There is something
the body knows.
In today’s world, life moves at an accelerated pace. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, many of us lose touch with something essential. The quiet aliveness that is meant to be there. The sense of being truly at home in our own skin. The natural flow of energy through the body, through our relationships, through our experience of being vibrantly, blissfully alive.
Sometimes what has grown quiet is the capacity for deep rest and presence. Sometimes it is the joy that should move freely but feels somehow out of reach. Sometimes it is something more tender: the longing for genuine intimacy, for touch that feels safe and sacred, for a part of ourselves we were perhaps taught to keep hidden.
In Tantra, all of this is understood. The life-force energy that lives in the body, the energy of creativity, love, connection and desire is sacred. When it is given space, when it is met with care and witnessing consciousness, something profound becomes possible.
This retreat is built around the magic of becoming who you truly are deep within. Over eight days, we will journey together through all seven chakras. Each day is devoted to one energy centre, awakened through a dedicated Tantra massage, held within meditation, ritual, and dance.
The body is the doorway.
What Tantra
Really Means
I want to share something that has been at the heart of my teaching since 1990, because the word Tantra is so often misunderstood.
Tantra carries three profound meanings:
To weave
Tantra weaves together the union of opposite polarities, discovering the oneness that lives beneath all apparent contradiction. Masculine and feminine, body and spirit, shadow and light.
Transforming poison into nectar
The very things we have been taught to suppress, our emotions, instincts and longing for union, are sacred raw material in Tantra. When met with witnessing consciousness, every human expression reveals the divine hidden within it.
Methods for transforming consciousness
Tantra is a living system of practices: enlivening the senses, activating the chakra system, experiencing kundalini awakening, and moving the life-force energy to expand consiousness.
In this retreat, we focus entirely on awakening and healing your 7 chakras, through a dedicated Tantra massage for each chakra, supported by meditation, ritual, dance, and sharing circles. Each chakra holds a colour, an element, and a life lesson. As we journey through them together, layer by layer, something sacred in you begins to remember.
The Living Map of the
Chakras
Imagine a multifaceted diamond, radiant, flawless, whole. As the light of creation shines through this diamond of consciousness, it fractures into all the colours of the rainbow. Each colour carries a frequency. Each frequency holds a life lesson. Each lesson, when truly lived, makes you more luminous.
This is what the chakra system offers us: a map for the journey home.
1st Chakra
Muladhara — Root Center
Survival, procreation, animalistic tendencies, sexuality and orgasmic ecstasy. The earth beneath your feet. The primal aliveness of being here.
2nd Chakra
Svadisthana — Lower Belly
The portals of birth and death and the cycles of creation. Learning to move through emotions the way water moves with fluidity and grace. The art of profound feeling and connection.
3rd Chakra
Manipura — Solar Plexus
Becoming vast enough to hold life's contradictions, and discovering that genius lives precisely where opposites meet. Throwing off conditioning to find your individual soul calling.
4th Chakra
Anahata — Heart Center
Love, nurturing, and compassion. Opening into oneness with the universal heart that pulsates in everything.
5th Chakra
Vishuddha — Throat
Becoming a co-creator with the divine. Speaking from truth. Expressing your soul's calling through pure creativity.
6th Chakra
Ajna — Third Eye
Expanding intuition and clairvoyant vision. The beautiful, liberating surrender of ego to the wisdom of the soul.
7th Chakra
Sahasrara — Crown
The merging of all colours into white light. Reunion with source. Diamond consciousness — pristine, radiant, one with all that is.
When all seven colours of your inner rainbow merge… the result is the white light of your wholeness.
What You Will
Experience
This retreat is a full eight-day immersion structured around the seven chakras. Each day is dedicated to one energy centre, awakened and healed primarily through a specific Tantra massage, woven together with meditation, ritual, dance, and group sharing. Every day is a sacred layer of the journey.
- A dedicated Tantra massage for each chakra, seven energy centres, each with its own healing frequency and unique style of sacred touch
- Deep meditations, ritual, and vibrant dance, woven around each massage to bring the full energy of that chakra alive
- Chakra activations and rituals, moving through each energy center with specific explorations tailored to each life lesson
- Kundalini awakening practices, working with the life-force energy that carries the potential for profound spiritual expansion
- Conscious emotional fluidity, learning to move through the full spectrum of human feeling with grace and presence
- Ecstatic practices from Tantra, exploring the body as a sacred instrument
- Integration and rest, space woven throughout for the inner shifts to deepen and settle in the body
Each day builds upon the last. By the time we close on day eight, your body will have received seven different chakra massages and traveled the full spectrum of your inner rainbow. Something in you, I promise you, will have shifted in new and wonderful ways.
A Word from
Ma Ananda Sarita
I am well aware of the myths that surround Tantra.
It is genuinely disheartening that a word with such beautiful meanings has been so widely misunderstood. Let me be absolutely clear: this retreat is a massage-centred healing experience. Each day we work with a different chakra through sacred touch, and this is a fully non-sexual, deeply respectful container. It is about recognising your holistic being as sacred.
In Tantra, the emotion you have been suppressing, the instinct you have been ashamed of, the longing you have been afraid to admit, these are not obstacles on the path. They are the path. When we meet them with a witnessing consciousness, the divine reveals itself there.
I have been walking this path since 1973. I have guided thousands of people, women, men, couples, seekers, healers, teachers, through exactly this kind of inner journey. And what I know, with every cell of my being, is this:
"The wholeness you are seeking is not something you need to create. It is something you need to remember."
Meet Your
Teachers
Ma Ananda Sarita
Founder of Tantra Essence, Tantra Master, Mystic & Author
There are teachers who share knowledge. And then there are those who carry a living transmission, one that touches something deep inside you that words alone cannot reach. Sarita is one of those rare beings.
Since 1990, she has guided people from all walks of life through the deepest territories of love, healing, and spiritual awakening. Her retreats and trainings have reached tens of thousands of students through 30+ programs designed with her heart and soul.
Her path began in 1973, when she encountered the enlightened mystic Osho and spent the next 17 years in his presence and 26 years in total in his community, absorbing the full depth of his teachings on Tantra, love, and meditation through direct transmission and lived experience.
She founded Tantra Essence in 2008 and has since built it into one of the most respected schools of authentic Tantra on the planet. She is also the author of two beloved books, Tantra Alchemy and Divine Sexuality.
When you sit in a room with Sarita, a magical opening happens that paves the path for transformation. Her presence is mystical, loving, and passionately alive.
Modestas Stonkus
Lead Faculty, Tantra Essence, Tantra Teacher, Dancer & Bodyworker
Modestas moves through the world with an uncommon grace, the kind that comes from two decades of living at the intersection of Tantra, movement, and the art of deep presence.
He is a graduate of the Tantra Essence Teacher Training and now serves as Lead Faculty in the Academy, specializing in Tantra Massage, the Tantra Teacher Training, and the Soulmate Series for couples. He is gifted in many modalities of Tantra Massage and has shared the art of Taoist Tantra Massage, of which he is one of the world’s leading practitioners, with hundreds of clients around the world.
His personal development journey began over 20 years ago when he became a Reiki Master-Teacher in Lithuania. He has apprenticed directly with Ma Ananda Sarita for many years, growing into one of her most trusted co-teachers. His unique background in dance and movement gives him a particularly precise and compassionate reading of how people carry themselves, and what they need to come alive again.
Modestas travels the world teaching, mentoring, and creating experiences that inspire growth and expand the capacity for love. When he is in a room, the room pulsates with a new joyously vibrant energy.
This Retreat is
For You If…
- You feel a deep calling toward Tantra and authentic spiritual practice, and you’re ready to go beyond the intellectual understanding
- You sense that the life-force energy within you has grown still, and you want to feel it moving again, with vitality and joy
- You are a therapist, healer, yoga teacher, or coach who wants to integrate these practices into your professional work
- You have done years of inner work and feel ready for a deeper layer, one that reaches the unconscious, subconscious and superconscious aspects of your being
- You long for a genuine community of conscious, like-minded souls on the path
- You are ready to receive, to let healing arrive not just through insight, but through the wisdom of sacred touch
Practical
Details
When & Where
- 📅 11th May – 18th May, 2026
- 🏝 Bali, Indonesia
- ⏰ Arrival by 2:00pm on Day 1
- 🌅 Closing at 4:00pm on Day 8
What's Included
- ◆ All teachings, massages, meditations & rituals
- ◆ Shared accommodation in a beautiful Bali setting
- ◆ All meals throughout the retreat
- ◆ A lifelong community of fellow practitioners
Investment
Your Questions,
Answered
Is this retreat suitable for beginners?
Will there be sexual practices in this retreat?
What if I feel uncomfortable with certain practices?
Stories from
Past Participants
I came in searching for something I couldn't name. By day four, I had found it — not out there, but deep inside myself. Sarita's guidance is unlike anything I have ever experienced.
The chakra journey unlocked places in me I didn't know were still closed. I left Bali feeling more alive, more myself, than I have in years.
I have done many retreats. This one touched something different. The combination of meditation, sacred touch, and ritual creates a depth that is rare and precious.
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