Satsang with Shambhavi
Join Shambhavi Sarasvati for a weekly exploration of self-realization, death, love, devotion, and waking up while living in a messy world. Satsang is an ancient spiritual practice from India. It means "being in reality together." During satsang, people gather with a teacher to learn, ask questions, find community, chant and sing. Shambhavi gives satsang in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere. The dharma talks offered here are recordings of the live satsang.
Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, a nonprofit organization. Her training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism from Kashmir and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. She is a householder sannyasini and a devotee of Anandamayi Ma. Visit jayakula.org for her full teaching schedule and more information.
Shambhavi's books include The Reality Sutras: Seeking the Heart of Trika Shaivism (2018), Tantra: the Play of Awakening (2012), Pilgrims to Openness: Direct Realization Tantra in Everyday Life (2009), Returning (2015), and No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up (2016). All of Shambhavi's books are available on Amazon.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 471
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Millennials, Mahabharata, and the Crack in Time
The great Indian Epic, the Mahabharata, has loads to teach us about this crazy, destructive, and destabilizing time we’re living through. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Suffering and Identity Formation
With all this talk of identities, you might think having a few is a good idea. Well, sure, but that’s not what spiritual practice is about. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Subservience vs Surrender
Shambhavi talks about the dark side of subservience and the deeper meaning of surrender. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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What is Reactivity?
What is emotional reactivity? How do direct realization traditions view reactivity? What are some of the ways we work with reactivity and unwind repetitive karmic patterns of response? A podcast from…
Eaten by Maggots
Shambhavi riffs on impermanence, maggots, and cremation grounds. Toward the end, she does her not-quite-famous impersonation of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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You Are What You Eat
Are you eating well? Shambhavi gives a dharma talk about choosing relationships, circumstances, and media that support our path. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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My Teacher Drinks, Smokes, and has Sex
Shambhavi tells a famous story about a student who is shocked by his teacher's behavior. Then there is a Tantrik pop quiz and a lively discussion about relating to yourself relating to teachers and t…
Horizontal and Vertical Change
Let's not get stuck along the way to waking up. Shambhavi unpacks a teaching from Swami Rudrananda on discerning real spiritual growth. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Living Presence is the Only Practice
Shambhavi unpacks passages from Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka about sat tarka and the essence of direct realization practice. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Gut Feelings and Heart Wisdom
What is the difference between following your gut and following the wisdom of the heart? Shambhavi talks about the primacy of the heart in Trika Shaivism. She unpacks a teaching from Anandamayi Ma ab…
Subtle Touch Subtle Senses
What is the nature of the senses and the sense organs? How do our senses become more subtle as we do spiritual practice? What are some of the ways that we experience the subtle touch of Shakti? A pod…
Attorney at Realm, Inc.
Our karmic patterns of body, energy, and mind possess us and are desperate to survive. Like incompetent attorneys, they make us complicit in their dull and dogged cases to justify their existence. Sh…
Trusting the Untrustworthy
Shambhavi riffs on a passage from the Dao De Jing about hearts, minds, and the real nature of trust. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
Yugas of Perception
Shambhavi riffs with an intimate group of students about the nature of the ages or yugas. She talks about the yugas as marking differing capacities to recognize or perceive the divine nature of all. …
What's the Point of Remembering Impermanence?
We're often told to think of impermanence, but why? What's that going to do for us? Shambhavi gives a dharma talk about the benefits of remembering impermanence and preparing for the eternal. A podca…
Your Body is Only a Temple
Shambhavi riffs on health and care of our bodies in the Kali Yuga. How can we relate to all of the new assaults on our health and their impacts on our spiritual life? She finishes with some practical…
Patience, Loneliness, and Chaos
Shambhavi gives a moving dharma talk about three skills we absolutely need if we want to grow spiritually. Patience is how we cooperate with nature. Loneliness motivates us to seek the ultimate intim…
The Fruits of Constancy
Where does our ability to do spiritual practice every day come from and what sustains it? Why is it good to practice everyday and what results from constancy to daily practice? A podcast from Satsang…
What Our Practice is Really For
In our psychologized culture, it's easy to forget that spiritual practice is not a self-improvement program for creating a better version of small self. In this podcast Shambhavi reminds us of the ra…
The Magic of No Expectations
Following a surprising series of dreams in 2018, Shambhavi decided to move Jaya Kula's headquarters to the Bay Area. She talks about how holding strong expectations of ourselves, others, and spiritua…