The Year-Long Group Meditation Monday Book Club

About the Book Club

By popular request, Institute residents and guests convene weekly to discuss the recommended texts for the twelve core programs featured during the year-long meditation. These programs are offered live at the Institute in Honesdale, and will be available on-line after the live events.

Upcoming Reading

May 21, 2012

SAKTI SADHANA: STEPS TO SAMADHI
Chapters 6 thru 11
by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD

May 28, 2012

SAKTI SADHANA: STEPS TO SAMADHI
Continued
by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD

THE BOOK CLUB MEETS EACH MONDAY AT 7pm.

The Books

Nov • Dec • Jan

Feb • Mar • Apr

May • Jun • Jul

The Podcasts

	From Death to Birth, October 31, 2011 Download the MP3(Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Pursuit of Power & Freedom / From Death to Birth, November 7, 2011 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Yoga and Psychotherapy, Chapter 1, November 14, 2011 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Yoga and Psychotherapy, Chapter 2, November 21, 2011 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Yoga and Psychotherapy, Chapter 3, November 28, 2011 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Meditation and its Practice & Moving Inward, December 5, 2011 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Tantra Unveiled, Chapters 1 & 2, January 9, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Tantra Unveiled, Chapter 3, January 16, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Power of Mantra, Chapters 1 & 2, January 23, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Power of Mantra, Chapters 3-5, January 30, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Power of Mantra, Chapters 6 & 7, February 6, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Power of Mantra, Chapter 8, February 13, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Meditation and Its Practice / Moving Inward February 20, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Yoga and Psychotherapy – Chapter 7 & The Path of Fire and Light – Chapter 5, February 27, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	Yoga and Psychotherapy – Chapter 7 & The Path of Fire and Light – Chapter 5 / Continued, March 5, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	From Death to Birth, Chapters 1 & 2 – March 12, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	From Death to Birth, Chapters 3 & 4 – March 19, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	From Death to Birth, Chapters 5 & 6 – March 26, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	From Death to Birth, Chapters 7-9 – April 3, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	The Four Desires, Introduction & Part 1 – April 9, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	The Four Desires, Part 2 – April 16, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)
	The Four Desires, Special Discussion With Rod Stryker – April 24, 2012 Download the MP3 (Right-Click, “Save as”)

Madalasa

Thanks so much for the downloads from the MNBC! However, two of them don’t download:

1. 2/6/12
2. 3/12

Please enable. Thank You.
Madalasa
http://www.facebook.com/missmiapark Mia Park

i’m happy to discover this series of discussions! i was in attendance during rod stryker’s “four desires” talk and can’t wait to listen to it again because the questions were engaging and his answers, provocative. thanks for making this available.
Ajitvjoshi

For Yoga and Psychotherapy, was there a discussion on chapters four through six?

Also, does the podcast of November28 include the diagram of the five koshas on page 78?

Is it possible for someone to be a virtual participant of the book club? Do you have a certain deadline (say a couple of days/time in advance) by which time you’d like to receive comments and questions regarding the reading as I assume we can’t skype-in to the meeting, or watch live webstream or be on a conference call (if domestic and in the US).

Kudos to HI. Such a wealth of information – Living Tantra, YLGM, the Book group, the magazine…

Ajitvjoshi

BTW, small technical issue, I tried to type my name in the “name” field under “post as” but it would not go through. The only way I could post was to allow the auto-fill to use my email address for my name. Thanks, Ajit V. Joshi

Lisa

From Death to Birth, Chapters 1 & 2 – March 12, 2012 doesn’t seem to be working. Can’t download or play it. Help! Thank you! :)
Jean

That was a nice “surprise” to hear Rod Stryker for the latest YLGM session! I was scheduled to be at the institute for his seminar, but due to a death in my family, I had to cancel. So…listening to the podcast allowed me to feel like I was still a part of the weekend! Looking forward to my next trip there sometime soon. Thanks again for the podcasts…
Aianig

I’m sorry to say that without the ITunes subscription service functioning, these wonderful discussions are a bit too much for my low tech skills to manage. I’ll be looking forward to the subscription getting ironed out and plugging back in. In the meantime I’ll keep reading.
Thanks,
Greg
Aianig

Page 69 of Tantra Unveiled gives a link to a discussion of Gayatri Mantra but I can’t seem to find it at your site. Any thoughts?
Many thanks,
Greg
Greg

I was subscribed to Podcasts until the Jan 9, Tantra Unveiled Chap 1 and 2 podcast. Then they stopped coming in, and I haven’t been able to get them to work again. I see from a posting below that there was a problem about a month ago. Is that fixed, and can you tell me how to access the podcasts? Thanks, Greg

http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Hi Greg,

Unfortunately this is still an ongoing issue. We were able to correct the feed issue of a month ago, but now the podcast is no longer available in the US iTunes store. Apple is slow to assist with a free, service oriented product like podcast serving. For now we recommend downloading the files from this page and adding them to iTunes manually.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Jean

Hello..
Are more podcasts coming for the latest Book Club discussions on From Death to Birth?
The last posting I see is from February 13th on Power of Mantra, Chapter 8.
Thanks for looking into this…
Jean

http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Hi Jean,

We added chapters 1-6 of From Death to Birth yesterday!

http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/ Barbara Graver

Hi. I just ordered the current selection From Death to Birth. Will podcasts of the March book club discussions on this title be added anytime soon? I was hoping to talk about the book club on my blog. Thank you!
Jefra

Hello…

I haven’t been able to find podcasts for the Power of Mantra…discussions. I-tunes is not showing any new ones to download. I would appreciate your help.
Thanks…
Namaste
Jean
Clahori

Are there any tricks to be able to download as podcasts? Like having a US IP address? I keep getting an error: authorization is needed to access and then an http link to the HI… Thanks for any insights. Clara

http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Hi Clara, there should not be any geographic content restrictions. Do you use iTunes? We syndicate these discussions there on our podcast channel, and they are freely available for download. Our podcast channel can be found at http://bit.ly/x8x2q4

Jefra

Hello,
Just wondering if any of the podcasts are available on The Power of Mantra and Mystery of Initiation? I check for new podcasts, but nothing is showing up.

Thanks. I look forward to the discussions!
Jean

http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Hi Jean,

We just uploaded three new podcasts covering chapters 1-7 of The Power of Mantra and Mystery of Initiation today.
Jefra

Thanks…a good way to spend a snowy Saturday night!
Jefra

I am enjoying the discussions..opens up a new dimension! Just wanted to let you know that the Mantra episodes are not on iTunes. Will they come later or do I need to do something..I have the other episodes on iTunes on my iPad.

Thanks!!
Jean
http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Thanks for the feedback, very glad that you are enjoying the discussions. Feel free to leave a thought or question for the group here, and we’ll make sure they talk back to you!
Re: iTunes, it can take some time for Apple to update the podcast channel. Typically it’s within 48 hours, so they should be there no later than Monday afternoon.
http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Hi Jean, something appears to be very wrong with our iTunes podcast feed. We are working to fix this issue, but it may take some time to resolve.

Luciaplata

I am beginning to follow the podcasts in my iPad. I get the sound, but I would like to know if there is image for them too.

http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

The recordings are audio only

Don

These are great! Thank you! Would it be possible to create an RSS feed of these so we could subscribe to them?

http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/himalayan-institute-podcast/id479245545

Kabuslu

Thank you.
donna

I’ve followed the first 2 bookclub discussions of Yoga and Psychotherapy but cannot seem to download week 3. Is it not yet posted?

And I see today (as I prepared to listen to chapter 3) that we have additions to Podcasts, From Death to Birth and Pursuit of Power and Freedom. Are these discussions which took place previous to the first workshop? Will we be able to listen to the workshop itself or just these podcasts?

I know you’re working on the format and technique of “information conveyance” here and it would be very helpful is there were a dedicated page for those of us who are members trying to follow online. Other than during my morning meditation, I don’t really feel a part of an ongoing program. I’m not a ” “facebooker” or any of the other social networks. If this would help me please advise, but with instructions ….

Hoping this makes sense; and thanks for your continued “ironing out”.
Namaste’
Donna

Anonymous

Dear Donna,
Thanks for your note on the download for chapter three. That error is now corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ajit Joshi

I’m just discovering this website; I didn’t get any information from having signed up as a Premium Member; thanks to a glance one week at Facebook and digging through this website I did find this page. May be a good idea to send the Premium Members a note about the YLGM website, registering as a YLGM practitioner, about this book group, etc.

How do I access these podcasts? I don’t see a link anywhere on this page or instructions on how to hear the audio. With gratitude, Om Shanti. Ajit Joshi

http://www.facebook.com/mdouzart Matthew Douzart

Good Morning Ajit,

Glad that you found it early! We’re a bit behind the curve on getting it published, and still tinkering with format a bit before really publicizing it. Soon we will be doing exactly as you mention.

To the point of tinkering with format BEFORE publicizing, the files are right here on the page. Do you see the little image of an arrow and the text “Click the “+”" pointing to a plus sign http://cl.ly/BnNt? If you click on one of the two plus signs the toggle will open and expose the podcast file in streaming and downloadable format.

If you cannot see the podcasts, please let me know what operating system and browser you are using. I think that we’ve tested all of the norms thus far, and had a little kink with Win 7 and IE 9 that needed fixing, but we should be good on all modern OS’s and browsers (including mobile devices!)

One other way to access the files if you’re an iTunes guy - http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/himalayan-institute-podcast/id479245545

All of our best,

Matt D
Ajit Joshi

Hi Matt,

I didn’t get a “ping” in my email alerting me to log on but I was interested in seeing if there was an update and so I came to the website today and found your thoughtful reply. I did see the arrow and was able to click. Thank you! And great work on the design of the font “click” in that it looks like it’s a handwritten font.

As I started listening to the first podcast on From Birth to Death, I could not hear the people asking the question, they didn’t have a microphone.

Ajit
Anonymous

Hey there Ajit,

If you want to receive notifications of responses, you need to opt-in by clicking either the “subscribe by email” or “Subscribe by RSS” buttons at the top of this discussion thread. Glad that you like the font we chose, its called “Waiting for the sun to rise” and it’s a freebie!

Sorry about the audio on the first podcast, we made some changes to our set up before the second one that has yelled better results. For us to be able to sustainably do this, it has to be a one mic affair.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Clara-Hori/525423882 Clara Hori

Today I listened to the from death to birth podcast, here in Uruguay, as I walked to work… I felt like I was in the Institute. You guys never cease to delight me with all the great things you do… Thanks!

http://www.facebook.com/mdouzart Matthew Douzart

Thank you Clara for your ongoing support and words of encouragement. It’s a real treat to hear feedback from friends and members around the world who are putting the technology we’re constructing to use. It certainly beats writing HTML all day ;) ~Matt D / HI Edu Division

Cheryl

really enjoying these podcasts. feel like i am right there with you at the institute. thank you so very much for doing them. great to hear comments from all the different age groups and levels of experience and receive new insights on these books. you got me going back to that last chapter in from death to birth and looking at PRT’s kathaupanishad again.
http://himalayaninstitute.org The Himalayan Institute

Welcome to the YLGM Monday Book Club everyone! The firsts two weeks discussion podcasts are already posted to the page, and we should have next weeks reading posted very soon. Please feel free to let us know how we could improve your experience here, and also be sure to leave thoughts and questions for the group to discuss on Monday night!