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About My insatiable curiously was sparked at a very early age, growing up to my father chanting the Ecstatic love poems of Rumi and Enchanted wisdom of Hafiz. This created a lasting love affair with the mystery and potential in all things. Wether it be the perfection that is our physiology, the unknown vastness of the cosmos, the resiliency of our hearts, or our desire to know our source, I welcome the journey.Yoga held one of the most revealing lanterns on my path, enabling me to grasp a balance between the physical and the mystical aspects of self and life. My fascination with bridging the two initially earned me a BA. in Kinesiology and has since branched into the study and teaching of Yoga, energy Healing, Tantric & Sufi philosophy, Shamanic ceremony, Sacred Activism, Ecstatic Dance, and the Physics of nature. As a student, teacher, ceremony holder, I invite this balance by rooting my being daily into the earth and the world around me, while at the same time elevating my consciousness toward potentiality and mystery I seek to embody and invoke presence and conscious living upon the earth, while equally in love with the unknown whispers of our spirit and sky. In my classes and facilitation, I hope to surface what is innately inside the studentship, honoring that knowing something intellectually is just the gateway, but experiencing and applying it with our own senses is what creates lasting remembrance. As the founder of ‘Awaken Shakti’, I aim to gather the community of the wild feminine into Sacred Circle, creating space to connect with self and one another. This work was inspired by remembering a calling, as a young girl in Iran witness to a powerful bond the women shared amidst an otherwise oppressive environment. Growing up in Canada and slowly celebrating my own identity led to holding space for that awakening in other women. I have discovered that for this unfolding to take place, there must first be a willingness to be vulnerable, and to be intimately seen for who we really are.I bow with reverence and enthusiasm to my teachers in this path so far. To nature for teaching change is the only certainty, to the rich nectar of my lineage, the courage of my family, to my eye and heart opening travels and studies, in particular Peru, India, New York, and to the support of my community.I am ecstatic daily that in this moment I am able to live so fully, to connect with so much and many as we step onto our mats, our life, our source together each day. May we step to the edge of it all, open hearted, and soar!” Sasha.B.

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Shakti Yogini

Shakti Trainings

Shakti Globally
Yoga isnt just what happens on a rubber mat inside a particular room. For women specially yoga awakens our inner voice, sharp intuition and our wild woman pounding on the door of our hearts to be let out. Through various elements of Yoga, breath, ceremony, activism, ecstatic dance and song we allow to surface what is organic, innate, raw feminine. December 4-11, 2011Calgary, AlberaPuja: Art of DevotionThe creation of sacred space through devotion and offering enales us to claim our bodies as the sacred temples that they are. Come ignite the sacred fire ofBhakti in Ceremony, kirtan, practice and community. Jai Jai Hanuman
Offering 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training through Gaiatri Yoga and Beyond. In this course we will study and explore:1. Techniques - including asana (physical postures), pranayama (breathing practices), kriyas (cleansing practices), mantra (vocal practices) and meditation (contemplative practices).2. Anatomy – an introduction to physical anatomy and health concerns relating to yoga. 3. Teaching methodology – including principles of demonstration, assisting, modifying and correcting, qualities of a great teacher, and important factors and issues of being a yoga instructor.4. Voice and Language Awareness- studies in language choice and voice quality in the classroom, effective communication and instruction, and voice projection and modulation5. Philosophy/Ethics - Yoga Sutras, koshas, ethical issues, the yogic lifestyle (including gunas), diet and nutrition.6. Leadership & The Business of Yoga - numerous opportunities will be presented to expand and develop your personal leadership style. 7. Practicum - includes students both observing and teaching throughout the week, culminating in teaching a public class. 8. Energy Anatomy - including nadis, vayus, chakras, and how yogic practices relate to these aspects of subtle energy anatomy.9. Ayurveda – a deeper look into the yogic lifestyle through the study of Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science. We will look at the doshas, gunas, dinacharya, diet, cooking and nutrition.10. Philosophy/Ethics - including a comparison of dual (the Yoga of Patanjali) versus non-dual philosophies (such as Advaita Vedanta and Tantra), the nature of mind, koshas, and the tattvas.
Just back from Port Au Prince Haiti after aligning and working with two great organizations offering post disaster relief and women's rights awareness.Started the launch of the Ubunto Blox Prjoect, a new way of using recycled plastic garbage to build compessed blocks. The project launched in Port Au Prince will teach a group of women how to build their own homes using this sustainable technology. I will be supporting this inititiative on an ongoing basis both on and off site.http://www.madre.org/http://grassrootsunited.org

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13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Madre

Women for women
I had the honor of attending a gathering in Sedona, AZ at the council meeting of these potent elders with a very important message.For more information on their work please visit and supporthttp://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/
Over the past 28 years, MADRE has built a network of community-based women's organizations worldwide. This network encompasses thousands of women and families - in Sudan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Palestine, Afghanistan, Bolivia, and elsewhere - who are on the frontlines of our global crisis. Yet, as part of the MADRE network, they know that change is not only possible - it is already happening.
Since its creation, Women for Women International has given hope to more than 299,000 women survivors of war and conflict and helped them move toward economic self-sufficiency with our year-long program of direct aid, rights education, job skills training, and small business development. We have distributed $95 million in direct aid, microcredit loans, and other program services. Since 1993, Women for Women International has mobilized more than 250,000 women and men in 130 countries worldwide to reach out and support women survivors of war – one woman at a time.

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There is a community of the spirit.Join it, and feel the delightof walking in the noisy streetand being the noise.Drink all your passion,and be a disgrace.Close both eyesto see with the other eye.Open your hands,if you want to be held.Sit down in the circle.Quit acting like a wolf, and feelthe shepherd's love filling you.At night, your beloved wanders.Don't accept consolations.Close your mouth against food.Taste the lover's mouth in yours.You moan, "She left me." "He left me."Twenty more will come.Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.Flow down and down in alwayswidening rings of being.-RUMI-
I am currently traveling allot and based between the gorgeous mountains of Alberta Canada and the soulful bustle of New York City.Please email me and I will respond promoptly. awakenshakti_gmail.com

Friends of Shakti

www.gaiatri.com

www.bodhitreeyoga.ca

www.anusara.com

http://lululemon.com/

www.ayahuasca-wasi.com

www.anandprakashashram.com

www.grassrootsunited.org

www.omfactorynyc.com

www.virayoga.com

www.womenforwomen.org

http://www.madre.org

Sasha Bahador Copyright 2011.
Music Rumi The Gift by Deepak Chopra. Voice Sonja Sohn
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