by Ana Stoian | Jun 5, 2021
I am now concluding the first chapter of The Continuous Transformation Podcast. To celebrate the many good moments, topics and insights, we have put together a review of the first 14 episodes to share with you. To bring good answers one needs to be asked good questions, and it’s been a great help to be joined by many dear guests with incisive and daring curiosity. I have decided to take a break to assess the results and response from the first 14 episodes and I welcome your feedback, comments and ideas if there is something you would like to be addressed in future episodes or other inspirations you might have.
by Ana Stoian | May 28, 2021
Masculinity is a gift to the world when it is present in its superior aspect. There is a lot of talk today about ‘toxic masculinity’, but I dare say that it is the rhetoric and opinions about this topic which are much more toxic. To understand the extent of the bias in the discourse on masculinity, you can start by imagining the social media storms that would be triggered if the word “man” in their stories would be replaced with any other category of people. It makes me wonder, where is the superior response to this bias from the strong, moral and virile men?
Masculinity obviously IS in a crisis today, but it is not facing the kind of problems claimed by the ‘woke’ culture or the ones who are calling themselves ‘feminists’.
The problems that masculinity face today need a true masculine attention – one full of responsibility, discernment and accompanied by action. In this talk I am joined by Tantra teacher Foca Yariv, who has been guiding men’s groups and workshops, and raises the questions from the men he has met and from the challenges he has experienced.
by Ana Stoian | May 20, 2021
What is more mysterious than the future? The future is a vast unknown, and in these times the emergence of new technologies makes life change at a rate we’ve never seen before. Are we ready? How can we prepare for this unprecedented acceleration? How to safely glide on the current and not crash-land in a sci-fi dystopia? How to navigate through life when everything is unpredictable? Tantric aspirant Kalas poses these questions in this episode. Questions that can only be answered if we dare to look into our relationship with transformation; a sensitive topic nowadays when most people are longing to hold on to the status quo. Continuous transformation, however, is one of the life’s defining conditions and we will explore what it means in this episode. Welcome to this journey of self discovery!
by Ana Stoian | May 6, 2021
Some say Tantra is a path of spiritualised sex, ignoring the fact that the Tantric system actually considers sex to be nothing more than an inferior instinct. Others, out of ignorance, blame Tantra for all decadence. Yet, there are also many hopes attributed to the Tantric system which is said to re-emerge in times of crisis to save humanity from its perilous decadence. Out of all these false hopes and damnation, Tantra appears to be a spiritual Frankenstein: a mix of sexual perversions solved with incense sticks and candles. But what is tantra? And why is it so often misunderstood? Having walked this path for 30 years myself, I picked up these questions brought by Tantra teacher Foca Yariv for this talk, where we aim to debunk some myths and inspire some people to try out this path for themselves. A path which, in our experience, is the most efficient methodology for those who dare to leave behind all preconceived ideas and truly want to accelerate their evolution!
by Ana Stoian | Apr 20, 2021
“What do we cancel when we cancel culture?” This question can easily get your fingers (and sometimes also your books!) burned in today’s environment of Political Correctness. In this episode, Maria Porsfelt, lead teacher at Tara Yoga Center with a degree in philosophy, dares to raise the question and Advaitananda demolishes the usual perspective drawing parallels between modern-day censorship in areas ranging from Social Media to children’s books, and the cultural revolutions in the USSR, China and Nazi Germany. Get prepared for one of the strongest moral tests of our generation!
