
Tantra * Kama Sutra * Tantric Sex
Tantra is such a beautiful way to heal wounded sexuality and give you
back your body and your life. It combines the ancient spiritual arts of
sacred connection to yourself and others. Using deep and intentional
breathing, imagery and movement, tantra moves the kundalini or life
force (prana) through the chakras, opening and energizing, bringing you
home to yourself.
I began Tantra quite "by accident" during a time when I was most
disgruntled with my sexuality, feeling so little pleasure that I didn't
care if I ever made love again. A friend gifted be a 7 day workshop in
Hawaii, and I thought only of sun, beaches and time to loll around. When
it struck me I was in a workshop on sexuality, I felt "Oh, my God, what
have I done now?"
Those 7 days changed my life forever. I learned my body is my own, I can
set boundaries and allow only the touch I desire, and I can feel desire
and passion even without a partner. That week restored my holy
relationship with myself. I learned this body I'd given away so often,
trading sex for love, was actually designed to give me pleasure and
fulfillment in ways that could bring me to the God within.
Tantra opens and activates the chakras and, by moving sexual energy
through them brings up for healing whatever blocks true passion. In
workshop after workshop, I encountered pain of being sexually violated
by three men in the family when I was little, and the exercises allowed
me to breathe through the pain to the pleasure beneath.
The workshop leaders and dakinis (assistants there to support sexual
healing) created a sacred temple in which I felt safe to explore my
pain, explode in rage, and reclaim a body ravaged by incest and years of
reenactment through casual sex. It was amazing to be so accepted with
all of my pain, respected and supported for my deep commitment to heal.
Even when the memories were the worse and I needed to be celibate,
Tantra gave me a way to recreate my sexuality and enjoy the movement of
orgasmic energy through my healing tissues. When I could make love, the
practices guided me to connect my heart with my yoni (genitals) and
enjoy a full-bodied extended orgasmic play for more fulfilling than any
sexuality of my 60's free-sex lifestyle.
Now I find I can make love in hundreds of ways: through breathing alone
with the full moon, by touching hands on heart with my beloved and
simply breathing love into each other, or through full, deep sexual
exchange. Tantra adds the spiritual component so making love feels like
worship and I feel like a Goddess being honored. Such a change. My body
is now a temple and I enjoy life within it.