Tantric practice & the creation of fertile relationships
Regardless of whether you’re navigating your fertility journey, planning for a second child or perhaps facing the challenges of parenthood already, the chances are your romantic relationship with your partner has taken a backseat to other worries.
Tantric practice can support fertility in love and relationships. Regular vulnerable connection with intimate tantric practices can improve health physically, mentally and emotionally. What the mind agrees with, the body responds to.
How tantric practice can create fertile relationships
Tantra is often shrouded in judgement and misconceptions, is it just about sex? Is it a religion?
The answer is no, to both.
The word ‘Tantra’ in Sanskrit simply means ‘to weave’. The philosophy is based on the understanding that the mental, physical and emotional realms can be woven together to reach states of higher consciousness for a happier, healthier and more harmonious lived experience.
So, how can Tantra support a fertile relationship?
Regardless of whether you’re navigating your fertility journey, how can Tantra support a fertile relationship?
Regardless of whether you’re navigating your fertility journey, planning for a second child or perhaps facing the challenges of parenthood already, the chances are your romantic relationship with your partner has taken a backseat to other worries.
Tantric practice can support fertility in love and relationships. Regular vulnerable connection with intimate tantric practices can improve health physically, mentally and emotionally. What the mind agrees with, the body responds to. ey, facing the challenges of parenthood already, or perhaps planning for another child, the chances are your romantic relationship with your partner has taken a backseat to other worries.
It’s only natural! Modern life is a melting pot of stresses, pushing up our cortisol levels and endlessly spilling over into every hour of the day. Our partner being our safe place and closest outlet, usually means, they bear the brunt of any stress and we can end up feeling tired, lacklustre and unmotivated to instigate intimacy in the way we used to. It is true, we can take our very worst out on our loved one. Usually quality time and deep communication falls by the wayside first.
I ask you, if your relationship were a garden… how would your garden look?
Twisted and tangled with vines? Shrouded in a dark canopy? Covered with weeds or broken machinery? Perhaps littered with tools that used to work, but now have seen better days.
You see, relationships are gardens, they need attention to grow healthily and to maintain balance for fertile ground, so they can weather the storm with strong roots and replenish season after season.
You can water your garden by consciously carving out time with your partner to reconnect. As a tantra practitioner and clinical hypnotherapist, my advice on the best way to do this is to start with the mind.
The mind is the gateway to both the conscious and the subconscious. By consciously choosing to pay attention to your partner with intentional focus, you increase energy levels between you. Energy that can reignite the spark and feed the loving connection that has been wavering, adding nourishment to the hungry soil.
Where your focus goes, your energy will flow.
‘Intimacy’ can also be understood as ‘INTO-ME-SEE’. We can so often lead our lives alongside our partners and forget to truly listen to or take time to understand and see them on a deeper level.
Vulnerability is the key to intimacy, we must allow our walls to come down in order to truly let another in.
However, vulnerability can be a difficult state to achieve when facing challenges in life. Perhaps you feel like you have to be strong for your partner? Or maybe they are being strong for you? Do you trust them to love you in spite of your deepest shadows, in all your mess?
The fear of truly getting vulnerable can be isolating for everyone involved.
I want you to know there is a world in which you can choose how your relationship grows, with intention and ease. In this conscious space, you can learn tools to reconnect with each other by using simple practices such as breathwork and eye gazing to create a sense of safety and calm in your connection.
What the mind agrees with, the body responds to. Imagine the best sex you’ve ever had… I’ll bet it was with someone you loved. On a cellular level our bodies will respond to states of calm, safety and relaxation with restorative growth and repair. It is the same with relationships. Magic happens when we feel safe with another, higher levels of joy, pleasure and openness can be found in strengthened emotional connections.
If you want more pleasure, joy and room to ‘grow’ in your relationship, come along to Sineads ‘Winter Warmer’ Couples Tantra Workshop at Beattie Street Health Studio on Saturday 31st August just in time for Father’s Day where you and your partner can learn tantric intimacy techniques to fall in love all over again.