In this second Q&A from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat, the facilitation team continues in the topic of practice and grace, discussing how to "bring the sacred into everyday," Guru Kripa, the steps of aarti, and the role and pitfalls of psychedelics. Lakshmi and Connor share some Ram Dass stories, and Swapnil tells his story of his training in the jungles of Peru.

The Sacred Community Retreat facilitation team discusses the role of practice and grace on the spiritual path. Recorded from the second day of the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat, this episode features Lakshmi Abrol, Swapnil Abrol, Connor Burns, zander cole, Pavan Das, Sitaram Dass, Beverly Hsu, and a special guest appearance by Vasu Jon Seskevich. 

This three part series is taken from a lecture and guided meditation that Sitaram Dass gave at the Sacred Community Retreat at Just Love Forest in Poetry, Georgia.

This is a recorded lecture from the 2024 Loving Rock Karma Yoga Training Program. In this lecture, spiritual support coordinator Anna Le (She/they) shares the "microskills" needed to love and tend to suffering.

A short and intimate video of the annual Sacred Community Retreat that happens on Salt Spring Island. In it, filmmaker zander cole karlin (they/them) asks the question, “What does Sacred Community mean to you?”

In this audio recording of an event held shortly after the recent election, Sitaram Dass invokes the central scene of the Bhagavad Gita as a meditation on collective grief to inspire deep feeling, compassion, and right action for this time. 

Sarah Anderson, LCSW, interviews her previous therapist, Kenneth Robinson, MS, MTS, for a conversation about psychological healing. This is a follow up conversation from their previous conversation: A Healing Relationship, and in this conversation they convey a synthesis between the psychological and the spiritual through topics such as ego loss, the constructed self, the inner child, vulnerability, and interdependence.

In this Q&A from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat at Just Love Forest, retreat facilitators Hari Scott Whitmore, Pavan Das, and Sitaram Dass tell stories about their time caregiving fro Ram Dass.

This interview with Ondrea Levine was recorded on October 30th, 2023. Vasu Jon Seskevich and Sitaram Dass traveled to her remote off-the-grid home in the high desert of New Mexico for an intimate conversation about living with an open heart in the face of death and grief.

“My vow for this day is to feel this global grief as well as the wise hope that the SCP community inspires me towards.” —Sitaram Dass

Ramananda John Welshons is interviewed by Free Landauer to discuss the path of meditation, awakening from grief, and grace. Ramananda also shares some sweet stories about his lifelong friendship with Ram Dass, and he even shares one about SCP director Sitaram Dass.

David Nichtern from Dharma Moon sits down with Greg "Aditya Das" Barbush to discuss mindfulness, the path of meditation, the concept of "suddenly free from fixed mind," the guru from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective, and the relationship between Bhakti Yoga and Buddhism. 

Connor Burns leads a short mindfulness meditation at the 2023 Sacred Community Retreat that was held on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.

Sitaram Dass gives a lecture and leads a mantra meditation on the essence of Loving-Awareness.

Swapnil Abrol gives a talk on Bhakti Yoga and weaves english storytelling into traditional Bhajans.

This album was recorded in the Summer of 2023 during Sacred Community Project’s first fundraising tour and retreat. It features chants led by Pavan Das and Sitaram Dass and supported by zander cole (vocals, kartals), Swapnil Abrol (dholak, vocals), and Jeanettee Kangas (tabla).

Pavan Das guides a variation of Anapanasati to awaken the heart of Loving-Awareness in this 30-minute meditation.

Sitaram Dass recites the Sacred Community invocation, discusses its importance, and shares how Sacred Community is “Loving-Awareness practiced together.”

Sitaram Dass is interviewed by his good friend Hari Scott Whitmore for a discussion on the beginnings of his spiritual path, his time with Ram Dass, and the Bhakti Path.

These words from Sitaram Dass were adapted from the upcoming book, Loving-Awareness: Awakening the Heart-Mind through the Path of Grace. They describe SCP’s core interspiritual stance of Loving-Awareness actualized in the teachings of Love, Service, Remembrance, and Truth.