In the great narrative of the Self that is yoga, the stories of the heroines provide remarkable, empowering, and visionary allegories of our own journey. In this CD series, we look at some of their stories in great detail, and draw out the incredible lessons that reveal the role of the heroine in every yogic life. While these stories focus on women, they raise significant issues for all regardless of gender, for the heroine, like the hero, is an expression of Consciousness achieving embodiment in every seeker. We study tales from the Mahabharata and other sources; we recognize ourselves in the heroine stories of Shakuntala, Damayanti, and Draupadi, drawing them into our contemporary lives as trenchant, powerful, and revelatory examples of the yogic life. With a particular Tantric focus, we read and interpret these stories in light of the teachings of Rajanaka Yoga, a school of the Auspicious Wisdom of the Goddess or Shakta Tantra.

In this CD set, Douglas explores the depths of the Nataraja tradition, delving into the meaning of the image, the sources of tradition and the yoga of the Dancer. Douglas Brooks PHD is among the world’s leading scholars of Hindu Tantrism.

This is a set of 4 CDs.

Hanuman, the son of the Wind, is the patron of yogis and the heroic, passionate embodiment of love, strength, devotion and visionary wisdom. Hanumans stories span across the great Epics Ramayana and Mahabharata and have become important mythic resources for understanding yoga and our own human self-cultivation. On this CD Douglas focus’ on telling Hanuman’s stories, uncovering their deeper meanings, and exploring how this playful, powerful and poignant character factors into a Tantric vision of the universe.

This is a set of 6 CDs.

The universe is a gift, the manifest form of the Shakti, the self-empowered Consciousness that has chosen to assume infinite guises of Her own being. In the tradition of the Tantric Shaktas, our own human bodies, hearts and minds are expressions of that Great Light. We are the secret Mahadevi has chosen to tell, we are the Three Cities, Tripura known as Kali, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati.

This is a set of 6 CDs.

CD Douglas Brooks- Nataraja & Hanuman Both CD Sets together. Hanuman contains 6 CDs.

Nataraja contains 4 CDs.