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• Shaiva Tantra Meditation Gathering - Space Available

  • Course Length: 1hr 15 minutes
  • Starts: 7th May 2023 - 7.30PM
    ...and runs .
    ...until 8.15 PM
  • Cost: £5
  • Location: Dainton, Devon

  Tantra Sadhana
  
  Shaiva Tantra is a non-dual spiritual lineage with origins in the Kashmir region of Northern India. The wisdom teachings and practical applications found in the original tantric texts, combined with the additions and refinements made lineages of spiritual masters over the ages has left us with a powerful internal form of yoga. The practices include visualisation, mantra, deity work and yogas for purifying, activating or releasing aspects of the body’s subtle anatomy - such as chakras (energy centres), nadis (energy pathways) and granthis (energetic knots).
  Entwined with these prana focussed yogas is a non-dual perspective which is the bedrock of all practice.
  With non-duality as our intuitive or embodied understanding, or at least as our hypothesis, we approach the practice.
  Through meditative self-inquiry we investigate our essential nature beyond form, we explore the nature of Self and reality and our place as humans within that.
  
  Why Meditate
  
  The benefits of regular meditation are far reaching and profound. Mindfulness helps cultivate greater mental clarity. The breath and energy practices regulate our nervous systems and the meditative self inquiry opens us to the possibility that what we ultimately are is more profound, more vast and more sacred than we habitually imagine.
  
  Practicals
  
  The class is 1 hour and 15 minutes:
  
  We will begin with a 40 minute meditation practice with periods of both guidance and silence.
  We follow this with some gentle movement and breathing practices.
  We then end with another short guided / silent meditation.
  
  *Please bring your own meditation cushion and mat if you have them.
  If you require a chair please let me know and I can arrange it.
  Space is limited so please book and pay in advance.
  
  The introductory price is £5
  
  The venue is in a hamlet called Dainton just ten minute drive north of Totnes towards Newton Abbot.
  Please contact me for payment information and for the full address and directions.
  Parking is very limited so please lift share where possible.
  
  Deva <3

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• The Seven by Seven Method ~ 6 Part Self Study Meditation Training - Space Available

  • Course Length: As long as you need.
  • Starts: Whenever you choose.
    ...and runs daily
    ...until you complete the course.
  • Cost: £55
  • Location: The comfort of your own home.

  - Does your mind jump all over the place in meditation?
  - Does your practice sway from the sublime to the ridiculous?
  - Whether you are new to meditation or you have a regular daily practice. This 'Seven by Seven' method can be a valuable resource.
  - This 6 part course sets out, in detail the method that I have recently developed for focussing the mind when we get lost in meditation practice.
  - It can be used as a stand alone method or in conjunction with a pre-existing practice. Acting like a guide wire that brings us back to the path, this method can be used when the mind is particularly active or when awareness has been lost. Please contact me if you would like to ask me questions or discuss if this course is right for you.
  - The exchange is: £55 However please don’t let money be a barrier and contact me if you need a concession.
  
  Please contact me to book:
  FB: Heart of Tantra *or Devamurti Richie
  Email: devamurti108@gmail.com

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• Shaiva Tantra Meditation Gathering - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 1hr 15 minutes
  • Starts: 2nd April 2023 - 7.30PM
    ...and runs 7.30
    ...until 8.45 PM
  • Cost: £5
  • Location: Dainton, Devon

  Tantra Sadhana
  
  Shaiva Tantra is a non-dual spiritual lineage with origins in the Kashmir region of Northern India. The wisdom teachings and practical applications found in the original tantric texts, combined with the additions and refinements made lineages of spiritual masters over the ages has left us with a powerful internal form of yoga. The practices include visualisation, mantra, deity work and yogas for purifying, activating or releasing aspects of the body’s subtle anatomy - such as chakras (energy centres), nadis (energy pathways) and granthis (energetic knots).
  Entwined with these prana focussed yogas is a non-dual perspective which is the bedrock of all practice.
  With non-duality as our intuitive or embodied understanding, or at least as our hypothesis, we approach the practice.
  Through meditative self-inquiry we investigate our essential nature beyond form, we explore the nature of Self and reality and our place as humans within that.
  
  Why Meditate
  
  The benefits of regular meditation are far reaching and profound. Mindfulness helps cultivate greater mental clarity. The breath and energy practices regulate our nervous systems and the meditative self inquiry opens us to the possibility that what we ultimately are is more profound, more vast and more sacred than we habitually imagine.
  
  Practicals
  
  The class is 1 hour and 15 minutes:
  We will begin with a 40 minute meditation practice with periods of both guidance and silence.
  We follow this with some gentle movement and breathing practices.
  We then end with another short guided / silent meditation.
  Please bring your own meditation cushion and mat if you have them.
  If you require a chair please let me know and I can arrange it.
  Space is limited so please book and pay in advance.
  The introductory price is £5
  The venue is in a hamlet called Dainton just ten minute drive north of Totnes towards Newton Abbot.
  Please contact me for payment information and for the full address and directions.
  Parking is very limited so please lift share where possible.
  
  Deva <3

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• Shaiva Tantra Meditation Gathering - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 1hr 15 minutes
  • Starts: 26th February 2023
    ...and runs 19.30
    ...until 20.45
  • Cost: £5
  • Location: Dainton, Devon

  Tantra Sadhana
  
  Shaiva Tantra is a non-dual spiritual lineage with origins in the Kashmir region of Northern India. The wisdom teachings and practical applications found in the original tantric texts, combined with the additions and refinements made lineages of spiritual masters over the ages has left us with a powerful internal form of yoga. The practices include visualisation, mantra, deity work and yogas for purifying, activating or releasing aspects of the body’s subtle anatomy - such as chakras (energy centres), nadis (energy pathways) and granthis (energetic knots).
  Entwined with these prana focussed yogas is a non-dual perspective which is the bedrock of all practice.
  With non-duality as our intuitive or embodied understanding, or at least as our hypothesis, we approach the practice.
  Through meditative self-inquiry we investigate our essential nature beyond form, we explore the nature of Self and reality and our place as humans within that.
  
  Why Meditate
  
  The benefits of regular meditation are far reaching and profound. Mindfulness helps cultivate greater mental clarity. The breath and energy practices regulate our nervous systems and the meditative self inquiry opens us to the possibility that what we ultimately are is more profound, more vast and more sacred than we habitually imagine.
  
  Practicals
  
  The class is 1 hour and 15 minutes:
  We will begin with a 40 minute meditation practice with periods of both guidance and silence.
  We follow this with some gentle movement and breathing practices.
  We then end with another short guided / silent meditation.
  Please bring your own meditation cushion and mat if you have them.
  If you require a chair please let me know and I can arrange it.
  Space is limited so please book and pay in advance.
  The introductory price is £5
  The venue is in a hamlet called Dainton just ten minute drive north of Totnes towards Newton Abbot.
  Please contact me for payment information and for the full address and directions.
  Parking is very limited so please lift share where possible.
  
  Deva <3

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• Inner Refuge ~ ‘A Grounding Mid-Winter Tantric Yoga and Crystal Sound Journey’ - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 3 hrs
  • Starts: 4th December 2022 @ 10.00 AM
    ...and runs eg. every Tuesday, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
    ...until 1.00PM
  • Cost: By donation
  • Location: The Angel Hall, Bowden House, Totnes TQ9 7PW

  With the colder, darker days of December approaching, we invite you all to come together for a few hours of deep calm, inner stillness, connection and refuge.
  Come and join us on Sunday 4th December 2022 for a morning of relaxing tantric yoga, breath-work, meditation and sound healing.
  
  WHAT TO EXPECT:
  
  Tantric Yoga journey
  …A somatic-meditative exploration investigating the depths of our being and the availability of our sensate awareness.
  Using movement, stillness, breath and insight, our attention dances between very visceral, inner body awareness and wide open spaciousness, accessed through our deeper essential subjectivity.
  We enter the field with the mainstays of classical tantric yoga such as long-hold asana practice with precise, mindful somatic awareness. We use visualisation coupled with sensory awareness of energy centres and gentle but deep pranayama (breath-work) for shifting our consciousness and entering into profound, trans-sensory states of being. Then we move into a calming, balmy yoga-nidra for deep relaxation and integration.
  
  Sound journey
  After a short break we enter into a magical crystal sound journey with Lina. The sounds have drone-like, open qualities, inspiring us to go deeper into our sensory experience. We submerge into the crystalline healing sounds of the alchemy crystal singing bowls allowing our bodies and minds to enter into deep states of relaxation, stillness and peace. The journey offers us the potential to sink into the very essence of our being, reconnect with Divine Source, and gain deeper wisdom, understanding and clarity.
  
  Tea & Cake
  At the end of our journey we’d like to invite you to stay for tea and very special cake. ‘Delinalicious’ will provide us with amazing vegan, gluten free and refined sugar free cakes. They need to be seen (and tasted) to be believed… Devon’s finest plant-based delicacies! (cash and card payments accepted).
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  PRACTICALS
  TIME:
  Please arrive at 9:45 so we can settle and start at 10:00AM
  We will have tea and cake at 12.30 and end at 1PM
  LOCATION:
  The Angel Hall
  Bowden House
  Totnes
  TQ9 7PW
  
  PRICE and TICKET:
  This event is by dontation
  There are limited places available. Please contact us to reserve your place.
  
  CONTACT US:
  
  Devamurti:
  07540932480
  devamurti108@gmail.com
  
  Lina Ren:
  www.crystallinesound.uk

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• The Seven by Seven Method ~ Meditations for Busy Minds ~ 6 Week Online Training - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 6 weeks
  • Starts: 13th November
    ...and runs every Sunday, 8.00 - 9.15pm
    ...until 18th December
  • Cost: £65 - full price £55 - concession
  • Location: Online - Zoom

  ~ Does your mind jump all over the place in meditation?
  ~ Does your practice sway from the sublime to the ridiculous?
  ~ Whether you are new to meditation or you have a regular daily practice. This 'Seven by Seven' method can be a valuable resource.
  
  ~ This 6 week course sets out, in detail the method that I have recently developed for focussing the mind when we get lost in meditation practice.
  ~ It can be used as a stand alone method or in conjunction with a pre-existing practice. Acting like a guide wire that brings us back to the path this method can be used when the mind is particularly active or when awareness has been lost.
  ~ The course is once a week on Sunday evenings and the guided meditations will be recorded and sent out as a support for your ongoing practice.
  This class will be conducted on Zoom. 20.00 - 21.15 UK (GMT) timezone.
  Please contact me if you would like to ask me questions or discuss if this course is right for you.
  
  ~ The exchange is:
  £65 - full price
  £55 - concession
  
  However please don’t let money be a barrier and contact me if you need a further concession.
  
  Please contact me to book:
  FB: Devamurti Richie
  Email: devamurti108@gmail.com

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• Ancient Doorways, Timeless Wisdom – A Six Part ‘Home Study’ Meditation Journey  - Space Available

  • Course Length: 6 weeks
  • Starts: Whenever you choose.
    ...and runs weekly
    ...until you have completed the course.
  • Cost: £55 - full price £45 - concession £35 - unwaged/low earner
  • Location: The comfort of your own home.

  Do you struggle with meditation?
  
   Are you resistant to taking time out to sit for meditation practice?
  
  For the first time I am offering this pre-recorded six part meditation course. The course consists of six guided meditations (each around 45 minutes) from the Ancient Doorways Timeless Wisdom online course as well as some parts of the Q and A (each around 20-25 minutes long) which we engaged in before and after each of the six sessions.
  
  This course offers a systematic and methodical approach to meditation that can help get you back on track and learn to enjoy daily periods of sitting practice.
  I liken the modes of practice to a series of eight doorways that lead into the inner chamber of meditation, hence the title of this course.
  Whilst the 'state' of meditation is a spontaneously arising phenomenon, there are strategies we can employ and ways of being that we can embody that calm the nervous system, adjust our way of experiencing reality and bring us into a relaxed and receptive state whereby meditation can arise.
  
   The eight doorways to meditation that I teach here range from basic mindfulness techniques to more advanced tantric practices that involve visualisation, internal mantra and meditative self-inquiry.
  
  - We begin with mindfulness in order to connect with the breath, the body and the subtle energies that flow when we sit. This is an exercise for calming down the nervous system and grounding the body.
  
  - We learn to turn the action of mindfulness inward to perceive more subtle, spontaneously arising phenomena. This trains one's awareness to become increasingly refined in its perceptions.
  
  - We use various entry points into the present moment, cultivating presence and sensory withdrawal.
  
  - We eventually learn to let go of any method that we are using and move into a 'space' beyond states.
  
  Please contact me if you would like to ask me questions or discuss if this course is right for you.
  
  The exchange is tiered:
  £55 - full price
  £45 - concession
  £35 - unwaged/low earner
  
  However please don’t let money be a barrier and contact me if you need a further concession.
  
  Please contact me for payment details:
  FB: Devamurti Richie
  Email: devamurti108@gmail.com
  

• Ancient Doorways, Timeless Wisdom – A Six Week Guided Meditation Course. - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 6 weeks
  • Starts: 9th January 2022
    ...and runs Every Sunday, 8.00pm - 9.15pm (GMT)
    ...until 13th February 2022
  • Cost: £65 - full price £55 - concession £48 - unwaged/low earner
  • Location: Online zoom call

  Do you struggle with meditation?
  Are you resistant to taking time out to sit for meditation practice?
  This course offers a systematic and methodical approach to meditation that can help get you back on track and learn to enjoy daily periods of sitting practice.
  I liken the modes of practice to a series of eight doorways that lead into the inner chamber of meditation, hence the title of this course.
  
  Whilst the 'state' of meditation is a spontaneously arising phenomenon, there are strategies we can employ and ways of being that we can embody that calm the nervous system, adjust our way of experiencing reality and bring us into a relaxed and receptive state whereby meditation can arise.
  The eight doorways to meditation that I will teach on this course range from basic mindfulness techniques to more advanced tantric practices that involve visualisation, internal mantra and meditative self-inquiry.
  
  - We begin with mindfulness in order to connect with the breath, the body and the subtle energies that flow when we sit. This is an exercise for calming down the nervous system and grounding the body.
  - We learn to turn the action of mindfulness inward to perceive more subtle, spontaneously arising phenomena. This trains one's awareness to become increasingly refined in its perceptions.
  - We use various entry points into the present moment, cultivating presence and sensory withdrawal.
  - We eventually learn to let go of any method that we are using and move into a 'space' beyond states.
  
  The course is once a week on Sunday evenings and the guided meditations will be recorded so that you are able to use the practices as supports for your ongoing practice.
  
  This class will be conducted on Zoom. 20.00 - 21.15 UK (GMT) timezone.
  Please contact me if you would like to ask me questions or discuss if this course is right for you.
  
  The exchange is tiered:
  £65 - full price
  £55 - concession
  £48 - unwaged/low earner
  However please don’t let money be a barrier and contact me if you need a further concession.
  
  Please contact me to book:
  FB: Devamurti Richie
  Email: devamurti108@gmail.com
  
  Find the event on FB: https://fb.me/e/1rIiVXlhu or https://facebook.com/events/s/ancient-doorways-timeless-wisd/1064853414247497/

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• ShivShakti Sadhana: Three day tantra yoga intensive - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 3 days
  • Starts: 8.15 AM 8th November 2016
    ...and runs daily
    ...until 5.30 PM 10th November 2016
  • Cost: Q690 (Optional accommodation $20 / day)
  • Location: MahaDevi Ashram, Tsununa, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

  This is a three day non-residential workshop retreat focussing on key aspects of the yogic paradigm that I have found most effective and powerful on my own spiritual journey.
  
  Whilst the practices in the yoga classes will include asana, pranayama, mudra and bandha as in other forms of hatha yoga, the focus in this retreat will be meditation, breathwork and abidance in the infinite ground of Being.
  
  I teach yoga asana based in stillness and an attitude to sadhana (spiritual practice) rooted in the innate human desire for truth.
  
  The aim of this workshop is to give you a taste of how it is to rest in the ground of Being; the natural state, and to incite your aspiration to awaken in this life...
  
  This is deep inner work suited to those who wish to cut through the superficialities of modern yoga and spirituality and experience traditional tantric practices based on the information presented in the ancient texts of yoga and tantra.
  
  ~To read more about the meaning of tantra, see my article here :
  www.devamurti.co.uk/about/what-is-tantra/
  
  ~To read about the teacher, (Devamurti - Bihar School of Yoga)
  go here:
  www.devamurti.co.uk/about/the-teacher/
  
  The price for this three day event is Q 690, including lunch all three days (to pay in advance - or on the door if there is space).
  
  Accomodation (optional) with breakfast and dinner included is $25 per night.
  
  -The daily schedule will be the same each day :
  
  8.15 -- Arrive and meet
  8.30 -- Opening circle and Introductory Talk
  9.00 -- Tantric Hatha Yoga class
  11.30 -- Meditation
  12.30 -- Vegan Ayurvedic Lunch (provided)
  1.30 -- Yoga Nidra
  2.30 -- Guided Meditation / Pranayama
  4.30 -- Q and A / sharing
  5.30 -- Finish
  
  Directions to the ashram here: www.mahadeviashram.org/contact.html
  
  (Please note I won't be able to respond to enquiries between the 30th and the 3rd November as i'll be in retreat myself)

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• Detoxify your body the yogic way. - Fully Booked

  • Course Length: 3 hrs
  • Starts: 27/04/13
    ...and runs 1pm
    ...until 4pm
  • Cost: Cost is £25 in advance / £30 on the door (though places are very limited so this option may not apply - contact me to check)
  • Location: Ananda Bhavana - 7 Hurlingham Rd. St. Andrew's, BRISTOL. BS7 9BA

  The yogis of ancient times were experts at removing toxins from their systems... from phlegm, bile and gas to psychic and sub mental impurities.
  
  This workshop will deal mostly with how to removes the unwanted toxins from your physical body using techniques called the shatkarmas (or kriya yoga).
  
  I will present to you the theory and practice and you can then confidently carry out these cleansing practices in the comfort of your own home.
  
  Once you know these techniques i guarantee you will use them again and again - some daily, some monthly for the rest of your life. You will save huge amounts of money if you currently pay for colonic irrigation as one of the simple DIY yogic methods has the same, if not more beneficial affect.
  
  In this workshop i will introduce the basics of Ayurveda to explain how and where we collect toxins and why the cleansing practices are beneficial and necessary in order to have a healthy and balanced system.
  
  These practices work on a physical level by removing toxins from the body which will boost your immune system. They also work on a subtle level as well; clearing blocked energy channels so that you can perceive energy within you more clearly.
  
  The class will include some simple asana and meditation.
  
  I will provide printed notes for your reference.
  
  Places are limited, so advance booking and payment is necessary.
  
  Please bring blankets and note pad / paper.
  
  Location: Ananda, 7 Hurlingham rd. St. Andrew's, BS79BA
  
  www.devamurti.co.uk
  07974375340

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