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In an effort to experience more love, joy, freedom and growth, we often look outside of ourselves, rather than focusing inward. We seek more possessions, a beautiful home, jewelry, shoes, clothes, often in excess. We resort to food, build up our bodies, take drugs or alcohol. We use religion as a crutch, rather than accepting the fact that Divinity is within all of us.

Tantra is a spiritual path for integrating body, mind and spirit for experiencing our inner joy. Tantra gives us the tools to be totally free from negativity impressed upon us at an early age by family, church, friends and peers. Through tantra we learn to open our hearts to the unconditional love of the Self as well as others. We experience growth and continual expansion.

Tantra means liberation through expansion. By expanding our awareness we learn to distinguish our limited ego nature from our higher nature. As we begin to realize our own divinity, we can see the divine in our beloved, in all people, in all of life. Tantra differs from other paths in its acceptance and use of all the senses, including sexuality and feelings, to help us evolve spiritually. Tantra encourages us to enjoy more fully the world in which we live, as a way to access other worlds.

By practicing tantra we can learn to amplify and transmute sexual energy through breathing techniques, exercises and dance. Instead of being at the effect of this powerful force, we use it consciously to actualize our spiritual potential. We learn to release inhibitions and blocks that prevent us from experiencing our true joyful nature. We come to realize that the physical body is a vehicle for the soul to celebrate and experience joy and ecstasy. We become profound and playful! God learns to play at being human!

When we combine our analytical, linear, verbal, abstract side synergistically with our intuitive, holistic, sensual, practical side, we find the essence of creative genius.

Tantra teaches us to transcend the limitations of the mind by distinguishing our limited ego nature from our higher self. The ego/mind believes that having its desires fulfilled brings happiness. The omniscient mind lives continually in bliss. As we discover our truths, desires are released, and we come to identify more and more with this bliss body. Rather than living through the mind and the mind's habit of placing everything in a familiar setting, we learn to trust our intuition about the unexpected and the unknown. We learn to do this by becoming inner-directed, taking responsibility for our lives and learning to live in the present moment.

The many practices of tantric yoga, which include breathing, meditation, movement, dance and sound rejuvenate the body, recycling sexual energy, using it for increased vitality and self-healing!

There are many other wonderful side benefits on this high and accelerated path to enlightenment. We enjoy immense bliss with our partner. We are able to expand our awareness through deliberate and conscious love-making. The sex act becomes worship of the yoni(vagina) and lingam (penis). We worship our partner as a living God or Goddess. The extended and prolonged act of sexual arousal and orgasm brings us to new heights of ecstasy. Our orgasms become powerful waves of bliss rather than a reflex, like a knee jerk, for instance. We learn true intimacy with our partner by consciously moving and sharing cosmic energies.

We become so psychically attuned to our lover that we feel everything they feel. We know what they will say before they say it. There can be no secrets at this point. You become ONE with your partner. Your relationship takes on a new and high dimension.Your experiences will astound you both. There will be DAILY signs and evidence that the shakti, or energy, is alive and simmering within you. The woman's internal muscles and her yoni, like a lotus flower, will be ever sweet, beautiful, powerful and expressive. She will become multi-orgasmic. The man's lingam becomes a diamond sceptre... brilliant, hard and precious. His vajra, or thunderbolt, is electrifying.

Tantra can be practiced without a partner as well. As we await our beloved, we work at honoring and balancing our inner male and female and prepare ourselves for the arrival of our partner.