ABOUT AURA GLASER
looking through the lens,
seer and seen are not two—
light, life, consciousness!
Biography
Aura Glaser (aka Auraor) is a contemplative photographer and dharma coyote, a spiritual guide and companion, a psychologist, author, and entrepreneur. An intention to serve the flowering of awakened presence, love, and wisdom is the inner thread woven through the various strands of her work.
An early life interest in spirituality led her on an overland journey to India in the late 1970s, and for 35 years she deeply immersed in the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, and inner yoga with many great Asian masters. Her principal teacher was Gelek Rimpoche, whom she first met in Dharmsala, India in 1980. Aura co-founded Jewel Heart, an international Tibetan Buddhist organization, where she was a senior teacher for 25 years. Over time she became less rooted in tradition, and in 2012 established Inner Sky as a vehicle for offering her lived experience of these practical and profound teachings in a non-sectarian, universal context. While she remains deeply nourished and informed by her immersion in Buddhist practice she no longer strictly identifies with a particular tradition. Inner Sky and its activities are now absorbed into this website.
Photography came as an unexpected gift at a time of significant health challenges, when many ways of being in the world were not possible. The natural world, light, and the nondual ground of being inspire her work. Looking through the lens of nonduality we experience our bodies and everything else as vividly present and simultaneously pervaded by a unified transparency of boundless, radiant spaciousness.
Aura is a fully licensed psychologist, with a background in humanistic and depth psychology. She is also the creator, and original owner of Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI.
As part of her deep interest in embodied spirituality, Aura trained in, and has full certification to teach, Realization Process® a method for embodied non-dual awakening.
Aura completed a Level One teacher training in iRest, a contemporary meditation practice based on the ancient tradition of Yoga Nidra. She is also a certified Laughter Yoga Leader.
Aura offers individual sessions to support an integrative process of spiritual awakening, psychological healing, and personal transformation. To contact Aura with any questions regarding individual sessions, please click here.
Aura authored the book A Call to Compassion: Bringing Buddhist Practices of the Heart into the Soul of Psychology, and has written articles for Tricycle and Shambhala Sun magazines, as well as Crazy Wisdom Journal. In 2016 she published the "Alphabet Heart Sutra," a poetic reimagining of the Heart Sutra, on the Lion’s Roar website.
Whatever the form of expression, be it through word or image, her aim is to inspire and catalyze deeper connection with the inner beauty and timeless presence of our pure nature. Art is outside. Heart inside. Love present throughout.
Education
BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan
MA in Clinical Psychology from The Center for Humanistic Studies (nka The Michigan School of Psychology)
PhD in Clinical/Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute
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