Feedback from March 2024
Nourishing Your Ground Immersion

Following are the feedback messages we received from the March 2024 Nourishing Your Ground Immersion:

  • It is hard to find words for this. This course has literally been life changing for me. I am so grateful to be a part of this offering.

  • Core Takeaway: 1) Karma!!! The transmission and download on karma has been so important and life changing. I have received a body level understanding of how karma, volition, intention interrelate and the key role of vedana. 2) I feel like my energy body has been taken apart and put back together over this last 3 weeks. I feel renewed, I feel a flow of prana available for what is most important to me.

  • The most spacious, loving, and expansive container I've ever been held in. I am deeply grateful for the teachings, Anuttara as a teacher, the lineage, and the community. All elements were valuable and the way that I was invited in as a whole being, through my body, rather than through the thinking brain was an outstanding experience.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. Being and receiving (vs doing or understanding) are whole and valid ways to engage with teachings.
    2. The body is the way. The body is nature.

  • Beyond words--- you are teacher and those are the teachings I have been calling in my life

  • Intense and moving , lot of emotions left my body but I realise there is so much more to work on.

  • WOW!!!! SO powerful! Such belonging, nourishment and structured holding and tuning of my vessel to what is most important: the core of our lives.

  • Core Takeaway: daily Pranayama!! Such a powerful tool! ; Deity Practice is a must! How to stay aligned with Sahajayana state/ Divine streaming at all times. Never want to leave this state with the Beloved

  • Refreshing, nourishing, exciting, coming home.

  • Core Takeaway: Realizing that I have been waiting to walk into the forest. Second core takeaway: being able to connect daily with what my core is asking of me, and using that guidance to learn more about what practices are useful for me at this time.

  • this is the first time meditating has fully aligned with where my body needs to be right now. vipassana is a beautiful practice but my body has so many needs and i felt i needed to re-organize myself in ways that, at first, felt like the natural progression of deepening in my practice. however, now that i have experienced our meditations, i realize now that that is not true. i was leaving myself to be in practice. what i appreciate the most right now is how aligned i feel, in general. not just in meditation, but in the sensation/feeling i experience throughout the day - in the mundane and high stress situations.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. VEDANA PRACTICE OMG THIS WAS AMAZING. Being able to sense into volition and intention as different experiences blew my heartmind apart (in a great way!). 2. CENTERING THE DIVINE. I have a lineage of practicing and providing offerings to ancestors and gods/goddesses/earth/cosmos, and felt i had to separate the two in practice. this space has provided a path for me to intertwine the two without really trying. amazing.

  • deep gratitude! it is a great gift to have access to these teachings.

  • Core Takeaway: mind the gap! sensations are portals to the present and have many hidden messages. attune to the divine in all that we do

  • Unforgettable; I felt truly blown away by the openness, care, meticulousness of space-holding, and integrity of teachings that came through. March was a month of heavy grieving and major transformations for me, and I know without a doubt that the teachings so generously offered by Anuttara had everything to do with this. I found myself making spontaneous breakthroughs that allowed me to hold all facets of my experience with greater compassion (and sometimes, raucous belly laughter). I felt like I walked away with a lifetime's worth of beautiful practices that I will treasure as I deepen into this particular leg of my journey through life!

  • Core Takeaway: I don't think this was offered directly in class, but Anuttara's explication on the hierarchical nature of Tantra helped me to understand more deeply why I have always valued lineages so much, and why absolute discernment is necessary in order for trust to be genuinely placed in a teacher. The entire conversation on Tantra vs. Neo-Tantra was deeply enlightening, as well. I also find myself coming to these practices from a space of joy, and wanting to sit in joy—not to self-enrich or self-improve (as Anuttara so beautifully spoke to this morning). For me, practice has been a way to meet the parts of myself that long for beauty and the fullness of connection to my embodied form. I appreciate the permission to settle more intentionally into that space.

  • This was an incredible and extraordinary experience. I felt deeply held, grounded, and safe in the container, while being invited to GENTLY and KINDLY stretch into holding more life.

  • Core Takeaway: My life and every choice is immensely important and I will treat it as such. It is important/ vital for me to stay connected to eros/ play/ beauty/ love and find ways to do that as I do my work in the world and my practice.

  • Really wonderful, regenerative, and affirming culturally, identity and spirituality wise.

  • Core Takeaway: First: What is the emotion between the breath?
    Second: Am I living my purpose?

  • The twice-daily practice with weekend meetings was very supportive.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. It really helps to move and express through the body physically in my practice. 2. Being outside in the elements has allowed me to feel again.

  • Unforgettable; I've integrated so much physically and emotionally in just 3 weeks. It's already changing my daily life. Anuttara and team have created a space unlike any Buddhist or yogic space I have encountered in the west. I am bursting with gratitude and tears of joy. Perhaps all the suffering I've encountered and work I've done to heal in the last 4 decades has led to this gift. Thank you, family.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. The divine feminine within me has always known--it has always been onto something. May she be be nurtured, nourished and honored always!
    2. It is quite possible that the human species wants something other than the destruction we have reaped and sowed upon this planet.

  • Receiving subtle and strong revelations of what's missing in me. And which direction the spiritual path needs to make. Also the daily sit made space for a continuous reflection and deepening of some of the teaching

  • Core Takeaway: 1. Where exactly are the blocks in me. And what is also flowing in me. Trusting and reading my sensations. Deeper trust in the mystery realms.
    2. The clarity of some concepts like Karma and Sankara. Knowing how much my previous practice contributed to where I am today.

  • Exquisite. So informative, inspiring and true to the name of the program, nourishing. I learned a lot and feel immense respect for this lineage and for Anuttara. I will continue to be fed by these teachings, insights, practices and invitations moving forward, and I will absolutely be participating in future programs and retreats.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. the connection between meditation, sankaras and karma. has already helped me begin to notice and grow more awareness around my reactions, feelings and sensations.
    2. I don't need to improve myself! this isn't about becoming a better yogi or meditator, but simply about feeling connected to the earth and spirit realms. that feels very validating.

  • Epically incredible and life changing. such deep bows. What i have been waiting for...for a very very long time. Thank you.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. this is a path of passionate love and devotion to the deity. what is at the center of your life?
    2. need to work with mind, with sancaras, volition, vedana for liberation

  • Amazing. Feeling blessed to have these teachings come my way. These have brought cohesiveness in my understanding of similar practices ; the why and how of how these meditations help and even why I have been doing these for past several years. Its amazing how these teachings have shown me way for resolution about certain complexities in mylife. Waiting for emotions course.

  • Core Takeaway: 1.Learning to connect to self on regular basis 2. Guaging how practices are helping through sense of self-authority and agency.

  • Feeling a mixture of gratitude, awe, humbling, energized, excited (integrating new learnings and feeling the 'buzz', like a vibration), very held, so also feeling relaxedness, spaciousness.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. This is not a self-improvement project. "I like myself". Thank you Anuttara for offering these words. Turning towards "what is mine to do?" 2. What a joy and gift it is to explore and travel the path of collective liberation in resonant company.

  • It has been nourishing, liberating, clarifying and strengthening

  • Core Takeaway: To honour my reality in totality, hold space for what is happening in and around me, to continue the practice to deepen it

  • The experience has been profound and amazing for me. So deeply resonant. The coming together of different facets of my various practices. Deeper into the body. Sensations. Emotions. Nature. Interconnectedness. Eros.

  • Core Takeaway: Tantra (in this lineage) is such a portal, a practice and path to full authentic embodied aliveness and liberation. The importance of finding one's Dharma.

  • This experience was profound. I cannot put in words how much this has touched my life and I am going to really miss our community container that we’ve built this last month. If there is a future retreat or container, I will be there! I would have loved to go to the special in-person retreat but my university finals week schedule will be too busy. I have a lot of students to tend to. I would love to join any future online or in-person retreats. My deep gratitude to Anattara for sharing her deep knowledge and creating such a special place for us. I was experiencing sadness for this to end today so thank you also for keeping the container open once or twice a month until the next September emotions program. I am feeling sad for this daily container to be ending and look forward to other offerings.

  • Core Takeaway:Wow! There are so many! I keep going back to thinking about the pranas and where I am spending my energy vs what adds to it. I also have been sitting a lot with volition (vs. intensions). Beyond the teachings, the greater takeaway is that I had the opportunity to sit and be a part of this wonderful group, made up of people who deeply care about others and the world around them. I felt very held, supported, and that I was a part of something bigger.

  • I have felt very grounded and supported in furthering my connection to these teachings.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. I am finding value in learning how to distinguish when I need to focus on practices that support regulation in my nervous system versus being able to engage in other practices when my nervous system is feeling more stable
    2. I have been sitting a lot with the ideas of vedana, karma, and volition and how I can work on disrupting patterns that orient me outwardly

  • This was an invaluable experience. It felt very rich and vibrant. I love the focus on joy. I also feel more focus and clarity in my day to day. I also love that a key part of these teachings is helping me see what is mine to do to help others.

  • Core Takeaway: I don't have to try to be a better version of myself (and that's not an achievable thing).
    All thoughts, emotions, and sensations are visitors.

  • Profound, I was looking for something exactly like this and I can't believe I was brought here. My yearning to merge with the divine goddess is stronger than ever and all I want to focus my energy on. I am looking forward to deepening this path. I feel I am at home. Hoping to stay in touch as I am also located in the Bay Area (SF). I feel at peace and taken care of and safe in this lineage. thank you for your profound way of teaching.

  • Core Takeaway: 1) the relationship with the gap, the questioning of who is underneath it all. I had been focusing on the "doing" the practice as opposed to receiving what's really there. So that was very eye opening and has continued to unfold
    2) my yearning for the divine is stronger than ever.

  • There were a few days in the middle where I had so much rizz (charisma), so filled with prana. I felt like my meditations were more powerful because I was in this container. My main feeling is one of there being enormous potential within this lineage. Some parts of the lectures were very emotional for me.
    I also feel the ache to be part of something in-person. It feels like I'm on the edge of a circle and I am not sure if I can sustain myself on this path while I'm not inside the circle.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. There are lineages where pleasure, the nature, the wild, rage, and ecstasy are honored and fit cohesively into the program. Tantra.
    2. Pleasures devoid of the sacred will feel increasingly meaningless to me.

  • I really appreciated the teachings and the daily meditation container! I feel like this would be a good thing for me to do every year to deepen and refresh my own practice.

  • Core Takeaway: First, I reconnected with my meditation practice in a deeper way. I really appreciate the guided meditations and want to continue to them time and time again. Second, it gave me a framework and clearer access to where I am with life and what I want out of it, including helping me to connect with my most raw, wild, and authentic self.

  • I appreciate the sincerity and generosity with which the teachings have been offered. I found value in the non-duality of individual and systemic perspectives that were taught.

  • Core Takeaway: - Even before getting into the practices, understanding how "tantra" has been co-opted/diluted
    - Wisdom and practices for accessing the gap/silence, which is vital to remain stabilized in a chaotic world

  • It's been incredibly helpful during a very intense transition time. First is the community has been a powerful container. It's a relief to be in a spiritual community with diversity of genders, locations and cultural backgrounds. Sensing into the energies of the participants, there is a vitality-- as was mentioned-- not dissociated sitting. And I've been really impressed by the amount of content and materials that have been shared, as well as the support from the Sahajayana team. Thank you for the generosity, commitment and pragmatism of all that has been offered-- to the entire team.

  • Core Takeaway: How aligned I've been with fear, and all of the pressures of capitalism and the effort to align with the sacred. second takeaway is that moving to a way of being that is receptive is constant practice. and that shift from doing to receiving is invaluable -- the impact on the energetics of the moment is profound.

  • Sweet nourishment. Good to see such warm community of participants who care about the crises in the world. I learnt several things. I loved Anuttara's authenticity.

  • Core Takeaway: Understanding of volition vs intention with respect to karma and a basic understanding of tantric Buddhhism which I didn't have even when I'm from India.

  • A truly precious gift, this container felt so radically de-colonized and inclusive as someone just shared. And I loved how everything was optional - there was never any pressure to "you must attend this or do this" which was such a refreshing break from most other things in this life.

  • Core Takeaway: 1st: Connecting to what arises in the gap and stillness is the point. 2nd: showing up in whatever condition I am in is powerful. Feeling, Receiving, and Listening are extremely hard and nuanced and I still dont feel Ive cracked it.

  • Thank you so much for this immersion, really loved the energy and calmness of the energy and the ease of it !

  • Core Takeaway: First core takeaway - amidst all the kleshas and ku-sanskaras, I have always had this feeling that there is a dimension inside of me which knows the truth of situations I go through and people around me - I had doubts about that side and always didnt take it fully seriously as people and world around me gave me contrary signals, but with these teachings and all my other recent experiences I have started to understand I should start trusting it and just let go on variety of aspects of life and be a seeker rather than constipated Doer.

  • There are so many thoughts and appreciations for everyone whom has come together to make this possible. It has felt like a beautiful space to be brave together, to practice without forms of shame leading the way. Invitations to experiment and try different practices and to do them if they feel good for your body. The language and practices have really invited even deeper connections to the divine for me. I'm so thankful to have records and written guides to return to. The chants, sounds, music, and mantras were so wonderfully curated to really bring about a special container. I have so many more emotions of gratitude and connection and am so grateful for you all.

  • Core Takeaway: Weaving in pause and time for breath and mediation throughout my day and also specifically after work and transitioning to nourishing my body and time with my partner and friends.
    What life desires of us is happening all the time, we just have to say yes and keep walking.

  • Kindness, Gratitude ,Pause and continue, mindfulness

  • Core Takeaway: Mental

  • Deep deep gratitude. I’ve felt an immense and new opening. Something I was seeking but afraid of. And the possibilities this immersion offered are so welcoming and beautiful. Thank you 🙏

  • Core Takeaway: Volition and karma.
    Finding and welcoming the wild.
    Having a delicious romance with the breadth

  • This was the first time I have ever attended an immersion on such a topic. I am a spiritual wanderer, and felt so comfortable, informed, and safe in the immersion environment. I feel encouraged and compelled to use the practices as a starting point with a structured practice

  • Core Takeaway: power of the shared practices. energy of a shared group

  • This was a container I for which I have been seeking without even knowing what exactly I was seeking. It has been so helpful, nourishing, validating, rooting, inspiring and enlivening. Many sincere thanks.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. My prana has been ungrounded in a way that was not accessible to my own mind.
    2. That asking the natural part of my body to “behave” is reenacting the same bullshit that has caused me so much harm. I love the phrase “You do not own nature.”

  • thank you for offering this immersion!

  • Core Takeaway: My takeaways was this is a very deep lineage, which i honour but am taking aspects from the teachings which i can immediately apply. the first is to build in more pranayama practice, some of the techniques we learned i am already familiar with and some are new! second is to just take to process what is on-going in my life and to not look for more inputs.

  • It has felt like putting my hand in a glove that fits perfectly. It’s the path my heart knew existed by my mind didn’t know existed. And walking on it feels like I’m heading home. I’m beyond grateful.

  • Core Takeaway: Orientation of Receptivity. Orientation of Relationship/relational. Both are key.

  • Grateful, inspired, enlivened and held through a sacred journey of coming into deeper connection with these teachings and life in a renewed way. I felt held and cared and a part of sangha.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. A deepened understanding of sankaras and karma in order to break the cycle of samsara and recognition of the wheel of dependent origination
    2. The role and cultivation of prana, vayu and embaodied practices to continue to clear those pathways to make space for shakti to move through. Linking of vipassana with tantric teachings.

  • This experience has answered a deeply personal call for guidance, accountability and community. These teachings as well as the practice container have offered my life deep stability and spaciousness while I've taken the plunge into noticing the sensations and observing the relationship ive long been building with the gap.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. Trust the gap. notice, observe and linger there. This place, this relationship, is a portal.
    2. it is important to build discipline and stability in these practices, recognizing that there is little linearity , and in this building I can also clarify my resolve for the collective in my practice and in the teachings

  • It was intense and insightful

  • I am so grateful for this transformative experience. I came into the immersion in a dark place with my health and have seen meanigful changes in how I am orienting to my body and chronic illness. I feel as though I am in the emergent stages of a beautiful and lifelong journey. I am both overwhelmed by the new information, concepts and teachings and also hungry for more. I look forward to continuing the journey on my own and in more shared spaces like this one. Thank you deeply.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. My body is not my own, it is nature expressing itself; given my health issues, this idea has been extremely freeing for me and spoken directly to issues of control and shame regarding my body (feels strange and incorrect to even say "my" anymore!).
    2. There is a realm where everything is okay; when we mind the gap we recognize that; meditation practice widens the gap; it is always here and can be accessed; I am inspired by the lifelong opportunity to grow in relationship with this gap.

  • Wow. Such a clear, potent, awakened space that has been created and held with such love, integrity, care. The teachings and especially the Sahajayana lineage that feels so not patriarchal or linear and embraces the body, the emotions, the erotic, the wild. Tapping into this even more deeply is like drinking the nectar of the Goddess. I'm just overflowing with love and re-tapped into the nature of peace that is strong and powerful. This was truly amazing and such a gift in my life.

  • Core Takeaway: For me, really cultivating the upana, feeling the grounding, peaceful, nourishment of the earth. And steadying in the well of resource in dwelling in the place of silence / the gap.
    Also, huge for me what receiving and working with the direct energy, dreams, transmission, gifts coming from the Deities and the Mahasiddhas of this lineage through Anuttara and the teachings/practices.

  • This experience has been a profoundly meaningful one for me. I am experiencing it as very literally a prayer answered, for spiritual guidance that is actually truly aligned with my deep being and life as it animates me. The love and deep grace for life and the wholeness of nature that is infused with the discipline, structure, practice dimensions is so, so deeply nourishing, such a welcome relief from so many other colonized/patriarchal spiritual traditions that I have encountered. This is the first time I have found a spiritual lineage and teacher that truly resonates for me, that I believe in, as a full-organism. Anuttara, thank you so, so much. I hope to continue with you for the full journey of this resonance.

  • Core Takeaway: First: For the foreseeable future, this is the spiritual lineage and path for me to follow.
    Second: A much more substantial recognition and remembering of, rest into, and love and gratitude for 'the gap', the silence, the space from which everything else emerges.

  • Very very grateful to have found this community and so grateful for these teachings and for your transmission, Anuttara. Whew. What a gift to be here. I said in my small group today: I've had a sense of these layers since being a small child... and have been kind of roaming around... where, where, where... here? no. feels tight and controlling. here? no. feels like capitalism, feels like a big collective shadow is running things, etc. with fragmented bits of teachings and practices and pointings still getting through, here and there, from various lineages (including my own, Kabbalah). So my path has been mostly just asking the Earth -->> And this has felt like coming across a spider web in the forest, totally illuminated by morning dew and revealing its shining beauty and truth and elegance and coherence... a sight to behold and kneel before and listen to. I know that sounds grandiose, but that's how it has felt/feels. THANK YOU.
    Also, as others have spoken to, the sense of coherence and radical belonging of 'hard' emotions... uffff.... has been so freeing, such a relief.
    At it was really a balm to be in an international community, a broadly diverse community, and in community with people so dedicated in practice <3

  • Core Takeaway: 1) follow the body
    2) sense into volition (as distinct from intention) .... story of John and Ken <3... story of Joanna Macy's wish for us to take better care of one another...
    3) practice.
    4) listen for where/how to serve (and implement :)

  • Intentional, profound, integrating, communal, sacred.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. This immersion was my first exposure to the Tantra lineage. It gave me language and framework to understand the mysticism and mystery I've experienced in my practice, exposed through the western Theravada lineage (where the subtle and mystery realms, ritual, and shamanic bones are rarely spoken to and honored). Additionally, I bow deeply to the Tantrics that place emphasis on collective liberation, as this path has never felt about my healing in a vacuum (though I've certainly healed along the way). I also experienced an integration of my experiences of Buddhist practice, Hatha yoga, and my own indigenous cosmology – this connection I've always felt in my body as this unsaid knowing and shared DNA – however, Anuttara's transmissions of the Tantra tradition built a much more tangible bridge. It feels like a long, lost puzzle piece finally returning me to a greater sense of wholeness and ground as a spiritual practitioner.
    2. A more tender takeaway – having been exposed to such complex and chronic suffering/trauma as a young person, I've been reflecting on and into more dense and subtle layers of how the imprints of Dukkha continue to stealthily obscure my capacity to experience love, beauty, pleasure, and joy in moment-to-moment life. With this emerging and greater clarity, I've been more able to disrupt, interrupt, and transmute the sensations leading to unwholesome rumination and samskaras. In this process, the presence of the divine/ mystery realm has appeared in new and potent ways – particularly this month having lucid and wild dreams with many unexpected & indescribable transmissions from ancestors and what I'm understanding as past lives.

  • My commitment to compassionate service is on fire right now - this course validated my natural way of being in the world and revealed to me where this came from (because it certainly wasn't my family of origin). I feel relieved, connected, alive, and energized - feelings that have been hidden for way too long. I feel awe.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. I finally have a conceptual framework that perfectly describes and explains an experience I've never been able to fully grasp (much less put into words) - I've been privately practicing deity yoga for over 30 years when advocating for and holding space in my service work. So grateful to know and understand what this total body and spirit experience is - and to now have an opportunity to fully explore it through Saharjayana practice. THANK YOU!
    2. I am ready to let my prana flow and trust that my longstanding devotion to service work, having developed skills to ground my nervous system, and the nurturing refuge of the dharma/goddess/sangha will keep me in right relationship with the power of my prana. I think I am finally ready to let go of the fear of misusing it so that I can fully engage in the world and be a more powerful activist.

  • This container was extremely supportive. Drawing the teachings out over a month allowed me to process + hold the lessons and wisdom with embodiment. The consistent *group* sits allowed me to stay in these practices even when my system needed extra support -- which resourced me to be able to continue on my own in a much more rooted + nourished way.
    It felt spacious, rooted, sweet, nourishing, strengthening, easeful, tender.
    It invited discipline in a way that did not feel punishing or critical or exacting -- but rather loving, supportive, kind.
    I feel watered. Quenched and parched at the same time -- a little more free from the binary of full or empty, good or bad... connected to alignment.
    The best part was realizing there are others like Anuttara who see the world the way I do -- who feel deeply called to figure out our place in the collective, who see the interconnectedness of all things, who understand that it is our role to do something - even if we never get to see the fruit of our seed. I trained as a sociologist and have spent countless hours thinking about the ways in which everything is connected - empire, capitalism, race, class, gender, etc etc etc -- and have often felt immeasurably lost in the face of these things. I picked a career I thought would help without any spiritual rooting, and found myself broken at just how unhelpful and performative it was. I've been looking for answers for over a year now, and this is the first space that offered any kind of grounded answer (i.e. that the deity has answers - that if I ask, over time, it will be clear - that eventually my role WILL make itself known and my job in the meantime is to practice listening and keep moving). I'm hopeful that this lineage will help me continue to come home to myself and my purpose.
    Also, I loved that there was so much room and sacredness for both silliness and deep relationship with the world around us. I've felt so crazy most of my life for getting consent from trees before I pick a flower from them, or the ground before I sit, or for saying hello to my little stuffed animal when I come into a room. But Anuttara joking about Joanna Macy's stuffed bear and speaking of the deity and just the WORLD in the way she did was so helpful. I felt like perhaps my ways were rooted in something bigger than me, rather than a sign that I'm a little crazy. I felt like my "weirdness" is really just an inherent alignment with this lineage without knowing this lineage existed.

  • Core Takeaway: 1. Life is benevolent, and resource is ever-present.
    2. There are practices that exist that bring us closer to the divine without requiring we abandon ourselves or our bodies. You can stay at home in your body and still be in the divine: it isn't outside you, and it doesn't require you to do anything differently.
    3. Being on the path does require clarity of purpose -- but being in practice affords that clarity over time. And it offers sweetness on the way.
    4. There are others who understand that joy is medicine for our collective struggles, but spiritual bypass isn't the solution. Our collective responsibility is key.
    Lots more, but this is what's most potent and alive for me right now!

  • deeply dropping into core, stabilizing, steadying

  • Core Takeaway: equally: the importance of volition, the importance of steadiness and exploration of the pause

  • Grounding

  • Core Takeaway: 1) My pain doesn't belong to me, 2) Bucket 3 - Possibility of letting mystery move through me

  • I enjoyed the connected vibe you created, the care you put into each detail so we would get the most benefit and feel supported. Clearly people could understand the value and meaning of these teachings thanks to your skilled holding. Overall i didn’t have a breakthrough in terms of my personal practice, it was a time for me in which entering a meditative state, despite the clear guidance of practice was hard and i may have benefitted from carving out more time to be able to attend the daily sits but in my time zone this was very challenging (central europe).
    i was moved to tears by the dedication of the group. thank you for this experience. the love was felt.

  • Core Takeaway: a clearer understanding of how karma, samskara, intention and volition play out
    how to release samskaras with vedana step by step using the concept of the 3 buckets.

  • This immersion was extremely helpful to me in so many ways. I appreciated meditating in community and all of the practices resonated so well with me. In particular, i felt the movement practices breaking old patterning in my body. The teachings opened new insights for me and have been helping immensely. I felt a lot of care for the other participants, and their unique energies. I felt a deep appreciation for Annuttara and the depth, joy, end earnestness to the group. Especially important and beautiful is that these teachings include systemic aspects of our conditioning and suffering which has been vitally missing in other spiritual communities. This is so centrally important, and I believe that true awakening cannot happen without this piece being felt and addressed. I am in deep reverence and respect and am very much hoping to get to keep walking with you through this beautiful territory. Thank you !! 🙏

  • Core Takeaway: 1) I have been able to take a sober look at how patriarchy lives in my body and the bodies of those I love. I have had a clear understanding of how this distortion runs through generations, and then into cultures and society at large. I see and deeply feel on new levels the ways that patriarchal extraction is objectifying the body of the earth, and the bodies of her beautiful creatures. It resonates so deeply in my heart. I have a new level of being able to cry with those who suffer, and not be so stuck in my personal pain bubble. know its nature is collective, and hold it that way. This has given rise to a heart broken open into compassion. There is more to grow in this area, but for now, has been a priceless gift.
    2) The teachings on phassa, vedana, chanda, tanha and upadana. After hearing these teachings, I spontaneously have been able to consciously sense when phassa is subtley and subjectively responded to with vedana. From there, I could identify the others, and as well the story lines about my experiences. The identities I ever so subconsciously have been overlaying on to my phassa. It showed me that I add a lot of stories about how I am unsafe, or things will go the wrong way or I myself am wrong or bad. I could purposefully change those narratives when they came to light, and I see them as constructions rather than solid truths. I have been able to open to phassa and in doing so, release the prana taken up by these added beliefs, and as I did that, I felt prana energizing my devotion rather than energizing my false beliefs. I will keep practicing this!!

  • It has been so very nourishing, supportive and grounding for me. I very much appreciate the combination of rigor and gentleness, the repeated invitations to listen to and respect the body, the teaching about the distinctions between tantra and neo-tantra, the integrity, depth, humbleness and care that consistently came through Anuttara and others on the team and in the group, and so much more. I am still integrating it all, and I know I don't already know all the ways it is touching and changing me.

  • Core Takeaway: The gap is always available as a nourishing, resourcing connection with the wholeness and perfection of the absolute realm.

    The difference between desire, craving and clinging, both conceptually and as different experiences in the body.

  • Very sweet, it helped me get into much deeper understanding of core concepts, with more clarity how to work with the concepts and practices and subtle levels in my body.

  • Core Takeaway: 1.) importance of practice for self and the collective, as a gateway to be in deeper service 2.) a much more feminine approach

  • I am so grateful for this offering. I had been struggling with my relationship to the Dharma and these teaching came in at the right time and offered me needed perspectives and frames which made me feel like my whole self could be part of teachings and practice. I could not attend any of the weekend sessions, so I'm still making my way through the recordings, but from what I have experienced and learned so far this is an invaluable offering. I have been encouraging many people I know to go because these teachings are offering something that I believe is missing from white Western convert Dharma, which is what most of my friends are steeped in. As a friend of mine reflected back, she hadn't heard me this excited about Dharma and practice in years.

  • Core Takeaway: Again I'm still catching up so this could change - 1. i know nothing about practice and the Dharma and I mean that in the best most exciting inspiring way. 2. pleasure is a-ok and there's a lot of wisdom in the body and it needs to be attended to

  • I apologize for taking so long to respond to this. I don't feel like I have access to a lot of words for what I'm experiencing but I'm feeling a lot in my body: shifting, aligning, grounding, sweet joy, a feeling of being held, an excited nervousness of how my life is falling apart and then back together in ways I've only dreamt of. I'm feeling a deep connection to divine in my every day living because of these teachings: as I walk down the sidewalk and admire a blade of grass coming up out of the concrete, as I feel the breeze on my face, as I notice my sit bones connecting with the surface beneath me while I sit in a coffee shop typing on my computer. I've been re-watching the recordings these past days since the immersion ended and drinking in the teachings and wisdom. This has been a grounding experience during a time in my life where I'm moving through the messiness of re-aligning to purpose and the divine. I've felt this experience has held me in ways that help me to feel safe and alive and able to release my inner knowing from the bondage of patriarchy and capitalism. I'm learning to trust my body to move me through this life through these practices.

  • Core Takeaway: Words are hard to conjure....First core takeaway: I can trust my body to be connected to divine, I am a part of divine, access to divine is never cut off from me (it is simply noticing or not noticing my connection). These practices help me more easily remember these truths. Second core takeaway: I can trust divine to hold me in this experience of being human on this earth, I can trust the sacred. Even if in physical "reality" my world is falling apart, I am whole, grounded, full of juicy, vibrant energy - the life force that moves me to be fully alive in ways that have ripple effects on the rest of the world.

  • I feel blessed to have found these teachings at such an early part of my life. The subtle aspects of Karma, Sankharas and desire are taught with great care and clarity and would love to go back and keep re-visiting these teachings.
    It brought clarity to to some of the events or the way I could look at from here on.
    This was also the first time my partner is introduced to these teachings. He is still catching up on the recordings, it is a great and deeper way for connection with my husband. Thanks you Anuttara.

  • Core Takeaway: Equanimity is not just about hoe deep we go while in meditation but equanimity in situations.
    This is journey is not alone.
    The aspects of Karma, Sankharas and desire for me were the key takeaways.

  • I have deep gratitude for Anuttara and the team that made possible this beautiful, expansive, embracing container for tapping into a sensibility that is much needed. I have benefited enormously from the teachings, the practices and the collective presence. The course allowed me to revitalize my practice, my own path, to deepen my questions, to face uncomfortable conversations and sensations in an intimate shrine of love.

  • Core Takeaway: Practice, practice, practice.
    Attune to the creative force of the mystery realm.
    Urgency to find, refine, and be more consistent with my Dharma.

  • This was my very first Buddhist meditation practice and I have had and continue to experience an expanded relationship with my breath and its invitation to enter nirvana.

  • Core Takeaway: 1)This is a practice that nourishes and enlivens me, allowing me to tap into my own divinity.
    2) I am in awe of how responsive the universe
    can be once we open the channels of communication and are willing to cultivate a relationship.

May the benefits of these teachings be shared with all beings. May they bring healing, coherence, wisdom and peace on this planet.