy. The great Tibetan masters explained to Andrew that the practice of Tonglen is a world-healing practice of taking in the pain and suffering of the world and releasing it into joy, peace and bliss. The practice of Tonglen allows you to work with compassion even in the most challenging situations.

You will be given in this class.

• A vision of how to sustain enlightened compassion, even for those who act in opposition to your vision and action
• An understanding of how Tonglen works to transform reality
• A special universal vision of Tonglen that works for healing oneself, healing others and healing the suffering of the world with transformative grace

Prayers are the third category of essential practice. In all traditions, prayer to the larger Self, of which all of us are part, is a powerful way of aligning oneself with the will of theDivine in any situation, and so experiencing joy.

Prayers of Protection (Session 6) (September 4)

Protection of ourselves and our nature, protection from the dangerous designs of others, protection from sabotage of our sacred work, and the protection of the destructive forces are some of the things that Andrew will focus on in this transmission. The work of sacred activism cannot be done without invocation of divine protection. It is possible to directly experience such protection.

You will be given in this session.

• A clear understanding of the power and seduction of the distractive forces
• A vision of why divine protection is essential and how it can be invoked in ways appropriate to any situation
• Five powerful protection practices drawn from Christianity, Islam, African shamanism, and Hinduism

Prayers of Selfless Service (Session 7) (September 11)

Andrew will focus on two magnificent prayers that, when practiced intensely together, evoke and form the enlightened warrior-midwife self but keep it noble, joyful, and passionate in whatever difficulties arise. The fourfold Bodhisattva vow from Mahayana Buddhism is the first prayer. The second prayer is the Prayer of St. Francis, which is the greatest prayer of the Christian tradition.

You will be given in this session.

• A vision of the inner wisdom and compassion of the sacred warrior-midwife
• The sacred technology of prayer that sustains, empowers and expands this vision
• Two divine prayers that you can draw transforming soul-power from at any time

Sacred body practice is the fourth category of essential practice. Our body becomes strong and vibrant enough to rise to any challenge from an increasingly divinized full self as we are being challenged by this world crisis to birth the Divine not only in heart and mind but also in our very cells.

Heart Yoga Discovering Yoga as a Crucible for Divine Transformation (Session 8) (September 18)

Andrew will focus on sharing the Heart Yoga he created with the great yoga teacher. Heart Yoga combines traditional asanas with music, inspiration from sacred text, and mystical light practices to allow yoga to serve as a conduit of divination. He will show you how to experience and embody the stages to joyful divine embodiment in service to justice and compassion in the world by using the 7-part body prayer at the core of Heart Yoga.

You will be given in this module.

• A vision of the necessity of treating the body as a sacred temple
• The sacred technology of yoga that speeds up the divination process
• A simple 7-part body prayer that births the light in mind, heart and body

Sacred Dance Discovering Dance as a Crucible for the Birth of the Divine Human (Session 9) (October 2)

Andrew will focus on sacred dance as a magnification of the divine dancer who created the world, and to demonstrate that there is a way to cellularly experience and embody the energies and powers. In Indigenous cultures, celebration and sacred dance have provided hope, courage, ecstasy and confidence for thousands of years.

Andrew was working on a version of 5Rhythms with Gabrielle before she passed away. The work of Banafsheh Sayyad offers a simple and universal way of whirling that connects directly to theDivine and fills your whole being with its subtle fire.

You will be given in this module.

• A divinized version of the five rhythms of Gabrielle Roth
• A simplified and universal version of whirling
• An understanding of celebratory dance as special to our inner and outer health and survival

Shadow work is one of the essential practices. As the human shadow erupts in all aspects of our global crisis, we are challenged to do both archetypal and personal shadow work at a far deeper and more transformational level than ever before. The rewards of shadow work are extraordinary: deeper joy as we make conscious the wisdom and compassion hidden in the darkness of the shadow, greater compassion for ourselves and others, greater wisdom about the forces of destruction in us and others, and more flexible and skillful.

Working With the Archetypal Shadow of the Crisis (Session 10) (October 9)

Andrew will focus on making as many of the five shadows as possible in this transmission. He will offer an effective way of working with them, both individually and in dyads, using a special version of Tonglen.

You will be given in this module.

• A comprehensive vision of what shadow work in these times entails
• A depiction of why archetypal shadow work is essential in for working in the world with joy
• Sacred technology that helps your work on your own and others’ shadows in compassion and joy

Handling the Personal Shadow (Session 11) (October 16)

The five main personal shadows that collude with and support the dark forces of the shadows are narcissism, addiction to comfort and security, fear of standing up to telling truth to power, and obsession with personal rather than universal suffering. The shadows will be described in detail.

You will be given a sacred practice from the Christian mystical tradition which will allow you to transmute these shadows and discover the Dark Gold, treasures, insights and energy that lie hidden within each of them.

You will be given in this module.

• A clear vision of our contemporary human shadows and the way they fuel the global dark night
• A characterization of how the five personal shadows trap us until they are made conscious and transformed
• A mystical practice which can help you work on your human shadow with the joy and clarity of your divine self

Andrew will present his vision of the world crisis as a Kali event, with Kali dancing on every level to destroy what no longer serves us and to compel us to create in and with her grace a new world. Andrew will present the four stages of Kali’s dance, which are ominous, dangerous, severe and lethal, and show how we are now in the third stage and need to use a calm and joyful urgency.

The terminal disaster of the fourth stage must be avoided with the use of sacred activism. Andrew believes that the evolution of love in action needs to be organized into groups of between six and 15 people to inspire and encourage each other to locally and globally put love, peace, and joy in action.

You will be given in this module.

• As precise a vision as possible of Kali and her purposes
• A clear vision of where we are in Kali’s wild dance
• A vision of how to not only form Networks of Grace, but how to keep them vibrant and sustain their effectiveness in challenging conditions