A 4-Week Online Training in the Deeper Psychology, Symbolism, and Transformative Power of Mantra Yoga

Course Details

Teacher: Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati

📅 1-30 November 2026
🕤 4 x 120min online classes with Q&A 
🌎 2 class times for each weekly module available to suit multiple timezones.
🖥️ Live classes held online via Zoom
🗂️ Recordings & Resources Provided

Teacher: Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati

Prerequisites: Foundations of Mantra Yoga, or previous experience/training in Mantra. 

CPE Hours: 8

Duration: 2 hours per class, for 4 weeks

Pricing: EARLY BIRD $149pp (ends August 1)

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Light on Mantra Yoga ~ Stage 2

Most mantra practitioners never move beyond the surface layers of the mind.

• They repeat the mantra
• They may feel calmer
• More centered
• Less reactive

But the deeper transformative process described in yoga and tantra often remains dormant.

Why?

Because ordinary consciousness cannot easily penetrate the deeper psyche.

The surface mind — the thinking, sensory, egoic mind — acts as both a protective filter and a barrier. While this barrier helps us function in daily life, it also prevents awareness and mantra śakti from entering the deeper layers of the psyche where profound transformation occurs.

This intermediate course is designed to help practitioners consciously and safely cross that threshold.

Beyond Repetition: When Mantra Becomes Transformation

In the Foundation Course on Mantra Yoga, we learned how to stabilize the superficial mind, establish correct practice, and cultivate the awareness needed for mantra yoga to begin working effectively. 

Stage 2 marks the beginning of the deeper journey. Here, mantra evolves from simple repetition into:

• Contemplation
• Energetic process
• Symbolic meditation
• Archetypal encounter
• Psychic reorganization
• Inner transformation

As practice deepens, the mantra begins to penetrate beneath the ordinary thinking mind into the deeper psyche — the realm traditionally associated with:

• Buddhi (higher intelligence)
• Chitta (the deep field of consciousness)
• The vijñānamaya kosha
• The ānandamaya kosha
• The unconscious dimensions of the subtle body

This is where the deeper work begins.

The Aim of Stage 2

The aim of this course is to gradually open a conscious pathway between:

• The surface personality
• The deeper psyche
• The symbolic and archetypal dimensions of consciousness
• And the deeper spiritual forces awakened through mantra yoga

In yogic language, this means allowing mantra śakti to move beyond the superficial mind into the deeper layers of the subtle body where karmic tendencies, emotional residues, unconscious forces, and deeper spiritual potentials reside.

This process requires:

• Preparation
• Grounding
• Self-awareness
• Stability
• Discernment

Without these, deeper practices can become confusing, destabilizing, or merely imaginary. This course is designed to approach that process systematically, safely, and intelligently.

In this course, students begin learning how to:

• Move awareness inward
• Sustain consciousness while entering deeper states
• Work skillfully with inner imagery and symbolic experience
• Awaken sattwic forces within the psyche
• Remain grounded while engaging deeper transformative processes
• return safely and functionally to ordinary life.

What Makes This Course Different?

Most modern mantra teaching focuses almost entirely on:

• Repetition
• Affirmation
• Relaxation
• Devotional chanting

While valuable, these represent only the outermost layer of mantra yoga.

This course explores mantra as:

• Depth psychology
• Subtle body science
• Symbolic meditation
• Energetic transformation
• Archetypal awakening
• Psycho-spiritual integration

Drawing from:

• Mantra yoga
• Tantra
• Yoga psychology
• Subtle body theory
• Depth psychology
• Meditation science
• Jyotiṣa (Vedic astrology)

…the course presents mantra as a living technology of consciousness transformation.

What You Will Learn

The Deep Structure of the Psyche

• The relationship between the superficial and deep mind
• Buddhi, citta, and the unconscious dimensions of the psyche
• The vijñānamaya and ānandamaya koshas
• The protective barrier between ordinary consciousness and the deeper psyche
• How mantra penetrates this barrier

The Origins of Mantra

• Where mantras arise within consciousness
• The difference between ordinary words and mantras
• Mantra as living vibrational intelligence
• Mantra and archetypal forces (devatā)

The Science of Sacred Sound

• Vibration, resonance, and the subtle body
• How mantra affects the nervous system and emotions
• The relationship between mantra and the subconscious mind
• The four levels of sound in yogic philosophy
• Mantra as psycho-spiritual energy

Advanced Mantra Classifications

• Sattwic, rajasic, and tamasic mantras
• Bīja mantras
• Mūla mantras
• Gāyatrī mantras
• Peace and healing mantras
• Protective mantras
• Krūra (fierce) mantras
• Curse-removal mantras and their traditional role

Mantra and the Subtle Body

• Mantra and chakra practice
• Placing mantra in the third eye and heart space
• Ātma awareness practices
• Shiva consciousness and the third eye
• Mantra placement for healing and transformation

Yantra and Psychic Symbols

• Sacred symbols as psychic structures
• Dhāraṇā (deep concentration)
• Meditating on symbolic forms
• The relationship between mantra and yantra
• Using symbols to stabilize deeper awareness

Mantra and Yoga Therapy

• Mantra and psychological healing
• Working with psychic wounds
• Emotional purification
• Stabilizing deeper processes
• Integrating mantra into therapeutic frameworks

Jyotiṣa and Remedial Practice

• How Vedic astrology is traditionally integrated with mantra yoga
• Planetary mantras and remedial approaches (upāya)
• Understanding karmic tendencies through Jyotiṣa
• Using mantra to harmonize difficult life patterns

The purpose of the course is to:

• Deepen awareness
• Strengthen discernment
• Increase psychological integration
• Cultivate inner stability
• And support authentic spiritual development while remaining grounded in ordinary life

The emphasis throughout is on balance, clarity, embodiment, and safe progression.

This course is suitable for:

• Graduates of Foundations of Mantra Yoga
• Experienced meditators
• Yoga practitioners seeking greater depth
• Therapists and healing practitioners
• Serious spiritual seekers
• Mantra practitioners wanting a deeper understanding
• Those interested in the relationship between mantra, psychology, and transformation

This course is especially valuable for practitioners who feel:

• “Something deeper is trying to emerge.”
• drawn toward the symbolic or archetypal dimensions of practice
• ready to move beyond purely surface-level meditation

Live Online Class Times  

Two Class Times Offered - Both Classes Have the Same Content

1. Class 1: November 1, 8, 15, 29   
   • Sunday: 7 pm - 9 pm AEDT (GMT+11)
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2. Class 2: November 2, 9, 16, 30
   • Monday: 9:45 am - 11:45 am AEDT (GMT+11)
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RECORDINGS & PRACTICES PROVIDED 

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Course Enrolment 

Early Bird Registration: USD$120 (ends August 1)

One-time registration: USD$200 

Payment plan: 4 instalments of $50

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About the Teacher

Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati is an internationally respected teacher of yoga, meditation, mantra yoga, tantra, and yoga psychology with decades of experience integrating the classical yogic sciences with modern psychological understanding.

His teaching synthesizes:

• Mantra yoga
• Tantra
• Subtle body theory
• Meditation
• Yoga psychology
• Depth psychology
• Practical spiritual integration

The emphasis throughout is not merely intellectual learning, but direct experience, psychological grounding, and sustainable inner transformation.