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...

Kali Yuga is the fourth and final age in Hindu cosmology, often called the Dark Age. It is the period when dharma, which represents truth, right living, and proper behavior, stands on its weakest leg. Where earlier ages were marked by clarity and disciplined spiritual practices, Kali Yuga is mark...

Having worked with thousands of people over many years, it is clear to me that massage is the answer to many of the problems that are faced by individuals and humanity. You only have to witness the look of pure bliss that comes over someone who is receiving quality massage to understand what I am...

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...

Shakti is the pulse beneath existence, the flare of movement that turns stillness into becoming. She is the living drive of consciousness to express, to shape, to ripple outward into form. In Tantric cosmology, Shakti is being, in motion. Every act of perception, creation, destruction, every con...

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 ...

*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...