Terms of Use

This website is maintained by volunteers of the Greater Portland Kriya Center in Portland, Oregon. It exists to say what the center is, when it meets, what the lineage is, and how to reach it.

Using the site means accepting what is set out below. What happens to anything you send through it is described separately, in the Privacy Policy.

Every page is written from what the center actually does, and quoted material is cited where it is used. Even so, a website can be out of date or simply wrong. Nothing here is a contract, and no page creates an obligation on the center or on you.

If something matters to you — whether a session is happening, whether you may attend, where to go — email portland-or@kriya.org and ask a person. That answer is the reliable one.

Dates, times and venues change, sometimes at short notice, and the site is updated when the center tells its volunteers. Where a program is registered through Kriya Yoga International, kriya.org is the authoritative page for registration and for the final schedule; if this site and kriya.org disagree about a registration detail, kriya.org is the one to follow.

Kriya Yoga and the lineage teachings are the tradition of Kriya Yoga International. This site is maintained by volunteers of the Greater Portland Center.

The prose, photographs and design of this site are the center’s own work, except where a passage summarizes or quotes kriya.org — those passages are cited and linked at the point they are used. You are welcome to link to any page here and to quote a short passage with attribution. Please do not republish a page wholesale or present the center’s material as your own.

Nothing on this site licenses the Kriya Yoga technique or authorizes anyone to teach it. Kriya Yoga is transmitted in person by an authorized teacher, and those who receive initiation are asked not to teach or pass on the technique themselves. Reading this website is not initiation and is not a substitute for it.

Nothing on this site is medical advice, and nothing here promises a result. Meditation is described as the tradition describes it, not as a treatment for anything.

Practise sensibly. If you have a health condition, or are unsure whether sitting for an extended period is right for you, ask a doctor. The center makes no claim about what the practice will do for any particular person.

Both forms are for writing to the center. Send your own words, give an address that reaches you, and please do not send anything unlawful or abusive, anything about someone else who has not asked you to, or anything advertising a product or a service.

Automated submissions are blocked, and both forms limit how many messages one visitor can send in a short period. A submission that looks automated is discarded without being read.

Links to kriya.org, to the center’s Facebook page and to other sites are given as citations, so that you can check what this site says against its source. Those sites are not run by the center, and the center is not responsible for what they publish or for what they do with your data.

These terms change when the site does, and the date below is the day the wording last changed. Questions about them go to the same place as everything else: portland-or@kriya.org.