Center for Spiritual Enlightenment

01/08/2026

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.

🎧 Listen now: https://apple.co/4pnObCr

🔗 Find Introduction to Meditation classes: www.csecenter.org/Meditation/Introduction-to-Meditation-Class

01/07/2026

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.
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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

MORE INFO: https://www.kriyayogaretreat.com/

12/28/2025

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.

MORE INFO & FREE REGISTRATION: https://jo.my/nysatsang2026

12/24/2025

Join us this evening, 12/23/25
6 PM (PT)

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...

12/19/2025

Touching Stillness! WINTER SOLSTICE SILENT MEDITATION RETREAT DAY with Acharya Sundari Jensen Saturday, December 20, 2025 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pre-registration required.

11/26/2025

Faith is the key that opens the inner door to wisdom, guiding us beyond doubt and into the freedom of true knowledge.

The Bhagavad Gita reveals how living faith purifies the mind, dispels doubt, and opens the door to divine wisdom. Through Shraddhā and yoga, we awaken to inner peace and purpose.

11/21/2025

Self-knowledge is the key to liberation. Explore timeless steps for awakening—humility, inquiry, service, and the grace of divine wisdom.

The Bhagavad Gita reveals how to attain self-knowledge that dissolves doubt and leads to inner freedom. Explore timeless steps for awakening—humility, inquiry, service, and the grace of divine wisdom.