Two-time Gold Medal Winner of GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS for Mental and Spiritual Healing 2023, and Religion & Spirituality 2025. Winner C.O.V.R. Book Awards in Contemporary Spirituality
What does it mean to live a spiritual life in a world that feels increasingly divided, unsettled, and out of balance?
Dharma: For Awakening and Social Change explores how our personal spiritual awakening is inseparable from the healing and transformation of the world around us.
Drawing on the timeless wisdom of yoga, meditation, and the ancient concept of dharma, Maetreyii Ma Nolan presents dharma not as a rigid religious doctrine, but as a living path of alignment with truth, purpose, and love. Our dharma shapes how we meet life, how we relate to others, how we serve, and how we respond to the challenges of our time.
Through inspired spiritual teaching and practical reflection, this book illuminates the relationship between individual consciousness and collective change. It reveals how meditation and self-realization can deepen our understanding of who we are while awakening a more compassionate and responsible relationship with humanity, society, and the natural world.
In this book, you will explore:
• The deeper meaning of dharma and how it guides daily life.
• The relationship between karma, life purpose, and spiritual growth.
• Meditation and yoga as paths of inner transformation.
• The connection between human consciousness, nature, and planetary balance.
• How personal awakening can inspire compassionate service and meaningful social change.
• The role each person can play in creating a more conscious and harmonious world.
At a time when many people feel overwhelmed by conflict, uncertainty, and rapid change, Dharma: For Awakening and Social Change offers a spiritually grounded way forward. It invites readers to move beyond helplessness and discover how living in alignment with their deepest truth can become a force for healing.
This book is for spiritual seekers, meditators, yoga students, and thoughtful readers who want to live with greater clarity, integrity, compassion, and purpose, and contribute to the awakening of our shared world.
“In Dharma: For Awakening and Social Change …the most pressing issues facing the world today are paired with a spiritual approach and an eye-opening philosophy about personal evolution and balance... an essential read for those willing to learn.” SELF-PUBLISHING REVIEW
“Inspiring and timely…clearly explains how positive change can occur, affirming a hopeful future.” (Five Stars)
-Devananda Lacey, Minister & Yoga Teacher
“Powerful…Brilliant application of Dharma…showing the way for personal and collective awakening.” (Five Stars)
-Acharya Ananda Deviika Ma, Spiritual Teacher
In addition to being an author of 5 books, Maetreyii Ma Nolan is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology, a teacher of yogic philosophy and ancient wisdom, an ERYI 500 Yoga Teacher, and an ordained yogic minister, or Acharya. She is the co-founder and past president of Ananda Seva Mission and a former director of and teacher in the Ananda Seva Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy certification trainings. Dr. Nolan was also a former director of the Spiritual Emergence Network and a founding member of the Kundalini Research Network. Maetreyii Ma is currently the president of Ananda Gurukula, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the wisdom teachings of yoga and a psychologist in private practice. She lives with her husband at their ashram in the larger San Francisco Bay area and spends her time assisting others in their spiritual journey and giving these beautiful teachings. She also leads workshops, seminars and retreats featuring these teachings.
