Armand Botha

Armand is a body-oriented therapist, facilitator, and educator who works with intimacy, embodiment, and emotional awareness. He supports individuals and groups to reconnect with their bodies, their desires, and their capacity for honest connection. 

Based in London, Armand brings over 20 years of experience leading groups in health, wellbeing, and embodiment. His work began in the physical activity and the community health sector, where he designed and delivered programmes for older adults to build strength, confidence, and independence. This background shapes his grounded and practical approach to group work. 

Alongside this, Armand has developed a therapeutic practice focused on sexuality, intimacy, and relational patterns. His work is rooted in somatic awareness. He guides people to move out of thinking and into direct experience, using the body to understand patterns, emotions, and connection. 

Armand brings over ten years of consistent practice in Neo Tantra, with a focus on work with gay, bi, and queer men. His training comes through structured retreats, ongoing study, and direct experience in group-based intimacy work. He has facilitated over 40 workshops and group experiences across movement, intimacy, and personal development. 

His approach draws from body-oriented therapy, Internal Family Systems, Core Energetics, and somatic practices. These frameworks support his work with themes such as shame, guilt, performance pressure, and disconnection from pleasure. He works with these patterns as adaptive responses, helping participants build awareness and choice. 

In group spaces, Armand creates a clear and steady structure. He places strong focus on consent, pacing, and personal boundaries. Participants move at their own pace and stay connected to their own experience. 

His tantra-based teaching focuses on awareness rather than performance. He invites participants to slow down and notice sensation, breath, and contact. Practices include guided exercises in touch, eye contact, communication, and presence. The aim is to support connection with self and others in a grounded way. 

Armand pays close attention to group dynamics and nervous system regulation. He uses grounding, movement, and pauses to support participants to stay present. He works with what is happening in the moment. 

In his one-to-one work, Armand supports gay, bi, and queer men with intimacy, sexuality, and relational patterns. This includes working with desire, avoidance, body image, and cycles of connection and withdrawal. 

Armand’s teaching style is direct, calm, and relational. His approach supports honesty, awareness, and a more connected experience of the body and relationships. Participants often report feeling more at ease in their bodies, clearer in expressing needs, and more connected in intimacy. 

His work holds a clear focus. To support people to feel at home in their bodies, to relate with more honesty, and to experience connection and pleasure with awareness.