{"id":16970,"date":"2020-01-27T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/?p=16970"},"modified":"2022-04-03T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:54:13","slug":"the-language-of-love-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-4-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/?p=16970","title":{"rendered":"YAB &#8211; YUM &#8230; The Tantric (Love-)Position&#8230; &#8230;that makes simple Sex a Prayer and Orgasm a Mystical Awakening&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#3e3e3e;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16972 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/83415305_2521701144823284_4681901518171930624_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/83415305_2521701144823284_4681901518171930624_n-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/83415305_2521701144823284_4681901518171930624_n-200x315.jpg 200w, https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/83415305_2521701144823284_4681901518171930624_n-400x630.jpg 400w, https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/83415305_2521701144823284_4681901518171930624_n-600x944.jpg 600w, https:\/\/elisabethkastanakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/83415305_2521701144823284_4681901518171930624_n.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yab &#8211; Yum comes from Tibetan Tantrism and means &#8220;Father -Mother&#8221;<br \/>\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.<\/p>\n<p>It symbolizes the essence of Tantrism and is a metaphor for the great union &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am on the same level with my Shiva &#8230;<br \/>\nBetween earth and sky &#8230;<br \/>\nHeart to Heart&#8230;<br \/>\nSometimes sexually united &#8230;<br \/>\nNevertheless, it is not a se x. position, as it is often assumed in the Western World&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shiva is waiting for me in the lotus position &#8230;<br \/>\nShakti comes to him when she is ready &#8230;.<br \/>\nI approach him slowly&#8230;<br \/>\nas smooth as a snake I wrap my legs around him &#8230;<br \/>\nlet me down slowly and consciously on his lap &#8230;<br \/>\nAnd close the circuit with my feet on his sacrum &#8230; the head of his serpent &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I begin to move towards him in my feminine energy, Shiva&#8217;s solar plexus and heart can open &#8230;<br \/>\nThrough my feminine energy, it is easy for him to become aware of his masculine power &#8230;<br \/>\nShiva finds so in his verticality ..<br \/>\nWe are breathing together &#8230;<br \/>\nOur pelvises are rocking gently&#8230;<br \/>\nOur spines straighten up like cobras &#8230;<br \/>\nOur hearts open and connect &#8230;<br \/>\nWe are dancing the eternal dance of Shiva &amp; Shakti &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shiva absorbs the earth energy through his G-spot into his prostate &#8230; that creates light sparks &#8230; energizes his lingam &#8230; He lets the energy flow further into my Yoni, where it unites with my energy and rises through all our chakras &#8230;<br \/>\nIn order to be able to offer his masculine energy through his lingam, he must first open himself to the earth energy and thus to his female side &#8230; to find unity within himself &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The non-dualistic aspect of all Tantrism finds its culmination in Yab-Yum &#8230;<br \/>\nMan &#8211; Woman<br \/>\nShiva-Shakti<br \/>\nMasculine-Feminine<br \/>\nYang &#8211; Yin<br \/>\nSky &#8211; Earth<br \/>\nConsciousness-Energy<br \/>\nWisdom- Love &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; connect to a unity, a whole, a totality that our society likes to separate &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We do not create this unity, it is already in us &#8230; buried, hidden in our holy temple &#8230;<br \/>\nIt is the divine presence in and around us &#8230;<br \/>\nWe finally allow her to express herself &#8230;<br \/>\nThe struggle of existence, which has its origin in being separated, stops &#8230;<br \/>\nWe are returning at home &#8230;<br \/>\nTHE GODS CAN REUNITE &#8230;<br \/>\n<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f525;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f525;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f525;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f525;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f525;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nSpecial thanks to my dear friend and former teacher, Laurent Lacoste, director of Skydancing-Tantra. 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