15/07/2025
I'd like to share the theme of the Shaktipat retreat coming up (24-27/7) that has now become clear. As this retreat was scheduled already at last year’s retreat it has been carrying the energy of that retreat, and that time, and I knew I couldn’t set the theme or know the direction until close to the retreat itself. But now it is clear, and it is not a phenomenal theme but a reclamation of words and stating of the obvious. As Shaktipat brings one closer to knowing of the Sacred, so is the theme perhaps surplus, yet it wants to be stated and honored in its fullness.
The theme of the retreat coming up is The Divine Mother, which can be expressed in many ways equal in meaning (especially in Shaktā ta**ra, Bhakti traditions, Sri-vidya traditions, Trika ta**ra):
Sacred Union
Sacred Supreme
The Cosmic Womb
Mahāyoni
Source
The Divine Mother is, to me and in these traditions, the union of Shiva and Shakti, the unified field of awareness and power undifferentiated.
She is Mahāyoni, the Great Womb, the Cosmic Womb, not only as a creator of form, but pure awareness birthing itself into experience.
The source-field from which the three worlds arise.
The womb is not merely feminine in a gendered way, it is the total potentiality of being.
It is the space-holding presence that allows Shiva’s stillness to take form.
It is the field of Spanda, pulsing and vibrating with potential.
🙏 It is with this awareness that we anchor each day into the transmission.
✨ It is with this background frequency of the Mother, that we honor and recognize the Sacred within.
