Sunlight on the Water

I am a Tantrika. I immerse myself in as many aspects of this wondrous life as I can. 
 

The practices of Non-dual Shaiva Tantra seek to empower us to have a broad range of experiences, and to re-frame our experience in ways that make it profoundly different to what we have become accustomed to. For instance, when we infuse challenging or painful experiences with our awareness, we are able to mine them for gems. We can then arrive at a point where we can authentically say "I wouldn't change a thing" about the experience. In this way, challenging experiences can become blessings and sources of empowerment. 

The practices also help us to become aware that consciousness can manifest any sort of experience for itself, and that which we are is not divisible form anything. That there are no limitations except those we set for ourselves ...intentionally, or as is usually the case, unintentionally. 

My desire with Sunlight on the Water is to help anyone who desires it to discover where they are unintentionally, or subconsciously limiting themselves. 

This is where the meditative tantrik practices, breathwork, and hypnotherapy come into play. 

Hypnotherapy is a profoundly effective tool to uncover limiting belief structures, and trauma events that lay hidden in our subconscious minds and in our bodies. In hypnotherapy, we can then choose to release these hidden structures and integrate trauma events in a gentle and loving way. 

Tantrik meditation and yoga, hypnotherapy, breathwork can also give us access to extraordinary bliss and infuse us with a knowing of our expansive nature and connection to all that is.

From Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition*:

The Goal of Tantrik Yoga 

Total intimacy with the whole of reality.

Immersion into pure being -prior to concept. 

While this statement sounds simple, it’s actually incredibly rare for most humans to experience. What most of us are actually intimate with is our conceptualization of reality, not the immediate experience itself. In other words, our stories, thoughts, labels, and other concepts of our experiences/environment—whether we’re aware of them or not. 

Intimacy with reality requires us to go beyond our mental projections and step outside of our mental model to see directly (rather than through the lens of our conditioning/mental filters). 

 Tantrik Yoga affirms that the whole of our humanity is the direct expression of our divinity, so there is no aspect of ourselves that needs to be rejected, diminished, or transcended. There are no “wrong” emotions or experiences, and there’s nothing specific to “get rid of” other than our mind’s misunderstandings about ourselves and reality. 

On this path, we do seek to shed misconceptions and mental constructs that do not serve us in recognizing the Truth. (Note that we can disbelieve and shed a thought, idea, or mental construct without demonizing it or making it wrong/bad.) There are also aspects of untruth that naturally fall away during the awakening process, with no effort needed. 

Embracing the Whole of Reality 

In many versions of spirituality, and even in other yogic lineages, people are taught that some natural human emotions or experiences are acceptable, and some are not. For example, some lineages imply that desire, fear, or anger are not okay, or at least are “less spiritual” than other feelings (like happiness, faith, and love). From this perspective, experiencing these “lesser” emotions equates to being less spirituality advanced or disciplined. 

From the Tantrik perspective, the whole spectrum of the human experience is embraced as equally valid and divine. Having said that, it is also the case that our relationship to some of these more challenging emotions & experiences changes profoundly as we practice. And many practitioners find this shift does greatly reduce the suffering felt in response to some of these emotions. But even so, Tantra teaches that painful experiences are not wrong, bad, or something we “shouldn’t” be having. 

Tantrik Yoga lead us to an all-encompassing embrace of the whole of reality as it is. Right now. 

This doesn’t mean that we have to agree with everything. It doesn’t mean we have to enjoy it either. But from this perspective, we can allow everything that is the right to be, without making it “wrong” for existing.

Tantrik Yoga Sessions

Our classes utilize meditative breathwork, and yin yoga opening/deeping/relaxing asanas (poses) to help us become consciously aware of the Divinity of our being, and let go of what no longer serves us. We settle deeply into the peace of full acceptance.

Tantrik Relationship Sessions

Resistance to what is or judgement of ourselves or others can manifest in relationship difficulties, 'dis-ease' in the body or mind, or blocks to the flow of our natural abundance and our peace of being.

These sessions incorporate tools from the realms of talk therapy, hypnotherapy, Jungian Analysis, and tantrik yoga.

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*I highly recommend listening to the audiobook Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition -it's available on audible and it is an incredibly easy to listen to and enjoyable synthesis of classical tantra from a teacher who truly practices what he teaches.

You can also get a free introduction to Classical Tantra here:

https://tantrailluminated.org/online-courses-retreats/