Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): All right.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so inviting you into an useful way of being either seated or lying down.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I will invite us in to the space with a mantra. and then I also will be guiding some. So, either shifting for that, or being in a position. Now
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): taking a moment here to a lower the case, or find a
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): perhaps off of the tip of the nose.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): perhaps closing the eyes. If that feels comfortable for you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Hmm! Take a moment here to notice your internal
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): state of being.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Notice the breath. Notice the mind.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I'm inviting you to bring into the space with each breath. Here an acknowledgment
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): of you, your practice.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): your physical body. and also your spiritual body. your spiritual energy.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Taking a moment to acknowledge and honor the ancestral and indigenous lands that you occupy. Currently I am located on the lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne Mute.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and many other tribal nations colonized as Denver, Colorado.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Taking a moment to acknowledge which land you are on.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and if it calls to you, starting to deepen the breath here.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): taking a moment to draw out each inhale.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and each exhale calling into the space.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): your ancestors, your ancestors, your spirit guides your light.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): We'll take a few breaths. I invite you to place your palms together, and Angela Mudra at the Heart Center or any other mudra that calls to you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Now drop us in with the mantra which honors and acknowledges all of the teachers, all of the groups
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): who have passed down this knowledge of health space. We've had conversations that create
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): more understanding of the real you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the you that is the witness.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so I invite you to take a clearing breath with me, exhaling fully out of the mouth.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): inhale through the nose.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): excel out of the mouth, perhaps sighing or making any noises that you need, will take 2 more breaths like that inhale, fill up
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): deep side deep, exhale. removing at your own pace last
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Oh.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): oh!
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Oh!
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Inviting you to lower your hands into your lap. inviting the gays to come down as well.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and we'll take Collie Mudra here.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and so your fingers are together. You'll interlace all but your first finger and thumb
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like this, so you'll invite the first finger in the thumb to press against each other strongly. You can hold this Mudra here, at your moladar.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): at the root of the body, or anywhere else that feels comfortable.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and take a moment to notice your energy.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): noticing
what
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): energy this Mudra is bringing in for you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and I invite you to repeat the affirmation to yourself.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): 3 times
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I awakened to my true power, which is within me at all times
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I awaken to my true power, which is within me
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): at all times
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I awaken to my true power, which is within me at all times.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I'm releasing the mudra, taking a moment here.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): your chin, your gaze towards the earth, slowly blinking
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): guys open if they were closed.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Taking a moment to orient yourself.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): eventually, perhaps touching some different textures
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and slowly coming back. we'll start with just a little bit of Panayama before we check in.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and so getting ready for Pranayama, making sure that your spine is as upright and as comfortable as you need it to be for you
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and we'll start with SIM Hassana, and so just curious.
Are folks familiar.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and if not, I'll go through it. But some Hassan is lion's breath
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And since Makali Mahakali is a incarnation of Mahalakshmi, who also many of the divine mother Avatars
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): have lions or tigers or big cats. So that's why for me, this Pr. Of Yama I think, would be good to start us off.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and so
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): few things about SIM Hassana, you'll stick your tongue out all the way out of your mouth as you exhale, and then you'll inhale through the nose, and then again exhale out of the mouth with the tongue sticking out. There is also a option for folks. If you
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): again, if it's in your practice, if it's something, maybe you'd like to try, and it isn't on your practice. Just use caution. but your gaze will be in your at your. And so for some people. This can be disorienting if you feel like Oh, going cross side, or you know, if the I thing is too much just noticing
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): what whatever feels good for you. You don't have to do that. You can just pick one spot to look at, or even look up towards the ceiling as
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): as we practice.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So again, we'll inhale through the nose, out of the mouth.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): through putting the tongue out of the mouth. And again, if there's any energy that needs to come out. If there's any grunts that need to come out inviting anything, any kind of sounds that's all welcome.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and also camera on or off whatever feels comfortable. We'll take a few clearing breaths before we start doing it, and I'll guide us through all of that. I just want to make sure there aren't any questions before we start about SIM Hassana.
Okay?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so your hands can gently be in your lap or on your knees. And so this breath is also a breath that invocates a lot of invigorate, invigorating energy into the body. it's a very cleansing breath. It helps get out any stagnant energy. helps clear
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in general, it's a clearing breath. so we'll take about 5 rounds of somehasana with 3 clearing breaths first.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so we'll start with the clearing breaths.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): picking a moment to find your threshold, to find your spine
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): X. Hopefully out of the mouth. in how, through the nose.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the first clearing breath, Bella.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): excel out of the mouth.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Second breath, Billing
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): inviting the exhale to be a little bit longer. Last breath.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): first round of some Hassana inhale, find your
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): excel. Open the mouth
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in hell through the notes Bella.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): exhale some hassa
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): 2 more times
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): moving at your own breath.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): last time.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): releasing the breath, inviting it to go back
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to its natural cadence. taking a moment to check in again
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): internally. Was there any changes or shifts
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): any sensation
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): whenever you're ready, inviting the chin back down to the chest, if the eyes were close, slowly blinking them open
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and making your way back, noticing each other
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): welcome in
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so inviting you all to check in. I would love maybe one or 2 check in, and shares about the practice out loud, inviting bipoc black, trans. Clear folks to the front.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to share out loud, and other folks to check in in the chat.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Leave notice that my heart was beating faster after the practice.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you. Yeah. Can definitely get a lot of upward movement of energy
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): which can make your heart race for sure.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yes.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Jamie shared a very cleansing for me. Notice that several muscles in the back, my neck and shoulders released.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you, Susan. Release of tears. thank you for sharing your vulnerability with us holding you in that Rebecca. Same here. Yeah.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): thank you. Rachel, feeling more clarity, air quality has been bad, due to the wildfires, felt a cleansing of toxins. Absolutely.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And is there anyone who would like to share out loud inviting your voice into the space
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): honoring Karen share here, appreciate the feeling of release and ease of stress feeling lighter. Thank you. Thanks everyone for sharing in the chat and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): for those of you we are still integrating and reflecting, I know
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the bread that that Pranayama can be a lot some has, and it can be a lot for some folks so honoring that as well.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Karen. Yes.
Karen McMillan: I'm not somewhere where I can turn on my camera. And I'm using my phone for the first time to do this. But I actually wasn't going to attend just because it's been a lot going on and busy stress.
Karen McMillan: And I only had my phone with me. And I decided, no, I'm just gonna see if I can connect with my phone. And I'm really glad I did to see you and to breathe, and that the practice is very much aligned with what I needed to
Karen McMillan: feel the strength of the lion. But the release. the filling up in the out breath. So thank you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you so much for sharing Karen, and always good to see you and hear your voice in the space so uplifting and honoring that I'm glad you're here, and for all of you who are here, thank you for being here as well.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So I want to share a little bit about Kalima as well as sovereignty and the connection. I feel really especially called to Colima. So what kind of
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): talk about my personal experience with that? With her I use they her pronouns for Collie as well, because for me I feel like I resonate with them of being such a
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like, such a balance of so many different types of energy. that I I just label them as they sometimes. And so I'm just saying that. So you all know that who I'm talking about.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So collie is the epitome of the divine, fierce, protective Mother right? And in many Vedic traditions collie is also what it's called. Add the Shakti.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the first Shakti, the first strength to have entered the universe. Many people, many traditions also will say, Brahmas.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): incarnation is Kali through Mahashaki, through this
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): through this intense strength. And so.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): holly let me share my screen. So you all can get a a visual actually, wanna make sure that you can see her.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Alright. Let me just pop that you count out and everybody see my see the right screen with Collimon. Okay, great.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): here you can see that collie is very intense.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): some in many times. She's depicted with having
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): 8 arms or 6 arms, many arms, at least 4. You'll see at least 4 You also will see Collie's tongue sticking out like how we just did some Haasana right? There's a there's a story behind that that I'll get into.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and you also can tell that her hair is so long and big and down her back and and each hand she has a different weapon. She's also standing on a little person down there. There's some iconography. There's a there's a snake wrapped around that person.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): There's also a lot of blood and redness everywhere. And so you can also see collie has 3 eyes, and so Collie's eyes represent the past, the present, and the future.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so when we look at Collie. we can see this kind of scary
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): person right? Like we see this intense goddess
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And that's exactly what
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the Shakti that we cultivate, and we channel when we use colleen with our when we honor the energy that collie brings us.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): That's what it is. It's the first cosmic power in the universe. It's the initial birther
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): of it's like the power that caused the first birth, that birth, the cosmos that births all of us through multiple transformations. Right? as we're birthing into different
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): versions of ourselves. And we're needing to let go. And we're processing deep emotion. for me. I felt like I've used the collie energy, especially in times of divine rage and frustration and grief, especially grief. Right?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so this
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): collie
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): universal Shakti and and protector for me has been someone who is my own mother, and who has also shown me so much grace through that fierceness to know that I can get through the grief that I'm that I'm going through.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And a few years ago I actually had a collima on my altar, and it was calling me for a very long time to do
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): a lot of worship, and so I would. I would always be offering water and flowers, and if I made any food I would offer that on my altar, and then I In my meditation one day I I got a download and a vision of myself as Collie, and I was like, I have no idea what this means, but I journaled about it for a long time, and a week later I met a photographer who was super into
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): anime, and you a bunch of hair and makeup artists. And you know I I shared this vision that I had with them, and I said, Hey, I've been having this vision that I I need to somehow transform myself into Collie, to help honor
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): her energy and to bring it in and call it forth in my own life. And
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I also model. And I like to do creative direction and make up and stuff. And so I ended up doing a photo shoot with Co. With the inspiration of Kalima. And I found this amazing make up artist who hand made this crown of skulls. for the shoot.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and for me it's
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): it's really I,
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the it's the goddess of understanding. And knowing that the divine is always with you. even in. And compassion is always with you, even in times of
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): of hardship and grief and transformation. Right?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so I'm gonna just share one collie story with you all, and I would love to hear from you all as well, and see if you have any questions or anything after this story.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): collie, there are some. There are a lot of stories, but there's one story particularly where
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Collie is in this super intense fight.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): she's fighting with.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Oh, what's the same? That' be Jaw! Who's a demon
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): as she's in this fight with Rock to be jot?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): He curses, and he asks for a boon from the gods, and he says, for every drop of my blood that touches the ground.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): another one of me is going to appear.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and so Collie is now, not only in her anger and rage, fighting this demon, but every time she cuts his arm or cuts his, you know, rib, or whatever, and blood drops on to the ground. A 1,000 more demons pop up. And so everywhere you look.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): there's demons coming up, the exact same demon coming up, and so collie praise to the Divine Mother, and says, I know everything is already taken care of. But please like, give me an insight, for how I can defeat this demon and and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): bring balance back to the cosmos balance back into the universe. and that's when you see Collie, open the third eye and become really intense. Put her white things out, stick her tongue out, and then she starts to drink the blood of every single demon that there is right. And it's also like, in a way saying I'm gonna go through whatever I need to
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in order to
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): serve justice in order to serve my community in order to serve righteousness back into the world by doing my done, by doing my by serving my purpose.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in this story, like something that comes a week for me around sovereignty is that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): it's around responsibility right like. In that moment, I think Co like Mahakali could have said like, oh, there's like 8,000 demons here like that's way too much for me to do like I'm actually gonna like, say, see you later. And you know, maybe I'll tackle this another day. But instead, it's like
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): it's responsibility. Sovereignty is responsibility. It's owning your part in the picture. In your community. It's doing the work
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and continuously doing the work right like it's drinking the blood of thousands of thousands of demons until the very last drop is gone.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so it's also asking ourselves.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Who am I? Who is the self? Who is?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Who am I? Because if I am this ecosystem that creates, that's made up of all my gut bacteria and all my skin cells and my hair cells, and all these microcosms that make up the larger cosm of who I am. Then the self can't just be me right. The same self that's me is the same self. That's you, because all of you are also a part of the ecosystem that I'm in.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yeah, okay, I'll stop there for a second. I don't want to take up too much space.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so I'll leave this up. And I'm you know. I'm curious for each one of you again, like, what questions do you have around Mahakali and Have you? Are there folks here who have experience with working with Koi energy, or folks have questions around that. I'm happy to answer any and or
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): share some more. Yeah.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I'm going to stop sharing as well.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Don. I see your question in the chat here. Why the blue color so
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): holly in my mother tongue, which is thummel, actually means black, so it means black, like a rock like Black rock. And so
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the darkness is also be is also because they're very fierce. Right? they're
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the darkness is not only a dark energy, like an energy that you should be
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I don't want to say fearful, but you should be kind of like
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I'm scared right? Because that that's how much power there is. That's how much Shakti there is right. The shefty is so strong that they're black
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): or blue, and many times in Hindu depictions of gods and goddesses, you'll see the black and blue color when it's a an incarnation which is also called the Avatar. So anytime you see, any goddesses that are blue or green, even like Krishna. Krishna is the incarnation of Vishnu, which is why Krishna is depicted as blue
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): same thing, for Kali Collie's the incarnation of the Divine Mother, or Mahalaks me or the add the shakti, and that's why her colors can also be black or blue as well as the name. So there's both
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Karen. Does Mahak Ali's blue color have a special meaning. I kind of talked about that. There's no, they're not necessarily a special meaning behind the color itself. But I think it's more to remember that there are
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like the divine that which is larger than us. That which kind of creates the Shakpi can make things that are so powerful and so different from what our limited minds can comprehend. Right. And so it's also about understanding and knowing that our mind is limited and and Mahakali is.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): has so much divine energy and so much shaky, that there they have to be depicted as being right different for our minds to understand
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the power.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Don, I see your hand up. Go ahead.
Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): Thank you. I'm making a connection to this something that's been weighing on my heart. I work in a a public school, and I've noticed that there is a trend.
Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): To just turn a blind eye to what we feel is beyond our capacity. And this idea of
Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): drinking the blood of every demon, and knowing that we have the ability to transform, or that the greater self is able to transform anything in any way at any time is something that I'm absolutely going to take back and work with.
Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): because these children that are struggling and suffering do not need us turning a blind eye to them, and I don't know why I'm making that connection, but I wanted to to voice it in this community as
Dawn Lane’s iPhone (2): It's hitting my heart hard. so thank you so much.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you for sharing that, Don, and for the work that you're doing right. of understanding and knowing that when the inner transformation happens, the outer transformation happens. As a result, it's like so like as above, so below. Right? I think that's something that is said often and it's the same with Mahakali. I feel like as soon as you start working with the energy
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): of Mahakali like for me. What happened is that there was so much grief and anger and intensity that came up, that I had to honor, that I was like literally forced in my path to stop and grieve and be, and go through the emotions and go through. And so I also want to name that, you know, for people
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Mahali isn't for everyone just like not every single deity is for everyone right? every single one of us has different
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): types of energy that we get to work with or that we do work with, and also noting that sometimes even holding, calling, even holding like this can be a lot in some people's bodies, and so honoring
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): where you're at in your own transformation and understanding and knowing is this the energy that I want to call in right? We can always reflect on
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): just seeing I've read that the arms represent multiple skills of each deity. I also read that she specializes in transformation. Yes, absolutely so in a traditional picture of Mahakali. Sometimes there, she's actually holding a skull necklace in one hand. Sometimes she's wearing it around her neck, and again the skull necklace is representing
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): all of the obstacles right, all of the demons and the people that she's had to kill all of the past versions of herself that she's had to kill in order to move forward
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): as well as I think in another hand is like the one of the
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the swords, I believe. And that's again to kill and to slay the ego right? and so it's. It's very metaphorical. And when you see Mahakali standing on that body at the at the bottom, that is the ego right. That body is a representation of the physical body to remind us that you, even if
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): you think you're the body, you're not the body, and it's the association of the mind with the body, that true, that that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): tricks us or attaches us into
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): thinking and associating of us and our emotions, and all the stuff that we say is the body.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): which is again, what the ego does. It's the nature of the ego. It's the nature of the mind to constantly have thoughts. It's the nature of the ego to not want to be controlled. And so again, that's why, when we practice Yoga Yoga is the practice of controlling the mind, and, like Krishna, says in the in the bug with Githa, he's like, if you can't control the mind, there's still a solution, right
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): whenever your mind wanders, bring it back.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): bring it back, bring it back, bring it back to the breath, bring it back to Mahakali, bring it back to nature bring it back to the present moment. Right? It's just. It's the practice of bringing it back.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I kind of, went on a rant there. So I hope that was that was helpful.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): yes.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): be able to call him on energy growing in the collective one year. Post row. Yes, absolutely. That is the energy.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yeah, what are her skills for lack of a better term? Well, her main skill is that she drinks blood right? I think that's the big one of course, like, because she is
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the divine Shakti. She is literally Shiva's Shakti right. Shiva, who is the destroyer of all the world? Where does he get his strength from? He draws all of his strength, the destroyer of everything, the just sort of all the word world, the destroyer of the plate that you broke yesterday, right like literally the destroy. If anything has ever been destroyed, it is the Shakti
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): of that is providing energy
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to Shiva as not Shiva as a god or as a being, but as this energy, that is the destruction, energy, right? and we. And we have to have that energy, we have to have the destroyer in order to even have
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): birth of the new to have rebirth, you have to have the disruption.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and Mahakali also. Another skill is that in times of like real anger and frustration to tap into the divine energy. So you'll see her third eye open right? That's also, I think, another kind of skill. I guess that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): leaf shared. I really resonate with transforming into different versions of self, and having to grieve and lost my previous selves and ways of being. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yeah.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Any other questions, comments, reflections.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Justine shared here. All this talk about Collima reminds me of the prime series, the power where teenage girls are on the world, evolve and acquire an electrical power to bring down the patriarchy love that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): love that.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And I also think it's important to name that Mahakali is really the guide, just like our grief is the guide to our healing. Right? Mahogany is the guide
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): salvation, to the release
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): from life and death and life and death of Mosa right And many times like
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): just like lux me, not I. And so behind me. Here is Lux me, and the incarnation of luxury, as the Divine Mother is also Mahakali right? And so there are many avatars and forms of the Divine Mother. And oh, this is something that I wanted to mention earlier.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Klly is the first Mahavidia, and I'll just put that in the chat for folks who want to look it up later. Mahavidia. So Mahavidia means. Maha is great, and Vidya is a vehicle, the great vehicle, and so she's the first 10 of the Mahavidias and the Mahavadias are all Tantrick goddesses, and so there's 10 Tantrick goddesses.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Kali is the first some lineage, just say Khali is the first, and then there's 9 avatars of Khali, and then others will say that Kelly is just the first of 10 of thears right? but
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the donethrick traditions. are many times birthed in small villages in India, where there's like family temples, or where there's more like community based worship that happens.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so Klly is also worshipped in that way, and like smaller rural places and smaller towns. And so something that I've seen kind of in Yoga, and the West is how Klly has influenced a lot of these
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): kind of smaller movements to reclaim seeing the divine
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): as something other than out
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): a white.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): a white male god right? And knowing that the divine takes many forms and many names. something that my grew. G says that I always really appreciate is that one of the biggest blessings that we have is to know the name of the divine, and through knowing just the name of the divine. We can start repeating and chanting, and we can start to focus our mind on the divine just by the repetition of the name
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): right? And so, even just having the name of Khali, or a mantra of Kali or Mudrav Kali. All of those things can be really powerful in your own personal practice.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Susan.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): you shared a very interesting definition of sovereignty which I think of as being in our power. Can you say more about that?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yeah. absolutely. So I think what I had said is sovereignty is responsibility right? And so
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I think
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the first responsibility you have is
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to yourself. and then through that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): you have a responsibility to your Songa, to so to each other, here, into your community, right? And so, how many of you could say right now that you're actually in Sunga with each other in this space, right? That you're serving each other, that you're uplifting each other, that you're asking each other? What is it?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Is there something that I can do to help you? Is there something that I can do to uplift you? Is there? Is there some kind of space that you need me to hold to each other right here in this community and this sung that right? And so I'm curious. And this is kind of an open, ended question and reflection of like.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): how can you be in your sovereignty? And through doing that. show up for other people in your community
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): right? because
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): we we all can't be liberated until the least liberated. One of us is liberated. Right? So who is that here, right here in this space
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): because there is someone right? There's someone who needs
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): uplifting. There's someone who needs help. There's someone who needs an extra $20 in their bank account. Who is that? It's me? It's me by me. No, I'm just kidding, but really, really
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): we are not separate from our world. We're not separate from our communities. We're not just because we're all here online, on, on Zoom doesn't mean that we're separate from each other.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so I think the first thing is like, start with you. What it? Where is your practice? Are you doing your practice every day? If you are, can you do your practice twice a day. Can you do it in the morning? In the evening? Right? Can you be devoted and dedicated to doing your practice every single day for a year
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): every day like
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): for me. That's kind of where
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): that's where this journey had started. especially with Collie
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Just because I was I had done. I I was making offerings, as I had shared early earlier, and that offering was happening every day. And then suddenly I I had. I had a kind of a realization of like this isn't enough. I have to do more when I had that download.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And then I started to understand and realize that it was
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in that.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in that offering
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): that I was actually offering to my community. And I was sharing these truth with the photographer, with the makeup artist, with the editor, with all of these other people who were actually in my community, who needed to hear and know about who Culli was right. So it kind of had evolved from that personal practice to creating community into sharing
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to sharing these truths and community
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): kind of long answer to your question, Susan.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I hope that answered it.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): All right. I'm just being aware of the time.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): All right.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So do folks feel like They have an action step.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): you know. Do you feel like you have action stuff for how you can connect with each other, how you can uplift each other right even in this space. or even further than that.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like working on your own savannah, working on your own personal practice and using the Culli energy.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Karen
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): quote not separate the wins and smoke of the Canadian wildfires remind us there are no real orders, and we are not separate. One community.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yes. thank you, Karen, for sharing that.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yeah, exactly.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): We are all in this together.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So I'd love to hear, either in the chat or maybe out loud from a few folks.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): just if there are any main like, what is your main takeaway? What is maybe one interesting thing that you learned.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and of course I'm still here to answer any questions as they're coming up. If you're reflecting our journey.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Kitty.
Katie Komos: hey? I came in late today, so I had an opportunity to be messy. And here, which is always a good lesson. I think that for me
Katie Komos: this was
Katie Komos: a reminder. You know we have to take care of ourselves first, before we can offer to the community, and just a reminder to continue like a sovereignty is responsibility. You know, if your sovereign, your responsibilities to care for that which you are sovereign of which is primarily
Katie Komos: the self first to be able to not only to care for, but the responsibility to make sure that you are showing up to your community as your best self.
Katie Komos: And that was a
Katie Komos: really good reminder. for me.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you so much, Katie, for sharing that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I love that reflection leaf shared here.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Returning to personal practice is a way to benefit the community as a whole. Yes, Bobby.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): I I can't share my video. But I was sitting here, and I'm so glad that you reminded me this story. I love this story because I I do also work in public schools. I'm a counselor, and we've had crazy years recently.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): And one of my thing was like over the summer one come up with a way to try to help our staff to to just be more present other than what we've already done, and it just hit me. It's like
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): I need to help them to be able to to grieve like it. We are no longer what we used to be like, that that's gone. It's it's changed. It's all different.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): And
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): also opening the space and holding space for them to hold on to the rage and the grief of what was or what we would like things to be, and they're not there yet.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): And so this was very for me, very powerful. And Now I have, like my roadmap right, you know, to where, where I'm going with this, and yes, it all starts with me, and that was one of the things I was like. Oh, I I know now I there's some grief that I've been holding on to that. I need to work through and
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): get through. And always that divine rage is okay.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): And I think so often in our society, we from it's caught that, you know. Put down that rage. We're not supposed to be, you know, raging about different things, and so much of what needs to be done. We have to have that
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): that divine rate of you know, when injustice or something is happening and can being able to stand up in that. And also remembering that I know that it's all going to be okay, just like it's like. I know how this really ends. I know that it's going to be.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): You know
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): what it needs to be. And yes, I'm willing to do
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): all the things look up all the 1,000 droplets of blood.
Bobbie Jaramillo (she, her): those that is the beautiful reminder. So thank you so much. I appreciate you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Wow! Thank you so much, Bobby, a lot of what you had shared in your own
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like. I'm reflecting in my own life of of what you had shared, and I'm also kind of getting something of what my grew. G. Says again, is
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): about how you think that you're the doer. You think you're doing all of these things right. You think you're going to work. And you're a part of these communities and you're creating change. And you, you're doing this and this. But you're not right. There's something larger.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): whatever that may be. Maybe it's Kalima. Maybe it's Bug one. Maybe it's you know, who whoever whatever it is. But it's again a reminder to know that you're not the doer.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): You are
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): the witness, sir, of the doer.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): right? and that something larger is doing for you, and that you are the channeler you're channeling. You're bringing the light to the people because you're the vessel, so be the vessel right? I'm seeing a lot in the chat also about grief and rage, and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): I just want to hold space and affirm you all that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): it's normal to grieve. It's normal to rage, and it's normal to have to feel like
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): parts of you are dying because they are so that new parts can be reborn right, and that it is a part of the plan. It is a part of your path, and you need that to happen, so that you can be more in line with your duty so that you can. You can
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): course correct even though you aren't. Course correcting right like the universe is course correcting for you, but inviting that to happen versus fighting it right?
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): compassion, rage, or resonating with me now makes me think about how our rage can also facilitate community connection, action, and clear space for join play. Yes.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): yes, absolutely.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Even the face of demons right? And I know, for those of you who do so for justice work. Are there demons? How? Yes, yes, there are right. There are people who are out there who are
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): mal intentioned right, who are trying to create separation.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): And so it is our job to to come together, and in the face of unrighteousness say, you know what I have my practice. I'm not my mind. I'm not my thoughts on that which is witnessing. What can I do? And how can I respond instead of react
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): through using my personal practice and then create the change.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Yes, not that
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): all right. So we only have a few more minutes left. I wish I could stay here longer with you all. I'm so sorry that I have to dip out here in a few minutes. So I just want to invite for the last minute any other voices into the space. Any other reflections again Centering Bipock and Lgbtqi voices.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): All righty, let's go ahead and drop out then, so I'll invite you to once again make your way
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): into a comfortable position. If your legs are cross like mine, inviting you to cross them the other way
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like a moment.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): perhaps finding it.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): perhaps closing the eyes.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Hmm!
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So I'm gonna invite a mantra for us to chant, which helps channel the collie energy. So again, asking yourself if that is something you want to participate in, or if that's something you'd like to just receive
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): audibly either way is fine. I'm going to put the monthly in the chat. It's 3
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): K. R. E. E. M. Cream.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and so you can also just use the month route.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): like the letter m If the green mantra isn't something that you're resonating with right now.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): so we'll take a few breaths together.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): It's associated with Shakpi power
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and helps
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): around and release
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): anything that may be stagnant in the form of vibration.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): So we'll take 3 cleansing breaths and chant 3, 10 times, inviting you to place your hands together, and any mudra that serves you. My hands are going to be in. But the mom withraal lotus mudra at my heart center
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): fingers are split out with the pinky finger and the thumb connecting inviting and energy into the
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): clearing brass out of the mouth.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): inhale through the nose.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): exhale fully, release
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in hell for cream. 5 times
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): 3,
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): 3.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): We'll end with the closing mantra. Oh, shanty shanty, Shanti!
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Wednesday breath. First exhale through the mouth
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in hell through the notes.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): release through the mouth. So
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): in.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Oh. John D. Shawn the
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): or
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Doc D. The
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): she could be your Namaha! How the
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): writing the palms together and the thumbs together to the ugly at the third eye center.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): taking a deep bow
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): to the true, you within you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): and then to our Sanga to each other.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Jama jig with Dave, made the divine energies last year evening.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Thank you so much for practicing with me. and
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): see you hopefully soon
Rachel-She/her/hers: feel free to unmute and say goodbye, and I'll be here for a few minutes if anyone has any feedback or question.
Leaf (they/them): Thank you.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Bye.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): thanks, Karen, have a good night. I appreciate you
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): any questions here, not. I'll close the room.
Sunaina Madhav Dāsī (they/them): Have a good night.