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Great. You may also decide you never want to try some other things. Also great. That’s conscious giving and receiving. That’s conscious sex.
There is no goal in Tantra. Although Tantric positions, exercises, and rituals may give you bigger, longer orgasms, more intimacy with your partner, and even enlightenment, none of these are goals. While there is no goal, there is a likely outcome of Tantric practice: the kind of freedom that exists only in the present moment. You need only be present in each moment and notice what is going on. That’s all.
We human beings have always been fascinated with our bodies and how they work. We have developed countless theories and systems to explain every observable process from birth to death. Some people believe that the chi that flows through our energy meridians is the essential life force. Others think that it’s the blood flowing through our veins or the neural transmitters that send instant messages along our nerves. Tantrikas believe that our life-force energy is the Kundalini spiraling up our chakras. In Tantra, we view the body in energetic as well as physical terms. The mind, body, and spirit are all connected and engaged in every aspect of our lives, including sex.
The Seven Chakras
In Sanskrit, the word chakra simply means wheel. Chakras are seen—by people who can see such things—as spinning spirals of energy in the etheric body (which is located outside the physical body, about six inches to the front and back), approximately in the same areas as the glands of our endocrine system. There are seven major chakras and forty-three less significant ones. Each has numerous specific properties, including color, sound, and vibrational speed. Additionally, each chakra is linked to a specific area of the body and the emotional issues contained there. We are going to look at the seven major chakras and their primary qualities.
The first three chakras—the lower chakra—are concerned mostly with the physical world. They vibrate at slow speeds and their associated sounds are low in pitch. The higher chakras—five through seven—are more connected to the nonphysical world. These chakras vibrate at faster speeds and their sounds vibrate at increasingly higher pitches. The fourth chakra is the bridge between the two worlds.
The chakra system is a simple, practical way to direct energy and awareness to specific areas of your body. If you want to be able to move erotic energy throughoutyour body in order to experience a full-body orgasm, you’ll need to open up the energy pathways that will make that possible. Working with the qualities of each chakra will help you do that. The properties of the chakras are also useful diagnostic tools. When I was first experimenting with one particular ecstatic breath technique, I would get a terrible headache between my eyes every time I approached orgasm. This area of the body is the third eye or sixth chakra, the chakra of intuition. Knowing this, I realized I was overusing my mind and undervaluing my intuition, not only in sex but in other areas of my life. I also realized that the breath I was using was too powerful. I was trying to force open a chakra that needed a more gentle awakening. By approaching the chakra from both the physical and metaphysical angles, the headaches soon stopped, my intuition strengthened, and I was able to move energy up through my third eye.
THE FIRST CHAKRA
The first chakra is known in Sanskrit as Muladhara. (Okay, I know I said I wasn’t going to ask you to learn Sanskrit, but if you decide to learn more about traditional Tantra and/or the chakras, you’ll find it really helpful to know the Sanskrit names.) It is located on the perineum between the anus and the genitals.
Color: red
Sound: low in pitch; C on the Western musical scale
Physical focal points: base of the spine, legs, feet, rectum, and immune system
Metaphysical aspects: grounding and survival
The first chakra is concerned with security and
There is no goal in Tantra. Although Tantric positions, exercises, and rituals may give you bigger, longer orgasms, more intimacy with your partner, and even enlightenment, none of these are goals. While there is no goal, there is a likely outcome of Tantric practice: the kind of freedom that exists only in the present moment. You need only be present in each moment and notice what is going on. That’s all.
We human beings have always been fascinated with our bodies and how they work. We have developed countless theories and systems to explain every observable process from birth to death. Some people believe that the chi that flows through our energy meridians is the essential life force. Others think that it’s the blood flowing through our veins or the neural transmitters that send instant messages along our nerves. Tantrikas believe that our life-force energy is the Kundalini spiraling up our chakras. In Tantra, we view the body in energetic as well as physical terms. The mind, body, and spirit are all connected and engaged in every aspect of our lives, including sex.
The Seven Chakras
In Sanskrit, the word chakra simply means wheel. Chakras are seen—by people who can see such things—as spinning spirals of energy in the etheric body (which is located outside the physical body, about six inches to the front and back), approximately in the same areas as the glands of our endocrine system. There are seven major chakras and forty-three less significant ones. Each has numerous specific properties, including color, sound, and vibrational speed. Additionally, each chakra is linked to a specific area of the body and the emotional issues contained there. We are going to look at the seven major chakras and their primary qualities.
The first three chakras—the lower chakra—are concerned mostly with the physical world. They vibrate at slow speeds and their associated sounds are low in pitch. The higher chakras—five through seven—are more connected to the nonphysical world. These chakras vibrate at faster speeds and their sounds vibrate at increasingly higher pitches. The fourth chakra is the bridge between the two worlds.
The chakra system is a simple, practical way to direct energy and awareness to specific areas of your body. If you want to be able to move erotic energy throughoutyour body in order to experience a full-body orgasm, you’ll need to open up the energy pathways that will make that possible. Working with the qualities of each chakra will help you do that. The properties of the chakras are also useful diagnostic tools. When I was first experimenting with one particular ecstatic breath technique, I would get a terrible headache between my eyes every time I approached orgasm. This area of the body is the third eye or sixth chakra, the chakra of intuition. Knowing this, I realized I was overusing my mind and undervaluing my intuition, not only in sex but in other areas of my life. I also realized that the breath I was using was too powerful. I was trying to force open a chakra that needed a more gentle awakening. By approaching the chakra from both the physical and metaphysical angles, the headaches soon stopped, my intuition strengthened, and I was able to move energy up through my third eye.
THE FIRST CHAKRA
The first chakra is known in Sanskrit as Muladhara. (Okay, I know I said I wasn’t going to ask you to learn Sanskrit, but if you decide to learn more about traditional Tantra and/or the chakras, you’ll find it really helpful to know the Sanskrit names.) It is located on the perineum between the anus and the genitals.
Color: red
Sound: low in pitch; C on the Western musical scale
Physical focal points: base of the spine, legs, feet, rectum, and immune system
Metaphysical aspects: grounding and survival
The first chakra is concerned with security and
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