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How Much Is a Tantric Massage Truly Tantra?

01.08.2024
Tantric massage is not merely a technique of touch, but a path toward acceptance, connection, and deep awareness of both body and soul. Discover how every ritual touch reflects the ancient wisdom of tantra that has been alive for thousands of years.

Tantra and Tantric Massage – Close, Yet Not the Same

Tantra and tantric massage are not exactly identical.
Still, the tantric massage as we practice and teach it in our center is deeply rooted in the spiritual foundations that come from ancient tantric teachings.
Modern tantric massage arose naturally as a development of tantra within contemporary tantric schools. Let’s look together at how tantra, its philosophy, and tantric massage are connected.

 
A Ritual in Every Touch
Tantric massage is not just about technique.
It’s primarily about inner presence, respect, and mindfulness.
Each massage is born in the moment — shaped by the personalities of both the giver and the receiver, arising in mutual harmony.
Practitioners adapt the massage to each person, yet honor its deeply established structure.
Just as monks create mandalas — each is unique, yet every one follows the ancient pattern.

 
Unconditional Acceptance
During tantric massage, we consciously honor the divine essence within the receiver — including their body and sexuality.
The touch is pure, kind, and respectful.
The ritual form of the massage helps us let go of everyday worries and enter a sacred atmosphere, where we can perceive our body with dignity and beauty.

The feeling of being fully accepted that often arises during a massage can be profoundly healing.
It is a true human meeting without masks, without expectations.

 
The Experience of Wholeness
Tantric massage embraces the whole body and the whole being.
Nothing is excluded sexuality is a natural part of the ritual.
Breath, sound, movement, tears, orgasm, silence everything is welcome, as is their absence.
In tantra, there is no pressure to perform.
Everyone experiences the massage in their own rhythm and way.

During the massage, life energy flows through the body, bringing deep relaxation, joy, inner peace, and strength.
For a while, one steps out of daily concerns and opens a space where it is possible simply to be.

 
Sexuality in Its Pure Form
In Western society, sexuality is often burdened with shame, guilt, or expectation.
Tantric massage sees sexuality differently it honors it in its natural beauty and power.
Sexuality here is not a means to reach higher goals or a tool leading to spiritual enlightenment.

Tantric massage allows sexuality to simply be what it always was a sensual, sensitive, and profoundly human experience.
Nothing more, nothing less.

 
What to Expect from a Tantric Massage
Tantric massage is an invitation into a space where there is nothing to prove.
It offers no goals and no expectations.
All that’s needed is to be to feel your breath, your body, and to open yourself to gentle, conscious touch.
Every experience is different and every one of them is right.

 
Tantric Massage Is Not an Erotic Service
It’s important to understand that tantric massage is not a form of sexual service.
It is not about satisfaction, performance, or fulfilling fantasies.
It is about being conscious about experiencing the union of body and soul in a space of safety, respect, and acceptance.

 
A Small Step Toward a Great Change
Tantric massage is not merely a technique.
It is a path a way to rediscover that we are beautiful just as we are.
It is a return to ourselves to our strength, to our breath, to our body.

You may discover that touch, attention, and acceptance are the greatest gifts you can offer yourself.

Bc. Michaela L. Torstenová
Written by Bc. Michaela Lynnette Torstenová, MBA

Founder of Tantra masáže Praha s.r.o., psychotherapist, manager, lecturer of tantra and personal development groups, coach, yoga and holistic bodywork lecturer, massage therapist (10 years of practice), author of the "Inner wave" therapeutic tantric massage technique, massage lecturer.