What is Kundalini Tantra Yoga?
(Explained for beginners!)
Kundalini Tantra is a significant element of tantric texts and traditions. It involves various techniques that help in stimulating and activating different aspects of our unconscious self.
Kundalini Tantra yoga is a practice that unites both masculine and feminine energy within us. It helps us access vital and sexual energy through asanas and breathwork and unites, enlightens, and liberates the mind, body, and soul.
Kundalini refers to the energy coiled at the base of the spine. But with the help of Kundalini Tantra Yoga, we can access the Kundalini energy and activities of our sacral chakra related to sexuality.
Kundalini tantric should be practiced within the guidance of an experienced guru.
Kundalini Yoga vs. Kundalini Tantra Yoga
People often get confused between Kundalini yoga and Kundalini tantra yoga. While the former is linked to a sense of victory, the latter is associated with surrender.
Kundalini Yoga is physical, vigorous, and technical and has no element of love or devotion. Kundalini tantra yoga is much spiritual and gentle and also accompanied by love.
However, there are also a few similarities between the two.
Both Kundalini tantra yoga and Kundalini yoga focus on the awakening of kundalini shakti, and for this, there are various poses, mudras, and pranayama involved in both practices.
While Kundalini yoga mainly depends on Hatha yoga techniques, Kundalini tantra yoga involves meditation, rituals, visualization, mantra recitation, and prayers in addition to Hatha yoga poses.
Significance of the chakras in tantric and yogic practice
Chakra translates to ‘spinning wheel.’ In Tantra and yoga practices, chakras are considered to be the key to vitality and balance. They are spinning vortices of energy inside the body and serve as a storehouse of memories and experiences.
As soon as all the chakras are aligned, the practitioner will experience a higher level of clarity, peace, power, happiness, fearlessness, and freedom.
It is believed that the chakras energize the body and influence its physical, emotional, and mental aspects.
These are the points where the source of energy lies and flows through pathways called nadis.
They play a significant role in holding the energy in their respective sphere to balance the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of mind and body.
With Kundalini Tantric Yoga, the kundalini energy rises from the base of the spine, Muladhara (the root chakra) up to Sahasrara (the crown chakra).
In between, there are five more chakras, namely Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddhi, and Ajna.
What is the goal of tantric yoga?
Tantric yoga aims to unite Shiva (masculine energy) and Shakti (feminine energy), the yin and yang within us, the conscious and the unconscious, the soul and the ego.
Tantric yoga brings spirituality and sexuality together while emphasizing the importance of intimacy during a sexual experience.
Tantra is not merely about sexual pleasure; it is about celebrating one’s body and sensuality which can either be experienced alone or with a partner.
Solo tantra is a meditative practice that is one of the best ways of learning to love one’s own body.
During this process, your body releases a slew of endorphins like oxytocin and dopamine with many physical, mental, and emotional health benefits.
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Benefits of kundalini tantra yoga for couples
Practicing Kundalini Tantra Yoga uses specific pranayama, asana, mudra, and meditations to offer various benefits to a couple.
These are some of the benefits:
1. Enhanced intimacy
Couples who practice Kundalini tantric yoga may feel more connected to their partner.
The poses and breathwork involved can help you build a much closer and intimate contact with your partner and allow you and your partner to explore each other’s bodies.
2. Builds healthy relationship
Kundalini Tantric’s yoga practice is relatively slow, which can be satisfying for both you and your partner.
This helps in syncing energies that allow your mind, body, and soul to merge, thus helping you build a better and healthier relationship.
3. Boosts sexual energy
Kundalini Tantra Yoga is known to enhance you and your partner’s sexual energy. Asanas involved in kundalini tantra yoga can also help individuals suffering from sexual dysfunction.
Moreover, it can also help you better sense and understand the sexual needs of your partner.
The postures included in kundalini tantra yoga can help strengthen pelvic muscles that can help delay orgasm during intercourse.
Although Kundalini Tantra yoga is about intimacy, it can still be practiced alone.
Individuals can know more about their subtle body energies as it is a spiritual and mystic practice that starts with oneself.
Kundalini tantra by Satyananda Saraswati
Kundalini Tantra’ by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati (1923-2009) is a book about kundalini tantra, chakras, and kriya yoga.
The book defines Kundalini Tantra and offers a detailed account of kundalini’s awakening. It also has a comprehensive description of each chakra and its significance in tantric and yogic practice.
There are various techniques given to balance each chakra to attain an enhanced harmony of mind, body, and soul that can help in the rising of Kundalini Shakti. This book offers a detailed explanation of the twenty kriyas and their preparatory practices.
Satyananda Saraswati was a yoga teacher and guru and a student of Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of the Divine Life Society.
He founded his own International Yoga Fellowship in the year 1956, which was followed by the Bihar School of Yoga, established in 1964.
He wrote more than 80 books, amongst which some of the most popular ones are – ‘Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha’ and ‘Taming the Kundalini’.’
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Conclusion
Learning Kundalini Tantra Yoga can be an exciting and stimulating experience for you and your partner.
However, it is highly recommended to practice kundalini tantra yoga postures under the guidance of an experienced and skilled teacher or guru.
Once you can circulate the kundalini energy within your body, you will be able to witness its actual benefits, and it will help you become happier, better lovers and human beings.
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