From Lovers to Soulmates: Explore Our Couples Tantra Workshops

At Tantra Essence, we hold relationship as one of the most powerful paths to awakening available to us. We believe that with the right guidance and the right practices, Tantra can transform two ordinary lovers into soulmates.

Tantra Essence was founded by Ma Ananda Sarita, one of the most respected Tantra masters alive today. Initiated directly by Osho, who personally guided her to bring Tantra out into the world, Sarita has spent over 35 years translating an ancient lineage into teachings that are practical, accessible, and genuinely transformative.

For couples who want to begin from home, our Master Lover online course brings Tantric principles directly into your relationship at your own pace. For those ready to step out of ordinary life entirely, we offer two immersive in-person retreats for couples in Bali. The first is the Soulmate Series, our flagship seven-level couples program, running since 1998 which guides couples through conscious communication, emotional healing, chakra work, and sacred sexuality.

We also host the Master Lover Retreat, an immersive week dedicated to develoing deep and lasting intimacy. These retreats are taught by Ma Ananda Sarita or by her lead Kaula teaching team.

The Master Lover Online Tantra Course For Couples

The Master Lover Online Tantra Course was created by Ma Ananda Sarita to teach you, in essence, how to be a master lover.

We are brought into life without ever being given clear, honest guidance about how to make love or how to build a deeply fulfilling relationship, and yet sexuality and conscious relating sit at the very heart of a thriving partnership. In most cultures, this subject is either ignored, distorted, or handed over to pornography and shame. The Master Lover online course exists to offer something different: a direct transmission of Tantric wisdom, available to couples wherever they are in the world.

If travelling to a residential retreat is not possible right now, or you simply want to begin in the privacy of your own home, this course brings the teachings directly to you.

What Tantra teaches and what this course delivers is the ability to be genuinely present in your body, alive in your senses, and open to the full spectrum of erotic and spiritual experience that human intimacy makes possible. The ecstatic energy unlocked through these practices does not stay contained to the bedroom. It moves into your consciousness, your creativity, and the quality of presence you bring to every dimension of your everyday life.

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The Curriculum

Module 1: Sexual Anatomy: Most of us know far less about our own bodies than we think. Led by Ma Ananda Sarita and Dr. Dharmaraj, it explores the intricate details of male and female sexual anatomy, the fundamental differences in how each body experiences pleasure, and includes experiential exercises designed to awaken sensation in a way that no textbook ever could.

Module 2: The Chakra System: The seven chakras are a living map of your erotic and spiritual potential. This module explores how your chakras influence your own experience of pleasure and how they connect with your partner's, including how to experience orgasm in different chakras as a gateway to full-body orgasm. Includes a guided meditation called Chakra Dance to activate the energy in each centre.

Module 3: Love Rituals: Five love rituals to help you and your partner arrive fully in the present moment together. Learn how to create sacred space for lovemaking, how to cultivate genuine quality time, and how to use practical, repeatable tools that deepen connection, intimacy, and pleasure in everyday relationship life.

Module 4: Self-Pleasuring: A module that asks you to look honestly at your relationship with your own body. You'll be guided to identify and release self-pleasuring patterns that may be limiting your experiences with a partner, and to reprogram those patterns through demonstrations and techniques that heal dysfunction and expand your capacity for pleasure from the inside out.

Module 5: Spiral to Heaven: The key technique for erotic play that opens your partner to genuine ecstasy. This module offers dedicated demonstrations tailored for men and women individually, teaching the art of fully giving and receiving, moving beyond penetration toward the kind of union where two people genuinely dissolve into each other.

Module 6: The Art of Fulfillment: The final core module goes into the art of long-lasting tantric lovemaking and the ultimate states of orgasm that become available when you stop rushing. Explore the interplay of yin and yang energies, learn techniques to extend lovemaking for hours, and discover what it feels like when two bodies stop performing and start merging.

Bonus Module 7: Interviews and Q&As: In-depth interviews and Q&A sessions with Ma Ananda Sarita and course assistants who demonstrate each technique throughout the program. This module addresses advanced techniques, sexual dysfunction, and the deeper questions about love, intimacy, and spiritual growth that tend to surface once you've begun.

The Soulmate Series - Tantra Essence's Flagship Couples Program

The Soulmate Series is the only training of its kind in the world. Designed by Ma Ananda Sarita in 1998, it is a seven-level journey built around a truth that Tantra has always known: love, sexuality, and spiritual awakening are not separate paths. They are the same path, and when a couple commits to walking it together, what becomes possible between them is profound.

The series spans 3.5 years in total, with each level building deliberately on the last. This is not accidental. Real transformation in relationship does not happen over a weekend, it happens through sustained practice, honest confrontation with what is present, and the gradual opening that comes from returning to the work again and again. The time between levels is built into the design, giving couples space to integrate what they have learned and live it before going deeper. As Sarita says: follow your bliss.

Each level is six days long, held residentially. Inside the group room, the days move through Tantra meditation sessions, therapeutic exercises, massage, dance, emotional release, sacred ritual, and energy work. The structure is full, not in a way that overwhelms, but in a way that keeps the mind occupied enough that the heart can open. Each day also includes dedicated private time for couples in their own room, where experiential Tantra meditations, including sexual union, form part of the daily practice. Private counselling is available throughout for anything that needs more individual support.

The Seven Levels

Level 1 — Intimacy (6 days) The initiation. This level is about clearing the ground and purging stagnation from the relationship, opening to conscious and receptive communication, healing sexual dysfunction, and getting a first real taste of sacred sexuality. Many couples say this level alone shifts something they'd been carrying for years.

Level 2 — Male Female Balance (6 days) An esoteric exploration of the male and female chakra system, leading toward the harmony of opposite polarities, the experience of orgasm in all seven chakras, and the first genuine glimpse of what it means to meet a partner as a soulmate.

Level 3 — Sensual Awakening (6 days) Love explored through the door of the senses. Psychic sensitivity and heightened pleasure become accessible here, alongside a Yin Yang balancing meditation series that supports couples in sustaining lovemaking for two hours or longer.

Level 4 — Royal Liberation (6 days) Men and women temporarily separate to explore, heal, and expand their own unique qualities before coming back together for the sacred union ritual called marriage of the body — a ceremony of deep claiming. Includes a meditation series on the ultimate fulfilment of desire.

Level 5 — Exalted Union (6 days) Men and women explore their innate God and Goddess nature. Women step into the role of initiatress, inviting their beloved into divine sexuality beyond time and mind. Relaxation into this exalted state naturally supports the conservation of semen and the transmutation of sexual energy.

Level 6 — Ardhanareshvara (6 days) Named for the Hindu deity who embodies the inseparable union of masculine and feminine, this level invites the couple to live beyond duality — both within themselves and in their love partnership. Men step into the role of initiator, supporting women in discovering transcendental consciousness.

Level 7 — Mahamudra (11 days) The culmination. Held near the sea or in nature, this final level guides lovers toward Mahamudra — the ultimate gesture of love, which arises through orgasm with the universe itself. An eleven-day immersion into the fullness of what this path has been building toward.

The seven levels must be attended in sequence, without exception.

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Initiation Into Tantra — 2-Day Immersion | Bali

Most people come to Tantra because something in them knows there is more available. More depth in their relationships, more sensation in their bodies, more aliveness than daily life has been delivering. What they have lacked is not the hunger. It is the map, and a safe enough space to begin.

Over two days in Bali, Tantra Essence faculty guide you into the living practice of Tantra. Through guided meditations, energy work, and conscious partner exercises, you move out of the habitual grip of the thinking mind and into genuine presence in the body. For many people, this feels like the first honest breath they have taken in years.

The retreat creates real conditions for something genuine to happen. You have space to express freely without performing, to be seen without having to earn it, and to release the inner critic that monitors and manages your every move in intimate spaces. You practice being actually here — in your body, in contact with yourself, in contact with others who are doing the same work alongside you.

For couples, this retreat consistently serves as the first step onto a shared Tantric path — a way of arriving at the door of this work together, before committing to the deeper levels of the journey.

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The Master Lover Retreat

In some ancient cultures, young people were schooled in 64 different arts of life, and romance and intimacy were among them. Sacred sexuality was taught, honoured, and treated as the gateway to spiritual experience that it genuinely is. The Master Lover Retreat is a return to that understanding.

This retreat is designed to address the full spectrum of what gets in the way of genuine intimacy, from sexual dysfunction like premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, or difficulty climaxing, to the subtler barriers of self-doubt, past trauma, and the unconscious conditioning that most of us don't even realise we're carrying. It combines theoretical knowledge, practical exercises, and guided tantric practices into a carefully sequenced journey that most participants describe as permanently shifting the way they relate to intimacy.

This retreat curriculum is also available in the Online Master Lover Course mentioned above.

One important note: there is no sexual activity in the group room. The retreat works with vital energy, the chakra system, and kundalini energy in a safe, boundaried, and thoroughly professional container. Tantra, as taught here, is the union of love, meditation, and the full awakening of life force.

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Who Is Ma Ananda Sarita?

In the 1970's, a 17-year-old girl travelling in India walked into a discourse by a spiritual teacher named Osho in Mumbai. and her life changed direction entirely. She stayed for 26 years.

During those years, Ma Ananda Sarita cleaned Osho's personal residence for eight years. She worked in the Press and Public Relations department for seven years. She spent nine years in the Healing Arts branch of the Osho Multiversity. She was chosen as one of Osho's mediums for Energy Darshan. And throughout all of it, she received direct, personal guidance from Osho himself on the subjects that would become the foundation of her life's work, which is Tantra, meditation, love, and the sacred potential of human relationship.

She began teaching in 1990 and has not stopped since. Over 35 years she has worked with thousands of students across Europe, Asia, and beyond, personally training many of the tantra teachers who are most widely recognised and respected in the field today. In 2008 she founded Tantra Essence — a school rooted in Osho's Neo Tantra teachings and deeply informed by Kashmiri Shaivism, Baul Mysticism, Taoism, and Hindu Tantric lineages. The school has grown into one of the most respected Tantra institutions in the world, known particularly for the rigour and integrity of its teacher training programme and the depth of its couples work.

Sarita holds a PhD in Tantra and Human Sexuality and is the author of three books — Tantric Love (co-authored with Swami Anand Geho), Divine Sexuality, and Tantra Alchemy, all published in multiple languages including French, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. When you come to a Tantra Essence couples workshop, you are stepping into Tantric wisdom that has been carefully tended for over five decades.

When you come to a Tantra Essence couples workshop, you are stepping into Tantric wisdom that has been carefully tended for over five decades.

Read: The Life of a Sannyasin: Being One of Osho’s Disciples

Is a Couples Tantra Workshop Right for You?

These Workshops Are a Good Fit If:

You are in a long-term relationship and intimacy has dulled. Sex has become infrequent or mechanical. Emotional connection has thinned. You love each other but the aliveness has gone quiet. This is one of the most common reasons couples come to Tantra Essence, and it is exactly what this work addresses. The Soulmate Series in particular moves directly into the stagnation that accumulates in long-term relationships, offering practical tools for clearing it and rebuilding genuine erotic and emotional connection from the ground up.

You want to grow together spiritually. Many people on a conscious path find themselves doing their inner work alone while their relationship stays on the surface. Tantra Essence couples workshops are built on the understanding that relationship is itself a path to awakening, and that practicing together, with proper guidance, opens dimensions of connection that neither partner can access alone. The Soulmate Series is specifically structured around this, taking couples from foundational intimacy work all the way through to the deepest levels of conscious union.

You are navigating emotional disconnection and don't have the tools to move through it. You cycle through the same arguments. You feel more like housemates than lovers. You want to reach each other but something keeps getting in the way. Tantra Essence workshops offer concrete communication tools, partner meditation practices, and guided emotional work that give couples a real, shared framework for meeting each other again.

You are a new couple who wants to build consciously from the start. You don't need to be in crisis to benefit from this work. Some of the most significant transformations happen in couples who are early in their relationship and want to build intimacy, communication, and erotic depth deliberately rather than hoping it develops on its own.

You are dealing with sexual dysfunction. Premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, difficulty reaching orgasm, low libido, pain during sex, these are far more common than most people admit, and they are far more workable than most people believe. The Master Lover Retreat and online course both address sexual dysfunction directly, combining Tantric practices with somatic awareness and practical technique in a way that is neither clinical nor shame-inducing.

Practical Things to Know

All in-person retreats are residential. You and your partner stay on-site for the full duration, and this is deliberate. Removing yourself from the pull of work, phones, and daily routine is what creates the conditions for real depth. Couples have their own private accommodation throughout.

There is no sexual activity in the group room. The group space is used for meditation, energy work, conscious communication practices, dance, ritual, and emotional processing. Experiential tantra meditations that include sexual union take place privately, in your own room, as part of the structured daily practice in the Soulmate training. These are always entered into with full awareness and choice.

Detailed practical information on what to bring, what to wear, what each day involves is provided to all confirmed participants well in advance of the retreat.

What to Expect

• A trauma-informed container: Every retreat is held with full responsibility for your safety and wellbeing. Fear and vulnerability are met with care, not pressure.
• Stunning locations: Our in-person retreats are held in Bali, a location chosen deliberately for its sacred, living environment that supports deep inner work.
• Skills you take home: Every practice, technique, and tool is designed for integration into your daily life, not just the retreat space.
• A path to your full potential: Each level of the work opens new aspects of your capacity to love, communicate, and be fully alive in your relationship.
• Presence: You are here to show up for yourself, for your partner, and for the soul of your relationship.
• Joy & Bliss: Expect laughter, celebration, dance, and a genuine sense of aliveness alongside the deeper work.
• Empowerment: You leave with a real, embodied sense of what you and your partner are capable of together.

One Last Thing

Couples who move through this work do not return to their relationship unchanged. Patterns that have been running for years surface and shift. The dynamic between you will be different on the other side. Occasionally that process is uncomfortable before it is liberating. Almost always, what it reveals is a depth of love and connection that was already there but has just buried under years of habit, avoidance, and the ordinary accumulation of life.

Author

Danelle Ferreira

Danelle Ferreira is the creative force behind the Tantra Essence blog, where she passionately explores and shares the transformative power of Tantra based on the life’s work and writings of Ma Ananda Sarita. As the editor and manager, Danelle works closely with Sarita to curate content that delves deep into spiritual growth, self-discovery, and the intimate connections that Tantra fosters.