On the retreat at Amaia Temple (IG: @amaia_temple; picture from @nata_ph1) I lived and learned something profound - sexuality as spectrum - as the primordial force, creation, life-force; as softness and love, healing and blooming like a rose; as rage and power, the raw roar of a lioness, the fire of a dragon. But also as connection, as pure energy, as life penetrating the whole existence.
I experienced both the Kundalini / Shakti - the life energy - and Shiva - the consciousness - as one.
And that’s also what tantra is about.
Tantra is the realization that Shiva and Shakti are not separate. It is the art of letting life energy move freely while remaining fully conscious and embodied.
Tantra is not about escaping life. It’s about becoming conscious within life.
That’s why tantra is not always sexual. Sexual tantra is only one expression, and often misunderstood. Because tantra is especially a way of being.
It is not about performance or intensity. It’s about presence. Sex just happens to be a powerful doorway because kundalini lives there strongly - and orgasm can open consciousness. However, tantra can also be practiced by simple presence: for instance while meditating, breathing, holding eye contact, dancing and movement...
Tantra is a way, how to alchemise your emotions, patterns, sexuality, shadows into awareness. Tantra doesn’t ask you to run from being a human. It leads you to meet it fully.