Hosts Nataraj Chaitanya and Vishnudev dive into Gupta Navaratri and the Das Mahavidyas, exploring how ten tantric goddesses and their mantras meet modern life, heartbreak, humor, and holy confusion.

The episode covers lineage and ritual, daily sadhana at Trika Kula, transformative effects of mantra and puja, and practical stories of grief, relationship repair, and inner power through deities like Kali, Lalita, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhagalamukhi, Matangi, and more.

Perfect for dedicated practitioners and curious listeners, this episode offers a clear view of ferocious devotion, community practice, and upcoming tantra programs that carry these teachings into everyday life.

In this episode of WTF (Wisdom, Tantra, Freedom), hosts Vishnudev and Nataraj Chaitanya unpack the many meanings of dharma, sharing from the Bhagavad Gita to the lived reality of following the Shakti. They explore how dharma differs from morality, how practice and teacher-guidance shape awakening, and why surrender and community matter.

Conversations touch on karma, grace, ashram life, and practical tools like abhyasa and vairagya, offering a candid, sometimes humorous look at the costs and gifts of committing to a spiritual path.

Hanna Williams joins the WTF podcast to unpack an 11-year tantric journey: aggressive non-dualism, Shaktipat initiation, and the volatile tenderness of guru-disciple life. They cover kitchen seva, sangha conflict and repair, meme culture as modern sutra, and the daily discipline of japa and devotion.

The conversation moves between raw personal stories and practical spiritual tools—how to hold paradox, cultivate intimacy with reality, and let grace and practice transform ordinary suffering into growth.

Hanna is a spiritual mentor and creative consultant who has been initiated in a classical Shakta tantric tradition since 2015. She does all of her work through the philosophy of the great tradition and through the grace of her guru, and yet she is also a very multifaceted person with a lot of different interests. She's also an artist and a writer and a cook, a self-described poet, scientist, a relationship nerd, and a human design enthusiast.

Her ultimate goal is to orient people towards the mysterious and awe-inspiring power of grace. Her second runner-up is helping people to remember who they really are in this incarnation and the work that they're meant to do as brilliant individual undulations within the sea of consciousness.

https://www.hannawilliams.com/