In 2016, Shambhavi gave a teaching cycle called 9 Poisons 9 Medicines 9 Fruits.

Walk with your mind married
to the bottoms of your feet

Last night I gave an impromptu talk on a special astrological combination that is forming in the sky now and is affecting everyone in the world. This combination, called “Guru Chandala yoga,” occurs when Rahu, the north node of the moon, and Jupiter are in or enter the same sign.

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?

What do you want from your spiritual practice? What do you want from life? To me these are the same question.

I think it’s time to start a conversation about soft cults.

If you’re a Tantra Geek like me, you have read, or have attempted to read, the ancient texts of the Tantrik traditions. As beautiful, profound and fascinating as these texts called “tantras” can be, they present a number of interpretive problems for sincere, contemporary students.

I have not told this story in full publicly. But I find myself living in a time and place in which many people are skeptical of or are rejecting the possibility of Guru. Other people long for a spiritual guide, but are afraid of being hurt.

I have received a heartfelt request to write, from a woman’s perspective, about the child abuse and rape testimony against senior Swamis in the Satyananda Yoga lineage.

The Ayurvedic tradition of healing makes use of many common herbs and spices. But the ground spices you buy  in the supermarket, even if they are organic, have impaired potency. And they just don’t taste as good as hand-ground spices.

Ramblings of a Tantrik Renunciate at Large

You know. Renunciates. Those oh-so-spiritual folks sporting shaved heads and orange robes, or natty dreads and tattered loin cloths.

These are the names of the six realms or lokas in Sanskrit.  The realms represent the six styles in which human beings lose touch with their real nature and experience suffering, aka, karma.