“Tantric practitioners often lived the search for this truth as a couple. Around 1,600 years ago, there was a Tantric sect known as the Neela Tantrikas, who lived together in a very unique way. A man and a woman would live inside the same robe, which served as their only garment. Beneath the robe that covered them both, they were naked.
The robe was sky blue in colour, Neela. They chose this colour because it reflects the vibration said to surround two lovers deeply in love during sexual union.
They travelled together, walked, ate, slept, made love, and shared teachings always within the same robe. What courage! They recreated the universe within a single garment. The duality that gives rise to life: Yin and Yang, logic and intuition, love and presence, man and woman.
In this way, they created a constant circuit of exchange between masculine and feminine polarities, a field of transformative energy. They practised Tantric meditations and circulated energy between them. The friction that naturally arose became a continuous invitation to bring awareness to the body, emotions, and consciousness itself.
The benefit of one was the benefit of both, because they were one. Their differences were simply different ways of perceiving the same reality. They had to surrender to one another, to accept, and to relax.
It was an extraordinary way of exploration, of meditation, of walking the path toward Mahamudra.”
Tantra for Couples
When a couple comes to understand that their relationship goes beyond fulfilling romantic expectations, having children, or maintaining a sexual life, they can awaken to themselves, to love, to acceptance, to compassion, and to bliss.
Tantra for Couples
According to the science of Tantra and the secret teachings of the Tao, you can find your inner man and your inner woman within yourself, in the centre of the brain, in the connection between the two hemispheres. When the feminine and the masculine meet within you, when light meets darkness, intuition meets reason, and heaven meets earth, you have arrived home. Shiva unites with Shakti, and you come to know bliss.
In our relationships, we project our unconscious masculine or feminine aspects onto our partner and expect them to mirror back the unrecognised parts of ourselves, both positive and negative. After failing repeatedly in relationships, many people either resign themselves and fall asleep emotionally, or they turn the arrow inward and begin searching within. This is the moment when Shakti, still identified with the ego, turns inward and asks, “Who am I?”, beginning the search for inner truth, for Shiva.
When a couple is able to understand that their relationship goes beyond fulfilling romantic expectations, having children, or maintaining a sexual life, they can awaken to themselves, to love, to acceptance, to compassion, and to bliss. This path of intimacy with another is a path of great courage. It confronts you with your fears, insecurities, emotions, and forgotten corners, constantly inviting you to become more truthful.
We have created these gatherings for couples who wish to explore the paths Tantra offers for living sexuality and intimacy more consciously. Each course can serve either as an initiation into this work or as a unique and dedicated space to deepen your relationship and delight in the meditations, massages, and many other techniques this vast path has to offer.
Each course will focus on a specific theme, although in truth I allow myself to be guided by your needs, both individually and within your relationship, in the moment we meet.
The Story of the
Neela Tantrikas
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