Prem Baba

This workshop offers insights that allow participants to go beyond fear and selfishness to love and compassion. Prem Baba will address how to open your heart; how to observe yourself; how to integrate your shadow and wounded child; how to connect to the divine; and how to overcome obstacles to connecting with the divine. Integrating teachings and meditations from the Satya lineage of Sri Hans Raj Maharaji in India and the Brazilian Shamanic tradition, as well as western Humanistic perspectives, and accompanied by music and rhythms from native Brazilian musicians, Prem Baba offers a rigorous and practical form of psycho-spiritual work called the Camino do Coracao—the Path of the Heart.

Janderson Fernandes de Oliveira, Prem Baba, was born in a radical Christian family in Brazil. While still young, in training to be an evangelical minister, he was disillusioned by not finding answers to his questions or tolerance for his ideas. So he spent his youth searching through different religions, esoteric schools, scientific academies and spiritual masters. He became a Gnostic priest and directed the Gnostic association of anthropological studies and sciences in Sao Paulo, developing and practicing the doctrine of synthesis, which sought to unite art, science, philosophy and mysticism. He was one of the coordinators of the first meetings of alternative culture in Sao Paulo, where religious leaders from esoteric schools and scientists discussed spirituality and society. Trained in psychology, Janderson developed methods for building bridges between psychotherapy and spirituality. He added to his work the shamanic experience originating with the peoples of the Amazonian rainforest. Feeling himself incomplete, Janderson sought in India what he was still lacking. He found himself through the grace of Guru Hans Haj Maharajji, a karma yogi and realized being, and took on a spiritual name, Prem Baba, father of love. Today he directs the Ordem do Luz, the “Order of Light,” and teaches the “Camino do Coracao”, the Path of the Heart, that synthesizes elements of all the traditions from which he has learned. The goal of this work is to contribute to the transformation of the world through love, compassion and truth. In the heart, we are all one.