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 civilization in the Indus Valley and it pursued to help people reach the form of non-duality along the most sacred of paths.

The modern connotations attributed to Tantra yoga are 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 because they expressed experiences that had to be experienced individually as consciousness forms.

Just like Chinese taoist texts and in accordance with the Bible message, Tantra yoga insists on the importance of love and the necessity for a heart focus in the perception of the world. Various divisions can be identified within Tantra yoga too, and this is obvious in the Tibetan Tantra yoga school and its teaching.

In Tibet, the practice of Tantra yoga was kept in monasteries most of the time and it got to be explained on paper in very much the way it was expressed in speech.

Tantra yoga advocates that the superior path to take 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 should not focus on a certain intent but rather on the beauty of the process.

The sexual connotations added to Tantra yoga represent a corruption of the pure practice that seeks the union with another person rather than the balancing and the unity of the yin and yang inside each individual.

Guidance in the secrets of Tantra yoga should be very carefully chosen since there are many so-called gurus that are not accomplished in the practice themselves. 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 aims at the spiritual awakening of any being and the fulfillment that results from enjoying sheer freedom at all levels of existence.