
My Journey
The Story Behind The Art of Sensuality (TAOS)
A path toward connection, love, and an open heart — Tantra Massage in Stroud.

My Journey
The Story Behind The Art of Sensuality (TAOS)
A path toward connection, love, and an open heart — Tantra Massage in Stroud.

My Journey

Wesley Tan
Founder & Practitioner, TAOS – The Art of Sensuality
I’m a qualified osteopath, bodyworker, and teacher of gymnastic fitness with over two decades of experience helping people reconnect with their bodies through movement, awareness, and touch. TAOS is the synthesis of this lifelong journey — blending science, presence, and sensuality into a path of healing and connection.
“A broader perspective as the path unfolds.”
My path into bodywork and conscious healing began long before I ever heard the word “Tantra.”
In 1994, I stepped into my first Kung Fu class. What began as a physical discipline soon became a gateway into Eastern philosophy, expanded awareness, and alternative approaches to health and the body.
Six years into dedicated training — alongside a degree in Biology — I felt a strong pull to deepen my understanding. This led me to study osteopathy from 2003 to 2007.
Osteopathy & Bodywork
For over 18 years, I’ve worked with a blend of osteopathy, therapeutic massage, and teaching gymnastic fitness. These modalities gave me an incredible foundation: helping people understand pain, heal injuries, and process emotions stored in the body.
Yet I often encountered something beyond what these frameworks could fully embrace: a longing in some clients for attuned, non-clinical touch. For care that welcomed sensual and sexual dimensions of being — aspects so often taboo, neglected, or suppressed.
Meeting the Edges
Alongside this professional path, my life with my wife Claire and our two sons has been central. Together, we’ve built our private practice and explored relationship models that invite honesty, reflection, and growth — experiences that continue to deepen my understanding of intimacy and authentic connection.
In 2019, I travelled to Berlin to study with Spiritual Tantra. This first immersion into Tantra Massage opened my mind to an entirely new dimension of awareness — one rooted in conscious presence, non-judgmental connection, and authentic human touch.
I realised that loving touch — something that sounds so simple — is, for many of us, an enigma. We long for it, yet we’re rarely shown how to give or receive it without expectation, agenda, or fear.
In 2023, I joined a 10-day retreat in Poland with Yindo School. This immersion gave me the clarity to answer the question I had been sitting with since my training with Spiritual Tantra: Tantra massage was not only for my personal exploration — it was something I could offer professionally to others.
Where I Am Now
Today, alongside my therapy practice, I offer the sensitivity and depth of Tantra massage. My approach is heart-led, trauma-informed, and rooted in presence.
I am deeply grateful to my first clients who, over the past four years, have trusted me with their bodies, emotions, and stories. Their progress and encouragement gave me the confidence to share this work more openly.
This path is not about quick fixes. It is about reconnection — to your body, your emotions, your sensuality, and ultimately, to your deeper self.

A History of Modern Tantra
Tantra Massage is a contemporary synthesis of ancient wisdom and conscious bodywork. Rooted in the spiritual traditions of India, it recognises sexual energy not as something to repress or exploit, but as a potent force for healing, awakening, and transformation.
In the late 20th century, Tantra began influencing Western spirituality through Neo-Tantra movements, which embraced sensuality, presence, and intimacy. In Germany, Andro (Andreas Rothe) played a pivotal role in shaping Tantra Massage as a therapeutic practice. In the 1990s, he founded the Diamond Lotus Institute in Berlin, where he developed a ceremonial and deeply healing form of full-body massage known as Tantra Massage according to Andro®.
This approach wove together ritual, energy work, slow conscious touch, and emotional release — offering clients a safe space to reconnect beyond shame or conditioning. Today, Germany remains a hub for Tantra Massage education, with respected institutions such as Diamond Lotus, AnandaWave, and the Spiritual Tantra Lounge continuing this lineage.
At its heart, Tantra Massage is guided by principles of consent, presence, and deep listening — an invitation to awaken not only the body, but the soul.
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