Secrets of True Tantra

true tantra
What is True Tantra? Here are some thoughts on this inspiring and beautiful subject. The male eternally searches for his female half, the “sakthi”, and the female searches for her masculine half, the “siva”, to complete the cosmic energy circle.. Some try to consummate it through “divine love”, some through “sacred sex”, some through “platonic
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Tantra Misconceptions

tantra misconceptions
    Tantra Misconceptions   an extremely interesting and well witten  article by David Frawley can be found on his website https://www.vedanet.com/tantra-and-its-misconceptions-reclaiming-the-essence-from-the-illusions/.   For those of you interested in understanding what tantra really is as opposed to tantra misconceptions, I highly recommend reading it.   It is very hot in London today, and I do not
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Tantra Goddess Energy

tantra goddess energy
  Tales of tantra goddess energy ….and sacred prostitutes or priestesses are a popular subject of books and films nowadays. I remember visiting one of the first yoga centres in Switzerland,- in the 1970’s. It was run by a lady called Elizabeth Haich, and her Indian yogi companion Yesudian. Elizabeth Haich was a Hungarian mystic
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Tantric Massage and Integrity

tantric massage and integrity
  Tantric Massage and Integrity should go hand in hand.   We have been getting booked up quite a bit in advance lately and clients have been asking why I do not take on some more masseuses. For some time now, I have decided to use only one massage room, so we are limited re.
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Male Sexual Energy

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  Why can’t men hold their sexual energy?   is the title of an interesting article which recently appeared on a psychosexual website: http://psychosexualsomatics.com/cant-men-hold-sexual-energy/ It asks the question: “So do guys really just want to have quick sex and cum?……. Here’s the age old problem; women typically want longer sex sessions, with more of a
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Tantric Massage and Mindfulness

tantric massage and mindfulness
  Tantric massage and mindfulness have become buzzwords Both terms are used a lot nowadays, but few people really know what either of them mean. Mindfulness is being promoted by university professors, spiritual leaders, celebrities, as well as the NHS. It is being recommended to overcome depression, stress and over-thinking. But what is it? And
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Male and Female Sexual Energy – Differences

male and female sexual energy
The difference between male and female sexual energy has intrigued us throughout the ages. We only have to look at current book and newspaper titles to see that the subject is still on our minds:   – Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus – The Secret to Mind-Blowing Orgasms – How Men’s
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Love and sexual energy – secrets

love and sexual energy
  Love and sexual energy are deeply connected in ways that many of us are not aware   The ancient Greeks, who were highly sophisticated, had six different words for love, each with a slightly different meaning: Eros or sexual passion – this was not thought of as necessarily positive, the way we do today.
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Blue Moon

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    Tonight will be the night of the Blue Moon. Most of us don’t know what a Blue Moon is, except that it was a song sung by Frank Sinatra (you can listen to the song below) Nowadays, a Blue Moon can often refer to the second full moon of the month. This month,
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Origin of Tantric Massage

the origin of tantric massage
  There are many misconceptions about the origin of Tantric Massage It did not originate in India thousands of years ago, but first started to become popular at the ashram of Rajneesh in Pune, India in the 1970’s and then spread to California in the 1980s. Tantric massage has nothing to do with Tantra in
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Massage and Mindfulness for Children

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Massage and mindfulness, in my opinion, should be taught to children as early as possible. In India, children are massaged from very early on, and I wonder whether this is one reason for their flexibility in yoga. Luckily, this attitude has been catching on in the West, and naturally, most children love being massaged. As
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Mindfulness and Tantric massage

mindfulness and tantric massage
Mindfulness has been hitting the headlines recently Today’s Guardian mentions that Ruby Wax joined politicians in parliament for a spot of mindfulness practice. Sceptical MPs have joked it is becoming “a cult in parliament”, but mindfulness meditation stepped into the political mainstream today when MPs and peers gathered at Westminster, closed their eyes and went
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BE THE PEACE

you are the peace
    Peace and happiness lie deep within us, in the very core of our being This is the teaching of Ramana Maharshi and all the great beings. We look for happiness outside of ourselves but happiness does not exist in any external object. – only in us who are the consciousness that experiences happiness…….
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Osho and Sex

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Osho, formerly known as Rajneesh,  introduced his version of Tantra to the West in the 1960’s. He was controversial, but he was an intelligent and prolific writer. Here are some quotes from Osho: Tantra is the natural way to God, the normal way to God. The object is to become so completely instinctual, so mindless,
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Tantric Massage London – What does it really mean to slow down?

slow down
On how to slow down I was struck recently by an article written by Carl Honore, on the subject of slow sex.. He writes: ‘The other day a buddy of mine was making love to his new girlfriend when her IPhone beeped with an incoming text message. Like any guy, he hoped she would ignore
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The real meaning of ‘Surrender’

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    Surrender to God is advocated by many of the world’s religious traditions It is considered a means of  transcending the individual self. But the word surrender is often misunderstood. What we want most in life is to be right. And we want to know that we are right. But one of life’s most
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The play of shadows

the play of shadows
                  The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it……… “The screen is always there; the pictures come and go, but do not affect the screen. What does the screen care whether the pictures appear or disappear? The pictures depend upon the screen. But what
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The power of the mind

swami vivekananda
The Power of the Mind – A True Story : The railway train was running at full speed from Calcutta to Delhi. In one compartment, two British passengers were talking in English. Pointing at one monk (sadhu), traveling in the same compartment, one British passenger was telling the other, “Look, what a deception! With such
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Levels of meditation

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  To talk about tantra without mentioning meditation, is to misunderstand tantra completely Yet how many so-called tantric practitioners really practice meditation? Some people are naturally endowed with less busy minds than others, but all the great sages of the past achieved the states of higher peace through many many years of meditation. And it
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Connection between Tantric Massage and Hatha Yoga

tantric massage and hatha yoga
I have always felt that a good masseuse should practice hatha yoga There is a definite connection between the two, and in fact, Thai massage is also known as ‘ the lazy man’s yoga’. Most of the tantric masseuses at Tantric Massage in Kensington do practice Hatha Yoga. Now the Journal of Sexual Medicine has
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