Fire of Consciousness
The Alchemy of Tantra
Note: this workshop has been canceled and is rescheduled for March. Please watch for more inspiring workshops, events, and retreats with Jimmy in 2020!
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Join Nataraj for a deep dive into the alchemical fire of Tantric sadhana (practice). In this workshop we’ll engage with philosophy, meditation and chanting, gain new insights into how to use your mind’s natural interests and desires as a way to access blissful states of meditation and how to integrate the deep work of Sadhana into our eyes open experience. Other highlights of the workshop include a yogic fire ceremony and ecstatic kirtan.
As the yogi continually attends to their sadhana they will inevitably get flashes of god-consciousness. Where there once was separation, only unity consciousness remains. These flashes of insight, these moments of divine recognition, allow the yogi to experience themselves as the universe, as Lord Shiva. Our continued contact with That reveals that it is our natural and ever-abiding state of identity, rather than a temporary achievement based on effort. Our goal is not an acquisition, but rather Self Realization. When we return home, we merge back into that which we already are. The ambrosial nectar of the Self brings about a state of naturalness, easefulness, and skillfulness. The Shiva Sutras say: vitarka ātmajñānam. The knowledge of the Self is conviction. This is our practice!
We’ll immerse ourselves in the theory, scriptural tradition, and practices of yoga and Tantra and discuss methods for integrating the work of yoga into our daily, lived experience.
All are welcome.
No experience necessary.
Hourly Schedule
Fire of Consciousness
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Workshop
- The Alchemy of Tantra
- 6:30pm - 8:30pm
- Puja & Ecstatic Kirtan
- Fire Ceremony and Call & Response Chanting