It includes: a clear exposition of why honouring womb cycles is the foundation of a refined and sensitive yoga practice for women; a set of straightforward guidelines for safe practice of yoga during the many special times of a woman’s life, including during menstruation, pregnancy, when using an IUD, postnatally, during peri-menopause, and when hoping to conceive. If you feel you have benefitted from what you have heard or learnt from this site then please do consider making a contribution towards the maintenance and upkeep of the site.

Eradicating The Abuse Of Women in Yoga - The Sacred Womb®

In esoteric traditions such as tantra, particularly the Sri Chakra tradition, the main icon (yantra) has nine interlocking triangles. Zoom circles are offered in alignment with the Celtic cross-quarter festivals: Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain.This forty minute yoga nidra practice is intended to provide support as we encounter the inevitability of change.

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Here, you can begin your studies at any time, you can interact with the course materials and work through the material at your own pace, download the nidra practices to enjoy offline and revisit the course as often as you like. Some contemporary Hindus, states Doniger, in their passion to spiritualize Hinduism and for their Hindutva campaign have sought to sanitize the historic earthly sexual meanings, and insist on the abstract spiritual meaning only. While the temple premises, walls and mandapas have numerous depictions of goddess Kamakhya in her various roles, include those relating to her procreative powers, as a martial warrior, and as a nurturing motherly figure (one image near the western gate shows her nursing a baby with her breast, dated to 10th-12th century). The problem is that the modern mind – particularly under the influence of Freudian psychology – uses sexuality as its primary means of interpreting life, but regards it only as a physical force.In a three-dimensional form, the Sri Yantra is the cosmic mountain Mount Meru, the central world mountain, and the mountain of the spine. In this session you are invited to join us for a greeting circle, mudra meditation and time to ask questions and share experience with other sisters journeying with the immersion. They emphasize the goddess Shakti as the female personification of the creative power or energy of the god Shiva. Its literal meaning is "female genitalia", but it also encompasses other meanings such as "womb, origin and source".

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It may be an interesting experiment in the power of language for you to listen to both versions of this yoga nidra, this one and its sister track which uses the word YONI to locate energy in the cunt. Some in the orthodox Western cultures, states the Indologist Laura Amazzone, have treated the feminine sexual organs and sexuality in general as a taboo subject, but in Indic religions and other ancient cultures the yoni has long been accepted as profound cosmological and philosophical truth, of the feminine potential and power, one mysteriously interconnected with the natural periodic cycles of moon, earth and existence. Respectful connection to the Ten Wisdom Goddesses (Daśa Mahāvidya) as guardians of the ‘female siddhis’, initiations, into power through life wisdom.The worship of the yoni is part of the greater worship of sacred circles and ring stones which, along with standing stones, we find everywhere in the ancient world. century Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati, Assam: its sanctum has no murti, but houses a rock with a yoni-shaped fissure with a natural water spring. Then we can see the dance of Shiva and Shakti as a Divine love of Spirit and nature through and beyond all dualities.