In this episode hosts Natraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev explore what satsang really is: the practice of gathering with teachers and community to be with reality, receive teachings, and integrate spiritual practice into everyday life. They discuss classical forms of satsang, the teacher’s role, and how repetition, devotion, and honest human emotion transform suffering into insight.

Through stories of dance, ashram life, and ritual, they show how satsang fosters belonging, sacrificial growth, and the shifting of identity from external fixes to an internal center. Practical themes include the power of karma yoga, dealing with grief and longing, and bringing spiritual wisdom into relationships and daily challenges.

Two spiritual teachers explore how queerness intersects with sadhana, ashram life, and Tantra — discussing coming out, chosen family, ritual, and the freedom of living beyond labels.

Through candid stories and practical insight, they show how desire, devotion, and improvisation can be transformative tools for spiritual growth and authentic living.

Kayla Radhika Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist, mystic, scholar, and yoga teacher devoted to the sacred intersection of art and spiritual life.

Initiated into the Shivoham Tantra lineage in 2019, she has studied primarily with Artemis and Bhairav of Anuttara Ashram as well as Nataraj Chaitanya.

In 2024, her teacher Bhairav gave her the name Radhika in recognition of the depth and sincerity of her devotional path and her ability to spark spiritual devotion in the lives of her students.

Kayla holds a Master’s degree in Art History, with research exploring the influence of the Bhagavad Gītā on the life and work of Canadian painter Lawren Harris.

Alongside her academic work, she is a devoted painter whose works live in yoga studios, galleries, and private collections around the world.

Her current work explores the world as the living orchestra of the Divine, drawing inspiration from tantra, sufism, music, and modern art.

Through her paintings, teaching, exhibitions, and online Patreon community, she invites people into a more intimate, reverent relationship with the sacred that dwells in all.

Kayla Radhika Miller joins WTF to share how living in an ashram, a committed mantra practice, and a devotional creative life transformed her—through loss, eros, and artistic rebirth.

Hosts explore lineage, daily sadhana, and how poetry, music, and painting can be doorways back to presence for seekers at any stage.

Hosts Nataraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev sit down with Jayden Turner and Leah Hamlet, residents of Trika Kula, to explore how Vedic meditation, tantric puja, somatic movement, and daily yogic practice shape life in a modern spiritual community.

They speak honestly about intimacy, conflict, devotion, and grace—how practice reveals essential nature, forces hard conversations, and brings unexpected support. Tune in to hear how ritual, service, and shared life create transformation.

In this episode of Wisdom, Tantra, Freedom, hosts Nataraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev explore Shiva as consciousness through mantra, japa, and devotion, preparing for Maha Shivaratri. They share personal stories, teachings from Siddha and Kashmiri saints, and practical guidance on how mantra and sadhana help transform grief, destruction, and everyday life.

Listeners can expect reflections on the five acts of Shiva, the union of Shiva and Shakti, and the power of Om Namah Shivaya.

Nataraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev return from a transformative, wonderful, turbulent, and enlivening pilgrimage through India’s most potent spiritual sites — Ganeshpuri, Tamil Nadu, Kolkata, and Kamakhya — sharing raw stories of grief, devotion, and the fierce grace of the Goddess. They describe intense pujas, deity darshan, ritual sacrifices, and how living in a yogabhumi accelerated deep inner work.

Along the way they announce the reopening of Trika Kula as an ashram, and reflect on how pilgrimage, community, and lineage have shifted their practice and capacity to love and surrender.

Hosts Nataraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev Kristian Crowe explore spiritual awakening through Baba Muktananda's commentary on Shiva Sutra 1.8, covering kundalini, mantra practice, Mahavidyas, and the shift from jiva to Shiva.

They mix devotional insight with candid stories about grief, integration, community, and practical tools for bringing inner wakefulness into relationships and everyday life.

Hosts Nataraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev sit with Ishwari, a long‑time disciple and ashram resident, to explore living with a guru, Shaktipat awakening, the practical demands of seva, and the messy, transformative work of self‑revelation in communal sadhana.

They discuss tests of surrender, working with thought and feeling as a doorway to the self, devotional practice, and what it really takes to be a disciple.