Embodied Mahavidya Facilitator Training

You are not being trained to become a Tantra teacher. That is not what this is, and I will not pretend otherwise.

You are being trained to do three things, in this order:

Teachers, coaches, therapists, yoga teachers, bodyworkers, facilitators, artists, educators — people already working with others who want something more solid underneath what they offer.

Also people teaching nothing at all, who have been pulled toward these goddesses and want to go in properly, with structure and supervision rather than alone with a book.

Previous experience with the Mahavidyas is welcome and not required. What the year asks is a real practice, sustained month after month.

Women and men. The Dasha Mahavidya are not a women's subject.

For this cohort I invited Guruma Dipti Tiwari Baswar of the Shivoham Tantra lineage to join us as Senior Lineage Faculty, and she said yes.

Guruma has spent her life inside a living Tantric lineage. Her own path is Ma Tara, and she practises within the lineage of Guruji Rajkumar Baswar. She carries the mythology, the symbolism, the philosophy and the traditional practice of these goddesses — from classical sources, from oral teaching, and from decades of her own sadhana. Much of what she teaches has never been translated into English.

Across twelve satsangs she opens the tradition itself. We begin with a foundational conversation — Ganesha, Shiva and Shakti, the ground you need before approaching a Mahavidya at all. Then one satsang for each goddess. Then a closing conversation, once you have walked the whole cycle.

These are conversations, not lectures. I interview and anchor, and my job is to keep the teaching within reach — to stop and ask what a name means, and to bring every teaching back to what it looks like in an ordinary life. You can send questions ahead and ask your own live.

Her perspective runs alongside the training rather than inside it. You meet these goddesses at more than one level, which is how the tradition itself holds them.

Across the year you build one original project: a workshop, a lecture, a guided meditation, a ritual, a coaching process, a therapeutic exercise, a retreat session, a card deck, a workbook, or something I have not thought of.

Every submission is supervised. You receive my supervision and, at minimum, review from one peer. A selection of projects is brought into the three mentoring sessions dedicated to supervision, for full peer and supervisor review in front of the cohort.

When the process opens you receive written instructions — what is expected, how it is assessed, how the supervision runs. The modules on the platform double as your reference for the kind of structure and depth being asked for.

Your cohort lives inside The Current, my online community.

It is a working space, not a broadcast channel: a private thread where you share what the practice is doing, read what it is doing to everyone else, and take part in moderated processes and contemplations through the year. Kat Mereigh-Byrd, our Community Faculty, holds the space and draws the conversation out. Participate as much or as little as you want.

From the first year I started teaching the Mahavidyas, around a decade ago, the sharing between participants has been the most inspiring part of any training I have run. Different people meeting the same goddess in the same month, in lives that look nothing like each other — that is an experience no module can give you.

What builds over a year is a record of how these goddesses actually behave in people's lives. You will go back to it.

Take the year with someone else, as Shiva and Shakti.

The clearest discovery of the first cohort was what happened between two people who did it together. They came out with a shared language for what was happening to each of them — a way of naming things in themselves and in each other that neither had before. The goddesses moved into the relationship. Nobody planned that, and it turned out to be one of the most valuable things the training produced.

The couples rate is not a second ticket at a discount. It is priced to make saying yes together the obvious choice.

Your partner, or a friend you want to practise with — couples do not have to be romantic partners.

Fifteen days of classical Tantra, devotion, dance and ritual with our faculty, closing with a full-day Mahavidya Festival and Puja.

Not required for certification, and it never will be. What it adds: 100 hours of YACEP credit on top of your 200, supervised in-person practice, and the material in the flesh instead of through a screen. Separately priced, and open to people outside EMF as well.

I have been on this path of study since 2009 and teaching since 2012, and the training never stopped. Seven years of full-time immersion with teachers across Southeast Asia and India built the foundation; annual retreats with my Tantra teacher, a three-year training in Somatic Experiencing and ongoing yoga therapy education carry it forward. I was trained in lineages, not just certifications.

Before this life I worked in the NGO world and as an EU expert and trainer, specialising in project management and intercultural learning. I loved every single thing I did in that eclectic background — until I didn't. Today I can see how all of it fits: every skill I built and every difficulty I met brought me to the synthesis I now teach.

I hold a lineage in classical Tantra and received the transmission of the Dasha Mahavidya within the Shivoham Tantra lineage. I co-founded one of Bali's most respected meditation centres. These goddesses have been the most esoteric part of my teaching, shared only with those genuinely drawn to this path — and this training is where all of it converges.

Enrollment is a single step. At checkout you give your name, your email, and a few sentences on what draws you to this training — then choose your payment option and you are in.

The rate applied is the one current on the day you enroll. Payment plans are arranged by enquiry.

After enrolling you receive access to the platform, your cohort space in The Current, and everything you need to begin on 12 October.