In search for the Tantra of Shambala I

One of my best friends started to practice Siberian Yoga, and I really noticed the amazing changes she went through in a very short time! She used to have many emotional ups and downs, acute stress and chronical tiredness, due to her job. By practicing Siberian Yoga, in less than a month her state improved remarkably, she was more active and happier!

At that time I knew nothing about spirituality, but I sensed her changes; now when I was with her I felt a calm and serene state overcoming me, her eyes shined in a special way… her glance transmitted peace, a peace I had been searching for a long time!

The way I was living was not leading me anywhere, I felt lost, drowning in a sea of sufferings, in a dense and dark sea from which I saw not a spark of Light which could indicate me which was the way to the surface; I felt asphyxia, anxiety and from the depth of my soul I was shouting out for help.

And God heard my plead, he heard me! Through this friend and her quick signs of transformation, a ray of hope shinned through the darkness! I saw the shift was possible, if it worked for her, why wouldn’t it work for me?

Up to then I had visited different therapists, psychologists… but nothing helped me, I received no solution, I saw no results, the only result I saw was the great amount of money and time I wasted in unnecessary consultations.

I remember once, I went to the appointment with my psychologist because I had suffered from a panic attack the previous day. I met with her and I started to explain my situation, she asked me some questions and said: ‘You have experienced a panic attack’. I was astonished by that affirmation: ‘Yes, I know that, but what can I do so that does not happen again?’ She explained to me that such anxiety was produced by an amount of accumulated emotions I had not allowed myself to express, something which I had already understood by myself by simple observation. But when I asked her what I could do to express those emotions in the right time, so to not suffer again from the anxiety, she couldn’t give me an answer! It was the last time I booked with her.

I wanted to feel better and I always tried to ask for help, but nobody could tell me the reason for my sufferings, simply nobody knew.

Once my friend invited me to one of the sessions her Yoga teacher organized. But that day it was a special class: dance of power. I nearly shouted ‘yes!’, I felt very curious to experience that which had transformed her so much!

When I arrived I met with a beautiful and shinny group of people, they greeted each other with intense embraces… it was new for me! Used to the grey and critic people who usually surrounded me, those people seemed unreal to me, my mind was saying ‘but can these people really be so happy? Can they be faking?’ All kind of thoughts ran through my mind, but I stayed there, waiting for the class to begin.

We were a whole Group of people, about thirty. Before the class they were all talking very joyfully, while I was observing the environment. Suddenly, the lights started to fade, a mystique music started to play and the person who was going to run the lesson entered the room. When he appeared everyone created a circle. Very kindly he presented himself and asked each of us to do the same, then he told us what we were going to do and we started with the first practices. Firstly we did some exercises in groups to activate our energy, later we started the Dance of Power, which he guided all the way, being attentive to each one of us and helping us all the time.

I remember that first class with love! He made us jump, scream, laugh, cry… it was a deep liberation at physical, mental and emotional level! I let myself go during the dance and the results were spectacular!!! I had accomplished a really good state, full of joy and lightness, state I had never experienced in any previous therapy!

When we finished the lesson, I approached the instructor. I wanted to know more, experience more!! I booked a consultation with him in order to receive concrete advises and guidance.

The same minute I arrived I already felt the influence of his energetic field, only being by his side already my state harmonized and I felt in peace and calmness. I had many questions in my messed up mind, however, when I entered the consulting room it seemed they al faded away, I had the feeling only the present time existed, nothing else!

The instructor talked to me with great respect and kindness. Each of his words had the scent of profound truth, giving me total confidence. The vibration of his voice transformed my energetic field, elevating me. It was as if my feet would be a little bit lifted from the ground, entering into another level of consciousness. It was magical!

When I left the consulting room it seemed I was floating, that burden I had been carrying so long was swiftly disappearing, opening a space to calmness and harmony. Yet, at the same time I felt more energetic and lively! In addition, he also saw various blockades I had in my energetic centers, especially in the second chakra, ‘swadhistana’. I always had different diseases in my sexual organs, and lots of trouble when it came to relating to other people, especially with men. He delicately explained to me the link between that centre and my problems in relationships. One of his advises for me was to attend a seminar which would be held in a month’s time. The minute he suggested this I felt my heart started pounding, so I directly asked him: ‘Where can I sign up?’

He explained to me the seminar was about ‘Tantra’… ‘What?! Tantra?!!!!’… That Word activated in me a link which took me to different files of images stored in my mind... I started to see the images of interviews on TV which talked about ‘tantric sex’ and how the media talked about it and related it to sex. Immediately I told the Tutor: ‘No, I’m not attending a Tantra seminar!’

He looked at me with great compassion and love and explained to me what Tantra was. He said it is a way for development and spiritual growth, a way which leads to the Divine. But it is definitely not ‘sex’. In Tantra there is work with sexual energy, and the awakening of that energy for its elevation to the higher centers. This is what allows the expansion of the consciousness and the possibility to reach ecstasy, flourishing of the individuality and opening the talents in it. He explained about how, through this way, we can reach a state of happiness, passion and enthusiasm for life, amongst many other things!!!

After his explanation I felt relieved, I understood my reaction came from the programs I had in my mind, from how the society manipulates us and how it makes us see the World through its limited point of view; it was this that made me want to close the doors to the ‘real knowledge’ which could truly benefit me. The weekend the expected seminar was due arrived promptly.

My friend, who was doing the yoga lessons, also signed up. So we attended together. They had told us to dress up for the event, so we decided to meet before the seminar to make up and get ready.

We arrived at the course on time. A beautiful woman of about 45 years old welcomed us, although it was hard to guess her age, for her skin was smooth and bright, as that of a teenager, and she had a shinny and wide smile. Her eyes attracted me in a special way, they were magnetic. She invited us to enter the room. It was a wide room with 2 great windows offering views to a garden full of different kinds of flowers. Those colors gave a refreshing and joyful touch to the space. The floor was covered by a soft carpet which tickled our feet producing a very pleasant sensation.

Some people were already there. There were all kind of women and men: younger, older, some of them had already participated in several national and international seminars with the school, for some it was also the first time so they were introducing themselves to each other and talking about their experiences and what brought them to the seminar.

More people arrived; we were up to 25 people. We sat in a circle, ready to begin the seminar. We started out dancing to awaken our body and emotions so to be ready for the next lessons.

Afterwards we received a Siberian yoga lesson, and I understood why my friend had transformed that way; I experienced it myself. It was wonderful! We did a magical yoga ritual which awoke a new sensitivity in me. The anxiety I usually felt was calmed; my mind, always driving me crazy with its unlimited dialogue, remained silent producing a deep tranquility. My body… it was as if I didn’t have one! It felt light, energy streaming actively through it. My state transformed completely… all this in just one class!!!! I couldn’t even bear in mind what could happen if I continued to practice frequently!! What marvels were awaiting me!!!

Dance and yoga prepared our state for a new lesson, the lesson of Tantra of Shambala!!

We created a circle, we closed our eyes and we put our hands in position of prayer. They guided us into a deep meditative state, leading our attention inwardly. In that moment I experienced, for the first time in my life, the state of ‘prayer’. I had received a Catholic education, and all my life I had repeated many, many prayers, but only now I realized how mechanically I had done it!! At church nobody taught me how to pray, how to do it with the heart, not only repeating some words I had been told to memorize, without even paying attention to the meaning, as if I was a parrot and the point was to just repeat phrases. Now, by just doing a simple posture, and driving my attention to my heart, I was able to feel the state of prayer, it was unbelievable!! I could be really in touch with my heart, with positive and nice emotions!! Something nobody had taught me before!!

When we reached that deep state of prayer the tutor entered the room. We continued with our eyes closed, nevertheless I could sense his presence. I felt such a strong energy as I had never felt before. His mere presence opened my heart, transformed my state, I felt powerful, stability. We sang with him the mantra ‘Aum’, to connect with Divine Power; we crossed our arms on our chest and bowed down before her. We rose, did a deep inhalation and with the exhalation we opened our eyes and we sat in a circle.

During the lesson the Teacher told us what is Tantra. He told us the meaning of the word. The word Tantra comes from the Sanscrit Tant = expansion, Ra = God. This meant the expansion of our God. He told us how through this way we could discover the divinity within us, we could develop our individuality, and open the talents we bestow to accomplish happiness!!!

In each of his words shined great wisdom, I had never met such a wise person, someone who possessed true knowledge, who knew so much concerning the mysteries of the Universe. I felt as if I was dreaming, at last sparkles of Light pouring color into my life, revealing a new significance, understanding we are not here on Earth just for survival, for reproduction, and little more. Indeed we have a soul, and the possibility to develop it here on Earth.

Now I found people, a school, which possesses true knowledge for making this development real!!! I felt privileged; it was a dream coming true, it seemed it couldn’t be for real!

During the lesson, the teacher explained to us the importance of working with sexual energy. Usually the human being uses it only for reproduction or to receive pleasure. Though, if this energy is able to create such a complex mechanism as a human being, what could we accomplish if we send it to the higher centers?? A great realization!!!!

After the theoretical class the practice began. He spoke about the importance of bringing the mind into silence, for it is always talking and talking, judging, criticizing, jumping to conclusions, etc… And this makes us see the world as if we were wearing dark glasses which erase in us the possibility to have a clear and sharp vision; it causes a distortion of the reality. And when this happens we suffer, because then we live in the illusion, and when we meet reality we suffer.

That is why he prepared us in such a way, to calm our minds. Then he invited us to look at the objects which were around us in the room, but without letting the mind get in the way, this is, without expressing a judgment, so we were going to start to see the things as they were, not as our mind perceives them.

In that particular state I came closer to the different objects, and I had marvelous experiences!! I started to see the objects as I had never seen them before. Our mind has information about for what we can use each object, and that limits us, it makes us miss the unlimited possibilities we have in front of us. But as the mind disappears, while we observe something, then multiple possibilities start to open. That was my first experience during the practice!!! When I looked to the objects, I did not listen to the information my mind had stored about it, but I was really ‘seeing’ it!! I could see the beauty around me!!! As if the room was no longer the same I had entered a few hours before, it was wider, prettier, and more colorful!!!! I appreciated this great transformation with such a simple practice!!!!

After observing the objects, the teacher told us to approach each person of the room in the same manner, without allowing the mind to get in between. So we started to come closer to each other and it was incredible!!! I started to see the beauty in each person; I started to see positive things in each one of them!!! Nobody teaches us to see the positive in others, but the contrary, we focus on their defects, making us live in a competitive world, full of Wars and continuous confrontations. Society is centered in analyzing the differences between races, nations, religions… But, we are all human beings!!! We are all part of the same whole!!! We must awake to this fact!!!

After approaching to each person and telling us positive things, the beauty we could see in one another… I had such an extraordinary state!!! I felt full of energy, full of love, I felt the strongest and most positive state I had felt in my whole life!!!!! There was no anxiety, no sadness or desperation. I felt I needed nothing more, because I felt whole within!!! And that was a great discovery, because all my life I had searched for external things to make myself happy, simply because I felt emptiness inside.

After these practices many more followed during the seminar. In each one I kept on feeling better and better, discovering more and more things, more secrets were opening for me!!!! I felt happier, more enthusiastic for life!!!

After the seminar I returned to my daily life, yet now all seemed different. I was more positive, energetical, open to people and to the world… I felt I enjoyed life… The seminar had made me blossom!!!! And everybody around me noticed it. Before I was a person who was always sad, complaining, with health problems, passive, with no motivation for life… Now I began to be more positive and joyful, healthier… Now people wanted to be around me, for they felt good by my side. I received new jobs proposals; powerful men who wanted to be with me came into my life!!!

My life transformed to the best, and after this seminar many others followed. I had encountered one of the valuable treasures of life: ‘true knowledge’, and a school who became my real family: a spiritual family!!!!!!!!

Thank you School of Aharata for introducing me to the way of Tantra of Shambala!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for being a helping hand in the evolution of human kind!!!!!!!!

Namaste.