Aditi Devi
Aditi Devi began the study and practice of South Asia Tantric traditions more than 20 years ago. Having earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology, and as a Fulbright scholar, college professor, and initiated yogini, she has lived, researched, and practiced her sadhana with adepts in Nepal, India, and Tibet. Aditi Devi’s practice, research, writing, and teaching focus on the divine feminine in the Shakta Tantric traditions of India and Nepal.
Aditi Devi is authorized to teach and transmit what are sometimes called the Kali practices which focus on the reverence of living women as embodiments of the Goddess; these sadhanas enable practitioners to flower into non-dual awareness. These practices have their fullest expression in Assam, at the Temple of the Tantric Goddess Kamakhya, a yoni Goddess who is revered throughout South Asia (and indeed the world). Every June, around the summer solstice, Kamakhya menstruates and there is a festival where tens of thousands of pilgrims gather to celebrate, practice, and take in the blessings of this divine flow.
After several years of living in a remote contemplative community, with the blessings of her teachers, Aditi has taken to the wandering life again, bringing her offerings to yoga retreats, teacher training courses, festivals, pilgrims, and wherever yogini’s and yogins gather. She has just returned from pilgrimage in India where she followed the trail of fierce desire, visiting several remote Yogini Temples.
When not wandering, Aditi Devi’s teaching home is in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, at Om Time Yoga, in Boulder, Colorado. Here, in the midst of a deep yogic community, she is establishing The Shala: A Classical Tantric Mystery School for Yoginis and Yogins. http://www.aditidevi.com
Workshop this xmas in Munich
OF THE INNER AND THE OUTER VEREINIGUGN MANDALAS
A series of meetings, which illuminates the classical Tantric teachings and practices for Bhakta, tantrikas, admirers and devotees of the deity, lover and lover, yoga teachers, practitioners of yoga and the curious.
What it means in the body through the practice of the association to awaken?
Who is Shakti? Who is Shiva?
What we teach her sacred dance of the embodiment of love, about relationships and about the possibility of tantric love to flow through the body to leave?
The individual meetings to explore playfully light yet intimate way, the divine and human love, and relationships in the yogic tantisch-lines of India and Nepal. We deal extensively with the tantric arts, with the development of demand and the opening to ecstasy. We will understand what is meant by sacred union, and how the dance Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine together. We learn simple practices to cultivate awareness of these energies in our relations and bring more love into our lives. Techniques of pranayama, mantras, mandalas and other body practices for the development of determination, compassion and love are introduced.
These lessons are for everyone, regardless of their background, what sexual orientation, whether alone or in partnership abstemious living.
Our meals are celebrated in a ritual manner in which we honor ourselves and the other as Shiva and Shakti, God and Goddess.
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Monday, 26.12. Public Lecture
Yoginis: The Fierce Goddesses and Museum Visit
Tuesday, 27.12. Introduction: Holy union: The dance of Shakti and Shiva + afternoon Visit to Bath
Wednesday 28.12. Yoginis, Yogini practices and Temples
Thursday, 29.12. 29th Sri Chakra / Sri Yantra
Monday 26. December 2011
public talk 19:00 bis 22:00 clock
An Introduction to Shakti, Shaktism and the dark goddesses of India and Nepal
Presentation with pictures of Dr. Aditi Devi
Who and what is Shakti? What is the relationship of our subtle body to the divine feminine life force that permeates the universe? The talk leads to Shakta Tantra, a line of Hinduism in northern India and Nepal, where the goddess is worshiped. Explains the Hindu goddess Kali Shakta, Durga, the yoginis Matrikas (mothers) and Kamakhya (the menstruating goddess). We begin with a brief, joint puja (ritual) for the worship of the goddess and to support our physical connection with her. There will be time for questions and to discuss how this relates to our Featured Asanayogapraxis.
Admission on a donation basis (Recommendation 5 €)
Topic on Tuesday
Sacred Union: The dance of Shakti and Shiva for the beloved and the lover in all of us
This is a playful, loving, and intimate exploration of divine love in a tantric yogic lineage from India and Nepal. Together, we dive deeply into the tantric arts of cultivating desire, opening to bliss, and discovering the nature of sacred union. You will learn about the sacred dance between the divine feminine (Shakti) and divine masculine (Shiva), as well as simple practices to bring these sacred energies into your relationships and more embodied love into your life. These teachings are for anyone who wants to explore an embodied path to tantric awakening; all genders and sexual orientations are welcome, whether single, partnered or celibate.
Topic on
The practices and the Yogini lines in India and Nepal
for those who want to go deeper to the roots of yoga and sadhana:
Yoga teachers, yoga students, Bhakta, tantrikas and all who wish to address the deity
What it really means to wake up in the body? We deal with the Kaliverehrung at the temple of the goddess Kamakhya in Assam menstruating, India. Here we are interested in the inseparability of the divine and his worshiper by the adoration of a living woman as a goddess. This includes the worship of young girls (Kumari Puja), married women (Shri puja) and widows. Our time together provides the space for basic tantric teachings, how to make themselves a tangible idea of the importance of embodiment in the tantric teachings.
Topic on Thursday
Shri Chakra/Shri Yantra
This is an exploration of the relationship between the divine feminine and divine masculine in a Shakta Hindu lineage which is epitomized in the teachings on the Shri Chakra (or Shri Yantra). What is Divine Relationship and what does this have to do with our human relationships? Who is Shakti? Who is Bhairava? Who is the dual-gendered deity Ardhanarishwara? What is the Shri Yantra? How do their cosmic dances relate to the play of polarities that is central to the cultivation of desire on the Tantric path? How can we begin to practice relating as a sacred art, imbued with all of these divine qualities? In this time together, we will explore the path of fierce desire with further practice of pranayama, embodying the body mandalas, and other practices that support the development of a shared sadhana and the cultivation of fierce desire and compassion.
Generally
The morning begins at 8:30 with an hour of meditation and yoga
9:30 breakfast
10:30 teachings and practice
13:30 lunch
in the afternoons and evenings individual programs
Tuesday: Visit to a hot bath, water work, gathering
Wednesday: Silent walk with inner quest, chai
Thursday: Mantra chanting, dance and drumming
Registration is necessary before the 15th of December
contact: Marietta.schuerholz@onlinehome.de 00498948999877
fees: 55 € to cover the basics including meals. Reduction can be given if needed. Donations for the teachers on individual basis.
Teachings will be in English
Location: Munich, Yogawerkstatt, Sendling, Plinganserstr. 23
People who come from abroad can be hosted in the yoga studio. A swimming pool with showers is next door.
