Yogiraj's 2009 schedule is beginning to take shape. We'd like to give you a glimpse at what's in store though much of the tour is currently being arranged.

After the upcoming international Pune ashram retreat and subsequent Himalayan tour, Yogiraj's next public appearances will be in homeland India during April. Both Chandigarh and Delhi will have several events with Yogiraj. See our India schedule for the full details and persons to contact.

A couple of events in Italy have been confirmed for June, one of which is an exciting weekend New Life Awakening Retreat with Yogiraj. Stay tuned to our Europe schedule for more details and more events as they become confirmed.

Lastly, as for the United States, we have the dates posted for the 2009 New Life Awakening Retreats with Yogiraj, each at beautiful coastal locations. This year there will be a retreat in Pacific Palisades, another in Seattle, and then the final retreat at Mount Madonna outside of Santa Cruz. It's never too early to begin planning, but it is too early to begin registration. We'll announce later in the spring as registrations become available. Check out the US schedule with the full summer tour details to come soon, too.

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This month we'd like to share with you a poem by Yogiraj Gurunath called "Mind Transformation". Did you know that this poem and others can be found on our website? Of course, Yogiraj's complete book of poems, Dew Drops of the Soul, can be purchased through our online store.

"As a leaking vessel never can fill
Waters of Life so pure and still
So distracted mind fails to retain
Wisdom's nectar in its brain

To fill waters from wisdom's spring
Our minds we must to stillness bring
Then our crystal bowl of tranquil mind
With Gnosis fills of supernal kind

But if the very thoughts of mind
Be as fleeting deer and hind
Darting wayward ways they find
Such men to wisdom's ways are blind

To ease disease of random mind
A remedy suitable we must find
A rhythmic breathing tension free
Absorption as its sovereign key

Steady poise the arrow your will
And shoot the fleeting mind to still
The deer of thoughts, hinds & harts
Felled by your concentrated darts

As one by one they die away
Mind opens up to new day
Streams run tranquil willows sway
Here tame and gentle deer do play

Tamed and tuned to nature's flow
Mind melts into the opal glow
Which radiates from the Soul within
Where Wisdom's mystic fire is King!"

"I was working 10 hours a day at a very demanding and stressful job that I really did not like, and there was no way that I could get ahead of the workload. Consequently, I was anxious all the time. I would wake up anxious in the middle of the night. I would wake up anxious and sick in the morning. During the day, I would go into the restroom and double over - sick with anxiety and stress. So, I went to my doctor. And - in true American doctor fashion - she prescribed quite a retinue of anti-depressants and hormones to help me cope. I'm really opposed to the whole concept, but I was pretty desperate. After an unanticipated hassle with my insurance company, I secured the magic pills on a Wednesday evening. I read all the warnings, and decided I would start taking them midday on Friday, in case I got really weird off them which certainly seemed possible. On Thursday night, as I slept, Gurunath came to me in my dreams. I was at a satsang, and he left the room for a break. The strangest music came on. I ran up to the "dance floor" and I started to spin. I spun and I spun and I spun. I spun so long and so fast, my feet rose up off the floor. I opened my eyes, and Gurunath was in front of me. He said "stop spinning." So I did. When I woke up, I went to work. I still had the same level of demands and stress but that sickening anxiety was gone. I never took the pills, and by his grace, the most impossible tasks would get done in the oddest of ways. The right person would show up at the oddest moment, or someone would change their mind about a deadline, things like that. I don't have that job anymore, and - as I heal from that corporate experience - I totally trust in my master that the right position for me is now manifesting and that he is with me in every moment."