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 ...

*Above photo taken by Elwira Miezel photographer and wardrobe & prop stylist. “If we could define two pillars which are holding up the temple of Tantra, these are meditation and witnessing as one of the pillars and love and devotion as the other pillar. " Meditation and witnessing is very i...

Osho had some of the most profound and uncompromising philosophies on love. When I was in his community, he taught me that love is something you are. It is a state of being that arises when you are rooted in your own awareness. From that place, love flows naturally, without effort. Osho also sho...

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...

"Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.Do it now.You're covered with a thick cloud.Slide out the side. Die,and be quiet. Quiteness is the surest signthat you've died.Your ol...

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,...

When we hear “sexual retreat,” our minds often go straight to the extremes. Orgies. Threesomes. Naked people lounging in hot tubs. Loud, uninhibited moans echoing from candlelit rooms. A constant loop of pleasure, play, and multiple orgasms. For many, this is the image: wild, boundaryless, hed...

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...

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...