My name is Maetreyii Ma and I am an author, teacher in the yogic tradition and a transpersonal psychologist. I have just released a new book Living Love that fosters self help and spiritual growth utilizing Yoga's ancient teachings.I would like to speak about the role of loving kindness, graditude, forgiveness and compassion as well as integrety and self discovery in fostering well being as well as my new book. I will use refrences to the book in discussing these topics and would like to focus on the book and yogas ancient teachings as tools for self development and spiritual awakening.
Living Love: The Yoga of Yama & Niyama
Timeless Teachings for Awakening and Transformation
Living Love is practical mysticism at its best. This rare and wonderful work, based in the ancient teachings of yoga, is a poetic and penetrating therapeutic guidebook for transformation and awakening.
All of us struggle at times with fears, angers, attachments, losses and disappointments. Have you ever wondered how to work with these difficulties life presents and find the deep truth within you that brings lasting happiness and peace? These ancient teachings of yoga give the guidelines to do just that. An exposition beautiful and timeless in nature, this book will lead you through a processes that can help you shift negative beliefs and thought patterns, transform your relationship with yourself and others and ultimately your life, awakening to the divine Self within you and all around. It gives simple practices that can resolve, solve, clarify, heal, purify, fend off confusion, dispel error and light the way.
The book conveys an approach that is so simple, so immediate to everyday life, so helpful to psychological healing and yet thrilling and intoxicating. Maetreyii Ma’s use of language brings with it a gift of upliftment and attunement. Her expressions touch, refresh, surprise, astonish and inspire. She takes the reader there.
Maetreyii Ma
In addition to being an author, Maetreyii Ma 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.
She is the co-founder and past president of Ananda Seva Mission, a nonprofit yogic community and a former director of, and teacher in, the Ananda Seva Yoga Teacher Training certification programs and the Yoga Therapy certification trainings. Dr. Nolan was also a former director of the Spiritual Emergence Network and a founding member of the Kundalini Research Network.
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 spends her time giving Baba Talks, teaching and publishing books of these beautiful discourses and giving retreats and seminars. She currently resides with her family in their ashram community in the northern San Francisco Bay Area.
