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 ...

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...

"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 ...

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 ...

Milarepa began in darkness. Trained in sorcery, he called down storms to kill the relatives who stole his family’s home. Dozens died, and instead of peace, he found only dread. He had avenged his mother, but condemned himself. What came next was a need to burn through the consequences he had set...

Tilopa was a mystic who lived in India around the 10th–11th century. He’s known as the first human master of the Mahāmudrā lineage, a teaching that reveals the natural, unconstructed state of the mind.  Tilopa worked as a sesame seed grinder and received his greatest teachings from dakinis, fema...

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...

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...

Tantra began in early medieval India, around the 6th century CE, in regions like Kashmir, Bengal, and Assam. It came from yogis, yoginīs, and renunciates who rejected the authority of caste and scripture. Key figures like Matsyendranath, founder of the Nātha lineage, and Lakshminkara, an 8th-cen...

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...