The Yoga of Love
July 25-27, 2025 - This program explores the human condition and the inner turmoil of the heart through the lens of key yogic texts, including the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gītā, Bhāgavata Purāṇa, and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra.
This program explores the human condition and the inner turmoil of the heart through the lens of key yogic texts, including the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gītā, Bhāgavata Purāṇa, and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra.
Sessions will focus on the purification and awakening of the heart, the divine call to transcendence through sacred love, and the role of yoga in sustaining higher consciousness in everyday life. Themes such as the capacity to "move deeply into the space within the heart" (praṇidhāna) and how to enter into the state of "total ecstatic absorption" (samādhi) in which one experiences the "all-embracing divine reality" (kaivalya) will be examined.
Together we will explore how the heart serves as the true seat of inner transformation and spiritual realization. Graham will be drawing from his new book, The Yoga of Love: Krishna and the Rāsa Līlā from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Oxford University Press, 2025). Each session will open and close with several minutes of tranquil meditational sounds of the voice and harmonium as well as group connecting and sharing throughout.
All levels of yoga practitioners most welcomed.
Graham’s book titled, The Yoga of Love: Krishna and the Rāsa Līlā from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Oxford University Press, 2025), will be released in time for his program. The heart of this book is a dramatic love poem, the Rasa Lila, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Judged a literary masterpiece by Indian and Western scholars alike, this work of poetic genius and soaring religious vision is one of the world's greatest sacred love stories and, as Graham M. Schweig demonstrates, should be regarded as India's Song of Songs. The story presents the supreme deity as the youthful and amorous cowherd, Krishna, who sends out a love call to souls, inviting them to an enchanting and celebratory dance of divine love. And, as Graham states in his introduction, “the sacred story in poetry presented herein reveals a dramatization of the inner workings of the heart.”
This newly published book will be available for purchase at a discount during a book signing with Graham at Yogaville.
Getting Started
Resources
LIVE @ 7:30-9:00 PM ET – The human condition and the troubled heart
LIVE @ 10:00-11:30 ET – An awakening and purification of the heart
LIVE @ 3:00-5:00 ET – When divinity calls our souls to dance
LIVE @ 10:00-11:30 AM ET – Yoga as the return embrace of the divine
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