Light on Mantra Yoga - Advanced Course
How to Use Mantra to Manage Karma
Dates: 4 weeks, TBC 2027
Teacher: Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati
CPE: 8-12 (TBC)
Where: Online Classes via Zoom.
Level: Advanced
Prerequisites: Foundations & Intermediate Mantra Yoga Course
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Advanced Mantra Yoga - How to Use Mantra to Manage Karma
The third training course in our Light on Mantra Yoga series, turns toward the question that every sincere practitioner eventually faces: what am I really doing, and where is this practice taking me?
At the heart of the third course, and threading through the entire series, is a teaching that we consider among the most important we can offer: how to use mantra to work with karma wisely and effectively.
Not all karma is the same, and not all of it asks the same thing of us. Some karmic patterns are relatively accessible. With the right mantra and a consistent practice, they begin to shift, sometimes with surprising speed. The mantra accelerates the process by empowering our self-awareness, sharpening our intuition, and building the inner momentum that genuine change requires.
Other karmas are more complex. They require a different quality of engagement: steadiness, alertness, and the training to remain grounded while moving carefully through territory that is not yet fully understood. Here, the mantra does not simply dissolve the difficulty. It teaches us how to hold ourselves together in the midst of it. Progress with this kind of karma often moves in stages. We find ourselves caught in it, then briefly free of it, then caught again — and each time we escape its gravity, even momentarily, we return with a new insight, a clearer understanding of what we are actually dealing with and what the next step requires.
And then there is a third kind of karma: the deep soul wound. Some burdens cannot be removed. They are woven into the fabric of who we are and what we came here to carry. This is where mantra reveals one of its most profound gifts. It does not always liberate us from karma; sometimes it enables us to live within it with grace, stability, and even a growing sense of meaning. What once felt like a prison begins to reveal itself as a threshold. What seemed only like suffering begins to carry, faintly at first and then more clearly, the quality of a blessing.
Light on Mantra Yoga Series
This is what the series is ultimately here to teach, and it is a teaching that cannot be delivered in a single weekend or even three. It unfolds over time, over the three courses and in the practice that continues beyond them, in the relationship between student, teacher, and the living tradition we are all drawing from together.
Together, these offerings give you both the philosophical ground and the practical tools to use intention as a genuine spiritual instrument. They are available as individual courses; however, we recommend joining us for the full journey for the fully transformative experience they offer.