From the time of Asanga (fourth century), the higher yoga tantras started finding their way into some centres of learning. The following two centuries were marked by the rule of the Gupta kings and a general trend towards devotion rather than erudition throughout India. Tantra, on all its levels, began to establish itself in some monasteries, as a normal aspect of the Buddha's teaching. During a session the breath is used to direct and enhance the body’s energy to aid release and promote healing. The practice is one of the most powerful approaches to self-exploration. Within a safely held environment, a client is coached to utilize their own breath combined with music to enter a deeper and expanded unique state of consciousness. This state induces its own inner healing process. The body will gently release what it needs to. While recurring themes are common, no sessions are alike. The completed process leaves the client with increased clarity and self-awareness, free of inhibition and better able to discover all the riches that tantra offers.

Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion. As for myself, a Sexologist with a Doctorate in Human Sexuality and certified sexuality educator, I came to understand how sex and spirit are connected once I recognised our sexual energy as our life force energy—and that this energy cannot be separated from what makes us who we are. In the early 19th century, tantra and tantrism was associated with secret occult power,” says Dr. Janet Brito, a licensed psychologist and certified sex therapist with the Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health. “By the mid- to late 20th century, tantra meant sexuality, openness, and liberation…[but] there’s no consistency in its denotations and connotations.” Sixty-four Yoginis encircle the interior walls of a 10th-century temple in Hirapur, Odisha, Eastern India.Understand that Tantric yoga does not promote or advocate uninhibited sex, that’s a myth created by some very horny people… Meditation. Whether you’ve practiced meditation before or not, this simply means taking a moment to be aware of your surroundings. Use your senses to really absorb everything going on around you. Isadora passed away on March 26, 2017. During her life, Psalm made a name for herself as a bold, outspoken sex, relationships, and trauma expert who lived to inspire the next generation of women. She demystified the ancient secrets of Tantra to make them accessible to the modern masses. Some facets of Tantra are still very secretive. In fact, many Hindu texts have yet to be translated into English. Well my friend, Shakti energy is Kundalini and lives at the base of the spine. Shiva energy lies in pure consciousness above the crown

By the seventh century, tantra had become truly widespread, and was openly taught in great monastic universities such as Nalanda and Oddiyana. The great flowering of tantra came under the Pala dynasty (eighth - twelfth century), which actively fostered the development of Buddhism: especially mantrayana. The famous 'greatly-realised-ones' (mahasiddhas) appear at this time. Vikramasila monastic university gradually stole the limelight from Nalanda and both mahayana and vajrayana Buddhism spread widely in Asia. They took special root in Tibet, where they have persisted healthily until the Chinese annexation in the middle of the 20th century. Successive waves of Turko-moslem invasions during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries destroyed first the great Buddhist centres of Kashmir, then burned down Nalanda and the monasteries of Bengal. By 1335, Islamic Turko-Afghans ruled all India. That unique land had fulfilled its destiny, seen by Buddha Sakyamuni when he first left the Tusita realm to come here. He had seen it to be a cultured land in which his teaching could be properly established, step by step, and from which it could spread out, when the time was ripe, to reach all ends of the world.

It’s] less about performance and more about pleasure, deep connection, solo intimate pleasure,” Dr. Brito explains. “It isn’t just to get the job done and get off, but about slowing down and getting to know yourself more erotically. It’s about having a pleasure-based mindset, full of curiosity and self-discovery.” Opinions vary about how and when tantric Buddhism first appeared. Some believe it was first taught by Buddha Sakyamuni and then maintained by a few adepts as a secret teaching for almost a thousand years, until a broader public was ready and it became popular. Others see it as an aberration of the original teaching. There are convincing arguments for both cases but no definitive evidence for either. Here, we shall simply consider tantra as it is viewed by the proponents of its own living traditions, i.e. as the highest of the three levels of Buddhist teaching.

A Tantra focused yoga teacher training full of tantra meditation, yoga techniques, postures, tantric texts, yoga sutras, and rituals. Within White Tantra, you’ll find meditation rituals based on breathing practice, mantras, mudras, and visualization that transform and connect energy in the body to the third eye and crown chakra. Red Held in loving embrace: A clothed comforting session of warm tender holding and shared intimate connection. An allowance of body softening and moulding together through letting go of expectation, slowing down, breathing deeply and opening to the felt sense of being loved. Essential for maintaining good health and well-being – reducing anxiety, tension, feelings of isolation and loneliness. Co-regulates trauma response and enhances life-affirming safety within. Some of the tantra were given by the nirmanakaya facet of the Buddha during his time on Earth, to a mixed audience of human followers and celestial bodhisattvas, in various locations from as far north as Oddiyana and as far south as Dhanyakataka, where he taught the Wheel of Time (Kalachakra) tantra. After his passing, these lineages were perpetuated secretly in this world and more openly in non-Earthly realms. Other tantras started later, being given through the sambhogakaya, either directly to human beings or indirectly, via celestial bodhisattvas such as Ratnabhadra. The Mishra Tantra school is a mixture of both internal and external practice sitting right in the middle.While Tantra is thought to have come from Hindu vedic tradition, some people confuse the fact that an entirely new realm developed in complete independence, Buddhist Tantra. This means that a little self-exploration can definitely go far. For you, this might involve exploring your erogenous zones or discovering different ways to bring yourself pleasure, such as learning to find and stimulate your G spot. It could also mean experimenting with your fingers or a sex toy. It seems fairly clear now that Buddhist tantra preceded Hindu tantra and probably gave rise to it. There are several factors to be considered in reviewing the historical development of tantra. Prior to the Buddha, religion, based on the Vedas and the Upanishads, was the privileged domain of the three upper castes (the traivarnika or arya). The Brahmana priests jealously guarded their wisdom, much of which concerned prolonged, non-theistic reflection upon the nature of the soul (atman). In contrast to this, the Buddha had made it clear that his teachings were available to all, regardless of sex, caste or any other such factors. He severely criticised Vedic animal sacrifice and, dismissing useless speculation on personal identity, laid great emphasis on personal ethics as the way to each individual's liberation.