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Tantra uses sexual energy to expand awareness and experience ecstasy. It teaches people how to move their sexual energy from their genitals, up to the top of their head, and everywhere in between, allowing the entire physical and energetic body to become ecstatic. When the sexual energy reaches the crown it can expand a persons awareness of the mystical realms, allowing them to recognize they are Divine Consciousness in human form.

A full body orgasm is the experience of feeling your whole body vibrating with orgasmic energy. This can be done outside of a sexual context as well as while making love. Anyone can learn how to have a full body orgasm by following the steps below.

7 steps for Opening the Inner Flute:

1) Stand with your knees hip width apart and slightly bent.

2) Breathe through your mouth and deep into the belly, allowing it to expand begin activating your sexual energy.

3) Once you have master the belly breath you can increase the intensity by inhaling as if you are sipping through straw. Exhale with an open mouth and release a deep sound from the belly. Sound also intensifies the expansion of energy.

4) Now, allow your pelvis to begin rocking. Keeping the knees bent, let your pelvis rotate freely. As you inhale rock the hips back, arching the small of the back. As you exhale, tuck the tail bone under, flattening the small of the back. Breath, sound and movement are the 3 Keys of Sky Dancing Tantra.

5) Next, add the PC pump. As you inhale squeeze the pelvic floor muscles pulling them upwards and as you exhale let them relax back down. It feels a bit like you are trying to stop and start a stream of urine. These are sometimes called Kegel exercises.

6) 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.

7) Once you have mastered connecting root and heart move the energy up 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 is a wonderful way to get your energy flowing. Once the Inner Flute is open you are ready to learn how to expand the energy and experience Full Body Orgasm. There are 3 steps to this process:

1) The Streaming Reflex helps you recognize that your body is made of ecstatic energy which you can stimulate and expand whenever you want to. You learn to experience orgasmic energy outside of a sexual context and discover that you can awaken your own pleasure body with out genital contact. The practice-You begin by standing with your feet hip width apart and knees bent. Allow your thighs to begin to vibrate side to side. Allow the vibration the spread up and down the body until your whole body is vibrating. It is helpful to do this with music, I recommend Osho’s Kundalini Meditation CD.

2) The Ecstatic Response is the process of being relaxed in high states of arousal. You learn to become a bigger container for ecstatic energy and to relax fully letting the energy naturally expand. The effect is one of sexual excitement and deep peace. When you master the ecstatic response you move beyond the genital orgasm and discover the full body orgasm. The practice- After several minutes of your whole body streaming lay down on the floor with your knees bent and your feet close together. Let your knees gently fall apart like a butterflies wings opening. Allow your body to relax fully and continue to open and close your knees. This process allows the ecstatic energy to spread throughout the body. This is best done listening to gentle, relaxing music.

3) Once you mastered Opening the Inner Flute and the Full Body Orgasm outside a sexual context you can introduce these practices into your love making and experience them within a sexual context. Sex becomes an alchemical experience that transforms the physical body into the Bliss Body.

Learning how to swing is one of golf’s fundamental strategies that can help a player become better. But most newbies just don’t get the importance of learning golf swing drills and think that weekend golf games will do the trick to make them better golfers over time.

Most newbie golfers start with less know-how when they hit the fairways; the next thing you know, they are hitting the grass and not the ball. This is just one reason why golf swing drills are there in the first place. If this is not enough reason to learn golf swing drills, then you can count on numerous misses before you finally learn and improve your swing.

2 exercises to add to your golf swing drills:

* Leg work

Every newbie should practice the leg drill since the game itself requires movement of the body as well as balance. It is difficult to swing the upper body if you do not use your legs properly. Leg work in golf is part of the total body mechanism that allows better golf swings overall. Without upper and lower body coordination, you cannot make a good swing and ruin your game entirely.

It is advisable to do some leg work while you are warming up in the course. Some golf enthusiasts may even tell you to do this during breaks before your next round.

Start by putting your legs together and start with your backswing. When you are at the height of your backswing, bring it to a halt. Take a step forward then swing with your hips. Allow the club and your arms swing through an appropriate swing path with a least amount of effort from your upper body. Practice as many times as you deem necessary to condition and remind your body of the movements until it becomes natural or almost an instinct when you hit the golf course.

* Short game

While many golfers concentrate on playing long ball, it is a good practice to include short games into your sessions at the course. It is good to play long ball but a good golfer should know that short games can be a necessity when it’s time to compete.

It may be good to use your driver and keep hitting long balls, but putting your short game into use by practicing it often and during a game can pay off in the long run. You can also add more control over your lower body and your legs when you play a short game. Never put aside the chance of playing this way even though you aspire for the long ball much like the pros because the short ones can also be as powerful.

Newbie golfers know that lowering their scores is essential to keep a good game play. Many amateurs and even pros consider utilizing golf swing drills whenever you can to improve your body movements and game play. There are other drills that you can use during practice and in the actual games to help your technique. And as they say, practice makes perfect- so don’t skimp on hitting the course and use what you learn and know the most to improve your game.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein

This month I connected with my need to slow the level of activity (movement) down just enough that I can become still enough to listen inwards. If you are moving, what are you moving towards or away from?

Is your movement preventing you from being present or taking you deeper into Being?

Stoking the Fire – Are we tending it or adding fuel?

Living in the Las Vegas desert, I feel the heat penetrating my being without doing a single sun salutation. My teaching has given me the luxury and joy of recently traveling to the relatively cooler climates of Chicago, New York and California over the last month. I felt happy to be leaving the dry desert imagining that my days would go much smoother when I wasn’t fighting the heat in every moment. However, I found that even though the temperatures were certainly cooler in other cities, the activity level in my brain was often at record highs! Without realizing it, I was slowly but surely overheating. Very quickly I was confronted with my limited notions of heat and how I unknowingly have been contributing to raising the temperature of my inner fire. What a teaching!

Sanskrit Word of the Day: Langhana -Practices to Cool the Body and Calm the Mind

Langhana is Sanskrit means ‘to reduce’ or ‘to fast’. In yogasana, we use the term to describe the practice of lengthening the exhalation or suspending the breath after the exhalation but it also used to describe poses that have a calming and cooling effect on the body.

The perfect time to do such practices is during the warmer seasons or when your body/mind is over-stimulated. Remember to soften your effort and infuse ease into the body as you try these out:

Calming Meditation: Observe the natural rhythm of your breath and then focus on lengthening the exhale by 2 counts. Gradually increase the counts until the exhale is twice as long as the inhale. So, for example, if your inhale takes 4 counts, try making your exhale 6 or 7 or 8 counts. Notice the effect.

Cooling Pranayama: Try this Sitali breath offered by http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/pranayama/basic/sithali.asp.

Langhana pose: Viparita Karani (legs-up-the-wall pose)

Place a bolster (or 2-3 firmly folded blankets) about 5-8 inches away from the wall. Sit on the edge of the bolster so that one hip is touching the wall. Using your hands for support, lean back and lower your body to the floor so that it lies perpendicular to the wall and swivel your legs up against the wall. Keep the buttocks close to or against the wall, with your tailbone hanging off the bolster. Your shoulders and head are resting on the floor, the arms are out to the side and relaxed. Remain in this position for 5-15 minutes. [Note: If legs straight up against the wall is too intense for your hamstrings, bend your knees into an easy cross-legged position.]

This pose is excellent for fatigue, jet-lag and winding down after a long day. Let me know how it feels for you!

Pajama Days

To bring a langhana (cooling) effect into my life after being on the road for 2 weeks I took a ‘pajama day’- a day just for me that I did nothing that I didn’t wish or have to do. On pajama days, I rarely talk to anyone. I do not always stay in my pajamas(!) but I do generally unplug the phone, email and anything else which could serve as a distraction. This is a time for me to go deep into my sadhana (practice) and connect with what is alive in me. My yoga this week has been about tuning in so that I know what to stimulate and what to quieten. In doing so, I awakened to the realization that the cooling needs to happen from the inside out. It is my responsibility to maintain my equilibrium- to cool down not only by cranking the A/C, but to also quieten the mind when it is unnecessarily over-stimulated.

Create a similar ritual for yourself once a week or once a month and notice the difference it makes in your life.

“Today, find ways to create balance in your life. Cast all negativity in a positive light, and let go of any fears that block the flow of vital energy within your mind, body and spirit.” – Caroline Myss and Peter Occhiogrosso

I recently downloaded the “Healing Cards” application for my iPod, which was created by Caroline Myss and Peter Occhiogrosso. There are fifty gorgeously designed cards created with the intention of providing users with a daily practice for maintaining spiritual balance. Because we are all so wrapped up with the stresses and minutia of everyday life, it’s very handy to open up the application and reflect on the healing thought/meditation and accompanying guidance as they rotate through.

One particular card that resonated with me began with the healing thought: “To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.” This seems really obvious, but how well do most of us accomplish this? Self-care is an important part of restoring balance. The healing card talks about reconnecting and living in harmony with nature, citing that many “spiritual traditions also find a strong link between physical health and spiritual well-being.”

In addition to practices that connect and ground us to nature around us (spending time outdoors, eating healthy, nourishing foods, embracing the change of seasons) we can observe other practices to help us create and restore balance. Some of these include:

• Reframing our life in a positive way
• Finding opportunities for gratitude on a daily basis
• Spending time with loved ones
• Sending love and compassion to our fears and traumas (as well as doing the necessary work to properly integrate and release them)
• Taking time to rest

Practices and healing therapies that directly help or teach you how to reconnect to your body, mind and spirit are also necessary for good self-care. They include: energy healing (Reiki, Qi Gong, etc.), meditation and breathwork, yoga, Tai Chi, massage, acupuncture and chiropractic.

Our body instinctively knows it needs. Watch children and you can see how attuned they are to what their bodies need. The older we get, the less we stop listening because of internal or outside stressors that pull us in numerous and competing directions. Some of these stressors are an unavoidable part of life, but we can find ways to minimize their influence. Self-care is the first step towards integrating the healing we need and increasing the flow of beneficial energy for restoring mind, body and spiritual balance in our lives.

Yoga has become the “in” thing to do in many places and more people than ever practice it. But I am sure that there are still many people who would like to be convinced that they need yoga. In case you are one of these people, this article was written for you and presents the reasons why a regular practice of yoga postures may be just what you need.

The major argument in favor of yoga practice is that it is one of the best ways to relieve stress. While humans of today have far surpassed the achievements of people who lived in a simpler era, we are paying for this intellectual and technological development with a world that is more stressful. Yoga postures and relaxation exercises help to balance a person’s body and mind and directly fight against the build up of stress. People suffering from insomnia and other disorders that have a large psychic component benefit greatly when they practice yoga.

How can yoga affect your mind? This is a key question and the answer lies in yoga postures which put gentle pressure on the endocrine glands. The systematic application of yoga postures balances the secretion of hormones from these glands. When your glands are functioning properly your mind also functions well.

Conversely, if we have any physical defect, it usually affects our mental disposition. It is hard to be cheerful if you are suffering from the pain of a stomach ulcer or any other physical problem. It is in the physical realm where yoga postures have an important role to play.

Just as our modern environment is puts maximum stress on our psychic health, it is not stimulating enough on the physical side. One of the secrets of a long life is to do regular physical labor. However, most people today do mental work and not physical work. It is no wonder that obesity has become one of the greatest health problems of our time. But it is not only obesity that is caused by sedentary lifestyle. Other ailments such as constipation, indigestion, liver disease, hemorrhoids and many others also stem from a lifestyle that is not physically challenging. Fortunately these ailments can be prevented and cured by the regular practice of yoga postures.

The yoga postures do a kind of maintenance and protection work by putting pressure on various organs as well as glands. When the pressure is released blood flows to these organs and the organs function in a better way. If yoga postures are combined with proper diet and other exercise (such as regular walking) they can help a person to live a long, healthy, happy and productive life.

You don’t have to be an acrobat to practice yoga. You don’t have to wear a robe or grow a beard. You just have to learn some basic yoga postures and practice them on a daily basis in your own home. Try it out and see for yourself.

Everybody can practically know the tricks and practice reading the sexy body language and signs of attraction — knowing how read hints not only makes you an expert — you also have a better edge than the rest! However, let’s start with the basics. How exactly do we know that someone is already flirting with us? Why do women tend to make use of their body language so much instead of just saying whatever it is she needs to say straight out to our faces? Well, that’s one of the many mysteries that make up a female specie. Now, you need to learn her hidden moves and find out if you both have the hots for each other! Here’s how:

The lip bite. The lip licking and biting seemed to be totally harmless but you better start thinking otherwise. The lip licking and biting can mean total sexual attraction. It can be tricky I know, but you can get to know it if you become very sensitive and observant of her body language — it holds so many exciting needs you never knew existed!
The sensual caress. When a woman starts to get pretty close and even makes the moves to set-off intimacy, then by all means, let her. That’s beyond a crush — she definitely wants you. When sexual tension builds up, the need to get close and actually touch is very strong that most women can’t fight the urge for temptation — they will slowly reach out to touch you — trying their best to make it as neutral as possible.
The intense gaze. Eye contact — staring, gazing, looking, watching — whatever her means are, as long as she maintains your gaze. It’s a sure signal she’s attracted to you. Eye contact signifies intense and interest — and most probably, attraction. Stare right back and hold her gaze until she gets a little uncomfortable. Anxiety can mean great sexual tension.
The need to get close.That’s right. Getting close is not an option — it is a must. That happens when she’s totally attracted and drawn to you that it’s gotten beyond her control. When she starts leaning over and gets pretty near, you now know the procedure — it’s time to get some action.

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