Power of the Loving Heart Course with Krishna Das

Welcome to the first ever online course with Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. These two friends and colleagues first met in India over 40 years ago and have remained close ever since. For decades they have each taught in their respective traditions: Sharon in the path of Buddhist Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness practice, and Krishna Das in the path of Bhakti Yoga.

As longtime friends and colleagues, KD and Sharon share a deep respect for each other’s practices and have explored them as a complement to their own lineage over the years. Sharon has her own affinity to different mantras and has chanted with KD for many years, and Krishna Das is a longtime student of meditation with many great Buddhist teachers in the Theravadin and Vajrayana traditions. Out of these shared experiences has grown a unique offering of the traditions of Buddhist Meditation and Bhakti Yoga, joined by the deep bond of friendship between these two teachers.

For several years Sharon and KD have been presenting public retreats together in this vein, and now for the first time, are bringing these teachings to life in the form of an online course.

The Power of the Loving Heart is a robust course designed for both existing practitioners to deepen a home practice, and for anyone interested in an in-depth introduction to practice. The course was filmed primarily on location at the Menla Retreat Center in Phoenicia, NY at a Power of the Loving Heart Retreat as a way to bring the full retreat experience into your own home. The course includes 28 lessons of teaching videos with Sharon and KD co-teaching together as well as individually, and guided practices to accompany each lesson so that you can experience first-hand the benefit of these practices. The course explores a variety of topics including:

Why have a spiritual practice?
Where do we really find happiness?
How to live in a more connected way?
What is bhakti yoga?
What is mindfulness?
What is lovingkindness?
What is devotion?
How to cultivate greater self-compassion?
How to stabilize our attention for greater focus?
How to increase will-power and clearer intentions?
Learn chanting basics and how to deepen your chant practice.
Learn the power of interconnection.
The power of grace and surrender.
Stories about their teachers and gurus
Anecdotes about their personal experiences on a spiritual path

This course will give you the confidence to practice meditation and chanting techniques in your own life and integrate the tools from the practice on a daily basis. Drawing from 40 years of experience on the path, KD and Sharon will guide you in your own exploration of the vast potential of your loving heart.