Sarah LaFleur – DIKSHA: Initiation Into Tantric Arts

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Sarah LaFleur – DIKSHA: Initiation Into Tantric Arts

“Initiation is the container, the holding, that makes our meetings holy.”
-Dr. Martin Shaw
DIKSHA: Initiation; consecration; self-devotion.

The ancestors say initiation offers a direct, ritualized experience of huge, primeval forces that somehow live both in and near the psyche, what Robert Moore calls “the Great Self,” something numinous and vast, containing more energy than we could ever need. This Great Self has many names, and lives close to the mysteries.”

-Dr. Martin Shaw
Dearest loved ones, yoginis & yogis, poets, tantrikas, healers, activists, witches, story-tellers, visionaries, & friends of the mystery,

I invite you to listen closely to a story that is just beginning to stir.

It is a story that involves love, legend, mystery, and adventure.

It is a story that is both ancient, and perennial.

It is a story that requires great bravery, the kind that asks you to become the highest measure of yourself.

It is a story that requires equal tenderness, the kind that asks you to carry grief, and become intimate with suffering.

This story will ask of you your full share of humanity. It demands your hunger, wounds, & desires. It offers you gold, an encounter with an alluring devata, & the belief in something noble.

This story is your own journey:

your blazing poem,

your dazzling encounter with “the Great Self,”

& your reason for dreaming, seeking, & believing.

No one else can tell this story, or transcribe it on a fraying scroll.

It’s yours alone.

I offer you a pen & I invite you to do the work of grace & frenzy on the book of your soul.

Will you begin?

Diksha is an initiation into the depths of yourself. It is a mystical, creative immersion, soulful mentorship program, and collaborative, intimate learning experience. Diksha involves education and exploration in tantric and yogic philosophy and practice.

In the esoteric branch of tantra known as Shakta Tantra, devotees honor Devi, the Mother of Creation, with the understanding that Devi dispels shakti (power/energy of creation) & therefore comprises all of Creation.

Thus, everything is revered deeply as an expression of the Goddess — including desires, primal instincts, emotions, erotic yearnings, dreams, what sulks in the guts, sensation, & the dark tendrils of shadow.

The tantrika’s work is the work of embracing the human experience because it is all a reflection of the Goddess.

Diksha calls upon you to encounter your experience, seize magic, & catch poems. This work entails ritual, spiritual endeavor, story medicine, & creative modalities.

This work is supported by a powerful container for shakti: a tribe of tantrikas & inspiring comrades committed to fiercely embodying their work & walking the path with you.

In tantra philosophy, it is said that behind every desire is a devata at work. The devatas keep us incarnated & tied to the field of action, but they simultaneously crave liberation through us. This is part of the spell-binding dance between Shiva and Shakti, God and Creation, or the Dreamer and the Dream.

When the tantrika feels drawn toward something, she knows to pay careful attention. Yearnings hold the secret to liberation. She knows her heart’s stirrings are the work of divinity: a devata at play.

Perhaps these words conjure a similar sensation of curiosity. Maybe a dream is thrashing somewhere in the rib cage. A story might be whispering some intelligible realization in your ear.

This is your invitation. An invitation, to be drawn. To be encountered. To be liberated.

Will you begin?
We invite you to join us!

For more information, we welcome you to join our experiential class on Thursday, 6/25 @ 7-8:30 p.m. and/or our informational session on Sunday 6/28 @ 12 p.m.

For more information, visit

www.sarahannlafleur/diksha

or email [email protected].

Please note, Diksha will also host guest teachers and facilitators for special pop-up classes. More information will be released soon.
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Course Curriculum
Welcome to DIKSHA! Start here.

text icon Welcome! Your Guide to Membership.

text icon SCHEDULE –Class Links *CLICK HERE TO ACCESS SESSIONS* text icon Our Method: Class Descriptions & Important Info for New Students text icon Where & How to Begin: A Guide to Virtual Classes for New Students text icon Waiver for Movement & Embodiment Sessions text icon Statement on Safety & Inclusion video icon Logistics for Diksha (15:27)
November @ DIKSHA

text icon Syllabus: Plumbing the Bag of Shadow: Mining For Gold, Gifts, and Godliness

text icon Toolkit & Prasad (Resources & Offerings Related to Syllabus) text icon Sanskrit & Ashtanga Therapeutics for DIKSHA This Month text icon Don’t forget to sign up for your facilitation session for December! video icon Educational Seminar Sunday 11/1 @ 6-7:30 p.m. (68:25) text icon Saundarya Lahari Discussion Saturday 11/14 @ 10-11:30 a.m. text icon Tantric Arts Fundamendals Sunday 11/29 @ 6-7:30 p.m.
November @ The Tantric Arts Collective (Live Sessions)

text icon Movement & Embodiment

text icon Chanting Sessions text icon Sanskrit & Ritual text icon Writing the Body text icon New Lecture
Library for The Collective: Resources for Weekly Sessions

text icon *Intro to Sanskrit*

text icon *Yoga Sutras Workbook*

text icon Ashtanga Resources for Beginners & Experienced Students text icon Sanskrit Chanting Resources text icon Sanskrit Education (Grammar & Enrichment) text icon Cakra Resources text icon Tantric Arts Resources text icon Ancillary Resources
The Collective: All Sessions for July-October 2020

video icon Mantra Sadhana (37:33)

video icon Sanskrit & Ritual (182:12) video icon Shanti Mantras & Pranayama (78:55) video icon Transformative Tantric Arts (91:26) video icon Devi Puja (46:20) text icon Goddess Group video icon Cakra Embodiment (63:42) video icon Ashtanga Therapeutics (80:15) video icon Miracles & Manifestation Circle (61:45)
October @ DIKSHA

text icon Syllabus: Resurrecting the Divine Feminine: Claiming Womb Wisdom & Ancestral Medicine

text icon Resources for Enrichment & Sadhana video icon Educational Seminar Sunday 10/4 @ 6-7:30 p.m. EST (86:03) video icon Tantric Arts Fundamentals Sunday 10/25 @ 10-11 a.m. EST (71:27)
September @ DIKSHA

text icon September Syllabus

video icon Educational Seminar — Sun 9/6 @ 6-8 p.m. (93:44) video icon Sanskrit Session I — Mon 9/7 @ 4-6 p.m. (126:42) video icon Saundarya Lahari — Mon 9/21 @ 4-6 p.m. (37:28) text icon Ashtanga Therapeutics — Sat 9/26 @ 9:30-11 a.m. video icon Tantric Arts Fundamentals — Sun 9/27 @ 9:30-11 a.m. (60:57)
August @ DIKSHA

video icon Educational Seminar — Sun 8/2 @ 6-8 p.m. EST (111:52)

video icon Sanskrit Session I — Mon 8/3 @ 4-6 p.m. EST (148:25) video icon Saundarya Lahari — Mon 8/17 @ 4-6 p.m. EST (101:24) video icon Ashtanga Therapeutics — Sat 8/29 @ 9:30-11 a.m. EST (99:55) video icon Tantric Arts Fundamentals — Sun 8/30 @ 9:30-11 a.m.m EST (106:36)
DIKSHA: August 2020 Reading List & Resources

text icon August Syllabus

text icon Reading List text icon Reading Enrichment Selections text icon Daily Ritual: Yantra Drawing text icon Monthly Ritual: Constructing a Code of Liberation text icon Sanskrit Sessions text icon Ashtanga Therapeutics text icon Tantric Arts Fundamentals
July @ DIKSHA

text icon DIKSHA: Syllabus & Reading List for July 2020

video icon DIKSHA: Educational Seminar — SUN 7/5 @ 6-7:30 p.m. EST (122:43) video icon DIKSHA: Sanskrit Seminar: Part 1 — MON 7/6 @ 4-6 p.m. EST (145:25) video icon DIKSHA: Sanskrit Seminar: Part 2 — MON 7/20 @ 4-6 p.m. EST (124:25) video icon DIKSHA: Ashtanga Therapeutics Fundamentals — SAT 7/25 @ 11-1 p.m. EST (135:23) DIKSHA: Tantric Arts Fundamentals — SUN 7/26 @ 9-10:30 a.m. EST (109:47)
Moon Cycle Information

Full Moon Brahmari Practice 7/31

New Moon Monday 7/20

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