Āgni is often translated as fire but its truer meaning is transformation. It’s the alchemical power of your cells to transform energy. Bringing your Āgni into balance through diet, Ayurvedic principles and yogic lifestyle (Dinacharya) will create harmony in your system. This makes it’s easier to wake up, be still and establish a daily meditation practice, or sādhanā.

This six week program starts with a ten day cleanse to honour the equinox. You’ll learn how to follow a circadian rhythm of eating, moving and sleeping that aims to restore your physical and emotional digestion to its optimum levels. Towards the end of the program we will deepen into a Durga sādhanā to honor the 9 nights of the Goddess, Navaratri.

You will also have time to start reading the set texts so you have a basic understanding of non-duality when you come to the next module.

Sadhana, safe space and core concepts

This four week prayer will establish a supportive container of daily meditation, mantra and pranayama, as you explore the revelatory and life affirming technologies of radical non-dual Tantra.

Each session will open with a kirtan and sadhana of mantra, meditation, pranayama, deity yoga and transmission. After a break, we’ll sink into an inspiring lecture on the core teachings of the Tradition, including the 5 Acts, the 5 Powers, the 4 Levels, and the 3 Impurities. Together we will study the tantras and sutras, connect as a community, guide each other into practice and steep ourselves inside the philosophy.

Samskaras, Upayas, Active Imagination + Jung

In each 2.5 hour session, we will explore the Unconscious through the fascinating lens of Carl Jung and the View of Kashmir Shaivism. Collette will guide you into a deeper understanding of Tantric Psychology and how to release Samskaras through the skilful means of the Upayas. We will look at the mystical, the imaginal and the dreamworld as realms of Soul, making contact with the underworld of the unconscious to touch into our totality and wholeness.

Dream Witch and psychotherapist, Libby will introduce us to psyche through the doorway of soul, embodied archetypal energies and the Somatic Unconscious. We will also explore the Jungian technique of Active Imagination and how this weaves into yogic philosophy, embodiment and practice.

Vak, Alchemy and the Moving Imagination

A deepening from the first module, we will introduce the inspired and extraordinary work of the Embodied Flow™ school of yoga to access a felt sense of the Tantric teachings. This will be a shared movement laboratory, recognising the body as a vehicle for awakening, through embodied anatomy and experiential philosophy.

Each session will include a lecture on Tantric concepts, a generous break and a 90 minute movement practice from Collette. There will be time to share your embodied research, to journal, process and integrate your learning. You will also be introduced the the class planning pillars.

Madhya, Visioning and Dreams

The liminal space pulses at the heart of the Samāveśa process and we are finding portals to abide in the place where everything waits. The home of potentiality and deepest knowing. This module opens the door to profound practices of creative flow that show us how to live in alignment and rhythm with life.

You will turn rest into ritual, attune to your own poetic heart, know your yes and your no and understand your boundaries. This module is a sweet holding and refuge where we view awakening from the perspective of wholeness. Where honoring your bodymind is honoring the organism of the whole. And where tending to your own needs will allow you to build your resilience and increase your capacity to hold stronger, safer and clearer space. At work, at home and in your community. For the benefit of all beings.