ARTICLES
INTRODUCTION TO TANTRA YOGA
WHAT IS VINYASA—AND WHY DOES IT MATTER
HISTORICAL RELEVANCE OF TANTRA
THE MODERN SEPARATION BETWEEN YOGA AND TANTRA
TANTRA & ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
FREEDOM & DESIRE
CLASSIC & CONTEMPORARY TANTRA
TANTRA IN INDIA
HISTORICAL RELEVANCE OF TANTRA
For us, Lubhe is more than a business. It’s a life mission.
There’s a bright future ahead, and technology can help mankind solve many problems, but… let’s face it, over the past two decades progress has taken a pretty weird twist.
“The more we are connected, the more we feel disconnected” has become a recurrent statement.
And it’s hard to deny it, but even harder to imagine a way to fix this situation on a global scale.
What we provide in our retreats is a separate space, with different rules.
Some of our events are outright device-free, but even when they’re not, people soon forget about their phones as they’re engaged in something far more rewarding: the joy of connecting again with one another.
Doing it for five days may not seem much but, in fact, it makes the difference. It’s a real rehab, changing your perspective on things in a way that stays with you, permanently.
Most people who come to us don’t even realize, until the first days of retreat, how hard relating to strangers had become for them. “It didn’t use to be like that”, they tell us if they’re older.
Younger people, on the other hand, have a hard time spending hours without messaging and scrolling. Over the first couple of days, their focus is broken, and they can’t fully trust a new acquaintance until they’ve checked their social profiles.
Sure enough, all Yoga and meditation retreats promise you a few days off the grid.
So what sets us apart?
Well, we love classic meditation—Vipassana, Mindfulness— and we practice it a lot. It’s a great tool to clear your mind and recharge. There’s just one little issue with it: like all individual practices, it tends to shut you off the world. In a world that’s already pushing us towards isolation, that may make things worse.
That’s why rather than speaking of ‘personal growth’, our focus is on ‘growing together’.
It’s a tougher path, but truer. As Ram Dass put it, “If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”
We can’t stress enough how crucial this point is, especially as the conflicts and discomfort that we used to associate with ‘family’ seem to have spread across all relationships.
Take men vs. women.
Whenever we welcome newcomers to our courses, we witness the same underlying tension: a distrust of the other sex, a mutual resentment that goes beyond natural gender dynamics.
No matter how historically grounded these grudges may be, we all seem to forget what we’d say to our kids after a school fight: it’s not about who’s right or wrong, it’s about being able to make peace.
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