What is Tantra?
I often get asked: What is Tantra and what is tantric sex, The term Tantra has become popular lately, but few people really know what it means. Since the famous singer Sting appeared on the television show Oprah and declared that learning tantric sex has enabled him to make love for hours and hours without stopping, lots of people are curious about tantric sex. And yes, prolonged delicious lovemaking sessions are definitely part of Tantra, but it’s not about how long you can do it, it’s about the quality of connection, the love and opening that the exchange creates, the melting with each other and the universe. My one line answer to the question is this: Tantric Sex is sex imbued with love that allows us to merge with the divine. But let me give you a slightly longer explanation as well: Tantra was a religious sect in ancient India. Buddhists, Hindus and people from various other religions were associated with Tantric sects.
Tantra is an art, a science, a way of life that is honest and courageous. It includes and faces squarely our sexual energy, this awesome force that some religions fear and want to suppress. It can be used to help us reach our highest potential of pleasure, and union with the divine. Tantra does not require anyone to follow any dogmas. Rather, it encourages us to discover through our own experience our true creative potential for pleasure, and our ability to connect with all the elements that surround us, and the spirit that we all share.To achieve this, it offers a series of exercises in breathing, tone vibrations, the use of certain muscles, and concentration on certain symbols representing the energy centers of the body. This helps us clear blocks interfering with the movement of energy, and guides us into altered states of consciousness. There we can transcend our everyday self-identification, and we can get a glimpse of our true larger reality. It’s a state of great expansion and o
Tantra is an ancient spiritual path that originated in the East many thousands of years ago, and is moving into our Western culture in response to the urgent need for a reevaluation of how we live our contemporary lives. Tantra is one of the rare spiritual paths that says a huge “YES” to life in all of it’s manifestations and therefore includes our sensuality and sexuality as aspects of our divinity, and validates them as deeply relevant to our yearning to live in happiness, peace, health and abundance. Although TANTRA is becoming known in pop culture as a way to prolong orgasm, or have more or better sex, this is only a small part of the vastness of Tantra, but that which is most suppressed in an individual or in a culture usually expresses for clearing first. This is why Tantra is becoming known as a sexual path rather than a spiritual path. There are many valuable teachings that originated in the East thousands of years ago that are infiltrating into the West for a very positive aff
