TANTRAYA

20/07/2025

Daoism and Chinese Magick: The Way of The Mystic

Enter the Hidden Realm of Daoist Energy Work, Magick and Enlightenment

Step into the secret world of Daoist mysticism and magick—the hidden teachings that have been passed down through sacred lineages for over two millennia. This is not mere philosophy or religious doctrine, but the living transmission of supernatural arts that transform both practitioner and reality itself.

Taught by a Lineage Initiate
Learn from an authentic initiate into multiple Daoist lineages, including the legendary Maoshan tradition—the most magical of all Daoist schools. These are not reconstructed practices from books, but living transmissions received directly from the masters.

The Sacred Curriculum

FOUNDATIONAL MYSTERIES

* Essential Daoist cosmology and philosophy
* Connecting to the ancient lineages
* The Three Pure Ones and the Daoist pantheon
* Working with Daoist deities and gods
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THE ARTS OF POWER

* Daoist Fu Creation - Crafting sacred talismans and magical scripts
* The Golden Light Spell - Foundational magical practice of protection and power
* Purifying the Nine Bodies Spell - Cleansing the subtle anatomy
* Daoist Earth Magick - Working with the living forces of the land
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INNER ALCHEMY & CULTIVATION

* Embryonic Breathing - Return to a state of youth and primordial harmony through this extraordinary practice
* The Five Lights Method of Wuji Sitting - A powerful qigong technique for cultivating emptiness
* The Micro-Cosmic Orbit - Part 1 - Awakening the 'Small Universe' within your energy body

What You Will Gain
* Direct transmission from authentic Daoist lineages
* Practical skills in Daoist magick and mysticism
* Ancient methods of energy cultivation and transformation
* Connection to the living tradition of Daoist masters
* Foundation for advanced esoteric practices
* Protection and purification techniques
* The ability to work with spiritual forces and deities

The Path Awaits
"The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao" But the Dao that can be practiced transforms everything

Class: The Way of Daoism:
Mysticism & Magick Level: All sincere seekers welcome

Ready to Walk the Ancient Path?

The masters await. The lineages call.
Your magical training begins now.

All techniques taught with proper respect for the traditions and safety of the practitioners

July 25 -27

https://ta**raya.com/daoism-and-chinese-magic/daoism2

A place for health, healing, and enlightenment.

20/07/2025

🌌✨ **Join Us for an Online Weekend Retreat: Daoism and Chinese Magic: The Way of the Mystic** ✨🌌

Step into the hidden realm of Daoist energy work, magick, and enlightenment! Discover the ancient teachings passed down through sacred lineages for over two millennia. This retreat offers a unique opportunity to learn from an authentic initiate of multiple Daoist traditions, including the legendary Maoshan school.

📅 **Dates:**
- **Friday, July 25:** 3 - 5 PM
- **Saturday, July 26:** 10 AM - 12:30 PM & 3 - 5:30 PM
- **Sunday, July 27:** 10 AM - 12:30 PM & 3 - 5:30 PM

🌟 **What You Will Learn:**
- Essential Daoist cosmology and philosophy
- Crafting sacred talismans and magical scripts
- Foundational magical practices for protection and power
- Inner alchemy techniques for energy cultivation
- Connection to the living tradition of Daoist masters

🌈 **Embrace Your Path:**
“The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao.” Experience the transformation that comes from practicing these ancient arts.

Are you ready to walk the ancient path? The masters await. Your magical training begins now!

🔗 **To Register https://ta**raya.com/daoism-and-chinese-magic/daoism2

27/05/2025

Continuing our Wisdom Traditions Series with Buddhism: The Way of Enlightenment

In this online weekend retreat, we will cover:

-The Way of the Buddha- His story, myths and life
-Exploration of the Four Noble Truths
-Explanation and Exploration of the Threefold -Division of the Eightfold Noble Path- -Discussions on morality/ethics/generosity/kindness in relation to Samadhi- and the Jhanas- Super-conscious states of being
-Buddhist empowerments
-Buddhist prānāyāma- Buddhist Breath Work
-Buddhist Chanting- The Heart Sutra
-Heart based meditations- Metta Bhavana- -Development of Loving Kindness and Tong-Len- the Practice of ‘Giving and Receiving’
-Anāpānasatī- ‘Mindfulness of Breathing’ and introduction to Vipāssāna- ‘Insight’ meditation

This class meets:
Friday May 30 3 - 5:30pm GMT-5
Saturday May 31 10:00am - 12:30pm and 3 - 5:30pm GMT-5
Sunday June 1 10:00am - 12:30pm and 3 - 5:30pm GMT-5

26/05/2025

FOR TANTRAYA STUDENTS

🌟 The Complete Ta**raya Yoga Syllabus is Now Available! 🌟

Dear Ta**raya Family,
After years of developing and refining our practices together at Ta**raya and elsewhere, , I'm thrilled to announce that the complete Ta**raya curriculum is now available as an 8-book series!

The Complete Collection: 📖 Trataka: The Ancient Art of Focused Gazing 📖 The Nine Seals of Power: Mudras for Awakening 📖 The Alchemical Breath: Pathways to Pranic Mastery 📖 Surya Namaskara: The Radiant Heart of Yoga 📖 Self Enquiry: The Illuminating Path to the Source 📖 Kriya Yoga: The Science of Evolution 📖 Yoga Nidra: The Transformative Art of Yogic Sleep 📖 Beyond the Threshold of Death: Phowa for the Modern World

For Our Retreat Alumni: These books capture the depth and detail we explore together at Ta**raya - all the nuances, variations, and integration techniques we practice during our intensive sessions. Consider them your comprehensive reference guides for deepening your home practice.

For Those Yet to Visit: Each book provides complete instruction for establishing and developing your practice. While nothing replaces our time together in the Sacred Valley, these guides offer everything needed to begin your transformation journey.

The Universal Approach: As you know from our work together, these practices transcend any single tradition. Whether you come from Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, shamanic, or secular backgrounds, these techniques adapt to support your unique spiritual path.

Each practice has been tested and refined through thousands of hours of retreat instruction. You've experienced their power firsthand - now you can share that transformation with others.
Available now through Amazon Kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ta**raya&i=digital-text&crid=BW36IJQHBYRI&sprefix=ta**raya%2Cdigital-text%2C188&ref=nb_sb_noss

With deep gratitude for our shared journey, Paul

Online shopping from a great selection at Kindle Store Store.

21/05/2025

Thank you, Amma, for your infinite wisdom.💕

"Scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom have to complement one another." ~ Amma

19/01/2025

All the small things for 2025. 🥰 Aaaand we’re loving it! Mini weekend retreats with groups of 4-5 are the sweet spot as we come back into medicine work this year. An evening meet and greet with meditation and dinner kick off the weekend, followed by a day of yogic or daoist practice with Q&A, ta***ic puja and ceremony. We cap off the weekend with a share circle over a delicious breakfast. Some of our guests even manage to squeeze in acupuncture or counseling sessions or tarot readings before heading off to explore Machu Pichu. Incredibly profound work in a small package! Check out our available weekends and book your mini retreat https://ta**raya.com/ayahuasca-retreats/calendar

**rayaCenter

24/12/2024

May you all have an extremely lovely Christmas and New Year. I have a feeling that 2025 is going to be a time of major change on our planet, so hold on to your hats. It could get a little crazy…Stay calm, centered, grounded and open to the possibility of the extraordinary…and it might just turn up! I wish for you all a very warm-hearted and loving time with family, friends, or your very own Self!

Much love and Many Blessings.

-Paul

07/12/2024

Ta**raya Center is thrilled to present a series of online retreats which will thoroughly explore profound teachings from the world’s wisdom traditions:

Ta**ra: The Way Of The Goddess
Buddhism: The Way Of Enlightenment
Daoism And Chinese Magick: The Way Of The Mystic

These three traditions have been engaged with for millennia to guide students to a place of Liberation and Inner Peace.

Our courses offer an incredible opportunity to learn esoteric, consciousness-expanding technologies while covering a broad range of practices and receiving transmissions and empowerments.

Join us Friday January 24 - Sunday January 26 for our first retreat in the set of nine:

Introduction To Ta**ra: The Way Of The Goddess

Here we will cover:

•What Ta**ra is (and isn’t)
•Empowerment and activation of the Sanskrit Alphabet
•Nyasa- Placement of Goddess energy in the body to awaken, enliven, and protect
•Chakra activations, empowerments and alignments
•Powerful Pranic (Life-force Energy) Practices
•How to work with Mantra (many will be given) and Yantra (Geometric visual representations of various God/Goddess energies)
•Puja- Ritual worship and how to perform simple, at home pujas
•Kundalini- What it is (and isn’t), how to work correctly with Her, and safe, powerful and effective methods of raising and working with this Evolutionary Force

Sign up: https://ta**raya.com/ta**ra-the-way-of-the-goddess/introduction

*Ask us about discounts for participating in multiple retreats

https://ta**raya.com/wisdomtraditions

All Weekend Schedules Will Run As Follows:
Friday 3 - 5pm
Saturday 10:00am - 12:30pm and 3 - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:00am - 12:30pm and 3 - 5:30pm

Full Schedule:

January 24-26
Introduction To Ta**ra: The Way Of The Goddess

February 21-23
Introduction To Buddhism: The Way Of Enlightenment - Theraveda And Mahayana Buddhism

March 21-23
Introduction To Daoism And Chinese Magic: The Way Of The Mystic

April 18-20
Ta**ra 2- The Way of Shiva-Shakti

May 16-18
Buddhism 2: The Diamond Path Of Vajrayana

July 25-27
Daoism And Chinese Magic 2: The Way Of The Mystic

August 22-24
Ta**ra 3: ‘Das Mahavidya’: The Ten Wisdom Goddesses

September 19-21
Buddhism 3: Death And Dying

October 17-19
Daoism And Chinese Magic 3: The Way Of Heaven

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07/10/2024

Thanks so much to all who’ve donated to support Paul. We’re incredibly grateful for so much kindness and generosity.

An update from Paul, posted to our fundraiser page: https://gofund.me/124000d9

Dear All.

First, to all of you have offered well-wishes, donations, kind words, messages etc- thank you. Its beyond appreciated and I’m incredibly grateful and humbled by your kindness and generosity. Id like to believe that my message of ‘be kind’ got through, somehow, but I know it’s all you and not me! So thank you.

So. The latest update is basically that we are rather stuck, from a healing and medical perspective.

What appeared to be a strange, but simple affair- herniated disk, has led to revelations of a somewhat difficult nature, in that I appear to have some fairly extensive and severe degenerative spinal and disk disorders, including bone-on-bone, degenerative disk disorder, osteoporosis and spondylitis.

Im still not able to walk without discomfort, or particularly straight, and am still pretty much confined to bed. After a lifetime of intense physical practice, it’s not easy not being able to move. And, of course, for me, the worst is not being able to work and to be there for YOU.

We are waiting for a neurosurgeon from Cusco who I will see at the end of the month, to get a better idea how to proceed.

Unfortunately, though, for the foreseeable future, apart from online appointments and a somewhat edited version of the Magick class, we are still unfortunately, not able to operate at Ta**raya.

We would like to keep the space in case the future is bright and I can start up again.
To do that though, Im afraid that, once again, I’m going to need your help.

If any of you are able to donate even a small amount to get us to $15,000, that would keep us going until March of next year. By then, where I am at and how to proceed should be much clearer and more obvious.

I cannot promise that it will lead to full recovery of even myself, never mind the space, but it WILL keep us going for some months more without having to enter a state of needing to begin the process of letting Ta**raya go- something I really, absolutely do not want to happen. And Im sure some of you feel the same.

Please DO NOT give what you cannot afford, easily and without affecting you or your loved ones in any way. I absolutely do not want that- and know some of you WOULD do that, if I didn’t say! But please don’t- you are more important to me than me, or Ta**raya, in the end.

So thank you to those who can, and those who can’t but would if they could- its all amazingly appreciated.

Much love to all, and many blessings. I hope to be with you again super soon.

A message from Paul: Hi, all. As some of you know, and some of you don’… Kelley Napolitano needs your support for Support Paul and Ta**raya's Recovery

22/04/2024

Our own may carry us on her lap for five year or so, but mother will tolerate all our abuses and take care of us for our entire lifespan. We cannot forget the mother who sustains us for all our life.

25/03/2024

This incredibly brave, beautiful group of students has spent the past nine days navigating the death and dying process, in a shamanic manner, in order to be reborn. We’re privileged to support these healers, future healers, doulas, mothers and students of all kinds in their journeys on the path.
If you’re feeling called to an intensive medicine retreat, we have several coming up! Send us a message to learn more about retreats focused in Egyptian Magic, Buddhism, Taoism and Yogic Tradition.
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01/03/2024

Shining faces and sunny spaces marking the end of our 7-Day Vipassana event at Ta**raya Center. [Today’s breakfast was sponsored by salt, sugar and fat].

Thank you to everyone who shared this beautiful week with us. For those who missed it, we look forward to doing it again soon. Send us a message to join our interest list! 🙏

**raya