Tantra Resources

Tantra Resources for Healing

On this page you will find tantra resources for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, therapy, non-violent communication and more!

Please note: ALL of our students receive free counseling from Here2Talk Mental Health Services (more info can be found under the Black + Inclusive Therapists section)

Somatic Healing

Good Human Academy with Luana Rose

I’m a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Somatic Touch® Practitioner and Founder of Nervous System Regulation Made Simple. With helping 2000+ people in 32+ countries worldwide with a variety of mental, physical, emotional and relational problems I know you’re beyond worthy of feeling safe and at home in your body. With a clear roadmap I know you have what it takes to move your life forward in a way that truly excites you.

Black and Inclusive Therapists

Here2Talk Mental Health Services

(Free for students of IATE) Here2Talk connects students with mental health support when they need it. Through this program, all students – domestic or international – currently registered in a B.C. post-secondary institution have access to free, confidential counselling and community referral services, conveniently available 24/7 via app, phone and web. If you, your family or your community is impacted by racism, violence or discrimation contact Here2Talk for support.

Black Therapist List

Black Therapist List was created in 2020 by a black psychotherapist in Ontario. It is a growing directory of black therapists practicing in Canada of many different designations and expertise. It was created so that black people who are seeking mental health support could have one central hub to locate black therapists.

Call blackline

Helping the most-impacted folks through crisis, abuse, and mistreatment. One call at a time. BlackLine is a unique combination of professional staff, trained volunteers and collaborative partnerships to create innovative responses to pressing social needs and issues. Through an unapologetic Black, LGBTQ and Black Femme lens. Available in Canada and the U.S.

Healing in Colour

For BIPOC, finding a therapist who understands our lived experiences can feel next to impossible. Healing in Colour strives to make that search easier. We offer a directory of BIPOC therapists who are committed to supporting BIPOC in all our intersections. By helping to connect our community in this way, we aim to revitalize a legacy of healing, liberation work and resiliency practices that have been lost/taken.

Inclusive Therapists

Finding a therapist should not feel like a gamble. All people with all abilities in all bodies deserve equal access to identity affirming, culturally responsive care. We aim to make this process simpler and safer. We center the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We honor the full neurodiversity spectrum and advocate for mental health care accessibility for people with disabilities/ disabled people.

Queer Tantra Resources

Tantra Resources for Healing - Queer Tantra

Queering Tantra - Rogue Ryder

Rogue Ryder is a lover of all things sexual, and a kinky performance artist. They employ the somatic embodied Authentic Tantra® teachings through a kinky, queer lens. They know that everything you need to heal is inside you already and their role is to help facilitate the process. With a background in sports, combat, dance, and lots of kinky sex, they’ll take you on a journey from wherever you are to where you want to be. It’s a multi-disciplinary approach to healing. Whether you’re queer, straight, cis, trans, nonbinary, a couple or an individual— Rogue will give you the tools you need to build a powerfully sensual and awakened relationship with yourself, your sexuality, and anything or anyone you engage with.

Ace

Ace (they/them) is a Holistic Sexual Health Coach, Board-Certified Sexologist, Body-Inclusive Sex Educator, and Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor with over a decade of experience in education, facilitation, and healing-centered engagement. With a background in psychology and a deep commitment to multicultural studies, decolonization, mindfulness and inclusive wellness practices, Ace supports BIPOC individuals in reclaiming their bodies, pleasure, and ancestral wisdom through culturally rooted, trauma-informed coaching. They provide Culture & Equity Consulting across various sectors and serve on several LGBTQ+ boards throughout the Lehigh Valley, advocating for systemic change and community care

Nik Zaleski

Nik Zaleski (she/ they) is an Authentic Tantra® Practitioner, somatics coach, facilitator, artist, and humble student of miracles. She guides individuals, audiences and organizations towards breakthroughs that change their work and life. Sometimes this looks like supporting social justice organizations in making discoveries about their impact through her organizational development company, Murmur. Sometimes it looks like writing and directing plays that help audiences feel new feelings through the theater she makes. Sometimes it looks like helping individuals and couples experience deeper connection to themselves and to each other through her intimate somatics coaching (hell yes, that includes deeper and more life-expanding orgasms). Nik believes that our collective wholeness and holiness rely on a fully embodied humanity. She would love to cultivate that with you.

Rosie Bitts

I am a certified Authentic Tantra® Practitioner and Sexologist and I love integrating these beautiful ancient practices with newer teachings on things like Attachment and Polyvagal Theory, in a trauma-informed space.

I specialize in working with people creatively using our bodies as our medium.

As one of the pioneers who brought the art form of Burlesque to Vancouver Island, I am now known as the Mama or Matriarch of Burlesque on Vancouver Island. I’ve had the pleasure of teaching this beautiful art form to hundreds of women over the last 14 years and have been performing in this genre for over 16 years.

I live in the intersection of Creativity, Spiritually and Sexuality. I am very happy to meet you there.

Maria Cheung

Maria Cheung has moved through her own journey coming out as queer and polyamorous from a Chinese-Canadian household where she too resisted, avoided, and fumbled until she developed new skills in a compassionate mindset combined with more sophisticated habits, developed in a safe community, to navigate all of it now, with more ease, grace and even humour.

She is a certified Clinical Sexologist (American Board Certified), with over 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry. With a Bachelors in Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Masters in Public Health, she applies a trauma-informed, and psycho-somatic compassionate lens, understanding the impact that mindset, community, cultures and societal structures have on limiting our full sexual and relational potential.

Mel Horvath-Lucid

Mel Horvath-Lucid (They/She) is a queer, wild creative, spiritual seeker and lifelong learning! They are a Licensed Authentic Tantra Practitioner, Ordained Minister, Relationship Coach (Monogamy and consensual non-monogamy), Certified Mediator, Yoga Therapist and Certified Interfaith Spiritual Director.

Mel adores queering tantra and is an advocate and celebrator of the unique, the divergent, the difference, that is a part of all of us and challenges folks to look beyond limits, binaries and either/or thinking and back into the fullness of who they really are!!!

Non-Violent Communication Support and Coaching

People of Colour for Nonviolent Communication

POC4NVC is an organization for people of colour who practice, innovate, and share Nonviolence and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a powerful way to respond to and transform racism, privilege and oppression at the individual and systemic levels. We offer gathering spaces, community, and support for NVC practitioners and trainers of colour.

Isa Maria - Tantra Resources for Healing

Isa Maria - Connective Communication Specialist

Isa was a founding member of Kauai’s first Nonviolent Communication practice group, and since 2004 has been facilitating ongoing practice groups and providing counseling, mediation, and workshops in the community. Her NVC teachers include Robert Gonzalez, Mary MacKenzie, Kelly Bryson, Jim and Jori Manske, Inbal Kashtan, Christa Morf, Bob Metz, and Ellen Shiro.

Herbal Healing

Christopher Scipio

Christopher spent his childhood being bathed in herbs, taking natural herbal remedies and experiencing aspects of traditional healing in the house of his maternal grandmother who was Herbalist and Shaman and who was the daughter of his Carib Indian Medicine Woman great-grandmother. Herbal medicine has always been part of his life. Christopher combines his family’s multi-generational expertise in herbal medicine with diet, yoga and other modalities in his holistic healing practice. Christopher specializes in treating HSV and other viruses, and is available to consult with for a number of physical and energetic ailments.