How Tantric Massage Heals Sexual Trauma
Among the many benefits of practicing tantra, tantric healing may be the most powerful—specifically when it comes to healing from sexual trauma.
Tantra practitioners believe that everything is connected. Nothing exists independently, and we are all one. Tantra helps us experience this interconnection. We make the unconscious conscious. The body stores suppressed emotions and sensations. It is a burden that influences our day-to-day interactions with others. Tantric healing can release suppressed emotions and sensations. The body can start to relax and feel safe. The door is open to experience connection, freedom, and pleasure practices you can use.
What is tantric healing?
Tantric healing, most often performed through tantric massage, is a form of hands-on bodywork. Unlike other forms of massage, this sacred practice incorporates the tantric essence of shakti, or sexual energy. When skillfully incorporating this universal force into a massage, it can touch the deepest layers and aspects of a human being and be a profound instrument of spiritual and emotional healing. Most notably, tantric healing is believed to remove energetic blockages related to sexual trauma. Some health experts believe trauma can be stored in the body, and physical therapeutic modalities—like tantric massage—can help heal those emotional wounds by "releasing" that trauma.
Our sexual energy can be healing energy.
Sexual Energy is life force energy. Most people have never taken their sexual energy beyond their genitals. There are many forms of tantric massage focused on the genitals that provide tremendous sexual benefits, such as lingam massage (tantric massage for the penis), yoni massage (tantric massage for the vulva), tantric meditation, and tantric masturbation.
Tantric massage used for tantric healing focuses on improving emotional and spiritual well-being. Through tantric massage, a person can cleanse and open up vital energetic gateways so there is an open channel for the energy to flow through. It also trains the energy to move upward through the chakras. In this process, a skilled practitioner executing the massage can unlock the healing benefits of a person's sexual energy. By using their own energy in a deliberate way, a skilled practitioner can arouse the energy of another person and teach it how to behave in a specific way to achieve a specific purpose.
Most people have energetic blockages at some points of their life, whether they are conscious enough to recognize them or not. They can be physical, emotional, mental, sexual, or psychosomatic in nature, and the root cause can vary from person to person. They can come from everyday repetitive habits and experiences or from a painful memory or event that gets compounded over the years.
I absolutely am not suggesting that you should not seek professional psychiatric help if you have been a victim of sexual trauma, you should. I am suggesting that Tantric healing can be a life-changing experience, especially for sexual assault survivors. It can feel like a physical release of that trauma so that your body can finally feel free of that memory.