In the philosophy and practice of Tantra no one is ill, there is no disease, there is no specific "healing" methods employed to make one "well". The focus on Tantra in its Vedic roots is enlightened awareness.

Please think of it this way, when you wake up in the morning after a restful sleep are you "healed" of anything? Were you ill or sick when you were asleep, then "healed" when you woke up?

This is the process of Tantra, just like awakening but to higher and higher states of awareness.

The world in the context of enlightened awareness is always perfect as it is.

Swami Muktananda writes:

"Do not defile your heart by seeing the world that God created as impure. The Lord of the universe is in the form of the universe. That which you see as impure, is pure."

What Muktananda is writing is affirmed in the Tao Te Ching, in fact all mystical writings.

Tao Te Ching, chapter 45:

The Great Perfection seems imperfect

          yet this world it creates is never impaired

The Great Fullness seems empty

          yet this world is creates is never lacking

We have heard many use this term, "healing", and it seems to have been used so much that everyone accepts it as a way to practice Tantra. There is no mention of this "healing" in the Vedas, the roots of Tantra, and in fact the process of awakening and growing in the understanding of the life force energy and its many expressions can hardly be called "healing". It would be like learning a new sport, or learning a new skill. Are those healing you of anything?

The Western world has symptoms, disorders, therapies, procedures, and various chemicals and tools that are used to cut out parts of the body, kill bacteria and viruses, and otherwise "heal" the body.

This is not how the Eastern philosophies views health and well being.

When we see the world as unhealthy and diseased, we are looking through the eyes of our own issues rather than those of others. If we see the need for healing there is only one reason for that, that we need to find our own wholeness.

There is a well known proverb found in the Hebrew Talmud, “Physician, heal thine own lameness.”

Despite all this both Western medicine and Eastern (as in Ayurvedic) require extensive education to become "healers". In my experience I have not met any of those who call themselves Tantric or sexual healers who have much formal education at all. Many Tantric practitioners seem to have made these techniques and "therapies" up as they went along, or learned them from others similarly lacking in education or training.

The Tantric references in the Vedas were translated by Sir John Woodroffe, known as Arthur Avalon. The links to the translated texts are found here: Shakti and Shakta not only the word "healing", but the concept itself is notably absent in all of these references.

Where did this concept of "healing" come from? How it is applicable to the study and practice of Tantra is a new age reference, not a Vedic, Hindu, Taoist, or Buddhist reference.

It is important that we who study and practice Tantra do not set ourselves apart as healers to a world that needs healing. Not only is this arrogance, but it is insulting and will not further the knowledge and wisdom that this study has to add to the awakening of the human species.