The Psychology of Devotion

​Join us for this 90-minute unscripted discussion with family therapist Cristina Casanova (NYU) and host Joshua M. Greene about the confluence of Bhakti teachings and contemporary family and personal therapy. Topics will include:

• ​The pathologies that accompany a life of devotion

• ​Translating terms of devotion into modern clinical language

• ​Risks and rewards on the journey to selfhood

​Guest Speaker

​For 25 years, Cristina Casanova (Krishna Lila) was Assistant Director of Guidance for the New York City Department of Education with a focus on crisis management and family therapy. She teaches in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. For more than 40 years she has been a Bhakti yoga practitioner who integrates wisdom from the traditional yoga texts into her approach to therapy.

​Host

​Joshua M. Greene (Yogesvara) is well known to the yoga community for his books and podcasts on the intersections of contemplative practice and daily life. A former instructor in the Religion Department of Hofstra University, Greene’s biographies of Holocaust survivors have sold more than ½-million copies worldwide.

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