Goddess Essence: Inside Our Bali Women’s Retreat Series
Aug 18, 2025
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 decades of direct work with women’s bodies, cycles, sexuality, and spiritual awakening.
It is a rewilding. A remembering and a reintegration of feminine qualities that have been neglected or reshaped to fit a world that has privileged the masculine way.
We work holistically with the body, emotions, psyche, and spirit, because feminine empowerment comes when every layer of us is nourished and awake.
The Goddess Essence Bali Retreat Series
Part One: The Goddess Unveiled
We begin where feminine energy is most naturally anchored, in the heart chakra. This is the first positive pole in the female chakra system. And it is where most women carry contraction.
Many women arrive unable to receive love without flinching. Compliments are brushed aside. Breath is held when attention lands. Space is apologized for. Beneath these habits lie early childhood moments that taught you to doubt your worth and silent rules about what kind of woman is “acceptable.”
In this module, we work with self-mirroring, sisterhood witnessing, and body-led rituals to dissolve the holding patterns that keep you from inhabiting your own beauty. It is about letting the body exhale by loosening the breath and reclaiming innocence.
Here, beauty is what emerges when the nervous system relaxes. When love becomes alchemical, capable of transforming what is unloving back into love. We explore three stages of love that lead to self-mastery, beginning with befriending yourself so deeply that tension dissolves and beauty radiates without effort.
You will also feel the medicine of sisterhood. Women learn and heal faster in sacred space together. Like the moon pulling the ocean tides, our bodies begin to align, even menstrual cycles synchronize. Competition drops away, revealing the deeper feminine truth: we are connected to a web of energy that, when nourished, holds us in safety and belonging.
Part Two: Women’s Eros & Emotional Fulfillment
From the heart, we descend into the second positive pole: the lower belly and womb, a whole universe unto itself. This space is the ocean within your body. It holds pleasure, power, and cyclical intelligence. It is tied to the element of water, the source from which all life on Earth emerged.
Here we work with the first and second chakras, centers governing sexuality, emotional flow, boundaries, and safety. You learn to feel where you’ve been trained to disconnect: from desire, from anger, from grief, from wild instinct. We begin the slow process of returning eros to its rightful place as your own.
We explore the cyclical nature of womanhood, whether or not you menstruate. Every phase carries unique wisdom and energy. Even after menopause, the cyclical imprint remains, shaping the wise woman archetype. We reframe menopause as initiation, an entry into the stage where all earlier phases are integrated and accessible.
You will learn to ride the waves of change instead of being swept by them. Death and rebirth become familiar companions rather than feared disruptions. Emotional fluidity becomes a skill: allowing feelings to move without stagnation, understanding them as messengers rather than enemies.
Female sexuality is addressed from a female perspective, informed by anatomy, biology, and the truth of the female pleasure response. We dismantle the performance-based model of sexuality and reveal the full landscape of orgasmic potential available in the female body. We link eros with emotional intelligence, grounding both in the physical body so that surrender becomes a spacious, empowered choice, an energetic widening and expansion that can ripple through your entire being.
Part Three: Woman as Healer
The third positive pole in the female system is the third eye, the seat of intuition, psychic perception, and feminine wisdom. By this stage, the heart and womb are awake, and their combined power forms the foundation for deeper spiritual work.
We work with the pineal and pituitary glands, the hormonal regulators tied to both physical wake-sleep cycles and metaphysical awakening. Intuition here, is a trained, embodied perception. We explore clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and the subtler senses of psychic taste and smell, helping you identify your natural gifts and develop them in a grounded way.
Before opening fully, we address the ancestral wound: centuries of silenced and persecuted feminine wisdom. The inquisition, the burning of midwives, the exile of oracles, these traumas live in our cells. In sacred space, we rewrite these ties, restoring safety to the nervous system so that intuitive gifts can surface without fear. As these gifts reawaken, they are braided back into heart and sexuality, activating the priestess archetype, the initiatress who walks in both the seen and unseen realms.
Part Four: The Power of the Embodied Goddess
The final module is the crown chakra, the point beyond polarity where divine awareness flows into the body. Feminine spiritual mastery involves bringing oneness into your relationships, your work, your sensuality, your daily rhythm.
We explore receptivity as the hollow vessel state described by many enlightened masters. For women, this state is already embedded in the design of our sexuality. When fully aligned, the receptive sex center becomes a direct portal to divine union. Sexuality and spirituality cease to be separate, both become expressions of the same devotion.
We share the often-untold stories of female masters, and explore how awakening may unfold differently in a feminine body. Through rituals and meditations, we enter states where separation dissolves. In tasting union, even briefly, a profound healing occurs.
Womens Tantra Yoga Retreats: Bali Retreat Packages
Goddess Essence Retreat - September 2025
📆 September 19 – 25, 2025
📍 Bali
👩 Women only
Led by Ma Ananda Sarita & Usha
For seven days amidst the beauty and Balinese culture in Bali, we go straight into clearing the stagnation around intuition and full expression through a deeply transformative journey. This retreat dives into Part 3 and Part 4 of the Goddess Essence Series, working specifically with the third eye and crown. You’ll work with real practices that build sensitivity and presence in the body including, breath, sound, movement, voice, ritual, and how to carry this awareness into your everyday life.
This is our final Goddess Essence retreat in Bali for the year. Spaces are filling fast!
Goddess Essence Teacher Training
📆 February 14 – March 7, 2026
📍 Bali
👩 Women only
Led by Ma Ananda Sarita & Ma Prem Tanmaya
The Goddess Essence Teacher Training is our official certification path for those called to guide other women through the full 4-part Goddess Essence Series. If you’ve experienced the power of this work in your own body and you feel the call to carry it forward, this is where that transmission is passed on.
Over three weeks, you’ll be taught how to guide the full sequence: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. You’ll be shown how to teach from your own lived experience, how to let your facilitation come from your body and your voice.
Meet the Women Behind the Goddess Retreat
Ma Ananda Sarita
Ma Ananda Sarita’s entire adult life has been shaped by one path: Tantra. She entered Osho’s ashram in the 1970s as a teenager and didn’t leave for 26 years. That means nearly three decades immersed in the lived practice of Tantra.
The Goddess Essence Series was born after decades of watching women contort themselves to be palatable, she saw a clear need: a structure that would dismantle the internalized violence women carry. What she created was a sequence of initiations that meet the core wounds and offer real tools for reintegration. Read more about Ma Ananda Sarita’s story.
Amma Usha Regina
Usha trained as a Sacred Yoga Dance Therapist. She studied energy systems with surgical attention, eventually becoming one of only five certified Tachyon Trainers for the University of Integrated Science California (UISCA), certified to teach Tachyon related training and treatments. But it wasn’t until she met Sarita and entered the Tantric field that her intuitive precision found its full range. Since 2016, Usha has been co-facilitating the Goddess Essence series.
Ma Prem Tanmaya
As a trained actress and singer, Tanmaya knows what it means to feel and express. In 2011, she met Sarita and from there began a long and committed Tantric path under Sarita's guidance. Now a lead faculty teacher at Tantra Essence, Tanmaya holds space with an unusual blend of emotional ferocity and softness, and facilitates the Goddess Essence training alongside Sarita annually.
What You’ll Do on Your Goddess Essence Retreat Journey
1. Tantric Embodiment Sessions
These are Tantric embodiment practices designed to help you feel again, through presence, breath, repetition, and surrender. You’ll be guided through techniques that focus on inner awareness: Where is energy moving? Where is it stuck? Where do you override sensation to stay safe?
You will discover where your attention lives and how to bring it fully back into your body. When presence meets movement, you start to unlock what’s been frozen without force. The rhythm of these sessions often mirrors the Tantric path itself: contraction, expansion, intensity, stillness. You’ll be invited into your own rhythm until your body starts leading, untill you can finally experience true and authentic inner peace.
2. Active & Silent Meditations
You’ll be introduced to Osho’s and other Tantric active meditations, techniques that begin with movement, chaos, or catharsis before leading you into depth and quiet. They work by helping the feminine system release surface tension and create sensory distraction so you can sit in full-body presence.
From there, you’ll learn meditations that bring attention inward to observe what’s real. Womb listening, breath tracking, chakra awareness. They are structured techniques that help you experience the body as a temple of consciousness. And for many women, this becomes the first time silence brings them the deepest clarity.
3. Breath & Sound Healing
Tantra does not suppress emotion. It gives you tools to move energy consciously, so that emotions become gateways to superconsciousness. In these sessions, you’ll work with vocal sound, rhythmic breath, movement, and deep listening to identify and express emotions that were buried.
You’ll learn how to stay present with intensity without dissociating or acting out. And you’ll start to build inner trust because your body remembers how to feel again without shutting down. These emotional processes are framed within the Tantric understanding that energy wants to move, and when it does, consciousness follows.
4. Tantric Energy Cultivation & Subtle Body Activation
Throughout the retreat, you’ll be introduced to foundational Tantric energy practices that work with the chakras, nadis (energy channels), and prana (life force) in the feminine body. These include breathwork patterns that awaken dormant currents and movement-based rituals that bring awareness to specific energy centers.
5. Tantric Ritual & Feminine Archetype Work
You will be entering archetypal states of consciousness that already live in your body. You’ll explore direct embodiment of figures such as the Mystic, the Wild Woman, the High Priestess, or the Embodied Goddess. These rituals are alchemical containers where you step beyond identity and remember who you are underneath survival patterns. These evenings often catalyze long-buried power, grief, erotic innocence, and joy. You’ll move as her, breathe as her, speak from her, until “she” is no longer separate from you.
6. Sacred Sisterhood & Like Minded Women
Tantra recognizes that the feminine awakens most profoundly in a safe, attuned relationship. Throughout the retreat, you’ll work in pairs and small groups, engaging in partner practices that unravel shame and self-protection. These sessions are about retraining the system to feel safe in connection, something many women have never truly experienced. When another sister holds eye contact with you, breathes with you, hears your truth without reacting, you begin to trust that there’s a way to be seen without fear.
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Conclusion
The Goddess Essence Retreat is one of the most authentic and sacred containers available for women today. Through age-old Tantric practices, passed down and refined through decades of lived experience, this retreat offers a kind of spiritual wisdom that’s increasingly rare.
If something in you is ready, ready to live as the woman you truly are, then I invite you to join us in Bali, a tropical paradise. Join a sisterhood of women who are ready to fully love, to grieve, to soften, and to rise with joy that comes from deep inside.
We’ll be waiting for you there. 💗
