Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

Parvati stands there unmoving, deep in meditation on the mantra, “Om namah shivaya.”

So Parvati’s “No, mother!” moment is meant to reveal, first of all, that truly focused intention carries within it the seed of fulfillment. It is a truth that applies to every human endeavor.

Celebrating the goddesses has the potential not only to tune us to our own sacred capacities, but also to help us work with the hidden and secret forces at play in our lives. When we can do that, we can literally harness these forces for our own transformation.

So when the masculine wants power, it must draw it from the feminine, just as when the feminine wants to be conscious, to reflect, she must draw that capacity from her inner masculine source.

You’ll begin to tune into that subtle energy that in Sanskrit is called shri—best translated as “auspiciousness”—which is one of the gifts of the divine feminine.

a process of channeling that goes on in meditation, when we go into a state of stillness and drop a query into the heart. In that state, teachings and revelation and insight arise, which do feel as if they have been downloaded from a much larger field of wisdom.

In the same way, it is by withdrawing into our own being—through meditation or deep sleep—that we access the power with which we manifest creatively in our own life.

We’ll recognize our thoughts and feelings as goddess-energies.

Passion is crucial, because without strong erotic desire there is no energy to be transmuted into divine bliss. The Tantrikas understand that sexual energy is also the force behind spiritual evolution.