MARCH 23, 2024
Kriya Yoga teacher and psychoanalyst David McGrath and I explore the benefits of counseling and psychotherapy as a way to accelerate one's spiritual growth process. Over the last 25 years, I have had significant shifts in capacity for meditation by engaging with a counselor, when needed, to help address psychological blind spots and complexes, and have seen outstanding progress in students of Kriya Yoga who remained steady in their meditation practice and supplemented their spiritual growth procedures with effective guidance from a skilled psychological professional.
MARCH 18, 2024
If you love reflecting on your life, enjoy yoga philosophy, or want to apply the principles of yoga to your practice both on and off your mat, today’s episode is a great place to start. In this episode you will discover how living in accordance with the Yamas and Niyamas will transform your life, both on and off your mat. My guest, David McGrath shares his extensive work in understanding the principles of yoga philosophy and showing us how the Yamas and Niyamas give us what David calls a framework for living.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
David McGrath, author of The Yogi’s Way: Living in Accord with the Yamas & Niyamas, talks with J about Kriya Yoga and embodying philosophical principles. They discuss his teacher Roy Eugene Davis and Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship and The Center for Spiritual Awareness, the Camino de Santiago, Lacanian psychoanalysis, moving beyond speculative conversations into the actualization of concepts, Yamas and Niyamas, life and oneness consciousness, and the importance of bringing it back to the miracle of right now.
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AUGUST 6, 2021
This episode of The Kriya Yoga Podcast is an excerpt from the 2021 Kriya Yoga Solstice Online Retreat. David McGrath is our presenter.
Yoga is the science of consciousness. It is a philosophy, a psychology and a practice. Yoga offers a systematic means to understanding the fundamental nature of reality and our relationship to it. Within this discussion, participants will have the chance to appreciate yoga as a complete system, which when followed, empowers practitioners to live integrated, harmonious, fulfilling lives.
MAY 31, 2021
In this episode of The Kriya Yoga Podcast, our special guest is David McGrath, a Kriya Yoga teacher from Ireland. David was ordained as a minister of Center for Spiritual Awareness by Roy Eugene Davis.
David and I discuss how Kriya Yoga can be both an art and a science, and how to approach the practice from that perspective.
OCTOBER 5, 2020
In this episode of The Kriya Yoga Podcast, I interview David McGrath. David is from Ireland, and has been a good friend since 2008. He has spent considerable time at Center for Spiritual Awareness with Roy Eugene Davis, and was also initiated, ordained and authorized to teach Kriya Yoga by Mr. Davis.
David speaks to us today about being an intense practitioner, taking some time off, and then returning to the practice.