Tantra Yoga Path

Like a cobra which has cast its coils

                                    spiraling conch-like three-times-

                                                            and-a-half round Shiva, her mouth

                                               laid on that other mouth

                       which leads to bliss,

            the enchantress

of the world,

            slender as a lotus stem,

                       bright as a lightning-flash,

                                                           lies sleeping,

                       breathing softly out and in,

murmuring poems

                        in sweetest meters,

                                                humming like a drunken bee

                                                                                    in the petals of

                                                            the muladhara lotus,

                        how brightly her light shines

        --Satcakra-nirupana Tantra

Tantra Yoga uses the tools of meditation (dhyana), conscious breathing (pranayama), physical gestures (mudra), sacred sounds (mantra), sacred geometry (yantra), body positions (asana), muscular contractions (bandhas) to achieve self-transformation, conscious awakening, and spiritual evolution.

Tantra means το be liberated by expanding your consciousness -  Yoga means JOIN is the process by which the identity of the individual soul and the Supreme Soul is realized by the Yogi. The human soul is brought into conscious communion with the Divine Reality.

The Tantrikas or Tantrica Yogis combine  two ways of the same Path

The White Tantra or Tantra of the Right Hand (Dakshina Marga) involves the meditative techniques of Tantra and is essentailly a celibate, ascetic path.

AND

The Red Tantra or Tantra of the Left Hand (Vama Marga) involves the use of elements that were considered taboo, such as the ritual of sexual union (maithuna), as a means of attaining liberation. Here, sexual union is used as means for going beyond into transcendent states of consciousness.

The benefits of Yoga Tantric practice include:

* Transcendent sexuality

* Deepened relationships

* Emotional freedom

* Expanded intuitive abilities

* Sustained health and vitality

* Boundless love

* and Playful, ecstatic awareness

According to Tantra, the creation of the world begins with an act of division of the opposites that are united in the deity. From their splitting arises, in an explosion of energy, the multiplicity of the world .

Starting from pure unity (Shiva), the world is a continuous unfolding (energized by the power of Shakti), until a state is reached, when the process must reverse and involute back to the very beginning. Multiplicity must once again become unity. According to Tantra the human being is a miniature universe and the same principles that apply to the universe apply in the case of the individual being.

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