Padmasambhava arrived in Tibet in the 8th century at the invitation of King Trisong Detsen, who had been trying, and failing, to build the first Buddhist monastery on Tibetan soil. The problem was the indigenous spirits and deities of the land itself, whose interference kept dismantling whatever ...

There is a more positive way of looking at history than in the context of who fought which wars or invaded and became the leader of which countries. That way of regarding history tells us that humanity has remained really childish. I offer here another vision of history, an Enlightened vision. I...

Born in 11th century Tibet into a family that expected him to stay put, Marpa was difficult from the start. He was hot-tempered and unable to accept secondhand knowledge. He studied Buddhist texts and found them pointing at something he couldn't reach from where he stood. The living transmission ...

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...

Since 1990 I have been teaching Tantra and Holistic Healing Retreats. What follows is a peek into my world. It is almost non-stop activity, nourished by the still centre of meditation in the centre of the cyclone. Usually, when teaching, I am fully present with the group in one way or another fr...

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...

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...

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, speech, and creative intelligence. She governs your ability to learn, to teach, to speak clearly, to write with authority, and to make sound decisions based on real understanding. She’s the one you go to when you need clarity. She is precision & artic...

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 ...