How well do you communicate with your partner? Can you be open and vulnerable with your feelings? With teachings from tantra, you can practice building trust and honest communication to improve your relationship. Good communication can strengthen a relationship while the lack of it can destroy it. Tantra is about honesty, trust and openness. This allows us the freedom to be our truest, most innermost selves. It starts first on our own and secondly, with our partner. Understanding Tantra a[...]
Do you practice self-love? Too often, we become consumed with finding love and receiving affection from others that we miss out on the most accessible and boundless source of love there is - from within ourselves. A great way to start practicing self-love is to be attentive, loving and accepting of your body. Tantra eye gazing is one way to do this. To be aware of your body is the beginning of self-love. When mind goes home to the body, the mind and body are established in the here and now.[...]
Tantra is a spiritual practice that embraces intimacy with one's self and others. However, it starts with the self. If you do not have the capacity for self love, you won't have much to offer anyone. Instead, you will depend on others for fulfillment and you will travel a long arduous path of heartbreak and disappointment. Freedom comes with self-love because you are at peace with yourself. In such a peaceful state of mind, you are free from the binds of self-loathing and your focus can shift f[...]
Do you sometimes feel distant from your partner? Some couples spend years together yet stonewalled from one another. When two individuals come together, it often starts with a spark. But no matter how big the fireworks were in the beginning, one thing is almost always sure to happen. The sparks eventually fade. Maybe your relationship could use a little boost or maybe you're feeling completely hopeless. You can practice tantra yoga to enhance love and intimacy with your partner. It's one of the[...]
This is part one of a three-part series on how to practice Tantra. Have you ever had a heart-wrenching breakup? Ever wondered why someone couldn't treat you the way you wanted? Maybe you felt tormented when someone betrayed your trust. Most of us know how hurtful failed relationships can be. The pain may last for months, years, even a lifetime. We often suffer and experience anxiety due to relationship conflicts. Other causes of stress could be from tension at home, stress in the workplace,[...]