The luminous Heart of Shakti is in an instant made opaque by our stubborn loyalty to the sandcastle of thoughts we call Me. With our back facing Her brilliance, we dress our world with armors made of self righteous claims to be flawed. We meet the moment as if we know it already, as if [Read More...]
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Spiritual Practice of the Yogini
The spiritual practice of the Yogini is a practice of returning. A returning to a movement within all things, a throb so intimate, so available… right here. It is a relaxing into the pulse of self-arising wisdom. We practice to stay present with the raw experience of this moment experienced as sensations in the body, [Read More...]
Kuan Yin’s Prayer for the Abuser
To those who withhold refuge, I cradle you in safety at the core of my Being. To those that cause a child to cry out, I grant you the freedom to express your own choked agony. To those that inflict terror, I remind you that you shine with the purity of a thousand suns. To [Read More...]
A Sadhana Practice
Resting… Receiving Drop your awareness down into your womb area and pelvis. If you like, put one hand on this area of your body. Allow your breath to sink down, drop down. Have patience, no need to push.
A 21-Day Mary Magdalene Sadhana Immersion
~Open to the Beloved Companion and the Tree of Life Within with Chameli Ardagh & The Global Awakening Women Circle April 3 – 23, 2013 And right here, breathing in and out, at the pulsating edge where the Whole becomes Woman, and Woman become the Whole, we enter Shakti Sadhana, the spiritual practice of [Read More...]
Spinning wholeness from the vast compassion of your heart.
How we have betrayed each other as women, in our subscription to spiritual ideals which enthusiastically reject that which women hold sacred. We have tried so hard to make our power digestible, to dampen our desire, to compartmentalize our feelings, to intellectualize that deep knowing which is beyond words. And yet when the moon [Read More...]
Sister of Truth, something beautiful is calling you.
…a movement from within, urging you to leave the safety of the known. It is a deep and organic process, very much like when the seed, contained, perfect in itself, is moved from within by an unstoppable yearning to taste itself in all its expressions. The treasure that was hidden within it is risking everything [Read More...]
A 21 day Shakti Sadhana Immersion
~Three faces of the Goddess: Kali – Lakshmi – Saraswati with Chameli Ardagh & The Global Awakening Women Circle December 1 – December 21, 2012 One regret, dear world, That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz Shakti is [Read More...]
Spiritual practice, Sadhana, can be the kindest gift you can give to yourself and the world.
A future goal of perfection will never make sweaty, hot and holy love to you. Why chase a frigid lover made of plastic, when right here right now, intimacy itself is yearning to love you to pieces, to love you all the way in. Awakening, like love, is not an achievement. It is a blossoming [Read More...]
An update from the depth of Yogini land
I know that my writing here has been irregular, know that it only means that the practice takes us deep. The deeper She takes me, the less I know how to put it all in words. Her ruthless radiance stuns me. So sister, this path will lead us into the real, and it all may look [Read More...]
A Prayer to Her
Guest blog By Devika Fossen (Inspired by Oriah Mountain Dreamer and the Awakening Women on the Planet) I am calling upon Her Power, upon the Ancient Female Power, the Raw Primal Force! I am calling upon the old ones, those who sowed the seed in us… Let us open up for and recognize the Wisdom [Read More...]
Returning Home
A woman’s journey back into the body is a journey of awakening, a journey of liberation in its most genuine meaning. We are blessed today by living and enjoying the fruits of the woman’s liberation movement. Women in the western world are enjoying rights, freedom and empowerment that we may never have experienced before on [Read More...]
Come back to reality
Presence is nothing you can remember. In fact you have never ever experienced Presence before. Presence is always fresh, always new. All the ideas you have about Presence can by their very nature only be faint mirages, plastic replicas. Drop them like hot coal. They are not the real deal. The moment you are willing [Read More...]
Dive deeper down into the ocean
Every thing appearing in your experience right now, each sound, each thought, each feeling each pain, each pleasure, ALL of it, are the dance of Shiva/Shakti – an outpouring of unfathomable creativity. Each appearance is a wave arising and dissolving out of Lalita Devi, the one mysterious ocean. This is why the seeking for a [Read More...]
Dare to let that holy flame within you grow hot and dangerous
Come closer beloved Yogini, and re-claim desire as your holy connection with life itself. Can you enjoy how desire rushes through you? Sometimes fierce and strong as a hundred wild horses, sometimes a magnetic depth all the way to the inside of the inside. In your willingness to stay present, and to feel the raw [Read More...]
In surrender you find your power
As write this I am on my way into a full month of Durga Sadhana, first a weekend retreat here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and then next week we kick off the 21 day online Durga Sadhana Immersion. I feel a subtle tremor in my soul, similar to what I imagine [Read More...]
Unplug from the drama
When you feel that knot in the belly, when there is a court drama playing in your head, when you panic, when you worry, when you regret it the moment you push the send-button. When you hear yourself say yes, or no, again, shrinking inside. When it’s not enough, or way to much. When his/her [Read More...]
Don’t resist the Holy
She sat in front of me with that burning heart that I have come to recognize as the very essence of a Yogini sister. So in love with truth, so dedicated to the “real deal.” I could spend my whole life just kissing her feet. We were in a gathering with a group of yoginis, [Read More...]
The inner voice
WHY IS IT WHEN WE TALK TO GOD WE’RE SAID TO BE PRAYING, BUT WHEN GOD TALKS TO US WE’RE SCHIZOPHRENIC? ~ Lily Tomlin For 14 years, Meinrad Craighead lived as a nun in Standbrook Abbey in England. Now, she’s an artist in New Mexico, spending her days creating lush, colorful paintings and charcoal drawings. [Read More...]
