Tantra refers to the collection of scriptures and sacred texts that first emerged in India in the 6th century. It is based on ancient spiritual traditions from India and is not just any one religion per se but a conglomerate of religions that teach from different tantras. Traditionally Tantra is taught through a lineage, from one teacher to the next. Tantra is also influenced by the location of where it's being taught as geographic, social, and political influences shape the way Tantra is practiced in India vs. Tibet, or vs. Tantra that is practiced in the West. 

Most commonly in the West, you will find practitioners teaching neo-Tantra, a version of Tantra that emerged in the 19th century during a time when practitioners within and outside the Tantric tradition were seeking to modernize the re-emerging Tantric tradition (which had gone largely underground from the 1300s to the 1900s due to imperialism, political strife, colonialism, and shifting sentiments in India about the seemingly bizarre practices associated with more radical sects of Tantra). 

Some neo-Tantra teachers were familiar with classical Tantra and some were not. Some reduced the practices to be only about sex or pleasure. And some honored the classical Tantric pursuit of BOTH mukti and bhukti. Mukti being Sanskrit for release or liberation, referring to spiritual liberation and awakening. And bhukti referring to the the pursuit of worldly enjoyment and prosperity. The centering of both of these goals is what makes Tantra so unique in the world religions today, and in the religions of India at the time it emerged as well. 

I am of the latter camp of practitioners who seek to offer the core message of classical Tantra, while weaving in my own evolving and expanded spiritual teachings. I offer these teachings to you and innovate my own practices for the goal of experiencing both spiritual liberation and exquisite pleasure.

While classical Tantra did not focus heavily on sex and pleasure as much as many neo-Tantric practices do, this does not make the neo-Tantric practices automatically less legitimate in my eyes. Personally, I see the consciousness or spirit of the Tantric tradition as one that finds liberation in the most restricted parts of any society. Tantra calls us to look inwards into our shadows and re-integrate them with the heart of who we really are.

It is through this journey alone that we experience true freedom, joy, and liberation. 

In the practices of the Indian aghora yogis for example, this is manifested in practices of eating stale, raw meat and wearing cremated ash. These practices are in direct contrast to a caste system within India that celebrates purity and diminishes those who are associated with filth, dirt, or impurity. By associating with the grotesque, the aghora yogis seek to demonstrate that there is God in everything - that the sacred can be experienced in all.

Likewise, when we look at Tantra in the West and the deeply healing, mind-altering sexual practices that have emerged in the past two centuries, I believe Westerners are creating a similar awakening. But instead of going to cemeteries or eating stale meat, they are practicing with sex, which in many parts of Western society is deemed impure or only sacred in specific contexts or when expressed within a rigid set of rules. Through these sacred sexual practices that invite us to reclaim our rejected sexual selves, we have the opportunity to experience deep healing, spiritual integration, and psychological wholeness. The shift in consciousness produced by the biological changes that occur during arousal can also lead to profound spiritual awakening, akin to those experienced in meditation. 

For the women who are called to this journey, to whom Pussy sings to and dreams of... this is for you.

For women especially, I find that the Tantric tradition and neo-Tantric sex practices offer a missing link in the healing and integration process that is not found elsewhere because so many healing modalities have not yet honored or understood the feminine and the consciousness that lives in Pussy.

So many women seek out my work because of the energy they feel and activation they receive just from hearing me say "pussy" with such love, endearment, and deep respect. I have done the challenging work of reclaiming the "profane" in our society - female sexuality and potency - not to save you, but to reclaim myself and give myself access to the truly profound and powerful within me. I offer these teachings and what has alchemized within me in the the past 7+ years as a bridge to the knowing and remembrance that is already awakening within you...

Traditional depiction of Sukhasiddhi Yogini from 19th century Tibet