Community Meditation Gardens are open Wed, Sat, and Sun 9am-5pm. Our vision is individual and planetary awakening to the One Truth known by many names.
The ministry of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment is focused on the essential truth and harmony found in the world's religions, the necessity for a global ethical and spiritual awakening to bring about world peace, and the importance of individual participation toward this goal. The Center is an oasis of peace in the community, the world, and in the hearts of individuals. It is through that peace that one may live an awakened life. The awakened life is our opportunity to live authentically and in harmony with divine plan and purpose. Through awakening, we experience true fulfillment and the soul's natural joy.
02/27/2026
Health and healing are revealed here as expressions of spiritual wholeness, awakened discernment, and the light that is always present within and among us.
What follows is an invitation to consider health and healing from a spiritual foundation rather than a purely material one. Through discernment, remembrance, and lived experience, this reflection explores how light is brought forth in times of darkness and how wholeness reveals itself in unexpected and compassionate ways.
Continue Reading: https://www.ellengraceobrian.com/invite-the-light-of-health-healing-awakened-living
02/27/2026
Reflections on the remarkable life of a Kriya Yoga Master, Roy Eugene Davis.
🕉️ The Yoga Hour is honoring the life and legacy of Roy Eugene Davis.
Mr. Davis was a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, an American yogi, and teacher of Kriya Yoga for over 60 years. He is also the guru of our Founder and Spiritual Director, Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian.
During the month of March, we will be sharing episodes with and about Roy Eugene Davis. Center for Spiritual Enlightenment will also be hosting events in honor of Mr. Davis.
This week's encore features Yogacharya O'Brian reflecting on Mr. Davis' remarkable life.
Bhagavad Gita v. 5.6–5.10 reveals how karma yoga purifies the mind, dissolves egoic doership, and teaches how to act without attachment and remain free.
02/19/2026
New Gita Study Chapter 5, v. 1-5 with Yogacharya O'Brian
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 reveals how karma yoga and renunciation are not opposing paths, but a unified way of living with freedom, wisdom, and devotion.
02/09/2026
🌺 You’re Invited to a Sacred Celebration of Lord Shiva 🌺
MAHA SHIVARATRI: Kirtan, Retreat Day, and Ceremony
Hosted at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (San Jose, CA)
Join us for a powerful three-part observance of Maha Shivaratri—a time of deep meditation, sacred music, and inner awakening. All are welcome!
✨ Kirtan & Meditation
Thursday, February 13 | 7–8:30 PM (In Person & Online)
Immerse yourself in sacred mantras and heart-opening music offered by the CSE Kirtan Ensemble - Gitanjali. Enter the stillness of divine remembrance through communal devotion.
🪷 Meditation Retreat Day with Yogacharya O’Brian
Saturday, February 14 | 10 AM–3 PM (In Person Only)
Contemplate Shiva—the Supreme Self—through guided meditation, scripture reflection, chanting, and poetry. Cultivate healing, clarity, and bliss in a daylong retreat.
🔥 Maha Shivaratri Ceremony
Saturday, February 15 | 6–8:30 PM (In Person & Online)
Experience the traditional Shivaratri Puja—a sacred Vedic fire ceremony and ritual honoring Lord Shiva as the indwelling divine. Offer your heart in devotion and be uplifted by the transformative power of this holy night.
In-person at CSE or Globally Online
HEALTH, HEALING, AND AWAKENED LIVING
2026 SATSANG SERIES
with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
Sundays
February 1, March 1, April 12, May 3, June 7
10 AM - 11:30 AM (PT)
MORE INFO: https://jo.my/health_healing_awakened_living_2026
Don’t fight sickness. Bring in health.
Don’t fight darkness. Bring in light.
You are warmly invited to join Yogacharya for a monthly community satsang beginning February 1st as she guides us to discover our innate soul power of health and healing for ourselves and our world. Insights from Kriya Yoga philosophy and the world’s wisdom traditions, along with sacred music, poetry, story, and spiritual practices provide an uplifting healing atmosphere where transformation can begin.
February 1: Invite the Light of Health, Healing, and Awakened Living
Health, healing, and spiritual awakening are natural for everyone because those inclinations are innate to the soul and align with Life’s inherent purpose. Invite the Light of awareness to heal your heart and mind and allow healing to come forth now.
Practice: Discernment
Beginning, or returning to, a regular meditation practice is one of the most powerful ways to transform your life. In this podcast episode, host Dr. Laurel Trujillo shares both the profound benefits of meditation and the practical nuts and bolts of establishing or re-establishing a regular practice.
🎧 Listen now: https://apple.co/4pnObCr
🔗 Find Introduction to Meditation classes: http://www.csecenter.org/.../Introduction-to-Meditation...
🧘♀️ What becomes possible when meditation is part of your daily life?
Beginning, or returning to, a regular meditation practice is one of the most powerful ways to transform your life. In this encore, host Dr. Laurel Trujillo shares both the profound benefits of meditation and the practical nuts and bolts of how to establish or re-establish a regular practice.
Begin the New Year in a Sacred Way
A new year opens as sacred time when the heart is allowed to lead. This reflection from Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian offers five steps for entering the year with courage, devotion, soul determination, and love.
[Read the full teaching below]
A contemplative teaching on beginning the new year in a sacred way through Self-knowledge, courage, soul determination, devotion, and joy.
01/05/2026
Begin the New Year with Clarity and Inspiration
NEW YEAR KRIYA YOGA MEDITATION RETREAT
with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian
January 8 - 11, 2026
(Thursday Evening - Sunday Morning); In-Person & Online;
What is the best way to begin a new year? Intentionally. Soulfully. Open to the highest possibilities for your life. Learn and practice the ancient disciplines of Kriya Yoga to hone your receptivity to inner guidance and chart your course for the year ahead with soul inspiration.
The retreat offers:
- Kriya Yoga philosophy, practice, & initiation
- Instruction in mantra, pranayama, and superconscious meditation
- Tools and guidelines for increasing vitality and overall well-being
- Methods for insight and experience of higher realities
- Daily meditation sessions
- Easy to follow, gentle Hatha Yoga sessions
NEW YEAR SATSANG & RITUAL with Yogacharya O'Brian
Sunday, January 4, 2026 https://jo.my/nysatsang2026
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PT) Satsang
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (PT) Community Brunch
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PT) New Year Ritual
During this Satsang to welcome the new year, Yogacharya O'Brian will offer us 5 essential steps to begin 2026 in a sacred way—with an open heart, a clear mind, the courage of determination, a support system, and the soul’s joy. How we begin sets the future in motion.
Start now to bring forth what you most deeply desire. Your first step is impressive.
Meditation for the Holy Days with Acharya Sundari Jensen and CSE Ministers Tuesday, December 23, 2025 6 PM - 8 PM (PT) You are warmly invited to stop for a moment, to sit in silence, breathe, and remember the divine light within you. Join us in person or online. Offered freely. Registration requeste...
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CSE is a meditation teaching and practice center based in the teachings of Kriya Yoga, and offered in an interfaith environment.
Awaken to the One Truth known by many names.
Founded in 1981, the ministry of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (www.csecenter.org) in San Jose, California, is focused on the essential truth and harmony found in the world's religions, the necessity for a global ethical and spiritual awakening to bring about world peace, and the importance of individual participation toward this goal. Our vision is individual and planetary awakening to the One Truth known by many names.
The Center is an oasis of peace in the community, the world, and in the hearts of individuals. It is through that peace that one may live an awakened life. The awakened life is our opportunity to live authentically and in harmony with divine plan and purpose. Through awakening, we experience true fulfillment and the soul's natural joy
Below is just a sample of what we offer (see website for schedule):
- Group Meditation
- Worship Services
- Youth & Family Ministry
- Hatha Yoga Classes
- Weddings & Memorials
- Meru Institute
- Bookshop (call for hours, 408-283-0221 x 29)
- Labyrinth (open to public dawn to dusk)
- Meditation Gardens (open dawn to dusk)
- Meditation Class
