You know how to breathe properly and pump your PC already. Now we’re going to combine these tools. You’ll want to do all these energy exercises naked or with loose clothing. Find a quiet uninterrupted space where you won’t be interrupted. Play some suitable slow sensuous rhythmic music. One of our favorites is el-Hadra (available commercially through our website but any slow trancey hypnotic instrumental that turns you on will work fine.

1) Do this exercise lying down, standing with loose knees, sitting on a chair, or sitting on a pillow. The ideal position is on a zafu, a Japanese meditation pillow that’s round, solid, and flattened top and bottom. If you can imagine squashing a ball of hamburger meat with your palm, you’ll recognize one when you see it.

2) Close your eyes and breathe deeply and slowly in the belly. The more air you take in rhythmically, the more energy you’ll be generating. I find it helps me to pucker my mouth on the inbreath so I can hear the air rushing in. The complete Tantric breath has four stages: in, pause, out, pause. Pause for a distinct moment between inhaling and exhaling, and exhaling and inhaling.

3) After a few minutes of feeling cleansed, relaxed, and refreshed through breathing, begin clenching your PC on your inhale. Relax your PC along with everything else as you exhale.

4) Do you feel any sensations from breathing and pumping together? In your vajra, genitals, or elsewhere? Tune in and see if there are any subtle signals.

5) Once you’ve coordinated breathing and pumping, begin making sounds on your exhale. You can simply say “ahhh” as you let the air escape. Or you can use the other vowels (”eeee”, “iiii”, “oh”, “oooo”) to express any sensations you’re feeling. If this is still awkward, push yourself to be louder and louder for a while. Then when you lower the volume it will feel more comfortable.

Exercise: Visualizing Energy Next we’re going to add the isualization of energy along with your breathing and pumping. Since energy flows where attention goes, even if you just imagine sexual juice and electricity somewhere in your body, something will eventually happen. You already knew that the mind was the biggest sex organ, right? Now we’re going to capitalize on it, focusing your big head where it belongs, on creating pleasure. We’re going to begin working with your energy centers, chakras, in a big way. These are the vortices where energy tends to collect and swirl around at different places inside your body. To remind you, here’s the table you saw in

Chapter 2… # Location Function 1st Perineum (base of spine) Sex, survival 83 2nd Belly (2 inches below navel) Body, sensations 3rd Solar Plexus Power, will 4th Heart Love, compassion 5th Throat Creativity, expression 6th Forehead (3rd eye) Perception. consciousness 7th Crown (top of head) Divine connection You inner flute is the energy channel near your spine that connects your chakras. The visualizations of this exercise will begin opening that subtle conduit and flowing energy between the chakras.

1) Assume a similar comfortable position as in the previous exercise. Upright is probably better for visualizing rising and falling subtle energy.
2) Begin Breathing and Pumping again with eyes closed until you settle into a rhythm.
3) Rest one hand gently on your genitals, as if cradling a precious jewel. This isn’t designed for self-pleasuring, just as an anchor for moving energy. But if it turns you on, so much the better.
4) As you breathe in slowly, visualize the air entering through your first chakra at the base of your pelvis. Though your eyes are closed to contain your energy inside, look downward as you do this. Imagine the air is a fiery stream of orgasmic energy.
5) After holding your breath for 10 seconds or so, as you exhale, visualize the stream of energy flowing out the same way it came in. Relax completely for a moment before your next breath. Repeat this cycle several times.
6) Now on your inbreath, visualize the energy entering your first chakra and moving up your inner flute into your belly, your second chakra. As you breathe, use your other hand on your skin or floating just above your body to trace the energy flow you’re visualizing in your mind’s eye. In other words, move the hand gently up from your genitals to your belly as you breathe in, reversing it downwards on your outbreath. As before, focus your eyes internally where you’re visualizing, hold your breath, and exhale down your inner flute and out the first chakra. Repeat this a few times.
6) Repeat the sequence a few times each for the third through seventh chakras. Imagine your breath moving from the first to the third, then the first to the fourth, and so on. In each case, picture the energy flowing from the first chakra to the upper chakra through your inner flute.
7) During this process, imagine that you’re experiencing intensely passionate lovemaking, making your body move, your pulse quicken, and your sounds emanate from deep inside your reservoir of life force. And remember to keep all your senses open. If you feel any sensations, no matter how subtle, visualize your breath passing through where you feel them. In this way, the breath acts like adding fuel to a small fire, making it flare up. Even if you don’t feel much, imagine that you do and breathe into the body parts you want to energize.