Yoga vs. Tantra
- Kdeejah: I ♥ kundalini yoga.
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- Singh: either love kundalini or love yoga... don't mix cold coffee with hot... the entire world has been making this mistake since long.
- Kdeejah: The class is called kundalini yoga...but its not exactly a yoga class....its more of an energy work session with simple postures and movements
- Singh: calling every energy bodywork session 'yoga' seems to have become a fashion in America! :D
- Kdeejah: Haha yeah ur right
- Kdeejah: i love how i feel after this kundalini class....its very different from any yoga class i go to...but i have to admit i like doing both. by saying 'dont mix cold coffee with hot' do you mean to say that you think practicing both is a bad idea and we should just stick to one? why?
- st: Isn't a yoga basically a 'technique?' there can be a yoga of knitting if it is systemic enough...
- Singh: the difference between yoga and kundalini is like that between compromise and adjustment. While I would love to make all adjustments in life, I would never want to compromise ever, which I never did.
- Steven, yoga is not a mere technique... it's a whole philosophy in itself... which I never found conducive to energy in life.
- Yes, tantra is a technique that stands 180 degree opposite to yoga in its approach... and though it's only a technique, it has a much wider canvas than the entire philosophy of yoga has at its disposal....
- Somehow, tragically, in today's world, almost whatever you see as 'established', has someway or the other done it through this corrupt means or that. Yoga also did it so.
- Kdeejah: i can definitely see how kundalini is conducive to energy in life, but i don't see why yoga is not at all...could you explain what you find to be negative about the philosophy?
- Singh: Yoga 'controls' in order to 'unite' what has fallen apart.
- Kundalini (or tantra) expresses spontaneously (not impulsively) in order to awaken the 'whole' from its slumber.
- st: I found an illustrative, humorous website by a tantrika from Byron Bay:
- "'Tantra' is derived from the sanskrit "tantrum" which is how Krishna first attracted God's attention. Practising tantrum yoga he held his breath until he turned blue thus uniting forever with the infinite.
- Also known as the yoga of passion and desire, Tantra has a very bad name in certain circles because of its relationship to sects. In fact, tantra is not about sects or sex, it is about 'the harmonious weaving of forces' although there is not a tantra teacher west of the Ganges that will admit this because weaving seldom makes a prophet and sects sell.
- The tantric path is said to be littered with the bones of saints. There are rigors on this short path to enlightenment.
- It is one thing to be a saint on a mountain (yoga) and quite another to be a saint in Las Vegas (tantra)..."
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