14 min
Talk
Rudi's double-breath technique
A talk explaining Rudi's double-breath technique as a tool for working with inner energy.
About the teacher
Swami Khecaranatha
Born in Illinois in 1951, Swami Khecaranatha met his teacher Swami Rudrananda ("Rudi") in 1971 and moved into his Indiana ashram in 1972, where he was recognized as a teacher later that year; after Rudi's death in 1973 he studied for roughly twenty years with Swami Chetanananda. In 2002 he took sannyasa vows and was given the name Khecaranatha by Swami Ma Yoga Shakti in the Saraswati Order; his teaching lineage traces through Bhagavan Nityananda and Rudi within the Anuttara Trika tradition of Kashmiri Shaivism.
He founded Heart of Consciousness in Berkeley, California in 2001 and now teaches from his Nityakash retreat center on Maui, offering weekly transmission classes plus periodic retreats and immersions, including an in-person "Surrender to Love" bhajan retreat in Richmond, California in October 2026.
“Sadhana is not a burden or a prison sentence. It is the joyful act of freeing ourselves from our own limited consciousness.”Swami Khecaranatha
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Talks & videos
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14 min
Talk
When grace descends
A talk on recognizing and receiving grace as it moves through a practitioner's life.
23 min
Talk
On seeking
A talk on the nature of spiritual seeking and what it actually takes to move past it.
21 min
Talk
The pathway to freedom within the nondual Tantric tradition
A talk in which Swami Khecaranatha lays out the pathway to freedom found within the nondual Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism.
36 min
Interview
What is selfless service?
In this interview Swami Khecaranatha discusses the practice and purpose of selfless service, or seva, on the spiritual path.
109 min
Interview
Buddha at the Gas Pump interview with Swami Khecaranatha
A long-form interview in which Swami Khecaranatha traces his path from meeting Rudi to five decades of teaching Kundalini Sadhana and Tantric Shaivism.
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Recordings from Swami Khecaranatha.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations, playing from the platform this teacher publishes them on.
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The calling of Kundalini
A talk on Kundalini, energetic flow and transformation, recorded for the Expansion Cast podcast.
From the podcast Expansion Cast
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Kundalini awakening and moving through pain
An interview on opening to painful experience and working through it toward joy, drawing on his book The Divine Thread.
From the podcast Fire it up with CJ
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Understanding Kundalini transmissions
An interview on what happens during an energetic transmission from a guru and what to look for in receiving one.
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The guru and student relationship
An interview on the responsibilities of teacher and student, and how to recognize an authentic teacher.
From the podcast Fire it up with CJ
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Everything is Shiva
Kashmir Shaivism
Non-dual tantric philosophy from medieval Kashmir, teaching that all experience is the self-expression of one conscious reality.
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