About Lorin Roche

Dr. Lorin Roche began practicing with the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra in 1968 as part of scientific research on the physiology of meditation. He has a PhD from the University of California at Irvine, where his research focused on the language meditators generate to describe their inner experiences. He is the author of The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Made Easy. With his wife, Camille Maurine, he wrote Meditation Secrets for Women. A teacher of meditation for 46 years, Lorin’s approach centers on how to customize the practices to suit one’s individual nature. Lorin leads the Radiance Sutras Meditation Teacher Training, a 200 hour certification program registered with Yoga Alliance. Lorin teaches regularly at the Esalen Institute and around the world.

Doors of Perception

The Divine Power Of The Senses “I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it,” says Shug in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. God wants to “share a good thing.” It is clear that we have been given a great capacity to share in [...]

By |2015-04-11T09:27:27-07:00February 22nd, 2010|Meditation|0 Comments

Radiance Sutras: In Love With The World

The first time I meditated, I fell in love with the world. I was sitting in a completely dark and silent room doing nothing, as a subject in a brain wave (EEG) experiment at the University of California at Irvine. There were wires all over my head, so I couldn’t move. I was a control [...]

By |2015-04-11T09:34:59-07:00February 19th, 2010|Meditation|0 Comments

Radiance Sutras: Cultivating Peace

A Moment-By-Moment Meditation From The Radiance Sutras, A New Version Of The Vijïäna Bhairava Tantra Back in the day, I was a “fire and forget” yogi: get up in the morning, flow through some asana, praeayama, meditation, and then forget about yoga and just go live. That was the ‘60s, and that was the teaching. [...]

By |2015-04-11T09:41:50-07:00December 5th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

To See Or Not to See

Not being an actress, model or wannabe of any kind, I don’t think my eye pillow would mind if I tell you it is old. Fortunately, its dark purple color camouflages nine years of eyeliner residue. (Yes, I’m one of those girls who wears makeup to Yoga). And nine years, is by the way, like [...]

By |2015-04-11T09:42:44-07:00December 5th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

Networks of Grace

Creating Community To Mobilize Activism and Transformation In The Hope: a Guide to Sacred Activism, Andrew Harvey defines Sacred Activism as a force of compassion in action destined to midwife the birth of a new humanity able to co-create with the Divine a new world. According to Harvey, “This great birth will have to come [...]

By |2016-09-28T20:49:14-07:00November 27th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

Radiance Sutras: Sacred Confusion

There are days when reality seems to unravel before our eyes. We are shaken, torn down, stripped of what we believe. A scandal breaks out at the ashram or Yoga studio. A friend turns against us. The person we married turns into someone we don’t recognize, or wish we did not know. The banking and [...]

By |2015-04-11T10:00:42-07:00November 27th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

Radiance Sutras: Wild Serenity

Practice Pages: Meditation I don't know about you, but when I meditate, my mind does not go blank. It’s an inner wilderness adventure. I close my eyes and blam, it’s wild in here. There is a whirl of thoughts and feelings, a hundred sticky notes of things to do. When I tend to each thought, [...]

By |2015-04-11T11:25:47-07:00October 27th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

The Breath Prayer

Practice Pages: Meditation Japa Breath From The Radiance Sutras, A New Version of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra AYURVEDIC PHYSICIANS ARE FOND of saying, “Have all six tastes on your tongue every day: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent (spicy) and astringent.” Whatever your body type, by treating yourself to diversity of taste (rasa) you will have more [...]

By |2015-04-11T11:39:03-07:00September 28th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

Delight In The Delicious

Sutra 49 From The Radiance Sutras, A New Version Of The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra CHOCOLATE. A PERFECTLY RIPE peach. Wine. A warm cinnamon roll. Cold lemonade on a hot day. Hallelujah, there is a meditation technique for savoring your favorite treat. Wow, that means there’s a chocolate meditation. If you can meditate on Om, then [...]

By |2016-09-29T00:08:17-07:00June 24th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments

Meditation: Sutras From The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

  What we call our environment is made up in part of other beings – both people and animals. Tantric meditations from ancient texts such as the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra invite us to pay deep attention to all of these relationships and inter-relationships, and dare us to become capable of greater intimacy. We are called [...]

By |2016-09-28T23:04:13-07:00April 12th, 2009|Meditation|0 Comments
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