Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita, PhD, is a renowned Tantra teacher, mystic, and author of the book Divine Sexuality: The Joy of Tantra. She is the founder of the School of Awakening, based in the U.K., offering courses in holistic health and Tantra for both singles and couples. She spent 26 years in India studying under the mystic Osho, and has been teaching in Europe and other parts of the world since 1990.
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Alfie: How do you describe Tantra to newcomers?
Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita, PhD: It depends on what they are searching for. I can take it from a spiritual angle or from a more sensuous and sexual angle. Basically Tantra is a life approach that helps people find inner union on all levels. It is working with opposite polarities and helping those opposites meet. When this happens, there will be an experience of the creation principle, which we call the Satori experience. You become one with the creation principle, which can be approached from many different angles depending on what you need. We can work through the senses or the mind. You can use methods of tantric meditation for renewing you on any level, whether that is sexual, or spiritual.
This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2011.