During this Covid 19 crisis many couples are being strained by the lockdown. Being stuck together for days on end puts pressure on a relationship. Today we explore some tips for how to bring more joy and fulfilment into a relationship.

From a Tantric perspective, a healthy, vibrant, joyful and juicy relationship is based having your needs met and also on polarity. It is this polarity of masculine and feminine energies which makes a relationship exciting, interesting, and fulfilling. Creating that polarity means being in your confidence as a man or woman. Tantra provides us with some great tools and mindset to help you find that balance between your need for connection with your partner and your need for freedom/independence.

Classical Tantra gives us a beautiful and practical description of the nature of God, referred to in tantric texts as the Five Powers of God. These five characteristics describe how the Divine flows from formless consciousness into dynamic manifestation. We, as humans, can embody and apply these divine characteristics in our everyday life. From the bliss of our inner Divine connection arises the impulse to create something unique. When we create something unique, no matter how small, we are fulfilling our innate purpose to express and manifest a small part of God in this world.

In this episode I talk about three specific techniques from Tantra which can help us to have better quality orgasms. These tips are great for both women and men, and the benefits include things like being able to have deeper, more fulfilling orgasms, being able to last longer in love-making, and awakening all the chakras of our being. As a man, I share my perspective and personal experience of how we men tend to have "low-quality" orgasms by default. Through Tantra and these three specific techniques men can learn to have deep, whole body orgasms, just as much as women can. I also talk about how learning to have quality orgasms is an important step if you want to practice semen-retention in a healthy way.

In this episode I talk about the Tantric five-layer view of Self. In Tantra our true Self is not something that is separate from our body, emotions, and thoughts. Some approaches to spirituality hold that we should reject or deny those “lower” aspects of ourselves, which obscure and block our vision of our higher Self. The Tantric path, on the other hand, teaches that our true Divine Self permeates every level of our being, and we can work with, heal, and enjoy all those facets of existence which make us human.

Tantric teachings talk about three "impure" or ineffective motives for spiritual practice which can impede our progress. Rather than blocks, I see these more as ongoing steps that are necessary for us to mature in our spiritual growth. These three steps deal with our healing, our experience of higher states of consciousness, and the role of our ego. Ultimately the goal or "pure motive" is about discerning the absolute truth of who we are.

Chakras are much more than just the energy centres in your body. They correspond to emotional patterns, the way you are living life, and your shifting level of consciousness. Tantric living embraces and incorporates all levels of consciousness represented by the different chakras.

Tantric massage is a beautiful way to awaken all the senses and channel that sexual energy into a deep and loving connection with your partner and with the Divine.

Eye gazing is an amazing practice in Tantra for creating more connection and intimacy with your partner. But it goes even deeper than that. When you practice eye gazing you can really connect with the Divinity in the other person.

In this episode I talk about the importance of the Sacred Masculine and the Divine Feminine in Tantra. These are the two aspects of Divine Consciousness which awaken the Kundalini. I talk about Shaivism, Kashmir Shaivism, and how we can connect with Shiva and Shakti.