Sacred Embodiment: A Tantra Flow of Power

Sacred Embodiment: A Tantra Flow of Power

An Offering for the Temple of Lilith

This class is now released, and it is yours.

Sacred Embodiment: A Tantra Flow of Power is not simply a yoga practice. It is a rite. It is a living current, summoned and shaped in devotion to you, the members of this Temple. Your presence, your power, and your path of becoming have inspired me more than words can express. This offering was born from that inspiration.

It was conjured not for performance, not for appearance, but as a sacred act. It is movement cast as magick. It is breath braided with intention. It is embodiment reclaimed through the eyes of the Goddess.

This class lives within the inner sanctum. It was crafted as a gift for the Temple’s heart. You are that heart.

You will not find choreography meant to impress. You will not find softened language or diluted teachings. What you will find is raw devotion. You will find sacred fire and spiraling breath. You will find a current of Lilith that moves through the body like a serpent awakening.

We begin by turning within. With the breath, we summon prana. With presence, we stir the Shakti that coils at the root of the spine. She is not asked gently. She is called.

Through spirals and sacred grinding, through sway and stillness, we invite her rise. Each gesture is a key. Each breath unlocks memory. The body is not bypassed. It is entered as temple, as altar, as sacred terrain.

This is Tantra. Not an escape from the flesh, but a descent into it. Not a denial of the world, but a burning through it.

We release what has clung too long. Outdated masks. Dead beliefs. Lingering residue. We offer them without fear. What is given willingly, the Goddess consumes.

This is how we cleanse.

This is how we rise.

This is how we return.

And when the movement ends, the ritual continues.

You may wish to journal. You may wish to rest. Or you may feel called to speak your truth aloud beneath moonlight. However you integrate, know this: the current remains with you.

Let this class remind you of what you are.

Your body is not a burden.

It is the vessel of your flame.

It is the throne of your sovereignty.

It is the torch that lights the path.

Tantra is not something outside of you.

It is what awakens when you show up, fully.

In this Temple, we do not ask permission to exist.

We move.

We breathe.

We become.

Tantra: The Sacred Science of Embodied Liberation

A Yogic and Scriptural Perspective

In the spiritual systems of India, Tantra is often gravely misunderstood particularly in the West, where it is frequently reduced to sexual mysticism or exotic ritual. Yet according to ancient yogic and tantric traditions, Tantra is not merely about sexual practices or taboo rites. In its authentic form, Tantra is a sacred science, a practical and experiential path designed to awaken Shakti: the primal, creative energy of the cosmos and channel it toward liberation (moksha) and divine realization.

The Meaning of Tantra: Expansion and Liberation

The term Tantra derives from the Sanskrit roots “tan” (to expand) and “tra” (to liberate). This reveals the essence of the path: Tantra is a methodology that expands consciousness and liberates the soul from illusion. It does not advocate rejection of the body or worldly existence. Rather, it teaches that all aspects of life, body, breath, sound, sensation, shadow—can be sacred when approached with awareness.

As outlined in the Kularnava Tantra, an authoritative text on the left-hand path:

“There is no liberation without the body. The body is the temple of the Divine.”

(Kularnava Tantra, Chapter 1)

This contrasts sharply with ascetic traditions that view the body as an obstacle. In Tantra, the body is a vessel, an altar, and a gateway.

The Ritual Path: Deities, Mantras, and Visualization

A central feature of Tantric practice is ritual engagement with the divine through form. Deities are not external gods to be worshipped with blind devotion, but archetypal forces within consciousness. Practitioners visualize, invoke, and merge with these deities through mantra, mudra, yantra, and dhyana (meditation).

The Rudra Yamala Tantra describes this as:

“The deity is not outside. She is to be seen within, awakened through visualization and mantra. Thus does the practitioner become one with her.”

(Rudra Yamala Tantra, Vol. 1)

Such rituals are tools of transformation, not superstition. They awaken latent energies within the subtle body and attune the practitioner to cosmic frequencies.

Tantra as Yoga: The Path of Embodiment

In classical yogic texts such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Tantra and Yoga are not separate disciplines. Hatha Yoga was designed as a preparatory path for awakening Kundalini—the Shakti force.

“When the Kundalini is awakened, only then can Raja Yoga be practiced. Therefore, awaken the Kundalini.”

(Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 3.1)

Tantric yoga emphasizes the subtle energy body, consisting of nadis (channels), chakras (energy centers), and bindu (drops of essence). Through breathwork (pranayama), postures (asana), and bandhas (energy locks), the practitioner awakens and raises this energy from the root (Muladhara) to the crown (Sahasrara).

The World as Sacred: Embracing the Totality of Experience

Unlike renunciate paths that seek to escape the world, Tantra teaches engagement with life as a spiritual path. As the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra states:

“Every experience, pleasant or painful, can become the doorway to the Self when approached with awareness.”

(Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, Verse 108)

Sexuality, pleasure, beauty, even sorrow and death—nothing is profane in Tantra. These are energies to be honored, explored, and ultimately transcended. When desire is channeled wisely, it becomes a tool of empowerment, not bondage. Pleasure is sacred when rooted in awareness and mutual respect, never imposed or misaligned.

Left- and Right-Hand Paths: Dakṣiṇācāra and Vāmācāra

Tantra embraces both Dakṣiṇācāra (right-hand path) and Vāmācāra (left-hand path) traditions. The right-hand path emphasizes purity, devotion, and discipline. The left-hand path explores forbidden or taboo elements as a means of confronting and transcending duality.

Both are legitimate streams within Tantra each aiming to dissolve the illusion of separation and bring about union with the Absolute.

Tantra as the Flame of Inner Alchemy

Ultimately, Tantra is the path of sacred embodiment, honoring both Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (energy). It is not about indulgence, but integration, not escape, but evolution. It offers a vision of the spiritual path where the body is a tool, not a trap, where pleasure is a teacher, and where divinity is not distant, but discovered within.

Tantra is not for those who wish to remain asleep.

It is for those willing to enter the fire and emerge sovereign.

Sources Cited:

• Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Swami Svatmarama

• Kularnava Tantra, translation by Pandit R. Ajit

• Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, translation by Swami Lakshman Joo

• Gheranda Samhita, 17th-century yogic text

• Rudra Yamala Tantra, traditional Tantric scripture

• Shiva Sutras and associated Kashmir Shaivism commentaries

Tantra In the Temple of Lilith

Tantra is the Serpent’s Whisper

It is the breath between worlds,

the pulse beneath the skin of reality,

the flame that does not burn,

but awakens.

Born of ancient soil and starlight,

Tantra is not a doctrine, it is a dance.

It does not ask for your obedience,

but for your presence.

It does not seek to purify you,

but to make you whole.

It is the path of Shakti, the wild and radiant force

who does not ascend by denial, but by embodiment.

She moves through mantra, mudra, breath, and fire.

She is the coiling current of life and death and becoming.

Tantra is not sex, it is union.

Not indulgence, it is integration.

It teaches: the body is a temple,

desire is a doorway,

and every shadow holds a key.

In the Temple of Lilith,

we walk the Tantric path not to escape the world,

but to claim it as sacred.

To weave our blood and breath

into the great cosmic tapestry,

and remember, we are the ritual.

We are the altar.

We are the flame.