Tantra is a vast and ancient spiritual practice and lifestyle. For someone encountering it for the first time, it can feel overwhelming, even confusing. Where do you begin? Which path is the right one to follow? And perhaps most importantly: what is authentic Tantra, and what is the modern dis...

The Tantras are ancient esoteric scriptures and instructional texts that emerged in north India around the 6th century, offering detailed methods for achieving spiritual liberation (moksa) and self-realization within a single lifetime. Unlike earlier spiritual traditions that promised enlightenm...

At Tantra Essence, we hold relationship as one of the most powerful paths to awakening available to us. We believe that with the right guidance and the right practices, Tantra can transform two ordinary lovers into soulmates. Tantra Essence was founded by Ma Ananda Sarita, one of the most respec...

Matsyendranath was a practitioner, a siddha, who developed and transmitted some of the earliest methods for using the body as tools for awakening. He is remembered across multiple traditions under different names, as the founder of the Nātha yogis in North India, as Machamuni in the Tamil Siddha...

Tantra Essence, founded by Ma Ananda Sarita, offers authentic, lineage-based Tantra retreats around the world, including immersive experiences in Switzerland. In Switzerland, we host transformational retreats such as Goddess Essence and Soulmate, guided by experienced Tantra Essence faculty memb...

Black Tantra is a Tantric path that uses the taboo, which includes sex, death, fear, desire as a direct and accelerated route to enlightenment. Where most spiritual traditions teach you to suppress desire and slowly purify yourself over years or even lifetimes, black Tantra has a very different a...

Tantra Essence, led by Ma Ananda Sarita, hosts resident couples retreats in Bali, Indonesia throughout the year for partners who genuinely care about their relationship and want it to keep growing and deepening. These retreats are for couples who sense there is untapped intimacy between them and ...

When exploring the world of Tantra, you have likely seen the iconic image of a man with a woman sitting in his lap, facing him, locked in an unbreakable embrace, staring deeply into each others eyes. Yab-Yum is a traditional Tantric posture performed between two people, where one partner sits cro...

NeoTantra is a modern approach to the ancient Tantric path, a tradition that uses awareness of the body, breath, and sexual energy as a catapult into expanded consciousness. It brings the essence of classical Tantra into everyday life, where sacred sexuality is understood as one of many ways to ...

Tantric meditation is the practice of awakening consciousness through the body. It is the art of becoming fully present within your own physical and energetic experience, allowing awareness and life-force to move together as one unified flow. At its essence, Tantra teaches that life itself is sa...