The River of Bliss Flows Through Our Tantra Essence Teachers
Jan 05, 2026
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 how true that name has become in my life’s work. The river grows larger as it flows, fed by tributary streams, finding new channels to carry its sweet waters as a nourishment for all beings. These teachers are the branches of that river, each one extending the flow of this lineage into new places and to new hearts.
One of the greatest fulfillments of this stage of my life is witnessing our students step forward as teachers in their own right. There is something deeply moving about seeing someone who once sat in a training room with curiosity and vulnerability now guiding others with this transmission as their own embodied experience.
It warms my heart.
In our Tantra Essence trainings, including the Tantra Teacher Training, the Goddess Essence Teacher Training, and the Mystic Tantra Massage Practitioner Training, devotees are entering a much deeper process of learning the essence of Tantra.
Over the years, I have witnessed many students blossom into this role, and today I want to share some words from a few of them who have become vital pillars in the Tantra Essence family.
Tantra Teachers Trained by Ma Ananda Sarita
Shivani
Ever since I was a teenager, I was searching for meaning in life, which naturally drew me to spirituality. At the same time, I was fascinated by sexuality - I felt there had to be more depth possible than what I was experiencing. When I discovered tantra in my early twenties, it was love at first sight: here was a path that embraced both the spiritual and the sexual as one.
My journey began with tantra books and spontaneous meditation experiments that went surprisingly deep. After completing a three-year yoga teacher training and teaching meditative yoga classes, I felt called to go deeper. Yoga still felt too limited. My soul calling was drawing me towards tantra.
When searching for a tantra master, I found Sarita's website. Watching her videos, something resonated deeply. I sensed she was offering authentic tantra, rooted in tradition yet alive and embodied. The Tantra Teacher Training exceeded my expectations: it was transformative both professionally and personally. Energetically, many doors opened. The training also profoundly deepened my connection with Osho, and in 2020 I received my sannyas name Shivani through a direct channeling.
In 2018, I founded Tantra Awakening, where I have developed many different tantra courses. I also facilitate the Inner Mastery weekends for Tantra Essence, and in 2025 I had the honor of co-facilitating the Tantra Yoga Teacher Training on Bali alongside fellow Tantra Essence colleagues.
A little inspiration for those on this path: Trust what resonates. If you feel drawn to go deeper on the path of tantra, follow that intuition. And remember that tantra isn't about becoming someone else; it's about fully embracing all of who you already are, with awareness. I wish that the doors that have opened for me may also open for you.
Modestas
I first got involved in Tantra with an invitation by a girlfriend who I liked a lot. To this day I remember her saying to me: "You're naturally Tantric". That quote got me so interested and I for sure wanted to know "what I am so good at?". At that time I was planning a sabbatical from my successful sound engineering career so I had the time on my hands to study deeply and with full devotion. I studied, read and practiced what I could learn from the few amazing books I could find at that time.
At some point that same friend who brought Tantra onto my path - invited me to come to the Tantra Massage Practitioner Training taught by Tantra Essence lead faculty - Suta & Sarita. In a sense - I had no choice when I ended up on the Tantra Essence student path. It just felt right. I knew I wanted to practice massage and to do it professionally.
So adding deep meditation and tantra to it - seemed like the perfect combination. I knew I was very capable of learning deep spiritual truths through experience as I was already immersed into non-tantric spiritual healing processes throughout my life since I was 6 years of age. So it felt more like coming back home. It felt right to be back onto my dharma.
After almost 10 years with Tantra-Essence - My current teaching schedule gives me the opportunity to travel all over the world. At any day of the year I may be in a teaching role somewhere. Sometimes even months in a row while teaching together with Sarita or with my wife Dieke. Either teaching couples on the Soulmate journey or Couples and singles on the Master Lover path; in the Teacher Training; "Dance Of Tantra" training of my own creation or many other wonderful creations like the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra and Khajuraho Retreat. It is my path now and I love it!
Dieke
Tantra officially came into my life when my now-husband invited me to do the Soulmate Training together. We had only been dating for five weeks! I took a leap of faith, and it became one of the most transformative decisions of my life. It completely shifted how I relate to love, to myself as a woman, and to the work I do in the world.
Through Soulmate, the world of Tantra Essence and Sarita opened for me. My partner and I were later invited to apprentice with Sarita for the Soulmate Training, and from there I dove deeply into almost all TE trainings. It truly felt like completing a full university degree, but in something that finally made sense on every level. I wasn’t just learning with my mind, but with my body, my being, my soul.
Today, I mainly work with women through my own body of work, inspired by my journey from the corporate, high-achieving world into discovering what it means to live from my feminine essence. Alongside that, I guide couples together with my partner, Modestas, and we teach the Soulmate, Master Lover, and Mystic Tantra Massage Trainings within TE.
I love supporting people in bringing tantric wisdom into their daily lives and relationships. My approach is modern, down-to-earth, and rooted in lived experience, because for me, Tantra is something I breathe, embody, and integrate. One of my favorite things about Tantra is how practical, transformative, and powerful it is in turning your life into a true love story.
Nritya Anurasa
I first entered Tantra by total accident — with no idea what it was. I found myself living on Koh Phangan, Thailand, and later in Bali, where I attended a weekend retreat with Dharmaraj. In that space I met both my deepest wounds and my most ecstatic aliveness. I remember dancing on the second night feeling, “This is home.” I didn’t know who Sarita was or what Tantra really meant, but something in me recognised the path.
I chose Sarita and Tantra Essence because I felt the clarity, lineage, and purity of her transmission. Years of helping at events naturally opened into teaching, with Sarita’s blessing, and the universe kept nudging me forward.
Today, as a new mother, I teach the Goddess Essence and Inner Mastery Series in Bali and Europe, including my homeland, Czech Republic. Teaching lights up my whole being. I love supporting people to shift from surviving to truly living — to embrace the full pulse of life with all its peaks and valleys, and to remember their joy.
If you feel called to Tantra, trust that call. It may be leading you home to yourself.
Ma Ananda Marali
I came to Tantra at a moment when as a Yoga Teacher and obsessed practitioner I realised that I’m lacking depth of meditation — I was craving for unity of body, mind and emotions that I couldn’t find in Yoga asana practice. I also was craving to dive deeper into healing my sexual wounds and finding true intimacy. What began as a search for healing opened into a path of awakening, intimacy with myself, meeting a man of my dreams (after 20 years of struggle), immense joy (I found my true laughter through Osho Laughter Meditation!) and remembering the sacredness of being a woman and a beloved.
Choosing Sarita and Tantra Essence was a full-body “yes.” The clarity of the lineage, the integrity of the teachings, and the transmission of lived wisdom felt like home and still is a big homecoming to me every time I commit to support Sarita’s retreats or trainings. Through Sarita’s guidance, Tantra stopped being a dry concept and became a daily, breathing practice of presence, love, and embodied consciousness.
Today, my teaching journey feels like a devotion with clear ethical guidelines, supporting others to meet themselves more honestly, more softly, and more courageously. I guide through breath, somatic awareness, and the alchemy of connection, helping people rediscover their inner freedom and life force. The path to intimacy — “into me I see” — is my biggest driver and most exciting topic. I work a lot with couples and private solo clients, especially diving deeper with them into the subject of intimacy.
Watching others open is the greatest privilege.
For anyone on this path: trust your unfolding. Tantra doesn’t ask you to become someone else — it invites you to remember who you already are.
Sunny Grigorova
I first found Tantra at a moment in my life when everything looked perfect on the outside, yet inside I felt so far from myself — from my truth, my femininity, and my longing for aliveness. My first workshop cracked me open; it was as if my whole being remembered something ancient, something I had been searching for without knowing its name.
I had already been teaching yoga, embodiment, and women’s practices for many years, but when I discovered Sarita and the Goddess Essence lineage, something in me knew: “this is the path.” The depth, the purity of transmission, the integrity of the teachings — it was the highest-quality noi y training I had ever received. It didn’t just give me tools; it initiated me into a way of living, loving, and leading that felt like truth in my bones.
Stepping into my role as a Goddess Essence Teacher has been a profound homecoming. I now coach women in this path, as well as lead women’s circles, tantric yoga, archetypal journeys, and retreats across the U.S. and worldwide. Watching women reclaim their radiance, their softness, their power — this is the greatest privilege of my work.
For anyone feeling the pull: follow it. When Tantra calls, it’s your soul remembering itself.
Damir
I came into Tantra through Tantra Yoga, but the teachings of Sarita and Osho opened my heart and mind on a much deeper level than anything before. All my therapeutic trainings, like Gestalt therapy, Somatic Experiencing and others were just different ways of taking me into my mind, instead of bringing me closer to my soul. That only started to change when I discovered Tantra of Osho with Sarita.
After visiting a Teacher Training in Thailand that was not very good, someone recommended the high quality Teacher Training of Sarita.
I have been successfully teaching Chakra 1–7 groups, menswork, couple work, dance retreats, and organizing dance festivals in Switzerland since 2019. And this is only the beginning of bringing Sarita’s transmission into the world.
Ritam
I stepped into Tantra eight years ago, guided only by curiosity. I wasn’t looking for enlightenment or even spiritual growth, just craving something honest and alive. In my first class, I felt a doorway open inside me. Tantra revealed a science of love, showing me how to work with energy in the body, communicate boundaries, express desires with clarity, and live in my truth with courage. That first taste of embodiment and real connection changed the direction of my life.
When I met Sarita, I didn’t immediately understand the depth of her work. I realised it fully during Tantra Teacher Training, especially when she transmitted what I call the “Art of Holding Space”. It wasn’t only about mastering Tantra techniques. It was learning how presence, attunement, and the smallest details create a field where people feel safe enough to open, heal, and transform. This approach became the foundation of my own teaching style.
Since then, I’ve completed almost every Tantra Essence retreat and now teach my own retreats in Bali and other countries. I host Born for Bliss retreats, Somatic Tantra workshops, men’s work, and conscious intimacy trainings. After completing Mystic Tantra Massage Training, I also offer private sessions for women who want to reclaim their feminine power, deepen embodiment, and learn the art of receiving. My work blends neuroscience, breathwork, movement, and Tantric philosophy to help people bring Tantric awareness into their everyday lives, relationships, and sexuality.
My mission is to bridge science and spirituality and to make Tantra accessible, grounded, and real for modern people who want emotional healing, conscious love-making, and a deeper connection with their own energy.
If you feel the call to teach, follow it. This path might open something in you the same way it opened me.
Lucia
After the end of a nine-year relationship, I realized that this couldn’t be all life had to offer — that there was something deeper, something higher that society and family hadn’t taught me. Spontaneously, I heard myself say that tantra might have the answers. At that time, I didn’t even know what tantra really was. That was the beginning of my journey of exploration, experience, and self-discovery.
I was drawn to Sarita and Tantra Essence for their clear, structured, and holistic approach, which embraces the person as a complete being. As a psychotherapist, I also work individually and with couples, and the richness of tools and practices offered here allows me to bring exactly what is needed for each person or issue. I love how this abundance of methods enhances both my personal practice and my professional work.
I currently offer groups for women and couples, while increasingly focusing on individual therapy and guiding couples in tantric work. It’s a beautiful phase of integration and deepening, where I bring the gifts of Tantra Essence into more intimate, personalized support.
Prabuddha
Since childhood my passion has been sports & music.
In my college years this passion expanded by an intuitive learning of Yoga, Tantra, Meditation and Healing arts which led to become a professional therapist.
Osho came in my path and I was searching for someone who lived with Osho and embodied his teachings.
2013 was a special year as I found Sarita and have been immersed into the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, the Tantra Teacher Training, Mens Training and a variety of courses.
In 2019 I started leading the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra Retreat with Sarita and since then continue learning and sharing my passion of Healing, Yoga, Tantra & Meditation.
Dhyan Yogi
I met Tantra and Osho teachings long time ago, in a very delicate period of my life, in deep personal crisis and with repeating issues in my relationship, one after the other always the same. Before I was working in scientific research, and I took a leave from University to create my own Research Institute.
Instead, the Universe had a better plan for me! I met a woman who is Osho Sannyassin, we started a relationship, and she introduced me to Osho teachings. While reading the first Osho discourses, I immediately felt his words so familiar, like speaking directly from inside myself!
For the first time in my life, I felt that I was not "strange", as usually considered by others, but instead there were a lot of other people similar to me. So we decided together to start a Tantric path for couple, and searching online, our best impression and connection was for Sarita, I remember simply her smiley face on her website was enough to feel her conscious loving presence.
This was the start of a deep journey of self-discovery, with difficult moments followed by new awarenesses, always being sure to be in the right path, surrendering to the wisdom of my master Sarita. And from the deep surrendering came out the ecstasy of life, and the desire to devote my energy to help others to do the same path that I did.
With this strong motivation I decided to help Sarita to spread her work, and give my contribution to people ready to make a shift in their lifes.
I especially love working with couples and relationships, where I see more love and more struggles, and I where I was stuck for so long in my life before to start the tantric path, and learn the simple powerful tools, that I want now to share with more and more women and men.
Final Reflections
These teachers, and other teachers in Tantra Essence, whether long-time faculty or fresh blossoms on the path, are the living proof that the lineage is evolving. Each one carries their own voice, their own gifts, their own way of expressing this work.
As I witness their flowering I sense the river of my life’s work melting into an ocean of love. This brings me deep, ever renewing joy. 💗
