Shakti Power Yoga is located in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. With both heated & unheated studio spaces, 5-12 classes are offered daily. From Baptiste-inspired heated power flows to prana vinyasa and restorative, Shakti Power Yoga is home to a dynamic range of instructors & a welcoming family community of yogis.
For more than 50 years, Kripalu has been a leader in yoga- and mindfulness-based education. More than just poses on a mat, we believe yoga is an accessible practice that inspires connection, compassion, and joy.
Shakti means power, energy, or force. Mythologically, Shakti is always described as feminine, often personified as the goddess, Devi, the divine feminine consort of the divine masculine god Shiva. But at the deepest level, Shakti transcends gender.
I had been doing yogic practice for nearly a year before I began to have a palpable, felt experience of Shakti. It started as a mildly pleasurable feeling of expanding energy in my heart. Then, my sensory capacities seemed to turn on. Sounds, touch, taste, and especially sights were suddenly richer and more layered. I would hear a meditation technique for the first time and was able to work with it. Sex with my boyfriend, which had been stalled, suddenly caught fire. My tai chi practice began doing itself, as if some inner force were moving my body through the sequences. My body sometimes felt as if it were exploding with love.
In the secret tradition of Shakti, to live your yoga means to live in partnership with the deep interior current of this awakening force. To feel her pulsation in your body and psyche. To let her mold you invisibly into the uniquely radiant being you are meant to be.
1. Hold your hands two or three inches apart and feel the energy between them. Move your hands apart another few inches, keeping the sense of the energy connecting them. When you lose the connection, move your hands closer until you feel the energy between them again.
3. Become aware of the area at the base of the spine. Sense the presence of a subtle channel of energy running through the center of your body from the base through the crown of the head. With the breath, let your attention flow from the base of the spine to the heart, and from the heart to the crown, then back again. Be aware of the gathering awareness of energy moving in this inner channel. You may feel it as expansion, tingling, or a subtle feeling of electricity. Again, recognize that this feeling is Shakti.
Sally Kempton is an internationally recognized teacher of meditation and yoga philosophy and the author of Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti. This article is reprinted from Yoga Journal by permission of the author. Find out about upcoming programs with Sally.
I discovered the power of the Goddess quite unexpectedly. It happened in India, on the second night of a festival called Navaratri, which celebrates the divine feminine as the warrior Durga, slayer of the demons of ego and greed. Like so many festivals in India, Navaratri is both a big party and an occasion for mystical communion with the divine. Women put on their most gorgeous clothes, temples overflow with worshippers. Nights are filled with dancing and story-telling. People have heightened, even visionary, experiences of the energy that the festival invokes.
Ecstasy is a feeling that is hard to convey, but impossible to ignore. Every few minutes, I had to stop talking because tears kept threatening to break through my voice. When it was over, I knew that something had just happened which would change everything.
And it also made me start looking deeper into the myths of the Hindu goddesses, and into the practices of sacred feminism. As others have before me, I intuited that we are entering the time when Sati will definitively take her place in the world once more.
Some of these goddesses are warriors, while others are lovers. Some have maternal energy, others are dedicated to opening you to mystical realms. Every one of them can be a portal into the deepest realms of the soul, and a guide to the skills of living as an empowered feminine lover of life. Most of us have an inner affinity to one or another of the goddesses. And this can change as we move through our lives.
The short answer to this question is that the true power of the feminine is the power of the Shakti. As an interior face, she exists equally in both women and men. Yet most of us are unaware of her, and therefore unaware of the creative potential of our lives. We begin to touch into Shakti when we tune into the energy inside our body. We go even deeper as we set ourselves to experience deeper forms of inner inspiration, and when we begin to listen to the guidance that can flow from the deepest core of ourselves.
You may also imagine her seated in front of you, a beautiful feminine form, delicate, with flowing dark hair and pale golden skin. Her clothes are white, and her eyes look directly into yours. In two of her four hands, she carries a veena, a stringed instrument like a lute, which signifies sacred sound and music. In her third hand, she holds a book, and in her fourth hand, a rosary. As you repeat the mantra, feel that the mantra flows between her heart and yours.
This full vinyasa yoga practice focuses on alignment, action and breath, guiding you through asanas that strengthen and move energy or shakti throughout the systems of the body. Use your breath to move mindfully and with intention.
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Kundalini shakti is primordial cosmic energy, known as the Serpent Power. It is the fundamental life force and, at the same time, the supreme spiritual energy usually lying dormant and coiled three-and-a-half times around muladhara chakra at the base of the subtle spine.
Through Self-Inquiry and the practice of the kundalini techniques of Hatha Yoga, this divine creative power can be harnessed for spiritual evolution. By regulating the flow of prana, potential energy can be mobilized, bringing an openness to universal power that results in kundalini arousal. Thus, in both chit kundalini and prana kundalini, prana is used to stir the dormant kundalini energy into action. This situation is analogous to bombarding the nucleus of an atom with high-energy particles, which destabilizes it and leads to a tremendous release of energy.
Baptiste Power Yoga is designed to empower the practitioner to live a life they love. The three practices and techniques of Baptiste Yoga, asana (yoga postures), meditation, and self-inquiry, provide a foundation for physical prowess, mental acuity, and spiritual growth. Asana is an access to vitality, power and freedom. Meditation is an access to awakening and getting present. Self inquiry is an access to discovery and new possibility.
The diverse systematic approach of Baptiste Yoga allows for a unique physical experience that is unlike other high intensity fitness in its global approach to the mind, body and spirit as a whole. Come see the transformational power of this dynamic practice for yourself.
Additionally, ancient yogic wisdom also teaches that besides the formidable abilities noted above, we, as women, have a particularly magnificent ability to positively influence and shape our lives, bodies and environment. That ability comes through our divine feminine energies known as Shakti and Bhakti.
In essence, Shakti and Bhakti are the perfect duality of our highest nature: strength and tenderness; courage and humility; influence and devotion. When we become aware of these essences and subtle powers, we can then channel them heal any and all pain and disease. We can also harness their energy to positively influence our bodies, our reality and ourselves.
"Once your thought, emotion and energies are organised, your very body will also get organised. Once all these four are organised in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal." - Sadhguru
Everything that human beings have created on this planet was essentially first created in our minds. So how we organise and focus our minds will decide the direction our life flows. Using the power of the mind to create what one wants in his life is called Chit Shakti. The four Chit Shakti guided meditations will help you to manifest love, health, peace and success in your life.
Each one of us has desires, our very own list of dreams and longings. Creation may have its own blueprint for us, but our personal desires cannot be easily wished away. They may be extravagant or mundane, ambitious or trivial, they may be inconvenient, they may be too personal to share, but they are ours. And for us, they are real, they are precious, they are urgent and deeply significant.
Here is a rare offering from Sadhguru, a mystic who embodies the wisdom and clarity of profound realization. It is an offering that enables each one of us to become our own alchemist, that empowers us to transform long cherished desires into reality. Sadhguru offers this with the intention that once these desires are fulfilled, we will turn towards the larger goal of our ultimate wellbeing.
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