Tantra Levels

Tantra Massage Levels of Experience

At the Temple of Bliss, we devote ourselves to creating an experience that honors your deepest hopes, desires, and intentions. We invite you to arrive in full surrender; open, receptive, and ready to receive the gifts of the Goddess.

As you are called to choose your Temple healer, we encourage you to explore their bio and lineage, including their tantra training, level of mastery, experience, and related certifications. This page describes how each practitioner’s Tantra Level within the Temple of Bliss is consciously and reverently determined, based on the massage and tantra training criteria outlined below.

Bliss Level: New to Us. These are Tantra Massage Therapists going through our basic trainings & Temple orientation. Some are brand new to Tantra and some come loaded with previous trainings & work experience.

Tantra Level I/Freshman: CMT, Intuitive Touch, Basic Temple Tantra Massage Initiation, Some hands-on “SACRED TEMPLE BODYWORK - Kundalini Body of Bliss” experience.

*A newer dakini. Freshman Dakinis are in their first year with the Temple, sometimes 2nd year if they have minimal shifts.

Tantra Level II/Sophmore: CMT, Intuitive Touch, Basic Temple Tantra Massage Initiation, over a year of “SACRED TEMPLE BODYWORK - Kundalini Body of Bliss” & “TANTRIK RITUAL BODYWORK” experience with the Temple & positive reviews, + More Tantrik Studies, Temple Circles, Tantra Trainings, Bodywork workshops and/or 200-hour Shivakti Tantra Yoga Teacher certification.

*Sophmore Dakinis are generally in their second or third year with the temple; less time/years if they came to the Temple with lots of previous training credentials (like other 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certifications) & experience, sometimes more time/years.

Tantra Level III/Junior: CMT, Intuitive Touch, Basic Temple Tantra Massage Initiation, Lots of Hands-on “Kundalini Body of Bliss” & “Tantrik Ritual Bodywork” experience with the Temple & positive reviews, Advanced Bodywork skills, Multiple Temple Circles, Tantra Trainings, Bodywork workshops, Shamanic Studies and from the Holy Love Institute of Tantra Yoga: 200-hour Shivakti Tantra Yoga Teacher certification (required). Foundations of SACRED TEMPLE BODYWORK CERTIFICATION (required).

*Junior Dakinis are in their third or fourth year with the Temple; less time/years if they came to the Temple with lots of previous training credentials & experience, sometimes more time/years.

Advanced Tantrika/Teacher/Senior: CMT, Intuitive Touch, Basic Temple Tantra Massage Initiation, Years of Hands-on “Kundalini Body of Bliss” & “Tantrik Ritual Bodywork” experience with the Temple & positive reviews, Advanced Bodywork skills, Multiple Temple Circles, Tantra Trainings, Bodywork workshops, Shamanic Studies, Shamanic Ceremonies + multiple years of experience as a Tantrika, multiple Temple, Institute & outside trainings/workshops in tantra, leading Temple dakini initiations,  and from the Holy Love Institute of Tantra Yoga: 200-hour Shivakti Tantra Yoga Teacher certification (required). Foundations of SACRED TEMPLE BODYWORK CERTIFICATION (required). TANTRIK RITUAL BODYWORK CERTIFICATION (required).

*Advanced Tantrikas are Temple of Bliss Graduates & Holy Love Institute of Tantra Yoga Graduates. It is the highest Temple honorable badge to be "Senior Dakini / Advanced Tantrika Teacher". 

Tantra Embodied Illumination is our collective intention in the Temple of Bliss.

Ignis · Mens · Corpus

Fire · Mind · Body

In a Tantric vision, this cross is the awakened spine, the meeting place of earth and sky within the body. Ignis is the sacred fire at the root, the coiled serpent of Kundalini rising with desire for union. Mens is luminous awareness, the clear mind that receives the rising flame without fear. Corpus is the temple itself, the body as chalice, altar, and living prayer. When fire ascends, mind softens, and body opens, the rose blooms at the heart. The serpent no longer binds, it guards the nectar. The dove descends as grace while the flame rises as power. Fire awakens the mind. Mind blesses the body. Body becomes bliss. Temple of Bliss.