TANTRA YOGA
What is Tantra Yoga?
The word Tantra, in Sanskrit means to expand. Tantra Yoga joins many other yoga practices and is another spiritual aspect of Yoga: connecting with self-energy and the energy that flows in the universe. Tantra Yoga has a very holistic approach and works on the various planes of the body, which can be attributed to the energy source within it, which has various locations in the body itself. Each of these energy sources has its weaknesses and its strengths. Tantra Yoga has both spiritual and physical aspects of health. It covers the internal Yogic experiences of chakras and takes counter to other forms of Yoga. Understanding the workings of the body with the effect of the external atmosphere and then using the body or body postures to drive your energy in specific directions from this atmosphere is what Tantra Yoga is. Learning and clearing all these concepts in Tantra and Yoga takes time.
Tantra and its misconception
It deals with black magic.
In Western countries and even in India, where Yoga originated, people practising tantra yoga are often portrayed as black magicians with special powers to overpower people and fulfil their desires by affecting others around them, using various methods to get the Gods to bless them and remove hostile forces and their bad karmas that get in the way of happiness. They also ruin others by doing black magic. It is also believed that such Tantrics may use well-defined knowledge systems to do this black magic.
It is only related to a sexual aspect.
Tantra can transform one energy source by using more forms of energy through chakra centres inside the body and regulating the flow of energy used. This way, Tantra becomes very powerful. Generally, when someone hears about Tantra, thoughts about sexual practices or rituals involving sex come to mind. In reality, Tantra is a complete science that focuses not only on one aspect of body functioning. It is a system that combines various methods like Pranayama, mantras, meditation, and Ayurveda that work on the energies in the universe to transform your energy with this plane. The predominant energies in the universe are created and sourced by tantra yoga. If you focus only on one element of Yoga and Tantra, you will surely miss this fantastic art that can transform your mind, body, and soul.
Many believe that Yoga and Tantra cannot be combined. However, the fact is that you can easily do so. So many positive aspects of Tantra Vidhya make it possible to adopt Yoga. On the other hand, Tantra is taken as a negative aspect of life, but the fact is that it is just a few people who do it. But Yoga can easily remove that misconception about the scene.
