Tantric Massage in London: What to Expect

Tantric is the slowest thing on our service list and the one people most often book expecting something else. It is not a technique so much as a pace, and the difference between a good one and a disappointing one is almost always whether the person booking understood that before they picked up the phone.

What tantric massage actually is

A full body massage built around breath and unhurried attention rather than pressure. The hands move slowly, the pauses are deliberate, and nothing is working towards a finish on a timetable.

The name comes from tantra, a set of practices from the Indian subcontinent concerned with presence and with treating the body as something to be attended to rather than processed. What is offered in London is a long way from any of that in a religious sense, and anybody claiming otherwise is selling you a story. What survives is the pace, and the pace is genuinely the point.

If you have had a lot of massages and found them mechanical, this is the one that tends to surprise people.

What happens in one

It begins slowly and it stays slow. Expect warm oil, low light and long strokes covering the whole body rather than working a knot out of a shoulder.

Breathing is part of it and you will be asked to slow yours down. That sounds like a flourish and it is not: the reason an unhurried massage works at all is that the person receiving it stops rushing, and most people arrive at a booking still moving at the speed of the street outside.

There is no set sequence. A tantric massage from one escort will not be the same as another’s, which is why the forty six on our books who offer it is a shorter list than the ninety four who list erotic massage generally.

Ninety minutes, not an hour

The single most useful thing on this page.

An hour of tantric means the slow part gets cut, and the slow part is what you came for. Ninety minutes is the floor and two hours is where it actually works. If the budget only stretches to an hour, book a different kind of massage and enjoy it rather than book this one and feel rushed.

How it differs from the others we list

Nuru is the opposite in temperament: gel, full body contact, and considerably more intense. Thirty three offer it.

Body to body uses oil and her whole body rather than hands alone. Warmer than tantric, quicker, less about breath. Seventy eight offer it.

Erotic massage is the broad heading the rest sit under, and nearly everyone on our books lists it.

Prostate massage is listed separately again, offered by sixty six, and is not included in a tantric booking unless it is arranged.

Our guide to erotic massage in London puts them side by side if you are choosing.

Where in London

Incall suits it better. Tantric needs a warm room, somewhere to lie flat properly, and no reason to hurry, and a hotel room booked for the night rarely feels like that.

The escorts who offer it cluster where the incall flats are: Mayfair, Marylebone, Knightsbridge and Bayswater. Outcall is available and works fine in a decent hotel suite, though it will run at the upper end of the outcall rate.

What it costs

Her ninety minute rate, with no tantric surcharge. Since ninety minutes is the sensible length, budget from that figure rather than the hourly one. What a London booking costs explains what moves the number.

Rates well under the going rate for something advertised as tantric are worth a second look, for the reasons in spotting a fake listing.

What it is not

Two things worth saying plainly.

It is not a qualification. There is no register of tantric practitioners in the UK and no licence behind the word. What matters is whether she has done a lot of them, which is a question we can answer when you ring.

It is not a code for anything. What she offers is on her profile and a tantric booking adds nothing to it. Booking tantric and then asking for something not listed is the request that ends an evening early.

Booking one

Say tantric on the phone, say how long you want, and say whether you have had one before. That last one changes who we suggest more than anything else you could tell us.

See the escorts who offer tantric massage, or ring +44 20 7846 3480.