What is TRIKA MAHĀsiddha Yoga? TRIKA MAHĀsiddha Yoga is a system
of spiritual cultivation that follows the “Way of the
Mahāsiddhas.” Mahāsiddhas were women and men trained in one of
the four non-dual systems of meditation and body practices (yogas)
with origins in Central Asia non-dual Tantra of Kashmir (NDT), Tibetan
Bön, Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese Zheng Yi Daoism. The Mahāsiddhas
demonstrated their complete union with the greater universe by
resolving their physical individuality into their original nature.
These immensely compassionate masters left behind a technology that
enables anyone with a pure heart and burning commitment to reveal
their highest human potential. The practices, oral teachings and oral
explanations of texts from these four non-dual systems of meditation
and body/energy practice form the Oral Practice Tradition (OPT). The
OPT does not rely on sacred texts, but rather places major emphasis on
mastering the practices, oral teachings and the integration of these
two in normal life. The integrity of this system is maintained over
the millennia through an unbroken succession of masters who have
attained realization. The foundation and intermediate levels of TRIKA
MAHĀsiddha Yoga are the OPT’s extracted synthesis of the
meditations and yogas commonly found in the Krama, Kaula, TRIKA AND
SRI VIDYA AND OTHER SECTS OF SAKTA SAIVA DHARMA. TRIKA MAHĀsiddha
Yoga utilizes a 12-Stage approach to bring a student from ignorance to
full enlightenment. TRAINING DATES AND SCHEDULE (2020) Free Satsang:
Wednesday 20th May 6:30pm-8:30pm F oundations of TRIKA MAHĀsiddha
Yoga Thursday 21st May - Sunday 24th May 2020 7am - 8:30am Kundalini
Hatha Yoga (optional) 9:30am - 5pm Teachings & Practice Cost for
Foundations of TRIKA MAHĀsiddha Yoga: Price $1900AUD Yogas on Dream,
Sleep & Death 27th May - 30th May 2020 Wed-Fri 6:30pm: 9:30pm
Saturday: 9am - 5pm Cost for Dream, Sleep and Death Yoga: Price
$640AUD *PACKAGE PRICING* Foundations of TRIKA MAHĀsiddha Yoga +
Yogas on Dream, Sleep & Death Price $2220 AUD Astrology Session
Personal Mahākala Astrology Session (Optional) $100 if registered for
Foundations of TRIKA MAHĀsiddha Yoga $150 if not registered for
Foundations of TRIKA MAHĀsiddha Yoga For those that book an
astrology session, please note that you will meet with DHARMA ON-line
prior to the training. This will bring to light the most critical
areas of the three types of karma that create obstacles to your
realization (your personal samsara). You’ll also learn about your
inborn strengths. Taken together, you’ll use this information to
tailor a unique approach to practice and your overall path in TRIKA
MAHāsiddha Yoga. To set up an appointment please contact Sukhalaya
here: trikapath@gmail.com There will be strictly limited sessions
available on Tuesday 26th May for last minute bookings. Given that
Dharma Bodhi is an international teacher, this training will only go
ahead if we receive a minimum amount of bookings and will close on the
15th March 2020. Please book in as soon as you are able to in order
for us to confirm numbers. We are posting well in advance to give
those who want to attend enough time to make relevant financial
arrangements. *** REFUND POLICY *** Please read the refund policy
carefully as we will be strictly adhering to these conditions.
Bookings to confirm training closes on Sunday March 15th 2020.
Bookings by this date will determine whether this training goes ahead.
If we do not receive the minimum amount of bookings by this date and
the training does not proceed, full refunds will be issued for those
who have booked by March 15th 2020. If the training proceeds and you
decide to cancel before and including the 1st April 2020, you will
receive a full refund less the transaction fee an additional $100USD
for processing and handling. A 50% refund will be issued for any
cancellations up to and including 30th April 2020, less the
transaction fee and also an additional $100USD for processing and
handling. Any cancellations including and after the 1st of May 2020
are non-refundable. Bookings are non-transferable. Venue Location:
Prana House: Level 1/885 High St, Thornbury Melbourne Overview of
Foundations of Trika Mahasiddha Yoga Training 1) Kundalini Hatha Yoga
Practice Each morning you’ll be guided in the practice of Kundalini
Hatha Yoga, followed by a discussion on the key principles that
distinguish traditional spiritual yoga of the Mahāsiddhas from
commercial posture-based yoga. You will learn how the yoga of the
Mahāsiddhas directly supports each of the 6 practice paths. 2) 12
Stage View Cycle of Teachings Contrary to popular belief stable
realization of one’s True Nature doesn’t occur in one momentary
flash of “awakening”. The spiritual path has clearly defined
stages everyone must traverse before attaining a sustainable state of
realization. The 12 Stages cover the entire journey from ignorance of
our True Nature to the ultimate potential inherent in all human beings
- that of the Rainbow-Light-Body. This teaching is fundamental in
understanding your current stage of development, what’s next on the
path, and how to get there. 3)The Practices & Teachings on Present,
Presence & Real Time “Just be present” is the usual advice given
in spiritual workshops, books, and video classes. Though good advice,
dissolving your concept-mind involves much more than hearing a nice
idea. What are the varying degrees of present moment awareness? What
is the relationship between intellect-mind, awareness-mind and
enlightened-mind? How do you work with them? How are Presence and
Flowing-Presence different than merely being “present”? How can
you remain unbreakably connected to your “Heart-Mind” under all
circumstances? You will be led through this process of discovery and
mastery of awareness using specific practices and teachings unique to
this system. 4)Practitioner Typing You are unique. A lot of time can
be wasted on fruitless practices. The Mahāsiddha path recognizes this
and teaches you how to customize the practices and sequencing on the
path to enable you to attain the highest possible fruit in one
lifetime. Unique typing technologies and teachings on the various
practitioner types will help you discover the type of practitioner you
were born to be and to take the path that best suits you. 5) Oral
Teachings on the Ahankara The Ahankara (“self-image maker”) is a
mechanism that you can learn to use as the vehicle to attain the
ultimate fruit of the path. It will be your greatest ally when you
understand its nature in the context of your kundalini’s journey
home. Simultaneously, it can be a slippery force that can hijack your
spiritual progress at any unconscious moment during the beginning and
middle stages of the path. Learn to “turn the light” as it’s
called, and transform your self-image maker from binder to liberator
with these pith oral teachings, blessed with the wisdom of the lineage
masters. What are the Yogas on Dream, Sleep & Death? Dream and Sleep
Yogas are a rarely taught category of teachings and practices. This
cycle of teachings explains the relationship between the states of
dream, sleep, waking and full enlightenment. It is often said in the
non-dual meditation and yoga traditions that in order for you to
attain irreversible realization you must be fully realized in the
dream and sleep states as well as in the waking state. This means to
have completely pierced the limitations of the mind of the dreaming
and sleeping states, and thereby abide in your true nature. Applying
the practices of dream and sleep yoga feeds your formal seated
practice and your state of integration. Program includes: -Dream Yoga
Mantra Initiation - Step-by-step instruction in the Outer & Inner
practices of: -Dream Yoga- Sleep Yoga of Clear Light - Text references
to the practices and their desired results. - Clarifying the various
categories of dreams to understand their significance in your
spiritual practice and overall trajectory. - Clarifying significant
dream symbology as a system of feedback from your inner psyche on the
process of kundalinī awakening and expansion. About the Death &
Dying Teachings: Death is considered to be the most important and
pivotal experience in a yogin’s life. It is the one moment when you
can permanently recognize your own True Nature or svasvabhava, and
become liberated even if you were not able to free yourself from
samsara during your lifetime. The ancient teachings on death and dying
give you the tools and understanding to successfully navigate the
dying process and the after death states. By applying the death
practices in your daily spiritual routine and invoking their effect at
the moment of death, you will increase your opportunity to attain full
realization in this lifetime. Program includes: - Teachings and
practices on death and dying as a moment to moment integration
practice resulting in rapid movement through the first 6 stages of the
12 Stage View Teaching. - Transmission of the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad
chant performed as meditation on death and impermanence as well as for
benefitting those who are dying. - Transmission of the
Mahāmrtyunjaya and its three “bija” or seed syllables, and how
to use it for cultivating non-attachment and how to dedicate it for
the benefit of those who have just died and are transiting the
after-death states. - Clear explanation of the process of the
dissolution of the 5 elements during the various types of death one
may encounter, and how to usefully assist the dissolution process,
instead of impede it. - Explanations of the different types of
“deaths” attainable through practicing non- dual Dharma. - Clear
teachings differentiating the destinations reached by the being after
death, based on the type of life lived and practices mastered. -
Teachings on the nature of the “self”, and what it is that dies
and is reborn. - Explanation of the daily rituals one practices for
their own cultivation of death yoga, and a clear explanation of the
ritual, chanting, prayers, mantra and visualization performed for
someone who has recently died. Who is Dharma Bodhi? Dharma Bodhi has
been made a lineage holder (Acarya) of two non-dual meditation and
yoga traditions. In late 1987 after a year of intensive apprenticeship
with Mahatma Sarasvati in a lineage of non-dual Śaivite Yoga he took
initiation and entered into an 18 month unbroken solo practice retreat
in the meditation methods of Tantrik Yoga. By the end of 1996 Dharma
had completed 10 years of practice retreats and studies with his
Indian masters. He had been trained in what was ostensibly non- dual
Śaivite Tantrik Yoga and meditation, but his first Indian Acarya
made it very clear that what he was learning is the “Yoga”
tradition. Dharma would later learn that by “Yoga” his teacher
meant the Oral-Practice Tradition of the Mahāsiddhas. His journey
into the world of Tibetan Yoga and Meditation began at his Indian
teacher’s prompting. He urged Dharma to continue his advanced
meditation studies with qualified Tibetan yogis. Shortly thereafter
Dharma began to attend Dzogchen meditation retreats held by Ayang
Rinpoche in Bodh Gaya, India and also with Penor Rinpoche in Canada.
He took many meditation and View Teaching programs with other lamas
including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche whose openness and non-sectarian
style of teaching would influence Dharma’s approach. This began a
period of intensive personal study of the biographies of the
Mahāsiddhas of the traditions of Śaivism, Bön, Vajrayana, and
Daoism. It is common for a traditionally trained Acarya to learn many
branches of knowledge that support the central axis of Yoga and
Meditation. To this end Dharma has also completed training in Indian
astrology (jyotish), palmistry (hasta samudrika), sacred architecture
& geometry (vastu) with Hart de Fouw and one of his senior students.
He learned Ayurvedic medicine with Dr. Vasant Lad and Dr. Ashwin
Shastry, and water offering rituals (puja), and fire ceremonies
(yajña & homa) were learnt by apprenticeship with master-priest
Śrī Rami Śivan, Head of the Australian Council of Hindu Clergy.
Now settled in Costa Rica, Dharma Bodhi lives with his wife Sukhalaya,
where they both are dedicating time to personal practice, and raising
two children. Together, Dharma and Sukhlaya are completing a project,
creating a written record of everything that Dharma has learnt in on
the spiritual path and continue to travel around the world teaching.
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