<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">Everything new that comes into our lives—every change that unfolds—emerges out of Shakti, the universal force of creation and transformation. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Italic">Shakti Meditations </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">provides an immediate way to experience the many gifts of this divine feminine power. Taught by expert meditation teacher Sally Kempton, these guided inner practices use India’s goddesses of yoga as gateways for discovering and inviting the many dimensions of Shakti.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">Like rivers flowing through us, each deity carries its own unique energies to help empower and guide us in our spiritual, relationship, career, and creative paths. As we meditate upon them, their virtues and energies begin to arise in such forms as:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #004569; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">• </SPAN><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Italic">Durga, </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">for strength, protection, and action<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #004569; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">• </SPAN><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Italic">Lakshmi, </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">for abundance and self-compassion<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #004569; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">• </SPAN><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Italic">Kali, </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">to ignite our courage and clear inner obstacles<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #004569; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">• </SPAN><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Italic">Saraswati, </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">to spark creative inspiration and clarify communication<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #004569; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">• </SPAN><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Italic">Maha Devi, </SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular">to draw us closer into spacious and liberated consciousness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: ACaslonPro-Regular"