Satsang with Shambhavi

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on what stops us from having confidence in ourselves and in God.

Shambhavi gives a satsang about the personal commitments that guide and organize her teaching and relationships to students. A lively discussion about the nature of commitment in the context of spiri…

Shambhavi compares the spiritual teacher to the vampire at the door. It's up to you if you want to let the teacher in.

Shambhavi riffs on the real meaning of generosity and how we can come to embody it.

Who should you hang out with? What does it mean to bring your relationships onto your spiritual path? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Addiction and spiritual longing share the desire to discover something that will relieve us of the burden of small self. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on losing your earnestness and your ground as you participate more consciously in the playful, sportive, somewhat mad, display of consciousness and energy we call life.

Tapas means "heat," specifically the karma-burning effect that is generated when we do a lot of spiritual practice. Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on what tapas looks like for contemporary people in the U…

This ordinary function that we call intelligence is actually quite dense and stale. Spiritual practice gets us in touch with primordial intelligence which is always fresh and spontaneous. Satsang wit…

Can you self-realize if you don't love science fiction? Shambhavi talks about what has fueled her life-long love love affair with science fiction and how those same longings motivate our spiritual pr…

The heroin of modern-day interpretations of Trika Shaivism is the lure and lulling promise of "sudden enlightenment." So why aren't we all enlightened already? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Right livelihood is a well-known teaching about ethics and earning a living from the Shakyamuni Buddha. Nowadays, people in the U.S. ask "What should I do?" with a desperation that partly derives fro…

Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about the value of invisibility to spiritual awakening. How can we fly under the radar of our karmic patterns? What do we gain by remaining unseen or still in the midst of p…

What do Tantrikas actually do? What is unique about direct realization practice? Shambhavi Sarasvati breaks it down.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on kindness, fierce compassion, your natural Shakti and plain old being mean.

Did you ever wonder why people get spiritual names? Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs about how a spiritual name can help you to discover skills and strengths within yourself.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on Anandamayi Ma's teachings about impermanence and the nature of Maya.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the necessity of discontent to waking up and how the play of contentment and discontentment helps to invigorate our spiritual practice.

Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity, is a Mahadeva, or Great God. He has more forms than any other Hindu deity, and his big body spans the realms of animal, human and Deva. For this reason, he is call…

You can't feel love until you open your heart and give generously. Love doesn't exist without giving. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.