Tantra: My Experience and Tantric Massages

My first connection with Tantra was in a mens massage workshop in London where for the first time I saw a vibrating massage linked to each of the energy centres, the chakras. This didn’t take centre stage immediately because my first formal training was learning to deliver Swedish massage in a massage school.  One of the men in the mens massage group turned round to me one day and said, ‘I’m just back from the first block of tantric massage training. It is absolutely amazing.’ The next similar course didn’t start for a year but in the meantime I booked in at the Tantra Centre for an introductory course in tantra, which is of course much more than just massage. It was a mixed group half men and half women. As a gay man I found a lot of it was certainly outside my comfort zone, but I hasten to add this course did not involve any nakedness or intimate sexual practice. I was being introduced to a whole new way of seeing things through a range of physical exercises, so not brain focused. Later that year I started the year long tantric massage training which involved 4 residential modules. It was a large mixed group with equal numbers of men and women,

I returned able to deliver 4 different tantric massages and found a willing client on whom I could practice. I seek to remove bad energies from my massage room by burning sandalwood or white sage before we start.  All massages start in a similar way with some breathing; an honouring ritual which is me gazing on the divine in my client and an undressing ritual before we move onto the table. Whilst many of the strokes may appear to be similar to those used in western massages what they are seeking to do is different. We are connecting with the energy body, opening up the whole of the body, helping energy to move particularly between the heart and the sex, and if desired by the client finishing with orgasm and discharge.

What I have experienced with time is that my energy body is connecting with my client's energy body. This has meant that over time my body has been opened up more and more. What is often clear is that orgasms at the end of massages I deliver, whether naturist or specifically tantric, are very much more intense than they are simply by wanking. This is the indication for me that there is much more that men might learn and put in practice from tantra, including tantric sex with their partner or becoming multi-orgasmic men. More about both will follow.