Certified, Professional Tantra Massage Training

What is a true Tantra massage?

“In its highest form, Tantra massage has the potential to be an initiation into a direct experience of the world of Tantra.”

– John Hawken  

 

This course has been developed to set a benchmark and standard for what Tantra Massage should stand for at the pinnacle of what it can be. The training is about learning to receive and give Tantra massage as an initiation into Tantra.    The word Tantra has been often misappropriated to sell sexual services under the name Tantra massage. Even the best-intentioned massages often overemphasize the sexual aspect of Tantra, which is fundamentally about sacred sexuality expressed through the heart.  Tantra is an ancient practice that opens the door to an experience of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness

 

THE KEY PRINCIPLES OF TANTRA

To experience yourself as a bridge between heaven and earth, earth and heaven.

To experience that you have an energy body as well as a physical

Body, through which you can connect to the ocean of life energy that surrounds you.

Your body is the sacred temple of your spirit.

Sacred sexuality is about being, not doing.

Experiencing the energy body takes you into expanded consciousness.

To experience yourself as a formless flow of energy, taking form through the conscious focus of your awareness 

 

THE PATH OF TOUCH

Touch is a vital form of nourishment and affirmation, and sensual massage a way of communicating non-verbally and directly. To receive a Tantra massage is to be initiated into tantric experience and tantric consciousness. Often Tantra massage can be the first contact with energy and the energy body and the potential of expanding sexual energy into the whole body. On the path of touch, you learn to give these massage initiations, whether privately to a partner or professionally to clients. At The Paths of Transformation, we teach and transmit a wide breadth of Tantra and erotic massage, together with an understanding of presence and different kinds of touch, both physical and energetic.

Sequences of techniques that form a developmental series of deepening initiations are shared, which can be used with a lover to go deep into intimacy, or as a professional to open the first door into Tantra for your clients.

 

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is designed for people who want, through tantric massage, to get more in touch with their body, open their body to energy, heal any old disapproval of their bodies and negative feelings like fear or shame, and to learn to deeply relax, so that their natural energy will start to flow and thus bring up any physical, energetic or emotional issues that need to be released or healed.

The body has its own wisdom and if we or our mind can stop being in the way, then beautiful moments can happen that will connect us again with our natural state of oneness, pleasure, joy and flow

 

THIS COURSE IS EXPERIENTIAL AND IS AIMED AT:

Those who are interested in becoming a qualified and experienced professional Tantra massage practitioner

Existing massage practitioners who wish to add Tantra to their repertoire 

Existing Tantra massage practitioners who wish to expand their repertoire of practice and techniques and who enjoy the philosophy of Tantra as well as the practices 

Anyone who wants to dive deeply into the practice of Tantra massage

To this end, it consists of 3 four day blocks, and for those who want to get a professional certificate, they need to do block 4 and the continuing studies as well.

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION 

Those completing the 16 days training will be awarded a Certificate of Training as a Tantra massage practitioner.

Those completing 10 supervision sessions will be awarded a Certificate of Competence as Professional Practitioner of Initiatory Tantra Massage.

Those who are fully certified will have their names published on the Path of Touch website as approved practitioners.   

Due to its depth and authenticity Practitioners holding this Training Certificate qualify for Student Insurance for their work through ASIS (the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexology)

 

This is a Closed Group training so it is not possible to join the training if you miss the first module.

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Certified, Profi Tantra Massage Training, Module 1

 

 

Module 1 - Tantra Massage Fundamentals - Sensitive, Conscious and Sacred Touch

What makes a massage tantric?

It is not only a sensually pleasing setting, but also more importantly an attitude: of respect, of honouring: to work with energy and consciousness, to touch the spirit through the body.  We create the experience that the body is the temple of the spirit, discovering and honouring the god in each man, the goddess within each woman. We manifest spirit on earth through the physical body experiencing itself as a vehicle for the energy body. Tantra massage works with the energy body and is an initiation into our nature as energy beings, divine beings of fire and light. This initiation or revelation is the true purpose of our sexual energy, the longing to merge with something bigger and more beautiful than our egos.

THE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF MASSAGE

Relaxation

Fitness

Healing the past/therapeutic massage

Energy flow and balance

Sensuality

Arousal

Liberation

Entering altered states of consciousness.

We will explore these different qualities and  develop the ability to shift gear and dance appropriately between them.

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CREATING THE SETTING

• Creating the atmosphere

• Décor

• Use of ritual

• The comfort and safety of the client

• Creating clear contracts for client and practitioner alike, boundaries

• Communicating a clear intent

• The presence, awareness and consciousness of the masseur

• Verbal and non-verbal communication during the massage

• Conscious touch

• Surface and deep tissue touch

• When to use oil

• Stroking, pinching, scratching, percussion.

• Use of fingertips, knuckles, elbows, breathe, hair

• Use of tools: silk, fur, feathers, leather, herbs, milk, hot oil, hot and cold compresses and stones, aromas and essential oils

• Preparing the body: exit massage, energy cleansing and de-stressing

• Touching with the quality of innocence

• Touch to sensitize the body

• Using the breath to receive

• Relaxing into the energy, non-doing, coming out of the mind into the body

• Dropping expectations, needs, desires, and being in the moment with what is

 

AWAKENING ENERGY

Following the ideas of both Wilhelm Reich and traditional tantric teachings about kundalini, before releasing sexual excitement and power, we open the body to allow the channels of the body to allow the life energy to expand. A pleasurable healing massage gently removes tensions that block this flow and make us afraid of our own energy, power and pleasure. Opening the channels of the spine, we begin with Reichian massage of the spine to experience the muscles of the spine as channels for energy flow rather than as the place where we hold back from life.  We bring the spine back into alignment by softening the tense muscles that break it up into isolated segments. Then the kundalini massage enables us to open up the energy channels in the spine, ida, pingala and  sushumna, creating a balance between left  and right, masculine and feminine energies  in the body, and inviting the streamings  of life energy to flow through the spine.  Opening the meridians energizes the whole body and prepares it for a balanced and pleasurable flow of fire and water. The experience of energy flowing through our physical body enables us to realize that we are more than just a physical being: we are a point of consciousness becoming aware of itself as art of the life flow of the universe.  This awareness of our connectedness to life and energy is the alchemy of ecstasy – standing outside ourselves.

 

STRUCTURES TO BE TAUGHT DURING THE FIRST TRAINING MODULE

The art of erotic touching (Margot Anand)

Body imprints massage

Strokes for grounding the body (bioenergetics massage)

Deep tissue massage and useful elements of biodynamic massage

Awakening the Senses ritual

Creative Seasonal Ritual

Discovering your erotic potential - massage to open the body to the flow of life energy

Reichian spinal massage,

Reichian pelvic massage

Elements of deep draining

Kundalini massage

Bio-release massage

Spinal drumming  

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