Yoga – Cat Pose

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I love this one, feels so good!  I see my cats doing it all the time, they must like is as well! Step 1 - Down on all Fours, neutral Back Step 2 - Lift your head and chest to the ceiling Step 3 - lower your head  and stretch your back Step 4 - back to the start Just watch your cat :) I also found some great pictures and instructions over at the Australian school of Meditation and Yoga - Check them out here … [Read more...]

5 Tips for Buying the Perfect Bicycle

I have always loved riding bike, always roaming the neighborhood as a kid. Really not that much difference now. Bicycle riding is a great way to spend time with the family and to get exercise. I actually like reading alone :) almost like meditation, you are working hard, breathing and sweating. I like to end up at a peaceful destination, like the lake or a park. I can sit quietly for a few minutes and rest before I return home. Here are five helpful tips for choosing the perfect bike for … [Read more...]

Tantra Yoga Meditation

Tantra yoga meditation is often practiced this way: A tantra devotee sits calmly and purifies mind and heart of wayward thoughts and desires. The devotee then senses the life force within his or her being and gradually, through imagination and feeling, directs the life force to rise up the spine, from the tailbone into the neck and then into the forehead. When considerable life force is gathered in the forehead, the tantra yogi, through practice, directs that the life force move out from the … [Read more...]

Meditation – ADVANCED TECHNIQUE

ADVANCED TECHNIQUE Finally, a meditation technique that is without equal. Sit alone or together in yab-yum, which is meditation posture 101, FYI. Perform long deep breathing moving the breath in through the nose and all the way down to the point where the sitz bones are in contact with the floor. Once you become proficient at this, learn to hold the breath down in the genital area when the inhale is full. Start by learning to hold the breath for brief intervals, 3, 5, 7, 11 seconds. With practice … [Read more...]

Tantra – Expanding Bliss through Sex

Many people who experience deep ecstatic sexual states liken these to transcendental spiritual experiences. They discover that the distinctions between what is carnal and what is spiritual may not be as clear as they once thought. They may even feel that they have come to know God, or ultimate reality, through sex. Very recent research indicates that about one third of you have had spontaneous and profound spiritual experiences that were distinctly sexual and sensual in nature. These experiences … [Read more...]

Guided Meditation: Earth Priestess Initiation

As spiritual beings we are becoming increasingly aware of our relationship with Mother Earth, this beautiful Divine Mother Goddess who nurtures and cares for us in all of our daily needs. This guided meditation attunes you to her energy and initiates you as a Priestess or Priest of Gaia. It is not necessary to devote yourself exclusively to Gaia to take on this role, more to connect and commune with her, consider her in all of your actions, protect her and love her as she does you. Your love and … [Read more...]

Tantra yoga meditation

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Tantra yoga meditation is often practiced this way: A tantra devotee sits calmly and purifies mind and heart of wayward thoughts and desires. The devotee then senses the life force within his or her being and gradually, through imagination and feeling, directs the life force to rise up the spine, from the tailbone into the neck and then into the forehead.When considerable life force is gathered in the forehead, the tantra yogi, through practice, directs that the life force move out from the forehead … [Read more...]

Energy Healing 101: Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki

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You have probably come across exotic-sounding terms such as “chakra”, “prana”, “aura”, and “tantra” in your course of reading books on spirituality, sex, and healing in the New Age literature section of the bookstore. But what’s the real scoop behind these exotic vocabularies? Are All Energy Healings the Same? Chakra or energy center is a term used in Pranic healing, an ancient Hindu system of energy healing. “Prana” means life energy. “Aura” is another terminology … [Read more...]

Tantra: A Transformational Practice for Couples by Diana Daffner

In the recently published book, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, psychotherapist Stephen Cope discusses our need for transformational environments, cocoons such as schools or ashrams that allow us to mature our rebirthing into wholeness. He outlines eight specific qualities that one should look for in an authentic transformational space. A Tantra love relationship can be considered a powerful transformational space, a spiritual community of two that provides an effective and delightful way … [Read more...]

Venus, Roman Goddess of Romance and Beauty

Venus meant "charm" and this Roman goddess certainly knew how to do that! Although she was a latecomer to Roman mythology, she rose quickly among the ranks.Like the Greek goddess Aphrodite whose mythology she inherited, the Roman goddess Venus assumed the divine responsibility for love, beauty, and sexuality, not to mention marriage, procreation, and domestic bliss. Venus was the ultimate multi-tasker! She was also known as the Venus Verticordia, goddess of chastity in women, (despite her numerous … [Read more...]