Workshops Schedule

New York City, NY
Thursday, August 19, 6:30-9 PM

Tantric Meditation and the Transformation of Consciousness

Shriyoga
www.shriyoganyc.com

Meditation is never one-size-fits-all. In this incisive class on tantric meditation, we learn how to calibrate our practice to fit our inner state, our level of consciousness, and our inclinations. In this way, we can activate the three faces of spirit--spirit as the consciousness in everything, spirit as a personal form, and spirit as our deepest Self--and create a truly integrated practice.

For information about Shriyoga's location and to register for the workshop, please email Shriyoga at: shriyoga@shriyoganyc.com

Lenox, MA
August 20-22, 2010

Kripalu Center

Surfing Transformation

It seems that more and more of us are living these days within a vortex of transformation. For some, there’s a sense of awakening to deeper levels of reality, and for others, a feeling of shedding old skin. Jobs, living arrangements, and people we’ve relied on may drop away as new insights and opportunities demand to be lived. Each new phase of transformation has its own challenges, and asks us to move past limiting ideas and assumptions.

In this workshop, you will

Using talks, contemplations, meditation, and asana, Sally Kempton will help you chart a path through transformative experience, offering practices and maps for surfing the currents of intense energy that are now moving through so many people’s lives. The program is based on teachings from the yogic and tantric traditions along with the wisdom gained by Sally through her own transformative experiences.

Register at www.kripalu.org or phone 1-866-200-5203

Teleconference Class: Freeing the Mind
September 8, 15, and 22, 2010
Three Wednesday Evenings: 5-6:30 PST, 6-7:30 MST, 7-8:30 CST, 8-9:30 EST

The state of your mind is the state of your life. You as an individual are your mind. When the mind clarifies itself, when it frees itself from being held hostage by emotions and limiting ideas, we call it an enlightened mind.

So, isn't it time to truly free up your own mind, so that its profound creative energy can expand and reveal your highest possibilities?

All spiritual and yogic paths offer strategies for working with the mind. Yet these tactics only work when you understand certain principles about your own consciousness, and know what strategies are appropriate in different states of mind. In this series of teleclasses, we'll combine wisdom from the tantric masters of Kashmir Shaivism, with insights from the latest brain research, with a wide range of best practices for recognizing and transforming our painful, limiting, and difficult mind states.

In this class, we'll work with the mind on three levels. We'll look at the suffering mind and what we can do about it! We'll explore what a balanced, "yogic" mind looks like, and how we get there. We'll access the expanded state of the Great Mind, and discover how to bring ourselves into the expanded mind over and over during even the most stressful day. We'll see why compassion and unconditional love are only real for us in certain mind states, and examine a step-by-step method for moving from negative states to states where we can live at peak aliveness. We'll unfold powerful techniques for letting go of our deepest limiting beliefs. As we move through the levels of mind, you'll discover your own best strategies

In this teleconference series, you'll discover practical strategies for transforming your mind so that instead of feeding you negative projections, fears, and doubts, it can empower you to live as your most free and loving self.

You'll learn:

Cost $179. Register now.

Estes Park, CO
September 22-24, 2010

Anusara Grand Gathering: >Workshops and Meditation Training

Details to come.

Big Sur, CA
October 3-8, 2010
Esalen Institute

Five Day Retreat:Romancing the Spirit: Entering the Heart of Your Sacred Self

"If you knew your own beauty, you'd be the idol of yourself." Rumi

What does it really mean to know your own beauty? To be able to live with emotional freedom without denying your human self? According to the tantric masters, the secret is to realize the divine nature of your own energy--all your energies. This meditation retreat, based on the wisdom and practices of the masters of the Spanda lineage of Kasmir, transmits a series of practices and insights for working with sacred energies that can help you reset the frame of your life. In four full days of meditation, yoga, and contemplation, self-inquiry, art, and exploratory voice-dialogue, you’ll learn how to uncover the sacred energy within your thinking, your feeling, and your stillness. We’ll explore the energy within silence, and learn how to receive wisdom by tuning into the inner body. You’ll examine your own spiritual journey to discover how you’ve been guided, and what your personal path looks like. The retreat will unfold teachings from two powerful enlightened texts of the tantric tradition, the Spanda Karikas, or Teachings on Divine Pulsation, and the Shiva Sutras.

Further details available at www.esalen.org

Big Sur, CA
October 8-10, 2010
Esalen Institute

The Yoga of Devotion and the Tantra of the Heart
(with Dr. Marc Gafni)

For many contemporary practioners, devotion is a missing ingredient in their practice. Others recognize the power of devotional practice, and would like to be more open to it.  Devotion--heart practice directed towards a divine other--is one of the secrets of inner awakening, and a key to emotional healing. When you follow the tantric path of devotion, you come into relationship with the most personal form of God, the God who knows your name. In that relationship, you also discover how to awaken the inner ecstasy that leads to the experience of your own divinity. You find out what it really means to be held by the universe, and how to let love transmute pain and confusion into light. It’s no wonder that some of the greatest sages and teachers of all time were also followers of the devotional path.

In this weekend workshop, two heart-teachers combine their gifts to help you unfold your own secret heart-tantra.

You’ll learn:

The weekend is layered with meditation, chant, partner work, and contemplation.

Dr Marc Gafni is a rabbi and an iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and evolutionary spirituality. The author of seven books, including the best-selling Soul Prints, his teaching is marked by a deep transmission of heart, love, and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni teaches from a place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy, and sacred audacity, based on his own journey as well as his lifelong immersion in sacred texts.

Further details available at www.esalen.org

Teleconference Class: Falling in Love with Meditation
October 13, 20, and 27, 2010
Three Wednesday Evenings: 5-6:30 PST, 6-7:30 MST, 7-8:30 CST, 8-9:30 EST

You know that meditation is good for your health, that it creates balance, enhances creativity, and undoes stored stress. But did you know that meditation is potentially one of the greatest pleasures available to a human being?

When you know how to anchor your attention into the inner body, how to invoke love for yourself in your practice, how to playfully unlock the gateways that block your energy, your meditation practice becomes a life-changing doorway into states of delight, compassion, and spacious wisdom.

This series, open to beginning and advanced meditators, is designed to help you deepen your practice, by making meditation something you look forward to every day.

In this class you'll learn:

Cost $139. Register now.

Teleconference Class: Fierce Energies of Transformation: Practicing with the Power of the Divine Feminine
November 3, 10, and 17, 2010
Three Wednesday Evenings: 5-6:30 PST, 6-7:30 MST, 7-8:30 CST, 8-9:30 EST

We are living in a time of such radical transformation, that it is imperative that we discover how to make the most of the energies that are moving within us and within the world at this time. The tantric tradition can help. It offers an esoteric technology designed to take us from limitation to freedom by tuning into the cosmic evolutionary energies of transformation. When we can do that, we can use any circumstance as a doorway into awakening. Upheaval can then become a path, and peace can be discovered in the midst of confusion.

But to do this takes grace. In this class, we'll explore the forms grace takes in its process of uplifting our awareness and shifting our center of consciousness. We'll focus on the Wisdom Goddesses, ten powerful cosmic energies who represent the stages of transformation in consciousness. These energies exist within all of us. Some of them are forceful, pushing us beyond limitation. Others create powerful holding environments within which deep growth can occur naturally. All of them are imbued with the energy of cosmic love.

The Wisdom Goddesses live within your mind, and also play as energies that transform the world. The more you can recognize and attune to them, the more gracefully your consciousness can evolve, and the more your life will be of benefit to the life around you.

In this course, we will discover how these energies play in the specific situations in our lives, and how they can help you transmute suffering and confusion into clarity and joy. It is an active principle of life that as we heal our own wounds and open to the possible, our inner work affects the consciousness of the whole. Our exploration of these energies will not only make you more awake, it will profoundly benefit the life around you.

Cost $179. Register now.

January 5, 12, & 19
Teleconference Class: Meditation and the Three Faces of Spirit
Three Wednesday Evenings
5-6:30 PST, 6-7:30 MST, 7-8:30 CST, 8-9:30 EST

February 2, 9 & 16
Teleconference Class: Freeing the Mind Level 2
Three Wednesday Evenings
5-6:30 PST, 6-7:30 MST, 7-8:30 CST, 8-9:30 EST



Sally Kempton