According to direct realization, spiritual traditions such as Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen, every manifestation of life and every circumstance is made of wisdom, is primordially auspicious or is perfect from the beginning. What does this mean, and how can we know this for ourselves in the midst of...

Recognition is a key tradition of Shaivism and refers to the recognition of our true Self as it is understood in the Tantras. Join Hareesh Wallis as he discusses some of the history of Kashmir Shaivism and explores the concept of recognition, as it appears in the Pratyabhijna-hrdayam, a text that...

Join Lorin Roche has he discusses the experiences in his spiritual practice that have been enriched by a lifetime relationship with the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. Lorin explores key translations from his work and offers the profound teaching from Shaivism that reveals all things as doorways to the ...

The success of the Tantric tradition is based on an enormous discovery which radically shifted the practice of Yoga into a life-affirming practice. In pre-Tantric sources, liberation from the suffering of embodied existence could only be attained by yogins during the process of death – thought to...

Scholar of Tantrik Shaivism, Christopher Tompkins, shares with us his research into ancient medieval manuscripts that tell the story of a chakra system previously lost until now. Christopher's research offers some unique perspectives on the original nature of the chakras and the logic of kundalin...

As the architecture of the soul, the chakras describe the underlying psychic structure of of the yoke of yoga, showing how heaven and earth, mind and body, spirit and matter interpenetrate to span the full spectrum of human possibility. As wheels of energy, chakras are like gears that take us on...

Experiencing the fullness of life is tantra. Tantra enables us to experience this fullness by demolishing the wall that separates our mundane sensory experiences from the spiritual ones. Standing on the firm foundation of unitary consciousness, tantric practices empower us to acquire both bhoga (...

In this interview, Swami Khecaranathawill discusses the nondual understanding of kundalini as both the individuated expression of the Divine and the means to liberation. This will include a careful articulation of the dynamic relationship between Consciousness and energy, because the power inhere...

Spiritual teacher and author Sally Kempton discusses non-dual Shakta tantra, the three ‘faces’ of spirit, and what it means to see the universe as Shakti. The program includes a powerful series of meditations on Goddess Lalita, as well as important teachings on deity practice itself.