No Mud, No Lotus: Embracing the Dark and the Divine

Can you meet your darkness with the same reverence you offer your light?

In this raw and liberating transmission from our Fundamentals of Tantra event Chantelle Raven invites us into the heart of Tantra — where awakening is not about rising above, but about descending into the body and welcoming all that we are.

Through stories, practice, and embodied wisdom, she guides us to see Kundalini not as something to control or “achieve,” but as life force itself — the pulse of creation, destruction, and renewal that moves through every breath. What happens when you stop resisting your contractions and start trusting your body’s intelligence? When you let the mud be mud — and find the lotus blooming right through it?

This episode is a fierce reclamation of the dark feminine — the part of us that feels deeply, speaks truth, and refuses to hide behind spiritual perfection. It’s an invitation to bring compassion to your shadow, reverence to your rage, and love to the parts of you that were once deemed “too much.”

If you’re a practitioner, space holder, or simply a human who feels deeply, this one will move you — and remind you that the divine isn’t separate from your humanity.

Inside This Episode:

• What Kundalini truly is and how to work with life force energy in the body

• The difference between contraction and resistance

• Dark Feminine vs. wounded feminine — how to know the difference

• Turning shame into self-acceptance through the “So f*cking what” mantra

• How spiritual conditioning can suppress our authentic expression

• Practicing radical acceptance before creating change

• The daily devotion of embodying your future self

There’s something holy that happens when we stop performing “high vibe” and start honoring what’s real. When we let rage move through love, and tears become our prayer.

This is the Tantra - where shadow and light, human and divine, are finally allowed to dance.

Top Quotes:

“Discomfort is only discomfort when we resist it.”

“There’s an ecstatic current available in every feeling.”

“Dark feminine isn’t chaos — it’s truth with compassion.”

“Accept first. From that place, change becomes devotion.”

And when you’re ready to walk deeper, come find us in the trainings, the retreats, the spaces where the lotus keeps blooming.

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