Tantra is a vast and ancient spiritual practice and lifestyle. For someone encountering it for the first time, it can feel overwhelming, even confusing. Where do you begin? Which path is the right one to follow? And perhaps most importantly: what is authentic Tantra, and what is the modern dis...

The Tantras are ancient esoteric scriptures and instructional texts that emerged in north India around the 6th century, offering detailed methods for achieving spiritual liberation (moksa) and self-realization within a single lifetime. Unlike earlier spiritual traditions that promised enlightenm...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 ...