What is Tantra? Actually? Well, the key line for me in the tantra is what is elsewhere is here. And what is not here is nowhere. What that’s understood to mean is that unlike in other traditions, where the body is seen as a block to enlightenment, Tantra believes that in this incarnation, in this dualistic existence, the path is through the body, that everything exists in the body. All time, all space, all my pain, all the pain of my family, of my grandparents, of their grandparents, of my entire lineage, all the pain of my friends, of my community, of my society. All the pain of the world. Going on in Gaza, Sudan, the Ukraine and all the love. All the love of all time, of all space. Everything is here. And if it is not here, it is nowhere. And that is a key, key principle of tantra, that the path is through the body, and that everything is in and through the body. The other key concept for me, for Tantra, is that tantra is the teaching of something beyond language, without language, that it is a a non. Linguistic modality. A good tantra teacher will share only in words what is needed to enter a practice with the right attitude and the right technique. And then the lesson is always in the meditation itself. In the practice itself. And to get to enlightenment. And by that I mean. An expanded sense of self. A sense of interconnectedness. A sense that I am both separate and part of this greater interconnected web of life. The awareness and intelligence. That I am you, this big. You that to get there. This ability to access this vast intelligence that we’re part of, it’s through the body. Sexual energy is understood to be life energy. This is the energy that births everything from cells to stars. It is the act of manifestation of creation. You know, these words did not exist. And they are birthed. They are manifested. They are created from formlessness to form. And that this is the act of sexual energy. This is the role the sexual energy that health, vitality and the ability to connect to the vastness of the world in which we move is when this energy can circulate around our body. And to do that, we need to remove the blocks. And these are traumatic blocks that are stored in the body blocks caused by repressed emotion and blocks caused by physical tension. And perhaps, maybe a slight subtlety is that the body is not just understood to be a physical thing, but to have energetic representations that there are, according to the tantric tradition. Seven layers of energetic body that also exist, and all of those need to allow energy to circulate freely. And Tantra, in short, offers techniques that enable us to work with our sexual energy to release these blocks for health and to experience this sense of interconnectedness, this ability to connect with a vast wisdom. And to create, to manifest in accordance with these laws and movements of reality.