Awakening through the Lower Center- the Path of the Red Bindu

The Lower Gateway is the  space of the 'Red Bindu' which is the most judged, repressed and distorted gateway in our modern world. It's also the pathway that is historically primarily harnessed by females on their journey of awakening, so it's no coincidence that with the repression of women and emphasis on male-dominated religion and spiritual traditions that this gateway has been ignored, shamed, judged and a lot of the practices and rituals hidden and destroyed in the last 2000 years.

 

This is the gateway of EMBODIMENT. Of awakening through the body, where we go so deeply into our physicality and the vibration of the fundamental lifeforce that we transcend duality and merge into unity with the greater pattern and the formless ground of reality.

 

It's a connection to the the cycles of life and death, the pulse of Eros, 'primordial soup' of experience and the matrix of reality itself.

 

It's the domain of Goddess worship.

 

The domain of Sex and Love. The 'Path of the Tantric Consort'.

 

The domain of the senses and the bliss of being incarnate.

 

Throughout history, you often see this was the path of the Priestess and Dakini, the female spiritual masters who would awaken through sensuality, dance, earth worship, ritual, sacred sexuality and relationship.

 

The distortion of this gateway shows up in both sexual shame and repression as well as in excess, abuse, lust, addiction and clinging.

 

Every single person will have distortions in this center that MUST be worked through if we want to reach embodied liberation and an integrated awakening. Many fallen 'enlightened masters' who worked only on the upper centers will have sex scandals exactly because they didn't do the work required in this center and focused too much on the philosophy and meditation aspects.

 

In most people the distortion shows up as a numbness and disconnection from the body and from true Eros, and instead a 'filling the void' through pseudo-eros by consuming, over-eating, binging, shallow sex and living in the mind world. It primarily shows up in heavily conditioned desire, a lack of control of sexual energy and feeling unfulfilled in their relationships.

 

When we awaken through the lower centre and learn to come into right relationship with our bodies, our desire, our erotic fire and our relationship to matter then we become deeply passionate beings who are able to fully enjoy being a human on this earth. We become vital, playful, and sensual and feeling deeply connected with all of life! You can feel someone who has awakened and integrated through this centre because no matter what their age they carry a radiance and an intimacy with the world around them, savouring the beauty and bliss of this life. It's an 'orgasmic living' that doesn't feel performative or leaky- they're a self-sourced being who knows how to really enjoy just being in a body.

 

Most modern serious spiritual practitioners totally skip this domain, instead focusing on the upper centre of consciousness and the heart space. While these are valid, vital paths to awakening, if you don't do the lower gateway work you will have distorted 'leaky' energy or a blockage of lifeforce. You'll miss out on a particular 'sweetness' of life that comes from truly enjoying being here in a body on this earth for the time you have here.

 

Of course, there is hesitancy to dive into this work for a good reason, not just in recent times but throughout history people have abused this path and come to it with self-serving intentions, using sacred sexuality as an excuse to abuse positions of power or bringing their own distorted sexual habits into their teachings which take the seeker off course. This is why discernment is very important in entering this space and a high level of integrity from the teacher. If the guide hasn't learned how to be with their own erotic current and desires, how to transmute that energy and put their own cravings and needs to the side in service of others then things can get messy easily. This is often why people feel safer learning from couples or women, as the risk is often lower, though we can all have our shadows run rampant if we're not cautious.

 

We were born into bodies that experience pleasure for a reason.

 

We have access to profound bliss as a gift from the divine. To repress this energy is to deny what it is to be human and to continue the samsara trappings.

 

When we have a realisation of the bliss of being and merge that with the emptiness of consciousness, we find the unity of being.

 

Sacred Sensuality is a way of being and a pathway to awakening into your true nature beyond duality. We work WITH duality on the pathway there, honouring and worshiping the body, exploring desire, practicing sacred intimacy with others, and through duality we experience nonduality as we surrender more to the eternal pulse of lifeforce, of love, of Eros.

 

We become a lover of life and find intimacy with reality.

 

We embrace the impermanence, the immanence, the physical, the matter.

 

Not something to transcend but something to become so deeply intimate with.

 

I felt the calling to the path of the Red Bindu my entire life. Through dance, through working with the Erotic, through Somatics and Nature-worship and romance and love.

 

It's my calling to support people to enter this gateway, to see that their sensuality is the gateway to their divinity.

 

If you're looking to enter through this gateway I'm honoured to support you. I offer retreats, 1:1 and online courses.

 

December and January on Koh Phangan... a week retreat dedicated to Sacred Intimacy, sensuality and embodiment. 

 

 And in January, a week-long journey into the path of Tantra which includes all 3 gateways.  

 

 

The image from a performance art piece I did for the Fringe Festival in 2021. The lower triangle is a symbol of the Yoni and connected with the Red Bindu.