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AN ANCIENT TANTRA YOGA PRACTICE
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Through the ONLINE healing circles you will partake in Tantric rituals withing the comfort of your own home. The rituals are recorded and, should you not be able to make it for the live practice, you may still access the recording. The rituals follow the Tantric calendar, which honours the cycles of the Moon and the rhythms of Nature. Depending on the ritual, classes can last between 2 & 4 hours, and may be followed with home meditations available to those wishing to go deeper into this line of Tantra and Yoga lineage. In line with the traditional tantric approach, many of the rituals are clustered into series addressing specific themes (such as Anger, Fear, Fertility, Desire, etc).
2021 | Tantric Rituals.
06 January | Descending Half Moon
BHAIRAV ASTAMI | The ways in which we waste our Lives
Bhaivar Astami is a time in which to study the deep dark layers of oneself, shedding the outer layers like a snake, to reach the mysteries beyond the threshold of time. Read More…
13 January | New Moon
LOHRI | The Return of the Light
Part 1 of 3 | Nurture & Compassion Series
This series will be all about honouring the beginnings of this cycle of nature that is climbing with the New Year year we are in. Lohri reveals how modernity can swallow magic and erode powerful necessary rights of passage, necessary if we are to align to the Wisdom of Nature. Lohri is a pagan Goddess that stands between the thresholds of Darkness and Light. This is an ancient Indian pagan ritual festival that is celebrated on the first dark Moon of the ascending year and reveals to us the extreme polarities in which we live our daily lives. Read More…
20 & 28 January | Half Ascending Moon & Full Moon
SHAKAMBHARI | Nurturing the Inner Spiritual Garden
Part 2 & 3 of 3 | Nurture & Compassion Series
Shakambhari is the great nourishing Goddess of Compassion. Her name translates as ‘the bringer of vegetation’. She is twilight blue in colour and she brings the gift of herbs, fruits and vegetables to Earth. She is the revealer of nourishment and growth. She is the great mother of nurture who brings magical solace to the garden of our Soul. Read More…
11 February | New Moon
MAUNI AMVASYA | The Power of Sound & Silence
Part 1 of 4 | Teachers of Wisdom Series
This series will be of interest to all those who venture to find the inner Guru and to understand the role of the Teacher in Tantric wisdom. The series will open with this ancient ritual day in the Tantric calendar known as Mauni Amvasya (Dark Moon of Silence). It is a time of discovering the power of speech, sound and silence… It is a night of sacred silence that is kept by the Tantrics in silent ritual still today. This will be a ritual conducted in complete silence. Read More…
15 February | Chaturti Moon
GANESH JAYANTI | Roots & Foundations
Part 1 of 5 | Animal Series (Elephant Power - Earth Element)
This series is concerned with working with Animal Powers, the Elements and the Chakras. Tantric wisdom recognises that different creatures all have their own particular expression and power that can be a benefactory element upon our path. This first ritual night is concerned with establishing foundations.This Jayanti day is the annually celebrated ‘birthday’ of the Elephant headed God Ganesh. He is the Earth deity that guards the doorway of manifest grounded power. Read More…
20 February | Ascending Half Moon
KHODIYAR MAA JAYANTI | Selfless Love
Part 2 of 5 | Animal Series (Crocodile Power - Water Element)
The second ritual in this series is dedicated to Khodiyar Maa. Khodiyar Maa is linked to the womb and to childbirth, and the marriage between the base and sexual Chakras. She is a Goddess who shows us how to unite the energies of Earth and Water – first and second Chakra themes are her speciality. Working with her ritualistically, can help those wishing to conceive a child. Khodiyar Maa is a powerful Matriarch to those who have interest to work with the sexual energy and its healing. Read More…
27 February | Full Moon
LALITA JAYANTI | Simplicity, Beauty beyond Drama
Part 2 of 10 | Dasha Mahavidya Series
This second celebration of the Tantric Dasha Mahavidyas is dedicated to the Goddess Lalita. Lalita’s cooling Lunar fire offers us a receptive, comforting place in which to cool down into the very simple and innocent sweetness, perhaps forgotten and secret in today’s modern, busy world. Lalita’s mantras, which we shall practice on this ritual, are soothing. They are cooling and softening, as to melt into the magical corners of our being. Read More…
05 March
BHAIRAV ASTAMI
Part 1 of 5 | Time Series
Details coming soon…
11 March
MAHA SHIVARATRI | The Sacred Embrace
Part 2 of 4 | Teachers of Wisdom Series
The Teacher of Wisdom Series continues with the third ritual dedicated to the great teacher of the Yogins: Shiva. Maha Shivaratri is the uniting of Shiva and Shakti. This night is a night of the secret wisdom that is born of their embrace. Shivaratri is the celebration and honouring of the very roots and foundation of Wisdom. This ritual night will be an investigation into the original wisdom of the soul that gets eclipsed by other forces, though those other forces are an important part of our lives, they are no replacement for the foundation of being. Read More…
20 March
SPRING EQUINOX | Free Practice
Details coming soon…
28 March | Full Moon
HOLI | The Colours of Love
The festival of Holi has become known worldwide as the celebration of life and colour, when people throw colored powder on each other. But what does this fun filled festivity of playful games signify for Tantrics? What are the origins of this festivity? Tantric ritual traditionally has kept this Holi night for the practice of inner and outer colour and sound. The intonations of each Chakra along with inner and outer work with colours is ritualised in a colourful and enlivening practice of awakening to Life and Love. The effect of these practices is to open the potentialities of the Chakras. Read More…
26 April | Full Moon
HANUMAN JAYANTI | The Yogic Power of the Breath
Part 3 of 5 | Animal Series (Monkey Power - Air Element)
This ritual day will be Hanuman Jayanti. Hanuman is the god of Monkey form who represents the Air element, in fact he is the child of Vayu (god of the wind). His ritual is concerned with establishing rhythm and smooth and seamless flight to the quality of the air element. The air element rules the mental body in yogic anatomy, by working with concentration and the practices of wind we can come to smoothen out both psychic and physical creases. Read More…
24 July | Full Moon
GURU PURNIMA | Honouring the Inner Teacher
Part 3 of 4 | Teacher of Tantric Wisdom Series
This ritual night has been reserved since aeons to give honour not only to the personalities of one’s teachers, but also to the principle of devotion and effort that the teacher represents. The Guru is the inner quality that we all possess. The quality of attention to detail and unwavering voyage into the depths of a single subject. This effort to surpass oneself and attain the hights of wisdoms is said to come from the Guru Tatva. Tatva can be translated as ‘element’. Upon this day the astral forces are strong for setting the Guru Tatva within us into motion. Read More…
13 August
NAAGA PANCHAMI | Voyage into the Astral Planes
Part 4 of 5 | Animal Series (Snake Power - Akash Element)
Akash is the most subtle element of the 5 Panchbhoot elements and is linked to the junction from the Heart Chakra to the throat, the element Akash is connected to sound and rules the throat Chakra. The Naaga serpents are the underworld snakes of the ether of the astral plane. When we look at the representation of Shiva, we see that he has always a snake wrapped around his throat and standing erect. The symbol of Kundalini is explicit here. Read More…
22 August | Full Moon
HAYAGRIVA JAYANTI | Fire Ritual
Part 5 of 5 | Animal Series (Horse Power - Fire Element)
This is the annual festival of the Horse. Hayagriva is the horse god of the twilight wisdom twixt shadow and light. The story of Hayagriva tells of 2 horses, both called Hayagriva. One was the burning black horse that for Tantrics represents the solar plexus. The other horse was a light silver colored lunar horse that represents the third eye Chakra. In Tantric subtle anatomy, the opposite of the solar plexus chakra is indeed the third eye. Read More…
18 December | Full Moon
DATTA JAYANTI | Moving beyond Duality
Part 4 of 4 | Wisdom of Tantra Series
This ritual night is known as Datta Jayanti, It means the birthday of lord Dattatreya. He is the Guru of the Tantrics and the grand master of awareness and healing trance. This is a time honored night kept by Tantrics for strong ritual explorations of consciousness. Dattatreya is he who is full of compassion and fully Loving. He is so unified in all levels of being that there are no distinctions in his awareness. This is indeed a teaching of Wisdom for all humans. Dattatreya is the legendary Tantric who brings all things together. Read More…
RETREATS & WORKSHOPS
Due to current global circumstances we wil not be running our regular retreats in Tuscany or our workshops across Europe for the forseable future. We will resume as soon as international travel will be allowed and health risks reduced. Until then we invite you to join our online classes.
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the current situations is offering us.
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