I have begun to change the way I do breathwork in a tantric massage session, at least at the start. In the West, we tend to breathe very poorly. Our lives are so busy, stressful, effortful and over-peopled that our natural breath has become increasingly distorted. We overbreathe and underbreathe, we don't know whether we should breathe through the nose or the mouth, we breathe up in the chest when everyone tells us we should belly breathe but that often feels so unnatural and stressful we...

In modern Western culture, erectile dysfunction is often treated as a purely mechanical problem — something broken that must be fixed as quickly as possible. But within some schools of tantric philosophy, sexual difficulty can be viewed very differently. Rather than seeing the body as failing, tantra invites us to ask whether the body may be resisting stress, pressure, emotional disconnection, or an unhealthy relationship with sexuality itself. This perspective should not replace medical...

In many traditions of Tantra—especially those connected to meditative sexuality and energy practices—imagination is considered a powerful tool for shaping arousal, emotional connection, and altered states of awareness. You might already be familiar with the finding on imagery from the world of athletics – that practising a race or a skill in the mind through visualisation and connecting that visualisation with a feeling (for example the elation you feel at winning a race) enhances...