Maetreyii Ma Nolan
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- Spiritual Teacher, Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Meditation Practice, Yogic Philosophy and Living
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- Living Love, Yama & Niyama, Dharma for Awakening and Social Change
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- Author, Speaker, Teacher of Meditation and Yoga Philosophy
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- Yoga Alliance, IYAT, APA
In addition to being an author of five books, Maetreyii Ma, also known as Dr. Nolan, is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology, a teacher of yogic philosophy and ancient wisdom, an ERYT 500 Yoga Teacher, and an ordained yogic minister, or Acharya. Maetreyii Ma is currently the president of Ananda Guru Kula, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the wisdom teachings of yoga and a psychologist in private practice. She is also the Spiritual Director of Ananda Kamalalaya Ashram, where she offers ongoing training in meditation, yoga philosophy and regular weekly and monthly events.
She is the founder and past president of Ananda Seva Mission, a nonprofit yogic community. She is a former director of and teacher in the Ananda Seva Yoga Teacher Training certification programs and the ASM Yoga Therapy Certification Trainings. Dr. Nolan is also a former director of the Spiritual Emergence Network and a founding member of the Kundalini Research Network.
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Dharma and the Path to Harmony
When you move on the path of dharma, you move in harmony with your own nature and with the essential nature of all beings. Can you feel those moments when your thoughts, words, and deeds are in harmony with life? When you sense such harmony, such alignment, then you are truly following dharma.
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How to Use Love to Transform Obstacles and Suffering
All beings have suffered. Sometimes in life, things go your way; sometimes, they go the opposite—be it physical, mental, or spiritual, be it loss of loved ones, loss of health, or loss of well-being in one form or another. These periods where something difficult happens can be very challenging, but the suffering comes not only from the experience itself but from the resistance to the experience, from the resistance to the flow of the cosmos.
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Your True Lasting State of Happiness
What do people want, really want? They want to be happy. Everyone loves their life. They want to find happiness, find expression, find love, find joy. This desire for happiness is universal. The desire to live and the fear of death are shared by all human beings and most living beings. This very survival instinct is inherent in your physical body, and it drives certain actions. The desire for happiness is also inherent, the striving to find joy in life, to find meaning in life; and many people seek happiness in different objects, in different types of experiences.
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The Opportunity of Life's Challenges to Awaken and Grow
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have lived on this planet. They have each struggled to exist, to survive, to have a good life - to live. And in this time throughout history, people have encountered various obstacles, difficulties, and struggles in life. These struggles are a natural part of human existence, a natural part of living in this world. There is no time in human history when there hasn't been some sort of difficulty, large or small, personal, or collective.
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The Vastness of Your True Nature
Today is a new day, a new beginning. Each day of your life brings you closer to your destiny. Whether you are young or old is irrelevant. What is relevant is what you do each day. Each day is a new beginning, a new opportunity to be what you truly want to be. The individual self, the ego self has many desires, and wants many things. But the ete al being wants only one thing, that all beings, all creation, return to their source, return to an infinite being. There is no separation between you and Parama Purusha, between you and that infinite consciousness.
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The Power of Love
Every day is a new opportunity, a new beginning, an opportunity to live the life you truly want to live. Spirituality uplifts the human spirit. It is governed by love, lovingkindness, compassion, and awareness. When the mind and body and spirit are aligned, there is a flow from that infinite one into the mind and the body, and out through the voice, through the eyes into the world. When that is there, there is a diminishment of separation. There is a love that flows from the heart into the mind and out into the world. It permeates the body.
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The Two Great Impediments to Spiritual Awakening
There are two great impediments to spiritual life. The first is attachment to the body and the sensory experience, because when there is attachment to the physical form and the sensory experience there is engagement with the body-mind structure and the belief that you are this small person who abides in the body. That belief becomes dominant in the mind, and so attachment to the enjoyment of sensory experience and embodiment becomes a hindrance when they overtake the mind and leave consciousness attached to embodiment.
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Svadhyaya, Reflections Upon the Nature of Soul
Dear friends, We have two more aspects of Yama and Niyama to cover, Svadhyaya (self-reflection) and Ishvara Pranidhana ( surrender to God).
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Understanding the Nature of Love
Love is a many-faceted topic. There is love between people, love for nature, love for animals and plants and love for the Divine. What is important in all of these different experiences of love is that you love purely. To know infinite love, you need not live up to anyone’s expectations but only take the time to turn your mind and heart toward the Divine and think of the qualities and characteristics of that divine Beloved.
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Understanding True Forgiveness
The concept of forgiveness is spoken of in many spiritual traditions. In Biblical terms, it is said that we should turn the other cheek, have gentle behavior and practice nonviolence. To be able to do this, you must be able to forgive the one who has affronted you or who has harmed you.
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What is Gratitude?
"Gratitude is not only in what you dorn but how you approach what you do." There are some whose lives are filled with great blessings but still feel that they have nothing. And there are those who are truly poor, yet given even the slightest crumb will feel they are most fortunate. One may be as wealthy as a prince or princess and still feel impoverished or as poor as the poorest beggar and feel wealthy.
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A Call to Action
As we begin this year, we face some significant issues in the world and in the United States. There is a polarization of people, dire predictions about the soon to come impact of global warming, about immigration, the migration of people from areas in the world impacted by violence and/or global warming, and a variety of other very significant issues. There are those who want to bring change and compassionately try to ease the situation and those who want to keep going with fossil fuels usage and profit based decisions that have worked for them in the past.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Maetreyii Ma Nolan
In the depths of the human condition, in the total acceptance of your humanity lies the ocean of divinity. The clear sky, the pure waters are not far away but in the middle of the struggle of human life. The yogis say, "The lotus grows in the mud." This great compassion comes when one acknowledges one's human condition, faults and failings, and learns to love greatly one's own humanity, even one's weaknesses and failings.
When one can have great compassion for oneself, one learns compassion for others. When sadhakas come together, these struggles come too, but they are part and parcel of the path and development of human kindness. Be kind to yourselves and to one another.
Contacting Maetreyii Ma Nolan
To contact Maetreyii Ma for speaking engagements please call our office at: 707-0886, email us at: anandagurukula@gmail.com.
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On-Going Events at Ananda Kamalaylaya Our Ashram
At our beautiful ashram in Santa Rosa, CA, Ananda Kamalalaya holds weekly online Dharmachakra group meditations, Thursday morning Baba Talks, First Friday Satsanga and Third Friday Kirtan & chanting evenings all are offered online and we are just beginning to do one or two live at the ashram. We also offer individualized meditation instruction and yoga therapy sessions.
Please go to: www.yogama.info