Matsyendranath was a practitioner, a siddha, who developed and transmitted some of the earliest methods for using the body as tools for awakening. He is remembered across multiple traditions under different names, as the founder of the Nātha yogis in North India, as Machamuni in the Tamil Siddha...

The teachings shared in this article are explored more deeply in my book, Divine Sexuality, which expands into many additional facets of both male and female sexuality. Male self-pleasure is one of the most misunderstood and least examined relationships a man will ever have. It is usually framed...

Black Tantra is a Tantric path that uses the taboo, which includes sex, death, fear, desire as a direct and accelerated route to enlightenment. Where most spiritual traditions teach you to suppress desire and slowly purify yourself over years or even lifetimes, black Tantra has a very different a...

Almost every human being carries a wish in their hearts to manifest abundance. Abundance of resources, of ease, of love, of time. It is an ancient longing, as old as humanity itself, and yet very few are ever taught how to meet it consciously and to create that abundance they seek Today, I wis...

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, speech, and creative intelligence. She governs your ability to learn, to teach, to speak clearly, to write with authority, and to make sound decisions based on real understanding. She’s the one you go to when you need clarity. She is precision & artic...

When I was in Ladakh, I heard stories of Naropa and Padmasambhava. I heard about the moments when each of them was approached by dakinis as actual encounters that changed the entire direction of their practice. I heard how Naropa was confronted by dakinis who told him his intellectual understand...

"Consider your essence as light rays from centre to centre up the vertebrae, and so rises 'livingness' in you. Or the spaces between, feel this as lightning." (From the 5000 year old scripture; Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means ‘wheel of light’. Traditionally there ...

Tilopa was a mystic who lived in India around the 10th–11th century. He’s known as the first human master of the Mahāmudrā lineage, a teaching that reveals the natural, unconstructed state of the mind.  Tilopa worked as a sesame seed grinder and received his greatest teachings from dakinis, fema...

Kali Yuga is the fourth and final age in Hindu cosmology, often called the Dark Age. It is the period when dharma, which represents truth, right living, and proper behavior, stands on its weakest leg. Where earlier ages were marked by clarity and disciplined spiritual practices, Kali Yuga is mark...

When people hear the word Tantra, it often gets flattened into a single image of people meditating and doing different erotic tantric practises. But Tantra is a living tradition with many faces, each carrying a different doorway into truth. Some persons have thought it wise to try and dissect Ta...