Eve, Snake & the Awakening of Kundalini
                          © Copyright Sheila Foster, 2010

Recently, over the course of a two-week period, I received a large number of emails from women in my Temple of the Sacred Feminine community stating that they had had unusual sightings, experiences, or dreams of snakes. That same week, a beautiful green snake with yellow stripes crossed my path.

Over the last 30 years, since my own Kundalini awakening, I have had significant sightings and dreams of snake. I came to understand that snake is an archetypal symbol of the Great Mother Goddess, incarnate in one of her most universal forms, as well as an ancient symbol of the Kundalini Shakti, the divine energy of spiritual initiation and awakening that lives within each of us. Snake’s appearance in a woman’s life or dreams can be a harbinger of a threshold crossing, a portal to a new level of embodied feminine consciousness that is emerging.

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Underlying Principles of Samyama Healing
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Chaos and Becoming a Dancing Star
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Samyama: Alchemy of the Heart

Samyama is an ancient meditation practice from Raja Yoga that appeared in my meditation one day about 17 years ago, to my great surprise. I was unfamiliar with this form of meditation at the time, so I simply followed the detailed instruction I was given on the inner levels in how to turn toward my heart. This radically changed my life and my work with others, and the lives of the many it has touched, as you will see when you read what others say about Samyama below.

Samyama makes it possible to directly experience life as it is, be in the present moment, and meet ourselves in our own precious hearts, no matter what is happening in any given moment. It is also a path and a portal to the realization of our essential being, the pure awareness that is the unified field. The practice also offers a profound level of healing for our deepest wounds. From my own experiences, as well as witnessing so many others doing Samyama, I see that it is an amazing gift of Grace that keeps on giving, endlessly, and an exquisite vessel of receptive devotion.

Samyama is truly Alchemy of the Heart. This means that when we learn the skill and cultivate the practice, amazing changes occur within our hearts so that healing of painful emotional states occurs and we open to the silence and peace of our essential nature.

The instruction given to me was simple: no matter what was arising, I was directed to bring my attention back to my heart and hold my focus there on whatever what happening in my heart. It sounds simple, and it is, once you learn the skill involved. We all can feel what is in our hearts, and we do. What we don’t understand are the subtlties of attention that are involved to activate the Alchemy of the Heart.

Once I began using the practice several times a day, I became more peaceful in general, and this was remarkable to me at the time, as I was going through a divorce. Ever since, I have used Samyama daily for meditation, self healing, for simply being with what is. My center of consciousness has shifted from head to heart, as it does with most of the people who practice Samyama daily.

Twelve years ago I suffered an unspeakable loss with one of my children, and it is by the grace of Samyama that I was able to meet it and continue to live with it. I truly don’t know what would have happened for me had I not had this precious gift of Samyama to get me through the hard moment.

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Blog: Samyama and the Mysteries of the Heart
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Sacred Feminine Initiation:
An Archetypal Journey
by Sheila Foster

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This small book is the first written fruit from a 30 year journey that documents the first days of my own call and initiations into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries in the early 1980's. It includes dreams, Jungian psychology, kundalini awakening, the arising of the women's mystery school, and information about the archetypes of the Mother, the Amazon, the Lover, the Medial and the Queen.

I also discuss the process of initiation, longing, mythic perspective, the evolution of the mystery school, and this feminine path of spiritual awakening. The writing is a weaving of memoir with the learnings distilled from my time stewarding the Temenos Center and the Temple of the Sacred Feminine. 63 pages