When people hear the word Tantra, it often gets flattened into a single image of people meditating and doing different erotic tantric practises. But Tantra is a living tradition with many faces, each carrying a different doorway into truth. Some persons have thought it wise to try and dissect Ta...

The Goddess Essence Series is a four-part journey into the heart of what it means to live in a female body as a fully realized, divinely designed template of feminine intelligence. Created by Ma Ananda Sarita and taught internationally by the Tantra Essence team, this series was built from decade...

"Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.Do it now.You're covered with a thick cloud.Slide out the side. Die,and be quiet. Quiteness is the surest signthat you've died.Your ol...

When we hear “sexual retreat,” our minds often go straight to the extremes. Orgies. Threesomes. Naked people lounging in hot tubs. Loud, uninhibited moans echoing from candlelit rooms. A constant loop of pleasure, play, and multiple orgasms. For many, this is the image: wild, boundaryless, hed...

Tantra began in early medieval India, around the 6th century CE, in regions like Kashmir, Bengal, and Assam. It came from yogis, yoginīs, and renunciates who rejected the authority of caste and scripture. Key figures like Matsyendranath, founder of the Nātha lineage, and Lakshminkara, an 8th-cen...

Here at Tantra Essence, we offer short-format Tantra workshops year-round in Bali and the Czech Republic. Each one is focused on a clear, practical theme like abundance and money blocks, the basics of Tantra or chakra integration. These are intensive, in-person experiences that last 1 to 4 days, ...

At the heart of Tantra Essence is the union of Meditation and Love. Meditation represents the silent, steady awareness within us, often called the masculine principle. It is the part of us that watches without reacting, the quiet witness that sees thoughts, emotions, and sensations come and go...

Since time immemorial, mystics have been taking retreats in order to commune with higher consciousness and evolve spiritually. In India, the combination of Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation has given rise to a sub-culture where body, mind, and soul are regarded as one organic unity. In the mainst...

The sacral chakra, alive with the radiant glow of orange, is your gateway to pleasure, creativity, and emotional freedom. But when this energy center is blocked, life feels muted. You’re stuck in emotional gray areas, your passions feel out of reach, and the joy you once knew seems distant. I...

At the time of writing, I am going through a one-month Ayurveda PanchaKarma Retreat with Dr. Sundara Raman at the Mountain Top Clinic in Tamil Nadu, India. This panchakarma treatment is a systematic process for detoxifying and rejuvenating the entire body. This is the third time I am going throu...