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What Is Shakti?

by Wahkeena Sitka|on April 9, 2010 |in Divine Feminine |tagged , , , , , |1 Comment

The first time I ever heard the word Shakti used, it was in relation to sex and sexual energy. That was almost 7 years ago, when I’d just moved to the West Coast; still a newbie and naive to West Coast understandings & lingo. I was inspired to write this essay because I was disturbed by the definition for Shakti on UrbanDictionary.com, which reads: “Sexual energy. Shakti is a word new age hippies use because they’re too politically correct to just say they’re horny. As in, When I look at you with your dreadlocks and smell your patchouli I feel Shakti energy.” This understanding of Shakti is a common misunderstanding that seems to be pervasive in our modern American culture, and I would like to throw in my two cents on the subject, because in my personal experience; Shakti is not Sexual Energy.

So, what is Shakti? First, I would like to speak from my experience and then from classical Indian definitions and descriptions. I know when I am shaktified – as the feeling of being Shaktified is a decidedly different state than that of regular, daily life – the life of the mundane; being filled with Shakti is the most prized, most special state to be in. When I am filled with Shakti – for me it is a spiritual, ecstatic energy that moves through my whole body – a spiritual, mystical power that liberates me and allows me to become an embodiment of the Divine Feminine and the frequency of the Goddess. This most often happens in relationship to music; chanting, drumming, rhythms, dancing.

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Being Embodied

by Wahkeena Sitka|on April 5, 2010 |in Awareness & Consciousness, Global Transformation, Lucid Dreams, Tantra |tagged , , , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

To understand embodiment, it is helpful to look at its opposite; being unembodied. It is easy to fall into an un-embodied state; it’s easy to lose oneself and to not be aware that oneself has become un-embodied, and not notice until the signs are screaming at you in every direction – especially in this culture. In fact, our culture supports and encourages its citizens to be un-embodied. Thus, becoming Embodied is a revolutionary act of freedom, in this culture of enslavement to socially dysfunctional norms.

Our modern American culture supports people becoming walking thoughts; stuck in mental quagmires of drama, rules, stress, meetings, obligations, and the regurgitation of socially enforced programming. Whether we are driving our car or working on our computer or shopping, our minds are frequently attuned to the ‘what to do’ dial on the radio. In our stressful society, one that encourages us to do so much, accomplish so much, to be driven to take care of all the myriad tasks at hand, where our minds are frequently overwhelmed and scattered by the stimulus coming into our field, our ‘sympathetic nervous system’ is in control – which is regulated by the neurotransmitter Norepipinephrine, otherwise known as Adrenaline. How many people do you know that have said, “I don’t know how to relax. I can only relax when I’m doing something. I’m an adrenaline junkie!”

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Transforming Repression of Divine Feminine

by Wahkeena Sitka|on December 1, 2008 |in Divine Feminine, Global Transformation, Tantra |tagged , , , , , , , , , |3 Comments

Published in Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age

A gentleman came to see me some time ago. This gentleman was carrying a lot of wounds around his sexuality, related to his adolescent use of pornography. Because he held so much anger towards his father, due to the emotional charge of that relationship, he released it and expressed it while he was masturbating to pornography. Thus, as he evolved and grew into an adult, his entire sexual relationship with himself was expressed as an act of aggression, releasing his pent up negative energy, and thus he was never able to merge his heart with his sexual energy. He acted out his aggression with women with whom he had a low esteem of, women who were easy to be judgmental of, always magnetizing himself to women who had low self-esteem and unresolved abuse issues. And simultaneously, he was never able to be present with them, he was often disassociated from them in a porn fantasy; thus he never sensually embraced them. He was unable to be present with them in the body, loving them or worshipping their juicy feminine shakti. And with the women he loved, and held a strong heart connection with, he was unable to cultivate sexual energy or desire with. It was this split, this huge emotional wound, that he desperately longed to release and transform, and thus he came to see me; a tantric bodyworker. He left a mind-blown man, as he’d never been that fully present in his body during any sexual experience in his entire life and indeed he had his very first full body orgasm. He asked for help, he stated his intention for transformation, and received what he asked for because he was clear about what he wanted.

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The Ultimate Release

by Wahkeena Sitka|on October 18, 2008 |in Life Force Energy, Tantra |tagged , , , , , , |6 Comments

You will not find me subscribing to the belief system that spirituality must be devoid of sensuality, or that to be a holy person, one must be ascetic, renouncing sexuality. Archaic notions, such as in order to reach refined states of consciousness, one must ‘transcend’ the flesh or be above ‘dirty’ things like sex, are notions best left to centuries uncivilized. It is the 21st Century, and it is time to transcend ignorant social restrictions that inhibit the circulation of our healthy energy bodies and psyches. I am here to vouch for the experience of the human potential, and the ability to transcend the mundane and experience deeply expanded states of highly refined consciousness within an intensely sexually ecstatic experience. And I am here to vouch for the opportunity that sexuality offers every one of us, the offer of mastering our life force energy, mastering our energy body, mastering our meditative consciousness, surrendering into the thousand petalled blossoming flower of our open heart, thus mastering our potential for the deepest bliss imaginable.

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