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Reclaiming Tantra: How colonialism split SPIRIT and SENSUALITY
Henika Patel, author of Sensual: Connect Deeply, Express Freely, Love Intimately and founder of the School of Sensual Arts, takes us back to 6th century India, where tantra emerged as a radical counterculture that elevated women as spiritual teachers, and honoured the body as a sacred portal to the divine. She shows us how tantra , was demonised and erased and colonialism severed the connection between spirit and sensuality.
This is a conversation about the divine feminine and masculine not as separate forces but as two sides of the same whole, splitting only to know each other more deeply…
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