What is TANTRA? Introduction for Beginners with Mahara

hello today I'm with Mara with a Tantra teacher and we will go further to know first what did you learn and what is Tantra what do you teach so first how can you describe what is Tantra if you can describe how many hours we have just 10 minutes yeah Tantra is a big word it's a really big word unfortunately in the West it's been a bit misused a lot of people think it's all based around the sexuality it's a it is part of it but only like maybe 8 percent is around sexuality and in the same time it's everything around sexuality but it's understanding the word sex what what does the word sex in time that I mean it's it's it's a it's a magnetic pole so like the be that pollens the flowers it's the inhale the exhale it's it's like a pool of the inner masculine and feminine that in meditation make love you know so it's it's making love with everything when you're washing the dishes feeling the water on the skin you can make love to everything literally it's out bathing in the ocean and allowing the the waves to caress you and the water to carry you and to take away wash away any guilt or shame or anything that doesn't serve you allowing the ocean to wash you and cleanse you it's lying in the grass and smelling the grass and feeling Pachamama the earth beneath you and feeling the heartbeat of the earth it's it's literally making love to everything but in a different way you know in a more sacred way mm-hmm so can you go further into this idea of making love with everything it's what what you mean when you say love yes it's so Tantra is it's not from this sexual drive it's a everything that comes from the heart everything that it's like allowing the heart to be a compass like and asking ourselves when we do certain things why are we doing it is it coming from a space of love or is it coming from a space of greed or from wanting something in return Tantra is not about like wanting to take it's about wanting to give and through the giving because you're giving fully from-from pleasure you're giving from from your heart because it feels right for you in that moment to give then you receive hundred times more but not because you're planning it in your heads it's not wanting anything in return but you're getting 10 times more back and it's a beautiful dance but it's one of the most challenging and the hardest balances to achieve in life because there's so many like constantly when you're it Tantra is there is a constant meditation it's a full awareness a full presence in the here and now not drifting off in the past or the future not controlling life not controlling people not manipulating people it's trying to be present and aware of who am i today and understanding that the only thing that's constant and life has changed that my ideas of life would change through certain experiences with certain people you know we we are conditioned in so many ways so my trainings are mostly about unconditionally you know letting go of all these conditionings is like peeling off all these layers of false conditionings that we that have been given to us and since children and instead we want to like take everything off stand naked there and be who am i today and what is real like I I motivate people or I just want to inspire people to question everything and see the world with a new pair of eyes as if they didn't know anything and really ask yourself is it really right to you know do to love only one person like is it in my truth or is it or is it just because for generations and generations it's been taught to us that we have to marry one man and one woman we stay together forever or if there may be another way because truly I believe that there are thousands of ways to relate with people and not one of them looks alike like every connection with every person is going to be so different and beautiful you know and it's like how can we how can we love everyone and find truth in it and healing in it you know and and how can we be honest without with our needs and desires and our boundaries how can we be in our power to set our boundaries you know and share with you okay I only just met you maybe let's just I guess together and and connect through and I gaze and get to know each other closer like that and then we might have a discussion or we might you know or then we might end up being clowns on the beach you know whatever its how we might end up doing push-ups it's there's a connection between everyone if we allow it to happen and if we open the mind and the heart to not labeling people and oh he's not pretty enough or handsome enough she's not pretty enough he's not as famous and you know it's like we are standing we are the only people standing in our way to ourselves to actually see an experienced life to its fullest because when you understand that you can let everyone is lovable you receive so much love from so many people in so many different ways and it's so nourishing it's so healing it so innocent it's so pure it's it's really it's really healing we're very healing I think touch conscious touch and and time to actually see people are the two things that are really missing in today's world like you know it's more important about having more followers and more friends on a social media platform that we don't even care about really you know for people that's more important but instead of spending all this time on on the net why don't we actually spend more time with maybe five people instead of 500 why don't we spend time with five people and really go deep with these five people you know thank you for this good explanation sorry start somewhere like oh but this is also in this world yes but I think you give a good idea of what is it for you Tantra and now I would like to know like how can you bring people to understand this that we can love anyone no matter of how it's looking or how so how can you bring people to understanding by their own experience I mean maybe in your class how what are the different practices you can do for this so it's actually a shift in the mind it's just a shift in the mind and the letting go of fear and letting go of judgment towards yourself and towards others and when you can do that and then you can start walking forwards then you can start inviting people and it's really about self-love like you really have to accept yourself first and and work on your self first before even wanting to start engaging with other people or you cannot love other people if you cannot love yourself so it's a really like okay asking ourselves what what can I do more to honor and respect my body what what would be beneficial or what would be improving my health my because this body is our vehicle like Oh what can I do more to improve my my way of thinking so that my thoughts become more positive instead of you know you can see it a glass half-full or half-empty and and like my mom she always sees the glass half-empty I keep telling it mom you know you can see it half-full you know it does exist okay so it's like owl choice that we make do we want to see the glass half-empty or do we want to see it half-full and it's just a switch in the mind and when that switch happens then life starts becoming very colorful and very beautiful very raw and intense and emotions will start becoming intense too you know that the the love and the beauty and everything will be incredibly here but then the pain will also be intense but this is the beautiful part about Tantra when you understand that pain can also be beautiful when you can see and accept the pain then it can turn into beauty as well so then there is no need to be afraid of the pain and then you can really dive all in and just say yes to life and so concretely in one class let's say you do a class of two hours workshop so what happens that kind of workshop well you just finished two hours of workshop and I really loved hits but maybe your explanation will be better than mine is there any structure yes so my it's the intention my intention is to give people the heart-opening experience my intention is to give people the feeling or the experience of oneness how can we all complete strangers come together and within two hours two hours see it like everyone in that room walked out and felt peace and felt connected to the people in the room and you know we can also walk in a room and walk out after two hours feeling like oh my goodness we're tense and anxiety and whatever you know like but again it's it's how do we how do we it's magic I don't know I can't explain it's it's really through different I don't the only thing I plan is my theme what do I want to work on that's the only thing I plan so today we were working on fear we can work on death on love on excitement on ecstatic nasaan joy unconscious touch conscious communicate the millions of things we can work on and every time we do a different topic and so in the class they could the first part we always work on our own body as I said before we need to work on ourselves first and then we can start working with others and so we will do something for movement you know I can be dance it can be yoga can be stretching just some kind of body awareness and then we move into the mind how can we cleanse give a clean up in the mind so we're not drained with thousands of thoughts like so we might be doing breath work chanting I gazing something to get us out of what our to-do list or whatever yeah and then the second part is working with with people either in groups of two three or bigger groups depending on how many are in the classroom and then through working with people that's the beauty about these Tantra were workshops or through working with with people is that we're all mirrors for each other so by working together instead of me in a typical class setting it's not me standing in front teaching people okay this is why we need to let go of fear this is why we have to walk towards fear so instead of me saying all these things I'm putting up exercises for you guys to experience it yourself so that you understand yourself why it's important to walk towards fear not run away from it why it's important to relax feel relaxed in the body and work on mindfulness and meditation all these things become then clear to you through these experiences through the witnessing of yourself and the other during the practices it's a playground yeah it's what she said during the class like here it's a sacred place it's playground and so that we can develop the quality we learn and after applying you know our life because this is main thing and so how was it for you so for me it was a new discovery because it was my first time and I really liked because at the end of the class what she said like we are feel connected with people and it's completely true like it happened for me so many times that I want for any class for example yoga class and after I feel like I'm going as I came like alone in that Ghost was very different because we create something with the others like for example if I I see some people from the class I'm 100% sure I will said hello in the streets because we have created some connection together and this is yes it's new thing or it's not happening in every class for example in France we have a big University with many people coming to just one class and it happens that people from the same place they stay one year together and they don't know each other at work and here in two hours we don't know where each other but still we create some connection so that's how I read it now everyone does a question more personal like how did you came to know about Tantra how did you practice and learn because we've seen like with what you told me and as like people who will watch these videos that you have great wisdom great understanding and how did you develop ourselves so many people ask me you know when I'm half Swiss and half Maori half me from New Zealand and in Switzerland I was taught that you know we need some kind of diploma some kind of studies and everything you know so I thought okay I need to do all these studies and have to have all you know and on my profile on my bio you can see all the teachings and knowledge that I gained over the years but if I'm honest sure I learned a lot in the trainings a lot but the real what what allows me to really share with you guys this that you get this experience is has been because I walked the path because I dared to walk towards fear every time in my life since maybe 16 I always did things that my parents and teachers would tell me don't do you you're not gonna be successful you know but my heart told me this is what makes me happy I want to do this I don't care about the money so I did it anyways and the beautiful thing was I always had enough money because I dared to go into something that came from the heart so every time I risked again and again I moved to new countries where I didn't know anything anybody I started from scratch again and every time my mother told me you're crazy what are you doing it's never gonna work you know and every time I proved everyone wrong I said I was able to show it does work it does work you just have to believe in yourself of course it's work involved and come you have to be fully compassionate about it but if you are and you go with your heart fully in it life supports you it will support you if there's not any kind of manipulation or any kind of wanting anything back you know if it's purely from the heart I truly believe life will support you and so for me on my journey I also believe like I had many moments in my life that were struggles and that were hard that were painful and scary and those moments helped me to become stronger to understand compassion for other people going through the same thing so I believe a good master has to have seen the dark has to have been through pain to understand really the depth of it you know when you don't the darker you've been the lighter you can you can see it's it is like yin and yang you know there's always a bit of dark in the white and a bit of white in the dark and it's a it's again that balance you know you know you need to experience life fully not be afraid of it everything that came across my journey I said yes to I wanted to know I was curious I wanted to taste everything in life you know it was the how does our type wait okay how is this Oh Tongo what does that feel like oh this that you know how is a long-term relationship how is it you know a polyamory how is monika monogamy how is this how is that I want to know I don't want to read it I don't want knowledge from someone else passed on to me I wanted for myself so it's living life to its fullest saying yes to life not being afraid of it and and allowing yourself to fail allowing yourself to fall and standing up again and again falling and against them no so that life for me has been my best teacher children observing children they are walking truth observing nature sitting in nature feeling nature yeah those have been the most inspiring and most that the teachers I will always follow one question is about like people who have heard about Tantra now you have heard about Tantra but some of them will still be afraid to try to do Tantra trance a class because of some ideas about like maybe there will be some men who will touch me and I don't want it like they will abuse me maybe it's not good for I'm afraid of it so what will you sell to these people who okay maybe we would like to try it on try but the fear for this so fear is a protection making mechanisms for ourselves to protect ourselves and that's important you know it's not you want to walk towards fear but you don't want to be blind and ignorant you know there's again a fine line so it's about trusting your instincts trusting your gut feeling if you walk into a classroom and you feel the energy of the class of the teacher because there's many teachers that just you don't know how to hold space how to make it safe and then they just dive into really strong practices that will traumatize you more then heal you you know it is Tantra is a fine line there's many teachers out there with the wrong intentions so yes be careful when you go into a Tantra you know festival I love Tantra festivals but it can be traumatizing it can be very in for a lot of people you know so first understand yourself if you do not know how to set your boundaries practice that first before going into any kind of tantric classes because if you don't know how what is your truth what if you don't know how to say no then practice first how to learn how to say no and learn what is how learn learn what feels right for you when you understand that then you can go anywhere and you can be like oh I don't like this teacher I don't like this setting I don't like whatever and then you leave again and there's some teachers they make a beautiful space and then you can really dive deep and let go but trust yourself first trust your set your instincts are not wrong if your body language is tense and you are not relaxed trust it your body knows more than your minds don't trust the mind trust your body ok so remember don't rest of my body feel feel feel watch your body am I relaxed when I'm doing these practices if not stop yeah or do something you know you don't have to leave but practice saying no this one maybe not can I do it in a different way that I can still attend but maybe not go as deep or you know how can I make it work for everyone that we all feel comfortable thank you question it's about more about if we want to join one of your class where are you teaching in the world now like this yeah and maybe next year if you have any plan so people who can maybe join us somewhere yes thank you for asking for sure so I have an upcoming training I don't know how soon this will be on the net but on for those of you who are in Goa it's going to be the part one 1st to 3rd February part 2 is six to eight February here in autumn ball and then for those of you who are close to Greece oh I want to experience a magical island somewhat rocky in Greece we will be doing I will be giving a really deep dive it's going to be the highlight of this year will be the training in Greece forth until 14th of July in somewhat rocky it's going to be really intensive work on cleaning up your [ __ ] and really becoming the best version of yourself and learning how to communicate properly how to connect with people how to live in your truth then we have a couple's retreat in Romania and and then I have in it beats I think the first until the 8th of November another Tantra training and then one in Copenhagen but anyways I can and everything's on my website so maybe you can just put yeah I will put the link of the website in the description yeah then they can see yeah where you put your information on website on Facebook on the website yeah yeah so this is your main yeah yeah I'm not I don't like to spend too much time on social media so website is yeah all the information okay thank you very much for this explanation of Tantra I hope it helped you and maybe give you the idea to try this practice and see you for another video good bye [Music] [Applause] oh my god 26 minutes [Music]

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Length: 25min 52sec (1552 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 01 2019