When people hear the word Tantra, it often gets flattened into a single image of people meditating and doing different erotic tantric practises. But Tantra is a living tradition with many faces, each carrying a different doorway into truth. Some persons have thought it wise to try and dissect Ta...

I was in Ladakh in July 2025, guiding meditations through one of the most spiritually charged regions on Earth. Ladakh, in the far north of India near the Tibetan plateau, is a high-altitude mountainous terrain where devotion has shaped the land itself. For centuries, it has been a place of retr...

John Woodroffe was the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court and one of the British Empire’s top legal minds in India. Under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon, he became the first Western scholar to rigorously translate and practice the original Tantric texts offering the English-speaking world its ...

Ganesh is often called the remover of obstacles. But what that really means is he clears what’s false. He blocks what isn’t rooted, and he delays what isn’t ready. His presence demands integrity. When he shows up, it's to hold you accountable to what you say you want. In every tradition that hon...

To the casual visitor, Khajuraho is a collection of ancient temples adorned with erotic sculptures. But to anyone who has studied the roots of Tantra, Khajuraho is a sacred space to connect with and experience the origins of Tantra. Built during the 9th to 11th centuries by the Chandela dynasty,...

Samadhi is the moment when everything you believe yourself to be dissolves. It is what remains when all mental constructs collapse. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Samadhi is the final threshold, where thought stops, identity disappears, and pure awareness exists without limitation. At first, consci...

I often feel that mainstream yoga has done a disservice. It’s boiled down an ancient system of liberation into curated Instagram posts and a never-ending pursuit of the “perfect” handstand. It’s become all about the body, how it looks, how it bends, how it performs, while quietly stripping away t...

At the heart of Tantra Essence is the union of Meditation and Love. Meditation represents the silent, steady awareness within us, often called the masculine principle. It is the part of us that watches without reacting, the quiet witness that sees thoughts, emotions, and sensations come and go...

Holding a Vajra is like holding lightning in one hand and a diamond in the other. One to shatter illusions and ignorance, the other to endure, brilliant and unscathed. This is the essence of the Vajra, a symbol of enlightenment and indestructible strength in Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana pract...

Most people treat Laxmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, like a good luck charm, light a candle, say a prayer, hope for a payout. That’s not how she works. Laxmi is structure & order. She’s the part of you that knows how to manage what you’ve asked for. She doesn’t just bring abund...