What is Heart-Tantra ?

Workshops, courses, retreats & private tuition for individuals and couples offering an experiential exploration of traditional Tantra from the East, together with therapeutic tools & processes from the West, to help facilitate holistic and ecstatic loving relationships, self-awareness, bliss & healing with each other and with nature.

What is Tantra ?

Tantra dates back over 8000 years and originated in India where it's still practised today for expanding human consciousness and ecstatic states of bliss and peace. It's a spiritual lifestyle that is grounded in simple embodied practices that return us to our natural state of inner freedom and divine love. Literally translated from Sanskrit Tantra means "The weaving and expansion of energy". There are many different types of Tantra, each offering different principles and practices. HEART-TANTRA embraces the path of 'WHITE TANTRA'. The teachings of white tantra in essence are that everything is rooted in the reality of Love, in all its forms and the highest being that of Divine Love. The whole universe IS love and that includes us. White Tantra offers a collection of practices, exercises and meditations that help us find our way back to experiencing ourselves AS love again, our natural state.

Tantra is becoming more popular in the West as people recognise a longing in themselves for more meaningful sexual/intimate/nourishing/spiritual connection in their lives. However, it is often misunderstood. Some common speculations are that it involves partaking in acrobatic lovemaking positions and techniques as outlined in the Kama Sutra manual, or is a free-love cult, or a new age spiritual sex therapy from California. People often think that it involves wild naked orgies, boundaryless sexual exploration and 8 hour orgasms. . . .

We'd like to put the record straight from our perspective. . . . . .

Tantra is an approach to living our WHOLE life through the experience of Love. From the sacred to the profane. It includes celebrating our sexuality but not just for the act of sexual loving. It embraces our sexual energy as the essential creative life force that is moving through us all the time. It offers a pathway that returns us to living in love, wholeness, bliss, vitality, harmony with ourselves, each other, nature and divine truth. Living in interconnectedness with everything and dissolving the illusion that we are separate.

In the West we often experience our heart, sex and spirit as separate from each other. Tantra invites us to reunite them, to fully live in the sensual body, to embrace our vitality and passion as a doorway to total liberation. It invites us to trust our heart’s wisdom, to live in our authentic truth in every moment and to literally embody our divinity.

"HEART-TANTRA offers the transformation of fear into love"

At the core of us all is a longing to truly love and be loved. Because love is our essential nature. Yet often we forget this simple truth. We grew up with conditionings and beliefs about who or how we ‘should’ be, with fear making our choices and shame holding us down. When love (rather than fear) is the guiding light in our lives, life changes in a profound way. We cease existing as victims of our own internal negative self-judgment and self rejections. It reminds us that we can choose love in each moment and it supports the process of healing from past experiences when we may not have been able to make choices we would have liked.

"BE . . . .the love you're seeking"

If the love and acceptance we receive from another is an affirmation of the love and acceptance we ALREADY experience in our essential self, the ways in which we are able to share intimacy (into-me-see), vulnerability, heart and sexual loving transform into a divine celebration of abundant LOVE. It becomes like two full cups of water meeting and dancing in the overspill, rather than two half filled cups of water meeting and endlessly trying to fill each other up, in vain.

We often look to others to get love and acceptance, hoping they will love and accept us even though we don't always love or accept ourselves. We then become dependent on their love in order to feel that we’re OK. Feeling constantly at their mercy for affirmation, living in fear that one day their love will stop flowing and that we’ll once again be back in the self-inflicted belief that we’re somehow not OK or worthy of love because, we have become disconnected from our OWN knowing of this truth. The foundation work is therefore about 'Coming home to loving ourselves first'.

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough"

quote by Eckhart Tolle

In Tantra the body is honoured as sacred ground - The temple of our Spirit - All life is rooted through the body. When we fully land in our bodies we can meet the divine in ourselves and others while staying connected to our humanity and grounded down to earthness.

. . . even though our minds may want to take us to thoughts of the future or memeories from the past. The body holds all of our experiences on a deep cellular level. When we allow this life force energy and our breath to flow freely through it in the PRESENT moment, we release what is held, deep healing happens and love once again flows effortlessly through us without our minds needing to understand. We return to the source and to breathing within love.

OUR DEFINITION OF TANTRIC SEX
Tantra does not judge and say that some kinds of sex are 'right' and some are 'wrong' it's the CONTEXT that it's happening in that's important.
A way to describe it is like this: . . . . .
Imagine a hot tub filled with warm water and imagine that the hot tub represents the whole universe and the water it's filled with is Divine Love. As long as the people exploring sexual loving are IN the tub and stay in the tub everything that happens will be a meeting of Divine truth and love. Even if the sex gets more 'base' in flavour the hot tub will keep connecting them back to the source of their own divinity.
When this is happening the illusion of our separation dissolves and the lovers and the Divine become one. Returning us to our natural essence, that of love. There is no more "I Love YOU " but only "we ARE Love" dancing in the infinite space together.

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