Chicken Soup for the Soul!

“There were 100 little babies laying three and four to a cardboard box, strapped in the belly of a gutted cargo jet. It was 1975, Saigon was falling to the Communists, and I was accidentally caught up in the Vietnam Orphan Airlift. It was a stressful situation. If you don't have coping skills, you learn them fast!

As our plane took off, I was haunted with image of three days before when I had stood on the runway and watched as first planeload of orphans crashed after takeoff, killing half of the adults and children aboard. I clutched our newly adopted baby boy to my chest. Would this plane be blown out of the sky too? I trembled so hard I could barely hold our son. To cope, I started slow, deep easy breathing…the kind I'd learned from our Lamaze classes several years before. The same breathing I used to bring our daughters into our family, I was using to bring our son.

Scales of Balance within Tantra

Tantra creates within the physical body, a living sacred temple of light, energy and wild alertness. If you are a Tantrika, you are an initiate on the Path of Divine Healing of the Masculine and Feminine Universal, Sacred Genders. As you bring the dual polarised energies of dominance and submission into mutual respect and balance within the self (inner) and with your partner (outer), you will attain great poise and balance. The advanced spiritual path of the Tantra is to unite within the self, all polarities and all aspects of the male and female gender roles. This provides the connection between body and soul. The effect of the divine relationship is genuine enlightenment as the Kundalini is raised and energy within the body is generated. In this way, the body becomes a living sacred temple of light, energy and wild alertness. This embodiment can be experienced in movement, in deep stillness, in vitality and in silence.