Today, at the place I live in Thailand, a nine-day Tantra
retreat / workshop finishes. 53 Guests participated. What apparently first
appeared to be a yoga retreat developed more and more (and eventually) in a
Tantra program and experience. And an experience it was.
The guests worked - in the full and exciting program -
in the morning, afternoon and evening. Lack of energy and commitment of the
participants did not appear. It was a huge liberation in connectedness.
How does it work and why most people do not experience
this?
To start with the latter. Your inner database or your
programming, most of the times formed - out of the best intentions of others - by
your upbringing, culture, religion, expectations of others and not to forget personal
life experiences (often damages) push you away from deep inner connection,
intimacy and warm engaged relationships.
Every single person is desiring and has a hunger for
deeper intimacy in life and in all kind of warm friendships and relationships.
And we have been taught to be ashamed of the most natural thing to us in
relation to deep connecting. Shame is the number one thing keeping us from our
evolution to growing into our deepest and best self.
We have shame around our bodies. We have shame around
our emotions and being vulnerable. And all the shame is keeping us like living
these small lives and black and white. Tantra can teach us to step out of this
boxes and to live in technicolor.
And please stop your immediate labelling. Tantra is not just about having (greater) sex. There is a lot of misunderstanding. What tantra really is about
is so much deeper and so much bigger than only sex and effects all the areas of
our life whether you know it or not.
It helps you to connect on a mind, body and spirit
level. All kind of classes or courses teach you to change your mind, to change
your thoughts, to change your believes, but they leave your body - and
especially our senses - as part of the holistic approach in relation to connecting
behind. Tantra brings your body back into the picture and makes your presence
stronger. It’s all about awakening through your senses. Discovering the jewels
of aliveness (as I call in in our Tantra workshops).
We have this deeper cravings locked into our bodies.
Most of us have been taught to disconnect from our bodies to have shame around
all these natural things in us in a way that is crippling our lives. Crippling
your relationships whether that’s romantic relationships, family relationships,
friendships and most of all your relationship to yourself. Do you feel worthy
of being loved and creating sacred sexuality and warm engaged relationships?
Tantra ignites and offers the ability to the soul to
experience the human body through touch, taste and smell and all of your
senses. To be aware of and connected with the energy this sensations bring you.
One person alone but especially two people can share together. And Tantra will
give you that feeling and deep connection back in reclaiming in how sacred
these relationships are. Tantra also teaches you, by releasing your intimacy
blocks and shame, how to be present in a more engaged and connected way. When
you are always stuck in your head and not in your body you cannot totally be
present in connections with others.
If you free your sexual energy in yourselves, you are
more energetic, much, much more alert, connected and attractive. Indeed, it is
something very natural. By too much rational thinking about it, we limit the
positive energy supply to ourselves and our environment. Sexual energy you can
experience physically, mentally, emotionally as well as on a spiritual level
and of course, from that experience, you can express. Sexual energy offers a base
for more enjoyment and pleasure in your daily life.
And the intense enjoyment of these energy you can
simply learn at all ages (because you never learned it and it’s not
age-dependent).
So how does it work?
Tantra, intimacy and sacred sexuality might be a
little bit out of your comfort zone. Possibly it sounds strange at first sight,
but the main thing you are doing is discovering yourself. Not an egoistic thing.
All kind of creative approaches are offered to support your sense and energy journey.
And (at least in our programs) you wear loose cotton clothes (during some
classes in the program ‘white robe’).
Like in many of our other programs mindfulness (the
energy to be for 100% connected with what you are doing) is an important part. To
awaken the senses and creating sensual and sexual energy flow we work with
meditation, visualization, imagination, music (songs and mantras), sound (vibration
and harmonics by Tibetan
singing bowls, Ghantas, Tingshas and gongs),
dance, touch, breathing techniques, body work (Kundalini yoga), massage, etc ..
All with the intention to first find and grant yourself. Discovering and
experiencing what you need from yourself (and/or additional from your
relations) and can give as well to allow that inner energy flow. Emotions /
blockages are visible and you learn yourself to drop veils of shame and
intimacy blocks (till a level that still feels comfortable to you) and accept
the energy flow for deep engaged connecting.
Do you know yourself? My / our experience is that
people generally do not even know their outside. Only that part of yourself you
can see in a mirror. Not even talking about all the uniqueness that is stored
and available on the inside. Not even talking for instance about the intense awareness
of being touched.
And it is precisely in all hose discoveries to get the
higher energy flow and experience. More freedom and a totally different
inspiring and engaged connection with yourself and the world around. That’s the
biggest gift you will learn yourself.
Great, and not even only in and for the participants
themselves, to feel and see a wonderful total energy shift in, and connection
between, people in such a week, making you aware of LIVING in connection.
Worth (and looking forward) organizing.
Frans Captijn
Captijn Insight: “Catalyst in your process to new sustainable flow in life and work. Whether you are an individual, couple, team or an organization.”
Frans Captijn
Host / Catalyst / Talenteer at Captijn Insight
Captijn Insight: “Catalyst in your process to new sustainable flow in life and work. Whether you are an individual, couple, team or an organization.”
captijninsight@gmail.com
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