What are Sexual Wellness Retreats Based on Tantric Principles?
Jun 20, 2025
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, hedonistic, a sensual free-for-all where anything goes and nothing is sacred.
And sure, somewhere out there, this might exist. But that’s not what we’re offering here.
A sexual retreat, especially one grounded in Tantric principles is about connection to yourself, to your body, and to your sexual life force energy, the same energy that creates life, births ideas, and holds the key to deeper presence, intimacy, and even spiritual awakening.
In this article, we’ll walk you through what Tantric and sexual retreats really are, what they’re not, what happens inside them, and how the retreats we offer are designed to reconnect you to the part of yourself that is longing to be felt, loved, and lived.
What to Expect at a Spiritual Sexual Retreat
At first glance, the term “sexual retreat” can be misleading. Many people assume it refers to a space where people gather to explore physical pleasure with others, a place for erotic experimentation or group-based intimacy. In these kinds of retreats, the focus is often on pushing sexual boundaries, trying new experiences, or finding excitement through multiple partners, touch-based games, or shared arousal in group settings.
The atmosphere is typically charged, socially open, and physically interactive. While these spaces may operate under the banner of “sexual freedom,” they rarely offer emotional processing or spiritual integration.
A Tantric sexual retreat, by contrast, is not a space for sexual performance or partner-based activity in a public or group setting. There is no sexual activity in the group room, and participants are not expected to be sexually engaged with others. Any nudity that does occur happens within specific, guided practices, such as self-massage, breathwork, or meditative rituals, and is always optional. Nudity is never a requirement and always held within a clearly defined and emotionally safe container.
The core of a Tantric retreat is about learning to feel and work with sexual energy from within and cultivating your own internal connection to this powerful force through attention, awareness, and presence. This means engaging in structured practices like active meditation, conscious breathwork, somatic release, and guided partner exercises that are designed to awaken your energy. Everything is done within a clear structure, where boundaries are continuously respected, and your nervous system is given space to settle, expand, and integrate.
What Are Non-Tantric Sexual Retreats Called?
Non-Tantric sexual retreats are typically focused on physical exploration external sexual experiences. They may include group intimacy or open sexual play environments. These retreats are not structured around spiritual teachings or emotional integration. Instead, they often center on pleasure, novelty, and breaking sexual taboos.
You’ll find these types of retreats marketed under various names, including:
- Erotic Retreats
- Sensual Retreats
- Play Retreats
- Lifestyle Retreats(common in swinger or polyamory circles)
- Adult Intimacy Workshops
- Conscious Kink Retreats
- Open Relationship Retreats
- Sexual Freedom Festivals
Comparison: Sexual Retreats
| Aspect | Tantric Sexual Retreat | Non-Tantric Sexual Retreat |
|---|---|---|
| Group Sexual Activity | Not included. Sexual activity with others is not part of the retreat format. | Often included or encouraged in group or communal settings. |
| Nudity | Sometimes present in private or structured practices. Always optional. | Common and often expected in shared spaces. Nudity may be social or sexualized. |
| Touch with Others | Introduced gradually, always guided, consent-based, and trauma-informed. | Often initiated early. May rely on nonverbal cues. Less emphasis on trauma-safe practices. |
| Primary Goal | Cultivating internal sexual energy for healing, embodiment, and spiritual growth. | Expanding erotic experiences, trying new sexual activities or dynamics. |
| Approach to Pleasure | Subtle, energetic, and internally tracked. Pleasure is a byproduct of presence. | Physically stimulated, focused on climax, novelty, or performance. |
| Type of Practices | Breathwork, active meditation, self-pleasure, conscious movement, guided ritual. | Sensual massage exchange, group intimacy games, partner rotation, swinging, playrooms. |
| Consent Culture | Actively taught, practiced, and integrated throughout. | Mentioned, but often assumed or informal. |
| Facilitator Training | Trained in Tantra, somatics, trauma-sensitive facilitation. | May be experienced in sensual play or lifestyle guidance; less likely trauma-aware. Often does not have facilitators. |
| Spiritual Framework | Central to all practices. Sexuality is integrated into personal and spiritual development. | Often absent. Focus is on physicality and emotional and sensual enjoyment. |
| Pacing and Nervous System | Practices are paced to support emotional regulation and safety. | High stimulation from the outset; less focus on nervous system pacing. |
| Emotional Integration | Core part of the process. Emotional release, self-inquiry, and closure are supported. | Emotional responses are often left unprocessed or unsupported. |
| Outcome | Deeper self-trust, energetic sensitivity, embodied awareness, and sexual wholeness. | Increased sexual confidence, exploration of desires, and short-term liberation. |
Our Upcoming Retreats in 2025
Goddess Essence Retreat
The Goddess Essence Retreat is a four-level, women-only Tantric retreat series that works directly with the body, emotions, and energy system of the female form. It offers a step-by-step process of reconnection to the core of your feminine experience, your emotional range, your intuitive sensitivity, your capacity to feel pleasure from the inside out, and your relationship to power, visibility, and internal trust.
Across four levels, the series uses classical Tantric frameworks and body-based tools to help women release cultural conditioning, process stored tension, and gradually rebuild a relationship with their sexuality, their energy system, and their place in the world as women.
Every retreat focuses on a specific chakra through guided practices designed to help you feel the center in your own body.
Each part builds on the last, and the work becomes deeper, more integrated, and more spiritually embodied over time.
Part 1: The Goddess Unveiled - Heart Chakra
The Goddess Unveiled is the entry point into the Goddess Essence Retreat Series. This level works directly with the heart chakra.
The focus here is rebuilding your capacity to feel love that doesn’t collapse your boundaries, to express tenderness without fear of rejection, and to relate to your own body without self-surveillance. You’ll work directly with holding patterns through various solo practices and structured partner work where you are being witnessed.
One of the core components of this retreat is addressing how you relate to your own beauty by helping you see what’s underneath the need to be. You’ll also explore how your patterns in intimacy are not personality traits but adaptive strategies formed around unmet needs for safety, affirmation, and regulation. As these patterns are brought into awareness, and worked through in the body, your capacity for authentic emotional presence increases.
Part 2: Women’s Eros & Emotional Fulfillment - Sacral and Root Chakras
In Part 2 of the Goddess Essence Retreat Series, the focus moves into the lower belly and sex center, the first and second chakras, which hold the energetic blueprint for your emotional rhythm, sensual expression, and erotic identity as a woman.
This part of the retreat opens your awareness to the natural cycles that live within your body, your hormonal rhythms, emotional tides, and the deeply rooted power of Kundalini energy. Through guided practices, you begin to unwind internalised beliefs about womanhood. As you release them, an emotional range that is no longer chaotic or suppressed, but fluid, grounded, and expressive emerges.
This retreat teaches that a vibrant eroticism is central to a woman’s fulfilment. When erotic energy is disconnected or diminished, joy, creativity, and relational connection often feel flat or forced. As you reconnect to your body, you begin to feel this energy as something alive and uniquely your own.
Part 3: Woman as Healer - The Power of Intuition - Third Eye & Throat Chakras
Part 3 of the Goddess Essence Retreat Series focuses on the third eye chakra, the center of intuitive perception. This retreat helps you reconnect with your natural sensitivity to guide your choices and direction in life.
Throughout this retreat, we explore how many women have been conditioned to mistrust their instincts. These patterns often result in a disconnection from one’s deeper knowing. This module is designed to help you identify and release those inherited fears and limitations, so you can rebuild trust in your felt sense, subtle perception, and intuitive voice.
The work includes practices that stimulate the third eye combined with creative expression and voice activation to support clear communication of your internal truth. You’ll also explore how tuning into the body’s wisdom naturally supports physical, emotional, and energetic restoration.
Part 4: The Power of the Embodied Goddess – Crown Chakra
Part 4 of the Goddess Essence Retreat Series brings the journey to its final integration point: the crown chakra, where all previous levels, heart, womb, voice, and intuition are brought into coherence and lived as one unified expression of feminine embodiment.
This retreat teaches how to live your spiritual truth from within the body, as a woman, grounded, relational, emotionally intelligent, and erotically alive. It supports the emergence of your full potential as something that naturally unfolds when your energy system is integrated and your emotional body is no longer in conflict with your spiritual nature.
Here, you’ll explore what feminine awakening looks like in real life, in how you make decisions, how you lead, how you love, and how you hold space for yourself and others.
Upcoming Editions:
Goddess Essence Parts 1 & 2
Location: Dharamshala, India
Dates: September 6 – 13, 2025
Facilitators: Dhyan Samya & Usha
Goddess Essence Parts 3 & 4
Location: Dharamshala, India
Dates: September 19 – 25, 2025
Facilitators: Ma Ananda Sarita & Usha
Goddess Essence - Part 2
Location: Switzerland, Europe
Dates: October 16 – 19, 2025
Facilitators: Ma Prem Tammaya
Master Lover Retreat
The Master Lover Retreat is a structured, in-person Tantric training designed to guide you into a deeper, more conscious experience of intimacy. We have a Master Lover for couples edition, and also editions that are open to both singles and couples. Here you experience a practical, step-by-step initiation into the art of sacred love-making.
Over six days, you are introduced to a comprehensive blend of theoretical teachings, guided practices, breathwork, movement, and conscious touch techniques. The structure includes:
- Anatomical education of male and female pleasure systems, helping couples understand how arousal, orgasm, and sensitivity actually function in the body
- Tantric breath and energy practices to activate the chakra system and support the flow of Kundalini through the body
- Partner-based exercises to explore connection, polarity, and mutual presence
- Emotional release techniques to clear past relationship imprints, trauma, or blockages held in the body
- Conscious communication tools that create a safe space to express truth, needs, and desire without blame or collapse
- Touch and massage techniquesspecifically taught for couples to explore together in private, focused on expanding pleasure and sensitivity
Throughout the retreat, you are taught how to reprogram limiting self-pleasuring patterns, access full-body pleasure, and explore sacred sexuality as a spiritual path. Men are given tools to enhance stamina, delay ejaculation, and stay energetically present during love union. Women are supported in opening to deeper receptivity, sensation, and expression.
Soulmate Retreat: Turning Love into a Spiritual Connection
The Soulmate Retreat is a 7-part series designed to guide couples into a conscious, embodied experience of love and sexuality. This training offers a respectful and emotionally attuned approach to building intimacy, one that addresses the erotic dimension of partnership and the emotional, energetic, and spiritual foundations that sustain it.
Throughout the retreat, couples are guided into a deeper experience of connection using proven methods that combine the wisdom of classical Tantra with contemporary insight into emotional regulation and energetic polarity through presence, breath, truth, and shared commitment.
For couples ready to grow in love by intention, this retreat offers the container and lived experience to make that growth real.
Upcoming Editions:
Soulmate - Level 1 (Europe)
Location: Bavaria, Germany
Dates: September 1 – 7, 2025
Teachers: Suta & Tamnaya
Only for couples
Soulmate - Level 1 (Bali)
Location: Bali
Dates: October 10 – 16, 2025
Teachers: Ma Ananda Sarita & Modestas
Only for couples
Soulmate - Level 2 (Europe)
Location: Bavaria, Germany
Dates: October 27 – November 2025
Teachers: Suta & Tamnaya
Only for couples
Tantra Transformation
Most people carry unmet emotional needs from childhood into adulthood without knowing it. What you didn’t receive at age 5, 12, 19, or 27 shapes how you relate and what you keep repeating when attempting to form connections.
The Tantra Transformation Retreat is a 7-day immersive process where you are guided back through each of the 7-year cycles of your life. You revisit who you were at each stage, child, adolescent, young adult, meet those younger parts of yourself directly, and give them what they needed but never got.
Human development moves in clear 7-year phases. In each phase, we need to feel a specific kind of relational safety. When that need isn’t met, the developmental relational task remains incomplete, and spills into the next phase.
Here’s what each cycle holds:
0–7 years:You needed to feel safe, loved, and wanted. If you didn’t, you likely developed deep self-doubt and disconnection from your body.
7–14 years:You needed to identify with same-gender role models and feel accepted. If this was missing, you may carry shame, rejection sensitivity, or social insecurity.
14–21 years:You needed to explore your sexuality, emotions, and sense of identity. If this didn’t happen safely, it often results in confusion around boundaries, desire, and self-worth.
21–28 years:You were meant to learn intimacy, expression, and emotional honesty in relationships. Instead, many repeat co-dependence, trauma bonding, or loss of self.
28–35 years: You begin searching for your purpose. If you’re stuck in earlier unmet needs, this search becomes anxious, empty, or misdirected.
Upcoming Editions:
Tantra Transformation Bali
Location: Bali
Dates: December 6 - 12, 2025
Teachers: Dharmaraj and Sira
Initiation Into Tantra
The Initiation Into Tantra retreat is a two-day immersion in Bali that occurs monthly designed to give you a direct and physically grounded experience of Tantric practice. It is a practical training in how to feel more, stay connected to your body during emotional or erotic activation, and begin working with sexual energy in a clear, structured way.
You do not need to be in a relationship to attend, and you do not need any previous experience. The group includes both singles and couples. Every practice is taught from the ground up, with a focus on safety, containment, and embodied understanding.
The group is held with strong facilitation. There is no nudity, no open sexual expression, and no group touch practices involving the genitals. Every exercise is optional. You are taught how to feel when you’re at capacity, and how to stay present with whatever arises.
This retreat is especially important if you’ve never had a safe, structured introduction to Tantra. Many people arrive with fragmented ideas based on books, pop culture, or non-consensual past experiences. What you’ll receive here is an emotionally grounded, trauma-aware initiation and a clear sense of how Tantric work is actually done, and what it means to relate to sexual energy as a living part of your body’s intelligence.
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Inner Mastery Series
The Inner Mastery Series is a sequence of seven retreats, each focused on one specific chakra. Every retreat takes you into the direct, felt reality of that chakra’s influence, how it shapes your relationships, behaviors, emotional responses, and sense of self.
You work with the energy through structured, body-based processes, guided meditation, breathwork, emotional inquiry, movement, partner exercises, and silence. You can join any retreat individually, but together they form a rigorous, long-term process of unlayering unconscious material and building a nervous system that can actually support clarity, connection, and power in daily life.
What Happens at Each Retreat
Muladhara (Root Chakra): This retreat is about confronting what you build your life on. It focuses on the need for control, your relationship to structure, how you handle fear, and whether you can slow down enough to feel safe without grasping. You’ll track the impulse to escape your body, and instead, practice staying, through the breath, the feet, and daily repetition.
Svadhisthana (Sacral Chakra): This retreat works with how you respond to people, sensation, and emotional change. You’ll look at where you fake enjoyment, where you over-accommodate, where desire feels dangerous or out of reach. The process includes movement and emotional fluidity work.
Manipura (Solar Plexus Chakra): This is where self-definition is rebuilt. The retreat focuses on how you make decisions, how you relate to conflict, and whether you collapse, comply, or dominate to avoid being fully seen. You’ll confront indecision and clarity-avoidance, and practice making contact with your own power.
Anahata (Heart Chakra): Here you work with love in its raw form. You’ll track what happens in your body when closeness is offered or withheld and you’ll practice staying open while being honest.
Vishuddha (Throat Chakra): This retreat gets into what you don’t say. You’ll locate where truth gets stalled, why boundaries don’t hold, and what it feels like to speak clearly without apology. You’ll explore how much energy is spent managing perception, and what opens when you use your voice with conviction.
Ajna (Third Eye Chakra): Here you are helped with seeing clearly. You’ll learn how to track when “intuition” is just unprocessed trauma in disguise, and how to discern what’s real from what’s familiar. You’ll work with attention, insight, and the gap between sensation and story.
Sahasrara (Crown Chakra): The final retreat brings everything together. You’ll work with spaciousness, stillness, and clarity that’s no longer attached to meaning. Here you learn what it feels like to live from integration.
Upcoming Editions
Inner Mastery - Muladhara
Location: Czech Republic
Dates: June 26 - 29, 2025
Teachers: Swami Amandep & Ma Nritya Anurasa
Inner Mastery - Swadhisthana
Country: Czech Republic
Dates: July 24 - 27, 2025
Teachers: Swami Amandep & Ma Nritya Anurasa
FAQ
Yes, a couple’s retreat is one of the most effective ways to transform a sexual and emotional relationship when guided with care. A retreat offers a safe space away from daily life where couples can reconnect, explore sacred sexuality, and learn how to build a healthy relationship through embodied practice. At retreats like The Tantra Essence Soulmate Series or Master Lover Retreat, couples engage in proven Tantric techniques that bring pleasure and emotional healing into their intimate life together.
On a couple’s retreat like The Tantra Essence Master Lover or Soulmate, you’ll participate in daily partner practices, guided meditations, emotional processing exercises, and Tantric rituals designed to deepen your sexual connection and relational integrity. You’ll learn how to communicate more honestly, touch with presence, breathe together, and access deeper levels of pleasure and spiritual intimacy, all in a safe environment led by trained facilitators.
A relationship retreat is an immersive space where couples come to explore and strengthen their bond. Through structured practices, you learn how to feel safe in intimacy, work through unconscious patterns, and create passion and connection rooted in truth, respect, and presence. In the Tantric context, retreats like the Tantra Essence Soulmate retreat teach you to grow spiritually and erotically within your relationship and co-create a life that honors the full potential of your love.
An intimacy retreat gives you the opportunity to explore vulnerability, touch, and erotic connection in a trauma-informed, respectful environment. It’s a space to reconnect with what your body and heart actually feel, rather than what you think intimacy is supposed to look like. At retreats like the Tantra Essence Goddess or Master Lover, you’ll learn how to use sacred sexuality, breath, emotional expression, and presence to reclaim and redefine intimacy as something nourishing.
