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Start-up of Homoerotic Tantra:Mascul-IN-Touch Program in Albany, NY

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Plans are being finalized for offering the Homoerotic Tantra:Mascul-IN-Touch program in Albany, New York. The organizers of the HET:MIT program are considering offering the HET:MIT start-up program at gay venues in Albany, New York. Future venues will be in Montréal, Québec, and other locales. Homoerotic Tantra is a physical, emotional, spiritual practice for gay and bisexual men whose goal is to become aware of and to awaken the divine masculine spirit. Homoerotic Tantra and the Mascul-IN-Touch program is based on the more than four thousand year old traditions of the Sanatana Dharma of India and the practices of yogic Tantra . Through a process of physical, emotional/mental, and spiritual sadhana (practice) participants will develop skills aimed at awakening self-awareness and self-knowledge, practiced as a lifestyle and positive change in personal, professional and social interactions. The program can be highly group oriented or deeply individual and personal, but the preparatio

Introduction to the Chakras

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Chakras are sites of subtle energy concentration in the body, and they play a vital role in our physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being. A basic understanding of how this body-mind-spirit energy system works is an important step in achieving physical, mental and spiritual health. If you are to understand how yogic homoerotic Tantra and the Mascul-IN-Touch℠ program works, you need to be comfortable with the concept of chakras. The Sanskrit word “ chakra ” actually means a wheel or a disk. [1] Knowing this is helpful because in meditation we want to visualize the chakra upon which we are meditating and it would be rather difficult to imagine an energy concentration with nothing more to embrace than that vague terminology. So we do our best by visualizing first the concept of chakra as an energized spinning disk, and then we attribute to it its characteristic color, and finally we chant the bija mantra, a mantra syllable associated with that particular chakra. Using my own