“. . .the Dakini is a compelling icon of untamed female freedom...releasing blockages in the energy field and melting frozen patterns so that the door of the mind is suddenly ajar and something new can enter.”  Vicki Noble

FULL MOON DAKINI MANDALA PRACTICE

Women’s Temple In Her Name

Canton, Connecticut

           The Dakini is the mysterious Sky Going Goddess of Tibetan Buddhism. In peaceful and wrathful emanations, she heals by transforming the poisons of aggression, greed, addiction, jealousy, self hate and delusion into the medicines of clarity, generosity, warm presence, spontaneous accomplishment and spacious accommodating presence. To use Rita Gross’ phrase, the Dakini is a powerful myth model for women. She is embodied, wild, compassionate, powerful, and magical.

            When I think about the times we’re living in, what we must meet, and ways to transform the poisons in ourselves and the culture, I always return to the Dakinis. This is an invitation to enter this Mandala (womb) each Full Moon on behalf of our own healing and that of all beings.

            In this Mandala practice for Western non-Buddhist women, transmitted by Vicki Noble, we will call to the Dakinis through invocations, chanting, and visualization and then we will take refuge in their presence.

            We will also chant the mantras of the Black Dakini, Throma, who with fierce compassion dissolves our most deeply entrenched patterns of suffering. If you have received transmission of the practice from me or Vicki, then simply register and come to Women’s Temple on any of the dates below.  

            We will begin with a group drumming for about ten minutes, a brief sharing, the Dakini Mandala, and end with the Throma mantras accompanied by drumming and then silence. I encourage you to bring an object for the altar. If you’d like to speak to someone who has been doing this practice to hear their experience over time, let me know.

            For coherence, I am asking you to commit to at least six of the nine sessions. If you attend more, please pay at that time. Full Moon Mandala Practice: break down into sliding scale from $5-15, total $30-90 for six out of nine gatherings. Send a check for between $30-90 to cover the six sessions – please pay as close to the top of the slide as you can, as all funds go toward the cost of running Women’s Temple. For the two hour transmission, $20-30.

            If this is prohibitive, please contact me, as no one is turned away for financial reasons. Nora Jamieson, 8 Stone Meadow Lane, Collinsville, CT 06019. For information call me at 860-693-9540 or email me using the Contact button in the sidebar.

Blessings and A La La Ho! (Great Bliss!)

7-9pm

Monday, November 2, 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Friday, January 29, 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Thursday, May 27,2010

(On June 26^th Vicki Noble will be here for a teaching, details forthcoming)

Sunday, July 25^th, 2010

Tuesday, August 24, 2010