Frequently Asked Questions: Tantra

General Questions

1. What is Tantra?
Tantra is a spiritual practice that weaves together body, mind, and spirit to cultivate awareness, connection, and personal growth. It encompasses traditional teachings and contemporary approaches to awaken life force energy and deepen intimacy with oneself and others.
2. Is Tantra only about sexuality?
No, Tantra is much broader than sexuality. While it includes practices that explore intimacy and connection, it also involves meditation, energy work, and self-discovery to promote overall well-being and spiritual growth.
3. Do I need prior experience to work with you?
Not at all. Whether you're new to Tantra or have experience, the sessions are tailored to meet you exactly where you are on your journey.
4. What should I expect during a session?
Sessions may include meditation, breathwork, energy practices, guided touch therapy, and inquiry-based exploration. Each session is customised to your needs, with a focus on creating a safe, nurturing space for transformation.

Individual and Couples Work

5. How can Tantra benefit me as an individual?
Tantra can help you:
  • Connect with your authentic self
  • Heal past trauma
  • Cultivate self-love and confidence
  • Awaken your life force energy
  • Enhance mindfulness and presence
6. How does Tantra support couples?
Couples can deepen their intimacy, improve communication, resolve conflict, and reconnect with each other through guided practices and conscious exploration.
7. My partner is hesitant. Can I attend alone?
Yes! Individual sessions can empower you with tools and insights that may inspire your partner to join in the future.

Workshops and Retreats

8. What happens in a Tantra workshop or retreat?
Workshops and retreats offer immersive experiences that include group practices, guided meditations, movement, and opportunities for deep connection. Some events may focus on specific themes, like feminine empowerment or healing.
9. Are workshops suitable for beginners?
Absolutely! Workshops are designed to be inclusive and welcoming, providing a supportive environment for all participants.
10. Do I need to attend with a partner?
No, most workshops are open to individuals and couples. Specific events may cater to one or the other, so check the details for each offering.

Practical Information

11. Where are sessions held?
Sessions are available in-person in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa, or online via video call.
12. How long are the sessions?
Sessions typically last 60–120 minutes. Longer sessions can be arranged if needed.
13. How do I prepare for a session?
Wear comfortable clothing, and come with an open mind and willingness to explore. Specific instructions may be shared before the session based on its focus.
14. Is this work confidential?
Yes, all sessions and client information are treated with the utmost confidentiality.
15. How can I book a session or workshop?
You can book a session or workshop by messaging me on tara@tararose.net.

Sensual Massage vs. Tantric Massage vs. Tantra Sessions

16. What is a sensual massage?
A sensual massage primarily focuses on physical touch and relaxation, with an emphasis on pleasure and connecting with the senses.
17. What is a tantric massage?
A tantric massage goes beyond the physical to include energetic and spiritual components. It incorporates conscious breathwork, mindfulness, and touch to awaken life force energy, release energetic blockages, and cultivate a deeper connection with oneself. Tantric massage focuses on integrating the mind, body, and spirit for a transformative experience.
18. How is a tantra session different from a tantric massage?
A tantra session is broader and more holistic. While it may include elements of touch or bodywork (such as tantric massage), it also involves practices like:
Breathwork
Meditation
Energy work
Guided self-inquiry
Tools for emotional and spiritual exploration
Tantra sessions are personalised and may or may not include physical touch, depending on the client's needs and boundaries.
19. Is a tantric massage the same as a sexual service?
No, tantric massage is not a sexual service. It is a sacred practice designed to awaken energy, foster deep relaxation, and promote healing. It is conducted in a safe, professional, and non-judgmental space.
20. Which option is right for me?
Sensual Massage: Ideal if you’re seeking relaxation and physical pleasure with a focus on the senses.
Tantric Massage: Perfect if you want a transformative, energy-focused experience that integrates relaxation with spiritual growth.
Tantra Sessions: Best if you’re seeking deeper personal exploration, healing, or tools for spiritual awakening and empowerment.
21. Do I need to be naked for tantric massage or tantra sessions?
Nudity is optional and always based on your comfort level. This is discussed and agreed upon before the session begins. Boundaries are always honored, ensuring a safe and respectful experience.
22. Can a couple experience these practices together?
Yes! Couples can benefit from tantric massage or tantra sessions as a way to enhance intimacy, connection, and communication. Sessions for couples are tailored to their unique dynamic.
23. What makes tantra sessions unique compared to other practices?
Tantra sessions focus on deep inner transformation by combining ancient wisdom with contemporary techniques. They are not just about touch or relaxation but aim to heal trauma, awaken dormant energy, and guide you toward embodying your true essence.

Tara has a most inviting and nourishing feminine energy that made me feel at home the first time I met her - I was entirely new to the practice but was received and welcomed with great care. I attended a retreat that she and Ridwana hosted recently. The retreat was a space of light, love, healing, and dancing. A cocoon of feminine care and stillness that allowed me to see me. I am changed forever and think back to it when I need a moment of tenderness. Thank you for sharing so much with us and holding us as we healed. xoxo

Lerato

What an amazing woman with patience and an amazing sense of peace.

I see Tara as a "midwife" as I always receive a bodywork from her at the times when I am shedding old skin and coming into a new stage of my life. Tara helps me to birth that new part of me. I can always drop very deeply with her because she impeccably holds a very safe space. Tara has a gift of touching me deeply, reaching those spaces that I didn't know existed.

Vlada

Tara's depth of understanding and breadth of experience makes her invaluable when I am in any need of processing or realigning in my life. Her intelligence and intuitive capacities make her a true healer, skilled in working with both the body and mind. I have no hesitation in recommending her highly. 

Albert

Tara has a gift and a capacity to touch not only the body but the Soul. In me through her touch, she activated the wounds that needed to be met and felt (ancestral, past life, archetypal) and assisted with healing them. Tara is holding a space of deep inner exploration of the mysteries held in the body, that only become available through touch. Her presence is deep, focused, loving, compassionate. Some of my greatest experiences on my healing journey happened during the bodywork with Tara.

V

Sessions with Tara are a numinous experience. She brings her depth and wealth of life experience and wisdom to the sessions in such a deeply held way which really allow my nervous system to reset and my body to surrender. I feel very loved and safe working with her and what I like about our sessions is that the journey of it feels very personal and intimate as opposed to a client/ therapist scenario. I really feel like she cares deeply. I got to feel some really deep stuff which was very painful but necessary. She is confident in how she holds space for me and knows how to take me deeper gently without traumatising me. It was this that allowed for my breakthrough. Thank you Tara.

Marcelle

Hi Tara. Something really opened in the last 20 hours. I had such a nice sleep with vivid and pleasant dreams. I feel more present to love. Maybe we cracked open a very protected heart Chakra!!! You created the safety so I could. It feels nice! Thank you.

It was so beautiful and personally so deeply moving. I am good with words but I am without them right now. I cannot communicate the awe I feel that you captured my journey, that you really saw and see me. I am not used to this. So I feel this...😢 Not from pain but just from being seen. And this also emerges....❤️.

Thank you. This is an extraordinary moment and a healing moment for me.

Jim

I had a session with Tara the day after I heard that my pregnancy was a miscarriage. I really wanted my body to release this naturally, without medical intervention. 

It was my first session with Tara. And it was exactly what I needed - soft, gentle, feminine, supportive, beautiful. She guided me through the most incredible visualisation, giving me/my body the autonomy to do what it does. Reminding me that my body knows how to release, as it does with every exhale. She also guided me into a deep connection to the Earth, to Mother Gaia who holds both life and death with equal compassion. 

She proceeded to work on my body, massaging and opening up my heart and my womb. I felt so held, so seen. I could surrender everything. 

Something shifted in me during that session. I didn't feel like this was a failed pregnancy, but instead, I felt like I was part of nature. Nature gives, nature takes. Nothing is personal. It just is, and it is all in and with love. 

In the end, I still had to get medical intervention to facilitate the miscarriage, but it didn't even matter. I wasn't attached to how it happened anymore. More than being focused on what it was, I focused on how I felt about it. And what shifted in the session with Tara stayed with me. An acceptance, a surrender, a trust in something bigger. 

I'm so grateful that this was part of my process, part of my preparation for this loss that happens to 1 in 4 pregnant women. Mentally, spiritually and emotionally I was able to hold this miscarriage with ease, even joy. The work definitely works. 

Marilu

The retreat was a wonderful and expansive experience of sisterhood in a safe and loving environment. I explored the essence of my sexuality and discovered the capacity of pleasure to heal and transform what I held about who I am as a Divine Woman and sexual being. This gathering of powerful sisters is definitely an extraordinary and sacred experience, so much goodness is unfolding in my life as a result, i will definitely do it again.

Mmamah

A Blissful Awakening of body mind and energy. Breath, sound and movement is all it takes. I was able to surrender to the flow of life by breaking through barriers of limiting beliefs. I received useful, informative tools that I can practice at my own pace, space and privacy. I returned home with many precious insights for myself and my clients.
The facilitators are knowledgeable, compassionate and professional.
Truly an amazing experience with an added gift to Self, with Self Love and care.
Thank you for creating a sacred and safe space for our Divine Feminine Empowerment.
In Gratitude and Appreciation for all that is possible. Keep on Radiating your authentic essence.

Valia Radiant Hearts

The retreat has literally changed my life. It deeply changed my perception of myself and the world. My perception of self love, self adoration, and self respect. The food and accommodation was purely magical, which allowed for me to JUST BE! I felt loved and supported, and realized I AM NOT ALONE. I met women from such different backgrounds, yet we all were going through and having to heal such similar hurts. I learnt so much about loving my body and NOT feeling ashamed or guilty for the pleasure that is always been regarded as wrong or evil or bad. Ridwana and Tara held me and the space so graciously and with such respect. It was the best decision of my life to follow my intuition and say yes to this retreat, and treat my body and mind to an awakening on another level.

Zai

Tara has helped me better understand myself at the core of Tantric practice. Her warmth and compassionate care, have provided me with the strength to surrender and give myself fully every day. Her gentle presence nourished me with clarity and purpose about my life, and how to carry myself in all my relationships. She's a highly magnetic being, who is full of love, grace and patience that will strip away the false layers we all hide behind. She is a true teacher, and my gratitude for having learned through her continues to grow as I walk the path.

Cyrus 

Thank you for your gentle encouragement, for touching and holding my vulnerable heart with such care and for revealing the depth of your graceful beauty. I am deeply touched and wholehearted gratitude for our unfolding journey. Thank you for your gentleness, for meeting and holding my vulnerability so gently, gracefully - I honour you. You are an immensely beautiful loving gift unto the world🙏🏼  

Shirene

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