Where it comes from
The lineage runs from Indian tantric practice, which treated the body as an instrument of attention rather than an obstacle to it, through the Western reworkings of the twentieth century that turned its principles into structured bodywork. What survives the translation is the essential inversion: sensation as a discipline instead of a destination. There is an irony in the slowest practice on earth finding a home in a red-light city, but it is the right home, Amsterdam has always understood that desire honestly handled needs no hurry.