THE YOGINI FESTIVAL

OUR CURRICULUM

ASANA
You will learn Classical yoga postures in a Kriya Flow style to encourage a dynamic awakening of life force energy in a feminine way. Asana practice is an exploration of the physical postures in yoga. By moving the body in specific positions combined with deep breathing, you are able to realign the energy flow in your body and mind. This new movement of energy can heal health conditions and change ways of thinking, (i.e. belief systems) increase your life force energy in all ways and bring you into harmony with Self, Nature and the Mysteries of Life. This teaching includes Classical Yoga postures to restore vibrant health and vitality to body, mind and spirit and induce states of deep relaxation and inner connection to the Universal Goddess energy of Creation and Love.

PRANAYAMA, MUDRAS AND BANDHAS
Pranayama is the science of breath and the direction of life force energy. You will explore the science of breath as life itself, and learn how to use the breathing exercises of Yoga as a tool for change. Mudras are hand and eye gestures that open subtle energy circuits to restore devotion, higher love perception, health and spiritual awareness. Bandhas are muscular contractions that seal life force energy in so that it may be used for healing and to stimulate higher awareness.

During these teaching we will also focus on Womb Wisdom teachings. To awaken the hiding jewels of the feminine architectures.

MEDITATION
Meditation is the culmination of all Yogic practices, it is the ability to be one-pointed, which brings great peace and will allow you to access your innate inner wisdom. You will be guided to increase the length of meditation ‘sits’ and to deepen your ability to keep focused awareness, therefore opening the psychic eye.

PHILOSOPHY
The study and exploration of some ancient Yogic texts glorifying the feminine, whose perennial wisdoms continue to be a map for understanding life in its wholeness.

AYURVEDIC SELF CARE FOR WOMAN

Ayurveda is the sister science to Yoga. In essence Yoga breaks the form, by expending consciousness and Ayurveda constructs it in a new more radiant form for the consciousness to reside in. There is self care wisdom and techniques in Ayurveda that are unique to women. We will explore these and how they relate to yoga.

ASTROLOGY

We are the dance of the heavenly spheres ! They assist us in transforming karma. This section of the Yogini Path will be a introduction about the effects of the Heavenly spheres on our moods our mind and our yogic practices.

ESOTERIC ANATOMY
This is the study of the metaphysical body and how to access its wisdom to enhance the practice of yoga and your life. In this practice we will explore the esoteric practice of generating divine nectar using the petals and mantras of the chakras. We will explore the chakras, the nadis, the five koshas, and the pranas and how to use these subtle aspects of your anatomy for Self Tranformation. 

MANTRA, CHANTING AND SANSKRIT
Mantra is sacred sound. It has been passed down by the Visionaries of Yoga as a method to realign our Ego (small sense of self) to its Divine Nature. All trauma is stored in the body as sound. By repetition of sacred sound you can heal and transform your limited understanding of the Nature of Self. Sanskrit is an energetic language of Yoga and ancient India whose purpose is Self Realization. Chanting Sanskrit is like “yoga” for the tongue with all the benefits of stress release, healing, opening the heart, the body and the mind.

LIVING ANATOMY
Yoga is a living art form. The geometry of a yoga pose if a living mandala designed for the  transformation of body, mind, and soul. From the view point of yoga the body is your temple and this  unique  exploration of the physical functioning of the body during the practices of yoga will offer an  invitation to move deeper into your temple, into the poses, and into the essence of love in the Soul. This study will also Includes some Healing Movement Yoga teachings.

Women’s Circles

Women’s circles are deep part of the ancient Yogini path. The Yogini path is a path that honours connection and community as part of awakening. That find compassion for another as a radiant inspiration and thrives by learning from each others experience and holding space for the jewel of the feminine heart that is capable of feeling deeply and intimately with life and love.

Women circles are amazing stress reducers and empowerment times. When women come together we can open new realms of existence. The feminine body is designed to be a conduit from the formless to the form. In circles we discover how to celebrate this often feared by society potency. We come together to share our heart and souls without judgment or correction. But with reverence and wonder.

It has been predicted by many ancient path this time would arrive the time of the Divine Feminine. Where the feminine impulse will lead the way in men and woman ! The Yogini Path of Yoga is one source of wisdom and power to lead that awakening.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

ANANDA XENIA SHAKTI (XENIA SPLAWINSKI)
Primary Instructor

Ananda Xenia Shakti’s life has been dedicated to discovering how to become Bliss to live in authentic service and devotion to the Divine and to know without a doubt Only Love Is Real. Her great delight is to share her experience of awakening with others who are aspiring to know Love. She has had the immense honour of receiving spiritual initiations and blessings by many great masters in the Americas and in her Beloved India. She is a devotee of the Divine Feminine, Goddess, or Shakti principle and strives to act in Her service and inspiration. She has been initiated in the ancient paths of the Yogini during her numerous times living in India.

Ananda Xenia Shakti is the founder of Sananda Yoga which teaches a classical style of yoga that brings ancient wisdom to modern life making them relevant for our times and lifestyles. She is also the Founder of Choose Love Karmic Readings ,and healings, which offers cellular enlightenment by revealing and transforming life/karmic patterns. Choose Love Karmic readings offers humanity a graceful way through the great challenges that face our planet at this time as the litrerally birth into New Earth conscious. As a mystic and Inuitive she brings Higher Realms wisdom and guidance through for clients wishing to elevate their vibration and life from fear to the love they are.

Ananda Shakti is gifted and highly skilled yoga teacher, askashic record karmic reader, intuitive healer, and musician who is dedicated to a genre of music she calls “Soul Songs”, music and words, intuitively received that support deep healing and inspires a greater love and devotion to higher consciousness.

She embodies the spirit and energy of a life committed to wholeness and enlightenment. She has devoted her life to the study, training, teaching and living of the timeless wisdoms of creation from ancient times to their new expressions in our modern psyche. She counts many of the great masters, both in India and North America as her mentors and guides.

Since attending her first yoga class in 1978, Ananda Xenia Shakti has had a passion for self exploration and the facilitation of others on their path to wholeness. She took her first initiation in a Vedic Lineage in 1980 and has been honoured to receive many blessings, initiations, and teachings from numerous masterful teachers over time. The richness of these opportunities has brought a depth to her approach to life and “something extra” that people comment on after attending a class taught by her, or after a healing session. The energy that she embodies inspires one to remember their true nature that is beyond duality.

Sananda Yoga is the culmination of her life experiences, bringing together various teachings while remaining firmly rooted in classical yogic foundation. Ananda Shakti’s focus in life is to assist in healing the split between Self and Self, Self and Other, Self and the Divine. The Sanskrit phrase: Bhuktimuktikaranaka, which means Liberation and Enlightenment through Experience, sums up her approach. Her playful, light-hearted spirit infuses the energy of her classes, readings and healings, allowing her students to experience the joy of their self discoveries.

Since 2003 Ananda Xenia Shakti has been the director of the Sananda Yoga Teacher Training which has been graduating teachers who become recognized as unique gifts to their Yoga communities. A Sananda Yoga trained instructor is trained not only in the physical teachings of yoga but also in the metaphysical aspects of yoga. Their classes offer the jewels of yoga that inspire the deeper meaning of life that so many hunger for.

She also teaches a couple of specialized forms of yoga The Feminine Art of Yoga, the practice of the esoteric’s of Yoga and Goddess worship in ways that enhanced and amplified their feminine potencies, and Kriya Prayer Flows, which open the body/mind to moods or states that are the foundational pillars of spiritual awakening, Devotion, Faith and Inspiration. The flows are named Bhakti Shakti, Shraddha Shakti, and Divya Shakti

A certified yoga instructor since 1991 she is proficient in several styles of yoga; enlightening Sananda Yoga, dynamic Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, deep healing Yoga Nidra, and Ayurvedic Yoga, an individual practice which helps re-align lifestyle to one of personal harmony. She integrates her extensive knowledge of meditation, pranayama and chakra awareness into her teaching and healing and her certification as an Ayurvedic self-care practitioner contributes to her well-rounded, holistic style.

In her over 30 years experience in yogic and western esoteric spiritual paths Ananda Shakti has received numerous initiations and attunments including the Kalachakra initiation with the Dali Lama, and the Metatron initiation into mediumship of the akashic records. She acts as a conduit for communication between the Higher Realms’ Beings and our day to day selves and provides healing information and energy about Core karmic Patterns as well offering oracle readings and Life Coaching through the medium of Choose Love Karmic Readings.

One of her great teaching joys is to lead Sublime Shakti Tours to India teaching yogic practice to participants while guiding them to the powerful temple of the Goddess.

Ananda Xenia Shakti is an active member of the yoga community and has been invited to teach and perform at the Yoga Conference of Toronto and the Yoga Festival numerous times. She formally sat on the board of directors of the Federation of Ontario Yoga Teachers for 4 year, serving as Vice President and Chair of the Education and Standards Committee and helped to develop safe standards for Yoga Teachers in Ontario by overseeing and designing written and practical examinations leading to yoga teacher certification. She was also in charge of organizing educational retreats for yoga teachers led by international yoga experts.

A certified yoga instructor since 1991 she is proficient in several styles of yoga; enlightening Sananda Yoga, dynamic Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, deep healing Yoga Nidra, and Ayurvedic Yoga, an individual practice which helps re-align lifestyle to one of personal harmony. She integrates her extensive knowledge of meditation, pranayama and chakra awareness into her teaching and healing and her certification as an Ayurvedic self-care practitioner contributes to her well-rounded, holistic style. Ananda Shakti is also a practitioner of Art of Life, a new form of intuitive healing that creates the pathway for liberation from our Core Patterning belief systems. She is honoured to be a forerunner in the Canadian scene in her chosen styles of expertise.

In her over 40 years experience in yogic and western esoteric spiritual paths Ananda Shakti has received numerous initiations and attunments in the Goddess Path and including the Kalachakra initiation with the Dali Lama, and the Metatron initiation into becoming a ‘reader’ of the akashic records. She acts as a conduit for communication between the Higher Realms’ and our day to day selves and provides healing information and energy about Core Soul Story sessions as well as offering Oracle readings and Life Coaching. She leads Sublime Shakti Tours to India teaching yogic practice to participants while guiding them to the powerful temple of the Goddess.

Ananda Xenia Shakti is an active member of the yoga community and has been invited to teach and perform at the Yoga Conference of Toronto and the Yoga Festival numerous times. She formally sat on the board of directors of the Federation of Ontario Yoga Teachers for 4 year. She served as Vice President and Chair of the Education and Standards Committee and helped to develop safe standards for Yoga Teachers in Ontario by overseeing and designing written and practical examinations leading to yoga teacher certification. She was also in charge of organizing educational retreats for yoga teachers led by international yoga experts.

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