"It takes place in a soft environment conducive to relaxation and the inner journey. It is usually done on a massage table. Soothing music and candles mark the spiritual, though intimate, nature of this massage.
The characteristic of a tantric massage is to be slow and gentle. Although there may be more pressure at certain times, its general characteristic is to touch both the physical body and the "energetic" body, which produces a corporal and psychic remodeling, beyond what you can expect from a relaxing massage.
Very different from traditional massage, it is performed on a naked body and it takes into account the entire body, including the genitals. But these are not seen as erogenous zones that we must avoid or excite, but as simple sensitive areas of the body that we rub with the same sweetness as the belly or the head.
Although it is "sensual" because it develops the qualities of natural sensuality of the body, it is not erotic and even less sexual. There is indeed no sexual relation, no stimulation of excitation and even less of masturbation. The touch does not seek to "excite" but to stimulate the sensitivity of the body so that the client can feel the thrill of his own body, the fullness of his being when he is touched.
There are no words to describe what happens in a tantric massage: the dance of the hands, the delicacy of the touch, the extreme sensitivity that emanates from it. It results in a self-abandonment, a deep surrender that reveals hidden aspects of ourselves. Men discover aspects of their sensuality that they may not have known before. And women reconnect with what they felt and knew deep down inside of themselves: "My body is a sacred temple. "
Tantric massages considered as "well-being massages" can go beyond the simple well-being and be a healing balm for the body and the mind, because it comes to touch our deepest sensitivity by opening doors to unknown spaces. "
(Jacques FERBER)