Maybe you have been asking yourself why you’d want to go to great lengths to experience the bliss that is tantra. The simple answer is: you do it to raise your energetic levels. Sadly, the simple answer does not really help you to understand what it’s all about, and you may even step away from the work because the simple answer has no real meaning to you. Yet. From the outside, tantra often looks like a lot of touching each other, crossing boundaries that you could not cross outside of this special container, and without those particular people. That is because what you see is the physical side of tantra. Don’t get me wrong: that is an important part of it, but it’s not all that’s going on! Many of the physical aspects of tantra are catalysts for the energetic side of tantra. Where tantra is concerned, it’s often about kundalini energy – there are other types, I’ll talk about those another time. This energy is usually dormant in the Root chakra. It can be activated through physical means (touch, breath, movement, sound, etc) AND through meditation, focus, visualisation exercises. Those usually go together, but of course you cannot tell internal processes are involved, unless you practice them yourself! The goal of raising this particular energy is to charge up the chakras above the Root chakra, ideally all the way up to the Crown chakra. Raising that energy depends on the current state (call it the ‘day form’) of each chakra: if they are out of balance, this can hinder the energy work. The more physical side can help balance the chakras. Besides, the chakras have to be ready to receive energy (we perceive them as ‘opened’ in this state). When kundalini energy finally reaches all the way up to the Crown chakra, you form a connection between the physical world and the higher spheres (call it ‘the universe’, ‘unity’, ‘connected’ or whatever it may feel like to you). This is, of course, a generalised explanation, and ultimately it’s an experience you have to have within yourself. If you are intrigued, keep reading this blog… open yourself up to the possibilities
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