Tantric Yoga Techniques

by Jonathan Bartlett, Philadelphia Yoga Examiner

I am a yoga evangelist. I believe yoga is for everyone—no exceptions. I also teach yoga. It’s one of my favorite topics of conversation, one I know that causes my family and friends to roll their eyes and sigh when I bring it up during social gatherings. I have talked to a lot of people about yoga, and have received a lot of input, particularly from those who don’t do yoga, yet. Objections to and misconceptions about yoga are many and myriad, but most fit into the following categories.

1. “I Can’t Do Yoga”

When I tell folks who don’t know me that I teach yoga, often I get a blank stare, they look up and down this thin, aging male frame of mine, squint their eyes into mine, and then access that portion of their brains wherein resides a phrase they’ve repeated every time anyone has brought up the word ‘yoga’…

’I can’t do yoga.’

After that, it’s either, ‘my body is too inflexible,’ and then such words such as ‘pretzel’ or ‘contort’ float by, and if they are still looking into my eyes they will see them involuntarily glaze over as I access that portion of my brain that holds my rebuttal.

‘You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga. That’s the point.’

The truth is everybody is too inflexible to do yoga. Everybody’s body has a point beyond which their body won’t flex, and that feeling of muscle resistance and strain in the poses is the same for everybody, yoga athlete and yoga novas alike. Flexibility is a work in progress for everyone, no matter what their body type.

What yoga offers, particularly those who muscles have not been stretched regularly, is more freedom in movement, to do what they want off the yoga mat: on the street, in the office, at home, everywhere your body moves.

2. “Yoga is a religion and requires me to change my beliefs”

It’s true that some yoga folks have embraced the spirituality associated with yoga. It’s there. There’s no denying yoga’s connection with the Vedic view of being in this world, offered some thousands of years ago and is today expressed in Hinduism as well as a host of other beliefs, by the way, including Buddhism, Jainism, and even, yup, Judaism and Christianity, some scholars say, but that discussion is for others, or for you, if that’s your bent, and that’s the point:

Yoga does not require belief of any kind. You decide what you want from yoga. Yoga does not decide for you.

To my mind and many others, yoga only asks for your attention to your body as you perform and breathe through the asanas, in class or on your mat at home. Some studios accentuate yoga’s connection with its spiritual origin, either as an expression of the owner’s relationship with yoga, or as evidence of the authenticity of the yoga instruction. These come in the form of Hindu style music, statues of Hindu gods and goddesses, exotic jewelry, notices of exotic events at the facility. It can be overwhelming, insistent, even intimidating. You are always free to ignore these, if you can, and focus on the class instruction. If you can’t, there are yoga classes out there which offer only the poses and the breathing and the mind/body connection during instruction. Classes at the YMCA, at chain fitness centers and other locations are available nationwide. If you are a Christian, there’s even Christian-focused yoga out there.

To my mind, it’s all yoga.

3. “Yoga is a woman thing”

I see more and more guys with yoga mats, but the myth still persists and to those males who hold that belief, I say

‘Dudes, give it a shot!’

Mindlessly/mindfully stretching your muscles and being in tune with your body rocks! It builds confidence in movement and action, and bubbles up to enhance your performance off the mat: at work, in the office, and at play, on the basketball court or in the privacy of your own home.

4. “I need a work-out”

My sister’s favorite objection/misconception.

Like I said, and will say again, yoga comes in many flavors. If that’s what you are thinking then check out one of hundreds videos on YouTube…

There’s a lot of yoga out there, folks!

Pick the style that suits you and your needs.
It’s all good.

Tantric sex is not just regular sex. The average “in-out-have a nice day” kind of sex is seen by those who practice Tantric sex as simply wasting energy on something that could be much more than that. Therefore, one could say that Tantric sex means taking sex to a new dimension and using it to improve the link between body and spirit and to extend the rejuvenating power of orgasm to the whole body. After all, why shouldn’t we profit from something that is in our power to do, especially since it does not take much to acquire this skill?

One of the goals of Tantric sex is to stimulate the endocrine glands to produce more hGH, serotonin, DHEA and testosterone. These hormones help improve sexual health, promote the flow of blood through the body, take out the trash (toxins, that is) and strengthen the nervous and immune systems in order to increase the overall health. A person who’s into Tantric sex feels healthy and rejuvenated without the use of substances or devices. Sex is quite enough to bring about these changes in a person. However, one must know how to engage in sex and what to do in bed in order to achieve this healthy state.

Practitioners of Tantric sex claim that it has a rejuvenating effect on men and women, improving sexual health and altering the body’s chemistry by means of brain waves. Frequent and powerful orgasms are a sure way of changing somebody’s mood and of relieving anxiety and depression. All the maladies plaguing the modern mind (such as stress, depression and lack of confidence) can be cured by having sex more often and by experiencing better and more orgasms. And along with these problems of the mind, one could easily get rid of other problems.

Tantric sex or any other ideas to take your sexual relationship to better dimension, and make the lovemaking process more and more joyful and exiting, is not a developing only process. And that’s the biggest mistake couples make, they want to develop their own unique sex techniques and positions while they could only learn it from sex guides on the internet.

One of the goals of Tantric sex is to stimulate the endocrine glands to produce more hGH, serotonin, DHEA and testosterone. These hormones help improve sexual health, promote the flow of blood through the body, take out the trash (toxins, that is) and strengthen the nervous and immune systems in order to increase the overall health. A person who’s into Tantric sex feels healthy and rejuvenated without the use of substances or devices. Sex is quite enough to bring about these changes in a person. However, one must know how to engage in sex and what to do in bed in order to achieve this healthy state.

The tantric sex guide which is new online but have too much to offer, and updated with new material all the time.

Men, on the other hand, can have a lot of fun with Tantric sex, especially since it also focuses on improving erection and ejaculation, the two pillars of sex for men. Sexual satisfaction also results in a huge boost to self confidence, which is very likely to trigger a reinforcing psychological pattern of successful performance and increased confidence. A man who can give himself and his partner a couple of strong orgasms on a regular basis is a happy and healthy man. Not to mention that his partner is also bound to enjoy a positive view on life and a general feeling of healthy living.

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