Tantra As A Healing Art
Tantra is an ancient spiritual practice referred to in both Yogic and Buddhist texts. These practices are in fact thought to have existed prior to all currently practiced religious paths at a time when Temple Priestesses and Shamans played significant roles in what are believed to have been predominantly matriarchal communities, though it is doubtful that the word Tantra was applied to these integrated ways of initiation, healing, and transformation.
Today there are many ways to experience the art of Tantra and many reasons why we might pursue it. My first introduction was participating in intensive 'White Tantra' as part of my Kundalini Yoga training and later to support ongoing spiritual development. In 'White Tantra' the 'keys' to transformation most predominantly used are Eye Gazing, Mudra (hand and body postures), Mantra (chanting) and an acute Awareness of the energy flowing through the body and throughout the whole room. Later I was introduced to Women's Only tantra workshops during which many methods were utilised to evoke deepening connections with self, with other women, with the Divine Feminine, and ultimately to stimulate the flow of our innate Shakti energy and allow it's merger with the potent inner Shiva. When Shakti, the feminine creative life force that bestows vitality and a sense of empowered embodiment is united with Shiva, the masculine infinite consciousness of non-judgmental compassionate awareness, we are momentarily liberated from the fears created by our sense of segregation and the 'ordinary-reality' of duality... We touch the blissful truth of Oneness.
As a massage therapist of more than twenty years I can clearly see the potency available when we merge the Tantric keys mentioned above with another tantric method, that of heart-centred conscious touch. Tantric touch creates a deeply healing practice that can only enhance the delicate journey from wounding to wholeness. Loving Touch Tantra has developed over the last five years and is fast becoming one of my main core practices offered as a beautiful, intimate experience which will allow you to remember your own vital truths - you are whole, you are needed and wanted by life itself to simply be you, you are beyond acceptable, you are truly appreciated as a unique expression of love and of life.
No matter your personal story, regardless of which core experiences have resulted in your current situation and caused you to carry beliefs that you are 'lesser than'... Loving Touch Tantra can help you to move from a tightened, unseen, under nourished bud into a full expression of vitality and openness.
Today there are many ways to experience the art of Tantra and many reasons why we might pursue it. My first introduction was participating in intensive 'White Tantra' as part of my Kundalini Yoga training and later to support ongoing spiritual development. In 'White Tantra' the 'keys' to transformation most predominantly used are Eye Gazing, Mudra (hand and body postures), Mantra (chanting) and an acute Awareness of the energy flowing through the body and throughout the whole room. Later I was introduced to Women's Only tantra workshops during which many methods were utilised to evoke deepening connections with self, with other women, with the Divine Feminine, and ultimately to stimulate the flow of our innate Shakti energy and allow it's merger with the potent inner Shiva. When Shakti, the feminine creative life force that bestows vitality and a sense of empowered embodiment is united with Shiva, the masculine infinite consciousness of non-judgmental compassionate awareness, we are momentarily liberated from the fears created by our sense of segregation and the 'ordinary-reality' of duality... We touch the blissful truth of Oneness.
As a massage therapist of more than twenty years I can clearly see the potency available when we merge the Tantric keys mentioned above with another tantric method, that of heart-centred conscious touch. Tantric touch creates a deeply healing practice that can only enhance the delicate journey from wounding to wholeness. Loving Touch Tantra has developed over the last five years and is fast becoming one of my main core practices offered as a beautiful, intimate experience which will allow you to remember your own vital truths - you are whole, you are needed and wanted by life itself to simply be you, you are beyond acceptable, you are truly appreciated as a unique expression of love and of life.
No matter your personal story, regardless of which core experiences have resulted in your current situation and caused you to carry beliefs that you are 'lesser than'... Loving Touch Tantra can help you to move from a tightened, unseen, under nourished bud into a full expression of vitality and openness.
