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I have a whole site, very extensive and thorough, devoted to free education for the reader/viewer on Tantra Yoga. See it here. I also have 3 DVDs on Tantra, which are available, as well as a book, Tantric Metaportals.

Tantra Yoga is an ancient exacting system of using the body as a tool for enlightenment. The etymologies of "Tantra" are "the web," and "to teach in order to liberate." Much of liberation involves realizing we are part of the web of consciousness, going beyond the illusions that we are fully encased in our skin, our egos, our story of this lifetime. We are so much more, and Tantric exercises were designed by their originators to have a consistently powerful effect on those who dedicate themselves to doing them. Tantra must be actively carried out, with specific exercises involving breath, visualization, toning, energy circulation, tongue curling, muscle clenching, bending, twisting, and so on.

The Tantras are also the name of a set of encyclopedias from India which cover all aspects of the the world. While recently Tantra has been mistakenly associated with sex, sexuality is only a small part of the whole range of what Tantra includes. It is thorough, and it gives very precise guidelines for ways to approach sexuality to carry out the Tantric lifestyle. They traditionally involve celebacy, or ritual sex for the sake of cosmic consciousness rather than for the sake of sexual pleasure itself. Tantra Yoga includes sexuality within its teachings some schools, but it is not to be confused with it. Lucidplay uses Tantric exercises that are non sexual. The bliss that is created by such exercises make one feel pleasurable, or orgasmic all the time when done regularly in the right circumstances, but it is more full aura than being localized, more intense at times than sex, with a larger scope.Lucidbody, as I call it, does take the sexual practice into account as well, opening the Sushumna, or channel in the spine.

Tantra Yoga is the source of things you may have become familar with, such as the chakras, and Kundalini. Kundalini rises very rarely, but when it does, it is dramatic. More people will experience preKundalini, which is in most cases more appropriate in our society, until you can take time off to go with the transformative experience. Tantra is also focused on balancing the Ida and Pingala, astral pathways that go alongside the spine. This also creates more integration between the two hemispheres in the brain.

Lucidplay Tantra helps us feel we are Love playing through us.

                  

The most pervasive concept in Tantra Yoga is that we don't study it just for ourselves. We devote ourselves to the benefit of the whole, which we are. Tantra helps people feel the connections between all things. It helps us go into the central core of our being and from there, bring miraculous healing to the world. Tantra has the power to help people be more conscious about how they treat the earth, and it tunes us into the consciousness frequency which allows up to help sustain the earth, to have the enthusiasm and creativity to find ways to help it, and the ability to feel it as we are flowing light through it because we are it. And it feels good.

 As we become more aware of the light pulsing out of the darkness, our vision changes and we physically see it more readily. We begin to physically see the energetic interactions between what seem to be separate things. We see our lives from the viewpoint of our larger selves, and what they have in mind for our more focused, incarnated selves. We see how the world is interacting with us, and also, we see beyond ourselves, into the immensity. We see what is out there with an agenda to hold us back. We see what we can do to not be held back. We see the other realms, beyond the hold of the earth. We see at a distance. We see our dreams for what they are. We see the dream of our life for what it is. We love it. and we lucid dream ourselves awake.

 We can hear the sound of the pulsation, if we listen with our inner ears. We can listen to the sound of the pulsation of concepts, if our bodies, of whatever we want. We can make the pulsation of our auras louder, faster, higher. Using the breath, and locks, or bhandas, We can intensify our frequency to of the being we identify with. It can become so loud, it wakes us up, and we smile.

 Feeling the pulsation of the world, We feel it making love with itself. According to Tantrism, the non manifest is Shiva, the God, Absolute Consciousness, darkness, stillness, pure emptiness. But he wants to experience love, a beloved. so out of that creative urge pulses Shakti, the manifest, The Goddess, active, the world, our bodies. They are pretending to be two in order to love each other, behold the beauty of each other, have adventures through time in Shakti, which feels timeless to Shiva.

 While I generally avoid overuse of Tantric names of entities, these two are too basic to ignore. Shiva is said to reside at the crown chakra, where we experience union with all, An expansion and opening of the thousand petalled lotus blossom. Each chakra is portrayed as having a certain number of number of petals in its lotus, its  symbol. But no other chakra in our bodies comes close to the thousand in the crown chakras. Tantic meditation makes it is easy to experience at will.

 You build a bridge between Shiva and Shakti, the part of you that is focused in the physical. The goddess, Shakti, looks at Shiva across the expanse of your body, through the tube inside the spine, the Shushumna

 The Sushumna is the conduit through which the Kundalini rises in some people. It is an incredibly transformative experience. The physical exercises may bring it about if the person is ready in this lifetime. Tantra and Taoism work through many lifetimes, in their quest for raising the Kundalini. Living many lifetimes of spiritual dedication is said to be the norm for raising the Kundalini.

  It is the Shakti goddess arising from the base of the spine to meet her mate, Shiva, at the crown of the head. It is bliss.

This is the Kundalini.

 They coil around the spine from the base, crossing at the chakras, their end point being the nostrils. Many twists and alternate nostril breathing exercises for example are done in order to balance the Ida, the left, female, meditative channel, and the PIngala, the male, active, rational channel. Tantra Yoga is very symetrical and being aware of both sides of our being is important. Balancing the hemispheres of the brain allows much better interaction in the world. If one side is too developed, the Kundalini can become harmful as it can jog into the side channel instead of staying in the center. Kundalini must be raised with care.

 The chakras are vortices along the body, in which the outer levels of the aura whirl down into denser frequencies and create the body. They are portrayed in Tantra as lotuses along the central line of the body. They can be opened, developed, balanced, cleared and cleaned, aligned, and pierced through Tantric exercises. This improves the life immensely.

 Only an inch or so outside the body is the etheric aura, a blueprint for our bodies. Next outside that is the astral, emotional aura, and outside that, the mental. Many levels extend beyond that, and that is when it gets good. Our sessions help you experience your chakras and aura, movement of energy through your body up to your crown chakra, yourself as energy, and as controller of energy.

 Tantra creates a pathway of awareness, allowing you to move instantly into a meditative, blissful, expanded state of consciousness. You don't have to feel trapped within your small, incarnated, localized, personalized self. You are much larger than that, and a good part of your time should be identifying with your larger self.

 Often, survival needs, emotional turmoil, lust, ego, and materialism keep people too focused at the lower chakra levels. As we move up into the heart, we can experience agape, love for all. We can develop our creativity through the throat chakra. Improve our insights, visions, lucidity through our third eye chakra. And commune with the divine at the crown, losing all boundaries, simply being.

 Our life force can become depleted by living in an industrial society, breathing devitalized air, eating food without enzymes and filled with chemicals, frittering our energies away with work, negative habits, and ejaculations. We can draw prana into our bodies, permeating them, through the exercises, avoiding ejaculation, and a healthy lifestyle. Some people who have devitalized prana become vampiric even without realizing it. They don't know how to draw from the source, or have become too weakened to do so. We can build up our shields and awareness, nourshing ourselves by avoiding those people if possible.

 

 We become better healers, psychics, meditators, creators, activists, more sane, relaxed, and filled with wonderful new adventures in other realms. These exercises allow us to experience an endless adventure that is literally out of this world. We become more lucid. Our bodies become more lucid. People affected by our aura become more lucid. We shine.

                          

The name of my DVD set is Tantric Lucidity. A secondary site, http://www.squidoo.com/Lucidity/ tells a little about it (updates coming soon) and has many relevant books linked which may be bought cheaply online. My main Tantra site is http://www.freewebs.com/LucidBody.com. Tantra is a set of exercises using breathing, visualization, positions, movements, and sounds to achieve altered states of awareness that affect the whole life. Tantra with the World, Tantra: Clarity of Interaction, and Tantra: Continuity of Consciousness are available for 25 dollars each plus shipping. The DVDs can be bought through the webstore, and like anything here, can be paid for alternately with a check. Contact me for an address.

In Lucid Play, we use Tantric exercises to go into altered states. The ancient seers knew what they were doing when they received these from the cosmos and from avatars and their own inner knowing. I teach Tantra, and my Tantra sessions are complementary with Lucid Play sessions. They can even become them as we can go journey through my visionary art or induce waking dreams or do the Dance of Shiva together, or do aura exercises, or act, to write or paint, or do contact improv, or dance what we just ate, or become trees, or become Tantric figures, or whatever we wish. Lucid Play is very beneficial in the moment and creates lasting changes, teaches lifelong skills, and provides insights that can be employed in one's life in many ways.

Tantra allows great lucidity, feeling that separation is an illusion, that the world is similar to a dream in which we can become lucid, great awareness of truth, psychic development, aura vision, cosmic consciousness, god awareness, flying through concepts, becoming geometry, being able to disappear or time travel or bilocate or appear to people, to manifest what is needed, to heal, to speak with those on higher planes and live in those world as well as on this one, to radiate light, to be light that is aware of itself.

My book, Tantric Metaportals, is also available, now through Amazon, or more inexpensively, through Lulu.

Lucid Play doesn't go in the direction of sexuality, but can be sensual and loving in a relaxed way between anyone involved in it. It is a way of being close and friendly without any sexual agenda. Myself, I am engaged, in a monogamous relationship, and expect students/clients/players to be stringently respectful of this.

Part of some types of Tantra involves sexuality, though many types recommend abstinence. Those who do foster sex recommend it be done in a ritualized manner not for the sake of pleasure but for enlightenment. The new trend in the west has been to exploit Tantra and present it as a way towards better sex, and while it unquestionably provides that, there is far, far more to it than that. Sex is just one of the many Tantric methods, and Tantra disciplines every aspect of life. That is just one aspect.

However, it is a delightful one. One tenent of Tantric sex is that the man should have orgasms without ejaculation. The orgasms are much more full bodied and cosmic and long lasting and intense, the movement being upwards rather than outwards. Then, the man can continue to have sex and as many orgasms as he likes. He can not only please his partner longer without fear of a sudden ending, he can merge with her and see her divine self, connect on higher planes, circulate energy with her in many ways, and the energy they share will be healing for both rather than allowing the contagion of the lower level auric gunk that can happen with lust driven sex.

Tantric sex is divine Lila, a type of Lucid Play. It involves spirits interacting, not just being focused on bodies. It is a celebration of the flow of life, not related to egoistic needs and manipulations. Tantric sex involves very specific techniques such as curling the tongue, clenching the muscles around the anus, turning the eyes upward, circulating energy through the body, and connecting beyond the personality.

I teach 3 very powerful Tantra Yoga exercises that take you into incredible altered states of awareness at the beginning of LucidPlay sessions, though not engaging in any kind of sexual interactions with students. See my website, LucidBody.