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Showing posts with label Tantra For Health. Show all posts

How To Practice Tantra Breathing

By Acharya Subhojit Dasgupta

To learn tantra breathing, you first have to understand what the science and art of tantric breathing is all about. One can get a basic insight into it by attending a tantra for couples workshop. However, there is no substitute for studying it diligently under an accomplished tantra teacher, since tantric breathing is an integral part of the overall tantra mosaic. In fact - though it may not be immediately evident, it plays an important role in enhancing one's experience with sex and intimacy.

Essentially, tantra breathing is the diametric opposite of our normal, shallow type of respiration. A tantric breath can be perceived all the way down to the nether regions. Along the way, it ventilates and opens up every chakra, culminating with the stimulation of the chakras connected with sex.

For couples who are being initiated into tantra breathing by a tantra master, the experience can be somewhat disconcerting. In our day-to-day existence, we have learned to breathe superficially, unobtrusively and without any awareness of the process. This is all part of our instinctual desire to avoid drawing attention to ourselves.

Tantric breathing, on the other hand, is quite different. The drawing in of breath is a focused and conscious process, and is coupled with vivid visualization of what is happening. The exhalation of a tantric breath is an audible, sighing sound that has a lot in common with an orgasmic moan. In a tantra for couples setting, hearing and engaging in tantric breathing can initially be a source of discomfort to some new students. Others are okay with practicing it in a group setting, but are uncomfortable while practicing it only with their partners.

After he has helped his students overcome their initial uneasiness, the tantra master will proceed to introduce them to the next level of tantra breathing. Here, the couple engages in rhythmic tantric breathing while keeping their gazes fixed on each other. Their locked eyes must convey their desire and love for each other - each breath needs to emphatically communicate these emotions to the other. The process soon begins to stimulate their dormant sexual energy.

This awakening of the sexual core is indeed a powerful and experience. Many students of tantra are immediately seduced by it and proceed straight to sexual union.

However, your tantra teacher will caution you that the tantra energy generated by tantra breathing is meant to be harnessed and used to achieve the higher objective of sexual control. Gaining this control is what makes tantra sex the most fulfilling erotic experience you can ever have, and is a permanent and ever-appreciating gift. Squandering the energy released by tantric breathing in immediate sexual release is counter-productive and therefore discouraged by an experienced tantra teacher.

Acharya Subhojit Dasgupta is a Tantra Teacher with an in-depth knowledge of traditional Indian sciences and Sanskrit literature. Visit his tantra online guide for Tantra Lessons, kriyas and mudras from this young Tantra Master.

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Beyond Tantra: Healing Through Taoist Sacred Sex

Beyond Tantra: Healing Through Taoist Sacred Sex, by Mieke Wik and Stephan Wik. Beyond Tantra is a down-to-earth guidebook for bringing the ecstatic powers of Taoist Sacred Sex into your love life. Based on the authors’ true story of their successful journey into discovery and healing, it provides Westerners with a step-by-step, tastefully illustrated, practical introduction to the ancient Chinese Art of Sexual Dual Cultivation. The authors draw on original Taoist sources together with years of personal experience and practice. They share both their successes and challenges to create a personal, encouraging and inspiring story of hope and success.

"This is an open-hearted true story of a couple who transformed their relationship while learning to charge their vitality and health with enriched sexual energy. Mieke and Stephan share the knowledge and experience gained as a result of their mutual courage and commitment as a couple to engage in respectful, unfettered interpersonal communication while creatively applying the principles of Taoist lovemaking. They provide a beautiful example of how to personalize the information and methods carried forward from past Taoist teachings with meaningful clarification from today’s knowledge." --Taoist Master Mantak Chia, co-author of The Multi-Orgasmic Couple

Stephan Wik (acupuncture student and musician) and Mieke Wik (precision reflexologist and massage therapist) have lived, loved, and worked together for more than twenty-five years. They have four grown children and a grandson.


Tantra of Sound: How to Enhance Intimacy with Healing

Tantra of Sound: How to Enhance Intimacy with Healing, by Jonathan and Andi Goldman. Tantra of Sound is a first-of-its-kind book that introduces the emerging field of sound healing into the realm of intimate relationships. The Goldmans emphasize the science of using sound healing for relationships and personal growth as well as providing the nuts-and-bolts of tantra, including basic meditations and a series of simple toning and breathing exercises designed to activate the chakras. A pioneer and innovator in the field of sound healing, Jonathan Goldman is an award-winning and best-selling New Age musician, and the author of four books including Healing Sounds, . His wife Andi Goldman is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in holistic counseling and sound therapy. Tantra of Sound includes a CD of music, chants, and tones designed to enhance and heighten the reader’s experience and understanding.

"Tantra of Sound provides a significant new approach to creating harmony and balance within us by using the power of sound. Blending ancient sound techniques with holistic counseling approaches, the book enables readers to experience the compassion so necessary for the evolution of our consciousness in today's world." —Deepak Chopra


The Tantra Connection: Healing Through Cosmic Interface

The Tantra Connection: Healing Through Cosmic Interface, by Monika Muller. Having started the new millennium we are in the midst of imminent changes. This era was foreseen five millennia ago, and described in tantric scriptures as the transition from the "Age of Darkness" to the "Age of Truth". The main intention of this book is to heighten the reader's understanding of this transformation and to assist in this time of change we are going through, individually as well as in society. Tantra considers the spiritual component of sexuality as it presents a balanced approach to life. Like Tantra this text is designed to enhance and support individual spiritual growth - in unity within a healing body. Holistic health is an ever-present undercurrent, since the work intertwines the conscious use of energy in the body with knowledge gleaned from ancient Tantra. Some parallels, between ancient East Indian Tantra and the highly developed cosmology of the pre-columbian Mayan culture, are also identified. The work is based on personal experiences. These have led the author to an energetic understanding of Tantra. Describing the use of certain meditations, different modes of energy-cleansing and cultivated sexuality, it attempts to reinforce the reader's courage and self-confidence. The goal is to master life, eventually becoming a "whole" human being - a microcosm within the macrocosm. In this context, the work seeks to clarify - from the focal point of energy and social programming - the adversities and opportunities that couples face as soon as either partner begins the journey to Self. It concludes, by pointing to a possible future vision - enabled by our consciousness and the actions we can take to bring on deepened awareness.

Monika Müller, originally German, has lived in Greece and in Mexico, and is now based in Montreal. In 1979, after completing her studies and having started a career as an adult educator in Germany, a serious intestinal ailment ravaged her colon to the point that even the specialists in Munich were astonished that she was still alive. At this threshold, rather than giving in to the fear of death, she chose to put into action what had already evolved as a concept within her work as an adult educator. As intertwined as they had been, she left her fears and taboos behind and took full responsibility for her decisions. This not only allowed her to heal her body, it set her on an unusual life-path from which she never wants to recover. She has also traveled extensively in Central and South America as well as Asia. During this period, Monika spent almost a year in solitude in the jungle. In 1984 she developed a healing technique based on the conscious use of Bio-Cosmo-Energy, a way of healing which is built on shamanic and tantric knowledge.





Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra

Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra, by Gregory P. Fields. Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work's investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, A÷yurveda, and Tantra--three Hindu traditions noteworthy for the central role they accord the body. Author Gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient Hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or body/mind alone. This book elucidates multifaceted views of health, and--in the context of spirituality and healing--explores themes such as mental health, meditation, and music. Gregory P. Fields is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville.