About:

The Mutka Center provides talks, workshops, life coaching, blogs and ebooks to support a path towards a joyous and free life. Its’ approach can produce immediate, positive results. Its’ innovative ideas, an integration of Eastern and Western thought, challenge old, stale ways of living. More importantly, The Mukta Center offers multiple practice methods to bring its principles alive and into your life. 

Offerings:

  • Talks
  • Workshops
  • Life Coaching: By Zoom, you can progress in your understanding and practice of awareness with Geoff.
  • Ebooks 
    • Geoff has two ebooks related to vital life topics
      • Awaken Your Body outlines the health crisis facing the modern world and introduces an innovative method to enhance your health. 
      • The Natural State succinctly conveys the essential message of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Through Swami Venkatesananda’s marvelous interpretive translation, this commentary extracts aphorisms (or seed phrases) from the text to give you  

The Mukta Kirtan

Chanting simple Sanskrit phrases, which represent the various energies of life, assists in calming the mind and arriving at a joyful and peaceful space of awareness. While a description of the meaning of the chants is given, it’s really not even necessary as chanting seeks to reconnect you with the quieter spaces within. 

The Mukta Kirtan offers by donation chanting, with proceeds going towards Grassroot Soccer, an African nonprofit promoting HIV/Aids prevention and adolescent mental health.

 

 

 



Instructor

Geoff Barkley, PhD

Geoff has a Master’s in Social Work and a PhD in Educational Research (investigating the root causes of the current health crisis in the West and how to alleviate this through prevention). For over forty years, Geoff has counseled clients in a wide variety of settings: in a holistic private practice, in psychiatric and substance abuse settings and in diverse health care facilities: cancer clinics, trauma and stroke units and senior care facilities. 

Geoff taught yoga and meditation classes for many years. He has studied with Swami Vishnudevananda, Sufi Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Zen Roshin David Radin. His yoga master, Swami Venkatesananda, was a direct disciple of the world-renowned Swami Sivananda of Hrishesha, India. 

Geoff has spent decades assimilating and then integrating the teachings of yoga and psychology into a practical, yet transformative, life approach. 

Geoff also leads chanting as part of the Mutkta Kirtan. Chanting has been an important part of his life for over 50 years, and recently he has moved into more actively offering kirtans in his region. 

Geoff has four grown sons and is happily married to Anne, a photographer and advanced Iyengar yoga instructor.

Contact us

email: muktacenter@gmail.com