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Tantric Relationship: Divine Dance of the Masculine and Feminine
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Vajrayogini
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Vajrayogini
is a female Buddha. She recognized and taught that within each of us lies
a powerful wellspring of sexual energy. We can learn to restore, replenish
and rejuvenate ourselves by circulating this energy through out our body.
The early English translations of the Tantras, the Tantric texts, were done by anthropologists and linguists from the west. These men came from a patriarchal background. They did not recognize that many of the Tantras were accredited to Female Tantric masters or written about female teachers.
Vajrayogini is a Dakini, a female Tantric teacher. She taught esoteric practices that apply our sexual energy to awakening us to the confines of our limited realities and the illusion of separateness. This is a feminine path, a path of connection, attraction, fusion, drawing together and experiencing the relatedness and interconnectedness of all things.
In one story Vajrayogini cuts off her own head, which represents her ego or mind. Three streams of life energy (Ida, Pingala and Shushumna), spout from her severed neck into the mouths of her 2 students and her own dismembered head. This symbolizes how our inner feminine intuitive wisdom sustains us, even our own ego/mind. Our ego and mind are necessary to exist in our culture, especially patriarchal cultures. When our ego or mind takes over, judging and degrading input from our intuition and our deep feminine wisdom we get out of balance, and our society gets our of balance.
Tibetan Nuns preserved the Vajrayogini practice in their monasteries. As they would do the practice they sent the healing energy they were cultivating in their bodies out around our planet, blessing Mother Earth. Many of the monasteries have been destroyed, forcing the nuns to leave Tibet. From this exodus the Vajrayogini practice has now become available to women in the West. We now have the opportunity to continue the tradition of this practice, cultivating our deep feminine energy, our connection to the earth, and sending this healing energy out into our communities and the world.
The Vajrayogini Practice uses breath, movement and sound to cultivate our rich, juicy, sensuality and creativity. The movements are gentle, flowing, almost dance like. The practice could be described as a merging of Hatha Yoga and Qigong. Each inhale, with Mulhabanda, we visualize drawing earth energy up into our belly. Exhaling, the energy spreads through out our body and back into the earth, tuning ourselves to the subtle flows of energy. Each breath is an opportunity to connect to the earth, grounding ourselves in our emerging feminine essence.
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Lexi Fisher D.C. Certified Skydancing Tantra, and Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga teacher; Network Chiropractor and Wellness Coach (760)327-4041