Deconstructing Yoga: Liberating Consciousness
Retreat hosted by Baba Rampuri at his dhuni in Goa, India
December 18-24, 2015
Baba Rampuri
Our December retreat, “Deconstructing Yoga: Liberating Consciousness,” will take place at my dhuni in Goa from December 18-24, 2015. After the retreat, I will take a small group on a pilgrimage to Mookambika Shakti Pith in Karnataka.
I put the focus on the syllables, “liberating consciousness,” because this is the only reason to deconstruct yoga. We will examine our own narratives about yoga, spirituality, mysticism, & self-knowledge, and we will use that, as well as our own innate structures and conditioning, to understand ourselves and the world around us with much greater clarity. I will encourage you to bring any texts you wish examined, deconstructed as it were. We will also look at sadhanas and practices.
Twice daily, we will perform arati and puja in our small Temple next to the dhuni, with explanation and instruction for participants to do this later in their own homes. On Dattatreya Jayanti, Dec 24, we will have a Homa performed by Brahmin purohits, invoking Guru Dattatreya. I will teach the “protocols of knowledge” as a basis for tradition and sadhana.
I prefer the term “liberating” to “higher” when referring to consciousness, because 1) consciousness doesn’t change, it’s not really higher or lower, it is our awareness that changes, and so 2) the retreat speaks for “process” which in this case is liberating, a process of removing distorting lenses revealing a less obscured identity with consciousness itself.
- We will deconstruct our modern text (idea of, discourse) on yoga, exploring consciousness freed from our limiting cognitive conditioning.
- Post Enlightenment Assumptions
- Tradition vs. Modernity
- “Yoga Sutra” as revelation of Speech (the determinant of cognition)
- Tantra as “The Text” – “The Book of the World”
- The application of awareness
- The “biological” organism and the “social” organism
The look and feel…
To have an idea of what the retreats look and feel like, you may reference the videos and slideshows from our February 2015 Mahashivaratri Retreat, HERE, our Diwali 2014 Retreat, HERE, and a recent (2015) HOMA.
Testimonials of Past Participants
Read the COMMENTS.
Our fees:
7 day retreat (no hotel accommodation/meals) $1251
7 day retreat with hotel/meals/transportation $2501 (sharing room)
7 day retreat with hotel/meals/transportation $2751 (single occupancy)
Pilgrimage to Mookambika Maa Shakti Pith
As an “add-on” – I will take a small group on a pilgrimage to Mookambika Devi Temple in Karnataka, where I have a long relationship with the high priests, and where we will perform all the appropriate rites to the Mother Goddess. The pilgrimage requires an approximately 7 hour drive down the fabulous Karnataka coastline. This is tentatively scheduled for Dec 25-27, 2015. The fees of $501 will include everything during the pilgrimage.
Retreat Testimonials
Retreat Testimonials
WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING:
Maha Shivaratri Retreat 2015
Sanskrit and Higher Consciousness
Sanskrit is much more than a mere language, but contains within it a code capable of revealing the process of cognition and knowledge.
Chanting – bhajans, arati, & kirtan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?listType=playlist&width=474&height=266&list=PLY5P1024FLWTGf8UCCWhYAGPXSW_MxuG4&plindex=0&layout=gallery
Madame Kundalini & Magic Carpets
Baba Rampuri discusses the Goddess Kundalini.
Kundalini
The Great Goddess Kundalini
Diwali Retreat 2014 - Baba Rampuri Dhuni
Mother Goddess Retreat 2014 Report
Mother Goddess Retreat Report ॐ The right place, the right time… I would like to report to you that our recent Mother Goddess Retreat and Pilgrimage was a smashing success that exceeded all of our expectations, […]
Invoking Shiva
The Art of Gesture
The Art of Gesture… The gestures of spiritual discourse. Baba Rampuri’s art of gesture is captured in photos, performing his “dance of consciousness” – giving teachings during the recent Diwali 2014 Mother Goddess Retreat in India. […]
