For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish
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418 episodes
Why Do Aghoris Drink Alcohol & Eat Meat? | Bliss Maxxing in Śaiva Tantra
Last week we did something very exciting in out Left Hand Path Rituals & Worship of the Consort class where we shared mantras and instructions f...
How To Get Occult Powers from Gaṇeśa
Every Gaṇeśa Chathurthi (the fourth day of the waxing moon in the month of bhadrapada) we celebrate Gaṇeśa by giving a special talk. In the past few years we've discussed
Where do Kāpālikas Come From? | Tantra as a Dravidian Tradition
On Kali Jayanti/Krishna Janmāshtamī last week, we were especially inspired and we gave a talk called What Form of Kali Do I Worship? | Ādyā Kālī vs. Kṛṣṇ<...
Are We Aghoris? | Kapālikās & Tāntrikas of the Deccan & South India
On Kali Jayanti, we gave one of my favorite talks ever called What Form of Kali Do I Worship? | Ādyā Kālī vs. Kṛṣṇaand buzzing from the inspiration of that one, ...
What Form of Kali Do I Worship? | Ādyā Kālī vs. Kṛṣṇa
Every time Krishna Janmāshtamī/ Kali Jayanti (the 8th day waning moon of the holy month of Shiva, śrāvana) I find that I am especially inspired. It is no insignificant thing that Kālī & Krishna share the same "birthday"! Last year, we gave ...
Who Should You Learn Tantra From?
By now it's probably quite obvious that our spiritual community is like the Protestant church you grew up in. Although all of our content on the internet is listed as "adult-content", often I have overestimated the maturity of our audience beca...
The Journey of Tantra So Far
Because it was the close of the eclipse portal with the lunar eclipse on śrāvana pūrnimā (pisces full moon) tonight, we were all in a reflective and contemplative mood and so in this talk, we discuss some of the tensions, paradoxes and contradi...
Why Do Hindus Worship Snakes? | The Tantra of Tiamat, Apophis & Kundalinī
On the auspicious occasion of Nāga Pañcamī, the sacred day for worshipping dragons, I was inspired to give a slightly more dynamic and comparative talk this time compared to our talk last year (
Can You Learn Tantra From Just Books | & Am I A Tāntrik Guru?
A nuanced and radical question in then singularity that is the modern experience of Tantrik transmission and education on the internet in post-modernist late-state capitalism! This lecture is part of a series on not only how to interact with sp...
How To Practice Tantra & Guru Yoga Responsibly
We gave this talk in the lobby of a hotel in Seattle, discussing a few traditional safe guards around approaching Tantra and finding teachers/lineages/institutions that suit your predispositions. These three-fold safeguard (sat tarka, guru, āga...
Hypertrophy of Reason, Ruma Poudell | Brown & Neurodivergent Voices Against Neocolonialism
A lot of the recent controversy had to do with an event that happened in Seattle where one of our friends left the retreat and many felt that I was wrong for letting her walk off into the night as she did. Anyway, since then, many actors with v...
Mania, Feminism & Tantra in American Culture | My Statement Re: Allegations
Gang, let’s get back to work. Last night, I started lecturing again, and in light of recent events, I thought it would be good to address: 1. White knights and neocolonialism2. The projection of disempowering narr...
Is Our Community Safe? | Public Forum & Open Discussion
Okay wow. What a week. There’s so much value in our coming together to discuss grievances, clear up misunderstandings, ask questions & clarify our roles and relationships to one another, especially in the wake of the out of control narrativ...
Dream Initiation | & Are We A Legitimate Tāntrik Lineage?
We gave this talk on a special occasion: the amāvasyā (the new moon) that opens the gupta navarātrī period (the 9 nights of the summer goddess festival) and so to celebrate, we reflect upon dīkshā, spiritual initiation & the systems of a...
How To Be Blissful, Powerful, Beautiful & Abundant | Śrī Vidyā 101 & Saundarya Laharī, Verses 1-4
To celebrate the Gupta Navarātrī (Summer Goddess Festival) this year, we got together in Portland and decided to take up a new text, the Saundarya Laharī, an exceedingly beautiful Śrī Vidyā primary source & primer attributed to Ādi Śankarāc...
Different Ways To Use Khaḍgamālā Stotram
We ended our last conversation (What Is The Śrī Cakra? | Yoginī Hṛdāya, Verses 1-18) with an invitation to start chanting regularly the Devī Khaḍgamālā which yo...
Getting Started With Śrī Vidyā: The Path of Beauty, Bliss & Eros
Since we recently took up a concerted study of a rather high level text in the non-dual śākta tradition, the Yoginī Hṛdāya (the last 3 chapters of a much larger work in the Śrī Vidyā tradition, Vāmakeśvarīmatatantra in 8 chapters) at our weekly...
Who Can Practice Tantra? | An Apology
Tantra has often been considered a closed tradition because its texts and the teachings transmitted in them on maṇḍala/cakra (geometric diagrams representing the retinue of deities as emanations of the central deity/ a ...
re: Dīkshā, Tāntrik Initiation
Because we are all of us different, naturally, we want different things out of life and out of spirituality and we so all come to it with different expectations and values and backgrounds. Often, this means we're going to have different (and eq...
How Did Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra & Kali Come To America? | Vivekananda's Legacy
Earlier this year, on Vivekananda Jayanti, I gave a talk on the early days of the Vedanta movement in America, when a few enthusiastic Americans in New York in 1895 gathered in a one bedroom apartment to hear this strange man from India with st...
Spirituality for Nihilists, Hedonists, Materialists & Atheists
We gave this talk on Swami Vivekananda's birthday in January of 2026. Today, in 1902, Swamiji kicked his mortal body with great triumph. So I felt it was fitting to post this now, given that it is perhaps one of my most experimental and radical...
Mantra For Kālī As Void
Some time ago we gave a talk on How To Turn Every Word Into A Mantra where we explored the phonemic foundations of Tāntrik mantras, to work out how every ...
Ecstatic Songs to Krishna | Mira As South Asian Baddie
A full moon (Kabir Jayanti) special lecture on the ecstatic devotional poetry of medieval India talking Bhakti, Tantra and the liminality of both as my offering at the feet of the baddies of this world, Mira & also Emma Goldman, whose birth...
How To Turn Every Word Into A Mantra
Recently, we've been having some discussions around the finer, more esoteric ideas around mantra sādhanā from the very refined manuals and exegetical works of the 10th and 11th masters of classical Tantra like Maheśvarānanda & Abhinava Gupt...
Why Do We Offer Flowers To God? | Mahārtha Mañjarī
An important talk looking at some key ideas from a very esoteric, advanced Tāntrik text from the Non-Dual Kaula Śākta (left hand path) tradition to completely revolutionize how we see pūjā, ceremonial worship (by investigating the meaning of th...
