Awaken Profound Joy and Tap into Your True Power!
Sessions take place at the Indian Trails Library in Wheeling, IL, in a small study room.
Individual sessions are the most effective, but you’re welcome to bring one or two people with you.
What we’ll be doing:
- reading and discussing Trika texts
This ancient Indian tradition was actively developing in India between the 8th and 11th centuries. Its practices help unlock the profound joy and creative power of divine consciousness that lives inside each of us.
- breathwork
- conscious relaxation and self-exploration
- visualization and working with different types of imagination
- awakening and deepening your inner joy
- and other Trika-based techniques
We’ll choose the practices and texts that resonate most with you.
Later on, you’ll have the opportunity to join group gatherings and take part in trips to India and around the U.S.
Awakening Profound Joy
We all have the ability to feel strong, deep joy — joy that doesn’t depend on what’s happening in our lives. This joy comes from the deepest layer of our being, from the very core of our consciousness or psyche. By exploring Trika texts and practices, you’ll learn how to feel that joy for real.
Discovering Your True Power
There’s a huge creative power inside you — but you might not notice it yet. Through practicing in the Trika tradition, you’ll feel that power at the core of your life — and then you’ll fill your whole life with that creative energy.
Exploring Your Mind
When you practice Trika, you notice how your thoughts and feelings come up, and how you see yourself and the world. You also look at who you are beyond all the usual roles and ideas about yourself.
Trika Texts
You’ll get to know the key texts of Trika:
- Shiva Sutras – short phrases about how divine consciousness creates everything that every living being experiences.
- Spanda Karika – verses about the same, plus the subtle inner vibration called spanda.
- Krama Stotra – an image-rich text about how the world works, and how to live beyond time.
- The writings of Trika teachers Somananda and Utpaladeva, and other texts.
You can find translations of these texts in books and online, but most of them are either disconnected from practice, or so far from the original that they miss the point.
In our sessions, you’ll get word-for-word translations along with guidance on how to actually use them in your spiritual practice.
From these texts and our conversations, you’ll learn powerful practices to tap into your inner strength and deep joy. These include breathwork, visualization, and many less-known techniques. They’ll help you to better feel who you are, and get a clearer sense of your own path.
Breath Practices and Meditation
There are different ways to work with the breath. You can change your breathing rhythm or the way energy moves. Or you can focus on specific moments within the breath cycle. Over time, thoughts will distract you less and less. You realize thoughts are just a small part of something much bigger. In moments like that, a portal into a deeper layer of life might open.
Visualization
Imagination plays an important part in self-discovery. There are visualizations where you travel through an imagined world. But there are also other practices with imagination, where you might discover a whole new way of experiencing life. These practices can help you tap into your true power and awaken a deep inner joy.
