Mind Oasis Meditation Classes

Saturday

10 April

9:00am - Noon CT

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Carelessness and impaired mindfulness cause downfalls. Therefore mindfulness is explained first. - Lady Niguma

Join Sarah Blackburn in this 1,000 year old practice developed by a woman master yogini named Lady Niguma. Learn her incredible story, map of the subtle body, the asana sequence, sanskrit seed syllables and chant, and the logic that ties it together.

As secret, or hidden, as her name implies, there are only a few facts known about Niguma's life. This may partially be because of genuine lack of sources from both India and Tibet as well as the nature of the dakini. One author offers this explanation:

"The elusiveness of Niguma is typical of the lore of the dakini, the very embodiment of liminal spiritual experience. Additionally the difficulty of pinpointing historical information may well be due to the lack of ancient sources from India and the lack of concern about such mundane matters by the Tibetan masters who encountered her in dreams and visions and maybe in person. After all, when confronted with the blazing apparition of the resplendent and daunting dark dakini bestowing cryptic advice, a background check would be rendered irrelevant. Indian Buddhist hagiographies are virtually unknown, whether of men or women. In Tibet, where hagiography became a prolific genre in its own right, those of women are extremely rare, for all the usual reasons. It is in the experience of those heroes who encountered the dakini that one finds the most information, and these experiences are invested with the value of spiritual meaning."

This Master Class is a part of the Mind Oasis Yoga Immersion. You can also enroll in this module independently.