What Tantric Healing Truly Is About
In a society that often categorizes and tends to place judgment on the ‘other,’ the journey of self-discovery for gay & queer men can be challenging. Living as an LGBTQIA+ individual brings forth a series of topics we all have to face on our life journeys.
For some, we struggle with accepting ourselves as we are, while others identify solely with being queer and celebrate it as the defining aspect of their personality.
In this sense, healing becomes an essential practice that we all must pay attention to. The types and styles of healing that resonate with you as an individual might be different from what others need in order to heal. Today, I want to zoom in on a very often misunderstood style of healing: Tantra.
Tantric Healing or Tantra is a path that fosters true liberation, self-love, and self-acceptance. It’s a pathway to learn how to celebrate all the unique facets of our queer & gay selves.
By delving into meditation, breathwork, sensual bodywork, and practicing intimate connection, boundaries, and embodied intentions, we can navigate and heal emotional wounds, foster 💪🏽 resilience, and cultivate a deeper sense of love 💗 for ourselves and others.
Today, most of us operate from states of consciousness like Lust & Desire, which sadly always leave us wanting or needing ‘more.’ Layered onto this sense of lacking, we also hold traces of Guilt & Shame in our systems.
Coming from these states of consciousness, many of us perceive Tantra as predominantly a sexual practice, which it’s not. Tantra, in essence, means “connection from higher states of consciousness,” which doesn’t exclude the sexual practices most of us are familiar with (or have heard of), but it focuses more on transcending the lower states of consciousness I mentioned above.
One of the challenges we, gay & queer men, face at this age is finding deeper Love. Stuck in these low-vibrational states, we struggle to break through and transcend into higher states of consciousness, such as Love, inner Peace, Gratitude, and full-body Bliss.
Tantric practices support us in transcending into these higher states, giving us back our powers to experience deeper emotional and spiritual intimacy.
This is what Tantra is truly about. Did you know?
Thank you Mo for publishing this. I have recently embarked on a journey of self-discovery and self-love and Tantra is a part of this journey. When I had first heard of Tantra, much like many others, I had solely seen it as a sexual practice. While it is that as well, as you mentioned, it is much more about weaving together the entire inner being with the outer being, and then to others. I feel that I have so much to learn that it feels a little intimidating at times, but I am genuinely excited for what the future has in store.
Most important is that we understand that Tantra is a universal gateway and it takes time to integrate all these learnings into our minds, there’s so much time to do that, we just have to surrender and learn bit by bit (or unlearn in many cases as well haha).
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽