Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantra

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According to Wendy Doniger, the terms lingam and yoni became explicitly associated with human sexual organs in the western imagination after the widely popular first Kama Sutra translation by Sir Richard Burton in 1883. [45] In his translation, even though the original Sanskrit text does not use the words lingam or yoni for sexual organs, Burton adroitly sidestepped being viewed as obscene to the Victorian mindset by using them throughout in place of words such as penis, vulva, and vagina to discuss sex, sexual relationships and human sexual positions. [45] This conscious and incorrect word substitution, states Doniger, thus served as an Orientalist means to "anthropologize sex, distance it, make it safe for English readers by assuring them, or pretending to assure them, that the text was not about real sexual organs, their sexual organs, but merely about the appendages of weird, dark people far away." [45] Similar Orientalist literature of the Christian missionaries and the British era, states Doniger, stripped all spiritual meanings and insisted on the Victorian vulgar interpretation only, which had "a negative effect on the self-perception that Hindus had of their own bodies" and they became "ashamed of the more sensual aspects of their own religious literature". [46] Some contemporary Hindus, states Doniger, in their passion to spiritualize Hinduism and for their Hindutva campaign have sought to sanitize the historic earthly sexual meanings, and insist on the abstract spiritual meaning only. [46] Iconography and temples [ edit ] She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, founded the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which at its core, is a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Sexuality is an important force that we must understand in the process, whether we choose to express it in a human relationship or renounce it for a solitary path. But sexuality is not the be all and end all of Tantric Yoga.

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exclusive access to the activity feed where I’ll post my latest c reative offerings and wild ideas, in the form of written and spoken prose, poetry, stories, fantastic adventures and traveller’s tales. How women of colour are treated and the yoga stereotype of skinny, white, rich yogi (nothing wrong with that, but that is what’s widely promoted). Korda, Joanna B.; Goldstein, Sue W.; Sommer, Frank (2010). "Sexual Medicine History: The History of Female Ejaculation". The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Elsevier BV. 7 (5): 1968–1975. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01720.x. PMID 20233286. This spacious thirteen minute yoga nidra practice is the opening invocation to Yoni Shakti. In this version, the word CUNT is used to locate energy in the yoni. Jones, Constance; Ryan, James D. (2006). Encyclopedia of hinduism. Infobase publishing. p.156 & 157. ISBN 0-8160-7564-6.The yoni has served as a divine symbol from ancient times, and it may well be the oldest spiritual icon not only in India but across many ancient cultures. [22] Some in the orthodox Western cultures, states the Indologist Laura Amazzone, have treated the feminine sexual organs and sexuality in general as a taboo subject, but in Indic religions and other ancient cultures the yoni has long been accepted as profound cosmological and philosophical truth, of the feminine potential and power, one mysteriously interconnected with the natural periodic cycles of moon, earth and existence. [22] A jatalinga with yoni. Sensual touching is a great way to warm up for a yoni massage. Involve the breasts, areola, abdomen and belly, upper legs and inner thighs. Massage, touch, and pull on these areas however feels good. Work down the body toward the vulva.

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a b Hugh B. Urban (2009). The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies. I.B.Tauris. pp.170–171. ISBN 978-0-85773-158-6. Respectful connection to the Ten Wisdom Goddesses (Daśa Mahāvidya) as guardians of the ‘female siddhis’, initiations, into power through life wisdom. The linga and the yoni are united in the chakra or the wheel, with the linga as the axis and the yoni as the circumference. The Hindu usage of chakras in rituals and in art also reflects the union of these two powers. Similarly, each chakra of the subtle body shows the union of the Shiva and Shakti energies operative at its particular level of manifestation. There are various other lingas and yonis in the chakras that hold the inner keys to yogic energies.

Yoni Shakti: The Movement

All the practices in this immersion experience have been developed since 1998 by yoga therapist Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD and are described in her book Yoni Shakti. Uma shares these practices in this online immersion course with her long-standing teaching colleague Sivani Mata Francis, artist and bhakti yogini. Sivani Mata and Uma’s conversations are the heart of this immersion experience, and Sivani Mata’s drawings illustrate the course material. In recent months we’ve been offering our Level 1 workshops as “Gift Economy”. This means participants pay only the food and accomodation costs. Participants are invite to contribute to tuition […]