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.

 

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 Study Across Traditions

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Tashi’s training is grounded in direct experience and transmission across multiple traditions.

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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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Integration Into Her Work

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Tashi’s work brings together tantric bodywork within Neo-Tantra and traditional tantric healing transmitted through tantric lineage. Tantra massage belongs to Neo-Tantra — a modern, body-based approach focused on touch, awareness, and experience.

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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.

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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 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

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It is important to understand that tantra massage belongs to Neo-Tantra, which is distinct from traditional 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

• 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 taking about 10% of the philosophy of Tantra

• focused on the body, connection, and experience

• more accessible to everyday person

• Bodywork based on embodiment and sexuality 

• Modern holistic techniques to personal relationships mainly romantic and to the self 

 

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 her Tantra lineage.

 

This combination — of body-based experience and authentic tantric healing — is not commonly found in standard tantra massage practices. If you are interested in Traditional Tantric healing with Tashi, please let her know.

 

A Living Practice

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

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Her work is shaped by:

• ongoing study and teachings by Gurus, Rinpoches and Masters

• personal tantric practice (sadhana)

• direct experience within traditional lineages

 

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