2025 THEME
Each year, Shambhavi chooses a theme for us to learn about, contemplate, practice with, and embody.
OUR 2025 THEME: REFUGE
When the instruments of destruction play loudly in the orchestra of our lives, “refuge” becomes of pressing concern. ~ Shambhavi
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PREVIOUS ANNUAL THEMES
2024: HEALING
The cornerstones of healing are community, kindness, honesty, and time.
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2023: BELONGING
In the ancient Tantras and purānas, Lord Shiva is described as the Artist or Magician who gives rise out of his own self to the wonderous, diverse play of beings, worlds, and circumstances. Everyone and everything here belongs here equally from the beginning.
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2022: EQUALITY
Equality is one way of defining self realization—that you experience all phenomenon as being equal.
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2021 - WORSHIP
When we are more awake, everything we do is worship.
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2020 - COURAGE
Explore spiritual teachings about courage and bring more courage into your life and sadhana.
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2019 - DEVOTION
In July 2019, many of us in the Jaya Kula community gathered for a retreat dedicated to devotion. We explored both teachings about and practices of devotion in our spiritual traditions.
We were strongly reminded that the greatest teachers of our traditions urge us to honor and respect all forms of worship. Going even further, by their words and way of being in the world, they show us that the closer to knowing the nature of reality one gets, the more one revels in the festival of devotion that is ongoing in myriad forms.
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2018 - PRIDE
For everyone who has been given an opportunity, however small, to help others wake up and discover their divine nature. . .
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2017 - PLAYFULNESS
Shambhavi riffs on the many meanings of the Sanskrit word Lila (Līlā), and their relationship to the cosmology of Trika Shaivism and the fruits of spiritual practice.
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2016 - GENEROSITY
I’ve declared the time between now and August 2016 a year for our spiritual community, Jaya Kula, to discover and explore the nature of generosity. Want to join us?