What Is Tantra and Do You Want A Tantric Coach?
Tantra has become a compelling practice, spirituality, mindset, healing modality, and so much more.
And for good reason; it’s non-dual.
What that means is there isn’t a hierarchy between body and mind.
Most religions and spiritualities are about escaping the sin and dirtiness of being human and being in a human body.
Tantra experiences the body as sacred, wise, and beautiful, just as it does the mind and all facets and expressions of life.
Learning and practicing Tantra is for people who want to explore how:
• You are not only your mind
• You are not only your emotions
• Presence and consciousness are always within you
People may also come to Tantra desiring to experience and embody their perfection, wholeness, and uniqueness exactly as they are.
More specifically, if we wanted to work together, we might explore mindset, intention, breath, sound, movement, and energy through a variety of exercises, practices, and conversations.
In Zoom sessions together, we start “cold” experiencing these as guided meditations.
Then I invite you in between sessions to explore them with sensations of turn-on or pleasure, and they can also be explored with self-pleasure or masturbation and partnered sex.
It is the Neo-Tantra focus around sex and sexuality that many of us have heard about.
Though Classical Tantra gave birth to Buddhism, so you’ll find many of the curious, try-it-on-for-yourself guidelines that may be familiar from Buddhism also alive within Tantra.
Like Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, and many different sects and interpretations of Tantra exist.
Capitalism has gotten ahold of Tantra and appropriated many of the teachings and applications, similar to yoga and many, many other wisdom traditions.
What I’ve learned and practiced I’ve learned from this commodification, and I am in community and conversation to learn the lineage and roots systemically withheld from the teachers from whom I’ve learned.
Powerful practices for awakening, empowerment, liberations, and freedom can be found and deeply experienced within Tantra.
Daniela Stevens ∙ Sex & Intimacy Coach
Daniela Stevens (she/they) is a trauma informed, certified Tantric Sex Coach as well as Sex & Intimacy Coach for couples and individuals as well as a speaker and writer practicing somatic abolitionism and appropriated tantra.
Named one of the ten best Sex and Intimacy Coaches of 2023 by DatingAdvice.com, she supports people to experience more sex and deeper connection with themselves and with their partner(s) without pushing before their body is ready, feeling weak, or performing.
With over twenty-four years of experience coaching people one-on-one and teaching in college classrooms and wellness spaces, she curates exercises and practices steeped in somatic attachment theory, neuroscience, embodied conflict resolution, trauma resolution, and modern psychology and inspired by ancient tantric and taoist wisdom.
Daniela is a queer cisgendered woman raced as white born in the Bay Area as well as a biological and transnational adoptive parent of three.
She lives and works as an uninvited guest on occupied Ohlone land that’s currently known as San Jose, California in the United States.
For her, nothing is more important than connection.
