100h Somatic Kuṇḍalinī and the Daśa Mahāvidyā Immersion, April 1-11, 2027
Somatic Kuṇḍalinī and the Daśa Mahāvidyā 100h immersion
with Tara Judelle & Tova olsson
“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.
This is the loving offering of two teachers who have spent decades of their lives immersed in and embodying tantric teachings and who are madly in love with the Goddess. Who share the same lineage and the same longing for intimacy with reality, for embodied liberation.
If you want to understand and work with the Daśa Mahāvidyā – the ten tantric wisdom goddesses and the tantric concept kuṇḍalinī, both through somatic practices, philosophical discussion, mythological storytelling and mantra and meditation techniques, this retreat is for you.
This is embodied Śākta Tantra.
Kundalini is widely known as the sacred energy of the universe, said to be coiled in the base of the spine, three and 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.
The 100-hour Somatic Kundalini immersion 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 toward, 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 10-day container we will practice through the chakras, and enter into the discovery of kundalini via glands, the bones, the fluids and the embryology. We will endeavor to know the subtle energy through our concrete body topography, as we unveil clues of the potent life force.
While previous experience with yoga, embodiment and meditation is suggested, you can attend this immersion without previous trainings, just the desire to know and befriend this life focus energy so that you can court and utilize it throughout your lifetime.
After this program you will have full 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 know how to ground and stabilize energies within your body and how to work with others that are going through a kundalini process. Most of all, you will gain the keys to initiating your own potent energy of the universe within the microcosm of you.
This immersion will focus on
- Somatic approach to body, the glands, and kundalini
Daily non-dual tantric meditation and sutra study
Investigation of Cakras 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 to help court and assimilate the kundalini shakti.
Holding space for yourself and others through kundalini activation.
The Daily Schedule:
07:00 – 8:30 meditation, mantra, breathwork journaling.
09:00 – 11:00 Dynamic movement practice.
13:00 – 15:00 Philosophy, meditation, somatic exploration
15:30 – 17:30 Afternoon, practice/ lab.
Please note that we start at 12/noon on the first day and finish at 3 pm on the last day.
Support materials:
(not required but supportive to your work)
Awakening Shakti, by Sally Kempton.
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, by David Kinsley
Your teachers:
tova olsson:
Tova Olsson is a scholar of religion, author and senior yoga teacher. She is appreciated for her humorous approach and deep knowledge, for her ability to explain esoteric ideas and philosophical concepts in an accessible and embodied way, and for her immersive storytelling.
As a ‘Scholar-Practitioner’, she strives to combine an academic, critical understanding with the experience of a long-term practitioner, offering teachings that provide liberating knowledge – on many different levels. She holds a MA in Religious Studies and is currently working on her PhD, researching the construction of gender in contemporary tantra in Europe. Tova is the author of Yoga and Tantra: History, Philosophy and Mythology, published by the renowned Motilal Banarsidass, as well as numerous academic articles. She also runs the online school Saraswati-Studies and is part of the teaching faculty on several international yoga teacher trainings, where she shares her passion for yogic and tantric philosophy and mythology.
Tara judelle
Tara has been facilitating yoga experiences since 2001. From her base in Los Angeles, she relocated to Bali in 2010- from which she began touring and facilitating workshops, immersions, trainings, and retreats internationally. Motivated by her strong desire to find technologies that enable her students to realize their full and joyous multi-dimensional selves. The response to the conversation to become liberated and embodied is the School of Embodied Flow. Inspired to innovate the method and means of the yogic conversation, weaving tantric philosophy, skillful movement, and playful humor into her facilitation. She curates Embodied Flow yoga happenings to incite students towards expanded consciousness and an awakened experience of themselves. Her dynamic style brings ease and authenticity into a new yoga culture.
Dates:
April 1-11, 2027
Venue:
Location: Southeast Asia
As a center dedicated to healing and renewal, our venue provides a lush and inspiring environment for the nourishment of body, mind, and soul right in the center of Asia and is the perfect container for our training. Launched in 2007, The center is known to be one of the largest retreat centers in SE Asia. Created by its founders for the sole purpose of bringing together community and giving back, we are honored to be one of the center’s select 200-hour invitees. We have been running trainings there since 2016 and are privileged to be invited to return to this special place year after year.
Pricing:
PLEASE NOTE – This training is non-residential, students need to book their own accommodation.
Standard Rate: $2375 USD ( $2250 USD Tuition + $125 USD Meals & Materials) $500 USD deposit within 7 days of confirmation, full rate by January 15th, 2027
What’s included:
10 days of in-person training
Daily organic & nourishing brunch
In-depth teacher training manual
Space is limited and acceptance is by application only.
$500 USD Deposit is due upon acceptance to reserve your spot. Deposits are non-refundable and are part of the overall tuition.
This 100 hours can count towards the Embodied Flow continuing education hours or towards Yoga Alliance CE units.
