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Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian

Yoga & Tantra · Kriya Yoga

American Yogacharya and founder of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose, California, teaching Kriya Yoga meditation in the lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda, and known as an award-winning author, poet, and podcast host.

Yoga & TantraUnited States

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Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian

Ellen Grace O'Brian was ordained to teach Kriya Yoga in 1982 by Roy Eugene Davis, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought this meditation lineage to the United States in 1920. She founded and now serves as spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (CSE) in San Jose, California, and has taught meditation retreats and workshops nationally and internationally for over four decades. She is the author of several books, including Living the Eternal Way and the award-winning poetry collection The Moon Reminded Me, and received the Mahatma Gandhi Award for the Promotion of Religious Pluralism from the American Hindu Foundation.

She currently hosts the Kriya Yoga Today podcast and offers the online foundational course "Live the Eternal Way." Through CSE she leads a regular schedule of hybrid in-person/online offerings, including a Guru Purnima ceremony and a Kriya Yoga Retreat for Disciples.

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