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As per normal I would like to remind readers that these blog articles represent my interpretation of Ayurvedic concepts reflected through life experience (mostly my own and partially those of others). This article is quite long. I have been writing it for several months in my spare time. More so than my other articles, it requires a few preliminary words, so as to clarify it’s origins and purpose.
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A little background about the author (skip this if you know me)
I am in my early forties. I am a man. I am in a blissful monogamous relationship that is about 20 years young. I am a Westerner and have few ties to India and its diverse culture. I do not consider myself to be religious, nor atheist nor belonging to any sort of group or sect or school or particular philosophy. Despite this, I have dedicated a large part of the last 15 years to the study, practice and teaching of Ayurveda (ancient India’s traditional holistic medical system). Prior to meeting Ayurveda, I was an avid reader and modest practitioner of the Yoga traditions (Hatha, Mantra, Jnana, Karma to name a few). I am also a passionate musician.
Type-wise, my Ayurvedic profile is Vata-dominant . Kapha follows in second place with Pitta close behind. My mental and physical profiles are more or less in phase. As Vata dominant, my stand-out keywords are creativity, innovation, flexibility, curiosity, detachment, expansion to name a few. Kapha in second place has opposing qualities such as a need for security and stability, connection, home-loving etc. I have a strong need to understand life, which is usually perceived as a Pitta traite. But in my case, this need tends to express through the style of Vata (searching far and wide but not particularly deeply, linking, getting a quick integral overview of stuff). Why I have stuck with Ayurveda for so long is a mystery to me! (I am sure Jyotish – Vedic astrology – has plenty to say about this, but alas, to this day, I have not found reason to believe in it despite efforts to do so !
Training-wise, I studied with Vaidya Atreya Smith (France) and Vamadeva (Dr David Frawley USA) . I continue to enjoy reading their works, along with works by other popular “1st generation Western Ayurvedic teachers” including Dr Vasant Lad, Robert Svoboda (my favourite) and Dr. John Douillard among others. I continue to read the classics (Ashtanga Hridayam, Charaka Samhita and sometimes Sushruta Samhita and Bhavaprakash).
Practice wise, I have been teaching and consulting in France ( www.gardoussel.com ) for since around 2001 . In my practice, I am dedicated to:
I am mostly interested in how Ayurveda meets contemporary efforts to figure out life. I am mostly interested in prevention and management of mild to moderate health ailments, personal development and spiritual growth. I am less interested in the management of severe physical disease.
As we will soon see below, Ayurveda places emphasis on optimising (freeing, mastering, accepting, opening to) our approach towards nutrition, sleep and sexuality . I have always taught the importance of these three pillars of health, though it has only been in the last few years that I have taken a closer look at sexuality (note my more recent WordPress blog : Ayurveda Tantra where I share in detail many aspects of this journey).
The article that follows represents the first of several shares on the subject of sexuality from an Ayurvedic point of view. This article provides an understanding on how things work. Later articles will focus on what we can do with this understanding.
While based on Ayurvedic axioms, I have naturally had to interpret my own experiences through these fundamental concepts. This article has not been reviewed by my colleagues nor my teachers (whom I no longer study directly with). So please, take everything I say with an open mind and heart. If it helps you, great, if not, ditch it!
Ayurveda highlights the role that our sex life plays in overall health and well-being for body and mind. In the preventative health lessons in the classic teachings, “ Three Pillars of Health ” are defined as :
Even if you are not sexually active, your body-mind has been designed to receive and express energy and emotion. We receive primarily via our five senses (hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell) and we express primarily via five respective means of action (speech, touch, locomotion, urination/sexuality and elimination). The mind (Manas in Sanskrit) is considered a sixth double whammy sense-action organ capable of both gathering and organizing sensations and acting/expressing it’s own thoughts, feelings, impressions.
Many layers of meaning can be found in the Three Pillars. In this article, I would like to explore the question of sexuality. Note, because I am a man, I have chosen to focus mainly on the male perspective.
SEXUAL ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA
ANNAMAYAKOSHA – Physical aspect (the body)
The Doshas (psycho-biological intelligence principles)
Our biological intelligence appears in three ways known as Doshas (Vata, Pitta and Kapha). The Doshas control all aspects of our physical body i.e. Dhatu: tissue anatomy/structure, Mala: tissue by-products and Srotas: physiology/function of Dhatu and Mala.
Vata controls everything to do with movement, coordination and communication. Pitta controls everything to do with digestion/reduction and heat production. Kapha controls everything to do with structure/synthesis, cohesion and lubrication. Vata governs homeostasis. Pitta enables catabolic processes (ones that reduce tissues and liberate heat and energy). Kapha enables anabolic processes (ones that build tissues and conserve energy).
The Doshas as their underlying energies govern our bodies and how they function. No one organ or system operates in isolation from them. However, most organs have a predominance of one or two Doshas. In the case of the male sexual anatomy and physiology, Vata and Kapha dominate. Vata through the mobile aspect, and Kapha via structure. In the female body, Pitta and Kapha dominate. However, both men and women have all three Doshas acting together to some extent.
Vata Dosha is appearing more through the function of movement . It enables sensory stimulation, arousal, erection, orgasm and movement of sexual fluids prior to and during ejaculation.
Kapha is appearing through the production of structure and substance . It assures the volume and quality of sexual fluids (sperm, semen, pre-ejaculate or pre-cum) as well as the structure of the testicles, prostate, penis and all the connections between them.
Pitta affords a secondary role in that it manages the quality and quantity of the blood . To some extent, Pitta will influence the movement of Vata and the structure of Kapha. In particular, Pitta will influence the fluidity and temperature of our sexual anatomy and physiology.
While the male reproductive system is more Vata and Kapha at a functional level, overall male sexuality is more Pitta or hot and aggressive in nature, as we all know through masculine energy. This is because the reproductive system tends to follow an opposite polarity of the body as a whole, a kind of seeking of the opposite energy of the opposite sex.
Similarly the female reproductive system has a Pitta quality through the menstrual fluid that is connected to the blood. The female bod overall, however, is more Kapha and Vata in nature, which feminine qualities relate.
The Dhatus (organs, tissues, structure)
The male and female reproductive organs are supported mainly via Shukra Dhatu. In men this means the testicles, prostate and the penis. The functional aspect of this equipment is named Shukravahasrotas in Ayurveda.
The quality and quantity of Shukra is governed by Kapha. The different activities of Shukravahasrotas are governed by Vata. As is the case with most organs and systems, multiple secondary Dhatus and their respective Srotas (“channels”) are involved in supporting the primary Dhatu achieve its purpose. In particular, Rasa Dhatu fills and nourishes the penis as does Rakta Dhatu (together they comprise the plasma-blood complex among other things).
What is the role that Shukra is providing? All Dhatus provide some kind of support. Being true to Ayurveda, Dhatu literally means “support” and not “tissue” or “organ”. By defining Dhatu as the word “tissue”, we reduce it to the idea of a material or a mere structure. By defining them with the term “Dhatu” we draw emphasis to the fact that they are supports for life .
Shukra is the ultimate product or fruit of the body, capable of joining with its opposite sex counterpart to create new life. Shukra is therefore a kind of super-refined, super-concentrated essence of all of the other Dhatus. It has a potential to generate life, which no other Dhatu has. Like a tree produces fruits that contain seeds, our Dhatus produce Shukra which produces our seeds (the sperm and ovules). In Ayurveda, these are called our “Bija” (literally seed or grain).
According to Ayurveda, Shukra also produces a subtle by-product called Ojas. Ojas is our vital essence, the ultimate tissue/fluid concentrate. It is a highly refined form of energy encapsulated in an almost mystical physical substance that provides us with vitality, immunity and glow! Ojas circulates in our bodies and nourishes all of our Dhatus with a special kind of sustenance.
“Individuals having the excellence of Shukra Dhatu are characterized by gentleness, gentle look, having eyes as if filled with milk, cheerfulness, having teeth which are unctuous, round, strong, even and beautiful, clean and unctuous complexion and voice, dazzling appearance and large buttocks. Such individuals are loved by women [men wrote the classics !], they are strong and endowed with happiness, power, health, wealth, honour and children. “ – Charaka Samhita
According to Ayurveda, Shukra should be protected and cultivated for maximum potential to create healthy children as well as to promote optimal health and vitality. Shukra can become depleted through poor nutrition and accumulation of toxins (upstream causes) or by wasting it through depleting forms of sexuality, stress or the use of strong stimulants and recreational drugs (downstream causes).
From a physical standpoint, a “depleting kind of sexuality” is when a man ejaculates excessively, which is more pronounced in Vata types that tend towards dryness. And for men and women, any form of sexuality that focuses on a strong downward release of energy out of the body. Many modern teachers of Tantric sexuality draw attention to this nuance by showing the difference between two styles of orgasm, two approaches to sex. One is lust based and hot, the other is love based and cooler. I have taken the liberty to represent these differences in the form of the following table, drawing from my knowledge of Ayurveda and my recent explorations and research into Tantric sexuality:
·      Results in a feeling of depletion, separation or emptiness.
·      Lustful / genitally based awareness
·      Typical for a man, usually happens with ejaculation type orgasm. Though woman may find that clitoral orgasm has more of this feeling or when they are more focussed on lust or the need to release tension.
·      Genital explosion or release of energy.
·      Considerable loss of arousal follows.
·      Results in a feeling of repletion, oneness or fullness.
·      Loving / heart based awareness.
·      More typical for women, especially if there is cervical (deep vaginal) orgasm, though men can have this feeling even with ejaculation if their attention is on love rather than lust.
·      Whole body implosion or internal circulation or movement of energy.
·      Little or no loss of arousal follows.
* Some may not call this an orgasm, owing to its different nature, may see it more like a state of deep connection and happiness. Some regard it as occurring through restraining the orgasmic urge and drawing the energy to a deeper level rather than simply letting it out. It is sometimes regarded for the male as avoiding ejaculation.
With reducing orgasms, one tends to feel a relatively strong feeling of physical calm, emptiness or heaviness afterwards. So apart from the momentary high it gives, many people use it as pleasurable way to de-stress, release tension, relax, calm down, or encourage sleep. If we over-indulge in reducing orgasms, we can produce a relative insufficiency of Shukra Dhatu. Charaka explains:
“Signs of reduced or deficient Shukra Dhatu include weakness, dryness of mouth, pallor, lassitude, exhaustion, impotency and non-ejaculation of semen”. – Charaka Samhita
Nourishing orgasms are rarer for men (especially Vata and Pitta men) though accessible via practice. They tend to result in a milder form of calm and release, along with the paradoxical sense of aliveness, repletion, fullness and vitality. Rather than an intense build up of energy bursting out and away, energy stays in the body, or circulates between bodies.
MANOMAYAKOSHA – Mental / emotional aspect (thoughts and emotions)
Many nuances take form as pure consciousness (Shiva) unfolds through primordial energy (Shakti) dividing into numerous apparently separate forms including our own Mind-Body complexes. The mind is as vast as the physical universe, if not more so (the estimated number of potential connections between the neurons in your brain exceeds the estimated total number of atoms in the known universe!). Thoughts and emotions around sexuality are equally vast. Many cultural styles exist and have to be included in our attempt to understand their Doshic aspects. Remember, the Doshas are in this sense prior to or fundamental in comparison to the cultural rules or forms that our minds often take as final. Each person, with their unique conditionings, will need to tease apart their acquired programming to access the underlying Doshic style of their Prakriti.
Vata is all about movement. Change, novelty, excitement, stimulation, thrill, discovery, exploration, variety, curiosity, changeability, irregularity, spontaneity, superficiality, are keywords. We all have Vata and we all relate to this aspect of sexuality to a greater or lesser extent. In the mental aspect of sexuality, Vata relates to the anticipation of novelty and sexual arousal. Sexual fantasy is first and foremost the domain of Vata. Vata mentality is constantly moving. Nothing will last for a long time. Vata’s mental attitude to sex can be fickle and flighty, and needless to say, quite cerebral.
Pitta is all about digestion and heat production. Psychologically this translates as mental digestion, desire, passion, intensity, purposefulness, goal-seeking, challenge-seeking, proactivity, competition, performance, comparison, judging, understanding, winning, truth. In sexuality, Pitta is behind the horny or hungry energy that may be felt as the urge to ravish, to “take” or “consume” our partner in lust. The Pitta inside us often gets turned on by the chase, or by the challenge of facilitating great sex, to give our partner or ourselves an amazing experience, to reach a higher goal, to go past known limits. Pitta’s mental attitude towards sexuality is often related to the idea of performance. So a strong Pitta mind-set might show as a desire to lead, control or dominate in the act of love-making.
Kapha is all about cohesion and comfort. Keywords for the Kapha side of our sexual mind-sets are: safety, security, tenderness, fullness, fondness, connectedness, stability, commitment, compassion, attachment and love. Romantic thoughts are an expression of the Kapha mind-set. In the eyes of the Romantic, “Love is all” ! Kapha motivates us to use sex as a way of bonding, connecting, filling-up with love and security.
The neurochemicals dopamine and oxytocin are both related to sexuality. Dopamine, the “arousal molecule” relates more to the Vata aspects of our psychology; the thrill, the excitement. Even the even risk aspects of sex. Oxytocin, the “bonding molecule” relates more to the loving connection aspect of sexuality, which is the domain of Kapha. Vata uses dopamine. Kapha uses Oxytocin.
We all have three the Doshas, so we can all relate to the above mental aspects of our sexuality. Probably though, we have some degree of dominance in the area of one, or maybe two Doshas.
Motivations for having sex according to mental Doshas
Much can be derived from the above notions. For example, if your mental nature is dominated by Vata followed by Kapha, you would be more likely to first seek novelty (due to Vata) then stability (from Kapha). One way this could manifest would be by seeking to maintain variety within the stability and depth of a long-term monogamous relationship. A Vata mind-set is usually brimming with creativity, offering an abundance of new approaches, contexts, techniques, fantasies. Kapha places more importance on regularity, comfort, deep heart-connection.
Vata seeks frequent superficial connection. Vata wants plenty of movement and stimulation, both mentally and physically. The sexual appetite is quick to come and quick to go and varies in intensity, shape and form. It moves rapidly from one thing to another. Vata wants sex most often, and is happiest with many short sessions.
Pitta seeks intense purposeful connection. Pitta wants focussed movement, heat and passion. The goal of orgasm can be very important for Pitta. The sexual appetite is moderately frequent and intense. Pitta is interested is moderately long sessions. Some degree of challenge can be an important part of their experience, such as the challenge of expanding sexual mastery.
Kapha seeks tender heartfelt connection. Kapha is innately timid, cool and slow. They seek gentle loving movement with much tenderness and heartfelt union. Kapha has much patience and compassion. They are more interested in the feeling of love over the feeling of passion or excitement. Kapha needs time to access these aspects of themselves. So typically, Kapha prefers lovemaking sessions that are slow, steady, loving and potentially quite long. The effects of good sex last the longest for Kapha, as they have a very good cellular and emotional memory.
Here are some ways in which the mental aspect of the Doshas can cause problems as they meet their opposites in bed:
Vata might get bored with Kapha and find Pitta too serious.
Pitta could find Vata too distracting and Kapha too sensitive.
Kapha might feel Vata is too superficial and Pitta too intense.
The superficial and nonsensical aspect of Vata can be frustrating for the passionate fires of Pitta and the deep running waters of Kapha who both find it a little easier to be rooted in the physical, the here and now. Even though sex can serve to ground Vata in the body, the Vata mind-style tends to drift off into the wo
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