The
concept of spiritual sex is the closest one can get to
the religious concept of zen. Sacred Sexuality is a form
of spirituality which sees sex as a means of reaching a
higher level of consciousness, communing with the Divine,
harnessing the power of sexuality for the purposes of
accelerating personal transformation and enhancing
spiritual growth. In India, adepts of tantra and
kundalini yoga maintain that coitus gives the greatest
erotic pleasure when penetration is maintained but orgasm
is continually postponed, or even denied altogether; the
practise is called Karezza or Maithuna. To have an orgasm
without ejaculation is to reach nirvana, a high state of
bliss.
What follows is to be seen as nothing more than a source
for further discovery. It would be impossible for me to
include here all aspects of tantric and sacred sexuality.
It is hoped that your interest will be aroused, awakened
and you will investigate further yourself.
Both love and sex are forms of communication. To draw a
physiological analogy, sex is like the nervous system and
love like the endocrine system. One is fast and the other
is slow. Sex brings about rapid and temporary
interactions between people, but love works more slowly
and its effects last longer, predisposing the entire
organism to an ongoing, evolving relationship. The most
'healthy' situation being both systems working in
harmony. Love is an inexhaustible resource. The more one
loves the easier it becomes. While it isn't exhaustible,
time is, and it takes time to demonstrate love.
There are those who have never learned to love, in the
physical as well as the emotional sense, and those who
have learned not to love. There are also those who have
learned to repulse love. Love demands a degree of
vulnerability which not all are comfortable with.
Experience, wrongly or rightly, teaches many people not
to show love openly, not to risk embarrassment, attack,
betrayal, desertion, pain and perhaps worst of all
rejection. To honestly say "I love you" may be
one of life's most difficult decisions, but ultimately
one of the most rewarding. But to be able to love, one
must first love oneself. Love well and truly begins at
home.
Self love is the ability to trust yourself and listen to
your inner voice, you know your own self worth, you know
you are a unique and beautiful creature. In the terms of
tantra self love is realising that you deserve the
experience of ecstasy and you are not prepared to
compromise or settle for less. Trying to love another
when you have no love of self doesn't work you end up
feeling possessive, jealous, dependent. When you begin to
really love yourself you become an magnet, attracting the
love of others. Yet you don't need others to feel whole.
Love becomes a state of being. The more you learn to
appreciate yourself, the more you realise that you, not
your partner are the source of your own orgasm. Out of
your own sense of abundance, you want to share - you are
grateful to receive and give. This is the freedom, the
basis of a true partnership.
There are many avenues of tantra including medicine,
astrology, yantra yoga (visulaization of sacred
diagrams), mantra yoga, elaborate ceremonial tantra,
amulets, magic to name but a few. Sexuality is also one
avenue and a particularly rich avenue to the yogi because
it deals with the union of opposites i.e., the
male/female or shiva/shakti energies. Because these
numerous methods, systems, ideologies - open to human
interpretation and traditions (hindu, Buddhist, and
Taoist) on classical sexual tantra - utilizing either
symbolic sexual imagery or actual partnered sexual
activities in order to explain and resolve the energetics
of polarity and duality and thence to follow this
phenomenum back to its Source in the process of spiritual
re-integration, you need to find what works best for you.
It may be a combination of Tantra principles combined
with another form of relaxation it may be a combination
of all these things taking the best from each. Once you
have made the decision to explpore the possibilities you
need to find the teacher that is best for you. In my
opinion, a book may open the way, firstly with
enlightenment, but I feel you need the discipline of
human contact to put a regime correctly in place. A book
has few checks and balances, other than the discipline of
the reader and ignorance of the subject matter often gets
in the way. Bad habits are always bad habits and will
have to face correction in the future for the process to
work. There are endless books available, it almost seems
compulsory to write one. I think of the old adage: those
that can - do, those that can't - write a book. You have
to feel at peace with the teacher because you are
allowing this person to guide you to an inner path,
opening the way to a higher consciousness. You will have
to trust this person and for some, accept without
explanation.
Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel, center of
energy, a revolving wheel or vortex of energy. The basic
view of a Chakra: energy centres found along a central
meridan in the body and its exremities. They must in turn
be activated and stimulated to allow Kundalini (Chi)
energies to grow and arise from the base through to the
crown. They exist in the metaphysical body only and
although they are related to actual parts of the physical
body, they do not exist in a physical sense. The
activating is a combination of touch - channelling chi/
prana - prana has been said to translate as
"breath." The Sanskrit word "Prana"
means life-force or life-energy. Classic Pranayama with
its inhale/retain/exhale teaches that during the
retention segment, one should consciously retain the
prana, then release the ordinary oxygen from the lungs
during exhalation, storing the prana in the solar plexis,
the first chakra), and visual imagery combined with the
use of colour and/or symbols.
There are 7 central or principal Chakras located along an
energy channel which runs behind and parallel to the
spine. These relate to the endocrine and nervous system
of the body. The channel does follow actual physical and
neurological pathways through the body that connect the
endocrine glands. These seven glands - the sex glands,
adrenals, pancreas, thymus, thyroid, pituitary and pineal
- regulate the body's vitality and energy flows. By
opening this channel, through practises you irrigate
those subtle pathways, producing an impression of
vitality, rejuvenation and increased sexual energy.
Chakras can be opened or closed at will. This is most
efficient if one learns to stimulate each center in a
participating partner simultaneously.
In classical Tantra this practise of moving energy up
through the body is seen as the ultimate union of Shakti
and Shiva. Shakti, symbolizing the universal energy,
residing at the base of the spine in the form of
Kundalini, while Shiva, the principle of divine
consciousness, resides at the crown of the head. By
leading the vital power of Kundalini-Shakti from the base
of the spine through each chakra to the crown chakra, the
female and male polarities unite and attain the state of
divine rapture.
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The first
chakra is located at the base of the spine in
men, between the ovaries in women, and is the
only chakra whose location is sex-differentiated.
It’s called the "root" chakra, is
about survival, and is also where the
earth’s energy can enter the body.
The second chakra is located above the genital
area, below the navel. Its focus is sex,
emotions, and where we connect to society.
The third, located above the navel near the solar
plexus, is the chakra of divine personal power.
It’s also the chakra of divine power and
although higher than the navel, is the chakra you
focus on when "contemplating your
navel."
The fourth, located between the nipples is the
"heart" chakra. It’s about
compassion, affinity, and love. All kinds of
love: unconditional love, true self-love, love
for another, family, earth, pets, or love for all
and everything.
The fifth chakra, located at the base of the
throat is the chakra of communication, both
intra- and interpersonal communication.
The sixth, located in the center of the forehead,
is the "third eye," and is the chakra
of psychic ability.
The seventh or "crown" chakra is
located at the top of the head. It concerns
"knowingness," or pure intuition.
It’s also the chakra of teaching, learning,
and access to one’s higher power, and where
cosmic energy can enter the body.
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The 4 seconadry Chakras:
One in each palm of the hands. They come into play
whenever we make or do something, and they concern
creativity and hands-on healing. The feet chakras are
located in the arche of each foot, and help maintain a
person’s connection with the Earth, keep you
grounded and move forward in life.
So what is the relationship between sex and spirituality?
Sex and spirituality have long been at odds with one
another. Unfortunately many have become conditioned to
see sexual and natural function and activity as the
opposite from that of spiritual activity. They are unable
to resolve their own sexual expression, to move forward
without guilt, fear or shame.
While some ancient religions did include sexuality in
their rites, others sought to control sexuality, either
by suppressing it or by severely limiting its expression.
Most of the popular religions of today are sex-negative
encouraging marriage as the only socially acceptable form
of reproduction of the human kind. Sex outside of
marriage is not encouraged. Viewed as a sin. Getting
"in touch" with our own body/mind energy is not
taught in normal Western education, but rather the
reverse - how to not feel and how to conquer the feelings
of the body and emotions.
We have to accept our sexuality, our sexual being,
embrace it, guiltless, with openness, make know our
sexual desires, discuss them freely, honestly,
respectfully, with tolerance, it is a natural part of us,
as a human being. Sex is a part of adult life and adult
life is achieved by breaking away from parents and being
independent, adult. We are our choices, our existence and
its meaning is in our own hands, we alone decide what our
attitudes and behaviours will be.
AWAKENING THE INNER LOVER
Where to begin? With
yourself. The lover within. It is a quality a feeling and
it starts with breathe.
FIRST TIME - Shower first, think whilst showering
that you are cleansing your body as well as your mind.
Close your eyes and just let the water run off you taking
with it the troubles of the day. Dry yourself and dress
in a comfortable robe or loose clothing. Fine a quite
spot and sit comfortably, close your eyes and for one
minute do nothing at all. Simply try to watch what is
going on behind your eyes. Minds won't stop working.
SECOND TIME - Repeat above. This time focus on
your breathing rather than mental state. Breathe deeply.
Follow the breath through your body. Notice what happens
every time you loose track of your breathing your mind
comes flooding back.
You are teaching yourself to stop the thoughts. Making
love through your thoughts is like trying to do
differential calculus with your gentials.
You are not trying to stop thinking. thinking won't go
away. Let your mind think. Have a chuckle about it some
past or future event and then just bring your awareness
back to the breathing and the present.
The quickest way of connecting with your Inner lover is
to develop self-appreciation. LOVING YOURSELF. accepting
who you are, accepting you don't always accept yourself.
This produces a deep relaxation allowing pleasure and
delight to happen naturally.
AWAKENING EXERCISE
Repeat breathing as
before. Place your hands over your heart. Imagine you are
entering a relationship with yourself. Where you are the
lover and the beloved. Feel the heart beating. Put no
effort into the breathing just travel with it. It is
cleansing relaxing.
Let an image rise behind your eyes from your past where
you felt totally loved, appreciated, supported, cared
for, protected.
Feel the trust, gentleness and vitality blend. Delight in
the openess
Travel in time recalling moments again where you felt
totally loved, open, vulnerable, energised. Do not censor
or rush them. Let them come forth as they will.
When you are immersed in one strong rewarding image,
breathe deeply. Remain at first a spectator. Then settle
into deep rhythmic breathing and participate more fully,
fill in the detail. Let the colours, smells, tastes,
textures, sounds come back to you.
Now become enter the scene. Let the feelings of that time
well up inside your heart. Welcome them, amplify them.
Feel them as directly as you can.
Find a word or phrase that expresses that feeling of well
being. Whisper "IT FEELS GOOD TO LOVE ME"
or "I ENJOY LOVING ME" or "I AM
GOOD". Repeat these positive statements until
you feel comfortable saying them aloud. You are accepting
yourself, recognizing your uniqueness, your beauty. As
you say yes to this voice you are saying yes to yourself.
Gradually return to the present, let your breathing slow
down. Release the images, memories and feelings as you
exhale. They are birds taking to flight. Know that you
have remembered who you are --- a loveable person. You
have just met your INNER LOVER
When you awake fully, review the moments in your life,
write them down. Imagine which of these you would like to
recreate. moments of when you were child like and
playful.
What you are in fact doing is breaking the mind habit of
focusing on problems rather than pleasure.
If you have a partner approach her or him with the
attitude "I AM LOVABLE AND SO ARE YOU".
This comes from the old eastern greeting of "I
HONOUR THE GOD WITHIN YOU". One to use is a
ritualised greeting of "I RECOGNIZE AND HONOUR
YOU FROM MY HEART".
This also breaks you away from normal behaviour and
attitudes. Perhaps combine the greeting with the
following:
Nude facing one another. Use the verbal greeting, then
use the sacred sound OM to give yourselves a centred
feeling in your heart. Sit facing your partner and gazing
gently into one another's eyes. As you inhale bring the
palms of your cupped hands together in front of you and
rest the thumbs against your chest. Close your eyes and
as you exhale bend forward at 45 degrees until your
foreheads touch. Keeping your back straight. Inhaling
come up straight, open your eyes and say. "(partner's
name) I honour the Higher Self in you". Finish
with a Melting
Hug.
LINKS TO TANTRA & SACRED SEXUALITY
- A New
Sexual Paradigm
Western sexology
says that you are a physical body and orgasm is
an operational definition that can be measured.
You feel pleasure, but we know it is orgasm only
if you have some contractions. The New Paradigm
is that we are more than the physical body and
all of these other systems can have orgasms, too.
The physical body can have an orgasm, the light
body can have an orgasm, the spirit body can have
an orgasm, separately, or in conjunction with
each other and other people
- Art of
Tantric Sex
Are you ready for
tantra? Do you feel energized and blissful after
sex? Are you having the orgasms you want with
your partner? Are you open to enhancing them?
- Art of
Tantric Sex
Are you ready for
tantra? Do you feel energized and blissful after
sex? Are you having the orgasms you want with
your partner? Are you open to enhancing them?
- Art of
Tantric Sex
From Indian
Culture at the Mining Co., this is a great
resource for many other links to tantra web sites
- Art of
Tantric Sex
specific exercises
to practice with your partner to make your
relationship soar
- Art of
Tantric Sex
All About Tantra -
combines the principles of yoga and meditation to
weave together sex and spirituality
- Art of
Tantric Sex
The average orgasm
is only ten seconds long - Extended Orgasmic
Response
- Chakra One
The first energy
center is found at the base of the spine. This
activity of this chakra creates our sense of
security and general well-being.
- Divine
Sexuality by David A. Ramsdale, M.A.
While it is true
that Tantra does embrace sexual energy as a
vehicle for raising consciousness, that is only
the beginning of the Tantric journey. Rather than
fixating on its historical association with
eroticism, Tantra is better defined as the art of
transcending the socialized veneer to experience
one's primal identity.
- Giving and
Receiving Erotic Massage
This guide teaches
how to give and receive erotic massage. It
discusses how to help your partner relax, and
discusses how to help your partner experience
extended or multiple orgasms as part of your
massage. A common arrangement is for one partner
to receive a massage first, and then to return
the favor, but of course how you choose to
arrange this is up to you and your partner.
- Hiking The
Eight-Fold Path
Well now, here we
are at the heart of the matter - Right
Mindfulness. We're talking about waking up here,
getting in the moment and finding awareness.Let
the past go and let the future be as you slide
from this present moment to the next future
moment. Tune in to your senses - listen to your
body. This is the very essence of health. There's
always clear signals if your health is in danger.
Ignore them at your peril. Recognize that aging
will require you to make compensating changes in
your behaviors and make the effort to deliver
yourself from Habit.
- Holotropic
Breathwork
is a powerful
approach to self-exploration and healing that
integrates insights from modern consciousness
research, anthropology, various depth
psychologies, transpersonal psychology, Eastern
spiritual practices, and mystical traditions of
the world. The name Holotropic means literally
"moving toward wholeness" (from the
Greek "holos"=whole and
"trepein"=moving in the direction of
something).
- How to
Have Energy Orgasms by Annie Sprinkle, with Jwala
Why have energy
orgasms? Energy orgasms will clear the body of
repressed emotions, old hurts, and blocks. They
put a bounce in your step, give you a positive
outlook, energize and yet relax the body, and
balance the chakras. Energy orgasms help
pre-orgasmic women to become genitally orgasmic
and help genitally orgasmic women to become much
more multi-orgasmic ("megagasmic"),
plus they make partner sex more ecstatic and
fulfilling.
- IAS &
Manjushri Mandala
A page on: New Age
Spirituality, Tibetan Buddhism, Thangka Art,
Astrology, Data Research, author Hans Taeger,
Tantra, Inspiration, Ireland.
- Karezza
and Alice Bunker
Karezza was a name
coined (from the Italian for "carress")
by Alice Bunker Stockham in the 19th century. It
refers to non-religious spiritual sexual
practices that draw upon tantric techniques of
body control but do not involve any of tantra's
cultural or iconographic symbolism.
- KAREZZA
TECHNIQUES
The physical
techniques of karezza, as propounded by Alice
Bunker Stockham and others in her circle, are
designed to teach control of the orgasm response
in both men and women, for the purposes of
physical pleasure, partnership bonding, better
health, and spiritual benefit. What sets karezza
apart from traditional religious teachings such
of tantra yoga is that karezza method applies
equally to both partners in the relationship,
whether they are a man and a woman, two men, or
two women.
- Lesbian
Sacred Sexuality
Erotic love
between women can be a celebration of and an
initiation into the female creative spirit, the
feminine mysteries. When we open to the great
feminine, the holy space that is the foundation
of the world, making love becomes sacred .
Lesbians hold the form of woman power at its most
profound . Many lesbians seek to identify
ourselves from an inner source of womanwisdom.
With each act of loving we can embrace this deep
inner space and explore the possibility of
returning to our original perfection.
- Lingam
Massage
The purpose of the
Lingam Massage is to create a space the receiver
to relax, and receive expanded pleasure from his
Lingam. His partner (the giver) experiences the
joy of facilitating and witnessing the man
surrendering to his softer, gentler side. The
Lingam Massage can be used as a form of safer sex
(when latex gloves are used) and is an excellent
process to build trust and intimacy. It is often
used to help men heal from negative sexual
conditioning and trauma.
- Mandala
for Chakra Meditation
First get as
comfortable as possible. It is ideal that you sit
with your spine straight. (This puts the chakras
in alignment.) If you are sitting in a chair, be
sure to place your feet squarely on the floor.
The next step is to close your eyes and to focus
on your breathing.
- Make Peace
With Your Sexuality
Sexuality is a
beautiful expression of love. It is an intimate,
sacred communion between two people. When
experienced with an open heart, it can transcend
the limitation of physical reality and allow one
to soar into the octaves of ecstasy, wonder and
awe; it can fill our very being with peace and
contentment and it can expand our capacity to
Love
- Moving
Being
Primal Energy
Exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen Interview with
Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen
"Every human being is animated by moving
patterns of energy – they are rich, vivid,
and powerful. We can discover these subtle
landscapes of energy within ourselves. We can
experience their depth, and resonate with their
vibrant harmonies. Meditating on the space of
this resonance enables us to encounter dimensions
of vitality that are extraordinary. Although
these landscapes of internal energy were familiar
territory to advanced Tibetan yogis and yoginis,
they are by no means beyond our scope. Anyone who
is seriously interested, and committed to an hour
of daily physical exercise and meditation, can
discover glimpses of the vast horizon of
brilliance and presence."
- Neo-Tantrism
- Shakti Das
An incredibly long
article with lots of good information. Firstly,
Tantra we must credit the word, tantra, as
describing a diverse and rich East Indian
tradition that attempts to deal with the elements
of manifest creation in synchrony with their
greater integrity and as a means for spiritual
integration and self enrichment.
- Opening Up
To Sex
Sex, the most
fearful and fascinating, the most guilt ridden
and ecstatic of arts, is a subject we do not
discuss easily. Most of us have spent many years
avoiding sex talk due to our shame, guilt, and
fear programming. In order to share Sacred
Sexuality, you must have the courage to
communicate your innermost feelings, letting your
partner know what you like and dislike
- Recycling
Sexual Energy
There is some
evidence that in human beings the sexual energy
cycle has two stages. The first stage begins in
the brain, at the pituitary and pineal glands,
and ends in the sex glands. The second stage of
the cycle, the actual recycling step, returns
energy to these master glands in the brain. This
second step is often neglected
- Sacred Sex
A nicely designed
site with sensuous pictures, stories, and
affirmations
- Sacred
Sexuality
The way you view
sexuality depends greatly upon your personal
beliefs. You certainly don't have to see sex as a
spiritual act, but it's far more enjoyable if you
do.
- Sacred
Sexuality
information,
resources, and a live chat room, all related to
sacred sexuality, spirituality, inner
transformation, greater consciousness, sexual
healing. For all regardless of sexual
orientation, gender, race, religion, and/or
physical condition.
- SacredSexuality.Net
devoted to all
forms of sacred sexuality. We've got book
reviews, the Sex and Spirituality FAQ, articles,
Maithuna journal.
- Second
Chakra Energy and Holistic Approaches to Healing
The second chakra
is the center of emotions and sexuality. It is
concerned with friendliness, creativity,
sexuality, gender identity, emotions, and
intuition. It governs a one's sense of
self-worth, one's confidence in his/her own
creativity, and the ability to relate to others
in an open and friendly way by creating
appropriate emotional bonds and boundaries.
Clairsentience, the ability to feel and
understand pain and emotions in another person
(empathy) is related to the second chakra.
- Sex &
Rejuvenation Taoist Style
In Taoism, the
sexual organs and glands, where energy and life
power are concentrated and generated, are
referred to as the "stove". This term
underscores our dependence on sexual energy. We
depend on the sexual gland to support our mental
and physical functions as we depend on the stove
to cook food
- Sex Magic
A condensed
article about the magical powers of sex
- Sex Taoist
Style
There is much to
be learned about sexual gratification by studying
this article about Taoist sexual practices
- Sexual
Healings
Somewhere along
the line, we have accepted other people's ideas
on sex and life in general and we have been
living in that outdated mold. Not only that, but
we have come to believe that those thoughts are
ours. Whatever we formed from the past, we now
have to reshape, recapitulate and revise if we
are to continue on the path of enlightenment
- Sexuality
& Spirituality
That same orgasmic
rush that flushes precious energy from the body
can be orchestrated and turned upward to vitalize
our entire being. It can also be transformed into
creative feats and great powers of knowing or
healing
- Shiva
Shakti Mandalam: Tantrik Home Page
Tantra, or more
properly tantrika, is a diverse and rich
spiritual tradition of the Indian sub-continent.
Although in recent years, in the Western world,
it has become almost exclusively associated with
sex, in reality this is one aspect of what is a
way of life. In India itself, tantra is now,
nearly always, associated with spells and black
deeds. This is a huge site, not to be missed.
- Shri
Chakra Nyasa
The Shri Chakra
Nyasa identifies the different elements of the
Shri Yantra with different parts of the human
organism. As the devotee touches the particular
part of the body, she or he visualises the
particular aspect and at the same time pronounces
a mantra, linked to the particular matrikas or
letters of the Sanskrit alphabet.
- Tantra
A discussion and
contact board, articles, tips to get you started
learning about western or neo- tantra
- Tantra
Spiritual Tantra
is a complex path. This web site covers many of
the lesser known teachings of Tantra that are
applicable to all of us for use in our daily
lives.
- Tantra:
Pranayam Breathing
Basic yogic
breathing control "Pranayama". Prana
has been said to translate as "breath."
In actuality, the Sanskrit word "Prana"
means life-force or life-energy. In fact, classic
Pranayama with its inhale/retain/exhale teaches
that during the retention segment, one should
consciously retain the prana, then release the
ordinary oxygen from the lungs during exhalation,
storing the prana in the solar plexis (power)
chakra.
- Tantra
Resources
For an annotated
directory of online resources always being
updated
- Tantra:
Sex Magic Reality Creation Process
Within our loins
lies an energy that has the potential to create
ANY reality we want. Unfortunately, most humans
have a love/hate relationship with sex that is
reflected in many ways (i.e., unsafe promiscuity,
self-destructive perversions, denial, shutdown,
religious intolerance, rape, abuse, etc.).
Religion has done much to suppress our divine
sexual nature and has kept the masses ignorant of
the potential uses of sexual energy.
- Tantra:
the Biological Basis
The Biological
Basis of Tantric Sex - Tantra (which means
"woven together") is a term loosely
applied to a system of Hindu yoga in which the
union of male and female principles is
worshipped. In practice, this has led to a form
of sexual ritual in which slow, non-orgasmic
intercourse is seen as a path to an experience of
the divine. A modified version of Hindu Tantra
can also be found in Tibetan Buddhism.
- TANTRA:
THOUGHTS ON FANTASY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO TANTRA
Everyone is
familiar with fantasy; most people have direct
experience with it, either during auto-erotic
stimulation or during lovemaking itself.
Tantrikas, poets, artists, philosophers, and
quantum physicists, when truly inspired and
brilliant, have one thing in common: the ability
to intuitively tap into creative levels of
altered consciousness. Imagination in its mundane
form would be such as sitting around thinking
about how great it would be if one got the Lotto
numbers correct, or wishing for things that seem
out of reach. The honed, conscious practice of
creative imagination is called 'inner vision' by
Yogic philosophers of old; it is held that when
one *thinks visually* rather than yaddita-yaddita
mental chatter mode, contact is made with the
Source of creativity, wisdom, and transformation.
- Tantric
Massage Techniques
The overall goal
of the lingam massage is to create a space in
which the receiver can relax, and experience
expanded pleasure from his lingam. In reciprocity
the giver of the lingam massage can experience
the joy of facilitating and witnessing the
receiver surrendering to his softer, gentler
side. Remember, ejaculation is not the immediate
or overall goal of the lingam massage although it
can be viewed as a pleasant and welcome side
effect. The goal is to allow the receiver to
surrender to a form of pleasure he may not be
used to. This is done through specialized massage
techniques of the lingam, testicles, and the
perineum (just to name a few) coupled with finely
choreographed breathing exercises.
- TANTRA
YOGA by SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
Tantra Yoga had
been one of the potent powers for the spiritual
regeneration of the Hindus. When practised by the
ignorant, unenlightened, and unqualified persons,
it has led to certain abuses; and there is no
denying that some degraded forms of Saktism have
sought nothing but magic, immorality, and occult
powers. An example of the perverted expression of
the truth, a travesty of the original practices,
is the theory of the five Makaras (Pancha
Makaras);-Madya or wine, Mamsa or flesh, Matsya
or fish, Mudra or symbolical acts, and Maithuna
or coition. The esoteric meaning of these five
Makaras is: "Kill egoism, control flesh,
drink the wine of God-intoxication, and have
union with Lord Siva".
- Tantric
Hindu Piercing Ritual Reveals Deep Secrets to
Modern Primitives Fingers trembled
as I pierced a needle through my own chest skin
and tied a four ounce weight to the thread it
left behind. Three more needles, threads and
weights followed the first. I was experimenting,
trying what I’d seen in a 1936 National
Geographic. At 16, I was VERY DETERMINED to
undergo the Tantric Hindu ritual of piercing and
bearing free-moving weights on the body
- Tantric
Sex
by Swami
Nostradamus Virato. Thousands of years ago,
people had achieved a high degree of awareness
and an all chemical formula for converting what
we know as sex energy-called by many names, such
as Vital Force, Elan Vital, Soul, Chi, etc.-into
a state of divinity. Their spiritual philosophy
held sexuality as a divine rite and an expression
of union. Through an awakened consciousness, they
practiced Tantra with an artistic and cultural
lifestyle of pure bliss and harmony
- Tantric
Sex A Spiritual Path of Ecstasy
At a time when
even the word "sex" is suspect, it is
vitally important to explore the depth of this
misunderstood phenomenon from a new
perspective...a spiritual one.
- The Art of
the Vaginal Fuck (Benefits of the KEGEL
EXERCISES)
The "Kegel
exercises" were originally developed by Dr.
Arnold Kegel to enhance PC muscle tone to reduce
urinary incontinence. Today it is also taught in
natural childbirth classes, since it helps with
childbirth. However, an unexpected side effect of
these exercises is that vaginal sex is enhanced
significantly. Most women who practice them for a
month or two report enhanced pleasure in sex as
well as enhanced sensitivity in the vaginal area.
Women can also become expert in using them in sex
to greatly enhance the sexual experience.
- THE
CANNABIS PAPERS
The Sacramental
Use Of Cannabis Sativa. Roderick W. Marling has
dedicated the last 30 years to Yoga meditation
and research in the area of expanding
consciousness. If you've ever suspected that
Cannabis was once considered a sacred plant and
used in ritual settings, then you will definitely
be interested in this material.
- The Chakra
System
In the traditional
Sanskrit views Chakra means wheel, or vortex:
energy centers found along a central meridian in
the body and also along its extremities. The
energies from each center must be activated and
sufficiently stimulated to allow the vital
Kundalini (chi) energies to grow and arise from
the base through to the crown. This is done
through a combination of touch (channelling chi/
prana), breathing exercises (pranayama) and
visual imagery. This is most efficient if one
learns to stimulate each center in a
participating partner simultaneously.
- The Church
of Tantra
Most westerners
use the word "Tantra" to mean sacred
sexuality. Tantra, or Neo-Tantra, as practiced in
the west, borrows from many traditions including
Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Native American
Quodoshka, Wiccan, Christian Gnosticism and more.
Real "Tantra" is a rigorous spiritual
discipline and a vast field of study, with the
sexual aspect being an important part of it
- The
Holistic Path: Pornography and Health
Sex is one of the
most difficult and controversial topics in our
culture. And because sex tends to be a taboo
subject, it lives like any other repressed idea;
in the shadow side of our lives - in the case of
sex, it surfaces as pornography. Whether or not
pornography is harmful is endlessly debated.
Harmless or harmful, it is pervasive in our
culture in forms both hard- and soft-core.
Pornography is both a symptom of our queasiness
about sex, and a contributor to the continued
conflict between the sexes. This is because I
believe that many, if not most, women feel
demeaned and threatened by pornography.
- THE MIND'S
EYE
Lots of things to
get your head around here, maybe discover a new
way?
- The Sangha
of Ngakpas and Ngakmos
The Inner Tantra
teachings and practice style of the
gö-kar-chang-lo'i-dé (or the White Sangha) is
particularly relevant to people trying to
integrate 'Tibetan' Buddhism with 'normal' family
life in the modern world. Yet it requires no less
commitment from its practitioners, who are known
as ngakpas (snags pa, men) and ngakmos (sngags
mo, women), than monastic samayas. Sadly the
Tradition is neither widely known nor easily
accessible outside the Himalayan region even
though some of the best known Buddhist masters
were in fact ngakpas including HH Dudjom Rinpoche
and HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.This is a meeting
place for anyone trying to make contact with the
Tradition or just to find out more about it.
- The Sound
Tantras Workbook
site allows you to
download a 90 page condensation of the author's
book on the use of song, dance, and other aspects
of tantric sexuality. There are chapters
referenced focusing on male and female energies,
dreams, mediation and other states
- The Yoni
Massage
Yoni: pronounced
yo-nee, is a Sanskrit word for the vagina,
loosely translated as 'sacred space' or 'sacred
temple'. It offers an alternate meaning from the
western view of female genitals (eg. pussy, cunt
etc, of a more vulgar sense). In Tantra the Yoni
is seen from a perspective of love and respect.
This is especially helpful for men to learn.
- Transforming
Sexual Energy
To be a Taoist is
to experience life as a harmonious flow of life
energy. In the traditional Taoist terms, this
flow in humans is from "chi", to
"ching", to "shier" from
breath to sex essence to spirit. It flows both
visibly and invisibly, in a never-ending cycle,
as it circulates within you, between you and the
world, and between Heaven and Earth with man in
the middle. It is the blood that flows between
heart and kidney, the love (and hate) that passes
between man and woman, the storms and sunshine
that circulates between sky and earth
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