Embodied practices
As a result of trauma, most people feel dissociated and lose their connection with their bodies. In the body, there are areas of numbness, pain and pleasure. The first step is to allow the person to become aware of the places of their body that are still frozen or numb. When the person feels comfortable in their body, they develop the capacity to be fully present to physical experiences, develop healthy sexuality and the ability to have orgasm.
Touch
Touch is an important part of life, in fact we need it to survive! Touch is very nurturing, healthy and loving. When we learn to touch with unconditional love and healing intention, we start to heal the deeper parts of ourselves that have been waiting for this level of nurturing communication. Touch is the most direct way to bring connection, love and flow to disconnected areas of the body.
Tantric bodywork
Trauma is reflected as areas of numbness, pain and tension in the body. Tantric bodywork enables the trauma to come up and be released safely. Bodywork is important to complete the trauma response. Through safe touch, we work directly with the trauma. Yoni/lingam is massaged to evoke sexual energies which is very healing. Sexual energies are powerful energies that are spread all over the body to release trauma and reawaken every cell.
De-armouring
The armour is a result of blockages created by trauma, tension, thought-patterns and different experiences throughout life. This armour can hinder life-force from flowing freely throughout the body. It hardens and desensitizes the physical body. The process of de-armouring is a way to open up and release this armour. Gentle, yet deep, pressure is put on various points on the body including yoni/lingam to release physical, emotional and mental tensions.
Processing the trauma as it arises
During the session, the client will be helped to notice sensations in the body to release the trauma that has been trapped. Whatever is ready to be released during the session will come up.
Empowerment
Because of trauma, clients experience a reduction of life force, no interests in anything, social withdrawal, sense of meaningless, helplessness and hopelessness. By providing clients with mirroring and psycho-education - information they can be used to inform others - they gain a sense of control and involvement in their healing process.
Connect to body and its sensations
During tantric healing sessions we go through the senses and the body sensations to heal trauma. Whether it’s a butterfly in your stomach or a knot in your gut, a lump in your throat or a tightness in your chest, tension in your shoulders or heart pounding in your chest, whatever the feelings are, they are a reaction of the body to our surroundng environment.
Unconditional love
Loving presence and undived attention is sometimes all that is required to make the clients feel safe to complete their trauma.
Self care
Since traumatised people lose connection with themselves, they very rarely look after themselves. They may feel resistance around practising self-care. Self care practices like grounding, meditation, exercise, breathing, movement build greater resilience by daily practice.
Clients are supported in completing their trauma so that they feel worthy, accepted, confident, strong and trusted and can self-regulate in times of stress.
Connection
Because trauma led to a disconnections in the physical body, in life, in Self and in others and universe, completing the trauma through tantric healing session leads to deeper connection, purpose and meaning in life.
Tantric healing is transformational as it can bring back connection to themselves, others, bodies and universe. Trauma can be resolved. If you have experienced trauma, you don’t have to live with it in your body or impacting your daily life forever. There is hope. By finding a trauma-informed therapist and embracing the full scope mind/body healing, you will be guided along the path towards resolving and releasing the trauma and living a life where you no longer feel stuck.
Source: Neemisha
