~presented by Vrindavan Vinodini Devi Dasi This August’s Urban Devi Class featured Vrindavan Vinodini Devi Dasi speaking on the topic “Listening to Learn”. Drawing from bhakti wisdom and secular knowledge and research, you will learn the simple and practical application of seven key principles to help you grow, improve and establish healthy loving relationships. Please click […]
This week we have the second episode of Devotional Mysticism and Plant Teachers. In this series, Rukmini Walker, and Ashley Elenbaas explore plants’ rich history, their connection to ancient and modern mystic traditions, their inclusion in myths, sacred texts, and their use as spiritual aides in ceremony and in healing. They hope to inspire their […]
This episode is the beginning of a new series called Devotional Mysticism and Plant Teachers. In this space, we’ll be exploring the rich history of plants, their connection to ancient and modern mystic traditions, their inclusion in myths, sacred texts, and their use as spiritual aides in ceremony and in healing. Our hope is to […]
~by Rukmini Walker This is my vyasa puja offering to Srila Prabhupada for this year 2022. **To listen to Rukmini’s audio recitation of this letter, please click here or on the video image below*** My Eternal Father and Master, Srila Prabhupada, nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine […]
A very Happy Balaram Jayanti, or Appearance Day of Lord Balaram to you all! Here is a beautiful poem celebrating the holy Appearance Day of Lord Balaram on the full moon day, just like His effulgent moonlike complexion, this year on August 11. All the best, Rukmini Walker
In our July Urban Devi Sanga, Jahnava devi dasi presented on the “Seven Principles of Making Relationships Thrive”. Drawing from bhakti wisdom and secular knowledge and research, you will learn the simple and practical application of seven key principles to help you grow, improve and establish healthy loving relationships. Please click here or on the video […]
~by Denise Mihalik —– Namaste Sound Friends! I’m excited to be finishing my first book—and about learning to be a writer. It’s a completely different experience from all that I’ve already done. It’s immersive, vulnerable, fun and maddening. When my eyes, body and brain can take no more, I journey to the pond a few […]
Rukmini Poddar continues to share with us her series of inspirational monthly pieces, this time with “July Feelings“. May it be and inspiration for your own reflections this month. —- All the best Rukmini Walker
In this special talk hosted by ISKCON of DC (Potomac) Temple, Rukmini Walker Devi Dasi discusses the nuances of freedom and bravery in the Bhakti path. To listen, please click on this link or on the video image below.
In our June Urban Devi Sanga, Citi Sakti Devi Dasi presented on the topic: Transcendental Transformation. Spirituality offers an attractive solution to life’s problems. However, the very same problems that lead us to divinity, are often where our ability to connect more deeply can be discovered. Unfortunately, many of us may try to bypass our […]
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Urban Devi is a community of women who gather to explore and excavate their identities as urban women living the spiritual life. An urban devi is in the world, but not of the world. She acts in the world to uplift, and shift the consciousness of those around her to a higher place of Bhakti, or love in action.