Yoga & Tantra

Yoga is based on the resistance. Tantra is based on acceptance and alignment with life energy. On the surface to the little mind they look like opposites or two different techniques to awakening. Either practice one or the other. Yoga is the meditation way and tantra is the way of love and devotion. However, all opposites are actually united and dependent on each other. In other words, their duality is just an illusion. The very wise practice is to learn and master the art of unity between yoga and tantra. As yoga allows you to open more fully and your life energy begins to flow more abundantly, the ego will try to block and oppose that energy and prevent you from awakening. This is where tantra can be useful to the yogi. As the energy flows through the practices of yoga, receive it and allow it to be with the tantra mind of complete acceptance and surrender, feeling all of your life energy with total conscious awareness. In this way the flow from yoga will purge and dissolve the many fears that block your Chakras and allow the energy to progress easily and beautifully. Without tantra, the ego will react to the opening and flow from your yoga practice and you will struggle more with these opposing life energy directions. Life energy is pouring and flowing abundantly all the time, however without the opening created by yoga and the receptivity and alignment of tantra it will be fought and blocked by the ego energy that flows in the opposite direction against life’s flow seeking to grab and attach, smother, distort, obscure the direction and flow of life.