Hi All, I am definately starting a 21 Taras free online meditation and mantra repetition practice group on zoom. ( YouTube recordings available for those not on the zoom call) Serious Students of Feminine Enlightenment practices will love this series! In this way you can practice at your own convenience or use the recordings to repeat the practice. It’s nice to have the synergy and refuge of a Satsang/community. These are feminine empowered Tibetan Tantric Practices brought from India to Tibet about 1000 years ago by Atisha, a Tantric Meditation Master and have been passed down and used for generations of practitioners both women and men since that time frame so these practices have an incredible amount of compassionate Shakti and these Taras are so relavrnt to todays world and what we encounter in our lives.
Each week we’ll practice the meanings, history and stories behind each of the 21 Taras, a set of mantra repetitions ( each tara has specific mantras ) and a meditation. This is a learning group using the book “Tara: The Liberating Power of the Female Buddha” which is available on Amazon, kindle and audible ( there is also a set of 22 Tara Cards which have the mantras on them by the same author and she sells them separately at: https://rcwms.org/product/taracards/ ) (they are nice to have but not necessary)
Anyone who is interested please EMAIL ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS melissa@melissaabbott.com so I can notify you for the zoom calls and YouTube recordings. You will also like to have a Mala ( set of prayer beads) and a nice natural fiber shawl to use in the practice I have been doing these practices since the end of our 5 Dakini’s Practice Group and they are so so beautiful. Whose In? #21taras #greentara #tibentantantra #feminineempowerment #practicegroup #rachelwooten #femalebuddha #liberatingpower #meditationgroup #mantrarepetition #melissaabbottyogaandmeditation
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A lifelong meditator, learner and seeker, Melissa started her journey with a Hatha Yoga class in 1970 at age 17. Later after a stint in Art School and extensive travel, Melissa became a resident at Shree Muktananda Ashram in upstate NY studying Siddha Yoga meditation practices and is a disciple of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and the Siddha Lineage Of Swami Muktananda and Bhagwan Nityananda. There she became acquainted with Shaiva Tantra Meditation from Kashmir, while studying with Dr. Paul Mueller Ortega, Dr.Douglas Brooks, Sally Kempton aka Swami Durgananda and many other teachers residing there at that time. Melissa also studied Tibetan Buddhist Practices of the Sakya Lineage with Luding Khenchen Rimpoche. Melissa has had a 40+ year meditation practice receiving many initiations and transmissions from many great contemporary teachers.
Currently, since 2017 Melissa has been studying with Christopher Wallis a Sanskrit Scholar Phd covering “The Recognition Sutras”, “Vijnana Bhairava”, “Spanda Karikas”, and “Tantraloka”. Melissa is an avid reader, studying with the scholarly works of Christopher Wallis PhD, Alexis Sanderson Phd.Oxford University , Christopher Tompkins PHd Candidate University Of CA Berkley, and James Mallinson from SOAS in London. A member of Academia.org, Melissa keeps up with the latest translations of historic Yogic Writings by contemporary scholars.
On the Hatha Yoga front, Melissa has studied Iyengar and Anusara Hatha Yoga in the 1990’s and later took her first hot yoga class 10 years ago with Suzanne Elliott in Merritt Island, FL, becoming a Raja Hot Core Hatha Yoga 500 hour Teacher in 2016 with Craig Villani. In 2017 she became a USA Yoga Coach and started judging video submissions in 2019. In 2018 Melissa studied with Jimmy Barkan Level 2 Hot Vinyasa Training in Ft Lauderdale and 2019 Adi Westerman’s Teaching 26/2 Plus Training. A member of the Original Hot Yoga Asso OHYA and a Hot Yoga Teacher at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates in Epping NH www.steamhousenh.com and Blue Yoga Group in Swampscott, MA. “Melissa Abbott Yoga and Meditation” has a weekly Visionary Tantric Yoga & Yoga Nidra Podcast available on Spotify, ITunes Podcasts, Podbean and YouTube.
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