"Kama Sutra" "Woman is the sacrificial fire." "The lips of her vulva - the fuel, the hairs around them - the smoke, and her love temple itself - the flame." "The act of entry is the kindling, the blaze of pleasure is the spark." "in this fire the gods offer up semen seed of which sacred offering man is born." "Our story begins in a time before time, in a land half way across the world." "The great god Shiva, terrible destroyer of worlds, the ultimate teacher of all yoga, meditation and magic, was in the mood for love." "Shiva and his wife, the lovely goddess Parvati, locked themselves away in their palace on mount Kailash." "A year passed..." "Ten years passed..." "Still the divine couple did not emerge." "Ten thousand years went by..." "Yet Parvati and Shiva remained hidden." "And it's said the world shook with their lovemaking." "Only Nandi, the white bull guardian, knew what they were doing inside." "And he was sworn to secrecy." "Poor Nandi could not help himself." "He broke his vault." "But Shiva's magic turned Nandi's words to flowers even as they left his lips." "Wise sages, meditating on these blossoms, wrote the first-ever books on the art of love." "The greatest of these books was written by Mallanaga Vatsyayana." "It was cold Kama Sutra and it remains to this day the most famous book ever written on the art of love." "In India generations of painters illustrated the book for princely patrons." "Vatsyayana's world could hardly be more different from ours, but Kama Sutra is as valuable today as it ever was." "After all the human body and the human emotions have not changed at all in the last two thousand years." "In this video you'll see couples making love in some of the postures described by Kama Sutra." "Please, don't be fooled into thinking that it's the postures that are important." "They're not." "On its own each posture is quite meaningless." "Lovemaking should flow like a dance, moving effortlessly from one position to the next." "You don't need to use every technique you're going to see nor is it the physical performance that's important." "What really matters are the feelings we bring to our lovemaking." "Every action, every sound, every caress, every part of our body should express our affection, our tenderness, our loving care for our partner." "The mind is the most potent sex organ of all." "The shifting, ever changing postures, flowing like dance figures one to another are only meant to express the tenderness of the controlling mind." "And for this reason" "Kama sutra is especially valuable to couples who are married or in a long relationship." "Watch well, for as its author wrote the arts it teaches are so powerful that the love they arose will not diminish even in a thousand years." "Kama is often translated as "desire"." "But it is far more then just sexual lust." "Kama is every pleasure that can be felt." "It's the delight of all five senses, in art and music, in silks, perfumes and good food." "So also lovemaking is not just sexual union." "It's every pleasure that one person can give another." "It's time spent together walking, talking or meditating, and of course caring for one another's bodies." "Bathing each other is a perfect way to begin lovemaking." "When you touch each other pay real attention to what you're doing." "Be aware of every tiny action." "One of the great secrets of lovemaking is this:" ""Whatever you are doing - slow down!"" "It would be better at half the speed." "Nothing heightens desire as expectation." "So let every touch contain a new idea and let every touch burn like a cool fire." "The hot bath scented with oils relaxes both muscles and inhibitions." "It allows you to explore each others bodies unselfconsciously and to learn to give and receive pleasure without embarrassment." "It is a time to be playful." "In the bath you may tease and tantalize, building an appetite for the pleasure still to come." ""Set musicians behind carved screen to play as you bathe together,"" "says Vatsyayana." "No wonder sharing a bath is one of the chief pleasures recommended by Kama Sutra for newly wed couples." "One of the stratagems suggested by Vatsyayana to the young men of his day was that if their lady friend was ever caught in a shower they should immediately offer to towel her dry." "Gentle rubbing with the soft dry towel or trailing the fingertips or nails lightly across the body causes the tiny hairs to rise in the most exquisite sensation." "Now, even though your body may be ready for making love, be patient just a little longer." "It can be better still." "Jasmine..." "Sandal wood..." "Musk..." "A tower of roses..." "These perfumes were as well-known in ancient times as they are today." "Then, as now, the ultimate non sexual pleasure was a body massage." "The simplest way is just to rub the scented oils gently into your lover's skin." "Massage tones up the skin, improves circulation, relaxes muscles and eases eggs and pains." "Some types of massage work on the deeper body organs, fortifying and rejuvenation them." "Try to keep the massage non sexual for as long as you can." "Wait till your body is ready and aching for love." "And when you can hold back no longer it is time to turn the next page." "Kama is the delight of body, mind and soul in exquisite sensation." "Awaken eyes, nose, tongue, ear and skin." "And between sense and sensed the essence of Kama will flower." "Kama is the breath of lip on lip, the caress of breasts, hips, buttocks, thighs in a beautiful embrace from which child is born." "The writer of the Kama Sutra knew something that we moderns have forgotten." "That the sexual union of two people is an event far more profound than just pleasure seeking." "Again and again in Vatsyayana's ---- Sanskrit ---- we encounter hints and clues of something deeper." "According to ancient Indian and Chinese tradition the body is a complex of nerve centers called chakras." "At the base of the spine an awesome energy lies coiled called kundalini." "It can be raised by lovemaking." "The ancients believed that the psychic energy of kundalini could be harnessed in the quest for salvation which they called moksha, the release from the cycle of life and death." "Moksha, the very same word, describes the mystery of the female orgasm." "Some women like to have an orgasm before making love." "She may be able to come just by riding on her lover's knee." "The simplest way to bring her to orgasm may be to stimulate her clitoris with your fingers." "Remember the rule: "Don't hurry!"" "Whatever you're doing it would be much better at half the speed." "When the urge to join your bodies becomes overwhelming then choose a posture to start with and just go with the flow of your feelings." "Here are some fairly easy postures and you don't need to be double-jointed to do them." "Where better to start than with this familiar posture." "We call it Utphullaka (The Opening Flower)." "It's usually unkindly referred to as the missionary position." "In fact it's a beautiful posture allowing satisfyingly deep penetration and warm affectionate contact of the upper body." "And from this simple start see what a lovely line of postures flows." "If she lifts up her legs high it becomes Vijrimbhitaka" "(The Widely Yawning)." "Even deeper, more intimate penetration and powerful sensation." "Very slow deep strokes of the penis, more pressing than thrusting, yield great pleasure for both." "A further simple move changes the posture to Indrani, the position tradition scribes to (The Wife of the God Indra)." "This posture shortens the vagina and is very intense." "The man should be careful not to trust too hard in case he hurts her." "He should take his cue from her." "Kneeling gives them tremendous power to vary the depth and direction of his trusts." "If he aims right his penis can massage her G-spot which lies about two inches inside her vagina, against the upper wall." "By placing her feet on his chest she shifts into the posture called Ratisundara (Sweet Love)." "Kama Sutra teaches many ways that the man can move his penis in the vagina." "These deep rolling motions give this posture's name " "Smarachakra (Love's Wheel), which is said to be a great favorite with passionate women." "When she squeezes her thighs together his penis is trapped and tightly squeezed." "This posture is called Bhugnaka (The Rising)." "From here it is possible to go back to one of the earlier positions or on to something more adventurous." "The squeeze can actually be intensified if she crosses her raised thighs." "This is called Nagara (The Town Way)." "And to make it even more powerful she can now also bring into play the muscles of her vagina." "These postures are not important in themselves, only as part of the dance of your bodies." "The music of this dance is the flow of desire between you." "The trick is to retain control while in the same time completely loosing yourself in the music." "Now she opens up into the deep penetration posture known as Vijrimbhitaka (The Yawning)." "By alternatively lowering and stretching one leg at a time her vagina rolls and squeezes massaging his penis in a most particular way." "This is the famous Venudaritaka (Splitting the Bamboo), one of the great secrets of Indian lovemaking yet absurdly simple when you know how." "When with a little practice you get use to performing this sequence of postures you'll find that it helps to prolong lovemaking." "If at any time passion takes over and you feel the approach of orgasm you can slow down." "Take slow deep breaths to help you regain control." "If you loose control, lie, just enjoy the sensation." "To end the sequence of love postures what could be better than this little idea." "Lying with her legs apart beneath him she brings them slowly and deliberately together." "His legs are forced up over the outside of hers and she captures and milks his penis with her vaginal muscles." "This is called Samputa (The Box)." "And it is sublime." "Vatsyayana has said it well:" ""Kama is blinded animals, mere rotting while the females are in heat." "But men and women who know its yoga embrace infinity in their lovemaking."" "Lovemaking, like any art, needs to be practiced." "Think of your bodies as musical instruments." "The Kama Sutra offers hundreds of different tunes to play." "When lovers lie facing one another with thighs interlaced, her breasts pressed to his heart, hands seeking new places to caress, pulling heads together for kisses, it is called (The Mingling of Sesame and Rice)." "When she traps one of his thighs and squeezes it between her own this is known as (The Embrace of Thighs)." ""Once passion is stirring," says Kama Sutra," ""lovers should bring their nails into play"." "Under a lovers nails even the most diffident lady feels her body slowly charged with desire." "This mark was known to the adepts of the Kama Sutra as." "(The Half Moon)" "Giving names to each nail mark, tooth mark and sexual posture might seem to you to be somewhat unspontaneous." "But each was part of a well rehearsed repertoire designed to raise passion to fever pitch." "A medieval Sanskrit text" " Ratiratnapradipika - which was never been translated into English, gives eight ancient Indian technics of cunnilingus." "These technics include licking of the clitoris with the tongue, trailing up and down the clitoris hood, licking in tiny circles and probing deeply with the tongue into her vagina." "She will find it irresistible if he sucks her lips and clitoris into his mouth." "But do be careful, the clitoris is very sensitive." "With all these technics it's important to find out what she likes and dislikes." "Place you darling on a couch, set her feet to your shoulders, clasp her waist and let your tongue to stir her overflowing love temple." "This is called Pohuchushipe." ""Four mouths are pure:" says Kama Sutra," ""the mouth of a sucking calf, the mouth of a hunting dog seizing its pray, the birth's beak severing fruit from trees and the mouth of a woman during lovemaking."" "When performing fellatio the woman has many subtle little technics to give him pleasure." "She can lay her lip slightly ---- tip of his penis, kissing it." "Working with tongue and lips, and even teeth she can perform little loving actions." "If, while kissing, she lets her tongue flick all over his penis then pointing it, strikes repeatedly at the sensitive glans-tip, it is Parimashtaka (Striking at the Tip)." "If now, fired by passion, she takes his penis deep within her mouth, pulling up on it and sucking as vigorously as though she was stripping clean a mango stone, this is Amrachushita (Sucking a Mango)." "Delay penetration for as long as you can." "But when you are both well aroused and ready you might like to try this more advanced sequence of postures." "This delightful idea is called Ratibana (Love's Arrow)." "It gives deep and easy penetration and is very close and loving." "For this reason it is said to be one of the postures that does most to create love between two people." "From here it is but a small step to the posture known as Vinasana (The Lute)," ""Particularly adored by experienced women," says the poet of Ananga Ranga, a medieval text on lovemaking." "Penetration here is deeper and more intense." ""If, clasping her tightly in the embrace, she places her feet on the bed and slowly twists her spine to face away without braking the union, it is Jvalamukhi (The Flame Face),"" "so says a medieval text, rejoicing in the name" "Srngararasaprabadhadipika or The Erotic Treasury." "Once pleasure has reached a certain pitch the couple may choose to slow down their lovemaking and maintain one posture almost indefinitely." "Alternatively, he can move to a kneeling stance and pull her into his lap, she is stretching out in front." "This posture is Ekabandha (The Knot), which, as its name suggests, is very deep and intimate." "It allows the man to control the speed and rhythm of the lovemaking by placing his hands on her waist and pulling her on to him." "The rear entry positions in Kama Sutra were mostly named after the lovemaking of animals." ""It's fun," Vatsyayana taught," ""to imitate the mating games of deer and tigers, mimicking their movements and their cries."" "This relatively simple posture cannot be better for deep intimate penetration and just for being close." "Not for nothing was it named Kirtibandha (The Famous Knot)." "It's often used by experiences couples whose objective is to keep themselves hovering almost indefinitely on the brink of orgasm." "The posture changes to Hansa-lila or (Swan Sport)." "By slowing everything right-down, when the orgasm finally comes, you may find that you can feel it in every part of your body." "Now she moves fluently into the posture called Garuda (The Mythical Bird)," " the elegant Nagara." "During such long, slow lovemaking, a woman can enjoy orgasm after orgasm." "This virtuoso move is known as Parivrittaka (The Turn Around), and is only learnt through practice." "In this instance it is led to a completely new posture, Vrisha (The Bull)." "Not only that the Vrisha afford extremely deep and comfortable penetration but it gives her lover a most erotic view of her buttocks repeatedly swallowing up his penis." "There will be times when passion creeps up on you when you are least expecting it and it's so overwhelming that it cannot be denied." "If the movies are anything to go by " ""Fatal Attraction", "The Postman Always Rings Twice"." "There's something especially exciting about making love on the kitchen table." "Kissing games like these were supposed always to precede lovemaking, according to some ancient authors." "They believed that without foreplay the couple should never proceed to intercourse." "But Vatsyayana, the author of the Kama Sutra, was impatient with such thinking." ""Once passion is aroused," he said," ""there's little time for protocol."" ""You may do whatever you like and do it whenever you please since Kama respects no conventions and can't be regimented."" "When lips and teeth, and tongue make contact then it's the lovely kiss that Kama Sutra calls (The Fighting of Tongues)." "When she twines her legs about his waist and presses her loins to his in an embrace so violent that their bodies seem to penetrate one another, it is (The Mixing of Milk and Water)." "Here is a variant of a posture that we saw earlier on." "It is called Vyomapada or (The Sky-foot)." "It gives deep, easy access and is a position in which hard passionate blows of the penis may be stroke." "If she enjoys it you may try withdrawing completely and then striking in hard to the full length of his penis." "This is called Nirghata (The Buffet)." "You may choose to keep up the pressure against just one wall of her vagina." "And if so, this is called Varahaghata (The Boar's Trust)." "In this posture the penetration will be very deep." "In order to become as close as possible without hurting her he may press his penis in as deep as it will go and hold it there for space of ten breaths." "This is called Piditaka (Squeezing)." "The tabletop is also a useful place to try a variation of the good old missionary position," "Utphullaka." "This will feel different from when it's performed on bed as penis enter at a higher angle and goes straight to her G-spot." "The tabletop makes it possible to try ideas that even Vatsyayana never dreamed of." "Utphullaka is a lying-down posture." "But if she now sets up and wraps her legs around his waist and throws her arms around his neck it will become possible for him to lift her directly into a standing position." "Good-bye to the kitchen table." "Kama Sutra describes this posture as Avalambitaka (Suspended)." "It is considered difficult." "It was one of a series of idealized picture positions that were often depicted in art on temple walls." "With practice, you can learn to hold it for quite a long time." "Once again, a simple unexpected move can totally transform the story." "Using a chair makes possible a sequence of posture which, if done seated on the floor, could be performed only by yoga students." "Here, as she uses the leverage of her feet to swing her hips around they are making a posture called Dolita (The Swing)." "This is a particularly good position for the woman." "She is able to call the shots, making sure that whatever happens is exactly to her liking." "It's also good for the couple who wish to sit together, locked in their embrace and just experience being close." "By lifting her feet up a little she increases the depth and angle of his penis within her while still retaining complete control of her movements." "This is called Kshudgara (The Striking)." "She is now completely open up for him and yet still able to do exactly she likes." "It is she who controls the rhythm and depth of the penetration." "for instance, she may choose five shallow and one deep trust - a technique much praised by Chinese adepts of the art of love." "The ancient Chinese, like their contemporaries in India, believed that lovemaking could be a path to spiritual bliss." "For them the secret lay in the conservation of precious semen." "The couple's practice was directed towards staying almost at point of orgasm, but never reaching it." "By reabsorbing the vital energy back into the body and directing it into the psychic centers, called chakras, occult powers could be obtained." "Turning her back to him, she sheets his penis deeply in her vagina." "She can now use her muscles to grip and squeeze it." "If she takes the full length of his penis within her then squeezes hard as there milking it with her vagina, it is known as Vadavaka (The Mare), which is only learned by practice." "Women, who perfected this technique, which was known in Egypt as "The Goonch", were highly priced by their lovers." "Yet any woman could learn it if she's willing to practice squeezing and relaxing the muscles of her vagina at least one hundred times every day." "Perfume your garden with thickets of flowers like the moss rose, the pearl-jasmine, the Arabian and Spanish jasmines, the yellow amaranth, the frangipani, and the fragrant white flower called "Queen of the Night"." "Gardens have always been important to lovers." "As Oscar Wild so succinctly observed," ""The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden and it ends with revelation."" "Kama Sutra took great pains to describe the ideal garden for the third century citizen." "It was a place to relax and make love in." "Plant flowering groves of Indian coral and mango trees." "Plant banana palms, and tall stands of sweet khus-khus grass." "Let foot paths lead from the house and wonder between the flowers and trees." "In the middle of this garden you should sink a deep well, or a pool with steps leading down to the water, or a lotus-covered lake beside which you can sit in the summer." "The scents and flowers in the garden were all intended to heighten the mood of love." "The trees themselves were the focus of many of the Kama Sutra's most celebrated postures." "Indeed, Vatsyayana even called this embrace Vriksha (The Tree Climber)." "The lovemaking posture that follows from this embrace is called Tala (The Palm)." "It is not listed in Kama Sutra but we can be sure that it was a well-known posture." "The later text Ratiratnapradipika tells us that Vatsyayana and others, who knew the art of love in its great days, called this posture Tala." "Kama Sutra and all the Indian love texts that followed it always reserved a special private place for the standing postures which were thought difficult, and therefore especially splendid." "They were called "Picture Positions"" "because these were the postures chosen by sculptors to adorn temple walls." "This neat little idea was known to the adepts of love as" "Avalambitaka (The Suspended Position)." "She uses her feet to push against his size and rock herself back and forth against him." "If a couple wish to take it in turns to give each other pleasure then let them perfect the eights kinds of fellatio and the eights methods of cunnilingus, and at last learn to practice both at the same time." "Fellatio begins with what Kama Sutra calls" "Nimita or (Touching)." "Her lips, laid lightly to her lover's penis, moving in tiny circles." "She may tease him playfully, letting her attention seem to wonder away before returning to the focus of his pleasure." "She takes the head gently between her lips by turns pressing it and kissing it, and pulling at its soft skin." "This is Bahiha-samdansha (The Outer Plan)." "If she now takes the whole head into her mouth and presses with her lips, it is Antaha-samdansha (The Inner Plan)." "Now she kisses it fiercely, sucking at it as though it was his lower lip." "This is Chumbitaka (Kissing)." "She can end by taking his penis into her mouth and sucking it vigorously - (The Sucking of the Mango Fruit)." "If he now uses the techniques of cunnilingus which we described earlier and if they pleasure each other simultaneously, this is the famous Kalila, known in Indian tradition as (The Lovemaking of the Crow)." "In the west we know it better as (Soisent Neuf) or (69)," "Although few people realize that since there are fully eight techniques of fellatio and eight of cunnilingus, this means that there are at least sixty four ways in which to enjoy (69)." "Of all the standing positions the rear entry ones are probably the most enjoyable." "This one, which can be seen on the walls of many Khajuraho temples, was called Gardhaba (The Ass)." "it is a very close, intimate way of coupling, giving intense pleasure to both partners." "Entering from behind is natural to most animals and although we humans often find it more congenial to bring our faces close together our bodies are still shaped and formed for this kind of union." "However since every human being is made differently and since these standing positions depend very much on the two people being of compatible heights you should not worry if positions like this one don't happen to work for you." "There are many variations you can use to explore the limits of what is pleasurable for you." "Things as simple as leaning right forward or back as far as you can." "Try everything once and stick with what you enjoy." "Of the face to face positions there are three you might care to try beyond what you've already seen." "This position is Ekapada, literally (One Foot), which opens up the woman nicely to her lover." "This sensual posture can also be performed using a chair or a high stool for her to rest her foot on." "These standing postures are not particularly easy as the angle for union can be narrow and there may be little freedom of movement." "If at first you find them impossible to perform unsupported then by all means use a piece of furniture until you've mastered them." "Here's the Janukurpara (The Knee Elbow)." "It's another of the so called picture positions that are to be found on the temple walls of ---- Khajuraho." "For the ancient Indians lovemaking went beyond the merely human and mortal." "It touched the divine itself." "No coincidence perhaps that the story that began with a god and goddess locked away in a ten thousands years passion should end with a posture dedicated to another god." "For this lovely natural position is Traivikrama (The Stride of Vishnu), named after the god Vishnu, who covered the earth in tree strides." "Sacred, profound, lovely - thus ends Kama Sutra." "Love has many yogas - the touching of two bodies, the locking of groins, the drawing apart and separation, the quieting of the violent breath, the still release from body and mind..." "The wise know that physical pleasure is not the sole end of lovemaking." "It can be like music - stirring the emotions, quickening the senses, dissolving thought into rhythm until only rhythm exists." "On and on it flows as hearts thud faster, limbs tremble in the beat of drums that double pace and double again till that music itself brakes into one long holy note of silence." "This is the tale of the Kama Sutra, the masterwork on lovemaking." "Says Vatsyayana:" ""Men and women who know its yoga embrace infinity in their lovemaking"." "Om, shanti, shanti, shanti..." "Vijrimbhitaka (The Widely Yawning)" "Indrani (The Wife of the God Indra)" "Ratisundara (Sweet Love)" "Bhugnaka (The Rising)" "Piditaka (Squeezing)" "Venudaritaka (Splitting the Bamboo)" "Samputa (The Box)" "Ratibana (Love's Arrow)" "Vinasana (The Lute)" "Jvalamukhi (The Flame Face)" "Ekabandha (The Knot)" "Kirtibandha (The Famous Knot)" "Parivrittaka (The Turn Around)" "Hansa-lila (Swan Sport)" "Nagara (The Town Way)" "Vrisha (The Bull)" "Nirghata (The Buffet)" "Varahaghata (The Boar's Trust)" "Avalambitaka (Suspended)" "Dolita (The Swing)" "Kshudgara (The Striking)" "Vadavaka (The Mare)" "Ekapada (One Foot)" "Vriksha (The Tree Climber)" "Amrachushita (Sucking a Mango)" "Kalila (The Lovemaking of the Crow)" "Gardhaba (The Ass)" "Tala (The Palm)" "Janukurpara (The Knee Elbow)"