Preparing for your session (for the benefit of our  Male students). Spiritual, mental and physical preparation is a key component of Tantra. The experience will be greatly enhanced if you enter the session with an open heart, conscious awareness and an available body. Whether consciously or unconsciously, that preparation begins even before your scheduled appointment. New students in particular, should establish a clear intention for the impending Tantric session.  It’s important to remember that the path of Tantra is both both spiritual as well as sensual. Tantra explores our sexuality and sensuality as a conscious meditation. The act of setting your intention will create an opening for the session to unfold naturally and in harmony with the physical, erotic and cosmic energies contained within you. You will want to prepare your mind, body and spirit for the experience. For a first-time receiver, the act of opening all parts of your body – including the most sacred areas – to exploration and stimulation can be a life-changing experience.   The following techniques will help you create the quality of openness required to achieve the highest levels of sexual and spiritual fulfillment:   Anticipatory Contemplation Prior to your scheduled session you should spend a few moments each day in anticipatory, conscious contemplation of the experience. While in meditation, feel the presence of the goddess in your midst, opening your heart to the experience.  In a seated position and with your arms relaxed at your side, visualize the hand of your goddess gently resting upon various parts of your body, beginning with your back.  Allow the hand to then move to your naked buttocks.  As you become comfortable with that sensation, visualize your goddess placing a finger gently, yet firmly, upon your anus (the rosebud).  Remain with that image for at least two minutes, before moving to the next visualization. This time, visualize the hand of the receiver upon your lingam.  Again, sit with that image for a moment.  You may become sexually aroused, but resist the urge to move your arms from your side.  Remember that this is a visualization exercise.  Simply sit with the image as your spirit releases sexual blockages and opens to the sensual mysteries of the universe.   Chakra Balancing It can be also helpful to spend at least five to ten minutes each day releasing your Heart, Root and Sacral Chakras.  This exercise is best done nude in a standing position.  Begin by placing your left hand on your Heart Chakra allowing yourself to open to the love and intimacy.  Once your heart has released, place your right hand upon your Root Chakra (between the root of the lingam and anus).  Remain there for at least three minutes before moving your right hand to your lingam, awakening the Sacral Chakra, which addresses sexuality.  It is sometimes helpful to gently rock the lingam as you awaken this chakra.  Allow your hand to remain there for at least five minutes.  As with the visualization exercise, you might find yourself sexually aroused.  Welcome the arousal and continue to firmly clasp your genitals, but resist the urge to manipulate the lingam.  Remember, the goal is not to provoke orgasm, but rather to awaken the Chakra and move the energy through your body.   Physical Preparation  Many men benefit from practicing their PC muscle (for men) exercises. These exercises strengthen and heighten sensitivity of the lingam as well as the anus.    Mental Preparation It is quite natural for the first-time receiver to experience nervousness prior to the session.  Know that this nervousness will pass once you enter our sacred space.  Perhaps the most important final step you will take in preparation will occur the moment before you knock on the door. Pause, close your eyes, and take three cleansing breaths. Then knock.  When the door opens, gaze into the eyes of the goddess greeting you, knowing that the experience you are about to receive will bring you to new levels of physical, sexual, emotional and spiritual awakening.  It will be an experience you will not forget.