Upcoming Events with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian (Uma)
Go Ahead, Shine
Date: Thursday, May 9th, 7:00 PM
Description: We are born to thrive. Life’s prosperity imperative continually supports our awakening and our fulfillment. Learning how to cooperate with the Infinite opens the door to our highest good. There will be a book signing after Thursday night service of her new book, The Jewel of Abundance.
The Bountiful Life: Spiritual Awakening, Higher Purpose, and Prosperity
Description: The four Vedic aims for a bountiful, fulfilled, spiritually awakened life—living with higher purpose, prosperity, pleasure, and freedom—provide time-tested wisdom for how to thrive without sacrificing our spiritual life along the way. This workshop with Yogacharya O’Brian will explore the essential relationship between living with higher purpose and prospering. Each person that attends will receive a free copy of her book, The Jewel of Abundance.
Date: Saturday, May 11th, 10:00 AM-1PM
Cost: $50
A bountiful life is an abundant expression of life’s limitless creative energy and expression, one that overflows with open-hearted generosity. In this workshop which is a combination of lecture and experiential practices, participants will learn:
How to realize our essentially abundant nature
Sankalpa practice: intention, declaration, and vowing to prosper for the well-being of all
The key for meeting obstacles as opportunities
Included in the cost of the workshop, you will receive Ellen O’Brian’s (Uma’s) new book, The Jewel of Abundance
Although millions of Westerners practice yoga simply for its health benefits, the philosophy and wisdom
behind the multifaceted discipline has far more to offer. In her new book, The Jewel of Abundance:
Finding Prosperity through the Ancient Wisdom of Yoga (New World Library, November 27, 2018),
award winning author and esteemed Kriya Yoga teacher Ellen Grace O’Brian reveals an overlooked
aspect of yoga: its powerful teachings on prosperity.
“When prosperity is equated with material wealth attained for its own sake, the word prosperity loses its
deep meaning,” writes O’Brian. “True prosperity is experienced in a spiritual context. Because this truth
is frequently missed, the words prosperity and wealth are often narrowly defined or understood at the
level of material accomplishment alone. But as you work through the teachings of this book with me,
you’ll see that these words can rightly be applied and understood in the highest way as spiritual goals.
And that makes all the difference.”
The Jewel of Abundance draws upon the ancient Vedic tradition of yoga philosophy and practice and
shows how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the
higher Self. O’Brian presents a clear explanation of both the philosophy of yoga and the nuts and bolts
of practice, such as setting up a daily meditation routine, incorporating mantras, discerning how to
cooperate with universal principles for complete well-being, and cultivating mindfulness in action.
Along the way, she illustrates her lessons with personal stories and timeless sayings from great sages,
both Eastern and Western.
“From the dark ages to the technological advances of today, we are ready for the greatest evolutionary
jump the world has ever known — the awakening of our hearts and our minds to the unity of all life,”
writes O’Brian. “Awakening, prospering, and fulfilling our potential is inextricably tied to the well-being of all. What we do matters. We are powerful agents, not only of personal prosperity, but of essential social change and planetary healing, so that all may prosper.”
Ellen Grace O’Brian (Yogacharya O’Brian) is an acclaimed teacher, author, and minister who has served seekers of spiritual enlightenment from all walks of life for over thirty years. She has published several books and audio programs about meditation, mindfulness and spiritual living, offering a refreshing and authentic voice that makes timeless wisdom accessible to the modern mindA teacher in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, Yogacharya O’Brian serves people from all faith backgrounds who are seeking what is known as Self- or God-realization, or awakening. She is the spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, a meditation center in San Jose, CA.Through her teaching and publications, Yogacharya O’Brian helps people learn to live from the inside out with practices and insights for developing life-transforming skills to cultivate a spiritually awakened, fulfilled life.
Ellen Grace O’Brian (Yogacharya O’Brian) is an acclaimed teacher, author, and minister who has served seekers of spiritual enlightenment from all walks of life for over thirty years. She has published several books and audio programs about meditation, mindfulness and spiritual living, offering a refreshing and authentic voice that makes timeless wisdom accessible to the modern mindA teacher in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, Yogacharya O’Brian serves people from all faith backgrounds who are seeking what is known as Self- or God-realization, or awakening. She is the spiritual director of the 
