What is Tantra?

Tantra is an ancient spiritual path that predates many of the world’s established religions. Although Tantric strands have emerged within various religions, Tantra itself is not a religion. It requires no prior belief system, only a willingness to explore our inner worlds. Tantra is an outlook, a method and a way of life that helps us to open our hearts, embrace our sexuality, celebrate the whole of life, and recognise the Divine essence within all beings. Red tantra engages directly with sexuality and sexual energy.

Tantra is a path of ecstatic enlightenment. Ecstasy means to go beyond the limitations of our ego to contact the limitlessness of the Universe. Ecstasy occurs through the marriage of energy and consciousness. The Tantric symbol of yab-yum, the image of a female and male deity in divine sexual embrace, represents the Union of Pure Energy (the feminine principle) with Pure Consciousness (the masculine principle). In other words, when we learn how to contain and expand sexual energy, in harmony with love and meditation, then we may experience transformation and healing, and ultimately find Truth, the Divine, Pure Love in all things.

The word Tantra is composed of the Sanskrit words for weaving and expansion. By weaving together, accepting and entering deeply into every aspect of our lives, including sexuality, then our hearts and minds can expand into blissful oneness. Tantra teaches that every one of us, in essence, is already divine, whole and perfect. Most of us, however, have forgotten how to contact and live from that place of wholeness, and Tantra shows us the way back home.