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The
very word sparks images of love gurus and headlines promising speedy ways to
set the bed on fire. By the sound of things, White Tantric Yoga may
just explode any preconceptions you have in one intensive day.
International Yoga teacher, Sat Simran Kaur is in Australia in September to facilitate a one day White Tantric intensive at UNSW. Her pithy summary of White Tantric Yoga? “Until you’ve experienced it you have no idea what it is like”.
Variously described as life-altering, uplifting, challenging, transformative and even ‘powerfully indescribable’, White Tantric Yoga is – by all reports – intensive to say the least. One misconception gets blown out of the water right away however: it’s not about sex.
The White Tantric experience is unique for every person. In practice, it is yoga and meditation, using mudras, breath techniques, postures, mantras and chanting to cleanse the subconscious mind and aura. In a relatively short time subconscious limitations are released allowing for a feeling of inner freedom and expansiveness.
Sounds great. Has your subconscious mind been giving you a little trouble lately.
Tantra literally means longitude and latitude of the Universe, natural polarities we find everywhere we look. Yin and Yang, night and day, and on an inner plane, the challenges of reconciling differences and paradoxes we project outside ourselves. Should I, should I not? I want to, but I can’t. This is not me, this is you. Why do I feel this way, and where is this from? Tantra also describes the cosmic ‘weave’ connecting all things. Is a sense of connectedness part of the White Tantric experience? It can be, explain those who have done it.
Recent experiences in Cape Town “It’s an experience of being pushed to your limits while being held and supported beyond words” says businesswoman Karin Geldenhuys.
Deidre Rhodes, a social educator, felt “a lot of emotion, a sense of tangible vibrational energy, and a deep sense of peace and connection”.
At once profound and personal Deidre also experienced “....strong group energy, and connection to every soul there. A strong feeling of: if you want to change the world you really need to start from within. I felt a sense of shifting consciousness and patterns...me, the world, the universe. All one...”
But what people go through is highly individual. What one person finds blissful, another may find hellish. Certainly the physical demands can be powerful but what going on inside you can be even more so.
Pritam recalls “Once I went into an hour long experience of a past lifetime. I was in great pain, and at the same time I felt a slow bliss pouring through my system. It was completely astonishing to feel both lucid and contain this experience. So beautiful and at the same time very challenged – surprisingly, you can actually be in pain and in bliss at the same time.”
Just in case you arrive expecting a past life movie, Pritam also notes that its not necessary to have an expectation; you get what you get. “You don’t know what to release until you can actually experience it as gone. That is the beauty of Tantric, and in this manner it is Grace”.
White Tantric yoga is practiced facing a partner. It may be your life partner or it could be simply someone you team up with on the day. Naturally if your White Tantric partner is also your life partner it is an opportunity to share a deep process.
White Tantric Yoga is considered the ‘high art’ of yoga. The practice is related to Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, but is open and applicable to anyone. White Tantric is traditionally overseen by the Mahan Tantric (Master of Tantric). Before Yogi Bhajan stepped into this lineage, the last Mahan Tantric was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. For several decades Yogi Bhajan shared a legacy of extremely profound kriyas (yoga and meditation poses) with sacred and healing effect. A series of postures stimulates physical, mental, biochemical and subconscious responses.
While a particular posture may seem easy at first, like holding your hands up above your head, try holding that posture for 5 minutes. And then another 5 minutes. Actually it’s half an hour. Or more. Now you start to get the idea. (Be afraid, be very afraid).
Suraj Kaur , President of KYTANZ (Kundalini Yoga Teachers Assoc) says “No words can really explain the blissful feelings I had after my first experience of 3 days of White Tantric in the desert of New Mexico with 2,000 of us. It was transformative and life changing. You are told you are going to do the most unimaginable exercise, and somehow you just do it. The diagonal tantric energy is electric. I could feel the group energy lifting me, and looking into my partners eyes, I felt I could see deep into her soul, the other person becomes you, you see all, in them and then reflected in your self, there is no time and space”.
This is the first White Tantric in Australia. Sat Sept 13 at The Roundhouse, UNSW. Go to www.kundaliniyoga.com.au for more.
Contact Suraj on suraj@kundaliniwellbeing.com
International Yoga teacher, Sat Simran Kaur is in Australia in September to facilitate a one day White Tantric intensive at UNSW. Her pithy summary of White Tantric Yoga? “Until you’ve experienced it you have no idea what it is like”.
Variously described as life-altering, uplifting, challenging, transformative and even ‘powerfully indescribable’, White Tantric Yoga is – by all reports – intensive to say the least. One misconception gets blown out of the water right away however: it’s not about sex.
The White Tantric experience is unique for every person. In practice, it is yoga and meditation, using mudras, breath techniques, postures, mantras and chanting to cleanse the subconscious mind and aura. In a relatively short time subconscious limitations are released allowing for a feeling of inner freedom and expansiveness.
Sounds great. Has your subconscious mind been giving you a little trouble lately.
Tantra literally means longitude and latitude of the Universe, natural polarities we find everywhere we look. Yin and Yang, night and day, and on an inner plane, the challenges of reconciling differences and paradoxes we project outside ourselves. Should I, should I not? I want to, but I can’t. This is not me, this is you. Why do I feel this way, and where is this from? Tantra also describes the cosmic ‘weave’ connecting all things. Is a sense of connectedness part of the White Tantric experience? It can be, explain those who have done it.
Recent experiences in Cape Town “It’s an experience of being pushed to your limits while being held and supported beyond words” says businesswoman Karin Geldenhuys.
Deidre Rhodes, a social educator, felt “a lot of emotion, a sense of tangible vibrational energy, and a deep sense of peace and connection”.
At once profound and personal Deidre also experienced “....strong group energy, and connection to every soul there. A strong feeling of: if you want to change the world you really need to start from within. I felt a sense of shifting consciousness and patterns...me, the world, the universe. All one...”
But what people go through is highly individual. What one person finds blissful, another may find hellish. Certainly the physical demands can be powerful but what going on inside you can be even more so.
Pritam recalls “Once I went into an hour long experience of a past lifetime. I was in great pain, and at the same time I felt a slow bliss pouring through my system. It was completely astonishing to feel both lucid and contain this experience. So beautiful and at the same time very challenged – surprisingly, you can actually be in pain and in bliss at the same time.”
Just in case you arrive expecting a past life movie, Pritam also notes that its not necessary to have an expectation; you get what you get. “You don’t know what to release until you can actually experience it as gone. That is the beauty of Tantric, and in this manner it is Grace”.
White Tantric yoga is practiced facing a partner. It may be your life partner or it could be simply someone you team up with on the day. Naturally if your White Tantric partner is also your life partner it is an opportunity to share a deep process.
White Tantric Yoga is considered the ‘high art’ of yoga. The practice is related to Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, but is open and applicable to anyone. White Tantric is traditionally overseen by the Mahan Tantric (Master of Tantric). Before Yogi Bhajan stepped into this lineage, the last Mahan Tantric was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. For several decades Yogi Bhajan shared a legacy of extremely profound kriyas (yoga and meditation poses) with sacred and healing effect. A series of postures stimulates physical, mental, biochemical and subconscious responses.
While a particular posture may seem easy at first, like holding your hands up above your head, try holding that posture for 5 minutes. And then another 5 minutes. Actually it’s half an hour. Or more. Now you start to get the idea. (Be afraid, be very afraid).
Suraj Kaur , President of KYTANZ (Kundalini Yoga Teachers Assoc) says “No words can really explain the blissful feelings I had after my first experience of 3 days of White Tantric in the desert of New Mexico with 2,000 of us. It was transformative and life changing. You are told you are going to do the most unimaginable exercise, and somehow you just do it. The diagonal tantric energy is electric. I could feel the group energy lifting me, and looking into my partners eyes, I felt I could see deep into her soul, the other person becomes you, you see all, in them and then reflected in your self, there is no time and space”.
This is the first White Tantric in Australia. Sat Sept 13 at The Roundhouse, UNSW. Go to www.kundaliniyoga.com.au for more.
Contact Suraj on suraj@kundaliniwellbeing.com