Inner Stillness Winter Immersion

"Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence to its source you can be taken by it in a moment." Jean Klein

This Winter Immersion will replace the annual winter retreat in 2020 due to the uncertainty of proceeding with retreat in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discover how you can anchor yourself in stillness
while living in the world

This program is taught by nine 2-hour online classes throughout the Australian winter, June, July and August of 2020. In addition, you will have a private 1-hour session for your private Q & A, check in and co-meditation experience.

You are invited to go deeply into an inner exploration through the techniques on non-dual Śaiva tantra. Tantra emerged in the Indian subcontinent in the early centuries of the Common Era. By 700 or 800 CE the sages were producing the most amazing manuals of practice, many of which have survived to the present day, but few are translated into vernacular languages in a way accessible to the everyday person.

Fortunately there are still practitioners who have gained insights into these practices through lineage transmission, and it turns out that it is a path most suited to the modern person living in the modern world. Tantra uses the very act of living in the world as an opportunity to discover your innermost self.

(Please note that while sex is a perfectly acceptable mode to explore the whole of one's experience like any other, Tantra is not particularly about sex, despite the way that "neo-tantra" presents it, and this immersion pays no particular heed to the subject of sex.)

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What will be learnt:

• Orientation to non-dual Tantra Śaivism
• How Śiva is the ultimate stillness, while Śakti is the creative and dynamic principle at the heart of the manifest universe
• Meditations that return you to Inner Stillness
• Practice anchoring to stillness in the midst of the movement and energy we call life!

The way

• Knowledge - gathering gems from the ancient sages that still have relevance today
• Meditation - discovering techniques and tools to lead to the ultimate surrender to the heart of stillness in meditation
• Movement - relishing the sense of the body in moving meditation
• Energy Body - connecting to the energy body, to the central channel, to cakras and more
• Mantra - how intonation of the ancient phonemes awakens the energy that awakens us
• Journalling - tracing and recording expereinces in words, image, recording, whatever works for you
• Yoga Nidra - diving deep through the layers of consciousness to deep self inquiry

Each session will provide practices to be explored in the time between sessions. You will have opportunities for Q & A, there will be some theoretical information and lots that is experiential.

When we meet

Sundays 4pm to 6pm on the following dates:

7 June ~ 14 June ~ 28 June ~ 5 July ~ 19 July ~ 26 July ~ 9 August ~ 16 August ~ 30 August

Plus a private 1:1 meeting (one hour) arranged with each participant individually from about half way through the immersion.

Immersion cannot be joined after the starting date. Enrollments close 15 May.

Investment:

19 hours of tuition for $390

You will also receive handouts and recordings, plus access to a private Facebook group where Immersion participants can meet, discuss and interact with each other and Tina. Recordings of our group sessions will also be placed on this private Facebook group for you to rewatch, or catch up on should you miss a session.

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Immersion leader:
Tina Shettigara

Tina began her yoga practice in 1971, and though the path has not been one glorious continuum, she has been supported by yoga and meditation ever since. She graduated from her first teacher training in 2009 and has taught consistently ever since.

Ongoing studies and influences have been with Donna Farhi, and Richard Miller and members of the senior training faculty of iRest® . Tina became a Certified iRest teacher in 2016. She has also pursued somatic studies with Martha Peterson of Essential Somatics. Most recently Tina has been deepening her practice in classical Tantra Yoga, primarily with Christopher Wallis, but also with Kavitha Chinnaiyan and others. Tina has a long interest in Indian philosophy and is well versed in the philosophy and history of yoga.

What others have said about working closely with Tina

Julia

Inner Stillness Retreat participant 2018

This is a unique experience and Tina is a warm and guiding teacher. All of the practices celebrate life, connection and understanding. The grounds are beautiful and everything is exceptionally clean. Be ready to sit for long periods though there is lots of free time and the body sensing practice gets you moving like nothing else. It's a wonderful experience!

Elisabeth

Inner Stillness Retreat Participant 2019

Thank you Tina .It was a beautiful and inspiring weekend.

Jodie

Inner Stillness Retreat Participant 2019

Tina, thank you for opening my heart xo

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