Andrea Loseries: The Scholar & Cremation Ground Yogini

Today's episode revisited is with the scholar and practitioner, Dr. Andrea Loseries. You will hear about Andrea's path from being a 19-year-old student in Paris, to journeying to the Himalayas to study with yogic masters, including her teacher the 16th Karmapa, to becoming one of the few Western women to live and practice at Indian cremation grounds.

Andrea speaks with the directness of someone who has spent decades facing what most avoid—death, darkness, and the dissolution of the boundaries between pure and impure at what she calls: the gates of liberation.

Time notes:

00:01:06 - Journeying to the Himalayas to study with yogic masters

00:07:38 - Taking the Karmapa as her teacher

00:12:28 - From village girl to lady in 6 months

00:16:05 - Ancient Bon religion and bone ritual objects

00:20:34 - The confiscated skull

00:23:53 - The legendary Snow Lion Expedition

00:35:56 - Guidance on choosing malas and ritual objects

00:38:51 - Learning chod practice with Chatral Rinpoche

00:49:19 - On purity and impurity at the cremation ground

00:55:02 - Being a woman at the cremation ground

01:04:30 - Using oil from burning bodies for a Mahakala lamp

This conversation originally aired on March 14, 2023

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