The first practice of non-duality is in the most intimate aspect of our self—our body. Ardhanaarishwara is the contemplative movement that offers our sacred attention to the realms of our own minds, bodies and feelings. This powerful and ritual dance held what only dance can hold—that which is not possible for language and thought. Through dance we feel the sacredness of freedom from separatedness and division. When this is revealed to us, we taste freedom that is unconditional.
Read MoreDeity is the heart of Rasa. It is Deity that holds the alchemy of the Rasa experience. Deity is not created or “acted” but is found when the self becomes one with the constellation of dance. Deity is movement, form, feeling and the state of being of the performer. Deity is not a story but a feeling that is held in movement.
Read MoreA Kavi is someone who has the power not just to experience the Divine (Atman or Brahman or Consciousness) which is beyond language and expression, but is gifted with the ability to reveal or signal this experience. She does this through aesthetic forms including mantra, ritual, poetry, dance, sculpture and visual arts.
Read MoreVishnu is the domain of manifest reality and of all the movements that go to shape this experience. This dance of sky, earth, immanence and force is the dark waters on which Vishnu reclines.
Read MoreYogini practice is a space of radical transformation of perception and nowhere is this more palpable than in Yogini Vighneshwari.
Read MoreThe “I” ness is a Rakshasa, a sub-human space of immense grandeur, majesty and magnetism. It holds the blood-thirsty ruthlessness of the Rakshasa and the grounded, swaying and kingly majesty of the elephant in the same moment.
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