Tantra Sacred Massage

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Tantra Sacred Massage Training

 The first formal training in tantric massage in South Africa

A Taste of Eros - Tantric Touch & Massage Training

This training is facilitated by the Durga Tantra School and takes place either over 4 weekends or 5-7 day intensives. It is open to all, whether you want to qualify professionally or use the training for personal growth and use. Those wishing to be certified as Tantra Sacred Massage practitioners will complete supervised practical's (minimum of 10 massage sessions) after completing the training. Finally a practical and oral assessment  will take place. You are then qualified to either join the Tantra Sacred Massage team and work from their premises in Johannesburg, Cape Town and on the Durban South Coast or open your own practice as a Certified Tantra Sacred Massage practitioner.

Trainer: Ma Anand Leandra, sometimes assisted by other professionals or advanced students. For more info, go to About Leandra and More on Leandra

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General information about this work

Introduction

In its very essence Tantra is a yoga - the yoga of presence i.e. becoming aware or conscious of what is going on in your body, emotions, and thoughts, and to accept whatever is arising in the moment without judgment. Sexual energy and our expression of personal sexuality is included in the tantric concept of the body, and of life in general. Tantra can therefore be seen as a reconciliation of sexuality and spirituality.
Originating in what is now modern India, Tantra is at least 5000-7000 or more years old, pre-dating and influencing both Hinduism and Buddhism. All world religions have subsequently had a tantric past which was always destroyed by main-stream fundamentalists of each religion. The result is that many religions believe you can have either physical pleasure or spiritual growth, but not both. Tantra disagrees entirely. Physical and sensual pleasure is understood as the key to our spiritual growth; without one, you can’t have the other.

Many modern forms therapy understand that trauma, (e.g. grief and pain, embarrassment, physical or emotional abuse etc. is stored in our body as a body memory. The effect of these memories, are blockages – repression and limitations - which continue throughout our life, reducing our emotional and physical well-being, inhibiting our energy, limiting our expression of sexuality in one or another way. The genitals are the part of the body that hold these memories the longest, for the simple reason that the genitals are not touched in any of our modern forms of therapy. By working directly with sexual energy and through a healing touch of the genitals, Tantra and particularly tantric massage is able to assist in freeing our mind, body and spirit of these blockages, enabling healing and re-integration of all aspects of self, including sexuality.

Central to Tantra is the understanding that sexual energy is our life force, and that the universe and humans as individuals are all filled with the same energy. Therefore any repression of this energy leaves us unbalanced and damaged.

In order to become whole, in order to grow and blossom as adults, these blockages and repressions need clearing from both our physical and psychic  systems. One thing that most religions agree on is the fact that we are more than our physical body. The understanding in Tantra is that there is actually no separation between our physical body and that which is more than the body. In fact, there is no separation between us and others, between us and the world around us, between us and all of existence. Tantra is a non-dualist understanding of the world.

Tantra rejects the repressive, moralistic, and self-denying code of living propounded by many religions and cultures, where our body’s sexual or sensual needs are met with guilt, more guilt, repression, denial and punishment. When attention is paid to bodily needs, it’s usually aimed at avoidance, for example of disease or pregnancy. Little attention is paid to the development and expansion of our body’s sensuality and there is no teaching that shows us how to embrace and value it – other than Tantra.

Tantra Sacred Massage teaches exactly this: how to embrace and value your sensual self, the whole of your body including your sexuality and in so doing experience something of who we really are and our relationship to the Divine.

Tantra Sacred Massage works with the innate body energy, the Chakras (particularly the main seven Chakras on the front of the body, and the Kundalini energy situated at the bottom of the back. This powerful spirit energy “lives” in our Base Chakra, situated in the perineum between our legs. Once released, it rises through our system. If dormant, our knowledge and experience of life is limited. If aroused and moved upwards through the chakras, it allows the natural spiritual growth we should be experiencing.

Recent scientific research confirms a generalised electromagnetic current around our body and that all tissue and each individual organ, such as the Heart and the Brain also generates an individual impulse. There a link between this comparatively recent research and the Chakra system. The Chakras are like spinning wheels of energy, spiraling throughout our body, where the various aspects and levels of our ‘being’ are merged. When these energy centers function properly we are able to experience life at a different, higher level. Factors such as lifestyle, conditioning, repression, guilt, diet, prevent them from fully functioning. Once they’re ‘clogged’ we become sluggish, under-performing and our expression of sexual energy extremely limited.
Another word for Tantra is Sacred Sexuality or Spiritual Sexuality. Everyone has their own definition of what is "spiritual" and "sacred" is but most of us agree it refers to something wonderful, loving, joyous, and transcendent – something beyond us. And yet in Tantra we find that it is within us as well. In Tantra we reclaim our sexual energy as a sacred. We heal the split between body and spirit.

Tantra Sacred Massage is a reclaiming of the body, mind and sprit to own this as ones own. This leads to inner freedom - freedom to celebrate your body, your sexuality, and your desires: freedom from fear, from guilt and shame; freedom to breathe and feel deeply; freedom to be fully present in the Now with ecstatic joy; freedom to be ecstatic and joyous about life.

For the massage guest, a Tantra Sacred Massage session is an experiential, learning experience as well as a deeply relaxing and at the same time invigorating, sensual and empowering massage that follows a set routine, within which there is much scope for creativity and the special personal approach of the practitioner.

The sequence for each massage session is the same:

1.) The session begins with tea and a chat to get to know each other and discuss the client’s motivation for and aim of the session.
2.) The client is taught the Tantric Breathing technique. Conscious breathing is by far the most important aspect of a tantric massage.
3.) The massage itself, either on the futon or on the massage table lasts 90 – 120 minutes
4.) The client rests and then takes a bath or shower
5.) The session ends with a final chat and the issuing of homework .

Dring the massage, the entire body it touched including the pelvic, anal and genital areas whereby the body energy is worked with and moved towards the heart chakra. The touch is a soft, slow, and gentle stroking of the body from the bottom upwards and is not limited to the use of the hands only. The body of the practitioner can also be used for holding, stroking, sliding, and touching. Both practitioner and client are naked whereby the client is passive throughout the massage, with the exception of when “Grounding with Mother Nature” is required and the client’s hands are placed somewhere on the body of the practitioner for this purpose.

The massage is deeply relaxing and meditative and can lead the client into what can be described as a powerful and deep “erotic trance” or meditative state where healing, bliss, ecstasy, and Divine love can be experienced.

A Tantra Sacred Massage practitioner is not an escort and does not offer sexual services. There is no sexual interaction with the client. Tantra sacred Massage can be given as a therapeutic intervention in its own right or as a particularly powerful complement to other forms of therapy.

Motivation for Tantra Sacred Massage

The motivation for men, women and couples to seek out Tantra Sacred Massage are too numerous to mention all, here are a few main themes that are not separate in them selves, but weave into each other:

Sexual healing

Research tells us that 1 in 6 men and 1 in 3 women have been sexually abused as children. As adults many other forms of abuse come into play, so that most of us have been sexually wounded to some degree. Experiences leading to this wounding include: church authorities proclaiming sexual pleasure an evil sin; dogmatic pastors teaching that masturbation is sinful, punishment from parents for innocently touching yourself because it felt good; an insensitive lover that ridiculed you; invasive medical examinations; surgical wounds from childbirth practices and medical operations; mass media using sex to sell everything and creating an unobtainable standard of beauty for the majority of us, which makes us feel inadequate about our bodies and our capacities as lovers which leads women and in latter years also men to hate their own bodies; a culture which labels women who dare to enjoy sex as sluts. The list goes on and on.

So we are all survivors of sexual trauma on some level. We cope, yet for most of us our sexuality is burdened with fear, guilt, and shame. A tantric massage helps in the liberation of this.

Sexual trauma is is not only stored in the mind memory, but also in the tissues of the body. This memory is often referred to as body armoring and has physical, mental and emotional components. This armoring restricts the flow of orgasmic energy making orgasms difficult or only satisfying on a surface level and our experience of life far less joyous and satisfying as it would be. To put it simply, we loose our zest for life if our sexual energy is restricted by conditioning and is not flowing throughout our bodies .

Tantric practices, especially conscious breathing, and the massage can release this armoring to allow more erotic energy to flow. You'll learn to tune into very subtle sensations of pleasure and raise the sexual energy in your body to levels not before experienced.

Each Tantra Sacred Massage session unfolds in its own unique and mysterious way. Some clients go into a deep embodied trance. Others have powerful cathartic emotional releases. Some have multiple and prolonged, full body, orgasms. No two experiences are alike. It's mysterious and beautiful.
Lasting longer, feeling more erotic pleasure and orgasmic energy .

We learn bad habits as teenagers and adults, masturbating silently and furtively in our rooms hoping not to get caught, or masturbating watching porn while completely disconnected from our bodies. These and other reasons can create a pattern within us where orgasm becomes difficult to achieve, where ejaculation occurs when only a small amount of sexual energy and pleasure has been enjoyed, where the climax is flat and only genitally centered.
Our sexual energy can transport us to beautiful and interesting new worlds where we can bring back incredible treasures; but most of us use our sexual energy to go down the street to pick up a loaf of white bread.

A Tantra Sacred Massage session teaches how both men and women how to have multiple, prolonged, full body, ecstatic experiences with their sexual energy. It teaches you to tune into very subtle sensations of pleasure and raise the erotic energy in your body to levels you may never have known before. It teaches a simple form of meditation using your breath and sexual energy, it teaches the non-dualism - the oneness of all life and that each one of us holds our capacity for joy, love, satisfaction and depth within our selves, and it teaches how to connect with this. It teaches being in the moment as nothing else can, simply because it incorporates our sexual energy into whatever we do, into all our life experiences.

As an added bonus the techniques learnt during the massage assists us all to become a better lover with yourself and with others.

The joy of receiving

To receive erotic touch free of the worries of "performing" or meeting someone else's expectations, is something many men and women have never experienced before. Learning to receive can be challenging. We have to face our lack of worthiness and our guilt and shame. We have to learn to surrender. The reward is great though, our capacity for intimacy and pleasure expands. Tantra Sacred Massage is a great practice in receiving because the touch is always one-way, and nothing is expected in return.

A Tantric Massage is equally pleasurable with a hard penis or a soft penis, with ejaculation or without ejaculation, with or without orgasm. Living your erotic energy free from all of these "goals" is a good habit to develop.

Exploring new territory

It is sad but true that our culture shoves us into little boxes and this is especially true around our sexuality. Tantra Sacred Massage is a very safe way to explore outside the box: exploring touch and massage in areas not before received; learning new techniques; learning to please the partner in a more fulfilling way etc. Some men and women come to Tantra Sacred Massage because they have experienced very little or no sexuality in their adult lives. Some would like to find and feel a connecting of their sexual and spiritual selves.

Connecting spirit and sexuality

Sexual activity is so often deprived of spirituality. The result is a sexuality focused by the goal of orgasm and judged by the quality of the climax.
The ritual and meditative quality of a Tantra Sacred Massage session, given in a sacred space, allows the client to experience a connecting of his/her spiritually and sexuality. Practitioners do not force their understanding of spirituality on anyone, but we do all work from a spiritual space within ourselves, no matter what our faith is. This in itself teaches the spiritual dimension of sexuality.

During the massage, sexual energy is moved throughout the body, first and foremost towards the heart chakra, where it opens us to a greater love for oneself, all beings and to life in general.

Orgasm becomes a sacred experience of uniting with with the Divine - a very tangible feeling of being centered and whole - and a connectedness to the Divine, God, Existence, the Universe is the result.

Pleasure without a goal

Many men and women have never experienced erotic touch from another person, free from the worry of demands for something "more sexual" in return. Tantra Sacred Massage allows the client to drop deeply into his/her own body without any goal, without any pressure to become completely present the body enabling you can ask for and receive exactly the touch you desire.

Tantra Sacred Massage is free from the "goal" of having an orgasm. You are free to surrender to the sensations in your body, without the worries of meeting someone else's expectations allowing your fullest, orgasmic, loving self to emerge.

Creating a new Pleasure Map

The vulva of the woman is truly an amazing place with 80,000 nerve endings in a very small area. Men have “only” 60,000 centered in the head of the penis and prostate so that even small shifts in the location and type of touch can make huge differences in sensations. Women and men can choose to go on a very conscious exploration of themselves together with the Tantra Sacred Massage practitioner and discover new places where it feels really good to be touched. This mapping can be a very effective way to uncover those places of body armoring which can then be released if approached very consciously. Again this is all done slowly, with respect of boundaries and good communication.

Working with a same gender practitioner

Given the immensity of sexual wounding that most women have endured, much of it at the hands of men, it's no surprise that some women prefer receiving a tantric massage from another woman. Some men prefer being touched by a male practitioner because they feel free from certain pressures of their usual sexuality with the opposite gender. The idea being that a male understands a male the best and a female understands a female the best. This is a great possibility for heterosexuals to explore what an experienced man can give a man and an experienced woman can give a woman without being homosexual. It also assists in healing conditioning with regards to same gender touching which in turn releases more self love and understanding of who you are.

Couples

Couples come to Tantra Sacred Massage often because they have lost the zest in their sexuality or because they are battling with sexual difficulties. Couples learn to honour and pleasure their partners in new ways. A Tantra Sacred Massage couples workshop is a deliciously fun way to deepen and enliven your intimate relationship.

A message to prospective students

A Personal Journey

The nature of Tantra is experiential. It is not something you can learn from a lecture or a book or by watching a DVD. This can only give us ideas and hints, and Tantra needs to be, has to be experienced. The training is a combination of talks, reading, being touched and massaging as well as touching and massaging the other.

Each personal development in Tantra - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually - is totally unique. In Tantra we call it a journey or “riding the tantric tiger”. The practical training sessions stipulated in the training program is the minimum required in order to experience and learn the techniques of Tantra Sacred Massage. The personal journey cannot be stipulated as this will vary from student to student. There is therefore an element to this training that has to be left open. One student will feel confident with the minimum amount of practical training, another will want and require more.

Each student needs to understand that the assessment after the minimum amount of practical training sessions is necessary to allow both student and trainer to assess what is still necessary and willing to do what is still required. Tantra Sacred Massage requires practitioners as a result of the high demand of people coming to Tantra. We have a strong interest in getting the student out there doing the work. There will not be any unnecessary delaying of this on our part.

Working part time in the Tantra Sacred Massage practice

Tantra Sacred Massage offers positions as a team member in Johannesburg, Cape Town and on the Durban South Coast. Tou can however after completion of the training set you your own practice using the qualification Certified Tantra Sacred Massage Practitioner.

Membership of Organisations

• Member of Tantra Sacred Massage practice

• National Institute of Tantra South Africa (NITSA)

• International Institute of Tantra 

• International Association of Sexual Educators, Councelors & Therapists (IASECT)

Standards

Tantra Sacred Massage holds a high standard of tantric work and tantric work ethics. This is the first professional tantric training embracing the full meaning of Tantra and the sacred practice of  tantric massage, being offered in South Africa at this stage. Since ancient times, Tantra has been a teaching imparted by a guru or a trainer to the student. This is a very basic of tantric standards and ethics world-wide -  having a personal teacher supporting you on your journey. . Untrained teachers have never experienced what it is like to open up totally to a stranger showing and sharing the most vulnerable aspects of their being. In order to understand this, one has to have experienced the process through a teacher. The ethical standard is high.

Let us together grow this wonderful and profound practice, this enchanting spiritual path in the best professional possible here in South Africa.
Namaste
Ma Anand Leandra