I was listening recently to Sally Kempton, a scholar and spiritual teacher known for the depth of her own practice and the clarity with which she guides others. She was speaking of the Divine feminine – suggesting that the time has come to work for change through love, through ‘fierce compassion’.
In her book Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga she describes the qualities of the various Hindu goddesses and gives practical ways of working with those energies. Following are notes that I made listening to her recent talk.
The goddess Lalita helps you fall in love with life and at the same time demands that you become free.
There are four practical ways you work towards this goal:
1. Let the creative force enter you through the breath.
One of the ways that Shakti, the Divine Feminine manifests in human body is through the breath
Tune to the breath and let it come in as a gentle caress. Caressing your heart.
Breath and awareness are making love to each other
2. Allow yourself to be seen
Still. Opened eyed. Feel/imagine yourself being seen by the ecstatic creative force of life.
All the things in your environment are seeing you. You are seen. You are part of a pulsation of life.
3. Feel the energy
Feel the energy in your body, in the air, in the earth all around you.
Allow the feeling to build until you know you are that energy. You are that ecstatic creative energy.
4. Visualise
Visualise the goddess as strongly as you can. Then merge your body with hers
Sally Kempton will soon be running a 7 week course that you may be interested in
http://wisdomgoddesscourse.com/course/WisdomGoddess
In her book Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga she describes the qualities of the various Hindu goddesses and gives practical ways of working with those energies. Following are notes that I made listening to her recent talk.
The goddess Lalita helps you fall in love with life and at the same time demands that you become free.
There are four practical ways you work towards this goal:
1. Let the creative force enter you through the breath.
One of the ways that Shakti, the Divine Feminine manifests in human body is through the breath
Tune to the breath and let it come in as a gentle caress. Caressing your heart.
Breath and awareness are making love to each other
2. Allow yourself to be seen
Still. Opened eyed. Feel/imagine yourself being seen by the ecstatic creative force of life.
All the things in your environment are seeing you. You are seen. You are part of a pulsation of life.
3. Feel the energy
Feel the energy in your body, in the air, in the earth all around you.
Allow the feeling to build until you know you are that energy. You are that ecstatic creative energy.
4. Visualise
Visualise the goddess as strongly as you can. Then merge your body with hers
Sally Kempton will soon be running a 7 week course that you may be interested in
http://wisdomgoddesscourse.com/course/WisdomGoddess
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