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Tantra for Beginners: How to Start Your Practice

Tantra is a vast and ancient spiritual practice and lifestyle. For someone encountering it for the first time, it can feel overwhelming, even confusing. Where do you begin? Which path is the right one to follow? And perhaps most importantly: what is authentic Tantra, and what is the modern dis...

What Are the Tantras? Ancient Esoteric Scripture in Hinduism & Buddhism

The Tantras are ancient esoteric scriptures and instructional texts that emerged in north India around the 6th century, offering detailed methods for achieving spiritual liberation (moksa) and self-realization within a single lifetime. Unlike earlier spiritual traditions that promised enlightenm...

Matsyendranath, Hatha Yoga, & The Nath Tradition

Matsyendranath was a practitioner, a siddha, who developed and transmitted some of the earliest methods for using the body as tools for awakening. He is remembered across multiple traditions under different names, as the founder of the Nātha yogis in North India, as Machamuni in the Tamil Siddha...

Meeting God Through Science (Review of Dr Joe Dispenza's Retreat)

These notes were taken during the discourses and presentations of Dr. Joe Dispenza at his week long retreat entitled Alchemica, and summarises my personal experience and understanding of his work. I had already been familiar with Dr. Joe’s work for some time through friends as well as through hi...

What Are Rituals? How Ceremony Shapes Healing & Connection

In a Level 6 Soul Mate Group for couples, on the last day, the women were treated to a two hour “Trust Ritual”, an offering of devotional love from the men. It was beautiful to be a witness to such exquisite ‘poetry in motion’. It began with the women entering blindfolded into a tunnel of sacred...

Saraswati: The Goddess of Knowledge, Wisdom, & the Arts

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, speech, and creative intelligence. She governs your ability to learn, to teach, to speak clearly, to write with authority, and to make sound decisions based on real understanding. She’s the one you go to when you need clarity. She is precision & artic...

Yab-Yum Explained: Why This Tantric Position Is So Powerful

When exploring the world of Tantra, you have likely seen the iconic image of a man with a woman sitting in his lap, facing him, locked in an unbreakable embrace, staring deeply into each others eyes. Yab-Yum is a traditional Tantric posture performed between two people, where one partner sits cro...

What’s the Difference Between Classical Tantra & Neo-Tantra?

NeoTantra is a modern approach to the ancient Tantric path, a tradition that uses awareness of the body, breath, and sexual energy as a catapult into expanded consciousness. It brings the essence of classical Tantra into everyday life, where sacred sexuality is understood as one of many ways to ...

Who is Osho? Understanding His Life, Teachings, & Legacy

When I first met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, later known as Osho, I was seventeen years old. I was searching for the essence of life and was full of questions I didn’t yet know how to ask. He spoke of Tantra as the most natural path to awakening. Through his eyes, sexuality is sacred, pure life force...

What Is Tantra Meditation? Meaning, Benefits, & How to Begin

During my travels around the world teaching Tantra I am often asked questions about meditation. Many people still carry an outdated idea that sexuality and spirituality are separate from each other and are surprised that Tantra is based on meditation practices. In Tantra, meditation may include ...