During the years that I was a keen student of tantra, I enjoyed groups, workshops, and the writings of teachers. Although my gratitude to these teachers is huge, they had definite limitations.

Sure, some of them had a lover or two, and quite possibly some good teaching and learning happened in that context, but few students could hope to work directly with the best teachers of the time.

Obviously, real tantra is taught person to person, intimately, and when appropriate, sexually. Tantra at that level of authenticity was simply not available to most seekers.

One reason for this history of partial tantra was surely the lack of students that were ready for this level of work. Most of us require a long, thorough and deep exploration of Neo-Tantra techniques and understanding before we can usefully approach tantra as such.

Another was the personal level of awareness and capacity of the teachers. Some had experienced an immersion in a foreign culture and suffered much confusion as to what practices were actually useful to Westerners. Others did great work with challenging the cultural mindset around sexuality and encouraged more natural, healthy alternatives. Great work, but not actually tantra as such.

The bottom line: There were no available teachers, complete with or sufficiently advanced on their own path, able and willing to help others with the necessarily intimate and sexual work.

I and my partner through those years had no option but to work on our tantra together. As we became adept, we improved as teachers to each other and advanced our understanding and practice significantly. We managed this while working through our own relationship dramas, developing our own sexual awareness , running a business and raising two children. A gorgeous journey indeed, but hardly efficient as a learning method.

My path was complete in 2002. What this means, among other things, is that my personal issues around sexuality were finished, as was my sexual hunger/craving. Before that, I had no idea of being or becoming a tantra teacher.

Since then, my personal spiritual mission has been to encourage a few women with the intelligence, emotional capacity and sexual power to their teaching as Dakinis – those who teach the mysteries and secrets of tantra directly.

These few women have become teachers who choose an approach to their work that requires a degree of willingness and capability significantly beyond that of any of the tantrikas I encountered on my path, or even heard rumours of.

I am constantly in awe at their bravery, intent and the difference they make in the lives of their students. I commend them to you as authentic and powerful teachers, the likes of which you will not currently find anywhere else on this planet.

They are the teachers that are needed now. I am their harbinger.

Rahasya
2010