What is karma? How can you clear bad karma, heal and increase good karma — and eventually become liberated from ALL karma?

In this first session, you’ll explore how to move past the consequences of a lifetime of thoughts, words, and actions. You’ll discover how to become light as a feather as Raja guides you to seek awakening and self-realization.

You’ll also explore how a hidden power and energy inside us called Kundalini lights a fire inside you — to burn both good and bad karma….

In this opening module, you’ll:

• Discover exactly what karma is — and explore its origins in sixth-century (BCE) India
• Learn the structure of the Sthulla (body), the Sukshma (cosmic body), and Para (causal body)
• Explore how you store both good and bad accumulated karma in your subtle psychic energy system
• Discover the secret of deep relaxation and healing through chanting AUM in three worlds
• Get a taste of the hidden energy inside you — Kundalini — through three planes in the body, using an ancient breath and mantra
• Heal your entire three worlds, clearing the path for higher consciousness and divine grace

In the Shakti Path, there exists a perfect version of YOU in the Akashic or Astral plane…

In this session, you’ll explore a supra-mental vibratory body in the Sukshma — perfect in mind, health, wellbeing, and alignment. This level of perfection is karma-free, allowing you to flow through life with ease.

With Raja’s guidance , you’ll discover how to match your physical mind and body (Sthulla) to the perfect blueprint in the Sukshma — a higher, vibratory supra-mental being.

By increasing your life-force (prana) from the external universe into your internal universe (made up of subtle energy channels called nadis) you can re-tune your energy universe to become a being of balance and healing…

Emerging from this powerful teaching, you’ll begin to direct and navigate that energy in your bodies.

In this module, Raja will:

• Explain the essence of prana, nadis, and the 5 koshas (the layers of the subtle body)
• Show you how to bring prana into your being using integrative techniques from yoga, kriya, Qigong, and pranic energy medicine
• Demonstrate how prana moves through your subtle body of nadis in 5 forms
• Teach you to breathe like a lion and move the energy up — while lighting an Inner Fire
• Reveal the secret of the ashwini mudra and the prana pump, sending energy up your spine
• Chant the 6 beej sounds of each of the chakras (or padmas) along your spinal cord
• Initiate you into the secret Bhairav mudra, which instantly opens up wellbeing within you using your parasympathetic nervous system

Sitting deep within you, at the base of your spine, lies the immense dormant energy of Kundalini…

Once awakened, it can transform your life, healing you of all the karmic burdens you carry. Newly liberated, you’ll be free to experience the bliss of higher consciousness and divine grace.

In this session, Raja will help you draw a map of your inner cosmology, complete with the keys to opening their locks and knots. You’ll use breath, mantra sound, and focus — and you’ll discover how this energy can travel through your spine on the path to liberating you, step by step.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover why Kundalini is the seat of all cosmic energy and the source of your Power
• Learn the secret of your 3 brains
• Explore the 3 cities of Tantric Shakti philosophy
• Understand the meaning of chakras as lotus keys and musical notes along your spinal cord — and how each opens another universe and access to powers
• Navigate the 9 gates or veils that lead to complete bliss and self-realization, bringing health and wellbeing
• Be initiated into the secret mantra of the 3 cities, the 7 lotuses, and the 9 veils — and discover how to unlock them all with three simple sounds

In this session you’ll explore the first city, where you’ll come into contact with three lotus centers — and discover how each one opens a new vista for you.

As Raja will share, this first sun or city is the city of the fours f’s — fear, food, flight/fright, and the f-word…

It’s where you hold all your subconscious fears, traumas, doubts, negative energy — and it’s where bad karma accumulates.

Each of the cities connects to one element — earth, water, or fire… and you must rise from one to the other before liberation can begin.

In this module, you’ll:

• Navigate the first sun (city) and your lower 3 chakras
• Discover how simple breaths, seed sound mantras, and locks can help awaken the lower 3 chakras — and take control of your lower reptilian brain
• Explore the power of Ganesh as you learn to break the rocks of your earth nature to become water, fire, and then air
• Navigate the relationship between your sexuality, Kundalini awakening, desire, and true creativity
• Learn how to light your Inner Fire at the manipura chakra with breath, bandhs, mudras (hand gestures), and mantras
• Begin the process of burning your bad karma in the fire of your belly

This entire class session will be dedicated to the Inner Fire — by learning about the three vital substances in the body (Prana, Tejas, and Ojas) and the 5 types of Prana (Prana, Apana, Udhana, Vyana, and Samana).

You’ll discover how lighting your Kundalini fire can get rid of all past karma, both good and bad.

You’ll explore the grace that comes in Lakshmi, Saraswati, and Kali, bringing out the fierce yet loving nature of Chamundaya (Chandi or Durga) at your navel — to burn away old karmic wounds and release life’s good karma… up to your heart and head.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the origin ideas around Chamundaya — and why her mantra is one of the most powerful in Tantra, representing the destructive fire and nurturing love of Durga and Kali in one
• Be initiated into the Chamundaya mantra… and its deeper meaning
• Learn to transmute prana into shakti and inner tejas to burn away karma and suffering
• Discover how the Inner Fire burns away bad karma — and lifts up good karma into the higher centers of your being
• Imagine the fire rising through you, clearing the path for Kundalini to link heaven and earth, balancing your masculine and feminine energies

At this point in your journey, the fire in your belly is lit…

And as the smoke of your good karma starts to rise, you can begin to distribute this happiness to all parts of your body — and to others through your heart center.

At the Heart Chakra or Anahata, you become air and your ego becomes less grounded as you begin to shed all your traumas and karmic luggage.

You’ll begin to become more compassionate, kind, and able to heal. A new bliss can be experienced as your life begins to renew in wonderful magical ways.

In this module, you’ll:

• Explore the 72,000 nadis coming out of the heart center — and discover how, by lifting yourself up, you truly become human
• Discover the jeev atman, or immortal essence, in your heart center in the form of a white pearl, sitting on a white lotus, surrounded by a golden egg
• Learn to use feeling and sound mantras to expand this white energy to every cell — and to the world beyond
• Explore your own inner nadis, and, with Raja’s guidance, try sending energy to a particular pain center or area of accumulated karma
• Discover the magic of Maha Lakshmi — and explore how this Shakti energy makes life smooth, grace-filled, and abundant for you

Beyond the heart center on the upward journey of Kundalini lies Akasha — the subtle vibratory world of the mind and the supermind.

Once you lift the Shakti up to your third eye in the middle of Brahma’s cave, you’ll discover that it acts as a crystal lens for bringing your desires to the cosmic mind… and divine Jiva (healing bliss) down into your body.

During this session, you’ll explore these higher regions of consciousness and how divine energy works within you…

… and how YOU can direct the healing transmission to remove bad karma, suffering, diseases, and traumas by sending pure thought from your inner eye through the heart, wherever you want it to go.

In this module, you’ll:

• Open your third eye — and discover the lens that links heaven and the body
• Learn to visualize your deepest desires after deep relaxation in the body, and then be able to send healing and manifest any new reality you can imagine
• Learn to surrender intention from your third eye into your heart center and then let it flow to every part of you and to all beings around you
• Discover that we are pillars of light connecting heaven and earth
• Be initiated into ancient Sri Vidya mantras and energies of Lalita Tripura Sundari, the Shakti of the 3 cities, that will help you realize your potential self as a world healer

Now that Raja has guided you to awake all six centers and three cities, grace will begin to descend into you from the seventh level at the Bindu, just above your head.

During this session, you’ll explore your inner cosmology as a divine being, flowing grace into the world. You’ll discover how, by burning your Inner Fire of will and allowing grace to pour in, you can heal yourself, others, your ancestral legacies, the world — and even all past karmic lives that are affecting you.

Raja will show you the magic of the Sri Chakra. You’ll discover how, by meditating on it — and Tripura Sundari, the beautiful Shakti of the 3 cities — you can balance all your karma… and take your ancestors and past lives with you…

In this module, you’ll:

• Explore how to heal the world when you heal yourself
• Be initiated into the Sri Chakra and view it is a map of your inner and outer cosmology, linking you to your soul purpose
• Heal your ancestors and their lingering desires
• Discover how to finally let go of all your past karmic desires
• Practice the 10 mudras with healing mantras to free your karma completely
• Discover the grace of the Divine Mother as she enters you through the open lotus of your heart
• Be initiated into SHREEM

As you make your way from Sthulla (body) to Sukshma (mind and supermind), you’ll become aware of a vast infinite consciousness which permeates everything…

It’s a Vibration that underlies the entire Universe — a supermind we call Para, or Shiva-Shakti or the great dance of consciousness and energy.

It has a pulse, and it has a rhythm called Spanda and, if you can tune in to that vibration, you’ll become completely aligned with the divine source of everything in the vast nothingness (Shunya, or the void)…

In this closing module, you’ll discover:

• How to become the one who dances the Tandav with Shiva and Shakti — transcending karma, diseases, and suffering… becoming immortal in essence, and filled with pure bliss
• How to truly become free from karmic bonds
• How to finally become light as a feather, once all bad karma has gone — and all attachment to good karma has evaporated
• A deep guided meditation to connect with the void and find bliss in your heart as you feel the pulse of the cosmic dance of Shiva and Shakti
• You can create a new reality with every breath in and out — as you are reborn and then die into the vast consciousness behind everything
• Initiation into the Hum Sah breath, and how you can be born over and over again… with just one breath
• That “little you” at the Muladhara, AH, is actually the vast dance of Shiva and Shakti in the cosmos — HUM — and in this dance, you’ll become free

A dialogue between Shiva and Shakti in the Himalayas in ancient India is the core foundation underpinning the teachings of Hatha Yoga and Kaula Tantra (Kundalini, Sri Vidya, and Kali Kula). In the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (and other scriptures compiled in Kashmir in the 8th and 9th centuries CE), Shiva guides Shakti through 112 methods of meditation to awaken our deepest consciousness and to find union between ourselves and the source from which we all arise. These teachings were a syncretic blend of Shaivism, Shaktism, Buddhism, Advaita (non-dualism), Jainism, and Yoga and were the key secret wisdom about the sacred union of Shiva and Shakti in our bodies and in every moment of our lives — with ourselves, each other, the earth, cosmos, and with Source. Award-winning filmmaker and Shift Faculty, Raja Choudhury takes us on a brief guided tour of this sacred exchange and how we can experience it in our lives.

This is a video of Raja doing the full 30-minute Kundalini Shakti Meditation for opening your Third Eye in one sitting, which you can use as a daily practice to help you refine the teachings presented in this course. You’ll receive this video, which will reflect what you’ve learned over the course of the nine sessions, upon completion of the course.

This compelling and beautiful 26-minute film explores yoga’s origins, history, benefits, science, spread, and embrace around the world. The film was produced to celebrate the UN’s International Day of Yoga on June 21, 2015, and was inspired by the guiding words of India’s Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi from his speech at the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014, exploring how human beings can learn to live in harmony with themselves, each other, and nature through the practice of yoga.