Kula is a Sanskrit word for a community of seekers connected through a shared practice, vision, and purpose. The founding members offer the teachings listed on our EVENTS + SERVICES page. The featured visiting masters and guest teachers have contributed to teachings through Dakini Temple and also offer well as many unique gifts from their own independent practices.
Founders
Bast Sri Bhavatharini
Bast was inspired as a young woman by her root teacher, ShoShanna Rose, a cross-cultural mystic and modern temple dancer carrying teachings and initiations from Indian Sakta-tantra, Tibetan Buddhism, ancient Egyptian Awalim women’s mystery tradition, as well as Native-American, Sufi, and Pagan spiritual traditions. ShoShanna awakened an awareness of the Divine Feminine, goddess traditions, sacred dance, yoga, and devotional ritual. ShoShanna encouraged her path as a yogini, priestess, healer, ritual artist, tantrika, teacher, and modern temple dancer… read more
Triambika
Growing up I found myself continually searching for some form of higher wisdom. Bodywork, breath work, yoga and meditation have been with me from the start of my search and continue to bring me to surprising levels of awareness… read more
Visiting Masters
Swami Shanmuga and Amma Adi Sakthi
Why is it that in the ancient days until today, saints are only seen as one person handling things alone? Why is the Male/Female, Ying/Yang, Shiva/Shakti energy not shown outside, literally, as a model to show people that even in an ordinary lifetime people can be in such contact? read more
Guest Teachers
Amber St. Germain
Amber St. Germain is a Relationship and Sexuality Coach, a Prayer-formance Artist, and Ecstatic Embodiment Specialist. She has been a practicing yogini for many years and has studied and practiced Tantra passionately for the last five. Her studies with many diverse schools of Tantra include… read more
Tiler Nilson
Tyler has experience in many diverse disciplines of transformational therapies within the healing arts, yoga and shamanic lineages as a practitioner and facilitator of movement arts & ceremony including AcroSage, Thai Massage, Shiatsu, Ashtanga yoga, Pranayama, Yoga Therapy, Yin yoga, Chi Nei Tsang, Hot Stone massage, internal cleansing, living foods, and acrobatics. With over a decade of sacred dance, purification and gateway ceremonies from the Twisted Hair Traditions of the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society… read more
Oshan Anand
I experience life as a fountain of abundance; a spiraling, unraveling tapestry of grace and beauty. Devotional love is inevitable. Cradled in the heart of the universe, what is there to do but shine and share love? Birthing beauty, cultivating intensity, connecting with wild nature, gathering resources, knowledge and medicine to share with my community, I wish my life to be an infinite playground for nurturing life-culture… read more
Shivakti Shaktiva
Shivakti Shaktiva is the creator of the San Francisco Bay Area healing collective, ‘Temple of Bliss,’ founded in 1994. Shivakti has trained in a multitude of sacred temple arts for the past 15+ years, though her related research & personal awakenings date considerably further back. Her studies/practices have interwoven shamanism, world philosophies/religions, yoga, bodywork & tantra… read more
Revital Carrol
Revital Carrol has been a devoted student of Indian spiritual arts for over 20 years. In 1991, she left her native Israel to begin formal Yoga studies in India with masters of the Himalayan region. In 1996, she fell in love with Odissi Dance in South India while studying under the guidance of India’s most esteemed Classical Dance gurus. Revital draws her inspiration from the elements of nature, the wisdom of her own body, and the rich spiritual heritage of ancient India… read more
Sofiah Thom
Sofiah Thom, the founder of Bamboo YogaPlay Retreat Center and Living Artfully ™, has been a Teacher, Practitioner and Performer in The Healing Arts internationally for over 10 years. As an interdisciplanary artist with a degree in Dance Therapy from Naropa University, a year at the Tamalpa Institute in Expressive Healing Arts and a myriad of trainings in bodywork, Sofiah’s deep understanding of the body and somatics shows through her work… read more
Andrea Shuman
Andrea Shuman A.H.P./ L.M.T (Ayurvedic Health Practitioner/ Licensed Massage Therapist) has been in the field of holistic healing since 1997. Andrea was trained in the 5000 year old science of Ayurveda (translation: the science of Life) including herbal medicine, lifestyle management, spiritual counseling and disease management with specialization in chronic digestive problems… read more
Tenley Tenley’s innate mission is as an ambassador of the old world with the new by sharing the importance and richness of the planet’s traditional cultures to those of the modern. She believes that in order to survive in a diverse and healthy world, we must allow the ancient…read more
Tallulah Sulis is an Erotic Educator, Somatic Sexologist, and Filmmaker. She is the director and producer of Divine Nectar: a journey into the explosive and sacred world of the female waters… read more
Sherry Huggi-ma
Sherry “Huggi-Ma” is a multi-faceted healer and artist who’s been doing her life’s work for over 10 years. She started her massage and tantric healing career while living at Harbin Hot Springs in 1996, and since then, she has accumulated 500 hours training in tantra and erotic educating and 1000 hours in therapeutic massage… read more
Destin Gerek
Destin Gerek is a Certified Somatic Sexologist through the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, an Erotic Embodiment Coach, and an Erotic Performer and Artist. An erotic educator since he was 18 years old, he has taken all that he’s learned, studied, and explored, and integrated it fully into his being, such that he really walks his talk… read more