This morning, I woke up at 5 AM to feed my baby girl. I remembered we are still in a lockdown.

Having studied the history of flu virus epidemics in the past couple of days, I was sad to realize that at least till autumn this year (or possibly even longer), my parents won't be able to fly to Belgium or me to Russia, and this means that they therefore won't meet their granddaughter till then. In the meantime, she grows and changes so fast. Yes, we can Skype, but it's not the same. 😔

Instead of going back to sleep in the state of sadness, I started cultivating PLEASURE in my body. I first hugged and held myself. A few tears came up. I breathed into the sadness. My body slowly started relaxing. Then I breathed deeper and deeper, feeling my body while starting to touch different parts of myself with love. After just about 10 minutes, my body started feeling pleasant sensations. As I continued, after about 10 more minutes my body started beaming with energy, pleasure spreading in each and every cell. The energy body started getting charged really fast as I continued moving, touching, breathing and sounding.

Activating my BODY and ENERGY - and one of the ways I do it is through cultivating PLEASURE - puts me in a RESOURCE-full beaming state, because my body relaxes, the energy expands and therefore the mind starts serving something higher than itself.

After about an hour of cultivating PLEASURE, I felt so good. ✨ No thoughts bothered me any more. I felt joyful and happy, grateful that I can feel such an expansion, that everyone in our family is healthy and that I can talk to them any minute I choose, thanks to today's technology. I put my hands on my heart, pulled the blanket over and snoozed a couple more hours till Alisia woke up again.

Temple of Tantric Arts team continues staying in CONNECTION with you these days offering FREE online workshops, both in English (EN) and in Dutch (NL), full of practices inspired by Tantra.

Activating our BODY and ENERGY as well as cultivating PLEASURE is the best antidote to uncertainty, anxiety, loneliness, or other feelings that may come up during these days when some parts of the world are in lock down. Activating our energy puts us in a RESOURCE-full state, where we start sensing possibilities that we could not see before, we relax in our body and therefore also mentally, and we can use the situation as it is now to our advantage.

Because the truth IS... it's not external circumstances that make us feel a certain way. It's our internal world that creates all experiences. And in this workshops we offer some KEYS to your internal world.