{"id":15375,"date":"2018-04-06T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/?p=15375"},"modified":"2022-04-03T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:57:42","slug":"yab-yum-the-tantric-symbol-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/?p=15375","title":{"rendered":"YAB – YUM … The Tantric Symbol of Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yab – Yum comes from Tibetan Tantrism and means “Father -Mother”
\nIt is a meditative position that we can find in Tibet as well as in North-Indian Kashmir and in Taoism of China and Japan and the rest of India.
\nIt symbolizes the essence of Tantrism and is a metaphor for the great union …
\n\"\"‍♀️<\/span><\/span>\"\"‍♀️<\/span><\/span>\"\"‍♀️<\/span><\/span>
\nI am on the same level with my Shiva …
\nBetween earth and sky …
\nHeart to Heart…
\nSometimes sexually united …
\nNevertheless, it is not a sex position, as it is often assumed in the Western World…<\/p>\n

Shiva is waiting for me in the lotus position …
\nShakti comes to him when she is ready ….
\nI approach him slowly…
\nas smooth as a snake I wrap my legs around him …
\nlet me down slowly and consciously on his lap …
\nAnd close the circuit with my feet on his sacrum … the head of his serpent …<\/p>\n

When I begin to move towards him in my feminine energy, Shiva’s solar plexus and heart can open …
\nThrough my feminine energy, it is easy for him to become aware of his masculine power …
\nShiva finds so in his verticality ..
\nWe are breathing together …
\nOur pelvises are rocking gently…
\nOur spines straighten up like cobras …
\nOur hearts open and connect …
\nWe are dancing the eternal dance of Shiva & Shakti …
\n\"\"‍♀️<\/span><\/span>\"\"‍♀️<\/span><\/span>\"\"‍♀️<\/span><\/span>
\nThe non-dualistic aspect of all Tantrism finds its culmination in Yab-Yum …
\nMan – Woman
\nShiva-Shakti
\nMasculine-Feminine
\nYang – Yin
\nSky – Earth
\nConsciousness-Energy
\nWisdom- Love …
\n… connect to a unity, a whole, a totality that our society likes to separate …<\/p>\n

We do not create this unity, it is already in us … buried, hidden in our holy temple …
\nIt is the divine presence in and around us …
\nWe finally allow it to express iterself …
\nThe struggle of existence, which has its origin in being separated, stops …
\nWe are returning at home …
\nTHE GODS CAN REUNITE …<\/p>\n

Copyright Elisabeth Kastanakis<\/p>\n

Foto by Oliver Neunteufel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yab – Yum comes from Tibetan Tantrism and means “Father -Mother” It is a meditative position that we can find in Tibet as well as in North-Indian Kashmir and in Taoism of China and Japan and the rest of India. It symbolizes the essence of Tantrism and is a metaphor for the great union … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}