TANTRA

What is Tantrika Meditation?

Tantra is not about unbridled s€xuality, as many people think. Rather, it is a spiritual tradition that originated in ancient India.
This form of meditation focuses on integrating spirituality with everyday life through techniques involving the body, mind and life energy.
In tantrika meditation, mantras, visualisations, breathing and other techniques can be used to achieve a higher state of awareness and to develop a deeper connection with the divine, or universal energy.

TANTRA is derived from 2 Sanskrit words; the meaning of ‘TANOT’ is to expand and ‘TRAYATE’ means to liberate. It is an ancient meditative path to achieve:

-Estasis
-Intimacy
-Spirituality
-Enlightenment
-Healing

As a result, Tantra can offer a range of physical, mental and emotional benefits:

1. Heightened awareness: Tantra can help develop a deeper awareness of oneself, others and the universe around us.
2. Improved relationships: Tantric practices often focus on connection and intimacy, which can lead to more satisfying and fulfilling relationships.
3. Energy balance: Tantra works with the body’s vital energy, helping to rebalance energy centres (chakras) and promote better energy circulation.
4. Stress reduction: The meditation and relaxation techniques of Tantra can help reduce stress, anxiety and tension accumulated in daily life.
5. Expanding sexual awareness: Tantra can help transform the s€xual experience from a simple physical act to a deeper, more spiritual connection with your partner.
6. Personal growth: Tantric practices encourage authenticity, self-acceptance and personal development, thus contributing to overall growth and well-being.

Tantra works on the supreme energies that reside within an individual’s body, enhancing spiritual and physical growth.
Its ideology means that all shiva or shakti energies known to mankind are experienced within the person himself to recognise us as earthly Gods and gives extreme FREEDOM:

1) FREEDOM FROM EXPECTATIONS:
Understood as a lack of a foreshadowing of what is to come and therefore freedom from disappointment when what was desired does not come true. So tantrika has its own centre of gravity which is not dependent on the outside and is not influenced by the failure of something or its transformation into something else. Capacity therefore to let go without dwelling on the negative and allowing it to alter the soul. Tantrika lives in the HERE AND NOW.

2) FREEDOM FROM SENTIMENTALITY:
Understood as the absence of slipping into pietism and condescension of m-s religiosity. The Tantric way requires centredness and an ability to observe in a clear form whether one cheats with oneself.

3) FREEDOM FROM THE CONCEPT OF SIN:
Understood as disregarding the judgement of others because the appreciations of the society in which they live (be they positive or negative appreciations) have no hold on tantrika, let alone moral concepts.

4) FREEDOM FROM FEAR:
Understood as the ability to overcome both physical and psychic fears that do not make us progress on the inner path and that can become crippling and restrictive to ourselves.

5) FREEDOM FROM DISGUST:
Understood as the possibility of not being bound in practice and in life by insuperable sensations that prevent us from having an experience, experience being a fundamental aspect of Tantric knowledge.

6) FREEDOM FROM THE FAMILY:
Understood as freedom from family ties and beliefs and the entangling mechanisms of the family of origin and ultimately in the ability to distance oneself from family clichés that tend to control and manipulate the other.

7) FREEDOM OF ORIGIN:
Understood as freedom and the possibility of being above all differences of race, skin colour, origin. He who wants to produce fire is not interested in which tree the wood he finds belongs to.

8) FREEDOM FROM PROHIBITIONS:
Understood as moral constraints or social conformism and thus release of the will from all laws and the ability to distance oneself from them so as to break the chains of patterns.

9) FREEDOM FROM COUPLE:
Understood as freedom to express the genotype, as monogamy and couplehood are not in the nature of humans who, like 97% of mammals, have oxytocin mechanisms that make them genotypically polygamous, thus accepting the desires of the body and soul without judgement.
Free souls vibrate and create the melodies of the cosmos.
Sometimes their music brushes against each other, in moments of symphonies that dance together, unique pearls of a universe that plays with forms.” Cit. Almalibre Rebelde

10) FREEDOM FROM RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL SLAVERY-MATRICES:
Understood as freedom to be in the genotypical human space-time variant, of the here and now; a dimension in which neither dogma nor the social can exist.

11) FREEDOM TO LIVE IN THE DIMENSION OF UNCONDITIONAL UNIVERSAL LOVE:
Understood as the awareness that love is not a point of arrival and that it cannot be sought after, as this dimension, that of unconditional universal love, is revealed after the liberation of the self, from the shroud of the matrix-slavery. Unconditional universal love is thus a dimension resulting from the liberation of the self.

DURING THE EVENTS WE WILL BE DRESSED AND THERE WILL BE GUIDED AND SAFE CONTACT EXERCISES It is also important to note that Tantra has many different facets and approaches, so specific practices may vary depending on the tradition and the teacher.