ECSTATIC PASSAGEWAYS: 4 Exercises to help you along your Tantric Path

Ecstatic passageways and opportunities for healing abound. They exist wherever you genuinely seek and intend to “let go and let Spirit” guide. However, it’s likely that each of us has certain ways more native to us. In sharing some of mine, I hope to trigger, motivate and inspire you to discover yours. Or contact me via my website: http://www.lovearts.info

EXERCISE #1

HEART BREATHING

Sit or lie comfortably. Begin to scan your physical body for any sensations of discomfort, and as they come to your attention, softly verbalize them. This acknowledgment allows you to let go of thse sensations more fully, so your attention can be elsewhere.

Begin to follow your breath, just allowing it to be however it is, whether slow, labored, or rapid, shallow or deep. Imagine now that you are breathing with and via your heart. Feel your physical heartbeat, imagining it pumping life through your veins. Now imagine your loving heart, expanding and deepening vital force throughout your being. Let your lungs be the wings of your heart. Let yourself soar! Likewise, allow yourself deep rest.

EXERCISE #2

THE HEALING HEART BREATH

You can use your heart breathing to affect positively any part of your physical body, simply by imagining it. You might first check within to discover if there are any inner conflicts about being well. When you have a relative “all clear”, proceed to imagine your loving attention and vital force flowing into the troubled area(s). You might visualize a door or window opening, fresh air flowing in, or some other image that feels freeing. Colors work well: Ask your body-self what color or color light or healing energy would feel/work best? Then breathe that color right in. You can imagine another color going out, especially if that color was the original one that matched the pained or uncomfortable condition.

If you are able to do “chakra” work, directly affecting your own energy or subtle body, breathe from your heart into those governing ‘wheels’, imaging them spinning in a balanced or otherwise strengthened manner. Use the rainbow of red, orange, yellow/gold, green, blue, indigo and violet/purple (or white) as you proceed from the root to crown. If you don’t know the chakras, simply imagine a rainbow spiraling around your spine, starting at the sacrum, and moving through your cervical spine all the way out the top of your head. Be creative! Any image or thought of ‘healing’ can work. You can use your inner voice to chant, or to affirm your wellness, or sing or make tones that feel right to you.

EXERCISE #3

ORGASTIC HEART BREATHING

This is a concept that can be utilized in a myriad ways. As you practice and feel at home (“at OM”) breathing love in and out and all through and around you, imagining the Beloved that you Are, you can extend this to the Beloved without. You may make love with the stars, the sun, a meadow under a blue satin sky. Let the wind spirits caress your body. Allow these wondrous sensations to carry you over, to restore and refresh you -heal you. If you are being intimate with a partner, breathe together as if you were becoming a single, unified breath. If either of you is feeling unwell, you may direct this One breath to parts of your own or your lover’s body -or your unified body at large. Allowing energy to flow more freely, and your body (bodies) to begin to revitalize. If you are in the midst of an orgasm, bring that orgasm into your heart with your intent and imagination. Feel yourself bursting open, free, orgasming there -or at any other center you choose! Let the erotic heat, or the glistening of afterglow bring healing to you, physically, mentally, emotionally. Ride the waves, and free yourself. A deep sense of wellbeing is imminent.

VARIATION-SEXUAL HEALING SPOON BREATHING

(For Lovers and Other Partners)

Do you know “spoon” position? One partner lies on a side, and the other cozies up close with his/her front side to the partner’s back. If one of you is unwell or tired, take the inside “healee” position, letting your partner support you from behind. The healer/outside position partner may place a free hand specifically on the healee’s front side, on any place (or chakra zone) you can reach to give a hands-on healing. Healers, you’ll use your entire body and your heart to send currents to your partner via his/her backside/spine.

Get into spoon starting position. Begin to breathe fully and easily in sync -either both in an out together, or taking opposite breaths. Generating a sensual flowing feeling helps start the healing fires. Healer, use your charge, your ‘turn on’ to move towards an ecstatic high, sharing your treasured good feeling with your not-so-well-yet partner. You might also humm, sing, ‘tone’, or use other sounds to augment the healing. Sometimes a healer partner will reach ecstatic, orgastic states, carrying the other along in the stream. Relish the intimate closeness you’ve generated, lying quietly, or drifting blissfully.

(Published in Ecstasy Journal, 1993.)