The first time I went a full year without penetration, it wasn’t planned. It happened naturally, as I was entering the mysterious, magnetic beginning of my Tantric studies. I was diving deep into energy work, breath, and the awakening of subtle awareness in my body. Penetration became unnecessary...

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 ...

As I move through my life, I find myself reflecting on the arc of a life devoted to Tantra, with the recognition that the work now moves through many hearts and hands, far beyond what I alone could ever touch. My name, Ananda Sarita, means river of bliss. And as I look at these teachers, I see h...

When I first met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, later known as Osho, I was seventeen years old. I was searching for the essence of life and was full of questions I didn’t yet know how to ask. He spoke of Tantra as the most natural path to awakening. Through his eyes, sexuality is sacred, pure life force...

Tantra Essence is a world renowned Tantra school based in Bali, offering retreats and trainings across the world. The school is led by Ma Ananda Sarita, a Tantra master initiated by Osho, who has more than five decades of experience living and teaching Tantra internationally. Our Tantra Teacher ...

Love is omnipresent in the universe. Our essential nature is love. And yet, we forget, we feel lack, we search for it and we mourn when our world appears to embrace hatred, fear and suffering. Kabir, the great mystic poet is reported to have said; “Asking where is love is like the fish in the se...

“This very place, the Lotus Paradise, This very body, the Buddha.” - Zen Master Hakuin With these words, the great Zen Master Hakuin, interpreted the Heart Sutra in its most exquisite and refined form. In doing so, he also gave a mystical transmission, which sums up all spiritual teachings ...

There comes a point in every woman’s life when the body quietly begins to rewrite its own rules. The rhythms that once felt predictable start to shift, often before we notice, and the world offers little guidance on how to navigate it. For generations, women’s midlife biology has been misunderst...