Ilka Stoedtner

Tantra

Tantra, which is more than a thousand years old, also offers us today's open-minded people its knowledge as an opportunity for personal growth. It describes the energetic relationships, the unity of all being as a source for a pleasurable and ecstatic existence that experiences its potential continuously. Tantra is neither religion nor dogma, but an individual journey that ends with freedom.

My approach is a very fiery, emotional variant of Tantra. It connects you with your feelings and promotes clarity and independence in daily life. And he deeply opens compassion. Suppressed feelings often lie like a veil over reality and permanently cloud the perception and also the love of life. They prevent closeness, involvement and deep, fulfilling encounters. In Tantra you have the opportunity to shed your skin like a snake: to recognize and feel the entanglements. Awareness creates space for freedom. The more you become master of your house again, and you know all the corners and rooms, the more you can work with your energies: the liberated sexual energy is available to you as a companion for everyday projects or for spiritual practice.
Beyond consumption, tantra is based on the cultivation of sexuality, more than that, it is about increasing energy and the sacred aspect of sexual being. In Tantra the body is worshiped. Likewise, Shiva and Shakti (the divine core, which is located beyond the personal, in man and woman) enjoy the greatest admiration and respect.

Encounters that are supported by such an attitude are increasingly rare under today's circumstances, stressful performance and prejudices. The tantra seminars offer insights into my work, the questions about love and sexuality are examined from a tantric point of view. To anticipate a question that arises, there is no “nude session” or sexual interaction in the short, two-day weekend seminars. Only the will for the greatest possible presence is required.

Body therapy

The focus is on intensive body work. Exercises from bioenergetics, holotropic breathing, rebirthing and elements from tantra yoga are used. Professional and individual corrections help that very clear effects can occur even after a short seminar.

A sweaty time begins here for beginners: This is an absolute must at the beginning in order to soften frozen and frozen food. The work always starts with your own "armor" and increases your touchability and your power. Practices from yoga give more freedom of movement after a short time. A large number of guided, emotional sessions lead you back to yourself again and again and bring your topics to the surface.

Bioenergetics

Modern bioenergetics and sex therapy use the basic experiences and concepts of the Austrian sex researcher Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen, his American student (bioenergetic analysis). The consensus is that people in their development history fend off feelings that are too much or not digestible for the overall system at this point in time. As a result, people “armor” themselves in the course of their lives. Most of the time, those involved do not notice it themselves. However, the so-called "armor" can also become visible, e.g. B. in the sexual area. A common issue among men is, for example, the inability to experience pleasure for longer (praecox). In women, for example, it can manifest as an orgasm disorder.

Modern bioenergetics and sex therapy use classic bioenergetic exercises and postures from yoga. To restore the unity of breathing, voice and movement, music and language are used to aid the process. The time and repetition time differs in the length of the exercise.

Interplay of tantra, body therapy and bioenergetics

The foundation of the seminars are proven methods from bioenergetics and yoga as well as tantric techniques. The connection between modern western and eastern methods helps to liberate the life energy and to increase it with certainty! An absolute specialty is the professional guidance and at the same time the compassionate bond between the management and the group.

All exercises are powerful tools that can also be practiced on their own later. Tantra demands mutual respect and respect as a prerequisite for dealing with one another.

Tantra rituals

Tantric rituals have a high priority in the tantra seminars and especially in the tantra annual training Tantric Matrix. Every longer seminar finds its grand finale in this. The Tantra rituals are often very bombastic and are characterized by sensual and magnificent presentations. There has always been the phase of purification, which in earlier times consisted of fasting. We use modern methods to clear body and mind and to sit at the same table with the gods. Therefore rituals only take place in longer seminars or annual Tantric Matrix training. Nudity is a requirement there.