Tantra What is it and What Can it Do For You
Let’s dive into Tantra and what it is. Tantra is a spiritual practice that dates back to ancient India over 5,000 years ago. It connects your inner energies to achieve enlightenment through physical touch, meditation, and breathing exercises that heighten your awareness. When used as a sexual tool, it can help to deepen intimacy and sexuality, heal past sexual trauma, and also lead to an enhanced mind and body connection in all aspects of one’s life.
What is Tantra?
The word “tantra” can be translated into “woven together” and signifies the interconnectedness of the spiritual and physical realms. The aim of practicing tantra is to harness the energies of the body. Those energies are typically referred to as “Kundalini”. While tantra is often associated with sexuality, it is much greater than just a physical act. Tantra is a holistic practice that can be incorporated into all aspects of one’s life through the use of breathwork, mindfulness, and meditation.
What are the Benefits of Tantra?
The more one practices tantra, the greater the benefits they can achieve. Practicing tantra can lead to:
- An increased body connection and self-awareness
- A deeper connection and intimacy with your partner
- The potential for spiritual growth and enlightenment
- A heightened sexual experience
What are the Important Aspects of the Tantra Practice?
There are four major components to the practice of tantra: Mindfulness, breathwork, rituals and symbolism, and yin and yang balance. Mindfulness is practicing an awareness that focuses on your emotions, physical sensations, and thoughts that keep you present in your daily life. Breathwork uses controlled breathing exercises to help direct the flow of energy. Rituals and symbolism require that you use sounds, imagery, and gestures to enhance your practice of tantra. Finally, yin and yang help to balance the integration of the feminine energy with the masculine energy to transform them into one.
What are Some Common Misconceptions About Tantra
When people hear the word tantra they often visualize wild sexual activity, when in reality sexual intercourse does not even have to happen for someone to have a tantra experience. Sexual intercourse can enhance a tantra experience, but it is more about staying connected to your own body and mind and expanding your consciousness. Sex is just one of the ways that people can practice tantra, not the only one.
The Other Benefits of Tantra
Tantra is an excellent way of reconnecting with your sensuality and can help you emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. When you achieve tantra using elements of conscious touch, counseling, tantric bodywork, awareness exercises, meditation, and breath exercises, the potentials are endless. Tantra work can help you experience things such as:
- Feeling more authentic
- Being more deeply rooted in your own body
- Feelings of freedom and empowerment
- Experiencing more joy in your daily life
- Awakening your consciousness
- Feeling more connected with your partner and others
- Finding healing from sexual trauma
- Heating sexual tensions from PE and ED
- Experiencing “energy orgasms” and “full body orgasms”
Experiencing sensuality throughout your entire body instead of just located pleasure
Tantra is an excellent way to heal traumas, maintain mindfulness, and reconnect yourself with the energies around you. When you practice tantra, the benefits gained can help to make you feel more alive and find joy in your daily routine. It can also help to heal sexual trauma and connect with your partner and people around you. Let us be your guide to the experience of tantra today and allow it to transform your life and wellbeing.