Dear Friends,
We often hear from our participants that
they find it challenging to commit to a regular tantric practice.
A million and one things are more important, and time is
so precious! It is easy to find excuses, especially if there is
only myself, or me and my partner and to be accountable to. That's why
the Sangha, our community, is an integral part of our
spiritual growth and our commitment to pleasure and ecstasy. The
community, our tantric family, reminds us of our dedication and
the benefits that come from regular practice, plus it is fun to spend
time with like-hearted others!
In New York, there has been a SkyDancing Tantra
practice group for more than 10 years with mostly the same people. We
have witnessed and been deeply touched by the depth of their
connection, the level of trust and the unwavering commitment to a
bi-monthly meetings for many years.
Our wish and goal is to create other such practice groups across the USA. Currently Dan Argraves,
SkyDancing Tantra Teacher-in-Training, holds a monthly
practice group in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are interested to
join this group, please contact Dan. It will be well worth your time, commitment and sense of adventure.
We wish you a luscious Spring!
Much love,
 Lokita & Steve Carter Co-Directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute
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Energize Your Chakras to Expand Awareness
by Crystal Dawn Morris
certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher
 Tantra
is unique from most spiritual practices in that it embraces sex as a
path to the Divine. It sees the human body as a temple. The body
experiences birth, death, hunger, thirst, pain and pleasure. It is a
laboratory for consciousness to play and explore the material world.
Tantra uses the body's sexual energy to expand awareness. As it expands
there is less identification with the ego and separation is recognized
as an illusion.
Tantra teaches you how to move your
sexual energy from your root, up to your heart center and then up to
your crown. Consciousness expands as it moves  from
the lower to the upper chakras. Sexual energy is the rocket fuel that
takes you beyond Earth's gravitational field and into mystical realms.
It accelerates the process of discovering that you are not your
thoughts, bodies, feelings or beliefs. You are the Divine celebrating
life in human form, enjoying the ability to experience pleasure, bliss
and Unity Consciousness. Some of the benefits of energizing the chakras
are increased health, sexual vitality, mental clarity and inner
peace.
In
SkyDancing Tantra we use the "Three Keys," breath, sound and movement
to open the "Inner Flute" and energize the Chakras. Try this:
● Stand with your knees hip width apart and slightly bent.
● Breathe through your mouth and into the belly, allowing it to expand.
● Increase the energy by breathing in as if you are sipping through a straw.
● Allow
your pelvis to rotate freely, keeping the knees bent. As you inhale
rock the hips back, creating an arch in the back. As you exhale, tuck
the tail bone under, flattening the back.
● Add the PC pump. As you inhale squeeze the pelvic floor muscles pulling them upwards and as you exhale let them relax.
● Put
all the steps together. As you inhale imagine you are breathing the
energy up from your root to your heart. Practice this until you feel
the energy pulsing from your root to your heart. You can play with
speeding up and slowing down your respiratory rate.
● Once you
have mastered connecting root and heart, move the energy to the crown.
Practice until you can feel the energy flowing from your root to your
crown. See yourself as a rainbow bridge of light connecting Earth and
Sky.
This
versatile and powerful practice can be done as a daily practice, or use
it before making love, and incorporate it into your love making!
Read more about Crystal Dawn here. She is an inspired SkyDancer, teacher and writer. |
A Participant's Experience of the Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 1 by Diego W.
As I just returned from my "Love & Ecstasy Training" at Harbin Hot Springs, my body, mind and spirit are  still
in the process of absorbing the enormous gifts I received during the
past week that I can hardly think clearly yet about the mundane issues
in life let alone formulate normal coherent sentences... I'm sure this
will come back to normal within just but a few days. This workshop was very different from my experience last year
of a weekend workshop at the Tantra Center in Berlin - not only due to
the fact that it was three times longer and therefore much richer in
its offerings through the slow and steady build-up of the practices...
What I lived this week has touched me deeply on many levels and I have
a new appreciation for the spiritual aspect of Tantra which helps
elevate the experiences practically to a level of divine
sacredness... continue reading here. | |
Upcoming USA Events
FREE! Introduction to SkyDancing Tantra with Dan Argraves Apr 22, 2009 (7-9.30pm) at North Bay Area, CA
SkyDancing Tantra Practice Group with Dan Argraves
Apr 25, 2009 in the SF North Bay, CA
Awakening the Ecstatic Body Level 3: Orgasmic Living with Crystal Dawn Morris
Apr 24-26, 2009 at Sedona, AZ
SkyDancing Tantra: Opening your Ecstatic Treasure Chest with Jim DeVore & Beth Thibault
May 2, 2009 at Middletown, CA
The Art of Sexual Ecstasy with Steve & Lokita Carter
May 8-10, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA
In Praise of the Mother: A SkyDancing Tantra Weekend for Women with Gaia & Holly Rawson
May 8-10, 2009 at Storrs, CT
Shakti Awakens: A SkyDancing Tantra Weekend for Women with Gaia
May 15-17, 2009 at Long Island, NY
The Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 1 with Steve & Lokita Carter
May 18-24, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA
The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: An Introduction to SkyDancing Tantra with Steve & Lokita Carter
May 29-31, 2009 at Omega Institute, NY
The Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 2 with Steve & Lokita Carter
Aug 21-28, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA
NEW! The Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 4 with Margot Anand & Jelle Bode
Oct 29-Nov 5, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA Contact & Calendar
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A Teaching from Margot Anand
"We were conceived in the act of pleasure.
Ecstasy was programmed into us the moment the sperm met the egg in our
mother's womb. It exists inside us right now as a potentiality.
It is possible to create joy within, to live a
life cut like a precious jewel that reflects who we truly are, that
radiates an energy that is healing and enchanting.
And every step we take carries the possibility of such an awakening."
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