Grand Master Choa Kok Sui (GMCKS) termed Pranic Healing as “a bridge between household life and spiritual life.” A disciple of Buddha Padmasambhava, he founded the Pranic Healing school in 1987 to take care of:
- Physical & mental health: It starts with healing physical ailments and psychological issues (stress, addiction, etc.) by clearing energy blockages.
- Emotional well-being: It resolves negative emotions and deep-seated patterns that hinder a healthy life.
- Financial & relationship improvement: Techniques like Kriyashakti and Pranic Feng Shui help with financial success and better relationships.
- Spiritual advancement: It is a direct pathway to deeper spiritual understanding, expansion of consciousness, and connection with the soul, leading to greater purpose and bliss.
- Holistic system: Pranic Healing integrates energy work (prana/life force) with profound spiritual teachings, making spirituality accessible and practical for everyday life.
The World Pranic Healing Foundation and the School of Inner Studies, founded by GMCKS, organise the Arhatic Yoga Retreat every year. This year, it was organised in Mumbai, where all eight Acharyas from around the world were present — a rare phenomenon. The last time I attended a Pranic Healing Convention with such presence was in Singapore in 2010, where nine Acharyas were present.
What is Arhatic Yoga?
Arhatic Yoga is a high-level, advanced spiritual system taught by GMCKS. The word Arhatic comes from Arhat — a being who has attained a high degree of spiritual realisation through disciplined practice and service. One who has finished all Karmas & become a Paramhansa, out of the cycle of birth & death.
Arhatic Yoga is a synthesis of Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, and Jnana Yoga, designed to accelerate spiritual evolution while remaining fully engaged in worldly life.
It aims to:
- Rapidly purify the energy body (aura and chakras)
- Awaken and stabilise higher consciousness
- Develop soul alignment with the Higher Soul
- Prepare the practitioner for higher spiritual initiation
Core principles
Rapid spiritual development
Based on the five pillars and five virtues drawn from Raja, Bhakti, Karma, and Jnana Yoga for balanced spiritual growth, developing the three fundamental aspects of Divine Light (Active Intelligence), Divine Love (Loving Kindness), and Divine Power (Will with Purpose). In Hinduism, these are known as the aspects of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
Character building (to develop the “muscles” of our chakras)
5 Pillars | 5 Virtues
- Devotion to God & Reverence to the Spiritual Teacher | Loving Kindness & Non-Injury
- Purification | Generosity & Non-Stealing
- Meditation | Honesty & Non-Lying
- Study | Constancy of Aim & Effort
- Tithing & Service | Moderation & Non-Excessiveness
Purification
Intensive physical exercises: Expelling negative/toxic energies from chakras, meridians, tissues, bones, organs, and cells from the physical, astral, and mental bodies.
Breathing exercises: Balancing the right and left brain, upper and lower chakras, and cleansing the Sushumna, Ida, and Pingala.
Inner reflection & firm resolution: Purifying actions through introspection and review, changing old negative patterns of thought and behaviour.
Emotional garbage bin: Using this technique to expel dirty, unwholesome emotions and thoughts.
Advanced meditation techniques
Several meditations are practised to activate the Heart Chakra and Crown Chakra; achieve illumination; attain union with the Higher Soul; develop prolonged awareness; balance concentration and awareness; and safely awaken the Kundalini.
Study
Study deepens understanding of spiritual principles, imparts wisdom from great teachings, and cultivates a discerning mind to prevent spiritual pitfalls. It ensures practitioners grow intelligently and align inner spiritual development with a practical, well-informed life, making it a vital complement to meditation, purification, service, and devotion.
Gaining knowledge: Accessing profound spiritual insights from texts and teachers, providing depth beyond mere practice.
Discernment: Learning to identify what is beneficial versus detrimental to spiritual growth.
Preventing errors: Understanding deeper concepts helps avoid misuse of spiritual practices or premature activation of energies, which can be disastrous, especially at higher levels such as activating the 12th chakra.
Complementing other pillars: Study supports purification (character building), meditation (oneness), service (compassion), and devotion (faith), creating a holistic path.
Transforming the mind: Moving beyond intellectual understanding to internalised wisdom, leading to intuitive intelligence and soul realisation.
Tithing & service
Tithing: Teaches selfless action and giving a portion (at least 10%) of earnings to spiritual or charitable causes. It is crucial for character building, accelerates spiritual growth, attracts abundance, and creates positive karma essential for purification.
Service: Engaging in selfless acts to help others expands spiritual capacity and generates positive karma. It helps grow the chakras, increasing one’s ability to serve humanity.
Prerequisites
Arhatic Yoga is not for beginners. Typically required are:
- Regular practice of Pranic Healing
- Completion of Advanced Pranic Healing
- Emotional stability and ethical discipline
- Commitment to daily spiritual practice and service
Goal of Arhatic Yoga
The ultimate objective is rapid spiritual growth leading towards Arhatship, while living a balanced, responsible, and service-oriented life. It does not advocate renunciation or withdrawal from society; instead, it teaches spiritual mastery within daily life.
The 2026 Arhatic Yoga Retreat was led by eight highly evolved Acharyas — Master Stephen Co, Master Glen Mendoza, Master Marilag Mendoza, Master Nona Castro, Master Faith Sawey, Master Hector Remos, Master Hermie Corcuera, and Master Daniel Gorgonia — accompanied by GMCKS’s children and present leaders of the school, Christine Choachuy, Catherine Choachuy, and Jason Choachuy, assisted by Sriram Rajagopal and Sumi Lazar.
Over 4,300 Arhatic Yoga practitioners meditated together, bringing down a tremendous amount of Divine Energy to bless Mother Earth and humanity, inducing peace, harmony, and oneness in the world. We watched numerous videos of GMCKS absorbing his teachings from the Acharyas.
Sessions on topics such as Manifest Your Greatness, Kundalini Awakening, Glamour, The Seven Rays, Character Building, Karmic Debts, Karmic Investment and Karmic Gifts, and many others were studied and discussed. The five pillars and five virtues were practised intensely. The Acharyas gave deep healing and blessings to all participants, cleansing their bodies to enable them to become better soul workers.
Arhatic Yoga practitioners from 60 countries joined the retreat, boosting and recharging their power of healing and service as Divine servants to alleviate pain and suffering, spread love, peace, harmony, and oneness, and manifest GMCKS’s vision of “Heaven on Earth.”
Though I have been attending Arhatic Yoga Retreats for the past 20 years in different countries, I felt that the 2026 Arhatic Yoga Retreat in Mumbai was the most powerful and blissful retreat ever.
Disclaimer
Views expressed above are the author’s own.
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