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Awakening Shiva Immersion Retreat

Access the Shiva tattva within you, that Shiva state. Locate that dimension where Shiva and Shakti merge, awakening the great Kundalini. Overcome the darkness and move in the direction of light. Live life from a place of unity. Internal and external sadhana merging; silence within, love without.

The invitation of Shiva is to live with palms open, not fists clenched. The harder you try to grab sand, the less you have of it. Realise the impermanence of all forms, structures, roles, empires, civilizations, even solar systems and, ultimately, also the universe. It’s all events unfolding at different rates. Universes within universes. When the yogi starts to see the truth of who they are, they are established in vairagyam (detachment). They don’t hold on tight anymore. They live with palms open. Only then can you have it all. Nothing to lose, only to gain.

Shiva Sadhana

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Retreat Schedule

Day 1: Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Access the dimension of Shiva, where there are no boundaries, no isolated identities, just the boundless field. Truth is found only within. And it’s only this truth that will set you free. That is Shiva. The vastness you feel within yourself is the domain of Shiva; the spaciousness, the infinite field, the silence that gives birth to all shape and form. The one who looks out, dreams; the one who looks within awakens. And the only way out is in!

Day 2: Yoga Journey - Access the Dimension of Shiva

Journey: Access the Dimension of Shiva

Explore the big bang theory, the dimension of Param Shiva and Param Shakti, Shiva as the master of time, Rudra (the ferocious one), the symbology of the Shiva Lingam, the five faces of Shiva and the five distinct values of Shakti.

Day  2: Satsang - Intro to Shiva

Satsang: Intro to Shiva

Tune into the value of stillness, the state of Shunya, with Annemarie in this subtle Shiva set. Drop into the gap, the gap between thoughts, the place where Shiva lives.

Day 2:  The Abode of Shiva Kriya Set

The Abode of Shiva Kriya Set

A Yagya is a sacred fire ceremony. They have been used for thousands of years in the yogic tradition, to support in gaining intensity around an intention. That intensity itself becomes a creative force. What is it that you are willing to surrender? What is it that you are ready to call in? Allow your intention to ripple out into the field.

Day 2: Fire Ceremony - Yagya

Yagya

You and the universe are intimately interlinked in eternity. You are as much living the universe as the universe is living you. You are as much living Shiva as Shiva is living you. Do not let reductionist tendencies rob you of your own sacred identity, of your own luminous centre. Let go of all that doesn’t serve you. All ideas and stories that keep you separate from the source of love. Experience the unity within your heart See the face of the absolute in the most intimate manner.

Day 3: Yoga Journey - See the Face of the Absolute

Journey: See the Face of the Absolute

Explore Nataraj (The Lord of the Theatre) and Nandi (The Gatekeeper). Discover how to access the Shiva state by passing through Nandi and how to tune yourself, coming back into flow, so that you are no more fighting with existence but rather maintaining an elegant dance.

Day 3: Satsang - Exploring Nandi and Nataraj

Satsang: Exploring Nandi and Nataraj

Experience yourself on the mountain top, like Shiva, with tears of grace, of gratitude, after the great dance of liberation. You are the dance and the dancer. You are the experience and the experiencer. You are the timeless and the timebound. Experience the stillness within the movement. Allow Nataraj to become alive within you.

Day 3: Cosmic Dance Kriya Set

Cosmic Dance Kriya Set

Day 3: Fire Ceremony - Yagya

Invoke the qualities of Shiva within you; authenticity, purity, fearlessness, auspiciousness. Access your authentic Self. Knowing yourself beyond the body is the beginning of knowing God, as the Self is inseparable from source. Know the part of you that is unborn, that is undying, that part that is just changing clothes.

Day 4: Yoga Journey - Access Your Authentic Self

Journey: Access Your Authentic Self

Explore Kal Bhairav, Kali, and Kashi (‘The City of Light’). Discover how to overcome fear, accessing the sacred within it; how to move from meaninglessness to experiencing deep meaning; how to embrace the polarities that exist and taste the unity within them so that the whole of life becomes a Prashad, a gift.

Day  4: Satsang - Mastery Over Fear

Satsang: Mastery Over Fear

Our path is to be in the world but not of it. We need to come to clarity but then we also need to stay in alignment. For this, we need a strong energetic field as, through living, we can become disturbed by static in the environment and go out of tune.  Shivratri is a time where you can really strengthen the auric field as there is an upsurge in energy at this time of year and we use this energy to generate a strong field around us, to generate a capacity which cannot be swayed. Receive guidance on the Shivratri sadhana from Anand Ji.

Day 4: Shivratri Sadhana Guidance

Shivratri Sadhana Guidance

Receive initiation into the Shivratri sadhana. This sadhana takes you to the level of fine thought, where you can initiate intentions, reverberating the cosmos in your favour.

Day 4: Shivratri Sadhana Initiation

Shivratri Sadhana Initiation

A yagya is a sacred fire ceremony. They have been used for thousands of years in the yogic tradition, to support in gaining intensity around an intention. That intensity itself becomes a creative force. What is it that you are willing to surrender? What is it that you are ready to call in? Allow your intention to ripple out into the field.

Day 4: Fire Ceremony - Yagya

See the Self beyond this body, where the boundary between the Self and the extended field is not so rigid, where the space is not experienced as a separator but a connector. Experience yourself in unity with the whole, the manifest and the unmanifest, the birds, the mountains, the rivers, the great forests, the trees, the flowers, the stars, the galaxies, clusters of galaxies; universe upon universes, the dance of Shiva. And see how all fear fades away, all doubt fades away, all gloom fades away in the light of truth.

Day 5: Yoga Journey - Cleanse Your Karmic Slate

Journey: Cleanse Your Karmic Slate

Delve into the symbolism of Vasuki, Shiva’s snake, and his army of outcast followers, the Ganas, along with their leader, Ganesha. Explore the hero’s journey, the meaning Rudraksha beads hold and how to have more dharmic relationships.

Day  5: Satsang - Exploring Vasuki and Shiva’s Army, the Ganas

Satsang: Exploring Vasuki and Shiva’s Army

Day 5: Fire Ceremony - Yagya

Be seen through the eyes of Shiva. Be seen through the eyes of infinity. Release all fear, all judgement, all critique, all anxiety towards the future, all resentment of the past. Release all attachment to suffering. No burden of thought. No burden of time. No anxiety about not being enough. Become one with Shiva, fearless. Experience Truth here and now.

Day 6: Yoga Journey - Become One with Shiva

Journey: Become One with Shiva

Dive into the symbolism of the story of the churning of the cosmic ocean of consciousness. Explore Shiva as the first teacher, Adiyogi, as Dakshinamurthy, and as Ardhanarishvara (half man, half woman) and understand why he is called Neelkanth (the one with the blue neck) and what his damaru (drum) and trident represent.

Day  6: Satsang - Access the Flow of Brilliance

Satsang: Access the Flow of Brilliance

Day 6: Fire Ceremony - Yagya

Drop into the Shiva state, experiencing deep stillness, expansiveness, spaciousness. Go beyond time. Make contact with the timeless. Become boundless!

Day 7: Yoga Journey - Access Your Boundless Nature

Journey: Access Your Boundless Nature

Explore the rainbow body, what happens after death, the bardos, hell, NDEs, desire, the play between light and darkness, becoming aware while sleeping and dharmic design of birth instead of karmic design.

Day  7: Satsang - Only the One Who Dies Truly Lives

Satsang: Only the One Who Dies Truly Lives

Day 7: Fire Ceremony - Yagya

Discover the meanings of Shambo, Shankara and Har Har Mahadev, along with how the Jyotirlingas came to be. Explore the tricks of the ego, how to embrace illumination, step into greatness and become a truly joyous person.

Day 8: Satsang - Har Har Mahadev

Satsang: Har Har Mahadev

Be guided to the silent field through the exquisite sound of Indian Ragas played by classically trained musicians.

Day 8: Maha Shivratri Kirtan

Maha Shivratri Kirtan

Gain intensity around your intention and radiate it out into the field through this Maha Shivratri Yagya.

Day 8: Maha Shivratri Yagya

Maha Shivratri Yagya

The night comes to a close with a meditation guided by Anand Ji, a Rudrabhishek Puja (where the 108 names of Shiva are chanted) and a heart opening kirtan. Sink deeper into stillness, while allowing awareness to expand. Shivratri signifies the great possibility of experiencing unity. Allow yourself to become aware of the Self before this body, the Self beyond this body. Becoming aware of the self at its finest level. Video recorded for live streaming purposes so quality may be less.

Day 8: Maha Shivratri Sacred Ritual - Part 1

Maha Shivratri Sacred Ritual: Part 1

Day 8: Maha Shivratri Sacred Ritual - Part 2

Maha Shivratri Sacred Ritual: Part 2

Dive deeper into what happens at body death, the dropping of the ego, the maintenance of the I Amness, that unique aperture, and the experience of time in the astral dimension. Explore pain, kundalini’s role in making the unconscious conscious and life’s invitation to love intensely.

Day 9: Satsang - Awakening Shakti

Satsang: Awakening Shakti

Experience that fundamental field of knowing where there is the end of all worry, the end of all fear, a life of immense possibility, a life of no opposition, a life of unity, an inspired life, a life of not seeking but discovering, a life of not pulling anyone down but lifting yourself and others up, a life beyond ego, beyond conflict, beyond the small ‘I’. Experience what it means to be truly free, without a care in the world, without any worry at all. No addiction to pleasing anyone; fierce yet compassionate. Don’t be a seeker. Be a discoverer! Video recorded for live streaming purposes so quality may be less.

Awakening Shiva Immersion Retreat

Awakening Shiva Immersion Retreat

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