“Tantra has them not; but in yoga, next come yoga asanas, or basic yoga poses and yoga positions. This is one step of yoga that has overshadowed the rest as far as its publicity is concerned. People have started associating yoga mainly with these postures only. Just say the name to yourself and the first [...]
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The Spirit of Tantra versus Basic Yoga Poses and Religious Yoga Positions
“So what else is yoga if not only the basic yoga poses and advanced yoga positions? And tantra?” – Eva asked as we started moving further. Basic Yoga Poses: The Physical Aspect of Yoga “It’ll take a whole lifetime to describe all that!” – I tried to evade her question. “I have ten of them [...]
Yoga versus Tantra: Basic Yoga Poses and Advanced Yoga Positions
“Unlike tantra, all the basic yoga poses and yoga positions presented themselves as a package of exercises to be done by the practitioner for as limited a duration of time as the stretch of the exercise was. Then they again fell back to their faulty body postures, the ones they habitually had with them.” – [...]
The Spirit of Tantra Distorted by Tantric Massage and Tantric Yoga
“Are you talking about tantra?” – Eva whispered. “Yes, but not tantric massage or tantric yoga at all. You westerners have made a fun of it by associating a wonderful spirit with sexual pleasure and yoga poses, thus limiting it to a form of dogmatic religion rather than its real content.” – I opened my [...]
