Durga Puja-Nine Nights | lauraamazzone2018

You are invited to become Durga and ride Her tiger of power and strength in a ten-day ritual course dedicated to the largest contemporary Goddess Festival on the planet!

Celebrate the Annual Fall Durga Puja from your home temple or anywhere you are through a special online daily practice and teaching with author and Shakta Tantra priestess Laura Amazzone.

This course is open and you can begin your preparations for Durga Puja any time. This year Durga puja begins on Sunday, September 29 and ends on October 8 on Vijaya Dashami Durga's victory day. Please note this course will remain open before and throughout the festival and you can join at anytime.

During the 10 modules of this course you will:

Participate in the largest contemporary Goddess festival on the planet today with an online international community of seekers and Goddess devotees
Understand how Durga’s 1500 year old myth and this annual 5000 year old festival is completely relevant to women and men today
Connect with Durga and Her various manifestations (Saraswati: Purification, Meditation, Learning; Lakshmi: Abundance, Contentment and Love) Kali: Transformation, Power & Release) through a daily sadhana (practice)
Deepen your powers of strength, courage, fierce compassion
Learn ways to center yourself and find your composure in the midst of any situation
Receive tools and practices to work with sorrow, grief, difficulty & fear
Learn step by step ritual techniques you can perform daily to help you work with and transform different emotional states
Experience guided visualizations and meditations every day
Learn Mantras and prayers to work with both positive and challenging energies.
Receive guidance from Laura Amazzone, initiated Shakta Priestess and Author of “Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power.”
Hear Laura’s personal pilgrimage stories of Her participation in over 5000 year old festival in both India and Nepal.
Experience the Goddess Durga and Her many aspects within yourself!

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Every autumn on the first new moon that falls after the fall equinox, nine nights of Tantric worship of the Divine Mother begins. Navaratri or Durga Puja is a 5000 year old festival that gives participants an opportunity to come together in community and celebrate the ancient mysteries of life, death, and rebirth on the personal, social and cosmic levels.

The nine night festival is divided into three sets of three days and nights dedicated to different faces of the Goddess that honor the cyclical nature of existence, acknowledge different stages of womanhood, promote empowerment and liberation both on a personal and cosmic level, and offer rituals of renewal and regeneration.

We will begin with a special ritual to invite the Goddess into a sacred vessel as is traditionally done in India and Nepal. We will set an intention for what we want to focus on as we move through the nine days experiencing different levels of release, empowerment and ways of connecting with the Goddess within ourself! On each of the nine days we will explore the significance of Durga’s 2000 year old myth and how each chapter gives direct insight into the nature of our afflicted minds and challenging life experiences.

Each set of three days is dedicated to a different face of the Goddess and the energies we need to work with. The first three days we work with the energies of Kali to let go of negative and limiting thoughts, habits and beliefs in order to be able to receive the blessings of Goddess and tap into our own Goddess powers. The second three days we work with Lakshmi and look at the theme of anger and how to approach upsetting situations from our hearts rather than our minds. During the last three days the final purifications begin and we turn to Saraswati, Goddess of Meditation, Healing and Creative Inspiration in helping us experience freedom from our fears and conditioning so that we may remember our inherently divine and empowered natures. The tenth day is known as Vijaya Dashami! The Goddess' victory day and we will celebrate our victories and the transformation that has taken place through our committment, dedication and openness to Goddess within and around us.

Each day Laura will offer a special sadhanas (practice) that include meditations, mantra (chants), guided visualization, and prompts and questions for self-reflection expressed through writing or art.

Laura will offer a live Puja via Zoom on the 9th days of the festival. Time will be shared soon If you cannot make the live Puja, you can send a personal prayer request to Laura that will be silently invoked in the ritual on your behalf.

The course will remain open and students will have access until December 1, 2019

Steps to Register for new and Returning Durga Nine Nights participants:

1. If you have not participated in this online Nine Nights Course with Laura and/or have not participated in Chandi Seminars I, II, and III then please register here.

2. Students who participated in the Nine Nights of the Divine Mother at Mystery School of the Goddess in 2018, 2017, 2016, and/or 2015 will receive a discount to participate again. Also, any students who have participated in the first three Chandi Seminars with Laura will also receive a discount. Please register here.