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Becoming Happy

by Stuart Perrin

Stuart Perrin is a Kundalini Yoga teacher of 37 years in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda) offering meditation classes in New York City, and having 3-day intensive meditation retreats many times a year around the country. Stuart is also a long-time writer and author of five books and many essays, both fiction and non-fiction, weaving his understanding of inner work and affairs of the heart with equal dexterity. Says Stuart: "Enlightened people are happy people". This podcast offers insights and practical advice in pursuit of Becoming Happy.

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Episodes

  1. Just Do It

    Sunday, June 17, 2012 Speaker: Dave Meyers

  2. You Are Not Perfect

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  3. Use Of The Will

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  4. Two Stages Of Transformation

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  5. The Fuel That Feeds Kundalini

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  6. Sitting Consciously In Front Of Your Own Life

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  7. Ravenous Dogs

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  8. Put Out The Welcome Mat

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  9. Living Amidst Maya

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  10. Learning To Master The Mind

    NYC Intensive Highlights— May 2012

  11. Using The Breath Consciously

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  12. The Perks Of Inner Work

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  13. The Pain Of Giving Birth To Yourself

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  14. The Need For A Teacher

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  15. The Maturing Student-Teacher Relationship

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  16. Shut Yer Mouth

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  17. Rudi's Legacy

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  18. Pain Of Letting Go

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  19. On The Soul Train

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  20. Let Life Be

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  21. Judgments Don't Matter

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  22. Hands On Work

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  23. Goals & Rewards

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  24. Doing Your Life Well Today

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  25. Burning Up Karma

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  26. Bringing It Down To Earth

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  27. Being Rooted

    NYC Intensive Highlights— Mar. 2012

  28. The Universe Talking

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  29. The Power Of Tantra

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  30. Stop It

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  31. Samadhi

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  32. Remembering The Plane Crash

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  33. Relaxing Before Class

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  34. Not Being Attached

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  35. Nityananda

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  36. Making Room For Healing

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  37. Let It Be

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  38. Just Do It

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  39. Gotta Get The Heart Open

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  40. Conflict Resolution By Listening

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  41. Asking People To Grow

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  42. An Act Of Creation

    Portland Intensive Highlights— Feb. 2012

  43. Therapeutic Healing

    Says Stuart: "The reality is that if you do this deep meditation that we practice the first stages of it are really healing stages, they are therapeutic stages..."

  44. The Deepest Need

    Says Stuart: "Your need to have a spiritual life is tantamount to every other need. It shouldn't mean you don't have other needs, but its tantamount..."

  45. Intuitive Memory

    Says Stuart: "There are two kinds of memory. One of them is what you remember in your head. And that memory does nothing but congest you and clog you up..."

  46. Healing Intervention

    Says Stuart: "I've learned a very interesting thing about all the healing I've done. First, you don't interfere with life coming into the world. And secondly you don't interfere with death..."

  47. Facing Fear

    Says Stuart: "You can't address [your fears] with having a talk withy them. Just bring them here [in the third chakra]. If you bring your fear here it will dissolve..."

  48. Energy Without Limitation

    Says Stuart: "If you want a spiritual life it means you are going to have to learn hown to surrender everything. You can't be attached to anything that has to do with the earth..."

  49. Being Happy

    Says Stuart: "Being happy doesn't mean your spaced out. Being happy doesn't mean you live like an idiot. Being happy doesn't mean you're naive it just means you can take every day of your life and be grateful for it..."

  50. Asking To Receive

    Says Stuart: "There's one thing in life that's really dangerous. People have a tendency to give and give and give. They do it to such an extent that the giving becomes their detriment..."

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Stuart Perrin is a Kundalini Yoga teacher of 37 years in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda) offering meditation classes in New York City, and having 3-day intensive meditation retreats many times a year around the country. Stuart is also a long-time writer and author of five books and many essays, both fiction and non-fiction, weaving his understanding of inner work and affairs of the heart with equal dexterity. Says Stuart: "Enlightened people are happy people". This podcast offers insights and practical advice in pursuit of Becoming Happy.

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Stuart Perrin

Produced by Robert Sink

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Stuart Perrin is a Kundalini Yoga teacher of 37 years in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda) offering meditation classes in New York City, and having 3-day intensive meditation retreats many times a year around the country. Stuart is also a long-time writer and author of five books and many...

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