Spiritual Sex

Explore the Path to Ecstasy

What does sex mean in a spiritual sense? When you explore the spiritual elements of sex, it completely transforms your understanding of sexuality. It reveals the wholesome, refined, gracious side of sex, or, as in the Tantric tradition, the possibility of enlightenment.

Spiritual sex transcends the act of intercourse and becomes an intensely erotic and creative union between the masculine and the feminine. It is also an expression of love for Self. The deeper you are able to love yourself, the more blissful your sexual experiences will be.

In a spiritual context the lovers are profoundly supportive of each other’s masculinity and femininity. They celebrate each other’s otherness and at the same time strive to merge into one so that two halves become whole. Through this process fear and shame-based attitudes are left behind and healing takes place.

The Path of Tantra

The traditional Tibetan approach advocates sexual practices to be kept secret because they require a tremendous amount of groundwork in the sense of education and purification. Tantric practice requires spiritual maturity that only comes from focus, time and devotion. Spiritual sex is a profound process.

The Tantric teaching is that women are pure and sacred in the essence of their being. To access the spiritual dimension of sex, you need to cleanse yourself first.

Tantra is an activation of all of your energies. By channelling the sexual energies through the various chakras, you can reach levels of ecstasy, states of merging and fusion through your partner with the Divine that are incredibly powerful.

You have to have the courage to take risks, though – to jump into the fire so to speak, to confront yourself with all your difficulties. The challenge of spiritual sex is to get to the root of sexual energy – to fully explore it and taste it; to live sexuality to the fullest, master it, and then transcend it. The energy of sexual pleasure can subsequently transform consciousness of other aspects of your life.

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Key elements of Tantra

- Mindfulness techniques

- Ethical teachings

- Yogic practices – specific ways of directing the breath and the inner energies of the body

- Rituals and dance practices.

As a genuine spiritual practice, sexual Tantra requires preparation and commitment. It’s not something that you can just do in your spare time on weekends. Followers say that if you really want to follow this path, it will go so deep that there’s no end to it.

Sexual Energy

The sexual yogas allow you to concentrate energy in different parts of the body. For example, the abdominal area is seen as the seat of inner fire which Tantrics seek to ignite into flame. Through sexual union the focus is on the area below the navel where sexual feelings arise. However, unlike ordinary sexuality, where lovers simply allow pleasure to take its own course, Tantrics concentrate their energy at that particular area in order to awaken the inner fire. When the fire burns brightly, there are several meditations that can be done to refine the energies at the heart.

One spiritual sex meditation is to direct the energy upward into the heart and, because of the quantity of energy involved, as it goes through the heart, it naturally ‘unties a knot’, which may cause the emotion to float up into conscious awareness. Sometimes, if the emotion is hatred or fear, one will actively experience the sensation as they’re being released. It takes a great deal of awareness to process the emotions that are coming up from the past and release them as they arise, rather than project them onto the present situation.

The ultimate Goal

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If you have an interest in spiritual sex, you will also enjoy my interview with Toni Carmine Salerno, intuitive artist and published author. The Essence of Being a Woman is an extract from his book, Gaia, Body and Soul.

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