Acharya Paula Vandana Whang-Ramos,
Blue Lotus Center Spiritual Director
Paula earned her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1984 and her Masters of Divinity Degree from CSE Meru Seminary in 2010. In 2012, Paula was ordained in the tradition of Kriya Yoga by her teacher, Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian, with whom she continues to study. Currently, Paula also serves as a Senior Kriya Yoga Meditation teacher and an Associate Minister at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose, CA.
Paula is available to teach meditation at your organization or place of work.
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408-842-0208 • paula@bluelotuscenter.org • Dry Creek Village, 8347 Church Street, Gilroy, CA 95020
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To donate to Acharya Paula Vandana for Spiritual Support, click here.
There is divine potential in the heart of every person that awaits our recognition and cooperation. Once we discover this innate potential, what was once a deep yearning becomes the dynamic cause that inspires us to live in the highest way. We can all know why we are here, how to fulfill our divine destiny and experience lasting happiness.
Engage in this New Online Video Course with Yogacharya O’Brian and learn how to meditate and live by spiritual principles.
For more information or to register, click here.
A Six-Week Online Video Course with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian
Join the BLC community for a year-long journey into the joy and peace of the soul, based on inspirational teachings from Yogacharya O'Brian's book Living for the Sake of the Soul (LSS).
Wednesday evenings ~ 6:30pm - 7:30pm, Includes LSS inspiration, onsite and online
Saturday mornings ~ 10:00am - 10:40am, Includes LSS inspiration, online only
Additionally, BLC will host two LSS inspired retreats in 2025. Dates TBA.
Living for the Sake of the Soul is available for purchase at CSE, BLC, and at Amazon.
We welcome your tax deductible donation
Welcome to The Blue Lotus Center
~ Return to Peace ~
Live the Eternal Way: The Art and Practice of Self-Realization
Are you ready for more peace in your life, in your family, in our community, and in our country?
Do you want to learn practical, time-tested techniques to calm your mind and live a wisdom-guided life?
Would you like to experience the community support of other sincere seekers dedicated to peace?
If so, then join us at Blue Lotus Center, an oasis of peace for sincere seekers from all backgrounds.
During these challenging times, the Blue Lotus Center is a refuge for those seeking an alternative to the isolation and fear
that arises when the reactive mind focuses on apparent differences, conflict and lack of abundance.
In the teaching tradition of Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the first Yogis to bring Yoga to the USA,
the Blue Lotus Center offers ancient, practical teachings of Kriya Yoga - the conscious use of our thoughts, words and actions (Kriya)
in the essential peace, love and wholeness that indwells us all the time, everywhere, and even when we forget (Yoga).
If you are ready for a change, then join our commitment to cultivate peace in our hearts, our lives, our families, and our world.
The Blue Lotus Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. All services are offered on a donation basis, unless otherwise specified.
Please click here for a current listing of our ongoing meditation groups and classes.
Living Beyond Limits:
An Introduction to the Yoga Sutras
“Now, instruction in yoga, in accord with an established tradition, begins.”
Sutra 1.1
Join us as Acharya Paula Vandana guides us through our year-long weekly study of the Yoga Sutras, one of the ancient Yoga and meditation texts that we study at CSE and BLC. Let your contemplation of this timeless spiritual wisdom illumine your divine remembrance of the inner peace, love, and wholeness that dwells in you right now.
Our year-long study will include:
~Individual Daily Meditation and Metaphysical Scripture Study
Begins September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025
Complement your daily meditation practice with contemplative reading of the Yoga Sutras.
Download the 2024-2025 Yoga Sutras One Year Weekly Reading schedule here.
Download the Yoga Sutras Contemplative Notes template here.
Tuesday 1pm Weekly Meditation and Yoga Sutras Study Group
Tuesdays, beginning 09/03/2024 through 08/26/2025
Each Tuesday in spiritual community, we will meditate and contemplate inspirations and insights revealed during our weekly Yoga Sutras scripture study.
Required text: The Science of Self-Realization: A Guide to Spiritual Practice in the Kriya Yoga Tradition by Roy Eugene Davis. Texts available locally at CSE, BLC, and at csa-davis.org or Amazon.
Newcomers and experienced students of the Yoga Sutras are all welcome.
The Blue Lotus Center is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization
dedicated to spiritual awakening by fostering an oasis of peace
in the community, in the world, and in the hearts of individuals.
Living For the Sake Of the Soul
Blue Lotus
"The importance of a spiritual practice community cannot be overemphasized. Since life is one, we are not restored to wholeness alone.
Growing together in wisdom and compassion is supportive of realizing the teachings of divine unity."
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, CSE Daily Inspiration 12/24/2015
Blue Lotus Center is happy to announce that we have reopened for Wednesday evening onsite meditation! We invite you to join us each week where you can meditate and study in spiritual community. If you are out of the area, you can still join us on Zoom.
We appreciate your support and look forward to meditating with you.
For our meditation class schedule, click here.
CSE Monthly Online Introduction to Meditation Class
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Next class: Online - May 18, 2025
~Free class
Calm your mind, relax your body and open your heart with a simple, ancient, time-tested meditation practice that has helped millions of sincere seekers from all traditions to live from the innate peace and joy that indwells us all. Learn how to set up your own home meditation practice.
“Imagine the freedom of living in the soul...No confusion or doubt, just clarity. An awakened heart,
an illumined mind, free from attachment or aversion, open to the graces of the present moment. Imagine.”
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, Living for the Sake of the Soul, p. 24