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@lobster said:
Ah ha! You have become a tantric transsexual mayhaps? As somebody who identifies as Mx whenever I can, I know a thing or three about being our own sister and parenting.

I wouldn’t go quite that far, though I am aware of male and female parts to my being. Maybe everyone is a little bit trans in that respect. Mostly I am straight hetero male.

But isn’t Tantra part of men becoming familiar with their female halves? And women becoming awake to their male halves? I know very little about it really. Just read the Wikipedia page.

I came across this text which describes a four-day Tantra foundations course, which was given in 2017. I found it interesting because there are certain common factors with Dhamma, mindfulness and meditation.

I’ve bolded a few things that spoke to me.

TANTRA FOUNDATIONS
This is about the fundamentals; a solid foundation course laying down the three pillars of a balanced Tantric practice. These are, techniques in mind confronting and working with your inner ego constructs, techniques for accessing vital life force through sexuality, body and emotional body, while cleansing the blocks that prevent that flow, and, the building up of a strong, balanced practice.

MIND TRAINING

• Defining Mind
• Growing your awareness of mind
• Growing your capacity to catch the mind
• Developing the specific skillset to shift the mind
• Moving beyond mind into no-mind
• Rewiring the fundamental habit of building a mind

VITAL ENERGY

• Discovering through direct experience your own energetic nature and subtle energy body
• Connect to, free and love your emotional body, learning to listen and express it. Find your heart power.
• Discovering, embracing and cleansing our core woundedness.
• Access the wisdom of your body and heart, as opposed to techniques of your mind.
• Tap into the healing power of pleasure, relaxation and expand your sexuality and orgasmic potential.

A BEAUTIFUL PRACTICE

• Crafting, cultivating, balancing your own practice & Learning how to evolve this practice
• Sinking into and relying on really good, established forms within your journey a healthy body of habits that helps you through intense process
• Life Artistry; evoking your true self as an artistic, creative act
• Tuning in to your aesthetic in relationship, work and worship.
• Deep understanding of ritual and meeting the moment

The course was given by a friend who now lives in South Africa, who I haven’t spoken to in over a decade. I recently came across his website. When last we met he was a tech entrepreneur, now he seems to have given his life a turn, gotten married, had children and become an independent Tantra teacher.

The thing is, many of the elements of this course I have come across in my own spiritual journey. Things like discovering our core woundedness, the archetype of the wounded healer, cultivating a spiritual practice, developing awareness of mind, and awareness of awareness.

The one thing that is new to me, that I came across while wandering through my friends website and his mentor’s YouTube channel, was how to relate as a man to the divine feminine principle that all women carry. That was a beautiful find, and something that will take time to integrate.