Shambhavi Sarasvati is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula. Her principle training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism, the classical Tantrik tradition of Kashmir, and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi is known for making complex teachings about the nature of the self and reality understandable, practical, and always relevant to our lived experience. Her teachings are grounded in her more than thirty years of daily personal practice and personal retreats. Shambhavi is a householder sannyasini and is fortunate to have received precise teachings in practice and View from teachers of both Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen. She has studied meditation in the Dzogchen, Kagyu, and Nyingma traditions. Her root teacher is Anandamayi Ma. Shambhavi holds an MFA in Fiction from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. At one time, Shambhavi taught at a Northwestern University. She left academia in 2004 in order to devote herself to practice, writing and teaching in her spiritual tradition.