Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantra

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Uma shares these practices in this online immersion course with her long-standing teaching colleague Sivani Mata Francis, artist and bhakti yogini. Here, you can begin your studies at any time, you can interact with the course materials and work through the material at your own pace, download the nidra practices to enjoy offline and revisit the course as often as you like. Both of these have been dated to the late 1st millennium CE, with the major expansion of the Kamakhya temple that added a new sanctum above the natural rock yoni attached to an older temple being dated to the 16th-century Koch dynasty period. This forty-one minute yoga nidra practice holds psychic and emotional space to honour the need for thanksgiving, grieving and healing at every dimension of being.

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However, states McIntosh, the use of these structures in architecture does not rule out their simultaneous religious significance as yoni. While some people may orgasm as a result of yoni massage, it is not necessarily the goal and does not need to be an expectation. Real Tantric Yoga consists of unfolding the Divine powers within ourselves, the inner God and Goddess, whose natures are the light and energy of consciousness. God's Body, or, The Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of the Sexual Body of the Hindu God Shiva". Together, they symbolize the merging of microcosmos and macrocosmos, [5] the divine eternal process of creation and regeneration, and the union of the feminine and the masculine that recreates all of existence.The original practice arrived during intensive yoga nidra practice in preparation for the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training programme. This intimate version was specially recorded in my studio in Stroud, in the presence of the Ten Mahavidya Yantras. The yoni is the valley to the mountain, the meadows to the forests, the water to the fire, the woman to the man. In this regard, the male sexual organ can be said to be the distinguishing characteristic or linga of a man at a physical level, but many other such marks of distinction exist on various levels. century Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati, Assam: its sanctum has no murti, but houses a rock with a yoni-shaped fissure with a natural water spring.

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It is a fertility icon and symbolizes the procreative and regenerative powers of mother earth, "the elemental source of all life, animal and plant", the vivifier and "the support of all life". The planets form a yoni or circle as they revolve around the Sun as the linga of the solar system, its central principle or axis. In this, the final chapter of Yoni Shakti, there are many reflections on recently uncovered abuses within the yoga world. Quote: "The sculpted image of the lingam usually stands erect in a shallow, circular basin that represents the yoni.It is inspired by my personal connection with the ‘Seasons of the Menstrual Cycle’ teachings of Alexandra Pope. The yoni with linga iconography is found in Shiva temples and archaeological sites of the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, [16] [17] [18] as well in sculptures such as the Lajja Gauri. This thirty-eight minute yoga nidra practice honours the vulnerable power of innocence and the tender bright hope that accompanies new beginnings of any kind. It made me mad that no one had ever mentioned these things to me in so many years of public yoga classes.

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They offer you unique yoga nidrā, storytelling and dream Matrix-making to support your creative cycles and to nourish your CYCLITERACY - whatever cycle of life you are in! The more a person repeats this process, the greater the pleasure they may experience when they finally allow themselves to reach orgasm. We at the Yoga Nidra Network are an independent post-lineage collective of teachers, trainers, practitioners and students from all over the world and we strive for diversity, equity, and inclusion. I have here made available a range of written, visual and audio material to support understanding and practical encounter with the yogic and tantric practices shared in my book Yoni Shakti.From the Yoni Puja of India, Sheela na Gig of the Celts, the moon Goddesses of many ancient peoples, to teachings around menstruation, birth and sacred sexuality. While on a biological level, the yoni is the womb, in its greater symbolism it is also a cave, a valley, a place of origins, and the matrix of space and time. This nidra first arrived as I began to practice menstrual cycle awareness as a conscious spiritual discipline.

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Each deity has its own yantra for worship, which represents its subtle body, as opposed to its visualized human form that represents its gross body. We must learn to discover the Divine union of the dual great cosmic powers in all that we can see or imagine. With this increased understanding of Yoni we get a glimpse to the magnitude of the concepts, beliefs and profound sense of honour of the feminine creative principle. Yoga Nidra Network offers online events including; teacher training courses, online retreats, monthly and weekly classes, books and other educational content for a wide variety of people.We feel passionately that yoga nidra is one of the most vital forms of twenty-first century medicine and spiritual practices. Born in Luton to Indian parents in 1964, Nirlipta first encountered yoga in 1987 in HMP Blantyre House. Some in the orthodox Western cultures, states the Indologist Laura Amazzone, have treated the feminine sexual organs and sexuality in general as a taboo subject, but in Indic religions and other ancient cultures the yoni has long been accepted as profound cosmological and philosophical truth, of the feminine potential and power, one mysteriously interconnected with the natural periodic cycles of moon, earth and existence. Once a month Motherpeace Tarot Readings woven into specially created Total Yoga Nidra practices at the time of the dark moon. According to Corinne Dempsey – a professor of Religious Studies, yoni is an "aniconic form of the goddess" in Hinduism, the feminine principle Shakti.