Igor Vamadeva Kufayev is an artist and spiritual teacher devoted to the transformative potential inherent in human birth. Following a radical awakening in his mid-thirties, culminating in embodied Self-recognition, he has served as a conduit of transmission, guiding seekers through the Kuṇḍalinī process and the integration of heightened awareness.
Rooted in Tantric Śaivism and informed by direct energetic transmission and somatic integration, his work bridges scholarship, poetic expression, and lived realization. His immersive gatherings are known for catalyzing profound inner shifts.
Originally trained as a painter, Igor is the author of Camatkāra: The Hidden Path (2023) and KUṆḌALINĪ: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Tantric Śaivism (2026). He lives in Mallorca, Spain, with his partner Amrita Ma Devi and their three children.
Igor Kufayev
“…The book you are now holding in hand is as close to a living transmission as one can get through reading a text that is indeed taken from in-the-moment teaching sessions that Igor Kufayev gave to students who have formed a living, ‘energy-transmission’ [shaktipat] community around him.
You will hear his clear voice as your eyes glean the scholarly explanations and personal insights in each sentence, paragraph and chapter. You will perhaps also feel the energies that he describes as awakened in him and how that occurred in his being and how it can awaken in you, or be guided by you, if already awakened.
Thus, this book is a living, practise-oriented and trustworthy guide written by an energy transmission teacher…”
—Stuart Sovatsky, PhD
President Emeritus, Association for Transpersonal Psychology,
Author, Words From the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality and Psychotherapeutic Narratives
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Last remaining copies of KUṆḌALINĪ: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Tantric Śaivism, 1st edition are available at
www.songpublishing.org/kundalini
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With delight, we share with you that this truly intricate and beautiful excerpt from Igor Vamadeva Kufayev's book 'KUṆḌALINĪ: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Tantric Śaivism', has been published in TARKA magazine's latest issue, 'On Power'.
The excerpt, “The Hidden Axis: Kuṇḍalinī, Touch and Ritual,” draws from the same depths as the full book. It unfolds the meaning of sparśa (touch) from its Tantric root, not as sensation, but as the very flame of transmission and transformation—a subtle movement inward, without ever leaving the body, but entering it ever more fully and reverentially.
In this sense, touch becomes not merely something we experience, but a place where our most intimate relationship with power, self and other may be encountered.
Find the magazine at www.tarkajournal.com/, and explore the full book at www.songpublishing.org/kundalini.
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FREE INTRODUCTION and Q&A about Immersions with Igor Vamadeva Kufayev
AUGUST 4, 2026 via Zoom
7 pm (Lisbon) / 8 pm (Germany) / 2 pm (New York)
Week-long immersions are known for their potential to bring about profound shifts in consciousness, where tremendous work can be done and a quantum leap in one's evolution becomes possible.
Are you drawn to join the upcoming 7-day immersion in Southern France, yet wish to understand more deeply what these live programs entail? How are they held, and what preparation is asked of you?
Our long-term facilitators, Dattatreya and Amrita Ma Devi, warmly welcome you to an informal Q&A session on Zoom, where all your questions will be met with care and clarity.
Simply follow the link below on Tuesday, August 4th to join, listen, and connect.
No registration required — come as you are.
us02web.zoom.us/j/89280572615?pwd=L1NpzybsgU8aSCE6…
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7-DAY FRANCE IMMERSION - Info & Booking: shop.igorkufayev.org/product/immersion-sept-2026-f…
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At the immersion, the potential for breakthrough is present in every sitting. Every contraction, every uncertainty, every place where we feel bound can reveal its own capacity for transformation.
In the field of grace, amplified through the gathering and the presence of the conductor, what seemed fixed can begin to soften, and what is most true in the moment can emerge with remarkable clarity and precision.
Your next opportunity to partake in a residential immersion will be from September 6–13, 2026—held in the wilderness of the Mediterranean mountains, near Montpellier, South of France.
We warmly invite you to book your place here before the gathering fills: shop.igorkufayev.org/product/immersion-sept-2026-f…
➡️QUESTION ABOUT JOINING AN IMMERSION?
If you are joining for the first time, we are offering a free Q&A on Tuesday, August 4th, at 8 pm CEST for an in-depth introduction to this work and to answer any questions about our immersions by our long-term facilitators: us02web.zoom.us/j/89280572615?pwd=L1NpzybsgU8aSCE6…
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Images 1,5,7,9: Immersion participants in Samavesha-Kriyas (involuntary yogic movements – yoga asanas, mudras) during meditation sessions with Igor Kufayev. The phenomenon of Samavesha-Kriya is an observable byproduct of an active, energetic process, enacted by the flow of various pranic currents.
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“…The Guru here is not merely a person, but the principle of direct transmission—be it through form or formlessness. Whether through a human adept, an inner voice that cuts through delusion, or a deep communion with a deity-form, it is this grace that liberates, not the personality of the messenger. But it is equally true that, for this grace to flow, the heart must be open and the vessel strong enough to receive…”
~ Igor Kufayev
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Today on this full moon, this auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima we celebrate in devoted adoration, the relationship that encompasses them all.
On the night traditionally set aside across many parts of the world to honour and offer one’s deepest reverence to one’s teachers, we share in its essence and most intimate meaning, in receptivity to the flow of all knowledge.
Igor Vamadeva Kufayev often emphasises that ours is the inner path of worship, where ritual turns inward first and the highest offering is made within oneself—the path most suited to the householder, for whom the senses become portals of offering and one’s heart the altar.
Such is the tantric way: the sacred unfolds in the innermost chambers of one’s Heart, where the most refined offering can be made, and where the most subtle dimension of existence may be encountered—that which transcends the mind and reveals what human existence is ultimately capable of realising.
To those whom we acknowledge as our teachers, we offer this inner tribute. And as we each aspire to embody our own roles with sincerity and fullness, we recognise the one who has assumed the form of teacher—and indeed every teacher before. This day is both the symbol of that mystery and, for those prepared to receive it, its living esoteric transmission.
May we receive this sacred knowledge as pure gnosis, illumined by Śakti, who reveals what could otherwise never be known, and through the Guru, by whose grace alone such recognition is bestowed.
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Read the full journal "Guru Purnima: The Eternal Principle" here: igorkufayev.org/guru-purnima-the-eternal-principle
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ON GURU PURNIMA - The Full Moon of the Guru
It has been the practice in the past–all the Upanishads are full of stories where the student comes and the teacher just keeps him in His ashram. And He watches and sees, and what He sees is which way his heart functions, which way his mind functions, which way his life is drifting. And He helps him to straighten out all the human element to err, all the wrong way of thinking, wrong way of feeling, wrong way of understanding. And this takes years of time to culture a man.
And when the teacher is satisfied, ‘Fine, I give you this knowledge, now you give it to all others.’
But we are now in a hurry to improve society because Nature wants us to. It has been too much. We want to revert Life back to what it is always–bliss consciousness–back to the Absolute value. And therefore we have to speak many together, many at a time. But when I am talking to you many at a time, we should not in our minds minimize the great value of this teaching which is only passed on from heart to heart.
It’s a very great teaching. More is passed on silently. Much less of knowledge goes through words, but a lot of it goes between words in those paused moments, in those silent moments between words. A lot of it goes between words. And it’s a very great phenomenon that is happening for the world and is happening for all times. Only, you have to take it as it is.
We know from the line of our Masters: Human life is all Divine. We don’t have to sing it on the street. Every breath of ours, every movement of ours, every whisper of ours sings it naturally. This is the song of the knower of Reality. You have that dignity of Life which is so scarce in this Kali Yuga. It has not been so profuse even in any other Yugas.
– His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Image: Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Jagadguru Bhagvan Shankaracharya of Joytir Math of Himalayas.
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Through the widening frame of the heart, we entered the disclosure of Krama Vāda — the ever-present instance of sequential dissolution.
Reveling in the revelation of the twelve Kālīs.
In cycles of refinement, through blissful surge and sharpness of attention — beginnings and endings dissolving into one-pointed focus.
In the fullness of seeing, the known released into the Presence of the Knower.
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We send blissful greetings from the closing of our 7-Day immersion in Gut Saunstorf, Germany — from where the teaching of Krama Vāda will continue to be evolved in September, in the South of France.
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Images 4,5,7: Immersion participants in Samavesha-Kriyas (involuntary yogic movements – yoga asanas, mudras) during meditation sessions with Igor Kufayev. The phenomenon of Samavesha-Kriya is an observable byproduct of an active, energetic process, enacted by the flow of various pranic currents.
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Have you been moved to join, almost ready, but hesitant to enter?
This is your call to leap.
The largest gathering ever to assemble at this venue has already formed.
The circle nearly complete, the last spots are inviting to be filled.
Where a powerful field has been emerging over the years.
The timeless throb of creation is bound to be rediscovered in every fibre.
Beyond the concept of mind or single effort, insight can be met in new and yet most natural ways.
A potency revealing itself only through the workings of transmission — only entered where many breathe as one.
For the Self to recognise its own infinite rays through the eyes that meet life’s wonder.
In service of the living whole, along a Tantric thread unravelling only now, for our times.
Flesh, bone and heart, about to remember the song of the Infinite carrying the soul home.
Come and step into the circle.
Where time is born anew.
JOIN HERE: shop.igorkufayev.org/product/immersion-germany-202…
JULY 13–20
THE FIERCE PATH OF KRAMA-VĀDA7-Day Immersion with Igor Kufayev
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"First and foremost, man's essence is spirit. So in other words, man's strength is unlimited. Man is, effectively speaking, eternal. The essence of the man is to be constantly reminded of that and reminding others. So therefore, there's nothing that man cannot withstand by the very definition of what man here embodies."
– Igor Kufayev
Why are men feeling void of purpose and placement in our day and age?
In the following conversation with Alex Lehmann on the Heart of Man podcast, Igor speaks not only to the modern crisis of masculinity but goes deep into the very root where all polarities arise from and what it takes to truly live from an open heart.
A masterclass on the divine masculine. Not to be missed.
▶️ Watch & listen now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5M5e...
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To be called back to the sacredness of life, when life is deemed expendable as a flicker in time — what can truly restore a shared existence, evolving on harmonious ground?
LIFE — Living Intentionally Fully Embodied — is a return to what holds. A reassertion of the value of life when it is most in question. A course born for these times.
LIFE entails:
• 14+ hours of recorded transmission, unfolding across ten modules, emerged from the activated field of Shakti, the self-revealing Power of Consciousness
• Three guided meditations rooted in the wisdom teachings of Tantric Kashmir Shaivism
+ Bonus: Pre-Recorded Question and Answer Sessions for intimate Self-reflection
All who are ready to meet and guard existence without remainder — sincere seekers, and those who guide others — teachers, therapists, facilitators — who wish to inhabit this life fully are invited to this foundational encounter.
To stand and serve with renewed certainty, in the recognition that you are the Body of God.
Discover LIFE: www.igorkufayev.org/life
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