Why Practice Tantra Yoga?

Laurie is featured in New York Yoga Magazine about her Tantra Yoga classes. 
Here is a little excerpt.

Tantra combines body, mind and

spirit causing your whole being to

expand through awareness of your

senses, feelings and energy. In Tantra

there is no duality. Usually you think of

good vs. bad, male vs. female, dark vs.

light. You have been taught to perceive

duality all about you, but in Tantra you

come to know that all these opposites

are contained in the same universal consciousness and that means

everything you experience, do, and feel even pleasure and pain are

designed to bring you closer to your own divinity.

Tantra invokes the question: How much can you expand in

order to embrace it all? This expansion happens as you eliminate

toxins and open yourself to more and more pleasure.

That's where the sex part comes in that all the buzz is about.

Tantra uses the body as the learning vehicle employing sexual

energy to fuel the transformation.

Here's the rub. It is not necessarily about having sex. It

involves many breathing practices that include squeezing the

anal sphincter muscles, contracting the PC (sex) muscles,

mantra (making sound) and yantra (looking at geometric

images). In addition, modern Western Tantra practices include

emotional clearing, Latihan (inner guidance practice), dance and

celebratory rituals; Yet it is not just a big party. It involves being

with a teacher or teachers, lots of study, and group process work.

There is method behind it designed to bring you to expanded

awareness...

To check out the rest of the article pick up a magazine or go to New York Yoga Magazine's website.  Then click on page 36.