Karla Newbey is attending the women’s and mixed Shakti Tantra programmes with shaktitantra.co.uk. For more about Karla’s journey, visit yabyum.co.uk and follow her on Twitter @karla_newbey
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The moon is hidden by clouds and darkness envelopes me. I can hear the sound of the waves, but the water below is black as tar. The wind whistles past my ears and I nestle back into the rocky crevice in which I’ve taken shelter. It is night and I’m alone in nature and shall remain so for many more hours. It seems an odd situation for one who is seeking sexual fulilment after the breakdown of her marriage, but this vision quest in nature is how we begin the inal workshop in the Shakti Tantra women’s programme. I have a bottle of water and a handful of nuts and I am to stay in my spot high above the sea until the afternoon to observe both my external and internal experience.
And then there was light