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Tantra for Beginners: How to Start Your Practice

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...

What Are the Tantras? Ancient Esoteric Scripture in Hinduism & Buddhism

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...

Reflections From Ma Ananda Sarita on Her Tantric Path

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, Hatha Yoga, & The Nath Tradition

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...

What Is Black Tantra? A Deep Dive into Its Origins & Practices

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: The Goddess of Knowledge, Wisdom, & the Arts

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...

What’s the Difference Between Classical Tantra & Neo-Tantra?

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 ...

What Is a Dakini? A Guide to the Sacred Feminine in Vajrayana

When I was in Ladakh, I heard stories of Naropa and Padmasambhava. I heard about the moments when each of them was approached by dakinis as actual encounters that changed the entire direction of their practice. I heard how Naropa was confronted by dakinis who told him his intellectual understand...

The Chakra System’s Role in Enlightenment

"Consider your essence as light rays from centre to centre up the vertebrae, and so rises 'livingness' in you. Or the spaces between, feel this as lightning." (From the 5000 year old scripture; Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means ‘wheel of light’. Traditionally there ...

A Tantra School Where World-Class Teachers Are Trained

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 ...