A Tantra School Where World-Class Teachers Are Trained
Dec 04, 2025
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 Training is recognized as one of the most respected and in-depth Tantra trainings available today, offering a strong foundation for those who wish to teach, and this program has shaped many world renowned Tantra teachers.
Tantra Essence also hosts a variety of short form and long form retreats for women, men, couples and individuals who are new or experienced in Tantra. Our immersions are taught by Sarita's Kaula team of professional teachers, as well as by Sarita herself.
Who is Ma Ananda Sarita?
Ma Ananda Sarita is a world renowned Tantra master and mystic.
Having received a direct transmission from Osho, she is true to the spiritual essence of Tantra and guides her students on the path of self realisation. At the same time, she helps people to transcend the psychological issues which are carried as a result of cultural conditioning and past experiences. She is also a master healer, author and producer/ director of our Tantra online courses, including the Master Lover Program, The Goddess Unveiled, Women's Erotic & Emotional Fulfillment, and the online Tantra Massage course.
Sarita was already very sensitive to subtle energies and guidance from Spirit as a child, and as a young teenager she left her home town in California and went in search of the essence of life. She hitch-hiked her way throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and India. She met Osho in Mumbai India in 1973, at the age of 17, and subsequently remained in his community for the next 26 years, receiving much personal guidance from him on the subject of Meditation, Tantra, Love and Relationship.
Our Lineage
Osho and the living transmission
Ma Ananda Sarita, founder of Tantra Essence, was personally initiated by Osho and lived in his community for over two decades. In that time she received a direct transmission of Tantra.
Through her years with Osho, Sarita realized that bliss is the natural state of every human being. It is the very essence of our being before it becomes covered by conditioning. Osho’s transmission revealed that these divisions are illusions. When consciousness meets life without resistance and when one says yes to existence in its entirety, bliss spontaneously flowers.
The purpose of Tantra Essence is to create the conditions for that remembrance. Through meditation, awareness of the body, and conscious intimacy, the veils of conditioning gently dissolve. What remains is a return to natural aliveness and trust in life itself. From this place, joy arises effortlessly, as the expression of who we already are.
Read: The Life of a Sannyasin: Being One of Osho’s Disciples
The classical Tantra foundations
Part of the Tantra Essence lineage is the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, one of the most profound scriptures on human consciousness. Originating from the Kashmir Shaivite tradition more than five millennia ago, this sacred text opens with a timeless conversation between the goddess Devi (Parvati) and her consort Shiva (Bhairava). In devotion and wonder, Devi asks, “O Shiva, what is your reality? What is this universe? Who centers the wheel of the universe? How may we enter it fully, beyond space and time, beyond duality?”
In response, Shiva reveals 112 gateways to awakening, practical methods for expanding awareness through direct experience. In these meditations, breath, sound, desire, movement, love, fear, and sacred sexuality are all included, offering the revelation that every facet of existence reveals an opportunity for awakening. The text teaches that when met with awareness, all of life becomes sacred.
Throughout our immersions, students are guided to explore selected meditations from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, and we also have an exclusive yearly Vigyan Bharaiv Tantra retreat where we explore experientially the 112 meditations. It takes 3 of these retreats to explore all 112 methods.
Tantric Buddhism
Within Tantra Essence, we also share practices of Tantric Buddhism (Vajrayana).
A central concept we draw from Vajrayana is upaya, or skillful means, the understanding that every person requires a different entry point into awakening. This shapes how all of our retreats and trainings are designed. Each exercise or meditation is introduced progressively, with stages of integration and reflection.
Another key influence is the Mahamudra view, known in Vajrayana as the “Great Seal.” It teaches that all experiences, whether blissful or painful, are expressions of the same luminous awareness. Nothing needs to be suppressed or improved; awakening happens through recognizing the nature of mind in the midst of ordinary life.
Śākta Tantra: The Path of Shakti
The current of Śākta Tantra, the path of the Divine Feminine, is an important component of the heart of Tantra Essence. Śākta philosophy recognizes Shakti as the creative force behind all existence, the living energy through which consciousness experiences itself. She is not separate from Shiva, the still awareness that perceives her; she is the dynamic expression of that awareness.
Our women’s programs arise from this understanding. The Goddess Essence Series, inspired by this lineage, helps women remember the sacredness of their bodies and emotions as channels of awakening. Similarly, men are guided to honor the feminine principle within as well as their own divine masculine, throughout our programs.
Śākta Tantra teaches that when consciousness and energy merge, when Shiva and Shakti meet within, bliss becomes the natural expression of being. This is the remembering that we are the dance of Shakti and Shiva, consciousness and energy, awareness and love, walking divinity in motion.
Our Tantra Retreats & Tantra Workshops
Tantra Essence offers immersive, in-person retreats and workshops around the world in locations such as Bali, India, Mexico, Europe, and the USA.
The Master Lover Retreat
The Master Lover Retreat is a deep, experiential training in conscious intimacy. Over several days, participants are guided to understand how love and sexuality can become powerful experiences to awakening.
At this retreat, you are shown how to be a master lover in the true Tantric sense, someone who meets another with total awareness. A major part of this retreat is learning to understand, circulate, and direct your sexual energy. You explore how it can be transformed into vitality and creative life force, rather than being spent unconsciously.
In order to become a master lover, it is essential to understand the opposite gender and to move forward in intimacy, holding sacred space for your partner to be truly themselves. Many misunderstandings happen for men and women simply because each gender is expecting the other to be like them. Education on this point is essential if we hope to ever create a milieu conducive for sexual fulfillment.
This retreat also addresses the emotional and psychological layers that often make authentic intimacy difficult. Participants learn how to dissolve fear and patterns of disconnection, and how to meet vulnerability with confidence and compassion.
By the end of the retreat, you have a direct experience of intimacy as a meditative practice where love, sexuality, and spiritual awareness are no longer separate. You leave with a deeper understanding of your own body, your energy, and the art of meeting another as your fullest, most present self.
Goddess Essence – Four-Part Series
The Goddess Essence Series is a four-part journey into the heart of what it means to live in a female body as a fully realized, divinely designed template of feminine intelligence. Created by Ma Ananda Sarita and taught internationally by the Tantra Essence team, this series is the culmination of decades of intimate, hands-on work with women’s Tantra.
The journey begins at the heart, the first Goddess Portal in the female chakra system and the place where so many women carry contraction. In this immersion we guide you in releasing the holding patterns around the heart and to begin to soften, opening your natural capacity to love and be loved.
From the heart, we descend into the womb, the second Goddess Portal in the feminine system. Here, women reconnect with instincts and feelings they have been trained to suppres and we explore the cyclical nature of feminine energy. We also explore female eroticism and how to rewrite the script from patriarchy attitudes and open the door to true female pleasure potential.
As heart and womb awaken, the feminine intuitive channel naturally begins to open, drawing us into the third eye, the third Goddess Portal. Here, the woman as healer and guide emerges. We explore clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, and the subtler psychic senses, helping each woman identify her natural gifts. The culmination of the journey unfolds at the crown, the point beyond polarity where divine awareness flows into the body.
The Goddess Essence path continues with our Goddess Essence Teacher Training for women who feel the call to guide others through these initiations.
Soulmate – Seven-Level Journey for Couples
The Soulmate Training is a seven-level journey for couples who sense that love can be a spiritual path that can awaken the deepest truths of body, heart and soul. This is a culmination of practices Sarita has learned over 5 decades, and is essentially the creme de la creme of Tantric practices for couples. The program is designed in such a way to only introduce the practises to the couples once they have completed the series of sadhana practices of previous lessons.
Each level builds on the last, and couples are required to complete specific “love appointments” both during and after the retreats which are intentional meetings that ensure the transformation and ability to rise in love are integrated into everyday life. These love appointments are essential; they are not optional tasks but sacred commitments that prepare couples to progress to the higher levels of the journey.
For couples ready to walk this path, in this immersion you will come to realize that the greatest spiritual teacher you will ever meet is your beloved beside you as well as your inner male or inner female who they are mirroring.
Tantra Transformation
The Tantra Transformation Retreat is a deeply effective process for understanding how your early life shaped the way you relate and express yourself today. Human development naturally unfolds through seven-year cycles, and each cycle forms a different layer of your emotional foundation. When something difficult or traumatic happens within one of these cycles, your growth in that area can stall. You may mature in age, but part of you continues operating from that earlier stage, repeating the same emotional reactions and relationship patterns.
This retreat is designed to help you revisit each of these developmental stages in a safe, guided environment so you can release the stagnation left behind and update the unconscious beliefs that still influence your adult life. Through a unique blend of classical Tantra practices combined with modern hypnotherapy and psychotherapy, you’ll be led step-by-step through the memories and imprints of each cycle.
Inner Mastery Series
In Tantra, true spiritual mastery comes from understanding how to work with each chakra through various meditation practices . When a chakra is out of balance, it directly affects your behavior, your confidence, your relationships, and your ability to stay grounded or clear. When it is awakened and aligned, it becomes a source of stability and inner authority.
Each retreat in the Inner Mastery Series is a focused three or four-day immersion dedicated to one chakra. You work with its specific themes and challenges through a combination of tantric practices, meditation, breathwork, emotional processing, and guided embodiment techniques. The series is intentionally flexible: you can start with any chakra. There is no required starting point and no fixed order. After each retreat, participants are encouraged to complete a series of meditation practices which ensure powerful and lasting transformation
Initiation into Tantra
Initiation into Tantra is a two-day introduction to the essence of the Tantric path and an experiential immersion designed for anyone curious about Tantra and ready to explore what this ancient tradition can offer. Over the course of two days, you are guided through the foundational principles of awareness and conscious connection.
The Vigyan Bhairav Tantra retreat takes you into one of the most powerful Tantric texts ever recorded, a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati in which Parvati asks a series of penetrating questions: “O Shiva, what is your reality? What is this wonder-filled universe? What constitutes seed? Who centers the universal wheel? What is this life beyond form pervading forms? How may we enter it fully, above space and time, names and descriptions? Let my doubts be cleared!”
This retreat is ideal for beginners, yet meaningful for anyone who wants a grounded and accurate entry point into Tantra.
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
Shiva responds with 112 practical methods for entering expanded awareness in the middle of real life. In this immersion, you explore methods that use the breath, the senses, the heartbeat, sound, inner space, outer space, emotion, desire, silence, movement, and everyday activities as doorways into an exalted state of consciousness.
This body of work is profound because it offers a complete map of human awareness. Every type of person can find a technique that fits their nature, and Shiva’s answers include methods for every temperament and every moment, which is why this text has survived for thousands of years and remains central to classical Tantra today.
Every year, Tantra Essence hosts an annual Vigyan Bhairav Tantra retreat in India. This retreat has become one of our most popular and sought-after offerings, drawing participants from around the world who want to experience the text in the land where it originated.
Tachyon Vertical Reality
Tachyon Vertical Reality is a retreat immersion where you learn to work with a unique spectrum of subtle energy known as Tachyon, particles that exist beyond the speed of light, linked directly to the Zero Point Field and capable of organizing and restoring the energetic system at its deepest layers. Tachyon energy operates at the level of the energetic blueprint, influencing consciousness from the root energetic code.
At Tantra Essence, we offer initiatory Tachyon immersions for those who want to experience the modality firsthand, as well as professional-level training for students who feel called to work with Tachyon energy more deeply or eventually share it with others.
Tantra Practitioner & Teacher Trainings
Tantra Teacher Training
The Tantra Teacher Training by Tantra Essence is one of the most respected and sought-after Tantra certifications in the world. Designed by Ma Ananda Sarita and taught by her personally alongside her senior faculty, this program distills decades of direct Tantric transmission into a structured, world-class professional training.
This training is known for producing teachers who are of the highest integrity and skill. By the end of the program, you have the competence and certification to lead classes, workshops, retreats, and private sessions in the field of Tantra. Many graduates go on to build successful international careers, and the training is recognized globally for the quality of its instruction and the maturity of its alumni.
The program is delivered in two parts, offering what you need to know for transforming yourself and teaching Tantra responsibly.
Goddess Essence Teacher Training
The Goddess Essence Teacher Training is the professional training where women learn to lead the full four-part Goddess Essence Series, the foundational feminine Tantra journey created by Ma Ananda Sarita mentioned in our retreats list above. It is one of the most respected and sought-after teacher trainings in the field of Women’s Tantra, known for producing facilitators who are capable of holding powerful transformational spaces.
This training for women is designed and taught by Sarita along with her senior female faculty and is a specialized program focused on the feminine path. The content is based on Sarita’s decades of work with women and on the proven structure of the Goddess Essence journey itself.
Mystic Tantra Massage Practitioner Training
The Mystic Tantra Massage Practitioner Training is the most comprehensive and professionally structured Tantra Massage training available today. Created by Ma Ananda Sarita and her Kaula team, it brings together the two strongest classical lineages of tantric massage, Kashmiri Shaivism and Taoist arts, and trains practitioners to offer sessions that are skilled and grounded in real tantric understanding. This is where professional Tantra massage therapists are made.
Graduates leave qualified to offer professional Tantra Massage sessions in a way that is ethical and deeply transformative. For a full mastery of the 4 main massage techniques offered in this course, it is highly recommended to offer 20 sessions of each of the massages before stepping out into the world as a Tantra Massage professional. Many go on to build successful private practices or integrate this work into existing therapeutic or spiritual professions. And some graduates come back again and again to this training simply because it is incredibly nurturing to give and receive massages every day!
Our Tantra Teachers
Our Lead Faculty
Suta
With over 25 years of experience in Tantra, Breathwork, and Meditation, Suta is known for his ability to bridge sensuality and spirituality in a grounded, accessible way. Teaching with Ma Ananda Sarita and the Kaula team since 2008, he has led transformational workshops in more than 15 countries, helping people reconnect with love and inner peace.
Tanmaya
Combining her background in acting, singing, and meditation, Tanmaya brings lightness and joy to her Tantra teachings. Having been a dedicated apprentice of Sarita since 2011, she leads Tantra Essence retreats and trainings for singles, couples, and women worldwide.
Dharmaraj
A Tantra teacher and intimacy coach from the USA, Dharmaraj blends the wisdom of Tantra, Taoism, and Shamanism. Trained by masters including Ma Ananda Sarita, Margot Anand, and Mantak Chia, he teaches globally at Tantra Essence retreats and festivals.
Modestas Stonkus
Professional dancer turned Tantra teacher and bodyworker, Modestas merges movement, awareness, and sensual embodiment into transformative experiences. Founder of Dance of Tantra, he has been teaching with Tantra Essence since 2016, specializing in the Soulmate Series for Couples, Master Lover, Tantra Essence Teacher Training and Mystic Tantra Massage trainings.
Dieke
Former innovation manager turned Tantra facilitator, Dieke now dedicates her life to teaching couples work and women’s work. Passionate about making Tantra practical, she helps partners integrate Tantric wisdom into everyday life and business. Alongside her partner Modestas, she teaches the Soulmate Series, The Mystic Massage Practitioner Training, and Master Lover Retreats in Bali and beyond.
Click here to see our team and meet our entire Tantra Essence faculty.
The Vision: Living Tantra In Everyday Life
At Tantra Essence, our vision is simple and direct. Tantra is a way of living. It is a path that brings awareness and presence into the moments where life actually happens. Tantra teaches that nothing in our human experience stands in the way of awakening towards an extraordinary life. On the contrary, everything we feel, meet, and touch is a gateway back to our original nature.
Sarita often reminds us that our default template is bliss. We are born with an innate connection to love and natural presence. Over time, conditioning, trauma, fear, and cultural pressure bury our template under layers of protection and contraction, but the divine blueprint never disappears.
At its core, Tantra Essence exists to help people remember who they truly are and experience the living, breathing expression of the divine template that has been inside them all along, and further, helps you to open your central channel to the descent of grace, leading you into becoming ‘walking divinity.’ In this state, the divine lives and breaths in and through you.
