Tantra, No Mud No Lotus and Non Duality Evening Jhb 9th Sept 2014 with Rahasya and Maya.

What a fabulous weave of consciousness evening we had with Rahasya and Maya, Willem and the amazing Blissdance and Tantra Community with the Introduction to Tantra and understanding some of the underpinnings of Tantra that were infused into the foundations of Blissdance by Shakti Malan (who was taught by Rahasya) at the cosmic bliss dance studio in Johannesburg last night. (9 Sept 2014)

As some of you may or may not know, Shakti Malan is the founder of bliss dance which I believe was birthed during her desire to celebrate Biodanzas capacity to work with sensuality and sexuality in a transformative way and whilst working with her own studies in Tantra, decided to create her own dance path called Bliss Dance… blending elements of tantra and biodanza.

We had such a fabulous evening last night in the Cosmic Studio with Rahasya who is the Director of the Advait Tantra School in Johannesburg and Maya Papaya world famous tantrika and author of No Mud No Lotus sharing some of the basic ideas behind the advaita tantra path.

I will try and summarise in the most humble way some of what i learnt last night. It impossible to put into a short summary how tantra works and the links that i see to Blissdance but just to share with those of you who were not there, essentially i understand Tantra to be the path of moving quickly through that which binds us so that we can move through aspects in the past, unhook from our assemblage points that make up the separate self and unravelled past traumas that may be stuck in the subconscious through working in the body and mind, helping individuals to come undone from their nooses – their ‘boxes’ – their frozen identities that keep them from absolute 100 % presence and uninterrupted flow of awareness. Tantra is the freeing of the identity into the path of the infinite weave of consciousness and energy in this eternal cosmic dance from form to formlessness in and out of the void. Its the idea that we are Consciousness or Awareness dancing in and out of form without being bound by it.

It is a multilevelled discipline to do the work to get ready for the true deep path of tantra – liberation from attachement to form. Some of the work that we do in the Blissdance space links into this. Willem Smuts talks about it in some of his videos and posts. How working with presence and awareness with the awareness body-mind helps surface dis-ease that may be locked in.

Working with awareness of what is arising in the Blissdance space allows feelings that may have been stored in the vaults of the subconscious to be felt and cleared out so that we are free to live 100% in the present in absolute freedom of flow, awareness and oneness. Although Blissdance is not Tantra as such, it does create a great bridge into some of the ideas.

There is a lot more to say, but i will leave it at this for now.
Just to say thank you to Rahasya and Maya again for their time and teachings and experience and a special thank you to Willem for his amazing work with Blissdance in the community. He makes a great contribution to this radiant alive passionate conscious creative community in Johannesburg. Thanks to all of you who showed up and are doing the work.

We will do more.
~ Amanda