Tantra might be my new religion ... same goes for you

I had a great experience yesterday. I went to a one day retreat where we did mostly tantric yoga exercises. Your thought; “that’s sex, right?” My thought; “More like sex between your and the others soul”. It’s about celebrating life and learning to open up to and love people just because they are people. You don’t need to really know them, don’t even need to know their names and you can still feel a strong love and openness for them (when you do tantric exercises together).

The exercises that we did can seem weird at first. But don’t worry; you don’t take of your clothes and there’s no nipple biting (as far as I have seen). The big advantage of this weirdness is that you are more or less forced to look at your thoughts and feelings when you are in a vulnerable situation, so close to a person you don’t know. You get all kinds of negative ideas about the other person, yourself and the situation, even if one of your usual values is respecting (and loving) all people you can see all the prejudices you’re still stuck with and live with in daily life. It took me a few hours to let go of those thoughts. Thank god we started at 10 in the morning and ended at 3 that night, I had plenty of time to realize and change important things.

It’s an amazing feeling when you are in an exercise (man and woman together), are able to feel unconditional love for that person and be open and hug and touch each other intensely. For me this day helped me establish something, put into practice and materialize what’s been on my mind for a long time: love all of life.

Today was interesting, having some intense moments, seeing certain stuff clearer. When I visited my mother in law, who is very easy to love, I was forced to watch Brazilian TV, which isn’t easy to love. Especially Fustão, who I always regarded as hugely annoying and with a total lack of talent. I looked at him and tried to not feel resistance against him, and for the first time … I wanted to give him a hug.

Yesterday I saw and felt more things than I can recall or write about now (you wouldn’t want to read a 10 page blog entry). I want to get to know more about Tantra and practice it more. I promise to keep you updated. My advice to you is to go out there and try it, forget the books and the theories, as the wise Nike says; “just do it!”