Hidden Kundalinī Teachings in the
Ramayana
The great epics of India are more than history books or collections of intriguing stories. Hidden within the Ramayana, one of India’s most beloved myths, is a treasure trove of esoteric knowledge, specifically knowledge of the Kundalinī process!
Unpacking the Ramayana creates a deeper sense of connection to the ineffable force of your own awakening consciousness – the much sought after “Kundalinī”. The characters in the story are the various aspects of your inner mechanism, your antarkarana in sanskrit. And their personalities may bear a resemblance to your own giving you insights about your spiritual nature. The characters interactions and overall journey lay out a clear map for traversing the inner territory that leads you from the state of relative ignorance of your enlightened nature to the blazing spaciousness and luminosity of Buddhahood.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
We will read sections of the version of the epic authored by Gopalachari before each class, and then meet online to bring light to the spiritual technology encoded therein.
In the end, you will be able to see where you’re placed in the journey of Kundalinī’s awakening, and with this knowledge discover the key principles and techniques you must employ to keep progressing deeper into your own “full awakening” or Mahā Kundalinī experience.
DETAILS
Dates:
Sept 2, Oct 14, Nov 4 (2025)
Time:
Tuesdays, 9am-11am (Maine, USA Time)
* Recordings will be available in our community platform if you are unable to attend live.
COURSE FEE
$158 / 3 classes (6 hours total)
About the Teacher
Dharma Bodhi (Kol Martens)
Dharma Bodhi began practicing yoga at seven years of age. In his teens he moved into practices of Chan Buddhism and Daoism received through his Chinese martial arts teachers in New York. After completing his chiropractic degree he studied in an Oral-Practice Tradition of Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra, taking initiation into one of the Daśnami Orders of practice from India. In 1996 he complete ācārya training under his Śaiva gurus. This training emphasized traditional Kundalinī Hatha Yoga and a progressive system of Meditation, along supportive studies in ritual/pūjā and yoga texts. Since graduating as a Śaiva ācārya, he took refuge with a great master of Bönpo Dzogchen meditation, and studied with him by taking multiple trips per year to his monastery in India for a period of 8 years. He studies both Dzogchen meditation & yoga (trul khor), and Dzogchen preliminary and advanced texts. Both his Śaiva and Dzogchen masters gave him the task of teaching these systems stripped of the unnecessary aspects of the cultures and languages they are found in. His Dzogchen master also gave him the task of translating two Tibetan texts. One of which is finished and the other is in process. He now lives with his wife, Sahaja Dakinī, and their two children in rural Maine, USA. He is developing a practice hermitage in the wilderness of Maine and a European teaching center on the border of Italy and Switzerland.
