Quote: Skills for Enhancing Intimacy Partners learn the delicate art of seduction and of awakening the five senses. Then they express their vision of the god or goddess within as they dance for each other. They develop humor and playfulness in love,a nd harmonize their energies in a soul-to-soul communion.
The Sensory Awakening Ritual The Dancing Gods The Inner Smile Soul Gazing
This all sounds reasonable, but the book has an illustration of some doofus who looks like Gunga Din hopping around on one foot.
Here's a short description from another site:
The ancient cult of Tantra originated in India's earliest tribal societies, long predating the first Tantric texts, which were probably written in the sixth century CE. The Sanskrit word tantra is related to the concept of weaving and expansion - it derives from tan, meaning to expand, spin out, and weave. We weave the disparate strands of our nature into a unified whole, and so grow and expand into joy. Tantra can also refer to those teachings in the sacred Hindu texts that are generally presented in the form of a dialog between the god Shiva and his consort Shakti, whose joyful coupling creates and sustains the universe.
I guess the Dancing Gods are Shiva and Shakti. Maybe somebody else on this BB who knows a lot more about Hindu culture can explain better than I.
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.
