Welcome to the first Tantra North newsletter

As the “Sexuality and the Chakras“ workshop is fast approaching, I thought this makes a good starting subject. 

Some of you might have been wondering what Tantra has to do with a “flaky New Age concept like chakras” so I am going to attempt to explain why... 

The chakra system is a major part of  tantra. Chakras are part of the non-physical “energy” body.  Although this non-physical energy reality has not been scientifically verified, this ancient concept allows us to make sense of experiences which otherwise would be perceived as strange if not mad.  There is a load of esoteric stuff on the chakras on the internet so I am going to talk about an area less easy to find, how the chakras relate to our sexuality.

Here is a sexual journey through the chakras. Our workshop “sexuality and the chakras” goes is an excellent opportunity to experience some (more) of these for yourself.  
 
First Chakra 

• SEXUAL APPETITE
• Sex drive and “horniness”
• Orgasm is experienced as a release of tension, mainly in the genital area
• Post orgasm is either exhausted sleep or leaves an “itch” that needs to be scratched 
• Sexuality seems insatiable

Second Chakra

• SEXUAL PLEASURE
• Erotic, sensual sexuality
• Beginner tantric experience
• Orgasm builds slowly as relaxed sensuousness helps you to bypass your desire to force orgasm
• Orgasm is still a release of tension, but it is deeper and spreads beyond the genital area. It creates a deep sense of completion, relaxation and emotional peace.
• Orgasm at this level helps to deepens the bond between couples 

Third Chakra

• SEX AS FUN AND GAMES
• Sexual manipulations – seduction and games
• The “dark” aspects of Tantra – taboo breaking, sorcery and sex magic
• The “feminine” version is seduction - the Femme Fatale or the Don Juan, its mild form is flirting.
• The “masculine” version is to increase sexual “charge”, in its milder forms it is having sex in risky situations, such as outside, on a plane etc. More extreme, it starts to encompass aspects of   BDSM
• Orgasm is still a release of tension which is heightened by increasing the excitement between the couple (the “chase”) or the riskiness of the setting (the “charge”)
• Post orgasm initially feels like a victory but can be followed by feelings of distaste, insecurity or the desire to seek more excitement.

Fourth Chakra

• SEX AS “BEING IN LOVE”
• Intermediate Tantric experience.
• Usually easier for a woman to achieve as her aroused sexuality rises naturally from her genitals to her heart. If a man’s heart is open to receiving this he feels deep pleasure, that the gift of his lingam is so lovingly accepted.
• Orgasm is more than a release of tension, the couple become aware of the flow of energy between themselves, linking them invisibly but powerfully at sex and heart.
• The pleasure of the physical orgasm extends into loving feelings and is deeply bonding.
• The post orgasm bliss can be prolonged and the loving may spread to all beings.  

Fifth Chakra

• THE “SACRED MARRIAGE”
• Advanced tantric experience
• Sex as merging of 2 souls/energy bodies
• Here we move even further from familiar love making.
• At a physically level the sensations of erotic pleasure from our mouths become equally pleasurable as those from the genitals.
• It is strongly bonding. There a sense that you are god and goddess making love.
• Orgasm changes its quality. It is no longer a release of tension but a blissful flow of energy circulating between you and your partner, in both directions. 

Sixth Chakra

• THE “SOUL MATE”
• Advanced tantric and spiritual experience
• This can be non-genital sexual experience. It is powerful trigger to start or deepen a relationship.
• This is sexuality happening outside the body. Tantric and meditative practices prepare you for this experience.
• It can feeI as if that you and another have met before, which can feel like an experience of past lives.
• The sexual experience does not relate to the genitals. It is if you become bigger than your physical body and there may be a dreamlike experience of your souls are making love outside your physical selves.
•  It is accompanying with an incredible sense of release, insight and gratitude that can leave the 2 of you changed and connected forever.

The Seventh Chakra

• SAMADHI
• Advanced tantric and spiritual practice
• This is non-genital sexual experience that can happen with or without a sexual partner. When it happens it is a gift, sometimes called “grace”.
• Tantra has practices designed to take raw, physical sexual energy up through the energy body out through this chakra so that such experiences are more likely.
• This is the place the mystics talk of where all becomes one, we dissolve into the oceanic bliss of consciousness.