Welcome to the site of spiritual author Teja Shankara, a western yogini who the hugging saint Ammachi gave the name Tejaswini.

To view Teja's videos, please go to her YouTube Channel, www.youtube.com/user/16Tejaswini

Introduction to this site, by Yogini Tejaswini Shankara:

Greetings and welcome to yogini-bliss.com, a site where you can enjoy spiritual guidance from the comfort of your own computer. In this busy technological age, we are fortunate to witness ancient sacred truths fusing with modern scientific discoveries. One such fusion is the understanding that everything is energy vibrating at different frequencies, and that energy is one connected energy. We forget that we are an inseparable part of that one energy. We forget our interconnectedness because we are in separate bodies, so we are deluded into thinking that we are separate… but in Reality, we are all connected in one energy that is essentially pure Love.

When we remember our essential nature, which is pure Love, a warm radiance rises within us. This radiance emerges from the Light that lives inside all of our hearts, and once we begin to open our hearts that Light spontaneously shines out, warming and inspiring the beings around us and beyond. Spiritual practices help us to remember who we truly are. When we dedicate ourselves to regular, daily spiritual practices, then we get to remember who we are again and again and again… As Gandhi-ji said, first we have to change ourselves and BE the change that we wish to see in the world. Although the changes may be slow, if we are determined to uplift our minds and open our hearts, then that will eventually be so.

It is my intention that this website radiates Bliss and Light. Through the information shared here on spiritual practices and teachings, natural living, veganism, and so forth, may your mind be inspired, may your heart be touched, may your energies align with your true purpose, and may your spirit be uplifted. May this site be an oasis of peace and bliss where you can return again and again to remember who you are: a spiritual being who is connected with all other beings in one continuous web of pure love energy.

I invite you to sign up for my newsletter, The Tejaswini Playground Press, and to regularly enjoy my mystical and mundane musings on the Teja Blog. On the blog you can post questions, suggestions, and your own musings. Please post often, as I would love to hear from you.

May this site be an opportunity for you to experience on-line satsang (being in the company of others sharing spiritual teachings), sangha (spiritual community), and sadhana (spiritual practices). To learn more about spiritual practices – beyond what you find on this site – check out my new book, Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living. This pocketbook makes a great gift for yourself and for your family and friends. Written from the perspective of a raja yogini (a spiritual practitioner on the Raja Yoga Path), this book offers basic descriptions of spiritual practices that anyone – on any spiritual path – can learn and apply to daily life. May this book – and this website – spread the seeds of spirituality far and wide.

May all beings everywhere know peace and happiness.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini Shankara

Gratitude Offering to teachers and Gurus

I offer a humble and grateful bow to all the teachers and Gurus who have taught me with so much patience, skill, and humor. Some of these beings I have met in person, and others I’ve known through dreams and/or through reading books with their teachings. A deep thank you to the following beloved teachers and Gurus:

Basil, who since he left the body I now call Yogi Shambho; Baba Rampuri; Prema Mayi Dasi; Krishna Das; Jai Uttal; Tenabah; Sri Adi Shankara; Sri Lalla Yogiswari; Sri Ramana Maharshi; Sri Baba Muktananda; Sri Ramakrishna; Sri Sarada Devi; Sri Anandamayi Ma; Sri Gandhi-ji; Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Ammachi); and Sri Sri 1008 Sri Neem Karoli Baba-ji!

Radiance Rising Circles with Yogini Tejaswini Shankara (“Teja”)

It is my intention to spread the seeds of spirituality far and wide, because the spiritual practices I’ve been doing for the past six years have radically changed me for the better. I have healed myself almost entirely of depression, migraine headaches, anxiety, insomnia, and destructive thought patterns. (To learn more about spiritual practices, check out my new book, Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living.)

To spread the seeds of spirituality, I offer Radiance Rising Circles, which are Gandhi-style interfaith gatherings to spark the inner Light through shared silent meditation, spiritual teachings, poems, and songs from sacred traditions. To read more about these gatherings, go to my Events Calendar page. To invite me to facilitate Radiance Rising Circles, send me an email through my Contact page. I am available to teach meditation and other spiritual practices to individuals and groups in a variety of settings, including schools, businesses, corporate retreats, churches, and prisons.

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Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ~ May all beings everywhere be happy.