Three profound experiences lately
Leela Newsletter
July 4, 2023
Namaste,
I hope you’re feeling safe, grounded, and relaxed.
Over the past few days, I have undergone some incredibly powerful energetic shifts that I would like to share with you.
Specifically, there were three incredibly powerful events I was a part of.
These experiences hold the potential to activate and ignite the seeker within you, opening new possibilities and energies on your spiritual path.
As I share these experiences with you, I hope somewhere they activate and ignite the seeker in you to look towards the unknown, and tap into new possibilities and energies.
The first experience - Tantric Navratri
Usually when a tantric Navratri happens, I email and text my students and clients reminding them that this 9 days of the celebration of the feminine is happening.
We all meditate together and step into this experience and collective.
This was the first time I did not email anyone.
Not because I didn’t want to but because so many transitions were happening.
My teacher told me that this particular Navratri was simply to go within.
So we did not do the usual rituals for 9 days that we usually do. Instead, I was advised to just be with my silence, be with myself.
I got so lost in the transitions and in my own silence, that the thought of emailing and informing anyone totally slipped my mind.
As I always say, we don’t always need the right teachers, but we absolutely need the right students because they can empower the well-intentioned humans to be authentic teachers.
So this time, many of you, my students and clients, have messaged me and asked me “Isn’t this tantric Navratri time? Did I somehow missed your emails?”
I had to confess that I got so lost in my own sadhana experience that I forgot to remind everyone, but I can also feel that this is the first and last time I would get this lost in it.
But I happily realized that my students are ahead of me.
They’re so willing and eager to be part of these experiences.
So much my gratitude for the tribe started to build up within me.
The second experience - Goddess Kamakhya
Goddess Kamakhya is the goddess who menstruates, and every year there is a festival called ambuvachi where she goes through the menstruation time and the doors of the temple are closed.
But outside the temple, the festival happens to celebrate her, to allow her to rest and reset.
I wasn’t there in India, although I wish I was. Yet somehow I still felt very close to the Kamakhya energy.
The temple of goddess Kamakhya is my playground.
Many moons ago, I even took a handy cam there.
Those were the days of the handy cams. I wanted to shoot a documentary covering all the aspects of goddess Kamakhya.
And somehow I felt like I was making her private journey too public and I never released it. I don’t even know where that footage is. That was more than 10 years ago.
What I do know is that her work, her teachings, her energy is finding its way into the Leela Membership experience which will be launching soon, hopefully before the year ends.
The third experience - Guru Purnima
The third and final experience that happened recently was yesterday, July 3rd.
This occasion was Guru Purnima.
Guru Purnima is the day that we honor the known and unknown, seen and unseen gurus, teachers, and yogis all over the traditions.
If you ask me, it’s not only the day to honor and be grateful for you teacher, it’s also the day to honor the mystics, who gave us so much truth, wisdom, and spiritual guidance to work with.
As we go deeper in this work, the point is to stay open and receptive to their teachings, to stay open and receptive to these experiences.
When I showed up to this experience on Monday, I was fully present, with my awareness filled with gratitude, with openness and receptivity to new possibilities.
My point is— what do all of these three experiences represent?
They represent renewal, reset, recharge.
They represent some fabulous unknown possibilities that you may not even be imagining.
What can you do to make that possibility happen?
Keep it simple. Do not complicate your path.
And ask yourself, how can I cultivate A.I.M. (Action, Intention, Meditation) in my work?
How can I consistently, mindfully, and effortlessly meditate as much as I can in my joy
What is the intention that will serve my blooming, my happiness?
And finally, what are the right actions that I need to undertake?
I’m curious where this note will guide you.
Be well, be safe.