Tantra doesn't target to have a good intimate life, good sex or a good relationship.
Tantra is a path that invites to live in Truth. It reminds us who we are, our true nature. It invites us to LIVE fully, naturally surrendering to the way life expresses itself through us. Without manipulation of life energy.
Then if Tantra is about that, how come in the West it is so linked to Sex?
Because Tantra works with energy, including sexual energy as the foundation of our existence. Tantra doesn't deny or suppress sexuality, but embraces it equally to any other area of life.
So, even though practices involving sexual energy count maybe for 5% of the totality of all Tantric practices noted down in ancient scriptures, what it became famous for in the West is exactly for sexual energy and therefore unjustly linked to Sex alone.
No wonder. Almost every other spiritual path targets to suppress and control sexuality while Tantra doesn't.
And because sexuality is collectively such a deeply suppressed area of life, it does get a lot of attention once the light is put on it even slightly.
But what's even more important is that when we start living life from our nature and not from our head, when we follow our subtle impulses and trust them more than our conditioned mind, we align ourselves with the flow of life the way it wants to express itself through us.
It has profound impact on all areas of life including intimacy and sexuality.
Tantra invites us to deeply embrace what IS.
No destination to arrive to. No result to achieve.
Just a deep fascination and allowance to life to express itself as it IS.
And exactly these qualities also bring intimacy to a whole new level, opening the magical door for sexual life to be fulfilling on a whole new level.
Therefore, a fulfilling intimate life and deep connection in relationships is a natural consequence of the Tantric path, not the focus of Tantra.
With love,
Alexa Mira 💋
