Essence of Tantra

Tantra is about meaningful sensuality with your partner. It’s a mindful approach to loving and sensuality, fully accepting the person you are with, being present with them in the moment and nurturing each other with loving touch.

There are no goals in tantra, it is not performance based, it is not focussed on an output. Tantra is about creating a true connection that’s meaningful. It’s about savouring the moment, the essence of tantra is sharing delicious moments of sensuality, connection, kindness, and eroticism.

Tantra is life giving, the objective is to create a quality experience rather than stimulating each other to a climax. During tantric experiences you learn to truly relate to your partner with honesty, openness and vulnerability. Tantra is something you experience, it has a different mindset, it approaches sensuality with thought, care, attention and loving kindness.

Tantra enables the flow of joy, bliss, fun, laughter, reverence, play and sensual pleasure. Liberating more of who you really are. It’s fundamentally about loving connection, expansion of joy, union, and authenticity. Bliss is our true and natural state of being. Tantra helps us open to this.

In Tantra, the body is seen as a living temple and sensual energy is seen as divine energy. The body, with all its energies, is considered a divine instrument for spiritual transformation. We can say that the broad approach of Tantra consists in making all ordinary activities sacred.

Tantra has developed as a joyful tradition. Therefore tantra can lead to happiness, joy, and bliss and a feeling of being fulfilled when it is deeply understood and practiced.

Let’s delight in the words of the great Tantric master Abhinavagupta:

“In the divine abode of the body, I adore you, O God together with the Goddess, day and night. I adore you continuously washing with the sprinklings of the essence of my astonishment the support of all that has been made. I adore you with the spiritual flowers of the innate being; I adore you with the priceless goblet of the Heart, which is full of the ambrosia of bliss. The triple world, full of various tastes and flavours, is cast into the apparatus of the nexus of the Heart. I squeeze it, casting it down from on high with the great weight of the spiritual discrimination. The supreme nectar of consciousness, which removes births, old age, and death, flows gushing from Thy. Opening the mouth wide I devour it, the supreme oblation, like clarified butter, and in this way, O Supreme Goddess, I gladden and satisfy you day and night.”

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