Jovana Milović aka Soror Mystica soared high in the academy before crashing beautifully and painfully into the fullness of existence. She has since traveled the world, studying modalities of life and helping people reconnect to their full existence. Her words ring with wisdom and intellect, and she offers invitations for a bold and enlivened future for all of us. 

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I am a mystic, mentor & ritualist. My practice weaves together Sexual Shamanism, Neo-Tantra, Animism, Shadow Alchemy, Somatics, Womb Wisdom, and Temple Arts. My work is my prayer and my prayer is this: Let us reclaim the wisdom of our bodies, harness the raw life-force of our sexuality and show up with true agency in the world. Let us decolonize our minds, bodies and spirits and activate the wild genius of our primordial nature. And let us find the way forward oriented by love, not fear.

More about Jovana: 

• www.sorormystica.ca 

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PRACTICES: 

• Get really curious about the body and the sensations that arise from the body. This taps us into a full spectrum existence. 
• While connecting to sensation, also surrender to movement and flow. Liberate your body, use sound and let your body take the lead. We need to get out of grooves of habit. 
• Use this same curiosity about sexuality and stop being finish line oriented. How does this energy want to move through you?  One thing you might discover is that you are alive!  
• Instead of forcing an activity, invite an energy and a state of being and allow participants to find their own path. 
• Use dance as a way to make major life decisions. 

IDEAS: 

• Connecting to death and sickness brings us deeper into life. 
• The idea of sin is woven into our society. Implicit in this idea is the notion of lifting out of this existence to achieve something in another realm. This ascension path is insidious: it vilified the body, our experiences, our sexuality and our pleasure. 
• As part of this notion of ascension, we seek states of happiness and fulfillment that don’t take into account the natural cycles of our bodies and the world we are a part of. 
• We reject going down into the darkness and the void, and instead impossibly try to focus on the eternal bloom.
• There is a portal available if we truly open to the full spectrum of life, including the wretchedness, the pain, the wisdom and the joy of it.
• Emotional polarities are on a continuum. 
• We are part of a much larger organism that includes the land, the insects and the animals, and perhaps much more. We are a part of it all.
• Sexual energy is a pathway to the divine and to your power. 
• A life of love is a practice, not an idea. 
• Play is about going to the edges, the perimeters of the playground. 
• Connecting to the truth and the depth of our experience is a very natural process: this is already a part of ourselves. 
• Tantra is a non-dual path. There is a charge in a duality like doing & being. When you hold both those polarities, there is a spark that allows a holy third that emerges. We realize those polarities don’t exist. 
• Shadow is our blind spot - it is an unconscious expression of something related to a wounding. It is subverted energy that manifests itself in ways we might not be conscious of. 
• Our work is to shine a gentle light on our shadows. Ask them, what do you need ? How can I advocate for you ? Speak for you ? Hold you ? Integrate you ? 

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