Online Courses

We are currently offering following courses online. You can start anytime. Two courses per quarter. Your quarter begins when you begin:

The Art and Science of Meditation
The Art and Science of Yoga
Mind and Brain
Intelligence 1001
Consciousness 1001
Karma 1001
Soul 1001
Love 1001
Enlightenment 1001
Leadership 1001
The Software and Hardware of Soul
Purification of Attitude & Lifestyle
Purification of Body
Purification of Senses
Purification of Mind
Purification of Consciousness

All online services are provided cost-free. This is made possible due to donations received from grateful old students who wish to help others as they were helped by others. Teachers and organizers do not receive any compensation as they have decided to serve with the purity of purpose.

We hope you will appreciate the commerce-free environment. By participating in these courses, you will give others the opportunity to be generous towards you. You will also have the opportunity to be generous by making a donation at the end of the course with the sole purpose of helping others.

We request a fully-refundable security deposit of $250/course in terms of cash or cashier's check made payable to Soul Research Institute Retreat Services (Mailing address: 2663 Cinnabar Rd, Colorado Springs, CO). The deposit amount is thankfully returned to the participant at the end of the course, provided the participant makes a genuine effort at completing the course. All participants are required to take periodic and final oral and written exams as part of couse completion.

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Weekly Saturday Gathering and Potluck

Based on your interests, join us anytime. Come and go anytime except during meditation.

Location:

Flying Horse Subdivision, 2663 Cinnabar Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80921. Phone: 719-488-0548 or 719-685-6294

Schedule: Monthly on Saturdays by Invitation Only. No Yoga.

5.00pm - 5.30pm     : Breathing and Chanting
5.30pm - 6.00pm     : Meditation
6.00pm - 6.30pm     : Discourse
6.30pm - 7.00pm     : Noble Conversation (Q/A)
7.00pm - 8.30pm     : Potluck, family-style, and Social
8.30pm - 9.00pm     : Universal Prayers

Meditation Cushions:

Please bring your own. Although not necessary, we encourage those who get easily disturbed, to carry a shawl and a pair of disposable ear plugs for additional warmth and deeper silence.

Potluck:

Please bring one vegetarian non-liquid dish. In order to avoid spills, please do not bring drinks, soups, or curries. All are encourages to sit together at the tables and to share nutritious food, family-style. Sitting at the tables will minimize spills.

Parents and Children:

At this time, children under age 10 can not be present during the practice. We are in the process of making necessary arrangements and developing fun-filled programs for children which will help them improve focus, attention span, memory retention power, school performance, and social relational skills. Stay tuned.

Fees:

There is no fee, no obligation, no restrictions. Just come to practice, to  share wisdom, and to evolve together. We guarantee you will love it, absolutely!
Community Outreach
Residential Retreats (Maximum capacity 25 people)

Location: Depending upon number of registrants
Weekend Retreat
Begins: 4pm, first Thursday of each month
Ends: 4pm, first Sunday of each month (See Calender)

Weeklong Retreat
Begins: 4pm, Third Sunday of each month
Ends: 4pm, Last Sunday of each month (See calender)

Two-Week Retreat
Begins: 4pm, Second Sunday or Monday of each month
Ends: 4pm, Third or fourth Saturday of each month (See calender)

Typical Daily Schedule for all Retreats

4.30amGood morning bell
5.00am-6.00am Group meditation in the hall
6.00am-8.00am Breakfast and bathroom break
8.00am-8.30am Soul Yoga
8.30am-9.00am Soul Breathing
9.00am-9.30am      Soul Meditation instructions
9.30am-11.00am      Meditation in seclusion or in the hall
11.00am-1.00pmLunch break
1.00pm-2.00pm Group meditation in the hall
2.00pm-5.00pm Assigned literature study in seclusion or in the hall
5.00pm-6.00pm Light dinner break
6.00pm-7.00pm Group meditation in the hall
7.00pm-8.00pm Teacher's discourse
8.00pm-9.00pm Teacher available for answering questions
9.01pmGood night bell

Retreat Financing

All retreat services including lodging and boarding are provided cost-free. This is made possible due to donations received from grateful old students who wish to help others as they were helped by others. Teachers and organizers do not receive any compensation as they have decided to serve with the purity of purpose.

We hope you will appreciate the commerce-free environment. By participating in the retreat, you will give others the opportunity to be generous towards you. You will also have the opportunity to be generous by making a donation at the end of the retreat with the sole purpose of helping others.

Security Deposit

We request a fully-refundable security deposit in terms of cash or cashier's check made payable to Soul Research Institute Retreat Services.

Retreat TypeFully-refundable Security Deposit Amount
Weekend $350.00
Weeklong$750.00
Two-week     $1500.00

The deposit amount is thankfully returned to the participant at the end of the retreat, provided the participant makes a genuine effort at completing the course by scrupulously following the daily schedule and the code of noble conduct (see below). We expect all participants to take advantage of retreat facilities without causing property damage.

Code of Noble Conduct

1.Noble Silence: In order to facilitate inward attention, all participants are required to observe noble silence during the entire period of the retreat. Noble silence means maintaining inward attention by completely avoiding physical, visual, verbal, or any other type of contact with other participants. Visual contact is avoided by keeping the eyes cast down with a strong sense of humility and piety. Participants may communicate with teachers and organizers, however keeping it to minimum. The aim is to generate a feeling of devoutness arising out of seclusion (not isolation).

2.Gender Separation: Men and women participants are provided with separate lodging and boarding facilities. All areas are separated in order to avoid contact between couples, friends, spouses, or family members. Again, the aim is to facilitate inward attention.

3.Drugs and Intoxicants: Participants must refrain from smoking and taking any kind of drugs, alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, or any other kind of intoxicant. Medications prescribed by the doctor may be taken provided the teacher is notified at the beginning of the course.

4.Entertainment: Participants must refrain from playing instruments or using audio/video devices. The aim is to avoid distracting oneself and others, and to maintain tranquility.
 
5.Clothing: We recommend warm, loose, comfortable, and modest clothing. Participants must avoid transparent, short, tight, skimpy, revealing, or otherwise inappropriate clothing. Participants must bring enough clothing to last the duration of the course. Laundry facility or outside laundry services are not available at this time but will be available in future.

Lodging and Boarding

All participants should bring their own linen, pillows, comforters, bedsheets, blankets, etc. Only mattresses and bedframes are available.

We serve simple vegetarian, wholesome, balanced meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Participants with special health requirements should contact the organizers. We will try to satisfy your special nutritional needs.

We will do our best to provide you a warm, comfortable stay so you can focus on your practice and get the most out of your valuable time spent at the retreat.

May you grately benefit from your effort. May you experience the auspicious.

We thank you for the opportunity to serve you.
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Soul Sisters - Women's Group


Here is the current invitation to our women's group's monthly get-together.

Date & Time: May 1, 2010 at 2 PM
Location: 3619 Estates Circle, Larkspur, CO 80118
Involvement: Come with an open heart or at least willingness to be open
Directions: http://www.vidyaretreats.com

This month includes an introductory workshop into the Body Mirror System, a healing system put together around the idea that we are energy and that energy can be directed and healed if there are blockages in it. Any blockage first happens in our consciousness, or in other words, the unique perceptional reality bubble we have created and live in. By working with the energy centers (chakras) in the energy body, it is possible to heal those blockages, get to the core of the symptoms, shift those perceptions that keep us blocked, and heal the body itself. True healing happens, when we are completely true to ourselves. Anything can be healed.

Please feel free to bring others. And feel free to bring something to share with the group.

Love and Light,

Nya
Group Coordinator

Weekly Fridays at 6-8pm
Colorado College Campus, Shove Chapel
1010 N. Nevada Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO
Weekly Wednesdays at Noon-1pm
HP and Agilent Facility (Employees Only)
Colorado Springs, CO

On April 15, 2010, 11.30am-12.3-pm @
Aeroflex, a Multinational
Colorado Springs, CO
Retreat I: July 24, 2010 - July 31, 2010 (1-week)

•Soul Yoga and Soul Breathing practices for physical and physiological well-being
•Soul meditation for mental and spiritual well-being
(Combined practice of mindfulness, concentration, non-reaction, and wise-attention)
•Understanding and cultivating seven mental powers and ten spiritual attitudes
•Introduction to insight and awakening
•Loving-kindness meditation

Retreat II: July 24, 2010 – August 6, 2010 (2-weeks)

Continuation of Retreat I
•Insight meditation and contemplation practices
•Understanding the phenomenology of matter, mind, and consciousness
•Cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, gladness, and oneness

Retreat III: Currently under consideration (3-weeks)

Continuation of Retreat II
•Insight meditation and contemplation practices
•Understanding reality vs non-reality, karma, laws of creation, rebirth, and their practical  significance
•Cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, gladness, and oneness

Finances

•No instruction fees. Heartfelt offering are greatly appreciated.
•Travel, lodging/boarding, and other cost to be paid directly by participants.
•Air travel: $1500-$1750 (US to India). Pay directly to travel agents.
•Lodging/boarding: $15-$25/day. Pay directly to the facility owners.
•Road/taxi/train/travel cost: $250-$350

General

Excluding air travel, all other arrangements (lodging/boarding, transportation, etc) can be made by Soul Research Institute, however, payments to be made directly by participants to facility and vehicle owners.

Typical daily schedule

4.30amGood morning bell
5.00am-6.00am Group meditation in the hall
6.00am-8.00am Breakfast and bathroom break
8.00am-8.30am Soul Yoga
8.30am-9.00am Soul Breathing
9.00am-9.30am      Soul Meditation instructions
9.30am-11.00am      Meditation in seclusion or in the hall
11.00am-1.00pmLunch break
1.00pm-2.00pm Group meditation in the hall
2.00pm-5.00pm Assigned literature study in seclusion or in the hall
5.00pm-6.00pm Light dinner break
6.00pm-7.00pm Group meditation in the hall
7.00pm-8.00pm Teacher's discourse
8.00pm-9.00pm Teacher available for answering questions
9.01pmGood night bell


Monsoon 2010 Indian Retreat
(Sponsored by Soul Research Institute)

Location: Sahyadri Foothills near Lonavala, India
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Code of Noble Conduct

1.Noble Silence: In order to facilitate inward attention, all participants are required to observe noble silence during the entire period of the retreat. Noble silence means maintaining inward attention by completely avoiding physical, visual, verbal, or any other type of contact with other participants. Visual contact is avoided by keeping the eyes cast down with a strong sense of humility and piety. Participants may communicate with teachers and organizers, however keeping it to minimum. The aim is to generate a feeling of devoutness arising out of seclusion (not isolation).

2.Gender Separation: Men and women participants are provided with separate lodging and boarding facilities. All areas are separated in order to avoid contact between couples, friends, spouses, or family members. Again, the aim is to facilitate inward attention.

3.Drugs and Intoxicants: Participants must refrain from smoking and taking any kind of drugs, alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, or any other kind of intoxicant. Medications prescribed by the doctor may be taken provided the teacher is notified at the beginning of the course.

4.Entertainment: Participants must refrain from playing instruments or using audio/video devices. The aim is to avoid distracting oneself and others, and to maintain tranquility.
 
5.Clothing: We recommend warm, loose, comfortable, and modest clothing. Participants must avoid transparent, short, tight, skimpy, revealing, or otherwise inappropriate clothing. Participants must bring enough clothing to last the duration of the course. Laundry facility or outside laundry services are not available at this time but will be available in future.

We will do our best to provide you a warm, comfortable stay so you can focus on your practice and get the most out of your valuable time spent at the retreat.

May you grately benefit from your effort. May you experience the auspicious.

We thank you for the opportunity to serve you.

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Venue: Crystal Park Clubhouse, Crystal Park Rd, Manitou Springs, CO.

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