Tales from a Tantra Festival and Mother India

Helene Author

The tantric view of life from the mystic Osho and how it informs our journey of life.

I have just come back from a tantra festival in Amsterdam, which I had hesitated to broadcast, but it was all very wholesome!

In fact, I realised that I have been on this path the whole time, just that the skewed western idea of tantra, all focussed on the S word, has given it a bad name – just like all the military yoga practices that have given people injuries and other ‘spiritual guru’s’ that have given students illegitimate offspring (I have personal horse’s mouth stories)....and so it is with tantra, and in fact with life – we can choose the paths we take, and if it is consciously held in a safe space, then we can show up as our true selves and not be afraid to show our vulnerability.

We are relational beings. We exist in relation to ourselves, and to others as well as the natural world around us. If we cannot be open to connect, our lives are clipped, we sit inside our own prisons of clouded perceptions.

Tantra is, in the controversial mystic Osho’s words -’The Supreme Understanding’. In this book of the same name he talks of:

‘Many mystics have simply danced after their ultimate experience; they could not do anything else.. ‘they were saying something through their whole being and body; altogether, body, mind, soul’

In his words tantra is to:

be yourself

be aware

avoid the mind and encounter life face to face

is absolutely beyond society, culture and civilisation

to live your yes

When I was briefly at his ashram in India, we could choose to begin with a dancing meditation every morning. I knew I was in the right place! I have been to a few ashrams in India, but none like this - except at the Hari Krishna temples where I went undercover with a friend who had grown up as a child in their HQ. There they truly celebrate and dance with pure joy and a celebration of life in their morning gatherings, and I have never viewed Hari Krishna’s in the same way ever since!

And so it is I have spent the last week in loving awareness, in a place of coming from the heart, (though it was not an ‘Osho’ festival).

Rather than it be shrouded in mystery, Tantra is the connective tissue, yes rather like the fascia that connects within us, that illuminates my work, and it will continue to filter through as I continue on my own personal journey.

NB Tomorrow evening 29th July I am holding a Heart Expanding Cacao Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance Journey with DJ Miss Lightbeam in Stroud, Gloucestershire. 

This will be embodied, heartfelt and connecting.

Details to book here:

https://www.niiodance.com/cour...

Categories: : connection, spirituality, travel