Ilka Stoedtner

Tantra

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

My approach is a very fiery, emotional version of tantra. It connects you with your feelings and promotes clarity and independence in daily life. And he opens compassion deeply. Suppressed feelings are often like a veil over reality and permanently cloud the perception and the zest for life. They prevent closeness, admission 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 in your home again, know all 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 cultivating sexuality, more than that, it's about increasing energy and the sacred aspect of sexual being. The body is worshiped in Tantra. Likewise, Shiva and Shakti (the divine core, which is located beyond the personal, in man and woman) enjoy the greatest veneration and respect.

Encounters that are based on such an attitude are less and less accessible 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 perspective. To anticipate a question that arises: in the short, two-day weekend seminars, there is no “nude session” or sexual interaction. Only the will to have 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 to ensure that very clear effects can occur even after a short seminar.

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

Bioenergetics

Modern bioenergetics and sex therapy uses the basic experiences and concepts of the Austrian sex researchers Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen, his American student (bioenergetic analysis). The consensus is that people in their development history ward 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 field. A common topic for men, for example, is the inability to experience pleasure for longer (Praecox). In women, for example, it can manifest itself 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 speech are used to support the process. Time and repetition time differs in the length of the exercise.

Interplay of tantra, body therapy and bioenergetics

The seminars are based on proven methods from bioenergetics and yoga as well as tantric techniques. The combination of modern western and eastern methods helps to free and increase the life energy with certainty! An absolute specialty is the professional guidance and the sympathetic connection of the management with the group.

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

Tantra rituals

Tantric rituals are very important in the Tantra seminars and especially in the Tantric Matrix annual training. Every longer seminar finds its crowning conclusion. The tantra rituals are often very bombastic and are characterized by sensual and great productions. There has always been the purification phase, which used to consist of fasting in earlier times. We use modern methods to clarify body and mind and to sit at a table with the gods. That is why rituals only take place in longer seminars or annual Tantric Matrix training. Nudity is a requirement there.