So far, Tantra yoga has been the most misunderstood type of yoga practiced in the western world. In its purest manifestation,

Tantra yoga grew out of the ancient Indian culture and it aimed at helping people achieve a form of non-dual life carried along a sacred path.

The present-day sexual concept of Tantra yoga is in fact a defilement of the sacred essence of the practice and it is the direct consequence of the misinterpretation of some Indian texts by people who did not know how to translate them.

The difficulty results from the abundance of metaphors used in Tantra yoga textbooks particularly owing to the fact that they described experiences that had to be experienced individually as consciousness forms.

Tantra yoga insists on the heart focus and the perception of the world through the experience of love and harmony that are also common concepts to taoist Chinese philosophy and to the biblical texts. Various divisions can be identified within Tantra yoga too, and this is obvious in the Tibetan Tantra yoga school and its teaching. For the Tibetans, the practice of Tantra yoga was kept in monasteries most of the time and it was explained on paper as it was taught in oral form.

According to Tantra yoga practice, the path to be followed is that of love-will-wisdom which is complexly corresponding to heart-hand-head, with all the elements joined in harmony.

It all begins with love and the practice of Tantra yoga stresses the importance of the becoming process rather than the achievement of the goal. The sexual connotations added to Tantra yoga represent a corruption of the original practice thus, instead of the balancing of the yin and yang within each of us, Tantra yoga is believed to seek the union with another person.

Guidance in the secrets of Tantra yoga should be very carefully chosen since lots of so-called yoga masters are far from being accomplished in the practice.

If the line of the tradition were to be respected, then, the leading of a trainee on the Tantra yoga path falls into the responsibility of a guru who has gone a long way on the journey for self discovery too.

In terms of overall goal, like the art of yoga in general, Tantra makes efforts in the direction of the spiritual awakening of any being and the fulfillment that results from enjoying liberation at all levels of existence.