Tashi- Tantric Healing Practitioner Amsterdam

The Beginning — India and Initiation into Tantra

Tashi’s journey into Tantra began in India, where she was introduced into Tantra and received initiation from her Indian teacher during Spring Navaratri in 2014. She returned the following year to deepen her studies and continue her training.

Later in the Autumn of 2014, through an unexpected encounter, she met a Buddhist nun who invited her to attend a White Tara initiation with a Tibetan lama — an experience that opened the door to Vajrayana (Tibetan Tantra) and marked the beginning of her connection to Tibetan Buddhist practice.

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Foundation in Tibetan Buddhist Practice

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Following this introduction, Tashi spent over ten years engaged in Tibetan Buddhist practice at Tashi Chöling Monastery in Brandenburg, Germany, within the Gelugpa tradition.

During this time, she formally took refuge, received Bodhisattva vows, and undertook Pratimoksha vows through a formal ceremonial initiation, maintaining ongoing practice within a structured and disciplined environment.

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This long-term immersion established a strong foundation in Vajrayana practice, shaping her understanding of discipline, ethics, and the deeper structure of tantric training.

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Training in Vajrayana (Tibetan Tantra)

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Tashi’s path continued to develop within Vajrayana (Tibetan Tantra), where she has received over 50 tantric empowerments from various Rinpoches, deepening her understanding of the subtle body, mantra, and ritual practice.

Her studies include:

• empowerments within the Drikung Kagyu lineage

• teachings from other Kagyu lineages

• participation in Nyingma pujas and practices

In 2025, she attended the Great Tantra Teachings in Dehradun, receiving empowerment from His Holiness Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, as well as the Hevajra Empowerment in Durbuk, Ladakh.

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As His Holiness is currently in long-term retreat, Tashi continues her studies across lineages, maintaining an active and evolving connection to Vajrayana practice within the Drikung Kagyu lineage, as well as other Kagyu and Nyingma traditions.

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Ongoing Tantric Bodywork Study Across Traditions

Tashi’s training is grounded in direct experience and transmission across multiple traditions, with a strong focus on the development of tantric bodywork as a refined and applied practice.

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Around this same period, she continued her development through more focused, one-on-one study, including time spent in Kathmandu, where she worked closely with practitioners to deepen her understanding of applied tantric methods.

This phase of her training was specifically oriented toward healing techniques for tantric bodywork, allowing her to bring traditional knowledge into direct application within her work with clients.

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She has learned through close guidance, including:

• subtle body techniques in India from a Kulavadhuta practitioner — a tantric adept who works beyond conventional structures, engaging directly with energy, consciousness, and transformation

• traditional blessing methods from Vajracharyas in Kathmandu — highly trained ritual masters within the Newar Vajrayana tradition, known for preserving and transmitting precise tantric practices and ceremonial knowledge

• mantra practices and oral transmissions from Tibetan Rinpoches — teachings passed directly from teacher to student, maintaining the integrity and continuity of the lineage

• received diksha (initiation) into a Mahavidya mantra within the Hindu Tantric tradition, supported by a dedicated puja as part of the transmission

These teachings are received through direct transmission rather than intellectual study, preserving the depth, precision, and authenticity of tantric lineage.

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This depth of training directly supports the quality, precision, and effectiveness of her tantric bodywork, allowing it to be both grounded in tradition and applied in a modern context.

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Integration Into Her Work

Tashi’s work brings together tantric bodywork within Neo-Tantra and traditional tantric healing transmitted through tantric lineage.

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Tantra massage belongs to Neo-Tantra — a modern, body-based approach focused on touch, awareness, and experience.

Alongside this, Tashi also works with traditional tantric healing, rooted in disciplined practice, initiation, and direct transmission.

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These are not interpretations — they are authentic methods received through lineage. Tantric methods are exact and structured, working with the subtle body, mantra, and energetic system.

Where appropriate, her work may include:

• the use of secret mantra (received through authentic initiation)

• awareness of the subtle body and its energy channels

• the placement or tracing of seed syllables connected to specific deities

• blessing-based techniques transmitted through Tantric lineage

These methods are applied with precision and respect for their original context. They are not performed as formal ritual practice, but are applied within the session in a way that maintains their integrity while remaining appropriate to the context of tantric bodywork.

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Tantra and Neo-Tantra — Understanding the Difference

It is important to understand that tantra massage belongs to Neo-Tantra, which is completely different from the real Tantra as a spiritual path.

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Traditional Tantra (Vajrayana (Tibetan Tantra) and Hindu Tantra) is:

• a structured and disciplined spiritual system

• based on initiation, lineage, and direct transmission from a Guru or Master

• focused on transformation, healing, and inner awareness

• working with mantra, meditation, ritual, and the subtle body

Neo-Tantra, which includes tantra massage, is:

• a modern adaptation ( takes about 10% of the real Tantric philosophy)

• focused on the body, connection, and sensual experience

• more accessible to the everyday person

• focused on embodiment, sexuality and personal relationships

Tashi’s work exists at the meeting point of these two worlds.Through her sessions, she offers tantric bodywork within Neo-Tantra, while also working with traditional tantric healing transmitted through lineage.

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This combination — of body-based experience and authentic tantric healing — is not commonly found in standard tantra massage practices. Traditional Tantra is ultimately a path of transformation and healing — not merely experience.

A Living Practice

Tantra is not separate from Tashi’s life — it is something she practices daily.

Her work is shaped by:

• ongoing study and teachings

• personal tantric practice (sadhana)

• direct experience within traditional lineages

This allows her to bring a grounded, disciplined, and deeply informed presence into every Tantric Bodywork session.

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