What is Shakti Yoga?
Shakti has many meanings. You can think of Shakti as sacred, feminine power or energy. The yin side of the yin/yang duality. She* is not exactly a Goddess but she is the divine feminine presence in each Goddess. Maya Tiwari describes Shakti as “the primordial energy of creation.” The feminine life force includes the energy of wisdom, creativity, receptivity, and so much more. Once you step onto the spiraling path of Shakti, you learn that her layers are never-ending.
Shakti Yoga was created by my teacher, Jasmine Rose. After many years on a solo, meditation path she felt a calling to create a devotional practice specifically for the female body. I studied with Jasmine throughout 2022 in her Shakti Yoga Teacher Training program and it was utterly life-changing on so many levels. It was a spiritual initiation into the feminine mysteries that we all should have received in our teens.
This Yoga is like no other.
Shakti Yoga is an embodiment practice that connects us with our innate feminine force. In a Shakti class, we center in our womb-space and let Shakti lead us, so we can be guided from our most authentic selves. We drop into our pelvis, our root, the bowl of our literal creation. We find out what we're made of while dancing, swirling and touching ourselves.
When you enter a Shakti Yoga retreat with me, you will be welcomed into a beautiful space with candles, flowers, ritual objects, oracle cards and more. You will introduce yourself in the circle and be held by me and other women as you practice together. You will be guided through Earth-grounding meditation, organic movement, ecstatic dance, deeply restorative savasana and reiki touch. All aspects of your female body’s life cycle will be honored and accommodated. So, if you are bleeding, pregnant, miscarrying, nursing, grieving or transitioning into menopause - this is the perfect space for you.
The way back to Shakti is through our female bodies. There are many individual practices included in Shakti Yoga that are designed to connect you with the parts of yourself that our culture does not make room for. As women, we spend so much of our lives trying to prove ourselves, accomplishing, doing, striving and caring for others that our feminine force of creativity is under-developed. So, we will touch ourselves over our clothing in class. If this idea makes you uncomfortable, then consider what you are missing out on when there are parts of yourself that don’t receive your attention. And you can always opt out of anything that is instructed. This is a space of supreme comfort.
Come as you are and bring your thirst for deep inner knowing.
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*We use feminine pronouns to describe Shakti and Goddess energies living within us in order to engage with the feminine force of life. It is not an energy that only belongs to cis-women. It belongs to us all. I strongly believe that any female-identifying person or a person with a womb can benefit from this Shakti Yoga practice.