Rev. Charmaine Armatas, Sensuous Mystic, was ordained by the New Seminary. In July, 2000, in a primitive and intense ritual, she was initiated into Goddess-hood. From this ceremony, she was called to bring forth the unification of Sex and Spirit. She primarily focuses her energy work through Shamanism.
I teach with stories. A lot of yoga teachers do. And there are a few stories I have been telling again and again for years. They have always shown themselves to consistently and effectively communicate the intended ideas. One story in particular concerns my ideas regarding Tantric sex.
At its core, tantra which I have seen defined as “expansive weaving” (as on a loom) is about our connection with Spirit; not just as a means of heightened sexual pleasures, but perhaps enlightened sexual pleasure.
The world we live in is made of contradictory elements. Night and Day, summer and winter, male and female, earth and sky, sex and spirit, the list is endless. There…
In the last 2000 years or so, women have been considered to be the weaker sex in much of the so-called civilized world. In actual fact, women have simply forgotten how to access their own power, the Divine feminine. In Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, he says:
The Divine Masculine is a timely subject for 2012, as this is the year when the old world transmutes into a new world, according to the famous Maya predictions. Bring it on! The old world has been dominated primarily by an imbalanced masculine, which shows itself in the number of wars and general raping of planetary resources. This has happened because the masculine has been divorced from the feminine for a few thousand years, and by so doing has gone into a fevered testosterone fueled orgy of competition and destruction. I am by no means saying that men should be like women. Quite the contrary is the case.
Human emotions are an inherent part of being alive. We may try to control them, repress them or manipulate them in some way. In spite of this, they are ever…
The seven main chakras, their life lessons, and colours are as follows: 1) Sex Centre (encompassing the whole pelvic area), Colour is Red, Life Lessons: Survival instinct, Procreation, Animalistic tendencies,…
Traditionally, Tantra has always been passed on in the form of an experiential transmission. The Master devises situations and methods of meditation to help the disciple awaken their inner sensitivity,…
Part of my mission in teaching Tantra is to clear up misconceptions about it. When I moved to Europe in 1999, having spent 26 years in India, I was amazed to find out that most people seemed to believe that Tantra was all about sex and promiscuity with a few feathers and some incense thrown in for good measure. The general public still carry such concepts, and some even think that Tantra is a code word for a massage with a ‘happy ending.’ I offer here a little reality check.
We are born out of sex, and whatever is born has to die. In this sense, sex, birth and death are aligned together like instruments in an orchestra. In the Tantra approach to life, whatever exists within human experience is used a portal into deep meditation
Tune in live or listen to the archive anytime as host Jenn Royster chats with Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita on how to improve your relationship to your body, sexuality and your…