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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.
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.
Hi Adrienne! Love love your channel! I started practicing yoga about a year ago with your yoga for beginners video. Now I practice every day, sometimes with you and sometimes with my inner yoga guide ? I am so glad I found your channel. I would love to have a couple of more longer videos like this, maybe even up to 90 minutes.
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.
Power in the Conceptual Structure of Karimpur Religion adds to the growing literature about the village Karimpur, first made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser (The Hindu Jajmani System and Behind Mud Walls). In this book, village beliefs about the nature of ritual and the organization of the pantheon, as expressed in myth and song, are explored using structural and linguistics analysis. It is shown that the concept of power, Shakti, is critical to understanding the nature of the Hindu pantheon and that the gods, and thus the rituals directed to them, are ordered by their perceived powers. Hindu deities and humans are bound together in a mutual giving of boons and service, and humans are as necessary to the gods to humans. Finally, this mutual bonding is shown to carry over to human-human relationships, particularly those of the Jajmani system.
Ojas (OH-JUS) is one of the three subtle forces in our body. Think of ojas as the container that holds your abundant energy. It is the ultimate energy reserve of the body and mind. It is the purest essence of Kapha, and physically, it is related to reproductive, hormonal, and cerebrospinal fluids.
A person with good ojas is calm and content, and has both strong immunity and endurance. This is the most important element for most of us to cultivate. It is especially true if we are trying to conceive a child, deal with a stressful life event, or overcome an illness.
The practice of pratyahara, that is, controlling our senses by moderating our speech and sexual energy and getting proper rest, relaxation and sleep, helps us preserve our vital energy. The next time you feel depleted, think of drawing the mind inward instead of reaching outward for comfort. I like to lie down and practice feeling the sensations in my body, turning my focus inward and letting any stagnant emotions rise to the surface.
Now slowly start to draw your attention away from your thoughts, emotions or aches, and drop it down into your belly, holding it there until you feel sensation. Then, slowly, bring your awareness into your heart.
Remember a moment in your life when you felt very deep love. Perhaps it was the birth of your child, a merging into the arms of your lover, being hugged by a parent, or the bliss you experience when you help someone in need. Maybe it was a time when you let yourself be totally vulnerable. When you add love to your point of focus, it builds your ojas.
Bring that moment fully to mind and notice where you feel the sensation of love in your body. Allow this sensation to move, to expand and permeate every cell of your being. When you grow the feeling of love inside your body, you boost the power that enables you to remain strong and wise in the face of heartache, disease and change.
Within a year, I started dating my now-husband, Steve. Our adventures began to skyrocket and I was rarely home more than a week or two a month. Somehow, the card that I was once reading daily was an occasional thought by my nightstand and eventually was tucked away in a drawer for safe keeping.
The kicker is that also inside of the card was a list of 25 dreams I wanted to manifest during my lifetime. On the backside of the list were the reasons I wanted to achieve or attain such goals. I was stunned to notice that a decade later, almost 80% of my dreams had actualized in my life. Some items on my list included:
The way these desires manifested in my life reminded me of the power of Shakti. This incredible life force allows invisible ideas to take actual shape in our lives. Ready to harness this energy to create your amazing life? If so, read on!
Shiva and Shakti are the male and female principles of creation. This description of each in terms of masculine and feminine energies are really just ways to help the human mind understand their power. Yet God is unlimited, and Shiva and Shakti are used to represent aspects of a Divine whole.
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