Tantric Healing

BACKGROUND

Tantric Healing is a holistic, healing discipline that offers a broad range of tools for supporting health, healing and personal transformation. Tantra's tools include postures, conscious breathing techniques, meditative practices, gestures, the use of vocal sounds, guided self-inquiry, and much more. These tools can be utilized in an infinite number of combinations to suit the unique needs of the individual throughout the ever-changing stages of his/her life.

As a holistic form of healing, Tantra views the human system as not just the physical body, but as comprised of several dimensions, including the physical body, breath, mind, personality and emotions. These dimensions of the human system are interconnected and therefore, interdependent. For example, when a person becomes angry (emotional), breathing becomes short and shallow (breath), the face turns red and the hands tremble (physical), attitude becomes negative (mental), and communication becomes aggressive (personality), etc.

For this reason, Tantra teaches that just because an illness manifests at the physical level does not necessarily mean that its cause is also in the physical level. The cause of the physical problem may, in fact, be rooted in problems related to another dimension of the student's system. By the same token, any practice a Tantric teacher or therapist offers has the potential to impact every dimension of the student's system. For example, a meditative practice may influence not only our mind and emotions, but our physical body, as well. A breathing practice may influence mind and personality, and so on.

I offer private instruction in keeping with the focus on personalized Tantric Yoga for specific health and wellness needs. Tantric Yoga Therapy is offered on a one-to-one basis for purposes ranging from general fitness and wellbeing, to addressing specific health concerns. In each case, the teacher adapts the tools of Tantra Yoga to meet the needs and goals of the individual.

Personalized One-on-One Instruction

All Tantra Yoga as taught by me is adapted to meet the specific needs of the individual. I take time in a one-on-one setting to understand each client's current needs and goals and then design a program just for them.

Empowering the Individual

An important result of the client's commitment to their personal practice is that s/he becomes an active participant in the healing process. The teacher's role is primarily one of understanding the student's needs, designing and teaching the student appropriate practices that are both healing and motivating, and reviewing the practices as the student's needs and goals change. It is up to the student to do the practice, however, for it to have any effect. Healing thus comes from within the student, rather than from an outside source. This is one of the most powerful aspects of Tantra as taught by me. I believe that when the student is engaged in their own healing process instead of being a passive recipient of treatment, there is even greater potential for healing to happen and for the student to retain the benefits and the good habits learned for the long-term.