OUR MISSION
Path of Compassion offers somatics, mind-body-spirit coaching, yoga, bodywork and meditation. Path of Compassion enlivens the mind-body-spirit connection and stewards the art of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation. Mind-body therapies and coaching techniques work together in a process of transformation that connects you to the inherent wisdom of your body and your essence potential. Through focused attention and transformative techniques, we will help you navigate the duality of grief and joy, trauma and resilience, fear and love by integrating your unique mind-body-spirit connection and expression. Embark on metamorphoses, a transformation journey with our Mind-body coaching journeys for a season, six months, or 1 year. These programs introduce you to embodiment practices and somatic counseling and guide you toward profound shifts in your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
We teach beginning and seasoned meditators, folks who have been practicing TM, Metta, Vipassana, Zen, and other styles of meditation. We offer people the foundational tools of meditation to learn how to let go deeply, beyond the distractions of the mind, into the heart of silence. The heart of silence is dynamic, a place of stillness that allows currents of healing and insight to flow. Meditation can offer a calm mind, more clarity, a keener ability to focus, better health and physical well-being, reduction in stress and emotional reactivity, and regulation of the nervous system, and it can provide the opportunity for nourishment, which is similar to what we experience in deep sleep. The roots an established meditation practice can yield include the fruits of connection to one's inner knower, an empowering intuitive guidance of the heart ~ the true compass ~ the infinite source of love, truth, compassion, creativity, and wisdom that lives inside all of us. If you are new to somatics, mindfulness, and meditation practices, we welcome you to engage and explore coaching in a complimentary discovery session.
Path of Compassion is the 4th Path, referred to as the Karunya Marga, which teaches one how to listen and feel for the truth in the presence of the shadow. The true feeling nature of the heart is a compass, and when the shadows and challenges are cleared away, it can serve as a divining rod in service to the mind. From this place of inner listening, one develops the discernment to move from suffering to more freedom in meditation. How do you know which path you are called to? Is it the path of knowledge (Jnana Marga), devotion (Bhakti Marga), or action and service (Karma Marga )? Path of Compassion, the Karunya Marga, teaches us how to listen, feel for what is calling us, and remember our true nature in the process.
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Compassion polishes the elusive process of transcendence into a sacred art through the pillars of mindfulness, the precious jewels that shine the light on the inward journey. The pillars of mindfulness in meditation prepare the student with the necessary foundation to be present with a meditation technique so that it can culture the heart and the process of effortlessly letting go (Nirodhyama) in meditation. The elegant meditation techniques of the solar tradition, the Surah Parampara, include Apanasati (breath) meditation, Mantra meditation, as well as Krias and Pavanas, which are designed to allow for subtler forms of listening to support the your journey from the busy mind into the Silence. This great mystery lives within the heart.
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My Offerings come from Love ~ a Love that cultures my heart and brings forth the wisdom needed for transformation, healing, and Love.​My coaching and teaching are an organic expression of the experiences I have integrated into my practice and life. I love to have conversations of the heart. I ask questions, listen, and offer knowledge and techniques to support the unfolding of mind-body-spirit processes and practice through the art of compassion. I listen with the ear of the heart to support you in learning meditation or deepening an established meditation practice. I share the gems that illuminate mindfulness and the art of compassion with students to support a return to the intuitive feeling nature of your heart that arises during practice. I work 1:1 and in small groups to allow for the connection and support of the teacher-student relationship. It is my greatest joy to offer you these tools to move from resistance to more effortless listening and letting go in both somatic and meditation practices.​ You can connect to more ease, peace of mind, insight, and clarity from this inward place to discover your wellspring of compassion, strength, joy, creativity, and love in meditation and life. It is a process that unfolds with time, devotion, and fortitude in consistent practice.​
During the last decade, I have had the great privilege and honor of deepening my spiritual journey and inward adventure. My experience with Aaravindha Himadra and the solar teachings of the Amartya lineage is the beauty of compassion; Karunya is the art unfolded in meditation and is an elegant and potent container for growth and healing. More than ever, healing is needed to restore balance to the masculine and feminine polarities in ourselves and the world.​Meditation is the most direct pathway to coming home to your true nature- your essence- which bestows you with the means for realization, which leads to actualization. In this way, meditation is a revolutionary tool for inward and outward change, A return to love that brings forward a new expression. The most powerful foundation for action is the presence of peace that can be touched moment-to-moment. Conscious action emerges from the now-presence of peace. This emergence is where we touch love and are renewed in our return to presence and essence.​
Serving the Love,
Tarakini ​
