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24 · Jordaan
01 massage · Amsterdam
In Amsterdam, to your room.
For one of you, for both of you side by side, or with both therapists on one of you, brought to the room you are staying in at whatever hour you write.
02 The technique
Tantra came out of the Indian tantric tradition as a practice run on breath rather than pressure, and it is the technique on this menu that changes most when two people take it at the same time. Long unbroken strokes, no destination, nothing timed to a sequence. Couples usually book it in parallel, one therapist each; taken alone it is the same hour with one breath in the room instead of two.
Any technique on the repertoire can be worked by one therapist moving between you or by a pair; the pair costs exactly twice as much hour for hour, and her own profile carries the whole table, the night included.
Tantra is a body-centred strand of Indian religious practice, visible in Hindu and Buddhist texts from around the sixth century, in which breath and attention are the working material rather than muscle. The massage carrying the name today is a twentieth-century Western reading of it, far narrower than the tradition, but honest about the two things it borrowed: the breath, and the refusal to hurry.
Breath sets the pace and everything else follows it. The therapist matches your rate first, then slows their own by a fraction and lets you come along, which is most of the method and takes about ten minutes to do anything. Strokes run head to foot without stopping where one muscle ends, so the hour has no parts to it. With two of you in the room there are two rates to follow and the pair take one each; the gap between them usually closes on its own around the middle, and nobody tries to close it sooner.
It opens slowly, hands resting before they move, your breathing matched to the therapist's rather than the other way around. The strokes run the whole length of the body without stopping at whichever muscle they cross, so the hour reads as continuous rather than divided into parts. Two people in one room will settle at different rates, often several minutes apart, and the therapists let that happen instead of correcting it. Nothing is steered toward an end point, which is why the session tends to feel longer than the clock says.
Couples who arrive at different speeds and would rather not be put on one clock, and anyone who books massage and finds their head still running at the end of it.
A settling that goes deeper than muscle, most people describe it afterwards as having been put down rather than worked on. Couples tend to leave quieter with each other than they arrived.
03 The visit
Three in the morning costs what three in the afternoon costs, and there is no travel fee anywhere inside the ring.
To your hotel room, serviced apartment or private flat, at any hour of the day or night.
Card, crypto, or cash in euro, the balance settled in the room on arrival, with any other major currency at a sum confirmed in the thread first.
Forty to sixty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled. Schiphol airport hotels by arrangement.
Related
If you are choosing between formats, these sit closest to Tantra Massage on the repertoire: Sensual Massage.
04 Before you write
If yours is not here, ask it in the thread when you book.
No. Each of you is matched to your own therapist rather than to the other, and the two rates in the room stay separate for as long as they want to. They tend to drift together somewhere around the middle without anyone arranging it, which is worth more than trying for it at the start.
It is the one session here where an hour is genuinely short. The settling takes ten minutes at least, and the hour has barely opened out before it closes. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum, three hours is where it sits best, and with a single therapist it can also run as an overnight.
Eat lightly, and leave nothing scheduled after. Beyond that, arrive without a plan for it, the session has no destination in it, and the people who get least from it are the ones checking their progress against one.
Yes, in two shapes. Both therapists can work on one of you, or each of you can have your own; the second shape counts twice as many people receiving and costs twice the first, hour for hour and across the night alike.
The balance, on arrival: card, crypto or euro cash, or another major currency at a figure written down beforehand. Half the fee confirms a pair, an overnight or a booking made ahead; the balance is paid on arrival, and there is no booking fee.
05 Who works it
24 · Jordaan
26 · Oud-Zuid
23 · Amsterdam Centrum
27 · De Pijp
25 · Jordaan
22 · Amsterdam Centrum
28 · Oud-Zuid
24 · Amsterdam Centrum
29 · De Pijp
26 · Oud-Zuid
23 · Jordaan
25 · Amsterdam Centrum
Amsterdam, 24/7
Say Tantra Massage in the first message, with how long you would like. Confirmed in about ten minutes.