There is an advanced sadhana our lineage practices called the Panchagni. Panch meaning five and Agni meaning fire. It is a practice that goes from mid January to mid July in which a yogi or yogini will sit in the middle of 4 fires with the fifth fire being the the sun above them. They sit in different forms of meditation, performing mantra as a way to burn out the rest of their karma.  These five fires symbolically represent the fires of Manipura chakra, which hold us in duality. Desire, Anger, Greed, Attachment, intoxication with pride, we experience them everyday, they are portals for us to explore the places where we need healing, where we need to let go, to soften. Can we learn to become aware of and witness these fires within us? You may have encountered these as feelings, frequencies or vibrations within your body and mind. I know when I have encountered them, I have found out how they distract us from life. When I’m on my game, meaning I have been consistent with my own daily yoga sadhana, I have been able to keep myself from that place of identifying with these five fires, and this helps me to be of better service.  Sn. Shivani’s invitation is: can we be the still point at the center of the chaos that these fires provoke and be the light for others in the current state of collective anxiety? This is. And she reminds us that to have the clarity to witness these fires, we need our Sadhana, our spiritual practice, sangha, our community and satsang, sitting in the presence of truth. Do you have those tools in your life? Or do you know where to find them?  If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca   

Welcome to Part 2 of Sn. Shivani’s conversation with guest Torgrim Mellum Stene about his exploration of divine masculinity. Torgrim further shares his process of healing his inner wounds which has brought more balance to his experience of his masculinity. It was very inspiring to hear a man speak so openly and vulnerably about his process. He tells a story about his quest to a stone circle in England and how the land was an important character in his quest and realization, This insightful story shares how the land is here to help us heal and show us the beauty that is all around us. This story also illustrates the current aspiration of humanity in which we are collectively moving into a time of interconnectivity. We hope you enjoy the second half of this wonderful interview. We invite you to check out Torgrim, and his co-host Mikael’s podcast “In the Borderlands”; where they explore creativity, mythology and magic. The link can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1c8wFKswoHmciLc8BnsePs If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca 

In this episode Sn Shivani sits with guest Torgrim Mellum Stene and they have a very engaging conversation about divine masculinity. Torgrim, and his co-host Miguel host their podcast “In the Borderlands”; they are professional story tellers. Torgrim has dedicated much of his life force to his exploration and embodiment of divine masculinity. In this first part of the interview we get to learn about his journey into accepting and integrating his masculinity, we hear about his encounters with masculine jungian archetypes and enjoy a beautiful story about his relationship with a wounded tree. We hope you enjoy this wonderful interview. Tune in next week for the second half of this interview to hear about Torgrim’s story of his quest at a Stone Circle in England where the spirit of nature plays an important part of Torgrim’s realizations. And in the meantime, if you are interested to listen to In The Borderlands, Torgrim and Mikael’s wonderfully mysterious and folkloric podcast, the link can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1c8wFKswoHmciLc8BnsePs If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca 

Have you realized how much life force energy we leak out of our lives? We tend to be either hooked on the past or focused on the future and often discontent with the present moment. Most of us have not been taught how to bring all of our energy into each moment. We get into something good in the present moment and then because we do to really know how to love who we are or where we are at we will go galavanting into FaceBook or Youtube Land or we fall back into the past or nail bite into the future. Me personally, I have a hard time keeping myself in the present moment for longer than 3 minutes. Sn. Shivani is inviting us in this episode to notice where are we leaking energy and to put systems in place to come back to the present so we don’t miss the overwhelming beauty and the miracle of life that envelopes us each and every moment. And then from there, who knows where this will take us? I get the feeling that this is where we will find the frequency of unconditional love. And with the practices of Yog, we get to prepare our bodies and minds to live in that higher frequency eventually for longer and longer periods of time. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca 

Link to Interview By In The Borderlandshttp://www.intheborderlands.com/?fbclid=IwAR2ZHFJe63G7tRKmZvFnrtLOvidrgk08vk6kut-ZxOogkZReYmezqJQAeUk Sivani is interviewed by story tellers, Torgrim and Mikael on their podcast called In the Borderlands. Sivani shares a few personal stories brimming with synchronicities and serendipity, among them an amazing tale of her special relationship with bees. They cover so many beautiful topics in this interview; from Healing from Endometriosis to Karma Yoga to Krishna Das to Lyra to Shiva, and many more topics you will find amazing. So many good stories here. Enjoy!  

Link here to Part 2 of Lezley Davidson’s interview with Sivani. Lezley Davidson is a leader in personal healing and connection to the Divine. Her website, lezleydavidson.ca offers insights and teachings from her own wisdom journey.

Link to Part 1 of Lezley Davidson’s interview with Sivani. Lezley Davidson is a leader in personal healing and connection to the Divine. Her website, lezleydavison.ca offers interviews and insights from her own wisdom journey. Check out Lezley’s interview with Sivani; it is a lovely coming together of like minds who are creating safe space for personal and universal healing.

Hello! This is Chai, a long time student of Ishtadev Niwas, and we wanted to close our second season by inviting you to listen to the explanation of a teaching that is so practical in its application in today’s world. The three tenants of living Yoga. The first tenant is Seva, which is offering service from a place of Atma Bhava. To get to this stage we practice Karma Yoga in an ashram. The second is Satsang, which is sitting in the presence of truth. This is when we gather in community and receive transmissions of light coming through our teachers. And last is Swadyaya, which translates as Self-study. This starts with the study of the scriptures, satsangs and then evolves into studying of how we are experiencing the teachings in real life and real time. I could listen to these lectures over and over again, while I stir cheese here at Niwas. They are really soothing, and I would say its because of the transmission of light that they impart from the lineage. They inspire me to keep learning about myself. Here at Niwas, I get multiple opportunities to practice karma yoga, listen to or read Satsangs and practice Self Study. With the combination of all three of these, I have experienced grace, flow and an honest to goodness love for life! I have also had multiple opportunities to experience some of my Samskara’s and the Vasana or impulse to act out the belief. It will grip me so strongly, bringing confusion, anger and finally tears - which is my usual pattern. Sometimes, I am at a place where I can breathe through it, and other times, it catches me by surprise and all I can do is watch myself come apart and fall back into old patterns. And then, like magic, the little details of living life here and the loving container that is the Ashram, will bring understanding and I gain a little bit more wisdom that allows me to open up to a whole new expanded experience of life. It gives me another foot hold to leap forward with enthusiasm and positivity at the opportunity of more karma yoga where I can practice loving life and living more deeply with the world. I feel this is a good opportunity to mention that this is exactly what we get in Roots and Wings program that is coming up in April. The intact for registration is happening now, and the program is filled with healing practices, Satsangs and opportunities to practice karma yoga. Enjoy the lecture about Seva, Satsang and Swadyaya. If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca 

I find it so intriguing, all the secrets of the teachings of Yoga that help us understand how to drive this human vehicle! Like Sn. Sivani said, our soul is like a pound of pure, unmarked butter and our samskaras are a hand print in that pound of butter. So, what is a samskara? Samskaras are our deep seated unconscious memories that make up the personality we have been given for our human vehicle. Understanding this makes the whole experience a little less personal and to me, its gives us a little distance to witness from, so we can observe and adjust. Then come the vasanas, which is when we take belief in the samskaras as truth and unconsciously behave in ways that will create and recreate the circumstances to prove the samsakras to be true. There you have it, that’s the cycle of samskara. In our impulse to prove the samskaras to be true we create more karma to be worked through in the future. And sadly we don’t see each other for who we really are, which is pure consciousness, we see the samskaras that the other has identified with. What is really cool, is because we are so deeply connected as this one organism, we will often try to mold into the each other’s samskara and vasanas to see if the pattern or memory fits for us. We are such cute and interesting creatures, us humans.  How do we break free of this? With yogic practices such as asana, pranayama, dharana and spiritual journaling, we start to see our samskaras, feel our vasanas, and if your are in Ashram it is a lot easier to see these and then have enough discernment to choose differently. Once we start to recognize these samskaras, we then have a chance to stop acting out the vasanas and there you have it, we have purified just a little bit more, and that makes more room for the purity of our spirit to drive our human vehicle! Happy Samskaras discernment to you all. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca 

Hello! This is Chai, a long time student of Ishtadev Niwas, and I am so excited to introduce this episode. Sovereignty, sovereignty, sovereignty! You know you are ready to learn something when you are actively seeking it out. I have been actively seeking, listening and trying to figure out what this thing, sovereignty, is for the past two years now! And here is the explanation that I have been waiting for. Sannyasi Sivani explains what sovereignty actually is, where we can go to develop it and how important it is to have to live a life in freedom. She explains first that we need understand what Swadhistana Chakra is and that we need to master our relationship with our emotions. Knowing that our emotions are not WHO we are and that they are simply experiences, human experiences that our ego, our filter, observes and records. And until we are able to witness and watch our emotions, we are so easily manipulated. Then Sn, Sivani explains the next thing needed to be sovereign within ourselves is that we develop our own personal, unshakable relationship with the Divine. And then she ties it all together with what has been going in the world for the past 500 years in terms of power over and how things are changing as more people come into their own personal sovereignty and make small changes that create a new reality. So as you listen to this episode, listen for a few key words and phrases: Easy Pickens, Two Year Olds, Divine, Teacher, Queen, codependency, the word “Just”, Ego, Filter, ignorance, consistency, clarity, discipline and Gem of your being. Towards the end of the episode, Sn. Sivani gives us a story of her first experiences of Ashram and learning about her sovereignty. It is a fantastic example for all of us! Enjoy. If you enjoyed this podcast and you want daily connection with Sn Sivani and the We*Are Community - you can receive TWO WEEKS FOR FREE and join us by using one of the coupons: MONTHLY - TWOWEEKSFREEYEARLY - TWOWEEKSFREE At We*Are Community, you will get daily updates on the energies at play, astrological considerations and inspiration. There is a selection of FREE asana classes, sound meditations as well as other offerings such as recipes, movie recommendations and all things delicious and good to uplift your day and fill your cup. Join us on We*Are Community: https://www.solaceandshine.ca/weare, and if you want TWO WEEKS FREE of We*Are subscribe to our newsletter at www.solaceandshine.ca