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Join Shambhavi Sarasvati for a weekly exploration of self-realization, death, love, devotion, and waking up while living in a messy world. Satsang is an ancient spiritual practice from India. It means "being in reality together." During satsang, people gather with a teacher to learn, ask questions, find community, chant and sing. Shambhavi gives satsang in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere. The dharma talks offered here are recordings of the live satsang. Shambhavi is the spiritual director of ...
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Chitheads is a smorgasbord of contemplative education. Each episode is like a mini masterclass, exploring the diverse landscapes of spiritual practice, philosophy, and the transformative power of embodied knowledge. Each episode is crafted with the curious and open heart in mind, aiming to illuminate the path of self-inquiry and empowerment for yoga teachers, scholar-practitioners, meditators and other spiritual seekers and contemplative folks from around the world. From the profound teachin ...
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Rock-Bottom Wisdom, Should I Share Teachings, and Intuition vs. Impulse
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You are so much more than you have been taught to believe. Feel for the natural desire to discover that! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jay…
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Working with Abusive Teachers, Prayer, and Cultivating Resilience
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JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula News FB group to get the Zoom link for satsang or show up in person at 4160 SE Division St, PDX. FIND OUT MORE AT JAYAKULA.ORG Curious t…
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In this episode of the podcast, we share an excerpt from the 30-Day Sādhana on the topic of bhāva, a Sanskrit word which has a number of different meanings, including emotion, being, becoming, and denotes a state of things that we bring into being through practice. It grounds a theory of imagination that is both illuminating and empowering. It grou…
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for…
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Shambhavi talks about the fruits of experiencing chaos and allowing ourselves to be moved to participate in life. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to joi…
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The Lineage of Immortals with Jason Birch
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Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval haṭha yoga and a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga Studies. His research includes locating and translating early yoga manuscripts, and preparing critical editions, such as of the Amaraugha. In this episode, Jason and Jacob discuss: what inspired Jason to pursue the study of Sanskrit texts the historical …
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Memory, Listening to the Teacher, and Mantra Wisdom Bombs
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for…
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Shambhavi discusses the benefits of sticking to a daily practice and the value of humility in spiritual life. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join th…
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Community as Sadhana—Hosting, Belonging, and Seva
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Participating in community is a training ground for learning to love everyone. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula News FB group to ge…
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The Willingness to Be Inconvenienced and Spiritual Strength
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for…
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Shambhavi discusses a retreat in India where she saw two women joyfully counting a few coins to give to the teacher. Without shame, they gave what they could. Listen to learn how this affected Shambhavi and Jaya Kula culture. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula commun…
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Insincerity in Your Practice, Resistance, and Dharmic Beauty
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This Crack in Time with Shambhavi Sarasvati
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Shambhavi Sarasvati is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, a nonprofit community in Portland, Oregon. Her principle training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism—also called Kashmir Shaivism—and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi is known for her humor and for making complex teachings about the nature of the self and reality unde…
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Roadside Motels, Black Magic, and Working With the Teacher’s Personality
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What Is God, Identifying With the Eternal, and How to Consult Wisdom
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Authenticity, Relating to Criticism, and Caring Communities
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JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula News FB group to get the Zoom link for satsang or show up in person at 4160 SE Division St, PDX. FIND OUT MORE AT JAYAKULA.ORG Curious t…
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Following, Yielding, and Working with Circumstance
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Shambhavi talks about receptivity as a form of hospitality and how acceptance is irrelevant when everything is made by God. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. …
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Transmission, Measuring Up, and Protecting Our Goodness
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Ancient Greek Wisdom with Athena Potari
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Athena Potari is a philosopher, spiritual teacher, and lineage holder of the Hellenic spiritual tradition. She is the founder of Athenoa – an Academy for Hellenic Wisdom in Greece, where Hellenism is approached as a living wisdom tradition whose core consists in the inextricable synthesis of scientific reason, self-inquiry and spirituality. Her wor…
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Dissatisfaction, Fear of Being Judged, and Noticing Other People
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In today's episode, Embodied Philosophy Founder Jacob Kyle is interviewed by Kelly Blaser for the 2024 Power of Meditation Summit. They discussed the role of the scholar-practitioner, the philosophical significance of "zero," the important synergy of knowledge and experience, "reappropriating God," and the necessary role of spirituality in the live…
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Self-Care, Humility, and Working with Teacher
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Strong Habit Patterns and Denaturalization
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Things could be otherwise. Realizing this is the first step to working with karmic habit patterns. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula…
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Yoga Teacher Travails & Transformations with Leslie Kaminoff
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Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar. He is an internationally recognized specialist with four decades’ experience in the fields of yoga and breath anatomy. He leads workshops for many of the leading yoga associations, schools and training programs in the world. Leslie’s book Yoga Anatomy, (co-authored w…
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Shambhavi reads a quote from Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and talks about finding home in your real nature. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya K…
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for…
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Defensiveness, Following, and Self Referentiality
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Shambhavi talks about Durga, Kali, and experiencing groundlessness when we step out of embodied concepts. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Ja…
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Magical Confidence and Questioning Our Perceptions
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Shambhavi talks about confidence in the eternal value of the self, gaslighting and seeing reality in a fresh way. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to joi…
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for…
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Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for…
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Transformation, Desire, and Multi-Tasking
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Continuity, Yielding, and Being Uncomfortable
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The Vibratory Power of Sanskrit with Lucy Crisfield
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About the Guest Lucy Crisfield is a speaker at the World Yoga Festival, a plenary speaker at the British Wheel of Yoga Festival, and the founder of ‘Original Wisdom’, through which she shares the inner teachings of mantra and yoga philosophy with sound, meditation, and scholarly precision. Lucy has just finished writing a book with the same title a…
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This whole manifest life is God’s art, and our bodies are instruments for doing sadhana. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula News FB g…
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When we are more awake, everything we do is worship. Readings from Anandamayi Ma and Utpaladeva. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula N…
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Consciousness, Doing vs Not Doing, and Avoiding Conflict
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Subversive Sanskrit Studies with Bihani Sarkar
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About the Guest Bihani Sarkar is a Calcutta-born, Oxford-educated, scholar of classical Sanskrit literature and pre-modern Indian history and religious traditions. Bihani is a historian of early Indian politics, religions, and literature (poetry and drama) between the 2nd and the 15th centuries CE. She is lecturer in Comparative Non-Western Thought…
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Direct Experience, Ancestor Puja, and Earnestness
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On the Role of the Guru with Hari-kirtana das, Ken Rose, Trish Tillman & Stephanie Corigliano
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About the Guests Hari-kirtana das is a yoga teacher, spiritual mentor, and author. He's been practicing devotional yoga and various other yogic disciplines for the better part of the last 50 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional spiritual communities, and has a talent for making complex ideas about spiritual philosophy easy to understand…
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Fierceness, Defensiveness, and Spiritual Opportunity
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How does the archetype of the heroic spiritual practitioner fit into a spiritual tradition that’s about relaxation? And does silence exist in a reality made of vibration? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm …
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Sweetness, Yielding to What Is, and Integrity
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We can directly consult and follow our felt sense of rightness in relationships. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. Ask to join the Jaya Kula News FB group to …
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Jealousy, Sharing Sweetness, and the Meaning of Kula
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About the Guest Tracee Stanley is the author of the bestselling book Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than twenty-five years of studentship in SriVidya Tantra and the teachings of the…
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Show Up For Your Practice and Engage the Teachings
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Shambhavi gives teachings on two precepts that can help us lead a healthy human life with more opportunity for waking up. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi JOIN US ON SUNDAYS FOR SATSANG & KIRTAN Please join Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community for live satsang and kirtan every Sunday at 3:30pm Pacific in Portland, Oregon or via livestream. As…
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