Heart of the Yoginīs Retreat: Transforming Passion on the Path of Sādhana

With Jacob Kyle and Nataraj Chaitanya

July 11 - 17, 2026

Address: 1101 Witt Rd, Taos, NM 87571, United States

Contact: Irene
sadhana@embodiedphilosophy.com

  • $2,049.00 – Shared Room
  • $2,790.00 – Private Room

This retreat approaches yoginī energies directly through the disciplined frameworks of Śākta-Śaiva Tantra — working with the yoginīs as living expressions of kuṇḍalinī-śakti, each presiding over a chakra within the yogic body.

Rather than pathologizing passion or attempting to eliminate it, we will examine how Tantric traditions refine and transmute affective intensity into clarity, devotion, and awakened awareness.

Across seven days, we will engage primary texts, structured mantra practice, visualization, and embodied ritual within a coherent philosophical arc.

The focus is neither therapeutic catharsis nor abstract scholarship, but the cultivation of a dynamic relationship with transformative energy itself.

About the Leaders

Jacob Kyle

Jacob Kyle is a meditation teacher, writer, philosophy educator, and the Founding Director of Embodied Philosophy. His guiding mission is to re-imagine the modern function of the yoga teacher in alignment with the teachings, texts, and traditions of yoga's profound history. He believes that by building a network of teachers who share a commitment to […]

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Nataraj Chaitanya

Nataraj Chaitanya has led retreats, workshops, kirtans, and has directed yoga and meditation teacher training programs throughout the world for 20 years. After beginning a daily meditation and yoga practice at the age of 13, Nataraj immersed himself in the teachings of yoga and tantra and at the age of 16, began to share these […]

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