Today we have a spiritual mentor, meditation teacher, and student of Kriya Yoga and Advaita Vedanta Master Rajivji Kapur, Ryan Altman.
Ryan devoted his life to the spiritual path for the last 14 years, ever since he was 22 years old.
In that time he’s practiced thousands of hours of meditation and other spiritual practices, studied hundreds of spiritual texts and scriptures from different traditions, lived abroad in Thailand, Abu Dhabi and Australia, and traveled around the world including dozens of trips to India to personally study with Rajivji.
Ryan offers content, workshops, mentoring, and courses using the time-tested paths of yoga as a means to help people develop an inner practice for awakening.
Ryan’s teaching approach blends the traditional with the progressive, the ancient with the modern, the metaphysical with the scientific, and the divine with the daily grind — in short a teaching designed for authentic spiritual awakening in the modern world.
I’m going to share a bit directly from Ryan’s website thesupremeyoga.com. about his purpose.
I share what yoga is really about.
Not the consumerist form of yoga as exercise in popular culture, or the superficial spiritual materialism of influencers on social media, but the transcendent path of union with higher consciousness that yoga really is, adapted for the minds and attitudes of our modern age.
I believe that the ancient and time-tested spiritual teachings of yoga are the solution to many of the problems of the modern world. We are overloaded with stress and stimulation, and have lost our connection to inner fulfilment. We need connection to our divine nature now more than ever.
Through the power of yogic knowledge and practices, you can awaken to your divinity and cast out the darkness of division caused by misidentification and attachment with the body and mind.
Yoga is traditionally divided into four main paths, with each one directed at evolving one of our human qualities into its highest potential.
Each yogic path is a harmonious method of inner practice depending on the inclinations of the person, and eventually combines together to create your unique spiritual journey. All spiritual and religious practices can fall within one or more of these ancient paths of yoga.
As you can see from just this small reading his website. Ryan has a deep understanding of yoga, spirituality and meditation. Please enjoy the wisdom he gracefully shares on this podcast
Thank you Ryan for time and knowledge. It was truly something being able to talk to you about my very basic understanding of these topics. If you’d like to find out more about Ryan, head to his website thesupremeyoga.com (link in the show notes) he offers mentoring and workshops there. Also check him out on Instagram @thesupremeyoga
Thank you for listening and I’ll see you next episode.