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Join Us for Lineage-Based Tantra in Switzerland

Tantra Essence, founded by Ma Ananda Sarita, offers authentic, lineage-based Tantra retreats around the world, including immersive experiences in Switzerland. In Switzerland, we host transformational retreats such as Goddess Essence and Soulmate, guided by experienced Tantra Essence faculty memb...

What Is Black Tantra? A Deep Dive into Its Origins & Practices

Black Tantra is a Tantric path that uses the taboo, which includes sex, death, fear, desire as a direct and accelerated route to enlightenment. Where most spiritual traditions teach you to suppress desire and slowly purify yourself over years or even lifetimes, black Tantra has a very different a...

Our Couples Retreats in Bali: Transform Your Relationship Together

Tantra Essence, led by Ma Ananda Sarita, hosts resident couples retreats in Bali, Indonesia throughout the year for partners who genuinely care about their relationship and want it to keep growing and deepening. These retreats are for couples who sense there is untapped intimacy between them and ...

Yab-Yum Explained: Why This Tantric Position Is So Powerful

When exploring the world of Tantra, you have likely seen the iconic image of a man with a woman sitting in his lap, facing him, locked in an unbreakable embrace, staring deeply into each others eyes. Yab-Yum is a traditional Tantric posture performed between two people, where one partner sits cro...

What’s the Difference Between Classical Tantra & Neo-Tantra?

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 ...

Tantric Meditation: The Space Where the Divine Awakens

Tantric meditation is the practice of awakening consciousness through the body. It is the art of becoming fully present within your own physical and energetic experience, allowing awareness and life-force to move together as one unified flow. At its essence, Tantra teaches that life itself is sa...

The Chakra System’s Role in Enlightenment

"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 ...

Menopause Spiritual Meaning: Awakening the Second Spring

There comes a point in every woman’s life when the body quietly begins to rewrite its own rules. The rhythms that once felt predictable start to shift, often before we notice, and the world offers little guidance on how to navigate it. For generations, women’s midlife biology has been misunderst...

Who Was Milarepa? A Deep Dive into Tibet’s Most Beloved Saint

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...

Inside a Couples Tantra Retreat: What to Expect & Upcoming Events

Some couples have been together for 20 or 30 years and are hoping to bring the spark back into their sexual life, while others are still in the honeymoon phase of their relationship and want to enhance the element of the sacred in their union. Others may be suffering from sexual dysfunction, and...