The Way of Love: A Workshop on Yoga and the Cultivation of Spiritual Love with Bill Mahony

Second session on Saturday at 2:30pm

Heart-centered spiritual practices can open us to the experience love: for the world, for others, for ourselves, for life itself, for divinity. The complexities and possibilities of life’s journey give us an opportunity to strengthen, deepen and clarify this love. Lectures and discussions in this workshop will focus on some of the characteristics and possibilities of a yogic spiritual life informed by spiritual love.

To help us do this, Bill Mahony will lead us in reflecting on teachings from the Narada Bhakti Sutra, a 10thcentury yoga text from India, that can inform us as we refine our understanding of the spiritual love can stand at the heart of a deep yogic practice. Attributed to the sage Narada, this is a wonderful text consisting of short, aphoristic teachings that can give us guidance regarding ways to cultivate higher levels of spiritual love and to bring that love forth in our lives.

William K. Mahony, PhD, is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion Department at Davidson College. He has published many books and articles on the religions of India and has a deep appreciation for the yogic life grounded in over four decades of his own spiritual practice. He is the author of a new book, “Exquisite Love: Reflections on the Yogic Life Based on Passages from the Narada Bhakti Sutra.”