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Lower tantra: Transformative practices which integrate your physical and energetic bodies. These include hatha yoga, "tantric sex," kriya yoga, laya yoga, tibetan trul khor, taoist and buddhist qigong, and more. Each of those practices includes relaxed controlled breathing, postures, physical sensitivity practices, internal muscle contractions, sexual techniques, mental and emotional attitudes, and awareness of the subtle anatomy (energy centers, channels, and vital breath). They are designed to increase your awareness of your subtle energy body, to teach you to manipulate, balance, and amplify the subtle energy in the body, and to safely "arouse kundalini sakti." Skeptical? In biological terms, you are learning to rejuvenate and reactivate your endocrine glands and central nervous system, increasing nerve "links" between the brain and the rest of the central nervous system. In the process you gain relaxed control over your "involuntary" bodily systems, and can attain and maintain a relaxed, focused mind. Lower tantra has special sexual practices ("tantra yoga" and taoist "dual cultivation") done with a lover, and solo practices, including laya yoga, tantric hatha yoga, and tantric kriya yoga. I must emphasize that the solo practices are necessary whether or not you have a lover. Lovemaking has great inherent emotional, hormonal, and sensual power. It can amplify and accelerate the development the solo practices give you. However, just using the sexual practices without solo practice will leave you incompletely developed and imbalanced. Without the balance of solo meditation, the great joys of love can easy swing into sadness and feelings of loss. You must realize the nature of happiness is not externally dependant. You cannot do this if you don't have a practice outside of the bedroom. Lovemaking is a spiritual tool for those with a genuinely loving attitude. If the biggest interplay in your sexual life is about power, or neediness, or vanity, and not about love, play, happiness, and freedom, then sexuality will be your biggest obstacle on the spiritual path. Sex will increase your ego, increase your emotional and somatic blockages, increase your unhappiness, increase your neurosis... Lovemaking, on the other hand, will open your heart even further. By allowing yourself to dissolve into the experience of lovemaking, you can go beyond the "veil" of reality as you conceive of it. Remember: Lovemaking! Not Sex! Also remember, it is the attitude that makes it lovemaking, not the specific acts or techniques you use. Lovemaking can be hard, soft, passionate, or relaxed, wild, or sleepy, just as sex can. The difference is the attitude! Even your solo practice of yoga or qigong should be done with an attitude of compassion and lovingkindness... for yourself and your surroundings. Otherwise, your practice will only reflect egotistical desire for "spiritual attainment", or dry intellectual interest, or self-deprivation. Sackcloth, ashes, and suffering does not inherently make you spiritual. Neither does wealth, luxury, and charity. Real spirituality is the intent, inner emotional attitude, and awareness, behind skillfully performed action. For every student, there is a teacher. Keep in touch! Smile, breathe right, and keep your tongue up! Your Friend, Tao Semko of www.UmaaTantra.com P.S. You can learn and practice authentic tantric yogas and meditation using Umaa Tantra's Tantric Inner Circle DVD Distance Learning Program. You can read more about the Tantric Inner Circle here: http://www.UmaaTantra.com/tantric_inner_circle.html P.S. #2 You can learn authentic sexual tantra in Umaa Tantra's "Secrets of Tantra" Seminar, February 11 and 12, 2006 in Miami. Sign up by January 15th for a big discount. You can read all about it here: http://www.UmaaTantra.com/tantra_workshop.html. |
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