Practical Spirituality for Challenging Times
A Seven Part Video Course with Harshada Wagner
It is said, religion is to save your soul, spirituality is to save your butt.
Practical Spirituality for Challenging Times is a 7 part video course that gets you rooted in YOUR core values, YOUR core virtues and gets you ready to use your practices and study of wisdom traditions to actually help you in your life, no matter what is going on.
The course is made of seven high quality videos of Harshada teaching and leading you through simple but powerful exercises designed help you be rooted in your authentic, effective spiritual practice. Each video is less than 20 minutes long and has interactive contemplation, writing, and meditation exercises.
The core teachings in the course come from the Bhagavad Gita's teachings about Steadfastness in Yoga and Steadfastness in Wisdom. In the course you will learn about Core Values and Core Virtues. This may seem simplistic but it is not. The Core Values exercise helps us identify what is truly important to us - actually contemplate it and write down a list of these values. The Core Virtue exercise is one where we take those values and contemplate very specific ways of being that uphold our values.
Want to study with Harshada?
This course takes you right into the spiritual classroom with Harshada, who is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of his generation. His style is easygoing and fun, but he takes you DEEP FAST.
The course exercises give us a very concrete way to become truly steadfast in wisdom - wherever you are and however you're living your life.
You will also learn spiritual practices like meditation that are specifically linked to your process of getting strong and free during turbulent times.
This course is a prerequisite for Level 2 Courses and a great way to connect with Harshada and his unique modern style of sharing ancient teachings.
Your Instructor
Harshada David Wagner is a master meditation instructor, author, artist, dad, and wisdom teacher with more than 25 years of teaching experience. Classically trained in the wisdom traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, Vedanta, and Tantra, his teachings come from his decades of working with people helping them learn to live more fulfilling, soul-centered, purpose driven lives. The Sanskrit name Harshada was given to him by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda in 1996, meaning "the bringer of joy, laughter, and delight".
Along with being a meditation teacher and teacher-trainer, Harshada is a teacher of "applied yoga philosophy". He offers teachings and practices from the Mahayoga tradition, but only ones that help people to get free, transform their vision of life, and serve their world in a better way.
He's known as a down-to-earth, lighthearted teacher who is able to help people get to the "deep stuff" fast. He offers a balance of grounded, approachable style of teaching with the most profound ancient wisdom and classical mystic practices. He is a dynamic speaker and storyteller and is considered one of the best meditation teachers of his generation.
He is the author of the men's book Backbone (Penguin 2015), and On the Field of Dharma (about the Bhagavad Gita), and is currently working on a modern translation of and commentary on the 10 century Tantric text known as the Shiva Sutra.
He is the proud father of two and lives with his family in Ojai, California when he is not traveling to offer retreats and seminars.