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| "What about Tantra?" ( A Classic Tantra Tip...) | ||
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Saturday, October 09, 2004 Warning: Contains Sexual Content not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18. Dear Friend, Today's Tantra Tips is devoted to answering some of your emails: Questions, Comments, and Practical Success Stories _______________ Practical Success Story: Umaa Tantra's Tantric Inner Circle Programs Marcos Macau writes: "Before enrolling in Umaa Tantra's learning programs, my energy/focus level would go up and down uncontrollably. Sticking to a daily health program was a real chore since I had little confidence in what I was doing. I knew I could find something more complete. I was looking for methods and information that I could utilize on my own to increase my level of confidence and control I had over all aspects of my life; from strength, flexibility, socializing, meditating etc. For at least two years now I've been experimenting with different methods. Since I've tried out other types of yoga classes I can say with confidence that nothing can compare to the onslaught of healthful information covering so many vital areas i've received from Santiago and Tao's course. From fitness and sexual health on many levels to priceless secrets of meditation, and so much more! Every day I literally learn at least 3 subtle yet powerful techniques to apply in my daily practice. To summarize, the techniques I've learned are simple, gentle, yet with diligent practice over time become extremely powerful. My only real concern before enrolling with Umaa Tantra was the credibility and attitude of the instructors. In my journey I've had my run ins with quacks. I quickly came to realize that Santiago and Tao were for real and extremely kind and helpful in answering the many questions I had. There are so many benefits to what I've learned from Umaa Tantra's curriculum. To name but a few, my flexibility/strength have improved tremendously, my days are full of love, my smile is radiant, my social interactions are so much more positive, I am much more poised, my vision of my goals in life gets much clearer everyday, as well as my physical vision, and meditation has become a blissful experience. But most importantly, Umaa Tantra has provided me with all the necesssary tools so that I may practice on my own and personally take my level of health to levels unimaginable. There is nothing more powerful than experiencing the fruits of one's own actions and for that I thank my teachers wholeheartedly. The methods I've learned have made it possible for me to raise my actual self closer to my ideal vision of myself and I don't plan on stopping when I get there! Where before I had only glimpses of how clear and wonderful things could be, I have now learned how to systematically raise the level of how I experience ALL facets of life. The most important variables related to health in all its dimensions are explored in depth, providing the dedicated student with the foundation for attaining optimal health and spiritual development. I never knew meditation could be so electrifying and blissful! I must repeat, my favorite benefit to what I've learned from Umaa Tantra is the powerful feeling of knowing how to control the way I feel and experience daily life by fine tuning myself to the core. The buoyancy, clarity, and rootedness I derive from my daily practice is superior to anything else I have tried." Marcos Macau, high school teacher, personal trainer/yoga instructor, Doral, Florida Tao's reply: Marcos is a shining example of how powerful the methods in the Tantric Inner Circle really are... go sign yourself up today! http://www.UmaaTantra.com/tantric_inner_circle.html _______________________ Question: What's different about tantric sex? -BA Tao's Reply: BA, Tantrics say this: Sex brought you life, so it can bring you samadhi... But sex, like anything powerful, can divides people as often as give them experience of Oneness. So how does a tantric approach sex? Imagine for a moment completely dissolving your sexual pre-conceptions, attachments, and emotions in the act of making love, so you could only feel the sensations of that moment. Imagine focusing on feeling attraction flowing between you. Imagine feeling everything like liquid plasma, and feeling sex and love as one union of two people, instead of two people trying independently for some unreachable pleasure. In bed, people regularly reduce their lover to the instrument of their pleasure, (or, on the flipside, the object of their aggravation and sexual disappointment). In tantric sex, instead of focusing on the division between you, you focus on the two of you as one awareness, of pleasure, of sensation, of consciousness. Do this by making love out of sensory exploration Fall out of sexual habits of position, motion, and breath... habits won't give you what you want... dissolving yourself will. If you need to, slow down your breathing, motion, and thoughts to the point where everything feels dreamlike. You will feel more pleasure as your nerve endings open up. Do this without affectation or expectation. Be aware, as if you were an infant experiencing the sensations of world for the first time. Feel and amplify your attraction to your partner, and then give it back! Don't covet your lover, instead become aware that you already have everything you need within you, that fulfillment is emerging within you not without, that play will bring you more than objectification. Be aware of the sensations and presence of your lover, receive, amplify, and subtly offer back the same feelings, be they touch, sensation, or emotion! Transform your intent into greater subtlety, sensation and awareness of yourself and your lover. This attitude, and not any one technique, is the start of real tantra yoga. Bring your awareness to each thing about your lover that you admire and desire, amplify the sensation, and then give the amplified feeling back Even if you are single, you will regularly explore this attitude in your daydreams and find it makes a big difference later in the bedroom... Do it, and, in the words of the German metal-head in the movie "Clerks," you will "have good moshpitting!" Tantric moshpitting, of course. -Tao ___________________________________ Question: On Self-Realization I'm reading "Autobiogaphy of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda. This book is changing my life. I want to get more information on how to get self-realization. Thanks. Pam B Tao's Reply: Pam, Self-Realization is a term coined by the great yogi Paramahamsa Yogananda to describe the sudden awareness of your personal oneness (Atman) with the Universal or Absolute (Brahman in Hindu terms, but the Absolute is universal, of course). All forms of yoga are a means toward this Realization, which is often accompanied by a feeling of physical and spiritual bliss or ecstasy ("ananda"), or sometimes by a feeling of incredible, absolute peace. There are very direct routes to this realization (tantric yogas and taoist alchemy) and there are slower routes (standard hatha yoga and qi gong, renunciation, "emptying your mind," etc). The courses offered by the late Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship, while quite good yoga, do not have a rapid rate of success (in one lifetime, anyway) for one simple reason: They are very slow and safe, but they are not the powerful tantric kriyas and attitudes that Yogananda himself practiced during his lifetime! Yogananda was concerned that without living guidance, people might harm themselves with the stronger techniques, so he didn't publish them. If you're interested in the fast path, *with* proper safety and guidance, I'd recommend reading Santiago Dobles's "Secrets the Gurus will Never Show You". Read more about it here: http://www.UmaaTantra.com/guru_secrets.html -Tao That's all for now. If you have questions on technique, or attitude in meditation, practice, or lovemaking, drop a line now... 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 |
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