One of the meanings of Tantra is that it’s a tool for expansion.
When we put that in the context of touch and massage it takes us somewhere with such possibility.
The Massage of Expansion.
Expansion of the body.
Expansion of the heart.
Expansion of energy.
Expansion of sensation.
Expansion of feeling.
Expansion of pleasure.
Expansion of the mind.
Expanding into space, creating space, within, and in life.
Opening space for the body to move, for what’s in the body to move.
Energy, emotion, patterns, beliefs.
The past, the experiences we’ve held onto enough for them to become our patterns, our conditioning, our beliefs.
Emotions we’ve held onto enough for them to become our shape, our tension, our contraction.
Beliefs we’ve held onto long enough for them to become our inhibitions, our limitations, our fears.
Expanding for them to move, to flow, to release, to soften, to open.
The Massage of Expansion is an invitation, first to the body, to the being.
Then, to invite and allow what’s present to be there, to emerge, to arise, to dance, to flow.
To take us where it will, into emotion, and welcoming whatever’s there.
Into release, into sensation, into awareness, into transcendence, into pleasure, into meditation, into creativity, into intimacy…
The Massage of Expansion has the intention of connection, the intention of the silent conversation of touch, of breath.
In this, the body does what’s there to do, to feel.
What we do, in offering this, and it is an offering in every sense, what we do is offer the body a way to come into presence, to make space, and to allow what’s present to flow into that space.
It doesn’t hold the goal of expansion, the outcome, for that’s a sure way of contraction.
It simply offers, may this touch find space within you, and I will sit with you as you expand in the space, into the space.
The Massage of Expansion can’t be set, can’t be repetitive, can’t be the same again and again.
It’s alive, created from connection, from presence. It comes into being in the dance, the stroke, the caress, the touch.
It has to come from within, from a space inside, that may be connected to something greater at times.
It has to understand how tension happens, how contraction develops, and it has to understand how we soften into space. How we expand, what filling a new space means, how we live that.
The Massage of Expansion has so many ways to move, to move the body, to move on the body.
For so many, Tantric Massage is about arousal, pleasure, even orgasm. That’s what it’s become connected to.
Arousal can be, is a powerful tool in this, in a very different way. And it’s just one expression of energy, of feeling, of sensation.
Expansion happens when the body is soft, relaxed, open. Then arousal, if it’s present, can flow. And again, that’s just one energy. Not the goal, not the outcome.
A touch that expands.
The Massage of Expansion, I’ve seen over the past months, takes us to new places, new spaces, new experiences.
Takes us into the unknown, physically, emotionally, energetically, mentally.
It expands our capacity to feel, to sense, to experience, to know, to see.
It’s in the body where this happens.
It expands into the mind by allowing new awarenesses. It opens eyes within us.
It connects us more to the heart.
And it may even be, at times, a spiritual experience.
After doing and teaching massage for over 30 yrs, I am continuously amazed that it’s a path and journey of limitless exploration, experience and discovery.
This idea, The Tantric Massage of Expansion, is in some ways a slight shift in perspective and practice. And in some, it’s big.
Come and experience, come and explore, come and learn.
I invite you…
