Some people say that Tantra is the dark side of Yoga. Is that true?
Hatha Yoga is about balancing male and female energy and making the body a healthy and flexible container to inhabit the spirit. It is about controlling the breath and the body to achieve mental power, strength and flexibility. Tantra Yoga includes and goes beyond Hatha Yoga. Tantra helps you to unblock possible stagnant energy and integrate it in your whole system before you start moving or controlling sexual energy. Tantra goes beyond yoga to deal with life more completely. In fact, Tantra includes the dark side of our physical nature and gives instructions on how to accept the shadow side and transform it into additional pure energy that can flow positively throughout your whole body and can be transmitted to our lover. Besides making the body elastic and the mind able to focus for longer and longer periods, it also prepares the body for expansion of sexual energy and teaches how to interweave all the energies in and around you into an orgasmic whole. In other words, it trains you t
