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		<title>Tantra Meditation Retreat 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November saw the completion of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra meditation retreat trilogy - some of the Indian participants had also participated on the previous two retreats and so experienced an astonishing 108 meditations in all. No lack of choice there! Next year the cycle starts again, though actually you can jump in at any time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>November saw the completion of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra meditation retreat trilogy &#8211; some of the Indian participants had also participated on the previous two retreats and so experienced an astonishing 108 meditations in all. No lack of choice there! Next year the cycle starts again, though actually you can jump in at any time.</p>
<p>I had visited Osho Nisarga about seven years earlier when the land had been purchased but building work hadn&#8217;t started so I was quite amazed to see how the place had been transformed. Everything was beautifully constructed and sparkling clean in the cool mountain air and, wonder of wonders, you could drink directly from the tap &#8211; a rare treat in India. The food was delicious and the temperature just right to eat in the open. My room had been described as being in the attic, but was actually extremely spacious and had a beautiful view of the Himalaya. The only drawback were the sloping ceilings which took me 2 days to acclimatise to and stop giving myself brain-damage as I bumped my head in my haste to change for the various meditations.</p>
<p>The participants arrived on the previous day which happened to be Diwali &#8211; Festival of Light &#8211; so our group started with a party and fireworks! Next morning after breakfast, we assembled in the lovingly built Mandir (or Buddhahall) and began introductions. The retreat was facilitated by Sarita and Chintan and assisted by Santoshi and Niten with help and amazing sound support from Gong Master Suraj and partner Giselle.</p>
<p>I had just bought a sound recording device before my trip, so I was keen to record the teachings and was doing quite well until I attempted to relocate myself with the extension lead &#8211; there was a loud bang, a smell of burning and a little pile of soot on the floor. &#8220;Oh, I thought &#8211; that could have been me.&#8221; After that, I thought I was better off just participating and focusing on dissolving my ego rather than my entire physical being!</p>
<div id="attachment_1024" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1024 " title="walking meditation" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/75303_164167066948151_147845821913609_369844_504134_n-300x225.jpg" alt="Walking Meditation" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text"> </p></div>
<p>We were introduced to a beautiful meditation which we would be practicing everyday after dynamic and before breakfast. This involved gazing at an object and allowing ourselves to dissolve in it, sense by sense. The first few minutes were accompanied by gonging by Suraj on his beautiful Venus and Mars gongs. After the first day, we decided to sit outside facing the river which was just gorgeous. After 40 minutes, Chintan lead us all in a slow Zen Walk along the river path. This was quite a challenge and took us most of the week to synchronise the entire line of 40 plus people.</p>
<p>More meditations were practiced covering the 12 facets of Tantra and after three days we slipped into silence to enable us to go even deeper. During this phase, Prem gave us a beautiful demonstration of Sufi Whirling and facilitated a meditation the next morning.</p>
<p>The silence was lifted for the final three days in time for the Shiva Shakti dance. Some of the Indian guys really went to town and appeared painted head to toe in blue and sporting a trident and cobra. The lovely Keerti was particularly generous sharing his blue paint powder with anyone who came near! And Khirad didn&#8217;t seem to mind being stepped on by Sarita who played Kali to his Shiva.</p>
<p>During the retreat we went on two beautiful walks in the surrounding countryside &#8211; one where we could bathe in the river and another in the forest. I particularly enjoyed seeing the villages and simple lifestyle &#8211; it seemed idyllic but was no doubt challenging in ways other than what we are used to in Europe.</p>
<p>The last few days flew by, and suddenly it was time to leave. Many of us were continuing our explorations by joining the Sacred India Tour which started from Delhi the next day. We were given a beautiful send off with drumming and singing and of course lots of hugging. A beautiful experience, which will stay with me a long time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.antarrahi.com/gallery/#/content/start/">2010 retreat photo gallery by Rahi</a></p>
<p>If anyone else has some photos they would like to share, please add a comment and incude a link to your gallery.</p>
<p>Love</p>
<p>Sidika</p>
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		<title>Sacred India Tour 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacred India has no beginning and no ending. It allows us to experience the eternal song of life in all it's multidimensional facets. It is the home of my soul, and returning here for a spiritual pilgrimage brings immense fulfillment.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sacred India has no beginning and no ending. It allows us to experience the eternal song of life in all it&#8217;s multidimensional facets. It is the home of my soul, and returning here for a spiritual pilgrimage brings immense fulfillment. We have wonderful guides, Niten and Santoshi who offer their great enthusiasm and years of experience to bring us a journey of a lifetime.</p>
<p>We began our tour in Varanasi, representing conscious death, a place where people come on pilgrimage to be purged of impurities and meet death as though slipping into the embrace of a lover. In this holy place, the oldest continually inhabited city in the world, they are meeting God while bathing in the river, or being cremated in the fire, or in the continuous flow of music and chanting. I have never seen such a filthy place in all my life, and yet, in spite of this, the transmutation of poison into nectar was luminously present.</p>
<div id="attachment_985" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Shiva-linga-varanasi.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-985" style="margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Shiva-linga-varanasi-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shiva Lingam at Varanasi</p></div>
<p>The highlight for me in Varanasi was the two hour Shiva Puja which we were privileged to have offered to us. I was completely captivated by the chanting, the presence of the glorious Shiva Lingam, and the very sensuous ritual, where-in we smeared the Lingam with precious scented oils, with ghee, with honey, with spices and ablutions of milk, cleansed and washed it, and finally offered tiers of flowers and fruits. I felt fully blessed through this experience and this quality has not diminished with the passage of time. I felt in those two hours, that we stepped through a transparent veil into another world, another century, another dimension, where devotional love is the ruler of time, mind and all the senses.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidikapetterson/sets/72157625400838599/">Varanasi photo gallery</a> &#8211; you can click on each image to enlarge, or choose the &#8216;slideshow&#8217; option &#8211; you can make the images fullscreen by clicking on the icon with 4 arrows.</p>
<div id="attachment_1032" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 188px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1032" title="sarita-meditating" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/sarita-meditating-178x300.jpg" alt="Sarita" width="178" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sarita</p></div>
<p>From Varanasi we went to Khajuraho, a series of Tantra temples, representing sexuality and the invitation to allow meditation to be present in all aspects of life, including our most sensual explorations. The temples are simply exquisite, and are maintained in pristine cleanliness, with gorgeous gardens all around. It is a tremendous pleasure to explore them, taking time to be in awe of such masterful artistry. We were truly blessed to be guided by Ganga, a man who was Osho&#8217;s tour guide in Khajuraho, where Osho went numerous times. Ganga received a very powerful transmission from Osho on the subject of Khajuraho and on Tantra in general. I could really feel Osho&#8217;s presence in Ganga&#8217;s words and gestures as he lovingly shared his experiences of being with the Master and receiving his wisdom. Later, when Ganga had become a disciple of Osho and was living in the commune, Osho asked him to go back to Khajuraho and sing Osho&#8217;s song, which he has been doing ever since. He runs an esthetic, clean and loving hotel where people can relax into the nurturing ambiance of Ganga and the Khajuraho vibe.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidikapetterson/sets/72157625401164809/">Khajuraho photo gallery</a></p>
<p>We then journeyed to Jabalpur, where Osho was a student and then a professor in the University. We stayed in an Osho ashram there, which is on the edge of a marvelous forested area with a beautiful lake. The highlight in this place was to meditate on a very big rock where Osho used to go and meditate regularly, between 1952&#8211;1960. The rock has definitely received his transmission. The whole group of us who sat there were transported into deep meditation, and then found ourselves in spontaneous, ecstatic celebration.</p>
<div id="attachment_989" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Santoshi-Osho-tree.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-989 " style="margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;" title="DSCF3191" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Santoshi-Osho-tree-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Receiving the ecstasy of Osho&#39;s transmission</p></div>
<p>We went to the tree in Jabalpur where Osho experienced enlightenment at the age of 21. I believe that none of us were expecting anything in that strange theme park, decorated with huge plastic dinosaurs. And then we met the tree. And in the tree, we met a presence which was so palpable as to be truly astonishing. I have spent years at Osho&#8217;s feet, and so am able to recognize his unique fragrance and presence. I experienced that this tree is the body of Osho. Touching this tree, we are touching Osho&#8217;s body. Being embraced by this tree, we are receiving Darshan. It was an extraordinary blessing. As we were meditating there, a local television crew came and asked to interview some of us and to take photos and film us imbibing Osho&#8217;s sacred presence through the tree.</p>
<p>After that, still drunk on the divine, we made our way to the Narmada River with the famed marble rocks. We stayed in a hotel run by a Sannyasin named Anil. He was an angel with us, taking us to a very moving sunset Puja by the river. After a feast at his hotel, he then took us for a river cruise with the almost full moon lighting our way. To move in silence upstream and to experience the incredible beauty of this place is a darshan in itself. Everything Osho said about the marble rocks is true, it is one of the wonders of the world. We stopped our boat after about half an hour, and clambered out onto some ghostly white marble rocks which were jutting out into the river. Some people meditated, some people slept, and we were all lulled into the very heart of beauty and silence. It was utterly magical. Anil told us, if we want to come back for a longer time, he can take us on a trip to the marble rocks lasting a few days, and we can just be in the nature imbibing the beauty. He also guides people into Tantric experiences using the 64 sculptures at the Yogini temple in his village. When we visited the temple, it was amazing to feel the energy emanating from the deity inside, the only one of it&#8217;s kind in the world, a sculpture of Shiva and Paravati on their marriage day, riding on the back of a bull.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidikapetterson/sets/72157625401442425/">Jabalpur photo gallery</a></p>
<div id="attachment_991" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Osho-maid.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-991 " style="margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;" title="DSCF3404" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Osho-maid-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Former maid in Osho&#39;s house recounts tales of him as a boy</p></div>
<p>With much gratefulness in our hearts for Anil, we then journeyed 5 hours by Taxi over abominable roads, to reach Osho&#8217;s birthplace. There is an Osho ashram there, run by both Japanese and Indians. It is right on the edge of Osho&#8217;s birth village, a tiny hamlet, with houses made of mud brick and cow dung. Crowds of children swarmed around us as we made our way to the house which had been Osho&#8217;s home for the first 7 years of his life, the house of his grandparents. The house is abandoned, though it has been kept from complete ruin through the efforts of the nearby ashram. What I experienced meditating in that humble room where he was born, is beyond words. Tears kept welling up in my eyes as I found myself in resonance with the immensity of his soul, born into simplicity and innocence, yet brimming over with enlightened presence. We were guided to the mud, straw and stick hut of a very old woman who was a maid servant in Osho&#8217;s grandparents house when Osho was a child there. With ever present raucous laughter, she recounted how he never worked, but simply drank milk, a real lord of the manor so to speak. At the end of our meeting, we found ourselves showering her with money and expressing our gratitude to her for looking after the well being of our master so many years before.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidikapetterson/sets/72157625526987732/">Osho&#8217;s birthplace photo gallery</a></p>
<div id="attachment_993" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Panachmi-holy-mountain.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-993 " style="margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;" title="DSCF3549" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Panachmi-holy-mountain-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">At the foot of the holy mountain</p></div>
<p>The next day, we came to Pachmari, a hill station, which has many sacred sites and breathtaking views over a vast terrain of wild forests, lakes and rivers. Here, we relaxed in a very luxurious hotel, decorated in a style reminiscent of the British Raj with wonderful vibrant gardens, and a staff ever ready to wait on us hand and foot. This is a great way to unwind and relax after the series of very intense experiences. Today, in the morning, we walked up 1200 steps to the top of a mountain with a Shiva temple on top. The temple was not very interesting, having been left incomplete, but the views as we climb up and down are phenomenal. And to top it all off, an Ayurvedic massage with a 3rd generation practitioner of this art, who is very gifted. This helped to iron out  very sore muscles from the climb up the holy mountain.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidikapetterson/sets/72157625402037937/">Pachmari photo gallery</a></p>
<p>Stay tuned for more sacred tours, with Niten and Santoshi as guides!</p>
<p>Love</p>
<p>Sarita</p>
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		<title>Aligning with the matrix</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended my first Tachyon group. It was lead by Sarita and Qiming and combined together Tachyon and Tantric meditations for the first time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Aligning with the matrix, entraining with the trees…</strong></p>
<p>Last week I attended my first Tachyon group. It was lead by Sarita and Qiming and combined together Tachyon and Tantric meditations for the first time. I originally came across Tachyon at the Osho ashram in Pune, India when my friend showed me her Tachyonised necklace. I think it was the same year when I met David Wagner, the inventor of the Tachyonization process, who was giving a demonstration in the ashram. It sounded fascinating but I didn&#8217;t jump in at that time. Many years later, I experienced the restorative effects of the Tachyon cocoon during lunch breaks on Sarita&#8217;s Tantra courses at Croydon Hall &#8211; quite amazing!</p>
<p>A little more time went by and I had my most quantifiable healing with the cocoon. I was on a 5 day residential Tantra Course with another Tantra teacher and had arrived with an upset stomach &#8211; OK let&#8217;s be blunt &#8211; I had diarrhoea and was feeling pretty untantric. I&#8217;d come straight from a voice workshop so it was probably a clearing from that but that was small comfort at the time. As the days went by, I seemed to get weaker and weaker and was not really enjoying myself so much &#8211; not so easy to be sitting in Yab Yum where too much relaxation may have been unfortunate!</p>
<p>Anyhow, after 3 or 4 days, the lovely Tanja (who I didn&#8217;t really know at the time) asked me in the evening if I was still feeling bad &#8211; I nodded bleakly and she whisked me up to her room and put me in her cocoon  while she went off to the party downstairs. Ah what bliss, I began to feel myself being worked on by the Tachyon energy and soon fell asleep. I woke up about two hours later, felt slightly alarmed that perhaps I&#8217;d overcooked myself, folded up the cocoon, went back to my room and went to bed. Next morning, I felt like anew person, full of energy, no sign of upset stomach and extremely relieved to be back in the Tantra groove.</p>
<p>And now finally here I was in my first Tachyon group and eagerly awaiting my very own Tachyonised Vortex pendant which I had been assured would align my chakras. I&#8217;d been having a bit of a rough ride over the last few weeks so I was looking forward to the energetic support offered. The other participants came from far and wide  -Norway, Poland and Brazil were well-represented &#8211; everyone with their different story of how they had first encountered Tachyon.</p>
<p>Sarita and Qiming told us of the coming delights of the group &#8211; great anticipation and excitement. &#8220;OK, that&#8217;s the good news&#8221;, said Sarita. &#8220;Now for the bad news &#8211; the Tachyon pendants haven&#8217;t yet arrived and appear to have got lost in the international post!&#8221; Tanja and Qiming&#8217;s husband Gordon were doing their best to trace them but unfortunately Tracking numbers didn&#8217;t translate from one country to another. Always one to see the opportunity value of a &#8216;problem&#8217;, Sarita explained how valuable it was to experience some of the exercises without wearing the pendant and then notice the difference when we did them again with our pendant. She explained that sometimes people got lazy and just expected the Tachyon pendant to do all the work for them, whereas in reality we still had to do the work of transformation for ourselves, with the Tachyon there to enhance and provide a sustained support for the energy work. Everyone seemed remarkably unphased and raring to go pendant or no pendant.</p>
<p>The first day included a fair amount of information on what Tachyon energy is and how it derives from the Zero Point Field and interacts with the &#8216;subtle organising energy fields&#8217; around all matter. The SOEFs ( a term coined by Gabriel Cousens of raw food fame) are essentially a blueprint or matrix for all matter. I absolutely love this kind of stuff and get really inspired exploring the territory where spirituality and science meet. We looked at the chakra system and how when this is fully open to the descent of divine energy, this is known as being vertically aligned and how trees and plants and most animals are naturally in this state &#8211; it&#8217;s only in humans and sometimes their pets) were things begin to go awry. The Tachyon pendant helps pierce open this channel and keeps us in vertical alignment.</p>
<p>Sarita explained about the concept of bifurcation &#8211; the way life repeatedly switches between order and chaos. In the chaos (or bifurcation) phase there is a choice &#8211; a reassemblage to a higher order of evolution or a breakdown into entropy and lower levels of order &#8211; it&#8217;s all a matter of consciousness. Disease occurs where bifurcation has led to entropy. This period on our planet is also a bifurcation point culminating in the changes in 2012. Tachyon speeds up the bifurcation process and helps us move through our &#8216;stuff&#8217; &#8211; i.e all that is preventing us from living to our fullest divine potential. The various meditations and practices which we would be learning during the group would help us to handle this increased transformational load. I must admit, I had a slight wobble at this point &#8211; &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I already have enough going on already without speeding it up?&#8221;, I asked myself.</p>
<p>At the end of a very full day I travelled back on the bus with fellow participant Sam &#8211; we had a great time discussing energy, metaphysics and shamanism. Next day we did some beautiful Tantric meditations and began our entrainment practices with the trees, bushes and flowers in the garden.</p>
<div id="attachment_872" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 302px"><img class="size-full wp-image-872" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/n645348689_2198970_808871_tree-Lady.jpg" alt="Here's a tree I would love to have entrained with - isn't she gorgeous!" width="292" height="281" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Here&#39;s a tree I would love to have entrained with - isn&#39;t she gorgeous!</p></div>
<p>Entrainment is a process where you come into resonance with something and literally become it &#8211; I was already familiar with it from my shamanic studies (where it&#8217;s known as grocking) and also through one of the meditations in theVigyan Bhairav Tantra Online Meditation Series. Even so, I did find it quite challenging at times &#8211; Oh mind, please be a servant and not the master! Coming into resonance with a tree which is naturally in perpetual vertical alignment, helps us to access that space ourselves. I think I need to divorce my computer for a while and go and live in the woods for a bit &#8211; there&#8217;s some beautiful woods close to where I live in Bristol and I always feel immensely nourished when I walk there &#8211; now I understand better why.</p>
<p>Over the next few days we explored several more Tantric meditations including some of my favourites from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. A particularly powerful one for me was one practicing The Great Law of Magic which can be stated as &#8220;Live the results and the cause will follow.&#8221; Sarita asked us to choose one strong desire and then write down what we would be feeling once we had achieved that desire. I wont say here what my desire was (big clue: to do with relationships!) but what I imagined I was wanting through the fulfilment of this desire was to feel &#8216;relaxed and joyful&#8217;. At first, I thought this sounded a bit tame, but it was what came to me spontaneously and the more we continued with the exercise expressing these particular qualities, the more I realised how profound and yet obvious was this insight. I am a self-confessed workaholic and can be a wee bit serious at times. In my early days in the Osho ashram, I was a zealous practitioner of Tibetan Pulsing ( a bit like sustained Shiatsu) and the organ I resonated was Lungs &#8211; which in the positive expresses joy and in the negative takes on too much and gets stressed (i.e. opposite to relaxed!). Here was a clear message to me &#8211; a useful filter when presented with choices- will this new opportunity bring me joy and relaxation or something else &#8211; perhaps more ego-fulfilling, but ultimately less nourishing? Of course, it&#8217;s not quite as simple as that (or is it??) but I feel quite excited at the prospect of a new joyful and relaxed me!</p>
<p>I found some of the practices we learned to help us deal with bifurcation accelerated by Tachyon quite demanding. We did some very powerful work on dissolving the ego using a technique invented by David Wagner &#8211; something which I will continue to use &#8211; as naturally some of my ego escaped! All of this work was hugely nourished by the delicious raw food lunches which arrived everyday and the exquisite raw chocolate cake in the afternoon tea break! Other highlights of the group for me were the party and Qiming&#8217;s demonstration of the various Tachyon products available. Finally we came to say goodbye, and were all wearing our beautiful new Tachyon pendants (which arrived by courier at the venue at the same time as the original order meandered it&#8217;s way to Qiming&#8217;s house!). I&#8217;m sure I saw a glint in Sarita&#8217;s eye when she kissed me goodbye and said, &#8220;Ah Sidika, I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing about your bifurcation processes!</p>
<p>For the next four days I found myself on a Tachyon honeymoon &#8211; feeling very peaceful and relaxed. A big bifurcation blip on day five, precipitated by some weird dreams and soothed by a couple of self-applied mini Colour Light Therapy treatments (thanks for the suggestions, Kamla!) and then OK again the last couple of days &#8211; the process continues! I do really sense a shift in my core to a more self-compassionate, relaxed way of being&#8230;.something which I hope will blossom in the Tantra Meditation Retreat in Dharamsala next month. Hooray &#8211; back to India after an absence of more than six years!</p>
<p>For anyone else who participated in the Infinity: Power of Now Tachyon/Tantra combo group, remember to email Sarita with your experiences &#8211; or perhaps even put them as comments on this blog. Happy processing!</p>
<p>Love and alignment</p>
<p>Sidika (newly Tachyonized version)</p>
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		<title>Meditation of the month: August</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malika</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Absorb senses in the heart</strong></p>
<p>This is a meditation from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, the sutra is:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Blessed one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the centre of the lotus.&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p>This meditation is using the heart principle, which transforms everything into love. It is very important in terms of not only life but also death, because the heart principle is trying every moment to transform any unfinished business into love. Whatever is not fully lived will be purified in the fire of love in the heart</p>
<p>You can use this meditation to awaken the maximum experience of the senses. At any time of the day when you are having a sensorial experience, you can close your eyes for a moment, absorb that experience in the heart and see how it feels. You can also do it as a specific meditation, with a partner:</p>
<p><strong>Step 1</strong></p>
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<p>Blindfold your partner and stimulate their senses in turn: smell, taste, sound, touch and sight.</p>
<p><strong>Smell</strong>: using natural scents such organic essential oils or flowers, wave them in front of your partner’s nose and allow them time to drink in the smell.</p>
<p><strong>Taste</strong>: using different foods, offer all the tastes to your partner – salty, sweet, bitter, pungent, sour. If we use all the five tastes this will be very empowering for our life, because a rich and full life contains all these tastes.</p>
<p><strong>Sound</strong>: you could use very soft music, or tinkling bells, a soft flute, or so on, simply murmur sweet nothings into your partner’s ear, or sing to them. Make sure you give them an experience of sound, then silence, sound then silence.</p>
<p><strong>Touch</strong>: for this you can use caressing, massage, drape a silk scarf or a peacock feather over your partner – whatever comes to mind, be creative!</p>
<p><strong>Sight</strong>: put on some wonderful music, remove your partner’s blindfold and do a dance for them. They are simply visually connecting with what they are seeing &#8211; you dancing!</p>
<p>Once you have been through all the senses with your partner, exchange. If you are doing this with a lover, it is a really beautiful prelude to love making.</p>
<p>For the person receiving all of these different sensorial experiences, just absorb all of it into the heart, each time.</p>
<p><strong>Like to try more meditations like this? Then join Sarita’s <span style="text-decoration: underline">Vigyan Bhairav Tantra club</span>! &lt;</strong><strong> <a href="http://www.schoolofawakening.com/vigyan-bhairav-tantra-webinar.php">http://www.schoolofawakening.com/vigyan-bhairav-tantra-webinar.php</a>&gt; </strong></p>
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		<title>Meditation of the Month; May &#8211; orgasmic joy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 11:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malika</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Toss attachment for body aside, realising I am everywhere. One who is everywhere is joyous.&#8221; </strong></p>
<p>From the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra</p>
<p>To understand this meditation we need to begin from the last word; &#8216;joyous.&#8217; If you go deeply into the feeling of joy it becomes clear that joy as such has no container. When we are in a state of pure joy, there is no mind, no awareness of physical limitations. Rather, there is a feeling of limitlessness, expansiveness, lightness. There is a saying, &#8220;angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.&#8221; Yes, and humans can also have the experience of being weightless and free to fly. The moment we are in love, there is joyous abandon. In this sense, love becomes the bridge from the density of form to formlessness and expansion.</p>
<p>One of the easiest ways to experience the nectar of this sutra is through orgasm. When you are with your lover, in total abandon, surrendered to powerful surges of pleasure and ecstasy, you can go into such a deep let go that you completely forget you have a body or mind. In the moment of orgasm, even though the impulse for orgasm is physical, it has the capacity of propelling us from a full body experience of ecstasy into an out of the body merging with the cosmos. We literally, &#8220;toss attachment for body aside&#8221; as we plunge into the free-fall known as orgasm.</p>
<p>Once we have learned the language of orgasm, then we can apply this same principle to meditation in general. Looking at a sunrise is enough to bring it on. Walking through the forest is enough to help you take flight. Sitting on your meditation cushion can become ascension from the finite to the infinite. The language of orgasm is the same language of mystic experience of all kinds.</p>
<p>The first step is to be in a full body aliveness.</p>
<p>The 2nd step is to be in a deep let go, surrendered and in trust of what is arising.</p>
<p>The 3rd step is to move beyond body and mind.</p>
<p>The 4th step is to dissolve into the whole.</p>
<p>Down the ages, mystics have described the experience of enlightenment in very similar ways. Some of the main descriptions which are used are:</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no more I as separate from the whole.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There is oneness with all that is; I am the tree, I am the rock, I am the rivers and the oceans, I am the whisper of the wind in the trees.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Body dissolves into pure light&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is the ultimate orgasm with the universe&#8221;</p>
<p>You can begin this meditation by learning the language of orgasm, and then apply this quality to as many areas in your life as you can. The sutra in this way will become such an alive and vibrant door for you, that one day, whenever you are ready, you will know the fullness of the blessing that the sutra is describing. You have nothing to lose but your inhibitions, and a whole universe to gain.</p>
<p>Like to try more meditations like this? There’s still time to join Sarita’s <a title="VBT club" href="http://www.schoolofawakening.com/vigyan-bhairav-tantra-webinar.php" target="_blank">Vigyan Bhairav Tantra club</a>! Read <a title="Roxana's VBT blog" href="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/2010/05/vbt-meditation-series/" target="_blank">Roxana’s blog</a> on her joy of being part of this unique experience. We are currently in the phase where Sarita is speaking live in the video chat room on specific facets of tantra every two weeks. When this is over we will most likely have these live events every 4 to 6 weeks and questions on any facet can be asked of Sarita. And remember, you can jump in at any point &#8211; the modules don’t need to be taken in any specific order.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roxana</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listening intently to Sarita’s embodied wisdom and melting into her sweet smile my spirit sang to have her here in the comfort of my living room, on my computer screen. Her radiant presence was beaming out to me through her new webinar course on the <a title="Vigyan Bhairav Tantra Meditation Series" href="http://www.schoolofawakening.com/vigyan-bhairav-tantra-webinar.php" target="_blank">Vigyan Bhairav Tantra</a>. As I drank in her words new nuances of understanding grew in me regarding meditations I have learned through her couples <a title="Tantra for Couples" href="http://www.schoolofawakening.com/tantra-for-couples.php" target="_blank">Soulmate Training</a>. I also relished the opportunity to dive into completely new meditations I had not yet met.</p>
<p>As Sarita shared from the depth of her experiences, I rejoiced in the knowledge that these discourses would be widely available all over the planet for many, many years. We live in a speedy age of information where little attention is given to wisdom. We can gather all the information we desire at the mere click of a mouse. Despite this I often hear people wonder why, if they know and agree with a spiritual truth they still struggle to live by it. They find that they struggle to relate to others, the world and indeed their own selves through the truths they aspire to. To be informed is clearly not enough to live by these truths. Being informed is simply the beginning of a process of knowing. To actually live these truths may require a lifetime of dedication and practice, whereby these teachings are woven through inner and outer experience into bodily knowing, wisdom.</p>
<p>Our deeds then quite naturally arise from these embodied truths.  As a teacher in the <a title="Steiner schools" href="http://www.steinerwaldorf.org/" target="_blank">Rudolf Steiner schooling tradition</a>, I organized the lessons for my class always bearing in mind the oft quoted Steiner education maxim “from the hands through the heart to the head”. This served as a reminder to me that for deep learning to occur, the children firstly need to experience with their bodies, (the hands aspect). Next the material needs to be internalized into their feeling lives and be met with creativity (the heart aspect). Only when absorbed and digested in this manner can healthy full concepts rise to the head as knowing. Sarita’s webinar reminded me of this integrating direction to follow when seeking to gain knowledge.</p>
<p>The meditations offered by the <a title="Vigyan Bhairav Tantra Meditation Series" href="http://www.schoolofawakening.com/vigyan-bhairav-tantra-webinar.php" target="_blank">Vigyan Bhairav Tantra</a> are invitations to experience with our bodies, to do. Regular practise then deepens this doing to a heart felt relationship with the meditations we are drawn to. Then by engaging with the community of meditators that gather through the webinar series and Sarita’s question and answer sessions, we can raise our doing and feeling connection into deeper understanding. Hence the energy of our experience penetrates our spirit and wisdom is born!</p>
<p>Additionally something quite unique is available for us in this webinar series. In having a guide such as Sarita we benefit from the subtle and potent transmission of a master who is committed to this path of learning, having lived and digested it over the last 37 years, many of them spent at Osho’s side. We receive the fruits of her long practice. I encourage all of you to taste this fruit. Whether we are single or in a couple, able or not to accompany her on the retreats in Croydon Hall, India and elsewhere, we can dedicate time for our own practice and participate from our own homes in this precious work of awakening.</p>
<p><strong>With love,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Roxana</strong></p>
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<p><em>You can register for the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra series with our hosts, the University of Integrated Science</em><em> at www.uisca.org </em><em>- not sure if it&#8217;s for you? Watch the introductory video on the UISCA site, or see the trailer </em><a title="Vigyan Bhairav Tantra trailer" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a-nxQ1je_Q" target="_self"><em>here</em></a></p>
<p><em><em>Roxana teaches levels 1-3 of the School of Awakening <a title="Couples Tantra" href="http://www.schoolofawakening.com/tantra-for-couples.php" target="_blank">Soulmate Training</a> for couples, and also her own Tantra groups in London. Click </em><a title="Tantra with Roxana" href="http://www.tantrawithroxana.com/" target="_blank"><em>here</em></a><em> for her website.</em></em></p>
<p><em><em>Picture of Roxana copyright </em><em>Amano Samarpan &#8211; www.amanosamarpan.com </em></em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarita launched her first virtual Tantra group by inviting a world-wide community of meditators to have a live chat with her!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Launch of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra online meditation series</em></p>
<p>WOW!! We did it! We officially launched Sarita’s first (of many) online Tantra classes last night, with a fun 45 minutes of live chat. We were joined by 30 people from across the world, who asked many deep and penetrating questions&#8230;&#8230;.. and had a lot of laughs in the process!</p>
<p>I was so touched by the warmth and love flowing out of everybody there, even across the internet miles. This is the start of a very beautiful club of meditators! Let’s see how many thousands we can get to join in &#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>If you didn’t make it to the chat room, you can still watch the intro video for free (it will be up for years to come!), and you can subscribe to the series for the six exquisite classes, full of Sarita’s wisdom and love, each one offering four meditations.</p>
<p>See you in the next live chat!</p>
<p>Love and blessings,</p>
<p>Malika xxxxxxx</p>
<div id="attachment_482" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-482" src="http://blog.schoolofawakening.com/wp-content/uploads/Yantra-small-300x293.jpg" alt="Yantra representing the 12 facets of Tantra Sarita will cover in the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra couse" width="300" height="293" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Yantra representing the 12 facets of Tantra Sarita will cover in the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra couse</p></div>
<p><strong>and Sidika….</strong></p>
<p>How exciting was that?!</p>
<p>We were all in the chat room a few minutes early making our final preparations. At one point I was on the phone to California, Skype calling with Sarita’s technical assistant, Roland and type chatting in the chat room all at the same time! Verica from Norway appeared in the webcam gallery at the top of the chat room, and a few other friends with webcams popped up too. More and more people were joining the chat room and people were saying Hi to each other in the chat box. And then I could hear Roland say “OK one minute to go” and then “Quiet everybody. We’re live!” Sarita appeared on the video screen, smiling radiantly and welcoming everyone who was joining us on this new adventure.</p>
<p>The questions rolled in and Sarita answered with her customary wisdom and insight, sprinkled with a liberal dose of humour. Some people were sharing how great it was to have such easy access to her guidance – one woman was especially happy to be there and explained how it wasn’t easy for her to participate in residential groups because she had young children.</p>
<p>There was a tangible buzz of excitement and appreciation in the air &#8211; appreciation for Sarita (and her industrious production team!) and for the technology that made it all possible. This couldn’t have happened a few years ago. It feels like the start of something very special!</p>
<p>I’m very much looking forward to our next one!</p>
<p>See you there.</p>
<p>Love</p>
<p>Sidika</p>
<p>The next live chat will be for subscribers to the series and is on Monday, 29<sup>th</sup> March at 8pm. Sarita will be answering your questions on Sex, Birth and Death and Senses.  The video class will be available to subscribers by Saturday, 27<sup>th</sup> March. There will be an opportunity to share your experience of the meditations after you’ve been practising them in the two weeks before the next live chat.</p>
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