Sally Kempton on Following the Nondual Path of the Divine Feminine (#155)

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Posted on March 14, 2023
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This episode of Chitheads is a talk from Sally Kempton republished from Embodied Philosophy’s 2017 Radical Body Conference.  In this episode, Sally talks about Goddess practice as a spiritual technology and provides guided practices experiencing the divine feminine through the breath, through being seen by the divine, and through a formal meditation on the goddess Lalita.

About the Guest

Sally Kempton is a master of meditation, yoga philosophy, and practical tantric philosophy. Her retreats and workshops are known for creating breakthroughs, born of her ability to help people turn sublime truths into lived, and life-shifting, experience. Sally spent 20 years as a swami in a Vedic order and has been studying and teaching spiritual wisdom for 40 years. She is the author of Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga and Meditation for the Love of It, a seminal book on basic meditation practice, and writes the popular Yoga Journal column, Wisdom. Learn more at sallykempton.com.

In this episode, we discuss:

  1. Goddess practice as a spiritual technology.
  2. Sacred Feminine practice in tantric practice.
  3. Experiencing Archetypal Goddess energies.
  4. Fast-tracking awakening through the empowerment that Goddess gives us.
  5. Three core practices for invoking Goddess.
  6. The breath as a vehicle through which Goddess flows into your body.
  7. Lalita energy as a model for the feminine, as self-empowered blissfulness, and the force behind genuine creativity.

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