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The Goddess Kali, with her fearsome beauty, has become an icon for many contemporary women, symbolizing qualities like feminine desire, feminine anger, and hidden revolutionary power to destroy old structures. In India, Kali is a complex figure, both fierce and motherly, expressing the deep paradoxes inherent in the natural world. In our time, Kali is sometimes seen as the power behind fires, floods and hurricanes, as the energy that upends the known, and as the embodiment of radical transformation. She is all this, and she is also the power behind liberation in all its forms. Sally Kempton’s talk will center on who Kali is in traditional teachings, on the psychological power embodied in her mythology, and on who she represents for contemporary women.
The illustrated lecture, by Sally Kempton, author of Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation and Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, program will uncover esoteric tantric teachings about the Goddess, and include contemplative practice and meditation meant to put you in touch with Kali’s transformative power.
Sally Kempton is a widely respected teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. A former journalist who wrote for Esquire, New York, and the Village Voice, she has spent over four decades practicing, teaching, and writing on meditation and spiritual philosophy. Sally spent 20 years as a swami in a traditional Vedic order of monks. She is deeply trained in the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism, Vedanta and other aspects of yoga philosophy.
Her books include Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation; the best-selling Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga; and Meditation for the Love of It, which Spirituality and Health magazine called “the meditation book your heart wants you to read.” Her audio program, Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation, was released by Sounds True in 2014. She is on the faculty at Esalen and Kripalu, teaches meditation on the websites Glo.com, Gaia.com, and Yogajournal.com, and was for years a contributing editor at Yoga Journal. Sally teaches online courses and seminars on meditation and spiritual philosophy, and leads retreats and workshops in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Her website is www.sallykempton.com.