The Colours of Tantra

The colours of tantra have been described as white, red, pink and black or dark tantra.

Tantra is an experience of connection, loving touch, sensuality and bliss. It is a journey of self discovery and being mindful, or fully present when connecting to others.

White Tantra

With white suggestive of purity, this path of Tantra is said to be the purest and highest path. It is pure, innocent and kind. It nourishes the body, mind and soul. White Tantra promotes self-awareness and builds spiritual knowledge. It guides the practitioner into an internalised practice, addressing all levels, mental, psychological, physical and spiritual to create transcendental states of bliss. White tantra strengthens the inner mind and cultivates greater spiritual consciousness.

The practices of White Tantra typically include yoga, specifically Kundalini Yoga, Kriya Yoga and Tantric Yoga and various meditation forms. Also, chanting of mantras, nyasas (mantras addressing the physical body), yantras (mystical diagrams), mandalas, and mudras (hand gestures).

Red Tantra

This form of Tantra is seen as the hedonistic path. It expresses itself in sensuality, delighting in eroticism with joy, liberation and spontaneity. Red Tantra embraces non-duality, it encourages the acceptance and appreciation of both good and bad, light and dark, pure and impure so that one may arrive at inner harmony.

Pink or Grey Tantra

Pink Tantra is a mix of White and Red Tantra, it is a middle path blending Red and White Tantra. This tantric path explores spirituality, body and mind with meditation, as well as eroticism and sensuality. Grey Tantra blends White Tantra with Dark Tantra.

Dark Tantra

Dark Tantra or Black tantra takes on power play and domination. BDSM is weaved into the tantric experience, using the power and energy of domination, tease, denial, cock and ball torture and edging. Dark Tantra demands submission and surrender to the darker elements of eroticism.

These various Tantra paths can be experienced on their own or blended into unique experiences. Flowing between each colour for a taste of each Tantric pathway. Flowing from White Tantra, to Red Tantra and then Dark Tantra for a euphoric Tantric experience.

More about the different paths or colours of Tantra can be found within this article from Traditional Bodywork