Shanti Yoga Ashram embodies Tantra Yoga as a complete lifestyle as a means to realization. 'Tan' means expansion and 'tra' means freedom. Tantra is the art of to become free from all physical, mental and spiritual bondage through the expansion of energy. 
Tantra Yoga emphasizes the development of power latent in the chakras in a systematic manner to heal and balances all aspects of human beings - including the physical, emotional, vital, mental, and spiritual bodies. It eventually leads to supreme consciousness, the aim of the human life.
Tantra yoga starts with the gross level of the body and gradually transitions to the subtle levels of one's consciousness. This teaching system offers the evolutionary process from Hatha yoga, meditation through the body, to Astanga yoga, meditation through the mind, to , Karma Yoga, selfless service, to Bhakti Yoga, yoga of devotion, Jnana yoga, knowledge of the Self, to Mantra yoga, meditation through sound, to Kundalini yoga, meditation through the chakras, and ultimately to Shiva-Shakti yoga, meditation through the internal masculine and feminine energies. 

What do we teach ?

Tantra is the composition of all yoga systems, as taught by Shiva to Parvati. 
The ultimate aim is to not only get experience in meditation and yoga sadhana, but to continue this experience throughout each and every second of daily life. 

The following aspects are applied in our daily life: 

• Morning Sanskrit chanting in temple, to invoke all energies from inside and install them on the body, to make the body into a divine tool. 
•  Havana, a Tantric fire ceremony.
• Asana combined with chakra awareness and bija mantra meditation.
• Pranayama to activate and balance the energy.
• Mudras to energize the entire system.
• Bhandas to move the energy throughout the whole body.
• Yoga Nidra – with the tantric practice of Nyasa.
• Chakras meditations to balance and heal the chakras.
• Ajna meditations to open the 3th-eye.
• Kriya and Kundalini practices ​to awaken the sacred energy (Kundalini).
• Mantra/Kirtan to uplift the energy and to create sacred space.
• Ayurveda Lifestyle and Diet to come back in harmony with the nature.
• Sanskrit Tantric Scripture, to know about the essence of Tantra.