Tantra Beyond Sex: Awakening Energy, Sovereignty, and Ecstatic Aliveness

In this episode of The Connected Community: Exploring Possibility, Nicky Yazbeck sits down with Christine Renee, founder of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute, for a deeply grounded conversation on Tantra, shamanic spirituality, energy awareness, and embodied awakening. With over two decades of experience in the spiritual and healing arts, Christine serves as a bridge between worlds, guiding seekers toward remembrance, sovereignty, and ecstatic aliveness.

This episode explores Tantra beyond its common misconceptions, reframing it as a powerful spiritual practice rooted in presence, breath, sound, movement, and conscious energy cultivation rather than sexuality alone. Christine unpacks how Tantra supports emotional release, nervous system regulation, chakra alignment, and authentic self-expression, offering a path toward living fully embodied and energetically alive.

Together, Nicky and Christine discuss the importance of creating safe, intentional spaces for transformation, emphasizing consent, boundaries, and personal sovereignty as foundational elements of any intimate or energetic practice. The conversation weaves through shamanic principles, Reiki, sacred embodiment, and Tantra as a way of awakening dormant life force energy and reconnecting with the soul’s deepest truth.

Listeners are invited into a broader understanding of what it means to live an ecstatic life, not as constant pleasure, but as full-spectrum aliveness. Christine speaks to embracing the totality of the human emotional experience, allowing grief, joy, desire, stillness, and power to coexist as part of spiritual maturation. Through breathwork, sound, movement, and energy awareness, Tantra becomes a tool for self-discovery, emotional integration, and conscious connection, whether practiced solo or in relationship.

Takeaways:

• Christine Renee has over 20 years in the spiritual industry.
• She emphasizes the importance of energy awareness in personal growth.
• Tantra is often misunderstood as solely sexual; it encompasses much more.
• Personal practice in Tantra can lead to profound self-discovery.
• Breath, sound, and movement are key components of Tantra.
• Emotional release is a natural part of the Tantra experience.
• Setting boundaries is crucial in any intimate practice.
• Tantra can be practiced alone or with partners, focusing on connection.
• Creating safe spaces is essential for exploring Tantra.
• Living an ecstatic life involves embracing all emotions.

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Connect with Christine:

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https://moonrisinginstitute.circle.so/c/she-who-rises/

Keywords: Tantra, energy awareness, personal sovereignty, emotional release, breath work, intimacy, sexuality, spiritual practices, self-love, ecstatic living, orgasm, eroticism