A message from the Director of the National Institute of Tantra South Africa
Ma Anand Leandra
March 2007
Tantra is still in its baby shoes in South Africa and going by the development world wide, will grow tremendously in the next few years. Many will "come onto the bandwagon". It will become increasingly necessary to differentiate between those who offer Tantra on the background of what ancient Tantra had to offer and those who use the modern buzz word “tantra" to market erotic services. As you know from various texts and articles on my websites, Tantra is not an erotic service. It is, in fact, so much more - a way of life, a method, a science, a spiritual path, a path to enlightenment, a path to Bliss and it has a very long history.
All the world religions have had some form of a tantric or sacred sexual background in ancient days. This was negated by all the world religions as the physical and the sexual became more and more of a taboo in the effort to control and manipulate their believers into an understanding that spiritual life cannot include sexual matters.
In our day and age, the sexual has become such a tremendous focus of human life. The negating and suppressing of a free, loving and open attitude towards sexuality has driven human nature to pursue sexual matters "under cover" so to say. Tantra brings the sexual out into the open, into the light and understands it as a natural aspect of our human experience - as natural as eating and sleeping. In so doing, it embraces one of the most beautiful of our human experiences, allowing the sexual to become a meditation in our lives.
It is with great pleasure that I have accepted the invitation by the International Institute of Tantra to form the National Institute of Tantra South Africa. I feel privileged to take on the task of being its director and I will endeavor to ensure that Tanta in South Africa develops in a way that upholds international standards of quality, conduct and professionalism by those working in the field.
As a past executive chairperson of a national organization in the field of expressive psychotherapies in Germany, setting and controlling the German standards for training in this area of work, I feel fully equipped to take on this task and do so with pleasure.
It will take some time to get organised - please bear with me as I do so. The National Institute of Tantra South Africa now launches it's own website and will ultimately have a team of tantrikers, Tantra trainers and Tantra Masseurs involved in the running of the institute.
In the mean time, all those working under the banner of Tantra who are also interested in ensuring quality tantric coaching here in South Africa, are invited to contact us.
Namaste,
Ma Anand Leandra
8th March 2007
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