The teachings shared in this article are explored more deeply in my book, Divine Sexuality, which expands into many additional facets of both male and female sexuality. Male self-pleasure is one of the most misunderstood and least examined relationships a man will ever have. It is usually framed...

This book is a pivotal game changer. Osho stands among the greatest spiritual thinkers and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, recognized for his revolutionary contributions to inner transformation and spiritual growth. Osho sparked a worldwide ‘lovolution’ by giving a series ...

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...

The Kama Sutra is commonly seen as a collection of sex positions for couples to try. But in reality, it is a structured guide to intimacy and sexual connection within relationships. The positions described in the text are part of a larger system designed to influence how partners connect and expe...

The first time I went a full year without penetration, it wasn’t planned. It happened naturally, as I was entering the mysterious, magnetic beginning of my Tantric studies. I was diving deep into energy work, breath, and the awakening of subtle awareness in my body. Penetration became unnecessary...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

As I move through my life, I find myself reflecting on the arc of a life devoted to Tantra, with the recognition that the work now moves through many hearts and hands, far beyond what I alone could ever touch. My name, Ananda Sarita, means river of bliss. And as I look at these teachers, I see h...

When I first met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, later known as Osho, I was seventeen years old. I was searching for the essence of life and was full of questions I didn’t yet know how to ask. He spoke of Tantra as the most natural path to awakening. Through his eyes, sexuality is sacred, pure life force...