Tantra: Soul Gazing
Short, sweet, simple post, but maybe the most profound Tantric experience: looking into the eyes of your partner for long periods of time. Whenever I do it, it feels like my partner and I melt into one another. I lose all sense of boundaries, separateness. Nothing exists but his eyes, the beating of my heart and the halo that surrounds us.
To do this is simple...just gaze into the left eye, said to be the window to the soul.
If you want to dress it up a bit, you can add a heart salutation, something I learned from Margo Anand. For this, you and your partner sit across from one another. Put your hands in the prayer pose pointing down to Earth. One person breathes, the other follows their breath (the best way to do synchronized breathing). After you've settled in and feel a connection, as you i
nhale you bring the hands up, still in prayer pose, to your hearts. With the next exhale you keep the hands at the heart and touch foreheads. Breath together there for awhile, closing your eyes and focusing on your internal feelings and the connection of your bodies at the forehead. When it feels like it's time, you break contact of foreheads with an inbreath, sitting back up straight. Open your eyes when you feel like it's time. Then on an outbreath, point the hands back down to Earth. You can do this more than one time, whatever feels "right" to you.You can then
sit across from each other not touching, just gazing into each other's eyes, or I like to connect at the heart. Each of you places your right hand on the other's heart. Then you take your left hand and put it on your heart, over your partners right hand. Breathe together, again, with one person setting the rhythm, the other following. On the outbreath, feel the energy go from your heart, down your right hand, into your partner's heart. Then imagine it mixing with the other's love energy in their heart and coming down their right arm into your heart with the inbreath. Change focus back and forth, until you feel the circle. Yum........Feel where the two of you go.....
And, don't forget to visit my Tantra Sister, Greenwoman who's topic for this Thursday's Tantra about solo practice and submission. Juicy stuff.
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6 comments:
Yes!
I love love love love love eye contact ! The energy that goes back and forth, the ebb and flow of emotions is amazing !
Yes, Jonas...smile.
Me, too, Annie. Love the melt. I think that most of the 'exercises' of Tantra are to bring us back to the simple point of connection..which can be obtained by simply looking into one another's eyes.
I love the eye gazing as well. Very beautifully written Pamm. As usual!
Nice post Pamm. You inspired me to to write a little blurb on soul gazing. I love doing the heart connection along with it. Thanks for all beautiful writing effort. Your gifts are amazing.
Hi, and thanks, Adrienne. The heart is what it's all about, yes?
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