Somatic Kundalini Workshop with Tara Judelle

Cost: 

Early Bird: $430 (Early Bird pricing is available until September 4th, or until the allocated Early Bird tickets sell out—whichever comes first.)

Regular: $490 (after September 27th or when Earl Bird tickets are sold out)

Location: Yoga Lyfe, 107 Canterbury Road, Middle Park

Schedule: Saturday & Sunday 11am-4:30pm

*There will be props at the studio. Feel free to bring your own. There is also a kitchen if you’d like to make a cuppa. Please bring your own mug.

All  sales are final.  Payments are non-refundable.  If you are unable to attend you may transfer your ticket to another person.  You are responsible for finding the replacement atendee and arranging payment with them directly.  Please notify us via email of the name change at least 48 hours prior to the event.  If you wish for us to try to find someone to transfer your spot then a cancellation/rebooking fee of $30 will apply.  If your spot cannot be filled, then no refund will be issued.

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About the Workshop:

Since the dawn of creation, tantrics and yogis have realized that in the physical body there is a potential force.  It is not psychological, philosophical or transcendental: It is a dynamic potential force in the material body and it is called Kundalini.”  Swami Satyananda Saraswati

“The Kundalini Shakti or “coiled feminine energy” is the vast potential of psychic energy. The body’s most powerful thermal current. The arousal of kundalini is not unique to tantric practice, but forms the basis of all yogic disciplines, and every genuine spiritual experience may be considered a flowering of this physionuclear energy.”- Ajit Mookerjee.

Kundalini is widely known as the sacred energy of the universe, said to be coiled in the base of the spine, three and a half times like a snake.  Early Hatha yogic practices were designed to wake up Kundalini.  Yet this “esoteric” energy is a real-life force that can be awakened gently and gradually. Some sources say that only then can we access our capacity as a fully awake human being. 

This Somatic Kundalini workshop is a new offering developed to open up the conversational lab to the wisdom of kundalini in the body.  While this serpent energy has been in our human awareness across cultures, traditions, and time for longer than any single text points to, it is little understood and, in fact, a power source that has been subverted, controlled, and kept mysterious.  We will approach the territory of what the ancients knew through our own somatic realm, calling back our intuition and ground, and open the channel to the wisdom of our body-mind.

In this 2-day workshop, we will practice through the chakras and enter into the discovery of kundalini via the glands, bones, fluids, and embryology.   We will endeavor to discern the subtle energy through our concrete bodily topography as we unveil clues to the potent life force.

While previous experience with yoga, embodiment, and meditation is suggested, you can attend this workshop without previous training, just the desire to know and befriend this life focus energy so that you can court and utilize it throughout your lifetime. 

This immersive experience will offer knowledge and awareness of the structures in your body that utilize and activate elevated sensorial, awakened states of consciousness.  You will have the tools to both activate and balance kundalini processes.  You will learn how to ground and stabilize energies within your body. Most of all, you will gain the keys to initiating your own potent energy of the universe within the microcosm of you. 

This workshop will focus on:

• Somatic approach to the body, the glands, and kundalini
• Non-dual tantric meditation and sutra study
• Investigation of Chakras and tantric texts on kundalini
• Embryological investigation of the main energy centers of awakening
• Goddess mantras and text study focused on kundalini energy
• Somatic free movement and dance to help court and assimilate the kundalini shakti. 
• Holding space for yourself and others through kundalini activation. 

In this two-day workshop, we will explore the pathway of kundalini through a somatic approach. Accessing the neuro- endocrine system, and balancing classic esoteric and tantric texts as well as somatic movement practices that work with a somatic approach to a six-cakra system .

This is a 2-day condensed version of a 100 hour immersion Tara has been developing for many years. 

Day 1 

11am-1:30pm

Base to crown -entering the sacred thread

At the start of our journey, we will work with the muladhara cakra – the first and perhaps hardest to move. This is the energetic plug into the Earth’s magnetic field. We will connect it to the crown and work to clarify the bi-directional instrument and determine the polarity within which the chakras move. 

2:00pm-4:30pm

Svaddhistana, manupira- the water and the fire. 

As we continue the journey through the inner topography of the chakra system, we will enter into the potent interiority of the sexual organs and the generative power of the third cakra- the digestive fire. 

Day 2 Sunday 

11am-1:30pm

Anahata – and visshudha: the heart and the throat. 

Continuing our journey up the energetic system, we will look at the powerful energy of the heart complex and throat – our relational capacity as we expand from our individual system into the relational awareness

2:00-4:30

Rounding out our weekend with a focus on our imagination and connection to the field of awareness, we will practice meditation, breathwork, and chanting as we move from the ground to the crown.

About Tara Judelle

Tara’s classes focus on the discovery of embodied anatomy, bringing to the yogic tradition a scientific yet playful study of the movement vocabulary of the body and the ever-expanding perceptual awareness of the human mind. Classes are a journey of awakening to the flavors of Self through the felt sense of the body/mind.

Since 2008 the somatic sensibility of embodied anatomy inspired by Body Mind Centering® drastically shifted the emphasis on teaching form with philosophy to inhabiting the felt sense of the inner experience guiding and filling our corporeal landscape. In a quest to bring the living essence of the classic tantric teachings into an embodied journey, Tara co-created the School of Embodied Flow™ in 2014 to bring her current passions together into a modern Yoga movement. Embodied Flow  strives to awake the body-mind by integrating somatics, tantric philosophy, asana, and free training to bring vitality to the whole body-mind. Embodied Flow is practiced by students from over forty countries. It has certified and inspired facilitators in over 20 countries leading the quest to create harmony of living, movement, and flow.

About Embodied Flow

Embodied FlowTM Yoga is a continuum of yoga, somatics, free movement, Body Mind Centering ®, and Somatic psychology created in 2014. Anchored in the teachings of non-dual tantric philosophy, Embodied Flow’s methodology brings students into ever more pathways to step into agency, freedom, and flow.

Each workshop is an exploration continuum that includes a blend of discussion, somatics, asana, free movement, meditation, and journaling.