Probably the most misunderstood of all the yoga forms practiced in the West, Tantra yoga has the essence of the ancient teachings. In its purest manifestation, Tantra yoga developed as part of the ancient civilization in the Indus Valley and it pursued to help people achieve a form of non-dual life carried along a sacred path. The modern connotations attributed to Tantra yoga are in fact a defilement of the sacred essence of the practice and it is the direct consequence of the misinterpretation of some Indian texts by people who did not know how to translate them. The difficulty results from the abundance of metaphors used in Tantra yoga textbooks particularly owing to the fact that they expressed experiences that had to be experienced individually as consciousness forms.

Tantra yoga insists on the heart focus and the perception of the world through the experience of love and harmony that are also common concepts to taoist Chinese philosophy and to the biblical texts. There are several Tantra yoga schools too, and a relevant example remain the teachings of Tibetan Tantra. In Tibet, the practice of Tantra yoga was kept in the monastic environment most of the time and it was explained on paper as it was taught in oral form.

Tantra yoga advocates that the path to be followed is that which combines the love-heart, the will-hand and the wisdom-head in one harmonious whole. It all begins with love and the practice of Tantra yoga stresses the importance of the becoming process rather than the achievement of the goal. The sexual bias added to Tantra yoga are a form of corruption of the original practice thus, instead of the balancing of the yin and yang within each of us, Tantra yoga is believed to seek the union with another person.

You should choose guidance in the secrets of Tantra yoga very cautiously since there are many so-called gurus that are not accomplished in the practice themselves. If the line of the tradition were to be respected, then, the leading of a trainee on the Tantra yoga path falls into the responsibility of a guru who has gone a long way on the journey for self discovery too. In terms of overall goal, like the art of yoga in general, Tantra aims at the spiritual awakening of any being and the fulfillment that results from enjoying sheer freedom at all levels of existence.