Becoming the Mind of Siva Retreat
Four week Tantrik Meditation Intensive October 14th – November 12th Kailash Akhara Retreat Center Phu Reua, Thailand Below the thinking mind, below emotions and concepts exists your essential nature. Beyond form and formless, ever-present yet ungraspable, your essential nature is uncreated and unknowable to the ordinary mind. To become your essential nature is to become the Mind of Siva. This 4-week intensive in Tantrik Meditation will focus on the method of “nirapeksa dhyanam” or formless meditation, the supporting practices and teachings, and study of sacred written texts, to transmit the experience of our essential nature. Multiple sessions of meditation each day will allow you ...
Acarya Training Program Update
The first Acarya Training Program is underway here at Kailash Akhara and we have already seen that the original format and time-line has to be changed to allow for the fruition and attainment of the teachings to occur. It has become clear that to be an Acarya - to be fully established in View - a more intensive training schedule is needed. The first years of training are now going to require the student to live at Kailash Akhara full-time in order to steep oneself in the View and will thus enable one to fully live the teachings in a ...
What is Classical Tantra?
I thought that since this is a fairly short article I would get right to the point and tell you two things that classical Tantra is NOT before we go on to a more positivistic definition. Below are two things that Classical Tantra is not: 1. something that can be learned from books or from teachers who themselves never went through full training under a qualified Tantrik guru,...and 2. a group of semi-yogic techniques of breath and mind to increase sexual performance or enhance sexual pleasure... Now we can proceed with the positive. There are a few defining features of classical Tantra regardless ...
Tantra and Behavioral Sciences
Contributed by Sri Lalita At Dharmanidhiji's request, I would like to share two articles with the Vac readership. Both articles describe new developments in the behavioral sciences--both human and animal. Part of our goal as tantrikas is to align ourselves closely with nature; as such, the behavioral sciences offer us insight into our own actions and tendencies, and by extension sometimes helping us understand natural urges within our cultural context. What Do Women Want? Photo credit: Stephen K Willi At the March 2010 teaching "Overcoming Trauma and Grief" in Berkeley, Dharmanidhiji referred to an article titled 'What Do Women Want?' by Daniel Bergner ...
Mahasamadhi
Contributed by Omkarnath My first visit to India… a place that impossibly, seemed even more grand and vast, than the mythic proportions it holds in the mind I share with all those who have found their home in it’s spiritual sciences… And to travel with my Guru, to bask in the benefit of this privilege and honour for the first time, to attend the final three days of the Pujas for my ParamGuru Swami Satyananda Sarasvati’s Mahasamadhi, to be present and celebrate a Yogi of singular influence on this yogi and countless beings the world(s) over… How auspicious! So lucky that I ...
Letters from the Teacher
Becoming the Mind of Siva Retreat
Four week Tantrik Meditation Intensive October 14th – November 12th Kailash Akhara...
Acarya Training Program Update
The first Acarya Training Program is underway here at Kailash Akhara and we have...
What is Classical Tantra?
I thought that since this is a fairly short article I would get right to the point...
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Tantra and Behavioral Sciences
Contributed by Sri Lalita At Dharmanidhiji’s request, I would like to share...
Mahasamadhi
Contributed by Omkarnath My first visit to India… a place that impossibly, seemed...
Soul Power
Contributed by Manomani This March, as part of Dharmanidhi’s month of training...
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Journey into the Parampara
Contributed by Dharmavrat “Faith is not just religious belief, it is an inner conviction which comes after the total surrender of ego. When you surrender your ego in totality then faith unfolds by itself.” The Guru-Disciple Relationship While other members of the kula prepared to receive Dharminidhi’s arrival in the United States... [Read more...]
Gratitude at a Crossroad
Contributed by Uma (Amy) Khan It’s March, 2010, as I write this – the middle of the sixth year of our official “seven year program” with Dharmanidhi Sarasvati (Guruji). By the end of 2010, the group that has come to be known as TYSG – Tantric Yoga Study Group – will disband in its current loose form, and what will... [Read more...]
Fine Art Auction “Revue”
Contributed by Siddhartha Shaw On March 21, 2010, Yoga Mandala collaborated with Siddhartha V. Shah, Sacred Art & Sacred Space, to present a fine art auction benefitting Trika Institute. The event featured over 50 works of contemporary art from India and Nepal and took place in Charlie Hallowell’s popular Oakland restaurant, Pizzaiolo.... [Read more...]
Ask the Ayurved
Contributed by Hrimati Fauman What is the role of exercise from an Ayurvedic perspective? In the classic texts of Ayurveda, many benefits are attributed to exercise. Some of these benefits are lightness of the body, increased capacity to work, reduction of body fat and firming of the body parts. However, the most important benefit is probably the stimulation... [Read more...]
Births
KundaliMa Whitelaw and Keven Edney are proud to announce the birth of Amelia Rose Whitelaw Edney (Mia) born May 14 2010 in Vancouver BC, Canada. Anandasagara Emily Reese and Joseph Anthony Davis are proud to announce the birth of Samuel Edward Reese-Davis born May 27 2010 in Oakland, California. Congratulations to the new parents! Would you like... [Read more...]
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