While I can’t seem myself joining classes, I spent the weekend discovering the incredible link between tantra and yoga. I realise that if I hope to get somewhere meaningful with tantra, I need to begin practising yoga. Strange how this realisation is only dawning on me now.

I have a very dear Skype contact living in Portugal, who has been encouraging me into yoga for ages. His enthusiasm has been contagious but I didn’t quite agree that it was true for me. I just discovered the most amazing resource for yogic breathing techniques as well as many energy awareness practises that I know I will be of huge benefit to me. I’m amazed I didn’t make the connection sooner. I somehow saw yoga as being about really difficult exercise. The form I’ve tried before probably was that, and it put me off the idea. Yet I love silent sitting meditation and I love to work with moving energy through my body and I know I need to balance my energies and I desperately want to increase my lung capacity, all of which can be achieved just using the exercises on the site I mention above.

The final push has come as a result of a fellow tantra enthusiast ( Rattan) who’s blog I read regularly and who is a big fan of Yogani. Since I’ve lately been posting articles about the masculine feminine aspects, I became sold on him when I read the following:

The inherent imbalance in non-tantric sexual relations is at the root of the difficulties that have existed in the relationship between men and women for thousands of years. When men feel inferior sexually to woman (which they are before learning tantric methods) they tend to try and compensate by dominating women in other ways – trying to control their huge feminine sexual power. This is one reason why women have been held down in many societies over the centuries. Men harbor a deep subconscious fear of women. Men are not fundamentally to blame for this, and neither are women. It is a phenomenon that has its roots in immature biological and neurological processes. As the processes of the nervous system evolve to a higher level offunctioning, more equality in sexual relations arises, and the subconscious fears and aggressions gradually disappear. This will be one of the fringe benefits of this new age of enlightenment – a balancing of the sexual energies that flow between men and women. There will be more honor, more integrity, more respect, and much more love. Women will receive much more of the deep reverence they deserve. It is happening already.

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