So far, Tantra yoga has been the most misunderstood type of yoga practiced in the western world. In its purest form, Tantra yoga developed as part of the ancient civilization in the Indus Valley and it pursued to help 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 that results from the mis-translation of some Indian texts by people with little experience in the domain. The difficulty results from the huge amount of metaphors used in Tantra yoga teachings particularly because  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. There are several Tantra yoga schools too, and a relevant example remain the teachings of Tibetan Tantra. In Tibet, the practice of Tantra yoga was kept in the monastic environment most of the time and it was explained on paper as it was taught in oral form.

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