Author: Eva Evan

What is the secret of tantric massage?

In our modern culture, where answers to anything can be found at the click of a mouse, are there even any secrets left to be uncovered? Bede Griffiths, the British Benedictine monk who lived in India and became a noted yogi, once said:

For me, the great discovery in India is the discovery of the sacred. In India, everything is sacred: the earth is sacred, food, water and taking a bath are all sacred, a building is sacred.

What does this really mean? Here in the west, we have lost this understanding and attitude. We have become used to instant gratification. But the problem with instant gratification is that the experience does not last … By its nature it is fleeting—and one desire leads to another and another and another …

Sacredness implies honouring a deeper part of ourselves, which leads to more permanent contentment, fulfilment, inner peace and the feeling of total satisfaction. The experience of being in the moment, rather than doing. This is what we all really want, but there is an underlying pressure in our society to strive to compete, to achieve, to spend, to perform? These are the things we are taught to do. No one teaches us simply to be and to honour our deepest essence. So although it should be the simplest thing to do, it has become the hardest. While this applies to all areas of life, we are now here discussing tantric massage. Many of our visitors nowadays are so stressed by the time they arrive, they even find it difficult to just lie on the massage table and BE. Why so? Let us look more closely at the below issues:

The body

According to Ayurveda, the human body consists of 72,000 nadis, or subtle nerve channels, which cannot be seen by the physical eye, and 107 marma points, which are the neuro-muscular junction boxes of the body. In order for the body to truly relax, it is helpful to not only work on releasing the tension in the muscles, but also on restoring and revitalizing the energy flow. The subtle energy needs to be unblocked and re-directed to flow through the energetic pathways. This enables the individual to become more vibrant and alive, as well as relaxed.

Massage styles with long strokes, such as Abhyanga or Esalen-style massage, which encompass the entire body, rather than massaging just the legs or just the back separately are helpful in this process. A skilled masseuse can enable the receiver to experience his/her body as an organic whole. The entire body includes the genitals and the entire energetic system.

The mind

Our minds are very subtle instruments, easily affected by the atmosphere around us, as well as by our own thoughts. Our clients come to us with many different issues on their mind. They may feel guilty, nervous, ashamed, shy, or unsure whether they will receive what they are looking for. So it is very important for them to be greeted with an attitude of acceptance and understanding. When a masseuse empathises with and honours the client, this helps his/her mind to calm down spontaneously. We also teach basic meditation and deep breathing techniques, which combined with the peaceful vibration in our studio, all help to still the mind and encourage the flow of internal energy throughout the body.

This may all sound quite simple and obvious, but energy is a subtle entity. Keeping a studio clean and beautiful and lighting candles is one thing, but maintaining an upflifting vibration in the atmosphere is another. It helps if meditation has been practiced in the room, or if meditational mantras are played for long periods of time and even more so if the masseuse is a meditator. Mantras are used to purify the atmosphere and the feeling of peace can be very tangible. This can help lift the mind out of its habitual patterns of thinking.

Some clients have a tendency to get into their own individual fantasies while receiving the massage, particularly during the more arousing part. We do not discourage this as it is important to feel at ease. But we do encourage them to become an observer, a witness to the the workings of the mind and senses. The more we are able to do this, the deeper we go within—thoughts dissolve as if by magic and bodily sensations become much more powerful. This is basic meditation and it is not hard work; it is a very natural process.

Relationships

Some who are in a committed relationship may have a sense of guilt about receiving a sensual massage from someone who is not their partner. There are also times where their partner is not open to the idea of accompanying them. Hence, we always seek to explain that a tantric massage is different from a purely sensual or erotic massage.

While they may be receiving the tantric massage from a stranger, our tantric masseuses are qualified and have been trained to lead them to a certain experience which they can then share and develop with their partner at home. Of course, they are always welcome to come for tantric tuition on their own or as a couple, and will receive even more personalised instructions. Many single clients also come to us in a bid to prepare themselves for a future relationship.

The idea is not to titillate the senses. The individual is encouraged to go deep within and to access the inner feelings, which are much deeper and more satisfying. This can lead to a total body experience which can be extremely powerful.

It is important to honour oneself and consequently one’s partner, to see the partner as sacred and to treat one another with the utmost respect. This will lead to a flowing meditation, in which each person is able to actually feel the love and respect in their heart and ‘flow’ from that place. We emphasise that there are no goals. The idea is to go with the flow of the inner experience. These inner feelings and sensations come from a raised consciousness and are far more powerful, blissful and much more satisfying than the outer senses.

Rigidity dissolves when the pressure to do and to perform melts away. It is replaced by a blissful feeling of inner connectedness, which leads to a much more spontaneous and flexible interaction between a couple. They understand that there is not only one way to be together or to do something. Nothing is wrong or right. They just both need to be in the moment. So, for example if a man loses his erection, that is not a problem for sexual or sensual play can still take place. If one of the partners is not feeling sexy, the other can give him/her a massage. There is an infinite variety of ways to connect.

These inner feelings can be accessed and strengthened whether an individual simply comes for a tantric massage, or whether he/she has tantric tuition, or decides to bring a partner for tuition. Once these feelings have been experienced, they can grow deeper, more fulfilling and even more explosive with time and practice. It is a question of turning the attention within, instead of without. To quote Osho*:

In your body there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Tantra is alchemy, it can transform your centers… it is like bringing electricity into your house. Then you can turn it on and off whenever you want…. You have to imbibe the Tantra spirit—it is not a technique to be learned.

That is part of the secret of sacredness, of being rather than doing—the secret of tantric massage and what differentiates it from a regular sensual or erotic massage.

*We have also quoted Osho on this subject in a previous ARTICLE

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In our practice, we have found that many men, especially from India and Arab countries, suffer from premature ejaculation because sex before marriage is still often considered a taboo in these places and so since young, they’ve learned the norm is to masturbate secretly and in a hurry. Upon getting married, they find that they have premature ejaculation and don’t know what to do about it. Their wives cannot help because they are similarly lacking in experience and we find that when they come to us and learn to give one another a tantric massage, the couple experiences sex as a total revelation when they learn to slow down and savour the moment.

Premature ejaculation is often a habitual and psychological pattern, and so men need to be encouraged to last longer. We teach them a deep breathing technique which helps them remain more in their bodies, and less in their thoughts. And then we give them a slightly arousing sensual massage and ask them to tell us when they think they are on the brink. We then slow down and slowly bring them up to the brink again. We do this several times and gradually, a man begins to become more confident in himself as he sees his old patterns breaking up and he lasts longer, almost effortlessly. It is helpful if his partner can watch this process or be aware of it so that they can practice the same at home.

Nowadays, in our heavily materialistic culture, many men are under so much pressure at work that they are now experiencing an inability to get an erection, or to maintain one, or they have very weak erections. This causes a domino effect when they then drink too much coffee, alcohol, or take drugs, which makes things even worse and by the time they come to us, they are often unable to relax at all. Many are on anti-depressants which makes it difficult to orgasm, and this perpetuates a self-fulfilling cycle of lack of sexual confidence. All the more so because they have an expectation that they should be the perfect lover and to be able to stay hard for hours and be able to give their partner a mind-blowing orgasm.

Men need to take time off away from work and meetings to relax totally. That is why we consider it important that they receive a real massage and not just a soft feathery type variant. When individuals are really stressed, they need a deeper massage to get rid of the physical knots in the body. We also teach them to breathe properly from the diaphragm, and this deep breathing automatically helps the mind to calm down. We encourage them to watch their thoughts and not to identify with them. This is a basic meditation practice which helps to stop circular thinking, or the repetition of the same thoughts which is essentially what happens when someone is too stressed.

In this way, the individual can begin to feel his feelings again without thoughts getting in the way. He can then begin to feel turned on and to discover that it was all due to external factor and there is, in fact, absolutely nothing wrong with him. It is a real relief for a man to discover that he has not lost his sexual potency.

Some men are also able to experience an internal orgasm without ejaculation, which is a very powerful experience, and leaves the body shaking with pleasure and total relaxation as the energy flows unimpeded throughout the inner channels of the body. Women can also experience this type of whole body orgasm and it can give someone an immense feeling of of peace, bliss and sexual confidence.

Intimacy, connection and the quality of conscious touch

When we become too wrapped up in our thoughts, this can act out in unconscious ways. We become led by the mind, instead of by our true intuition and feeling. And so there may be a tendency to touch one another in an uncomfortable, unpleasant or insensitive way. Many people need to be taught how to touch one another with awareness, consciousness and subtlety. They also need to be taught where to touch and what the opposite sex actually enjoys. When we are touched in a particular way, our heart tends to open and we feel that the other person really cares for us, that there is a true connection and a feeling of intimacy and oneness arises between us.

Our therapists often need to take the hand of a male client and show him how to touch, and tell him what feels good and what doesn’t. A woman’s vagina can be a source of mystery to men. The same applies to female clients We are often amazed to see beautiful women and men who appear so confident on the outside, but who really don’t know how and where to touch one another! We often encourage them to practice on their partner, to give one another a tantric massage, and show them how to touch and what strokes to use. In addition, we encourage them to give each other truthful feedback. We have found that long-term couples can sometimes be most honest with one another in such sessions.

Sexual confidence

Ultimately as these tools are used and practiced, men and women can then experience their inner feelings in a more total way. They learn to trust them more and develop the courage to become more deeply invested themselves. That confidence encourages them to experiment and to try out new things because variety is also important in a sex life. As we become more conscious, total, alive and integrated, we set clearer boundaries in our relationship with others. We learn to communicate honestly, without offending the other. It also becomes easier to relate, and to actually feel not only arousal, but also intimacy, love and connection in our heart. This is how sexual confidence gradually develops. This confidence can then be integrated into a healthy, conscious and mindful way of being. And this … this is the benefit of receiving a tantric massage.

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Can tantric massage result in sexual confidence? First one needs to understand what sexual confidence really is.

We could all start by asking ourselves the question: ‘Am I a sexually confident person?’

 

The following is a pertinent quote from Osho, who was not only a popular guru, but sometimes known as the ‘sex’ guru’ of the seventies:

“ All religions have turned man against his own energies. Sex is man’s whole energy, his life energy. So through condemning sex … and preventing the orgasmic experience, religions have made men and women slaves. And the basic strategy is :’because sex is the most powerful energy in you, sex should be condemned, a guilt should be created. Then the individual has a split … his nature is sensuous, sexual and his mind is full of garbage against it. So man is afraid of sex as far as the mind is concerned, but his biology has nothing to do with the mind.The biology has its own way of functioning, so it will draw him towards sex and his mind will be standing there continuously condemning him. So he makes love, but in a hurry. He is hurrying because he feels he is doing something wrong. The only compromise is to be quick. That avoids the orgasm.

Because of his hurry, he cannot manage the orgasm. Sex has become equivalent to ejaculation. That is not true as far as nature is concerned. Ejaculation is only a part, which you can manage without orgasm. You can reproduce children, but you have become deprived. Man is deprived and because he is so quick in making love, the woman is also deprived. The woman needs time to warm up. Her whole body is erotic and unless her whole body is throbbing with joy, she will not be able to experience orgasm. So for millions of years, women have been denied their birthright. So they become bitchy… nagging… ready to fight…

Then you go for therapy. But without meditation you can go on painting on the surface, but the inner reality remains the same. My therapists have to introduce meditation as the very center of therapy. Then we have made therapy something really valuable Our therapy should give a person his individuality back. We give him his childhood and innocence back We have to teach people how to live totally and wholly … Then  orgasm will  give you your roots, which have been taken away from you. It is immensely important for meditation that a person has the experience of orgasm … Then you can make him understand what meditation is. It is an orgasmic experience with the whole existence.”

I have included the above long quote because even though it was written in the 1970s, it is still applicable to us in many ways today. You may be thinking that these things do not apply to the majority of people in the 21st century. There is so much open communication nowadays, knowledge and techniques are freely available, and we are no longer affected by guilt and secrecy. But the fundamental body/mind/spirit disconnection has simply taken other forms. Society and advertising exert different but equally powerful pressures. People may look confident but here, at Tantric Massage London, we experience every day that underneath the surface, there is a fundamental of lack of sexual confidence. Our connection with ourselves as a sexual being is very often impaired.

We have allowed our culture to de-sensitise us and we no longer feel with the entirety of our being. We now tend to be in our heads. As the inner disconnection between mind, body and spirit becomes habitual, men and women are no longer able to feel turned on in the usual ways. So they resort to fantasising all kinds of situations, or they can only have sex in a particular way, or they watch porn before they are able to have sex. Our society also encourages this type of behaviour and this makes people even more out of touch with themselves and more insecure because they compare their bodies and performance to those of porn stars.

Women develop anorexia and bulimia because of lack of self-esteem. They worry about how they look. Their body can never be beautiful enough, so they diet, wax it everywhere (as do men nowadays too); they undergo all kinds of procedures like anal bleaching, breast enlargement. On the other hand, men worry about the size of their penis and have surgeries to enlarge it … all because of the fundamental insecurity and over-identification with the physical appearnance of the body and the lack of connection with the true self inside.

So let us take a look at how this fundamental insecurity affects women, men and couples and the ways in which tantric massage and tuition can help. All of the following can be helpful, be it whether one is single or in a relationship.
Our tantric tuition process can be broken down into the following:

1. Learning to feel—begin to feel one’s own body and senses, learn to slow down the mind and integrate the body-mind-spirit
2. Education—provide information on what to touch, how to touch, what turns you on, what turns your partner on.
3. Communication—how to communicate honestly without hurting your partner.
4. Connection—feel the connection within, which leads to feeling the connection with your partner.

Women

Women often have the idea, sometimes sub-consciously, that the focus is to keep their man pleased so they concentrate on their partner rather than on themselves. When a couple comes and see us and each wants to receive a tantric massage, we advise them to have the massage in separate rooms at first, so that the woman can concentrate on her own pleasure.

Very often, it is the male partner who initiates the idea of having a tantric massage together and he asks for the massage to be in the same room,so that he can enjoy watching his partner being turned on and also learn how to turn her on. And often, the woman will agree with him because she has become conditioned to wanting to please him and is unaware of how out of touch she is with herself.

So we need to explain to both of them that a woman needs privacy to discover what turns her on before she can show her partner. She needs to become familiar with her own vagina, to masturbate, use sex toys and generally be aware of and in touch with her own sensual responses. For this, she needs privacy and will be much more free, uninhibited and comfortable on her own.

We often recommend women to take a look at Betty Dodson’s website. Betty is a pioneer of sex education for women and was one of the first therapists to encourage women to get a mirror and actually look at their own vagina. As she says in her website: ‘Our Bodysex workshops teach women how to overcome negative body image and pleasure anxiety.’ She encourages women to masturbate together in a group and to share their experiences with one another. Women soon realise that they are not alone and that their issues are shared by others too.

We explain all these to women who come to us for tantric massage and have found it to be of special help to women who lack sexual experience. In today’s world, men increasingly expect women to be sexually confident and to know how to please them sexually. Gone are the days when women were supposed to be innocent. Yet we have found that many women who have been married for a long time or have had several lovers, are still often disconnected from their own bodies and really do not know how to give pleasure to themselves or to their partners.

Our aim is to provide a safe space for women to air their concerns and to discover their own bodies—to learn what turns them on at their own pace, without worrying about having to please anyone else, and maybe even to experience an orgasm for the first time in their lives. We also emphasise that orgasm is not the goal. In fact, there is no goal. The objective is to feel our feelings in the moment, in their totality, without the mind’s interference, without extraneous thoughts, without expectations and without blocking the feeling. In this way, we learn what real pleasure is. Women also discover that once they actually feel intense bodily arousal and pleasure, this in itself, is a turn-on for their partner. There is no greater turn-off for a man when he is trying to please his partner, than to see her just lying there and to feel that whatever he does is not having much of an effect on her. That said, men are not mind-readers. Women need to be able to show their partner what they like and don’t like. In order to do this, they must first know themselves what they like, and then have the confidence to show their partner and to also have the confidence and tact to tell him if he is doing things that make her feel uncomfortable. Both partners also need to be relaxed and basically enjoy the moment.

These are the skills we teach women in our tantric massage/tuition sessions. We also offer tuition to couples so that they can practice on each other, with the guidance of a tantric therapist. This encourages a couple to learn in a practical way about what pleases their partner, and also to be entirely honest about what they like and don’t like. While this process of self-exploration and learning to communicate in an honest way sounds so simple, we have found it to be lacking in many. In fact, once the initial hurdles of shyness and embarrassment are overcome, sexual confidence is the natural result. In tomorrow’s article, we will learn more about how men can reap the benefits of tantric massages and how it can boost sexual confidence.

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Have you seen the movie Hysteria? It came out a couple of years ago, and a friend contacted to tell me that I must see it.

I must confess that I haven’t seen the film myself yet, but what interested me was that my friend pointed out how very respectable it was for a woman to go to a doctor to receive ‘manual digital relief’ in order to produce a ‘paroxysm of relief’ in Victorian times

The film is about the invention of the vibrator in late-Victorian England and how a society doctor administers manual relief to his wealthy female patients as a cure for hysteria. Back then, ‘hysteria’ was a condition ascribed to women and thought to be caused by disturbances of the uterus. It was a catch-all diagnosis for women suffering from anything ranging from a headache to depression to disobedience (the diagnosis was only finally dropped in the 1950s). In this movie, the doctor develops a ‘masturbator’s elbow’, also known as a carpal tunnel syndrome, and this leads to the invention of the first electric vibrator.

The film’s director, Tanya Wexler, commented, ’They didn’t consider the treatment sexual, because the husband was not involved. They thought the orgasm, or paroxysm as they called it, was purely involuntary … There is something about that time in the 1880s, and just how strict the cultural codes were, that makes it funny … everyone pretended it was a medical thing, not a sexual thing, and they really believed it.’

The practice of stimulation as a means of diagnosis has been going on in doctors’ consulting rooms since 1653 or even earlier, with a midwife sometimes called in to provide assistance. Early machines were then designed to help doctors who felt unable to complete the task manually. Such is the humble and interesting beginnings of the vibrator that has now become the most prolific sex toy of all time.

Yet, this is a contrast to modern perceptions when a man receives a sensual massage or a tantric massage. He still often feels that he has to go for such sessions secretly due to the stigma attached to any form of  ‘sensual’ service as it is still not considered ‘respectable’ by the majority of society. The ‘therapeutic’ aspect has still not been truly understood or accepted and unfortunately, naturally there will always be one set of ideas ascribed to women and a very different set for men.

Here at Tantric Massage in London, we offer sessions for both men and women. We believe that the male and female bodies are not that different when it comes to receiving a tantric massage—it is the same process (minus a few technical anatomical details)!

Nowadays when our women clients approach us for tantric ‘tuition’, one of the first things we stress is the importance of getting to know our own body. Betty Dodson, from the US, organises masturbation groups where women get into a circle and are given mirrors so that they can practice masturbation while looking at the own vaginas. Speak of being well acquainted!

Celeste, our masseuse who specialises in tantric tuition is currently in the midst of completing a course in Sexological Bodywork. One of the points she stresses is that better solo sex leads to better partner sex. In other words, a woman needs to know what really turns her on, so that she can communicate that to her partner. Women’s bodies are often a mystery to men and we can’t expect men to know what to do if we don’t know ourselves. We need to be able to communicate verbally and physically with our partner.

People often get into their own sexual ruts through masturbation patterns they have developed over the years, using the same techniques and fantasies. This can lead to seeking more inspiration through sex toys, porn, etc. A tantric massage can allow a man or woman to have more of a total body experience, rather than a quick localised, fleeting feeling. We also teach deep breathing techniques, which help to release physical blocks in the body, and thus enable energy and sensation to spread throughout the entire body.

The fundamentals of achieving more sensation, greater pleasure and full body orgasms come down to:

1. Presence or awareness and quality of touch
2. Experience or knowing oneself
3. Imagination and curiosity
4. Communication.
5. Breath

Celeste emphasises the importance of being curious and creative and changing positions. This also allows us to experiment with different types of touch and become more aware and mindful of the erotic sensations throughout our entire body as well as that of our partner.

We have sure come a long way from going to a doctor or midwife!

Tantric Massage London

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