Nadia Shakti Devi

06/06/2022

and when all is said and done
and nothing is left
all the words and actions
have dropped from the ceiling
shattered in echoes
like sounds that clap
as if to announce the grand entrance
of empty space and non existence
where time suspends its last laugh
and all is white and colourless
like a silence that is not even there
all is gone
as if it had never been
just faint dreams whispering thoughts
that give impressions
that the nothingness is nothing
only because of something
like paperless screams
scribbled in suspension
as if to say
absence is the knowing
that something that should
that could be, is not
and so absence is
but the whisper of presence
and emptiness
but the scream of fullness

15/05/2022

And it is why the more we connect deeply within ourselves, the more we are connected to everyone and everything else. When we try to go outwards to find connection, we are in fact going towards disconnection and separation 🙃

10/05/2022

05/05/2022

The truth of the matter ✨

Only in Truth can a conscious choice be made.
In offering you my vulnerable Truth
I am offering you my power.
I surrender to being powerless
In my powerlessness, I discover an indestructible power:
Powerlessness exists only in not accepting things as they are.
Anything less than truth is manipulation and lies.
Lies to manipulate your thoughts, perceptions and choice.
And so would you decide based on what is not.
Driving you in a direction of that which would have never been.
In sharing my truth with you I surrender to what is.
I allow you to have free will.
I accept the consequences of my Truth.
Whatever they may be.
I offer you your freedom to make a true choice.
Anything less than truth is a violation of your free will.
It’s a violation of your natural flow.
I allow the universe to unfold in truth in what truly is.
For this, I must know and own my truth as my only refuge.
And so must I also be in the clarity of my Truth myself.
Everytime I am not in Truth, I violate my flow and thus violate yours.
That is the meaning of leaving things as they are.
It is profoundly Accepting the Truth of each instant
As it is
Without modification.
That is true love, respect, wisdom, compassion, presence.
That is the truth of all matter.
Spirituality is the seeking of truth.
Enlightenment is not an end result.
In fact, it is being in truth every instant of life.
The only way to be in flow is to be in truth of what actually is rather than what we judge we would prefer or not prefer, what we judge to be easier or more difficult, what we judge to enjoy or not enjoy. 🍃✨

11/04/2022

In my darkest hour
You gently blow
Your sunny power
In through the window
Clearing out the tears
In one deep sigh
Calming the fears
I let out a final cry
Hugging my heart
In warm delight
You fill my insides
With the soft murmur
Of your yellow light
Oh gentle lover
How you shine bright
Opening my soul
To the bliss of all ✨

09/04/2022

The healer

I see the light in you
and breathe it out with you
Open and Receive
I see the pain in you
and dance it out with you
Relax and Let go
I see the human in you
and chant it out with you
Observe and Allow
✨

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04/04/2022

Come to Kathmandu, drown yourself in sounds and smells that ricochet into symphonies of a thousand types of lives.
Where the cry of crows crack the dawn and hum the twilight, while eagles hover silently in pensive contemplation, far far above the clouds and crowds of colored houses sprawling with endless temples.
Come to Kathmandu, hear the call of morning bells and prayers, as incense burns in endless rolls.
Hide and ride through time in narrow wooden pasts and vast cemented futures.
Sipping coffee in small corner shops or large mugs of comfy new york jazzy couches.
See the moon hang over white peaks and the city lights cradled in a crown of hills under the quiet stars.
Come after the rains when the green is glowing and the dust washed away.
Come in the depths of winter when days are made of crisp blue skies and nights of cozy fires.
Come after the cold when the spring sun flowers into pink blossoms and hear the city rejoice in colors and splashes of a new year.
Come to Kathmandu only to let go and dance dance dance -
Dance to the flow of her chaos.
Dance to the rhythms of her lives.
Dance to the millenial mysteries she murmurs.

29/03/2022

The taste of spring is like a tease
The sun grazing my skin in soft delight
Moving my mind in lightness of being
As always, the birds are singing,
And earth revolves closer to the sun
Bringing life forth - the union has begun
Hear the blissful paradise awakening
As earth and sun re-embrace and weep
After a long period of solitary sleep
The sun penetrates into earth’s core
In flirtatious flowing rays and more
Earth flutters awake and blooms
Chrysalids into vibrant butterfly wings
And tiny buds into the pinkness of springs
All life is a fluster in this sacred union
As I bathe in the great bliss of creation

26/03/2022

I know who you are in truth
I know what you are in truth
I know how you serve in truth
You are free !
You are free !
You are free !
✨

09/02/2022

Uncertainty
Like a taunting jackal you howl
Through my nights
Keeping me awake
Bathing me in doubt
So I can never rest
Drenched in endless thoughts
Of what could be
And what would be
As I feel the walls of emptiness
Closing down on me
Uncertainty, you dress
In the wonders of Possibility
And yet you sn**ch the ground
Out from under me
In your dense fog, I drown
As the world crumbles
There is no way to know
What to hold on to
And maybe
That’s what you’re teaching me
That the only certainty
Is in letting go

28/01/2022

Mindfulness is a sensual affair. The more you develop mindfulness the richer your experience of life becomes.
The more pleasure, bliss and joy you you will experience.

We often find ourselves needing to binge pleasures because we have lost the ability to really be present with what is, our true source of nourishment.

Mindfulness and meditation can often feel like a boring task, one more annoying chore. If you learn to find the playful pleasure in it, it goes from being a task on your checklist, to being your break, your fun, your pleasure!
And its completely free and always available!😊

This poem was inspired from a few mindful sips of coffee. You can do this exercise with any sensory experience - sounds, tastes, feelings, smells, colors, shapes… Take a moment to really be present with what is, breathe it in, relax into it, openly, allowing your whole being to be flooded by the experience - notice what that creates for you - while you walk, eat, drink or simply sit in the sun or listen to the wind in the trees…

18/01/2022

Be the Love you want to see in the world 💕✨

12/01/2022

There are toilet breaks
There are cigarette breaks
What if you allowed yourself stillness breaks?

When it all gets too much and you sense you and your body need a break. Find a quiet place, a comfortable relaxed position (reclined and feet elevated if possible) and disconnect from everything.

Be still for 5-10 minutes.

Close your eyes.

Take a few deep breaths.

Notice the sensations in your body.

Become aware of the sounds around you, let them wash through you.

Allow yourself to let go completely.

When you get back to work, notice the difference in quality of your thoughts energy and capacity. Thank yourself for that gift of stillness. 🤗

Take as many breaks as you need throughout the day… you are so worth it! ❤️

12/01/2022

“This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole”. The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole, but if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.

Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.

Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. The two go hand in hand.

Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.

Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.

Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated, but we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.

Don’t feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times. Being sad or angry doesn’t help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!

You have the right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture. This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It’s a resistance strategy.

When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. This is all you can do now:

– Serenity in the storm

– Keep calm, pray everyday

– Make a habit of meeting the sacred every day.

– Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love. »

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented on the current situation: “This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole”. The decision to

08/01/2022

What’s in a name?

An energetic charge of information.

It carries the sound of who you are, who you’ve dreamed yourself to be.
Like clothes and colours, sometimes the new you must shed the old and find more fitting ones, to match your inner realities.
As we heal and grow, we change - our personality changes, our beliefs change, our energies and elements change and so our tastes change and this eventually leads us to make new choices that transform our entire world.
I hear its called manifesting …✨😉

This physical reality is an overt and dense expression of a covert and subtle informational field.

Today I realise that I must shed the names that don’t express me anymore.
Because I’ve outgrown them.
Because when I see them they don’t resonate anymore
Like something out of tune
I keep wondering which would fit me better?
Shrestha? Demon? Demon-Shrestha? Shrestha-Demon? Father? Husband? Father & husband??
The absurdity of it! 🤭
I have to accept - it just does not resonate anymore.
Because these names are my father’s and my husband’s, they were never me. They were comfortable and they felt safe. Yet they pulled me away from myself. They were my “belonging to”.
Daughter of –
Wife of –
Bearing the charge and influence of those ties and everything that brings.

It is a shedding of dependence and untrue identities. No identity can ever be fully true, but they can be “more true” than others at certain times.

Healing is difficult because it means death in a sense, allowing that which has passed to die so that something else can be born.

Just Nadia then… I will be lineage-less then. 🤔
But this felt ungrounded – rootless.

Like I was floating…
In the process of shedding you must venture into a vulnerable nakedness and emptiness before you can wear something new.

Then I realized that in looking for an answer I had forgotten to ask the question!
“What is my name? “
Questions are powerful things, they are open, spacious – a field of potential – a sacred invitation. ✨
As the answer formed in my ears, my hand was simultaneously forming letters on paper:

Shrestha fired into Shakti
Demon flowered into Devi

Nadia Shakti Devi

Hello ! ✨🥂

08/01/2022

💕✨
Oh my heart sings of joy to once again step into this land
Blessed with its scents of stillness and brushes of endless green

Once again I fall amidst these starry trees
Where the hush of the earth is warm belonging,
And the vast empty spaces a translucent drumming

Beating through the valley lows in deep and resounding flows
That brazenly brandish the yellow evening light
Into a million harmonies of ineffable waves of joy
That sink and surge in endless rhythms of here and now

My cells flutter into a dance: like a million mirrors
Shimmering in the light of the divine spectacle
As once again I taste this land of sacred wonders ✨

24/12/2021

You have choice. You have power. How will you use it from today? 😉