Join me and our Wild Temple Community in a group study this winter, focused on healing and balancing the forces of Nature.
For eons, our life on earth has moved through cycles of growth and decay, expansion and destruction. Cultures throughout the world express the beauty and power in myths of Creation as equally as the terror and confusion of the world of humans ending. These stories of creation and destruction, with themes such as great fires, floods and ice ages always carry similar threads.The first is the cyclical powers of Nature. The second is the shrinking of the goodness of humanity that aids in this destruction.
Every few thousand years, a Tantric practice arises to meet the needs of the world and aids in assisting the good of humanity to rise. This practice is called Maha Sri Yaga. The great offering to the celestial goodness that pervades all of existence, to increase the auspiciousness of Nature and the goodness in our own minds and hearts.
We are intelligent beings, and when our hearts are pure, minds are focused, and will is strong, there are things that we can do to tip the scales and improve our collective situation. As Tantra is a science of energy that largely works with sound vibration, meditation, ritual, and plants the practices that are offered are usually in the form of what is called a Yagya, a ceremonial offering to Divinity that includes these four modalities.
On January 25th (Full Moon in Pushya) we will begin a group study that starts us at the beginning of this great, ancient practice. As a community dedicated to the health of Nature, we will begin this practice together live or solo and take little steps to learn the ancient sounds prior to getting into the full practice (which begins in June).
This study will be broken down to a few live meetings, audio recordings and a delectable book to read along to deepen your understanding.
Artist, Linda Edwards
We begin with a preliminary practice dedicated to Pushti, restoring a sense of deep nourishment and health in our lives with one mantra recitation 3x/day. This invitation then leads to a part 2 preliminary practice, which then leads to a more advanced practice of the full Sri Sukta beginning at the end of Spring.
From the preliminaries to Stage 1, you will begin to feel the rewiring of your brain and life, to new possibility of Reality. That which the Tantrics see as the Way of Beauty & Bliss.
This study includes a book study (book not included) along with a practice of learning 16 sacred verses from the RG Veda. Our practice is dedicated not only to help restore and balance the forces of Nature, but healing the blocks and wounds that prevent us from getting there.
January 25 Preliminary Practice Pt. 1
Full Moon Pushya
February 9 -May 27 Preliminary Practice Pt.2
New Moon Shravana
June 7 Stage 1 Begins Full 16 Verses
Waxing New Moon Mrigashira
August 26-September 2
Ceremonial Closure 8 Days of Fire Ritual 🔥
Sri Sukta is a cluster of 16 mantras dedicated to the Divine Mother. These awakened mantras power us to pull the forces of abundance and nurturance toward ourselves so we can experience life’s fullness.
Sri Vidya (a perfect blend of Vedic & Tantric traditions) espouses a nondualistic philosophy. According to this philosophy, there’s only one reality. Absolute, nameless and formless, it is the locus for everything that exists.
Yogis of the highest caliber experience this reality as waves of joy and beauty, ananda lahari and saundarya lahari.
Sitting at the peak of the experience the great Sage Dakshinamurthi saw the undivided truth pertaining to both unmanifest and manifest reality. He saw that every aspect of manifest reality – the phenomenal world – contains the same joy and beauty, inherent, and unmanifest, transcendental reality.
Artist, Linda Edwards
Thank you for being you and sharing your acquired wisdom! It was so special to start this journey with my dearest friend and we are both so excited
Jackelin T., Texas
Sooooo nourishing. I’m immensely grateful for you offering this 9 month study.
Jamila J., Massachusetts
There is so much here and it is so so so beautifully held and organized! Such amazing work, sister. I found myself repotting plants that I’ve been wanting to do for months.
🌟 Jessica D., Asheville, NC
It was so lovely, Brooke. The energy in that room was so palpable. You are creating something so beautiful and I'm honored to be a part of it!
Aneela C., Asheville, NC
Hi Brooke, Thank you so much for this offering! What a blessing you are sharing with the world. I am excited for all the NOURISHMENT!
Eve B.
Thank you, Brooke! This first class was so lovely! I didn't have Turmeric tea and my mala hasn't arrived yet so during the meditation I just called in Turmeric, I imagined the vibrant yellow color and felt my hands sifting through Turmeric powder. I offered her my time and felt this amazing heat in my solar plexus and felt my entire body come alive, like a good version of caffeine jitters if that makes ANY sense. What is going to unfold over MONTHS of practicing?! Tracee S
The great sage Dakshinamurthi also saw that although most of that dormant beauty remains dormant in the phenomenal world, human beings have the power to awaken it – a power that depends heavily on how awakened they are themselves. Meditation is the shortest way to that inner awakening.
The soul of meditation is the power of mantra.
The spiritual practice, based on the experience of the Sage Dakshinamurthi came to be known as Sri Vidya. Sri Sukta is one of the cardinal texts leading to the experience of Sri Vidya.
The advanced practices of Sri Sukta are closely guarded by the Living Tradition. However, casual practices are widespread across all Indian traditions and subtraditions. According to popular belief, Sri Sukta is a prayer to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, a belief that incentivizes the masses to practice Sri Sukta casually. For example, people often recite it with the intention of overcoming a financial problem. Only highly motivated seekers attempt to unravel its potent content and profound intent.
The Sri Vidya tradition prescribes the practice of Sri Sukta to calm inner storms and the destruction caused by them. Almost without exception, all of us are caught in storms of doubt, fear, worry, anger, hatred, come, agreed, resentment, regret, and feelings of helplessness, unworthiness, and despondency.
These storms damage our trust in ourselves, in our loved ones, in justice, and in divine providence. We become weak and impoverished from inside.
Our inner weakness and poverty affect our family and our surroundings. Inner poverty blocks our ability to see the abundant gifts inherent in nature and in our relationship with others.
The ultimate goal of Sri Sukta practice is to eliminate our inner poverty, and empower us to experience the fullness of life.
Artist Linda Edwards https://www.lindaedwardsart.co.uk/
The practice of Sri Sukta is done in three successive stages. The first stage helps us to cultivate a feeling for the mantras and their seers and discover our relationship with them. It also helps us transform intellectual understanding of these mantras into a living experience. This stage of the practice enables us to internalize the mantras, demolishing the conceptual wall of duality that separates earth from heaven and humans from divine beings. The mantras become part of our consciousness, and we become part of the mantric field. This merger sheds new light on our spiritual quest.
We no longer see ourselves as pitiful and impoverished, begging an outside source for rescue.
Rather, we do the practice, too, if we do further strengthen our bond with the divinity within. Our practice is empowered by the understanding that the forces of abundance have always been with us, and that the recitation of mantra is a way to experience this presence at a conscious level.
Recommended reading material:
✨Sri Sukta Tantra of Inner Prosperity by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
✨Power of Mantra & Path of Initiation by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
A special thank you goes out to artist Linda Edwards for giving her permission to use her beautiful artwork on this page. Check out more of her incridble work at the links below.
Website: lindaedwards.co.uk
Instagram: instagram.com/lindaedwardsartist