Tantra
Tantra is an ancient spiritual tradition originating in India that encompasses the whole person, including the physical body. Unlike other major spiritual traditions, which focus primarily on the mind or the soul, Tantra integrates the body. It serves as a channel for reconnecting with a deeper self and, beyond that, with the universe.
Instead of being denied, suppressed, or even considered taboo, this sacred body—which springs directly from life—will be listened to and embraced in all its aspects and with all its energies. This approach has inspired and sustained me for years.
Who am I?
I’ve been a professional massage therapist for about twenty years, and I first came to Tantra as part of a personal journey. Since life had thrown me for a loop many times, I felt the need to rebuild myself and restore my body and my inner space.
I took classes in meditation and Tibetan Buddhism for three years; it was very enriching and helped me find inner peace. However, I realized that this focus on the mind and spirit was disconnecting me from my body, and I felt as though I were missing an essential part of myself.
I then turned to Tantra, which I discovered through numerous workshops (about twenty 4-day workshops so far), reading, and meetings.
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Among these various training programs and experiences, I’d like to mention and thank Jacques Lucas, who taught me so much through his wonderful Men’s Tantra workshop (I now have the pleasure of assisting him during these workshops) as well as in mixed-gender Tantra. Eric Langaret also taught me a great deal about Tantra through his very comprehensive program at Alpha Tantra.
As for Stéphane Dupré, he helped me expand my knowledge, particularly through his approach to touch during his men-only workshops held in an idyllic setting. I’ve had many other wonderful training experiences and met some amazing people along my tantric journey (Jacques Pézier, Christian Krumb, Jacques Ferber, Nathalie Vieyra, Agnès Desnos…), and most recently, Guillaume Douceré, whom I was delighted to reconnect with.
More recently, I had the pleasure of studying Tao Massage with Virginie Menneteau and Joseph Gena, which has rounded out my range of approaches.
Discovering this magnificent spirituality has allowed me to be much more in tune with myself and to embrace all aspects of who I am without denying any part of myself. The body is sacred and divine; it is our embodiment, and it is through it that we connect with the universe.
It wasn’t until after two years of practice that I began offering this particular approach to certain clients with whom I sensed a specific need or an affinity. Over time, I’ve worked with many clients—men and women alike—each with their own story, specific needs, blockages, and aspirations; so many intense and magnificent discoveries that unfold endlessly. Each session is unique and can take a thousand and one different directions depending on what the body and the essence need to express or what they are ready to experience.
I continue to take courses, both for my own personal growth and to broaden my knowledge, so that I can offer an ever-wider range of options to best meet everyone’s needs.
Massages
Personalized Tantric Massage
A journey toward relaxation and letting go…
Tantric massage aims to help you (re)connect with your body, your emotions, your energies, and your essence. It allows for expression, awakening, and healing beyond blockages, unspoken feelings, and wounds.
Massage for Women or Men. We’ll be focusing on and reconnecting with your inner self, so there are no restrictions other than being of legal age.
Over the years, I have trained in various forms of Tantric massage, including Kashmiri massage, intuitive massage, body armor massage, and Tao massage… I draw from this wide range of techniques to tailor your massage to your specific requests, your body (energies, blockages, needs), and your personal history…
Who is it for?
Anyone who wishes to embark on this journey of reconnecting with themselves.
People with visible or invisible disabilities are welcome.
Single session
Duration : 1h30 – 130€
This session includes not only the massage but also various discussions, exercises, and rituals that support this process.
Double session
Duration : 3h – 260€
This longer session allows for a slower, more gradual approach, helping you embrace these new experiences more gently and mindfully.
It helps anchor the benefits and your inner connection more deeply, bringing you into greater harmony with yourself.
It includes massage as well as various discussions, exercises, and rituals that support this process.
Individual Tantric Coaching
Mind-Body Healing Through Tantra
Here, the goal and approach are different: providing support in response to a personal issue or a specific quest. Each journey is unique, tailored to each person’s needs and circumstances. Respect, safety, and active listening form a supportive framework within which to move forward at one’s own pace.
My tools :
- Active Listening: Listening Beyond Words, Embracing Emotions, Feelings, and Sensations
- Tantra: The Many Ways to Listen to / Hear the Body, Emotions, and Parts of Oneself
- Massages: helping the body accept things as they are, promoting relaxation
- Meditation: calming the mind, inviting it to return to its proper place so as to make room for other aspects of oneself
- Breathing: The Essential Guiding Principle
I’ll guide you with the utmost care and attention: helping you establish or reestablish a fluid and balanced connection with yourself (your body, your feelings, your energy, your emotions) and, if desired, with others.
To feel and embrace one’s sensations and emotions, restore a positive view of oneself and others, (re)connect with one’s entire body, and strive for inner harmony.
Who is it for?
Anyone who wishes to explore their connection to themselves.
People with visible or invisible disabilities are welcome.
Single session
Duration : 1h30 – 130€
This session includes not only the massage but also various discussions, exercises, and rituals that support this process.
Double session
Duration : 3h – 260€
This longer session allows for a slower, more gradual approach, helping you embrace these new experiences more gently and mindfully.
It helps anchor the benefits and your inner connection more deeply, bringing you into greater harmony with yourself.
It includes massage as well as various discussions, exercises, and rituals that support this process.
Videocall Support
Duration : 1h30 – 80€
Depending on the type of session, the distance, or specific needs, sessions can be conducted via videoconference using Zoom, WhatsApp, or Signal.
Tantric Coaching for Couples
To initiate a new encounter—one that is broader, more subtle, and more fulfilling.
It can sometimes be difficult to have a harmonious and fulfilling relationship as a couple, particularly when it comes to physical touch and our relationship with the body (our own and/or our partner’s). This stems from various blockages, habits, or ingrained patterns that tend to deny the beauty and sacredness of the body.
The goal is to help the couple discover a different way of interacting: to enter into a sacred, vibrant, and harmonious relationship where they are more attuned to themselves and to each other. To initiate a new, deeper, and more open connection—free from expectations, “shoulds,” or demands.
Single session
Duration: 1h30 – 130€
This session may include massage, various forms of interaction, exercises, or rituals that support this approach. Each case is unique and calls for a personalized approach that respects each individual.
Double session
Duration : 3h – 260€
This longer session allows for a slower, more gradual approach to better integrate these new energies.
It helps anchor a balanced and radiant state of being more permanently, one that is increasingly in harmony with your true self.
This session may include massage, various discussions, exercises, or rituals that support this process. Each case is unique and calls for a customized approach that respects each individual.
Tantra Workshops and Courses
The Tantric approach is as natural and innate as can be; yet most people feel the need to reconnect with it, to restore their energy and their connections to themselves and others.
Tantra, the most embodied form of spirituality, aims to allow Life (the Divine) to unfold from each of our centers (chakras), from every particle of our being.
This approach cultivates beauty, vitality, and spontaneous inner light, allowing each person to shine fully—both within and without.
One of the main goals of Tantra practice is to defuse, pacify, and transcend the conditioning that all too often cuts us off from our bodies, our natural impulses, and our emotions…
It’s a long-term journey to honor ourselves more and more, to discover and embrace ourselves ever more fully!
As I like to say: (re)become the best version of yourself.
It is to nurture and shed light on this journey that I lead Tantra workshops and Roots retreats… to fully reconnect with the Divine, the Sacred, and the magnificent Life inherent in each of us.
Each workshop is different, and there is no set order or level; with diverse themes and approaches, the goal is a healthy and direct reconnection with oneself, one’s body, one’s emotions, and one’s truth—and, at the same time, a reconnection with others. To provide a safe space of freedom to go beyond habits, conventions, and rigid patterns.
Respect remains the guiding principle, which is why we conduct a rigorous selection process for participants and maintain a clearly defined framework—for which I am responsible.
Please contact me to sign up for a workshop and schedule a brief interview to assess your posture and expectations and confirm your participation.
Duration : 3h30 – Price : 50€/pers.
These are small groups: 6 to 10 people maximum.
So it’s essential to make a reservation as soon as possible!
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Workshop & Class Schedules
One-on-one workshops
- When the time is right for you
- 2h / 130€
- in La Turbie (06) or at home
Introductory and practical Tantra journeys designed for safe exploration.
Thanks to years of group workshops and training sessions, and the valuable feedback I’ve received over time, I came up with the idea of offering you these individual initiatory adventures. These one-on-one sessions offer many benefits:
- the right time for you: it’s up to you to choose the best time
- The right place for you: whether it’s at my studio in La Turbie or at your home
- The right pace for you: Everyone is different, and moving at your own pace is essential to avoid forcing anything and to encourage openness and letting go.
- The right fit for you: I tailor the session on the spot based on who you are, your experiences, and your needs
- Safety and complete respect: I’ll be there to support you and ensure your safety every step of the way
The introduction to and practice of Tantra often take the form of group workshops or seminars, but originally this knowledge was passed down in person.
Individual Workshops Offered
– Shedding the shell: letting go of the restrictive armor to feel lighter and more alive
– Homme Sweet Homme: (Re)connecting with a man’s gentleness
– Realigning one’s Masculine and Feminine aspects: a central axis to restore and strengthen for a solid and serene grounding
– Inner security: regaining unity by “putting the pieces back together” and restoring the whole body
– Dissolving the Ego / Deconstructing Lego: calming the mind, restoring it to its proper place in harmony with the body, emotions…
More workshops are coming up, feel free to check back often for new offerings.
– Customized: Please feel free to contact me with a theme or issue you’d like to explore through Tantra. I’d be delighted to create a customized one-on-one workshop tailored to your needs.
These individual workshops can complement and reinforce therapeutic work, but they are by no means a substitute for it.
Group Workshops
- Friday, March 28, 2025
- 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in La Turbie (06)
Inspiration
Inspiration… That space that extends beyond the familiar, beyond the well-trodden… That place where the heart opens, where creativity is born, where momentum brings life. In my experience, once I’ve regained my center and established inner balance, doors open on their own, allowing the richness of the outside world—and of others—to inspire and awaken my inner world.
A step-by-step program will guide us through this exploration together, as always, in an environment that fosters respect, active listening, and a sense of safety.😊
FAQ
Is this a sexual massage?
No, Tantric Massage is not a sexual massage; it is a massage of the entire body and the whole being, which may include the sexual areas, but its focus allows one to integrate and transcend sexual energies and go beyond them.
For the joy of reconnecting with oneself, of reuniting with oneself, of feeling whole.
Do you have to be naked for the massage?
The goal is to embrace the whole person, without pretense or falsehood. To tend to the very essence of the person without neglecting or ignoring any part of the body. The entire body is beautiful, and the entire body deserves attention and care.
However, this is of course not an obligation; each person’s pace and needs are respected.
Unless otherwise requested, the massage therapist is also naked to ensure fairness and to foster a genuine, open, and complete connection.
Why is the price so high?
The massage therapist is deeply involved in Tantric massage, both physically and emotionally. Unlike other types of massage, where there is a certain distance and various barriers, here the interaction is at its peak.
The impact on energy levels is significant, which limits the number of massages and requires preparation and recovery time.
If you have a genuine need but limited financial resources, let’s talk about it.
What is the difference between a Tantra Workshop and a Tantric Massage session?
Although both are forms of Tantra, they are very different.
In a Tantra workshop, you’ll be part of a group and invited to explore various aspects with the other participants: self-image and the image of others, connecting with and listening to your own body and that of others, breathing, meditation, energy work, touch… Each workshop is different and offers a wide variety of approaches and connections. It’s a multifaceted journey of discovery that’s unique to each person. I facilitate the process and ensure a safe environment, but you work with one another.
During a Tantric Massage session, on the other hand, I am there to create and provide your treatment. I am fully attentive, in close contact with you, sensing your needs, determining the best way to meet them, and putting my knowledge and energy to work for this personalized treatment.
Is the process always the same?
No. Although there are various pre-established protocols, postures, and different types of touch, it is the subtle reactions and what the body chooses to express—or not—that will guide the session. I practice Kashmiri tantric massage (Red Tantra) as well as White Tantra and even energy work—all practices and knowledge from which I draw. Each session is a new experience connected to who the person is in that very moment and what they want or need to express, feel, or integrate.
Are these massages intended for heterosexuals? For homosexuals? For women? For men?
To everyone! This is meant for the rich and whole human being, regardless of orientation or preferences. The goal is to reconnect far beyond these considerations, to embrace all of one’s masculine and feminine aspects, and to restore unity.
Why isn't the full address listed?
Before welcoming someone for a treatment or workshop, I need to communicate with them in person to make sure their needs align with what I offer. Furthermore, I absolutely do not want anyone to show up unannounced and interrupt a treatment—this is a safe space.
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I welcome you to my wellness retreat in La Turbie: a serene atmosphere, energies, and surroundings that are ideal for these practices.
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15 minutes from Monaco / 20 minutes from Nice; address and map provided once contact is made.
Also available at your home for an additional fee of €35 within the Monaco and Nice area; for locations beyond that, please contact me. - Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; evening appointments available for an additional fee.
- To contact me directly by phone or text message: Benoît Guillaud 06 62 22 34 52
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