The body

• Have you ever cursed any part of your body?
• Have you ever felt hatred for a little piece of yourself?
• Have you ever done a huge harm to your cells wishing your body would look different?
• Have you ever done evil with your body to achieve a certain standard of beauty or to fulfill some "social obligation"?
• Have you ever had unwilling sex just because the other person is your partner?
• Have you ever neglected your own pleasure?
• Have you been through violent situations?
• Did you have complexes?

To all these questions, my answer is: Yes, I have!

A brief history

From an early age, I realized that I should feel ugly, unintelligent, incapable, inferior, not deserving of many things I wanted ...

For cultural and social reasons, I grew up with huge complexes, I was very ashamed of myself. Always very skinny, I was ashamed of my body, I hated to show my legs. I grew up in a city of beautiful beaches and rarely allowed myself to enjoy the exuberant sea of ​​this place during all my adolescence and part of adult life.

I always loved the feeling of being at sea, but I was deprived of my body ashamed of it, for fear of the eyes and judgments of others, for not accepting me. I spent heat using pants to hide my legs, I hated my body many times.

I spent my adolescence waiting for my body to transform, always loaded with complexes, hiding, feeling horrible, hating me ...

Paradigm shifts

Tantra showed me the way of acceptance, self-love, wholeness. It showed me that deconstructing all these beliefs, pains, hurts and self-discovery, self-healing of all that, accepting and loving yourself is indescribably wonderful.

How delicious it is to be aware that the past is a place where we no longer live, that it is possible to walk without pain, without those weights that hurt us, no longer in that place of victim, but to live life in a light way, as protagonist of his own history and look back with gratitude for having lived everything he lived and for becoming the person he is today.

Osho says in the Ego book, that we create models that are impossible to achieve and that condemnation and guilt come from these models. Because we are compared all the time not only by others, but by us as well.

He says that we should replace the word perfection with fullness. Do not seek to be perfect, but full. And accepting ourselves as "perfectly imperfect".

Throughout life, people acquire truths that don't exist, fears that don't make sense because of the other's view, beliefs that we assume as ours, but that are not ours.

How many times do we charge ourselves more than necessary? How many times do we blame ourselves excessively? Do we judge ourselves exacerbated? Do we criticize ourselves? How often are we nice and understanding with others and tough and aggressive with ourselves?

Let us leave behind these old and repressive models. Let us be full!

Tantra and my body

Tantra is the source of liberating things in my life, whether materially, emotionally or spiritually.

Tantric therapy in general, whether through active meditations, rebirth experiences, breaths, tantric massage, all the dynamics that I experienced in the Comunna Metamorfose and Espaço Satya, was extremely significant in my life.

But I'm going to talk in a more specific way about how tantric therapy helped me with all of that. Since I had my first contact in January 2018, I have never stopped experiencing it. And the development I have had over time has brought me great changes.

• Self-acceptance: Tantric therapy opened me up to life in a beautiful way. In a very fast way, I improved my relationship with my image, I started to love myself, I started to deal with nudity in a very natural way, I started to care less and less with opinions and judgments of others.
• Self knowledge: I became more aware of who I am and what I am capable of, I was discovering my personal power, becoming aware of the strength and power of Kundalini, of how much I am responsible for the life I have, that life is a learning process, I learned that in all things in life there is something to learn, that to live is to be in the present, that we are energy and attract the energies that are in the same harmony as us.

• Self Healing: Throughout the many experiences, I lived incredible healing processes, I threw away many things stored in the depths of my soul. Among them, complexes, fears, pains related to the family, limiting beliefs, feelings of ownership and jealousy, feelings of competition with other women, cultural ties, limitations, insecurities ... Redefining this all did me an indescribable good. During these processes, things that are kept inside of us can come to light, causing us harm. And it's a huge relief to get so many bad things out of us.
  
  This is because these practices lead us to a state of no-mind. And it is at that moment that we can get in touch with very intimate memories, face them and reframe them.
• View on sexuality: The remnants of my cultural views that influenced my thinking about sex and sexuality, that it would be wrong, ugly, bad, promiscuous, degrading, have completely dissipated. Today I understand sex and sexuality as something very healthy, beautiful, sacred, necessary for us to be happy and full, the source that generates life.
• Health and wellness: I feel refreshed, full of energy. Some tantric practices allow us to feel a delicious sensation of muscle relaxation, releasing an enormous amount of hormones that cause an intense feeling of well-being, such as oxytocin, endorphin and serotonin.

• Body and energetic awareness: Today I know my body, the energetic potential that I have, I am extremely grateful to know how many sensations I never imagined before my body is capable of feeling.

Of course, I still have my pains, crises, insecurities, anxieties ... But today, I react in a much more conscious and welcoming way towards them. And I know I'm on the way, in my time.

But I can assure you that my life has become a lot. For all this, I am very grateful to Tantra and today I have the privilege of working with Tantric therapy and facilitating people, processes of discovering themselves. And I am available to talk about this work that is so revealing, liberating, transformative and meaningful.

Gratitude!