What is Tantra?
For me, tantra is a pathway towards greater awareness and love using embodied practices. These include strong sensations, breath and movement but also subtle energies and feelings. Tantra can challenge - assumptions, old patterns - but it's also positive and life-affirming, Tantra can build connections, outwardly, with each other and inwardly, into our truer, freer selves. Not everyone feels drawn to tantra - though I personally feel it has much to offer to anyone. But tantra might be worth investigating if you are open to different ways of looking at life or breaking free from unhelpful patterns. Tantra is not all about sex, yet it is in part about sex - but also our wider lives, about celebrations and addressing negativities.
What happens at a session?
All Tantric Meetings for Men start with sharing our names and checking in with safety, consent and confidentiality. We’ll then talk briefly about the theme and intentions. You will be invited to gently move into the practices, including touch and undressing. You are likely to swap partners through the session, taking turns to give and receive loving and mindful touch.
What to bring:
Above all, please bring an open and generous heart. But also, a sheet (ideally a flat single but anything you'd be ok to lie on), a towel and perhaps a water bottle. You might also want a sarong or similar.
Understandings.
Tantric Meetings for Men are for any male-identifying person aged 18 or above who is open to connecting with other men through loving touch. All bodies and sexualities are welcome.
Ideally you should be able to kneel to give massage, but a massage table will be available if you will need to stand to massage. Please contact me if mobility may be an issue for you.
All the practices are offered as invitations. Consent is essential at all times. This means never doing anything you don’t want to do. It’s fine to ask to stop or say ‘No’, at any time - if you feel uncomfortable giving or receiving something, you might suggest an alternative - like a touch on the arm instead of on the face. If you think the man you are working with isn't comfortable, ask if he's ok.
While tantra celebrates sexual energies, Tantric Meetings for Men are not spaces for sexual acts involving penetration. You are asked to stay within the boundaries and taught practices of the session.
You are asked to respect each other’s confidentiality.
Any questions? For any questions abut the event, bookings or payments, please call/text/WhatsApp Steve on 07813 371006, message through OutSavvy or email Steve.hopker@gmail.com