Tantra is the practice of awakening to our essential nature and recognizing that we are enlightened beings. Every moment is a new opportunity to experience this awareness.
By learning to accept ourselves and what is arising in each moment, without judgment, we become more present, joyful, and compassionate. We let go of our fear and need to be in control and experience the universe supporting us.
The word Tantra is a Sanskrit word that has several meanings: to weave, tools for expansion, and transformation. Tantra is the weaving of the chaotic forces of our lives into a harmonious whole. Through Tantra we learn how to accept every moment as a tool for our growth and expansion.
In the twenty-first century, our lives tend to be fast-paced and complex. In order to cope, we tend to separate our life into boxes and focus on them as if they are separate from one another. The truth is all of life is connected and as we learn to feel that connection in every breath we take we experience life in a new way. While life may still have high and lows we learn to accept these oscillations as a a natural part of life, like the seasons. We learn to live in the flow of what is arising and move beyond the need to constantly judge ourselves, our choices and our experiences. We discover harmony, acceptance, and balance.
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Tantra teaches us how to say "Yes" to the moment and to see the Divine in whatever is arising... even if it is painful or challenging. We learn to let go of trying to control the universe, which is an exhausting habit, and instead we open and trust that the abundance of the universe is supporting us in every moment. We begin to see ourselves as creators of our life experience and understand that we are not separate from the creative life force. We are gods and goddesses... not only do we begin to see ourselves in this way but we begin to see all beings as aspects of the Divine. As we gain this understanding, we have a deeper respect for all life. We are a part of the Divine Mystery that is unfolding in this moment. Life is a miracle. Our hearts expand and we experience more love, connection and passion for life.
Tantra is a spiritual path that accepts all of life as sacred including the human body. In fact, Tantra celebrates the body as a temple. As we learn to be more present in our bodies and open our senses, we begin to expand our awareness and discover that our bodies have great power and wisdom to inform us about of needs, wants, desires, and how to have them met in healthy positive ways. While many religions see the body as a barrier to spirit, Tantra sees it as a doorway. Sex is the door to life and is how we are created and it can also be a doorway to communion with the Divine. Tantra is a broad path that includes our sexuality instead of denying it. Indeed, Tantra celebrates our body as our temple. When we examine religion and spirituality at large, we find that most paths have placed some restriction on the body and its expressions of aliveness, particularly on sexuality.
Our lifeforce energy is our sexual energy. In Tantra, we learn how to access this energy at the base of our spine and channel it through the energy centers in our body, called "Chakras." In Tantra, we explore the Chakras and learn how access the energy in these centers. As we expand our knowledge and connection to them, we enliven our body, heal our hearts, expand our vision, and deepen our connection to the Divine. In terms of sexuality, we learn how to move our energy within our body rather than expelling it through a genital orgasm; we learn to transform sexual energy into spiritual ecstasy. This is one important aspect of Tantra.
Tantric practices help us open up and experience more ecstasy in our bodies. We learn how we can be relaxed in high states of arousal and expand beyond what we previously thought was possible. These tools move us beyond mere sexual pleasure into the realm of spiritual awakening, to awaken to our Divine nature and to the awareness that we are one with the universe.
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The vast body of knowledge and practices developed by Margot Anand is called "SkyDancing Tantra: The Path to Bliss." Margot, along with her certified SkyDancing teachers, have taught SkyDancing Tantra to tens of thousands of people worldwide, through nine international SkyDancing Institutes.
The path of SkyDancing Tantra came to Margot as a revelation rather than a tradition. Yet the path of the SkyDancer goes back to 8th century Tibet, when Yeshe Tsogyal, the enlightened consort of Buddha Padmasambhava, was called the "Great Skydancer." Together they developed Tantric Buddhism. "Skydancers" in the Buddhist tradition were people of great passion who were profoundly devoted to spiritual awakening. The path of the SkyDancer is a path of spiritual partnership between men and women as equal spiritual partners integrating ecstatic states into their daily lives.
Weaving Ancient Secrets & Modern Techniques
SkyDancing Tantra presents the Tantric paradigm via methods and tools accessible to the Western culture and lifestyle. These methods are inspired by ancient traditions of holistic spirituality and sexuality: Tantric, Yogic, Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi, and Native American, among others.SkyDancing Tantra also blends modern techniques, such as psychology, bioenergetics, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), visualization, and effective communication skills with meditation, sacred ritual, sexual magic, massage, and other practices.
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The Path to Bliss
SkyDancing Tantra teaches you to choose with awareness what brings you pleasure and joy – which opens the door to a deeper connection with spirit and a greater sense of aliveness and well-being. The practice of SkyDancing Tantra enables you to overcome feelings of separation and create a sense of union with yourself, others, and the world. The body becomes relaxed, the heart opens and the mind becomes clear and focused. When this integration takes place, you are ready for a new sexual and spiritual experience in which physical/sensual pleasure becomes a celebration of the heart and an ecstasy of the spirit. When practiced with a partner, SkyDancing Tantra contributes to healthy, loving relationships. Ultimately, the SkyDancing path provides a model for cultivating the Tantric way of life – helping you awaken to your ecstatic potential, embrace your own vital powers, enliven sensuality, awaken spirituality, and create a more fulfilling love life.
A Proven Method
Over the past 20 years, Margot Anand's SkyDancing Tantra has been the most researched method developed in modern Tantra. A scientific study at the University of Hanover in Germany was conducted over a year and a half, following participants of Margot's three-week Love & Ecstasy Training. The results based on thorough statistical analysis of some 800 medical, psychiatric, and psychological questionnaires, described the benefits of the training as: increased orgasmic response, improved health, increased creativity and concentration, and improved partner communication.
The philosophy of SkyDancing Tantra provides a gateway into the Tantric way of life by helping you to awaken to your ecstatic potential, embrace your own vital powers, create a more fulfilling love life and enliven your sensuality as well as your spirituality.
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