![]() Even on the Indian subcontinent, the name was applied to a vast array of practices and schools: some Hindu, some Buddhist, some highly ritualized and focused on kundalini energy yoga or visualizations of deities like Shiva and Shakti, some involving physical sex rites. Tantra came to the West with the New Age caravansary in the late ’60s. ![]() Tantra, a Sanskrit word often translated as weaving, is their common rubric, but the thread that stretches from 10th-century sacred texts to the workshops and massage tables of today can be slender indeed. She and her husband, Mark Michaels - a/k/a Swami Umeshanand Saraswati - are among a handful of tantric teachers in the New York area offering people a chance to connect erotic and spiritual bliss. It’s kind of a pathway for the common man or woman,” says Patricia Johnson. “The moment of orgasm is one place where people experience dissolving of ego and a sense of oneness, timelessness. Connecting erotic and spiritual bliss: the way of Tantra photo: Shulamit
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