Thursday's Tantra: Bringing The Energy Up

If you've learned the basic breath, kegel and pelvic tilt and are combining the three (or at least two of them) you are ready for this stage of practice. Now the fun really begins where you get to start consciously bringing orgasmic energy up your body. You can increase your ability to feel Life energy flowing through you. It also forms the base for increasing orgasmic potential whether you are just beginning to feel it, want to enhance what you already feel, become multi-orgasmic, or if you are a man, help you with both PE and ED.

I've included this picture of the chakra centers as a handy reference.

Although not necessary, it helps with this exercise to have some hypnotic music to play. Something soothing, monotonous, entrancing is best. The CD, El Hadra, is an excellant choice.

This exercise was first taught to me in its basic form in 1994 by Margo Anand. She calls it "Opening the Inner Flute" and it is included in its full on form in her book The Art of Sexual Ecstasy. I think it is the best selling Tantra book in the world.

Basically all you do is to lie on the floor on your back with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Listen to the music and settle in, breathing regularly, grounding, feeling your body and the breath permeate everywhere.

Start your breathing.

Then add the kegels, then pelvic tilt if you want.

After you feel comfortable and relaxed, focus on the red area (first chakra, at the perineum). If you have a difficult visualizing this, some find it helpful to envision the colors and the area itself. It's important for you to continue the exercise even if you don't think you are feeling anything. If you "fake it," in other words, even if you only imagine you can feel it, the body will often follow suit and actually start to feel after awhile. You can't do this wrong.

Feel your sexual energy and visualize that area lighting up and filling with energy. As you exhale, feel/see/sense the energy going out and down. Even if you don't feel anything, just keep pretending you do and often you probably will when you least expect it.

After a few times of having just this area light up, then see the energy move from there to the next stop above the pelvic bone. Release/see/sense/feel the energy go down and out as you exhale.

After a few of those, bring it up to your belly. Take a few breaths there, pulling energy up, letting it out.

Just keep going, stopping for a few breaths at each energy center; to the heart; throat; between the eyebrows; all the while imagining you are bringing Life energy up the center of your body. Eventually you bring it all the way up to the top of your head.

Then after you've brought it all the way up, stairstep your way back down, with each few breaths; bringing it to the Third Eye, Throat, Heart, etc., all the way down. End with just breathing fully into the belly, then regularly. Slowly feel your body connecting to the floor, ground more and more fully into the Earth, then when you feel ready, slowly open your eyes, roll over and sit for awhile before getting up.

What you will notice is that after a number of times doing this that the center of your body feels really free. Many will begin to feel energy rising in different ways. You may start to get tinglies, shoots of energy, or oozie orgasms that make you shudder while little ripples of delight pass through your body. There is no right or wrong way to do this.

If you don't feel this stuff, just keep doing it. I know you will eventually feel something, perhaps ease and peace, clarity and inner ease.

Just doing the exercise this way is extremely beneficial in and of itself. It tunes you into the energy, opens pathways, increasing connection and presencing. It can also be used to directly influence sensual experience and orgasmic capacity.

After you've done this a few times and feel comfortable with it, you can start a basic modification to really spread the energy and get it moving. When you are ready for this next level, you can combine this with self pleasuring. As you bring yourself almost to the point of orgasm, then stop the stroking. Take a huge breath in through your nose, bringing the energy up through the Chakras. Many people bring the energy up to the heart, to assist the heart in opening. Some bring it to the Sixth. Just bring the energy up, hold it, pump the kegels as you do the pelvic tilt, diffusing that orgasmic energy all through your body. When you need to breath, slowly release the breath, imagining the energy flowing out the first chakra into Earth, taking all blockages you are holding on to and don't need with it. As the energy of orgasm lessens, begin self pleasuring again. Do this raising of the energy at least three times before you let the orgasm complete.

You may notice after awhile of doing this that your body gets very sensitive to energy movement. Because you have practiced this, you will be able to diffuse the energy easily, bringing Life through you and vitalizing your body for optimal health.

And don't forget to go visit my Tantra Sister, Greenwoman at her lovely blog Honestly Speaking for her Thursday's Tantra contribution. She makes life glow-y. I've also added a Tantr blogs section to my blogroll. If you have a Tantra blog and want to be on my blogroll, please let me know. And if anyone wants to also participate in Thursday's Tantra and be linked to, let us know that, too. Parties are always fun. Blessings!!

Art:

Chakras from here

Chakra Shield from here

Chakras Walk from here