QU'EST-CE QUE LE TANTRA?
La pratique du Tantra est une combinaison de 5 types de yoga :
– Hatha Yoga : Le mouvement
– Ashtanga Yoga : L’immobilité
– Pranayamas : La respiration
– Mantras : La conscience
– Kundalini : L’énergie
Le tantra aide à rééquilibrer le féminin et le masculin contenu dans notre entité physique. Les deux sont présents et meurent d’envie de se réveiller.
Nous – les hommes – devons renforcer notre énergie féminine, face à une masculinité souvent surdimensionnée et violente. Intégrer le féminin nous conforte dans notre masculin, nous rassure en acceptant ce qui est irrémédiablement déjà présent.
L’énergie féminin est la clef pour trouver votre chemin de vie et votre mission intérieure.
Il y a d’autres cas où l’énergie masculine fait gravement défaut, nous poussant vers de lourds troubles physiques, émotionnels et mentaux. Le Yoga, et particulièrement le Tantra dans sa relation à l’activation de l’énergie sexuelle, vous aidera à trouver qui vous êtes, dans votre nature profonde, pour ouvrir votre coeur à ce qui se présentera à vous dans le futur.
– Earth, in the root,
– Water, in the pelvis,
– Fire, in the belly,
– Air, in the chest
– Space (ether) in the throat.
Harmonizing the four first elements will give us access to the fifth one and consequently to the highest spheres of the consciousness.
The Earth element resides in our root chakra, Muladhara. Visualizing the color red helps connecting to it.
Our root chakra connects us to our rectal, perinuem and genitals area. Moving the consciousness down to our intimate anatomy is not an easy part as a man.
Have you ever looked at it in the mirror ? It might be a good start for the work we’ll do together. Get more familiar with your anatomy to fully embrace what you are.
The water element is being hold inside our pelvic area : The hips, the genitals, the bladder and prostate, but mainly in our sacrum, siege of our second chakra : Swadhisthan. Its color is orange.
Women are deeply connected to their pelvis due to their organic cycles and potential motherhood. Women are in the Yin.
Men are in the Yang, located in the belly. Men are either over-focused on abs work and strength or, on the contrary, simply just letting it go.
This is our natural element: « Warm body, dominant personality, strong, confident, in power and in action » is what would define a man grounded in his fire element.
Too much fire, and we become tyrannical and uncontrollable. Anger, frustration, jealousy, competition and violence then dominate our life.
Not enough fire, and we become low in energy, unable to make decision and to move forward, stagnant, over-weight, lazy and depressed.
Balance is key!
The last of of the main four elements, air is located in our chest, connected to the breath our heart and lungs.
Pranayamas (breathing exercices) are made to move the energy up towards our chest and throat. Pranayamas are executed when the Hatha Yoga is finished i.e. when the physical Yoga has allowed all the energy points to activate and release.
Visualize it as a door to access the brain in a deeper manner. Lots of spiritual practices use the breath to access the sub-levels of consciousness, just like you would during an hypnosis session.
Yoga and especially Tantra in its deep energetic work will place us exactly where our energy should be.
Not all men are naturally firy and it would be a mistake to be searching for something we are not. We are all different and while some of us need a deep Fire energy, others will feel more confortable in a robust Earth grounded energy.
The path to Tantra – « Liberation of the mind » – will guide us towards our own natural power by letting go the old ideas of what a man should be.
