Tantric energy healing may sound like an abstract concept. But it’s actually an ancient tantric practice that’s been used for both physical and psychological healing for thousands of years.

It works at a deep holistic level by addressing the subtle energy systems in the body. The core focus of a tantric healing session is to align the mind and body through heightened energy flow.

Tantric healing can help reduce pain, relieve anxiety, balance emotions, evoke ecstatic states, and even get to the root cause of illness. However, the effects can often seem intangible or difficult to believe as there is limited scientific research into how most energetic practices work.

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what tantric energy healing is all about and explore the science behind it — including studies using heat cameras, brainwave analysis, and MRI scans that highlight its remarkable impact on both body and mind.

What is Tantric Healing?

Tantric healing is a transformative energy work practice rooted in the ancient spiritual tradition of Tantra.

It encourages healing from within by unlocking energies that may be repressed or stuck due to emotional trauma or physical ailments. Whether dealing with chronic pain, emotional distress, or energy imbalances, tantric healing helps the body heal itself at its core by tapping into its unlimited potential for transformation.

Energy healing in the tantric tradition focuses on creating an energetic flow in the receiver’s body, which can stimulate profound inner transformation. This is done through a combination of guided breathwork, meditation, and energy manipulation that helps balance the receiver’s energy centers (chakras).

In turn, this balancing process helps to release energy blockages, promote deep relaxation, and activate sexual energy — which typically lies dormant at the base of the spine.

But when sexual energy becomes activated, it can lead to a transformative state of consciousness and facilitate the emotional, physical, and spiritual healing that is often experienced through tantric energy work.

In many cases, people who receive tantra healing can achieve an orgasmic state, also known as an energy orgasm, or spiritual orgasm. An energy orgasm becomes possible when your sexual energy is able to flow freely throughout your entire body.

An energy orgasm is different than what you would think of as a regular orgasm. It can be described as a super-sensory spiritual experience that ripples through your entire being. It involves complete surrender to a force that is much greater than ourselves and provides a glimpse into the divine.

And spiritual orgasm is not something “magical” or a secret only shared with a select few. It’s something anyone can experience. The main reason energy orgasms are unknown to most people is simply because they’ve never learned how to work with their own sexual energy.

If you’re interested in exploring this further, read about the main fundamentals one must know and practice to be able to master energy. However, you will learn and succeed in energy work much faster and more effectively with guidance and training from an experienced tantric energy healer either individually or in a group course.

How Does a Tantric Healing Session Work?

A typical tantric healing session begins with the creation of a calm, sacred space where the energetic healer focuses on channeling energy to the recipient. Tantric healers use energy-mastering techniques, including the transfer of prana (life force energy), to connect with their clients on an energetic level.

In Tantra, we recognize that you are more than just your physical body. Each of us is made up of many layers or sheaths of energy, which Tantra calls the “five bodies of man.”

The physical body is the densest of these layers, with the slowest moving vibration of all your energy bodies — which is why your physical body seems so solid.

Each of your energy bodies becomes progressively more refined and subtle as the vibration or frequency of the energy increases. This also makes the “higher” energy bodies more difficult to perceive.

A skilled tantric healer intimately knows how to perceive and channel their own subtle energies in order to connect with the energy of the person receiving the healing.

In this way, the work is actually done on an energetic level, rather than a physical one. And this is often why energy work is ignored by science — because human energy and energetic transmission from one person to another are difficult to measure scientifically.

Has Tantric Healing Been Tested by Science?

Due to the energetic nature of this practice, many question whether tantric energy healing can be validated through scientific methods.

Without a clear understanding or experience of how human subtle energies work, it’s easy to be skeptical about energy healing or to simply not believe that it works. Questions often arise, such as:

• Is energy healing real?
• What happens to a receiver during a tantric energy healing session?
• If something does occur in the physical body, what is the scientific proof?
• What processes in the receiver’s body can be measured, and how?

These were the questions posed by Lasse Spang Olsen, a well-known Danish TV figure, who produced a series of documentaries about alternative healing for Danish National Television a few years back.

In collaboration with a group of Danish scientists and medical professionals, he invited Somananda, the founder of Somananda Tantra School, to demonstrate tantric energy healing under controlled laboratory conditions.

The group conducted several scientific tests during tantric healing sessions Somananda gave to a few different recipients. These ground-breaking experiments have provided tangible evidence of the effects of tantric energy healing by using modern technology.

In this video, Somananda himself presents the effects of his tantra healing sessions performed under the supervision of Danish scientists and medical professionals:

The Scientific Results of Somananda’s Tantric Healing Sessions

In the scientific tests the Danish researchers conducted, they were investigating three key questions:

• What happens to the body temperature of the healer and receiver in a tantric healing session?
• What happens to the nervous system of the receiver during energetic healing?
• Can a tantric healer affect the brain activity of a recipient?

The results far exceeded the expectations of the scientists and TV host Olsen. Each of the three tests revealed significant findings on the effects of tantric energy healing.

Test #1: Changes in Body Temperature During a Tantric Healing Session

The first scientific method used was a heat camera, which measured the body temperatures of both the healer (Somananda) and the recipient during an energy healing session. Conducted at the Technical University of Denmark, this test aimed to track any temperature fluctuations experienced throughout the session.

The camera showed noticeable increases in body heat, particularly in the recipient, during the energy session led by Somananda. Although, researchers were unable to determine if the temperature increases were caused by physical movement in both the healer and recipient during the session, or the healing technique itself.

Despite the fact the temperature readings were inconclusive, another significant observation was made during this test. When TV host Olsen — who was unfamiliar with tantric techniques — tried to take over the energy work from Somananda, the recipient’s physical responses and movements essentially stopped.

But when Somananda resumed the energy work, the recipient started physically responding again. This finding suggested Somananda was clearly doing something different than the TV host, who was copying Somananda’s exact movements during the healing session.

An energetic component seemed to be at play that allowed a trained healer to affect the physical responses of a recipient, where an untrained person could not.

Test #2: Impact of Tantric Healing on the Nervous System

Perhaps the most compelling evidence of tantric healing’s effects came from brainwave tests conducted at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Dr. Christina Brock (PhD), the research team leader, supervised the experiment.

Using more than 60 electrodes attached to each subject’s skull, researchers measured the electrical activity of their brains during a tantric energy session. The aim of this test was to see if tantric energy healing practice could alter the behavior and communication patterns of neurons.

This is important because neurons are the cells that make up the majority of your body’s nervous system, and they’re responsible for sending and receiving electrical signals from your brain.

All your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations arise from the communication between neurons. So any changes in how your neurons function will also affect how you experience life.

The Danish test measured the electrical signals between neurons, also known as brainwaves. It revealed a staggering 40% or higher activation of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) in both healing receivers during Somananda’s energy session.

The PNS is the part of your nervous system that’s responsible for the body’s rest and relaxation responses, and such a high activation demonstrated that tantric energy healing could stimulate profound relaxation – an essential condition for both physical and emotional recovery.

Another surprising aspect of this test is the fact the PNS is part of your autonomic nervous system, which regulates the body’s unconscious actions, such as digestion and blood circulation.

Most people are not able to consciously control or affect the unconscious aspects of our nervous system. But this test showed that Somananda was, in fact, able to influence the unconscious nervous systems of the recipients through tantric energy healing.

Once again, when TV host Olsen took over the session a few times and imitated the movements he saw Somananda doing, the parasympathetic system activation dropped in the recipients immediately.

The brainwave test showed that Somananda’s healing techniques had a measurable impact on the subjects’ brain activity and overall state of being.

Test #3: Can a Tantric Healer Change Brain Activity?

The final test used MRI scans to measure the receivers’ brain activity before and during the energy healing sessions.

While the size and structure of the MRI machine made it challenging for Somananda to properly access the recipients, he could still produce significant results. There was a clear difference in brain activity measured before the session, compared to during the session — with noticeable increases in brain function while Somananda was conducting the healing.

These results further supported the hypothesis that tantric healing can induce measurable changes in the brain, specifically in areas related to relaxation and heightened awareness.

The MRI scans also showed marked differences between receiving healing from a trained tantric healer, Somananda, and from the TV host. This emphasized the unique and potent effects of tantric energy work.

Tantric Healing Effects on Sexual Function

As the Danish tests showed, tantric healing can have a direct effect on the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), which is responsible for the body’s rest and relaxation responses. These are typically unconscious functions that most of us cannot consciously influence.

However, one essential function of the parasympathetic nervous system is the coordination of sexual activity. The more active your PNS is, the more relaxed and restful you feel, and therefore, the more you can access your natural sexual energy, arousal, and orgasmic potential. It’s no secret that it’s difficult to be sexual when you’re stressed, worried or anxious.

In the tests, there was a clear connection between what Somananda was doing during the tantric healing, and the whole-body orgasmic effects the subjects experienced repeatedly and consistently.

As Somananda said in the interview, he was awakening the sexual energy of the subjects, which was then moved upward in the body into the higher energy centers. This brought about highly pleasurable experiences and states of deep orgasm and bliss.

To rephrase, he was using his will or consciousness to control something that medical science considers autonomous or unconscious.

“In the Yoga tradition, there is a simple rule that says energy always follows the mind. And if the mind is concentrated and strong enough, it is possible to concentrate and move that energy where you want it to go.”

~ Somananda

Distance Tantric Healing

One of the most fascinating aspects of tantric energy healing is that it can be done both in person and from a distance.

The effectiveness of distance energy healing lies in the understanding that energy transcends physical space — making it possible for practitioners to influence another person’s energy field even from afar.

Distance energy healing, particularly in the tantric tradition, is an advanced method that transcends the limitations of physical reality. Through practices rooted in Tantra, healers can send powerful energy to individuals across vast distances, often working in the astral realm where space and time no longer apply.

This form of healing taps into higher frequencies of energy compared to other methods like Reiki, allowing practitioners to address deeper levels of a person’s energy field. By targeting energetic imbalances at their core, distance tantric healing can often promote transformative physical, emotional, and spiritual healing that is more potent than in-person sessions of other healing modalities.

Unlike bio-energy or pranic energy, which tend to be denser and less refined, astral energy reaches the deeper layers of consciousness and subtle bodies — which makes it a powerful tool for healing complex ailments.

Whether working face-to-face or remotely, tantric practitioners can channel energy to affect healing, relaxation, and heightened awareness.

If you are intrigued by the scientific evidence and the profound benefits of tantric healing, you may want to explore how to master this ancient and powerful practice yourself.

Energy Healing Courses

Both in-person and remote tantric energy healing are skills that can be learned. These abilities can be mastered by putting tantric knowledge of energy into practice.

This incredible science is available through our energy healing courses at Somananda Tantra School, which offer profound opportunities for personal and professional growth in energy work.

Through specialized courses, such as the Tantra Massage Therapist Training and Tantra Massage Therapist Advanced Training, you will learn giving and receiving full body energy orgasm, and study the fundamental principles that govern sexual energy and how to practically apply them in Tantra Massage.

These energy healing courses teach students how to master their own energy, control its flow, and channel it for therapeutic purposes. We also teach how to train yourself to become open to receiving healing, how to apply tantric energy healing to yourself, and how to go into a deep spiritual and ecstatic experience that can literally transform your mind and life.

For those looking to take their skills even further, the Tantric Remote Energy Healing Therapist Training provides advanced teachings on using tantric energy in a therapeutic context from afar. In this online training, you will have extensive virtual practice and healing sessions with your peers.

Explore the incredible possibilities of tantric healing, where ancient wisdom and modern science come together to reveal the extraordinary power of energy work to transform your life and the lives of others.

What Science Has Shown Us About Tantric Energy Healing

The scientific tests conducted on tantric healing with Somananda provide tangible evidence that energy work can influence the body and mind in profound ways.

The heat camera showed changes in body temperature, the brainwave tests revealed deep parasympathetic activation, and MRI scans demonstrated shifts in brain activity — all pointing to the fact that tantric healing has measurable effects on the physical body.

These findings confirm that, through proper training and mastery of tantric techniques, individuals can influence the brain activity of another person and induce deep states of relaxation, sexual arousal, and orgasm without even touching.

However, those are only immediate effects of energy healing on the human body that luckily can be measured and proven. The deeper question lies in its long-term impact. How does one’s life evolve after incorporating this practice consistently?

For those curious about profound transformations, we invite you to explore the real-life experiences shared by our students on our blog. Stories like Regine’s, Ann’s, Yossef’s, and Jana’s highlight the lasting shifts in their lives, and offer insight into the powerful potential of tantric energy healing.

If you feel called to explore this work more deeply, consider taking one of our upcoming courses or read more about the spiritual science of Tantra on our blog.