Two Chakra Exercises For Beginners
One great exercise for balancing all seven of the chakras is to chant the bija mantras. Bija mantras are known as “seed” syllables. Each sound is related to a different chakra. Chanting all seven, will harmonize and bring balance to the entire chakra system.
Tantric Yoga
The word Tantra in Sanskrit means weaving. That means practitioner weaves all the methods and experiences on his path into his very own life. Tantra sublimates relative reality rather than negates it.
Generally, Tantra works by re-uniting of what in our relative dimension seems to be dually, separated, into one entity. Mostly it is expressed, both metaphorically and technically, as male and female elements.
Tantrics understand the sexual act on multiple levels. The male and female participants of the act are conjoined physically and represent Shiva and Shakti, the male and female principles.
Here, physical action leads to union on all possible levels.
Nowadays the Tantra is very often being misunderstood. People tend to take only outer side of the Tantra and then they miss all the inner meaning.
Raise Your Kundalini, Expand Energy Field
Energy follows thought. Your energies travel to where you place your attention. Kundalini describes personal energy fields; and ‘raising your Kundalini’ really implies an expansion of this personal energy field. As we extend our individual energy fields from current self to higher aspects of Self, finally merging into pure consciousness and its oneness, we naturally experience its bliss.
Mind expansion helps. Gyan yoga encompasses a long-term focused attention on higher aspects of self and life; our attention shifts from the microcosm to the macrocosm. This is followed by energy flow and over a period of time this leads to raised energy fields. This is why we can be operating from the higher awareness and bliss of a raised Kundalini without ever doing any direct work on it; and why gyanis are able to reach enlightened states of being.
In reverse, a raised Kundalini implies the wisdom and purity of an expanded beingness and thus energy management, be it through meditation, pranayam, kriya, reiki, or some means of directly working with your energies. Gyan and meditation help expand your personal energy field at a geometric rate. Bhakti or devotion to God helps for it is at deeper levels; it is love in its various expressions – starting with love of self and evolving into unconditional love for humanity and all that is.
If your focus is on love, your energies follow and you dwell in an expanded energy field moment-to-moment. Such a state eventually leads to what is known as a rising Kundalini. Guided meditations can be a vital aid, for they are the modern alternative to ancient dhyana techniques, whereby you wilfully place your attention on divine aspects of self. Your energies follow and if you are a regular meditator your energy fields expand and merge with your point of focus in these meditations.
Based on the law of attraction, if you are vibrating at a finer frequency, you are receptive to a comparable quality of consciousness elevation. And based on the law that tantra employs – energy resists its opposite and raised energy fields automatically resist denser energy signatures of anger, judgment, sorrow – we find ourselves increasingly in sync with the universal qualities of love and beingness.
Allow your Kundalini to unfurl rather than looking for quick-fix routes that might end up having just the opposite effect. A raised Kundalini implies expanded energy fields and your current physical reality is only a reflection of this inner you. Density cannot coexist with raised energies and whatever doesn’t match this expansion will begin to disintegrate. Without the support of gyan and its deep understanding, without the succour of bhakti and its deep acceptance, without the dedication to self growth, you may well be thrown off guard.
Become aware that as your energies follow thought, they can indeed be directed through constant focus and continued attention. In this manner, you will find that raising your Kundalini is not as exotic a goal as it seems. It is more about where your thoughts reside on a regular basis. Based on your inclination, gyan, kriya or hatha yoga could work equally well. All inner expansion leads to bhakti which automatically amplifies the process. You would eventually meditate 24×7 within even while carrying on with an enhanced reality on the outside. That is called a raised Kundalini.
Divyaa Kummar, The Times Of India, 23 Mar 2008
What Tantra Means and What Doesn’t?
What Tantra means and what doesn’t?
The word Tantra in Sanskrit means weaving. That means practitioner weaves all the methods and experiences on his path into his very own life.
Tantra sublimates relative reality rather than negates it.
Generally, Tantra works by re-uniting of what in our relative dimension seems to be dually, separated, into one entity. Mostly it is expressed, both metaphorically and technically, as male and female elements.
What the “Sexual Tantra” is?
What is called “Sexual Tantra” is mostly some kind of New Age or even quackery.
As we already told, Tantra works by re-uniting what seems to be dually, into one entity. The best and the most easy-to-understand way to realize that – is to represent two aspects of duality as male and female elements. That way, by uniting male and female elements, the Tantric practitioner unites the duality on all levels of existence.
Such a tantric ritual culminates in a sublime experience of infinite awareness, by both participants. In the Tantra, sex has three distinct and separate purposes – procreation, pleasure and liberation.
Tantrics understand the sexual act on multiple levels. The male and female participants of the act are conjoined physically and represent Shiva and Shakti, the male and female principles.
Here, physical action leads to union on all possible levels.
Nowadays the Tantra is very often being misunderstood. People tend to take only outer side of the Tantra and then they miss all the inner meaning.
Then they think that Tantra is all about some exiting sex in some mystical surrounding. Which is obviously not a case.
Of course, there are quite a few New Age “gurus” who have read some books (written or translated by some other guru), and they lead courses, write new books etc.
One should know that the real Tantra is much more than some course by some homegrown “teacher”; and that there’s no such thing as “Sexual Tantra”.