Anam Cara

Living Meditation: Deepening & Expanding Practices, 6 sessions
2025-05-04 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Experiential Course – 6 Sessions – 1.5hrs each via Zoom
Sunday afternoons 4-5:30pm ET starting 5/4/25
5/18, 6/1, 6/15, 6/29 and concludes on 7/13/25.
If you can’t attend the live sessions, you can take the course asynchronously and email questions or comments you’d like to share.
Recordings of each session will be available online for 3 months for course registrants.
Fee: $250 for 9hrs – Venmo, PayPal or Zelle (email info@thesoulsjourney if you need help with the fee)
Registration closes 5/3/25.
Learn how to deepen your practices and apply them in relationships, work, studies, and everyday life. Take advantage of the support of fellow meditators and the profound teachings that open the way to greater freedom. We will draw on a variety of practices including mindfulness, mantra, yoga, devotion, visualizations, contemplations, Kashmir Shaivism, the Noble Eightfold Path, and more! Each session will have ample time for discussion and questions about your own practices. Kundalini awakening can dramatically change practices as they become fully empowered by Shakti! We’ll dive into Shakti Kundalini as the root power of all yogas. Class size will be limited to ensure time for everybody’s questions. Please register early!
Everyone is welcome! No prerequisite.
“I have taken many courses with Lawrence. After each course, I find myself being less and less solely identified with mind, feelings and body. I see life more and more as a play, nothing is so serious. It feels like nothing is really happening. There is more freedom, more joy. My beliefs are constantly challenged and transformed. The recognition of my true Self is less and less clouded. I find myself more and more living from that recognition.
Being with Lawrence during these courses has been such a transforming experience. The transmission is so strong. What a delight and joy to be in his presence. I feel so fortunate. I am so grateful.”
R.E., NY

“Joining this course is an invitation to embark on a spiritual journey where words become prayers, and understanding becomes a form of devotion. With each poem shared, Lawrence invites us to experience the Divine in her many forms. These poems are not just words, but conduits of divine energy – a manifestation of Shakti herself. In the three courses I’ve taken, each has become a sacred space for participants to explore and share the profound messages embedded in each verse.”
P.S., CT
“I’ve enjoyed all of the courses I have taken with Lawrence! These deep dives into the divine’s living presence are a joyful, refreshing part of my weekend. I love the uplifting poetry, the sublime teachings, and the chance to share in the thoughts and experiences of other seekers. Lawrence facilitates and teaches with love and grace, and I always leave class with a more open heart. I wish everyone could experience this kind of sacred sharing!”
E.M., CT
“A wellspring of grace – to sit at a true teacher’s feet. I feel so fortunate to have taken every course that Lawrence has offered on Zoom. Words cannot express the experience that each session brings. The writings are rich with symbolism, which are fun to unpack, wisdom & guidance for the longing soul’s journey, and last, but not least, a peek into an intimate relationship with the Divine and her beloved. I look forward to the next gathering with my fellow travelers.”
P.W., NY

To register: email info@thesoulsjourney.com using your email address. This will be used to give you the course Zoom link. You can make your payment to Venmo @Lawrence-Edwards-3 or via PayPal: https://paypal.me/drle For other ways to make your offering for the course please email info@thesoulsjourney.com. Registration payments are non-refundable, though they may be applied to a future course.

The Zoom link for the course will be provided to all registered and paid participants.
If you have any questions please email them to info@thesoulsjourney.com.
I look forward to seeing you in the course!
With you in love and service,
Lawrence

Bi-Weekly Meditation Sessions
2022-04-21 19:15 - 20:30, 2022-05-05 19:15 - 20:30 | Anam Cara Meditation, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/665891390?pwd=[REDACTED] Zoom Meeting 665 891 390
Open Meditation:

1st & 3rd Thursdays each month – except holidays

7:15-8:30pm
Online at Zoom.com:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/665891390?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 665 891 390 Password: [REDACTED]
Programs include instruction, chanting and meditation

No registration necessary.
Fee: by donation
First Thursday of the month: dharma talk
Third Thursday: chanting/Heart Sutra

Everyone is welcome!
Led by Lawrence Edwards, PhD, Founder & Director
Swatantriya Meditation – the meditation of absolute freedom. This is the form of meditation taught by Lawrence and includes practices from all traditions. Swatantriya Meditation is based on the inner power of Consciousness called Kundalini in the yogic tradition. It embraces and empowers all meditation techniques to take you beyond the confines of the ordinary mind.
We offer an ongoing nondenominational meditation class that meets every Thursday evening, except for holidays. People can come as frequently as they like. There’s no need to sign up for a series of sessions. We offer these meditation sessions to support people in their ongoing meditation practices. Enjoy!
Fee: All donations gratefully accepted ($20 suggested donation per session).
All donations go to support the Anam Cara Meditation. Beginners are welcome, along with experienced meditators. A wide variety of techniques and practices are taught, including chanting, mantra and mindfulness meditation.
If the group is going to be canceled on any evening a message on 845-304-4965 will state that the group is canceled for that evening, otherwise we meet via Zoom as scheduled.

Bi-Weekly Meditation Sessions
2022-01-06 19:15 - 20:30 | Anam Cara Meditation, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/665891390?pwd=[REDACTED] Zoom Meeting 665 891 390
Open Meditation:

1st & 3rd Thursdays each month – except holidays

7:15-8:30pm
Online at Zoom.com:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/665891390?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 665 891 390 Password: [REDACTED]
Programs include instruction, chanting and meditation

No registration necessary.
Fee: by donation
First Thursday of the month: dharma talk
Third Thursday: chanting/Heart Sutra

Everyone is welcome!
Led by Lawrence Edwards, PhD, Founder & Director
Swatantriya Meditation – the meditation of absolute freedom. This is the form of meditation taught by Lawrence and includes practices from all traditions. Swatantriya Meditation is based on the inner power of Consciousness called Kundalini in the yogic tradition. It embraces and empowers all meditation techniques to take you beyond the confines of the ordinary mind.
We offer an ongoing nondenominational meditation class that meets every first and third Thursday evening of the month, except for holidays. People can come as frequently as they like. There’s no need to sign up for a series of sessions. We offer these meditation sessions to support people in their ongoing meditation practices. Enjoy!
Fee: All donations gratefully accepted ($20 suggested donation per session).
All donations go to support the Anam Cara Meditation. Beginners are welcome, along with experienced meditators. A wide variety of techniques and practices are taught, including chanting, mantra and mindfulness meditation.
If the group is going to be canceled on any evening a message on 845-304-4965 will state that the group is canceled for that evening, otherwise we meet via Zoom as scheduled.

Empowering Practices From The Shiva Sutras
2025-09-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Lawrence Edwards, PhD – Zoom
“Transform your mind, transform your life!”®
6 session course starting 9/7/2025; 4-5:30pm, meeting every other week on Sundays live via zoom with Lawrence Edwards, PhD.
Class size is limited to facilitate discussions. Please register early!

Explore the profound wisdom and power of the ancient Shiva Sutras, the foundational text of nondual Kashmir Shaivism, with Lawrence Edwards, PhD. The Shiva Sutras reveal the highest truths known to humanity and offer the means, the upayas, for knowing the transcendent Source directly as the very truth of who we are. In this course we will explore those means for deepening practice and fully integrating meditation into everyday life. These practices empower us to be joyous, peaceful, loving and compassionate in the face of whatever we encounter in life. The Shakti, the pure power of Consciousness, inherent to the Shiva Sutras, and most importantly, inherent to you, empowers us to live from our profoundly wise Self. That power of Consciousness is also known as Kundalini Shakti.
Jaideva Singh’s translation of the Shiva Sutras is required for the course. Click HERE.

Video recordings will be available the next day for registrants.
You can take the course live or watch the videos and email your questions or comments if you’re unable to attend the live broadcasts.

Registration Fee: $275. Registration closes 9/6/25
Full payment is required for registration. If the course is cancelled by Lawrence Edwards for any reason the registration fee will be refunded in full.
To register: email info@thesoulsjourney.com using your email address. This will be used to give you the Zoom link.

You can make your payment to Venmo @Lawrence-Edwards-3 or via PayPal: https://paypal.me/drle Zelle: le@optimalmind.net. For other ways to make your offering for the course please email info@thesoulsjourney.com. Registration payments are non-refundable after 9/6/25.
