15: A Modern Guide to Ancient Spirituality: Exploring Tantras Roots & The Journey To Higher Consciousness With Skanda

Welcome to the Anfisa Shimkevich Podcast! Today, I’m thrilled to welcome Skanda- a yogi, traveller and teacher. I recently embarked on a solo journey to Stockholm, where I deepened my path of self-exploration, this time through Tantra. During this workshop, I had the privilege of meeting Skanda, whose profound self-connection, warmth, passion and professionalism truly inspired me.

In this episode:

• Skanda shares his story: Originally from Warsaw, Poland, he let go of all his belongings at 29, bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok, and began a journey through Southeast Asia that lasted nine years. After a brief return to Berlin, he settled back in his hometown, now using it as a base for his travels.

• We explore how travel shapes and humbles us, teaching that happiness doesn’t come from material possessions but from within, from community, and from truly embracing where we are.

• Skanda introduces Tantra as a path to understanding reality and spirituality, explaining how it seeks liberation by connecting us with our bodies, emotions, breath, and sexuality to cultivate a pure state of consciousness, free from mental distortion and distraction.

• Skanda breaks down the history and essence of Tantra in bite-size pieces.

• Anfisa’s shares her personal transformation from the Tantra workshop, where through practices like yoni massage she was able to connect to a deeper sense of aliveness, awakening her personal power, sexuality, belonging and primal instincts

• The Law of Karma: Skanda discusses how Tantra and yoga can help us shed the inherited beliefs and fears that shape our actions and responses, allowing us to overcome limitations set by personal and cultural conditioning.

• How our minds create limiting perspectives of reality, though true existence is an infinite oneness. While we may intellectualize this, true perception requires techniques that transcend the rational mind.

• Sexuality as a transformative, bio-hacking tool: Skanda explains how we can harness sexual energy to access vitality, elevate our consciousness, shift our perception of reality, and move toward enlightenment.

Thank you for joining me on this journey to self-mastery!

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