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April 14, 2022 112 mins

Practicing yoga since the early 1970s, internationally respected teacher Sally Durgananda Kempton is a master at transmitting meditation and at applying spiritual, yogic and tantric teachings to daily life situations. Sally spent 20 years as a swami in a Vedic tradition. A deep practitioner with profound knowledge of both the traditional and the contemporary aspects of inner life, she is the author of The Heart of Meditation, Awakening Shakti, and Doorways to the Infinite, and she wrote Yoga Journal's monthly Wisdom column for many years.


Tune in here for a conversation between Sally and Mark about what living a spiritual life with yoga and tantra can mean in the modern world.


Episode highlights:

 

  • Tuning into spirituality as the graceful, loving, omnipresent awareness of deeply benign energy one can tap into amid all of life’s circumstances;
  • Bringing spirit, shakti, eros, into everything;
  • Tantra as a diverse array of practices;
  • Having a daily yoga practice that pertains directly to daily life;
  • Cultivating complete awareness of being fully and brightly alive;
  • Receiving teachings from an inspiring source;
  • Being a feminist while living the life of an initiated swami;
  • Tantric initiation and matters of caste and gender;
  • Opening to all of what we feel and experience in ways we can face with abiding love.


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