Category: Tantra Yoga

“The merging of mind is achieved by listening to inner sound.” – Hatha Yoga Pradipika We dwell not only in an ocean of light (color), but of sound as well. Vast tides of this vibrational energy, which Tantriks call nadam, flow around and through all things – living and non-living, visible and invisible. The Shastra…

“Forms, colors, densities, odors – what is it in me that corresponds with them?” WHITMAN: “Leaves Of Grass” Color, which has transformed man’s environment and has played a powerful but secret role in his inner life, remains one of the least understood forces of today’s world. For colors are but the various wave lengths of light.…

The serious student may well ask at this point: Is there a prescribed order or program in Tantrik practice? If so, what is the first step? The answer to such a query is that there is a definite procedure to be followed. But before considering in detail the preliminary exercises in the disciplina arcani, let…

“Man’s consciousness has no fixed boundary.”  Avalon: Shakti & Shakta In this our age of fear, anxiety and materialism, the doctrine of Tantra yoga reminds us of a long-forgotten truth: We are in continual, direct touch with an order of existence far higher than that of earth. In the profound depths of our being, we receive guidance…

“What is here is elsewhere. What is not here is nowhere.” – Vishvasara Tantra. Anyone even slightly familiar with the practice of yoga in any of its numerous forms, knows that the spinal column has a vital place in the yogic scheme of things. Almost without exception, books on the subject show the reader in…

“In the beginning, this world was only the Self, in the shape of a person. He looked around; he saw nothing there but himself. First of all, he cried out, “I am!” And then he became frightened; thus one is frightened when alone.” Brihad-aranyka Upanishad In attempting to present to the Western reader a clear…