Ilka Stoedtner

tantra

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

My approach is a very fiery, emotional variant of Tantra. It connects you with your feelings and promotes clarity and independence in everyday life. And he deeply opens compassion. Suppressed feelings often lie like a veil over reality and permanently cloud perception and lust for life. They prevent closeness, involvement and deep, fulfilling encounters. In tantra you have the opportunity to skin yourself like a snake: to recognize and feel the entanglements. Awareness creates space for freedom. The more you become master of your home again, knowing all corners and rooms, the more you can work with your energies: The freed 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 that resides beyond the personal, in man and woman) enjoy the greatest reverence and respect.

Encounters that are based on such an attitude are becoming increasingly difficult to achieve under today's circumstances, the performance stress and prejudices. The tantra seminars offer insights into my work, questions about love and sexuality are examined from a tantric point of view. To forestall a question that may arise, there is no "nude session" or sexual interaction in the short, two-day weekend seminars. Only the will to be as present as possible is required.

body therapy

The intensive body work is in the foreground. Among other things, 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 to soften solidified and frozen things. The work always starts with your own "armor" and increases your touchability and your power. Yoga practices 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 issues to the surface.

bioenergetics

Modern bioenergetics and sex therapy uses the basic experiences and concepts of the Austrian sex researcher Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen, his American student (bioenergetic analysis). The consensus is that in the course of development, humans ward off feelings that are too much or cannot be digested by the system as a whole at that point in time. As a result, people “armour” themselves over the course of their lives. Most of the time, the people involved don't even notice. However, the so-called “armor” can also become visible, e.g. B. in the sexual area. A frequent topic in men, for example, is the inability to experience pleasure for longer (Praecox). In women, for example, it can express itself as an orgasm disorder.

Modern bioenergetics and sex therapy uses classic bioenergetic exercises and postures from yoga. Music and speech are used to support the process to restore the unity of breathing, voice and movement. Time and repetition time differs in the length of the exercise.

Interplay of tantra, body therapy and bioenergetics

The basis of the seminars are proven methods from bioenergetics and yoga as well as tantric techniques. In this way, the combination of modern Western and Eastern methods helps to free life energy and increase it with certainty! An absolute special feature is the professional guidance and at the same time the compassionate connection between the management and the group.

All exercises are powerful tools that can later be practiced on their own. Tantra requires mutual regard 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 Tantric Matrix annual training. Every longer seminar finds its crowning conclusion in it. The tantra rituals are often very bombastic and are characterized by sensual and magnificent staging. From time immemorial there has 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 a table with the gods. Therefore rituals only take place in longer seminars or annual training Tantric Matrix. Nudity is a requirement there.