Escaping Saṃsāra Podcast: Sex, bindu and the yogic body 20 August 2024
PodcastEscaping Saṃsāra
TitleSex, bindu and the yogic body as applied to women
Date20 August 2024
Sourcehttps://escaping-samsara.com/
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Escaping Saṃsāra Podcast: Sex, bindu and the yogic body as applied to women
Thanks to Nathan Thompson for interviewing me for his podcast series on sex, brahmacharya and semen retention. So of course we talked about menses and menstruation.
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Show notes
Dhand, A. (2008) Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata. Ithaca: SUNY Press.
Hatley, S. (2016) Erotic asceticism: the razor’s edge observance (asidhārāvrata) and the early history of tantric coital ritual., Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 79 (2) pp.329–345.
Langenberg, A. P. (2015) Sex and Sexuality in Buddhism: A Tetralemma, Religion Compass, 9 (9) pp.277–286. DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12162
Mallinson, J. (2018) Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajrolīmudrā?, Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, pp.183–222.
Image credit: Photograph of a sannyāsinī. Oman, John Campbell (1905: 227). The Indian Mystics & Saints of India.
The eleventh century Amṛtasiddhi teaches, for the first time, bodily practices that become central to haṭha yoga. The startling teachings are explained systematically, in terms of the nature of the body, the practices, and the results of the practice in this tantric Buddhist source text. In this course we will read the Sanskrit and discuss in English the section on ‘the body’ as set out in the first four chapters of the Amṛtasiddhi. The course comprises four online sessions and one in-person workshop in London.