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Experience absolute stillness and infinite bliss with Raja Choudhury—master the Turiya state to become the Enlightened Witness of your own life!
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Raja Choudhury – The Enlightened Witness
Transform everything around you into a gateway to an enlightened, embodied state of consciousness — as you transcend body and mind to make the perspective of the Enlightened Witness your new baseline.
Embark on this 3-month journey and learn how to continually live in the state of Turiya.
Imagine witnessing everything that happens, either within you or in the outside world, with full awareness, peace, and bliss — and a sense of joy that often leads you to smile for no particular reason.
This state of consciousness absolutely exists. It can become your default state, according to spiritual teacher Raja Choudhury. In fact, Raja who is an architect, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and TED speaker, suggests that you may have caught glimpses of it already.
Perhaps during your meditation practice you’ve spotted this vast, infinite, and intelligent Void, the source of all consciousness and energy.
Perhaps you feel fascinated by this threshold, with part of you longing to dive in deeply and explore — and may never want to leave.
Welcome to the Turiya state.
Mentioned more than 3,000 years ago in Indian esoteric wisdom, this state is known as the Fourth State of Consciousness — beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep.
Once you enter the Turiya state, you’ll find absolute stillness and complete awareness, even in our universe of perpetual change. It’s a realm beyond birth, life, and death.
In this Turiya realm, you become both the observer and the director of your life’s play. You become a magician. An alchemist. A rishi. A seer.
This state of observation from the transcendental Void brings immense clarity, peace, joy, and — best of all — pure, infinite bliss. Ananda.
As you can discover, the Void is actually the source of all action. Sitting in the perfect stillness of Turiya, you can become a peaceful warrior, wholly balanced in an insane world of dualities, polarities, intolerance, and divisions. Life’s stressors will no longer bother you acting in total awareness and self-control.
Join Raja for a new 3-month live video journey as he teaches you practices and ancient wisdom so you can enter and sustain the state of being an Enlightened Witness, entering the Turiya state of consciousness whenever you’d like.
As you learn to chant mantras, you’ll discover how to achieve the most profound states of meditation possible — and by becoming completely still and free, you’ll also learn to consciously manifest new realities.
As Raja says, magic will occur.
Raja is a globally respected spiritual teacher, yet also lives in the world as a media producer and family man. He teaches this balance to his students, guiding them to enrich their spiritual lives while honoring their daily responsibilities and commitments.
During this illuminating 3-month journey, Raja will empower you to stay connected to your life and those you love — even as you redesign your life from your new Turiya consciousness.
Join Raja and learn how to exist in the Turiya state, in the complete stillness beyond the limitations of space and time — in the most joyful state you’ve ever experienced.
“Raja’s joyful and easy demeanor makes learning fun, and reminds us that the spiritual path doesn’t have to be staid and serious.”
Having a trusted and knowledgeable spiritual teacher like Raja is essential when delving deeply into esoteric teachings, especially when there is an abundance of material to learn and practice. Raja’s joyful and easy demeanor makes learning fun, and reminds us that the spiritual path doesn’t have to be staid and serious. The live sessions were visually stimulating and the guided practices were eye-opening (pun intended). This course was truly a pleasure.
— Amy Adams
During these 12 powerful weeks, you’ll experience the wonders of Turiya using teachings from Shakti Tantra, tantric Yoga, and Vedanta, all seen through the lens of neuroscience as you learn to — as Raja says — hack your consciousness.
During this 3-month live video course, you’ll explore:
- Practices and wisdom to easily enter the Turiya state of consciousness where you’ll exist as the Enlightened Witness with a completely balanced perspective
- The 3 states of consciousness represented by the chanting of OM, so you can dissolve into the Enlightened Witness fully
- How to transform your fears of the threshold or Void, represented by the fearsome Threshold Guardians in advanced spiritual traditions
- How to use the 3 states of consciousness you experience in everyday life — Waking (Jagrat), Dreaming (Swapna), and Deep Sleep (Sushupti) — to cultivate the Witness Mind through meditation
- How life will change for you as you begin to see everything as a portal into Turiya and your highest consciousness
- The inner still point you always felt you had — but had never before discovered
- How the 4 parts of chanting OM are the 4 states of consciousness
- How to surrender to the grace of the Divine Mother so everything becomes magical — and you feel joyful, balanced, and peaceful
- The 9th-century scripture, the Vijnana Bhairav Tantra — that reveals how to enter Turiya in 112 different ways coded as haiku-style meditations
- Ways to reimagine your life after returning from the Void
- How you can manifest new realities for yourself from your new state of complete awareness and bliss — and write a new story for the world
We are delighted to offer this exciting new course format, the 3-month transformational journey to our global Shift community, where your life and spirit will shift as Raja Choudhury invites you to live in the Turiya state daily through the power of experiencing community during monthly integration sessions.
You’ll explore how to achieve the Turiya state in three parts, one each month: Each class is 90 minutes each and integration sessions are 60 minutes each.
- Month 1: The Turiya of the 3 Worlds and the Body in Shakti Tantra
- 3 classes and 1 integration session
- Month 2: The Turiya of Meditation and the Mind in Tantric Yoga
- 3 classes and 1 integration session
- Month 3: The Turiya of Complete Transcendence and the Void in Vedanta
- 3 classes and 1 integration session
At each of these stages, Raja will share one central teaching from esoteric or secret Indian Wisdom:The Tripura Rahasya, The Vijnana Bhairav Tantra, and The Mandukya Upanishad.
As you’ll discover, when you learn to navigate and live both in and from the Void, life becomes balanced and still — and only magic will follow. You’ll get everything you want — yet ironically, you’ll want nothing. That is called Samata.
What You’ll Discover in These 12 Weeks
In this 3-month transformational journey, Raja will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to access the state of Turiya for balance, clarity, and joy as you redesign your life from the viewpoint of freedom.
With three soul-nourishing integration sessions and the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned at the end of the course, you’ll be part of a community of like-minded people from around the world learning, supporting and inspiring each other as we all navigate our way through this monumental global shift.
How This 3-month Transformational Journey Is Organized
- Nine 90-minute live video classes that include 60 minutes of faculty instruction and 30 minutes of live Q&A, and will include time for breakout groups as well.
- Pre- and Post-online Journey surveys to guide you into deeper levels of self-reflection and provide greater scientific rigor and measurement of personal transformation
- Three 60-minute Integration Sessions
- Will be facilitated by the Course Host and Raja’s adept student assistant Alex Stein, who will provide prompts for participants
- Will deepen your learning and start you on a path to truly integrating the transformational principles you learn into your daily life. You’ll be given opportunities for reflection, meditation, journalling, artistic expression, and more
- There will be full-group and breakout discussions, offering you space to share insights and reflections with each other
- Final Integration Project
- You will be given a small project to complete that will help you take the wisdom you’ve received in the course into the world
- You are invited to reflect on your experience through writing or artistic expression, which can then be shared with your peers by uploading it to the course homepage
- 66% off this downloadable course from the Shift Network library: Awakening Your Kundalini: A Step-by-Step Process to Liberate the Divine Power Within. Raja designed this 7-module course — yours for just $99 — to help you master an ancient breathing technique that allows you to tap into the pranic energy field around you to bring more joy, vibrancy, and peace into your life. This course was hand-selected to complement what you will experience during this 3-month journey with Raja.
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Month 1: The Turiya of the 3 Worlds & the Body in Shakti Tantra
Module 1: Become the Enlightened Witness to Experience Profound Bliss in the State of Turiya (September 29)
In the Mandukya Upanishad from 1,000 BCE (or possibly even earlier), the seers and mystics of Vedic India describe a nondual state of consciousness beyond the body, mind, and even spirit. It’s the pure nothingness, and also the everythingness, from which all realities come into being.
This all mind behind everything is called Brahman.
As your journey gets underway, Raja will introduce you to the Turiya state of Enlightened Witness observation.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- What Turiya is and how the ancient Indian philosophers perceived it
- How the understanding of Turiya evolved through the Vedic age through yoga and Tantra — and on to modern times in the age of neuroscience and quantum physics
- The nature of the 3 states of consciousness you experience in everyday life — Waking (Jagrat), Dreaming (Swapna), and Deep Sleep (Sushupti)
- How to use the 3 states of consciousness to cultivate the Witness Mind through meditation
- The 3 meditative paths or opayas to enter the Turiya state — The Body, the Mind, and the Dissolution into Nothingness (the Void
- A simple meditation to taste the Turiya state in everyday life
Module 2: Explore the Power of Shakti to Embody the Peace & Joy of Turiya for the First Time (October 6)
The body is pure embodied consciousness — and you can travel through the three worlds within to get to Turiya, or total dissolution, and become the Enlightened Witness.
As Raja will explain, the body is governed by a power called Shakti, also known as Tripura Sundari, Sri Devi, or Kundalini.
You’ll explore the three worlds within you and discover how each stage of consciousness corresponds to each divine Shakti. Activating and awakening the energies of those worlds leads you through the three states of consciousness toward Turiya.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The Tripura Rahasya, a beautiful ancient scripture about the secrets of the goddesses of the 3 worlds, which was loved by Ramana Maharshi
- The 3 worlds in your body — and how each corresponds to one aspect of your psychological nature and your consciousness
- The 3 goddesses in the 3 worlds — and the one overarching goddess in whose womb we play
- How to enter the mother’s womb to experience Turiya for the first time
- A simple visualization and Mantra to enter Turiya through the heart
Module 3: Feel the Power of Mantra to Enter Turiya & Find Joy in Your Devotion (October 13)
Can you enter Turiya through chanting mantras and devotional meditation on the Divine Mother?
As Raja will explain, the answer is yes!
This is the first path to awakening into Turiya, called Anopaya — the path of the atom or the elemental self. It’s the path most people can take to Turiya — and though it may take a lifetime, a faithful adherent will taste the bliss of Turiya in this life and find joy in their devotion.
This path ofmantra marg takes you to Turiya through the womb of the Divine Mother.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The sacred mantra of Lalitha Tripura Sundari that opens the portal to Turiya and the Void of the Mother’s Womb
- The Sri Chakra symbol for deep meditation on the Void beyond
- How to surrender to the grace of the Divine Mother so everything becomes magical
- How the world will become wonderful as you see it through the eyes of the Enlightened Witness
Integration Session 1(October 20)
Practice and reflect on what you’ve learned over these first three weeks as you explored the Turiya of the three worlds and the body in Shakti Tantra, with the guidance of Raja’s adept student, Alex Stein.
In this session, you’ll experience:
- Deepen your learning with review and integration of Modules 1-3
- Reflection, journaling, or meditation to practice and strengthen your Turiya state
- Full-group and breakout discussions to share insights and reflections with each other
Month 2: The Turiya of Meditation & the Mind in Tantric Yoga
Module 4: Transcend Body & Mind to Become the Enlightened Witness With Every Breath (October 27)
The body and mind can build a bridge and have a conversation with pure consciousness in the Void.
The ancient Indian seers called this conversation the Agamas, the dialogues between Shakti and Shiva. It’s the foundation for what became known as tantric Yoga in Kashmir Shaivism and Shaktism.
Raja will explore the nature of this dialogue — and how you can begin the conversation through simple observations, breathing, and sounds.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The nature of Shiva and Shakti’s dialogues, and how it continues with every breath you take
- How the Hum Sah Mantra integrates consciousness with the body-mind-energy matrix and gives you access to Turiya
- How to collapse into the Void and discover your Enlightened Witness state in every moment of life, just by breathing
- The yoga of the Enlightened Witness and the Turiya state of consciousness
Module 5: Live in the State of Turiya & Become the Enlightened Witness Over & Over Again (November 3)
The most profound teachings of Tantra are encoded in a beautiful 9th-century scripture, the Vijnana Bhairav Tantra, as a dialogue between Shiva and Shakti.
Shiva, pure consciousness from the Void, teaches Shakti, embodied consciousness, how to enter Turiya in 112 different ways coded as haiku-style meditations. It reveals how to become the Enlightened Witness over and over again in everyday life.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The teachings of the Vijnana Bhairav Tantra from a selected group of verses that will immediately open a door into Turiya for you
- The Huma Sah technique of meditation
- Exactly what happens when you become the Enlightened Witness
- How the ancients thought we should live our lives in this state of awakening in Turiya
Module 6: Enter the Clear, Enlightened State of Turiya Through Anything & Everything (November 10)
What would it be like to walk through life in a continuous state of awakening — in a continuous state of being an Enlightened Witness?
The great teacher Sri Aurobindo once said, “All life is yoga.”
Raja will guide you to explore the idea of being in an awareness state or enlightened witness state of mind all the time — and how life will change for you as you begin to see everything as a portal into Turiya and your highest consciousness.
You’ll continue to examine the Vijnana Bhairav Tantra for clues to this magical way of being.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The art of conscious observation throughout the day with the Hum Sah and the breath
- The true meaning of the dance of Shiva and Shakti as the pulse of your very being
- How to tune into the pulse of the Universe called Spanda and feel it in every moment and everything
- The secret of going beyond the body and the mind into pure consciousness — realizing you were always the Enlightened Witness
Integration Session 2(November 17)
Deepen into the practices and wisdom you absorbed as Raja walked you through the Turiya of meditation and the mind, with the guidance of an adept student of Raja’s, Alex Stein.
In this session, you’ll experience:
- Deepen your learning with review and integration of Modules 4-6
- Reflection, journaling, or meditation to practice and strengthen your Turiya state
- Full-group and breakout discussions to share insights and reflections with each other
Month 3: The Turiya of Complete Transcendence & the Void in Vedanta
Module 7: Become the Freedom of Ananda in the Still Point (December 1)
In a mind, world, and universe that seem in perpetual motion, you can indeed experience complete stillness.
Raja will teach you a wonderful meditation technique of the three worlds to go into Turiya and the Enlightened Witness state.
Long used by mystery schools and teachers of nonduality, this technique allows you to travel through your four states of consciousness — Jagrat, Swapna, Sushupti, and Turiya. You’ll then become the Enlightened Witness to everything.
You’ll become joyful and in a state of bliss called Ananda. Nothing can shake you again.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The 3-stage meditation through Jagrat (waking), Swapna (dreaming), and Sushupti (deep sleep) into Turiya (complete awareness)
- How to work with this deep meditation in your daily practice to rewire your brain and become the Enlightened Witness
- How to sit in the complete stillness beyond the limitations of space and time — in the most joyful state you’ve ever experienced
- The inner still point you always felt you had — but had never before discovered
Module 8: Meditate on AUM for the Blissful Secrets of the Mandukya Upanishad (December 8)
Did you know that by just meditating on OM (AUM) you can enter Turiya at ease and on demand?
As the seers of the Vedas and the Upanishads discovered around 1,000 BCE, you won’t need to practice any other mantras or meditation techniques to enter Turiya.
As Raja will explain, the concept of nondual witness meditation has its origins around the time of the emergence of city civilizations and monothesitic ideas.
Raja will dive deep into the classic Mandukya Upanishad — a short, 12-verse meditation on AUM and the Turiya state — and how to become an Enlightened Witness.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The secrets of the shortest meditation of the Upanishads — the Mandukya — and its treatise on AUM and the Turiya state
- How to meditate on AUM and discover your true Enlightened Witness self
- How the 4 parts of chanting AUM are the 4 states of consciousness we have explored
- That you’re the source of your own consciousness — and become the Enlightened Witness that allows you to realize that
Module 9: Manifest New Realities as the Enlightened Witness (December 15)
Once you’ve discovered three profound paths to awakening your inner Enlightened Witness, you’ll be able to become the most joyful and clear you have ever been.
As Raja will share, once you’ve discovered these paths, you can enter Turiya by doing nothing — just smiling, knowing, and observing.
The practices from these past five weeks will have trained you to enter Turiya quickly. Now begins the magic and the joy…
From this state of complete awareness and bliss, you can manifest new realities for yourself — and write a new story for the world.
What story will you write?
In this closing session, you’ll discover:
- Your own true Enlightened Witness and its purpose in the world
- How to stay balanced and happy, no matter what is thrown at you
- The secret to Sat Chit Ananda — true bliss always through awareness, truth, and consciousness
- How to help others with just your presence — and let it become the light that the world needs
- How to be still in the midst of any chaos and always smile, knowing your true nature is bliss
Integration Session 3 (January 5)
Celebrate and review what you’ve learned on your journey to make the perspective of the Enlightened Witness your new baseline. Reflect on how you’ll redesign your life as you access the state of Turiya to experience clarity, peace, and liberation. You will be guided by both Raja and Alex in this deepening reflection.
In this session, you’ll experience:
- Deepen your learning with review and integration of Modules 7-9
- Reflection, journaling, or meditation to practice and strengthen your Turiya state
- Full-group and breakout discussions to share insights and reflections with each other
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Enlightened Witness Online Training
We feel honored that Raja Choudhury has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the spiritual teacher, filmmaker, and speaker whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about redesigning your life to experience clarity, peace, and liberation, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
About Raja Choudhury
Raja Choudhury, a spiritual teacher, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and TED speaker, aims to disrupt human consciousness and awaken each of us to our true evolutionary potential using his deep knowledge of Kundalini Shakti, Tantra, and Indian Wisdom seen through the lens of neuroscience and modern psychology. In the past five years, he has emerged as one of The Shift Network’s most popular new teachers, initiating and guiding more than 4,400 students into the mysteries of Kundalini Shakti, Shiva-Shakti Tantra, Karma, and the Third Eye. Raja’s own shift occurred in 2006 when, while a creative director in New York, he underwent a life-changing Kundalini awakening that rewired his system and opened up a new Universe for him.
Raja started his professional life as an architect after graduating from the acclaimed Architectural Association School in London, then went on to become a Webby-winning digital creative director in New York, where his awakening occurred. Since then, Raja has created numerous documentary films on wisdom and consciousness, including Spirituality in the Modern World with Ken Wilber and Traleg Rinpoche… Yoga: Harmony with Nature (the official international film for the first International Day of Yoga)… The Quantum Indians (winner of the 2014 National Film Award of India)… The Modern Mystic… and Guruji Amritananda. He’s currently making a film entitled America’s First Guru for PBS on how Indian Wisdom first came to America.
Raja gave a TED talk in Bangalore on “Indian Wisdom for Today’s World” in 2012 and a TEDx talk in 2015 on yoga. His videos on Shakti, Mantras, Kundalini, Shiva, the Third Eye, and meditation are popular on YouTube. In his own spiritual quest, he was initiated first into Kriya Yoga in 1998, and went on to take deep initiations into Raja Yoga, advanced Kriya Yoga, and then finally, Sri Vidya and Maha Vidya Tantra. Raja is also a student of Trika, Qigong, sacred geometry, neuroscience, history, esoteric traditions, and the mind. His teachings are a syncretic blend of Eastern and Western philosophies and techniques.
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 103
- Assessments Yes
