2026 Living Tantra LIVE:
STARTS september 15, 2026.
An Introduction to Tantra, Neo Tantra and Sacred Sexuality
Bring the Light of Awareness to the Emergent Moment
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Bring the Light of Awareness to the Emergent Moment 🏵
Welcome!
I’m so glad you’re here. I love this material so much- classical tantra is a rich line of ideas and practices that radically upgrade our experience of life. I offer this course twice a year. I has become a living community of practice and inquiry. You will learn, deepen, make friends and come to new understandings of how these ancient philosophies can be applied now.
I approach this material with respectful scholarship, and active practices, as an invitation into a more alive, wildly potent and tender relationship with all of life.
Every class cohort becomes a community. It’s a potent and highly personalized container.
XO,
Christine Marie / C-Ma
Step fully into the promise of your life.
The classical texts say that each one of us is a fragment of the one light, here to fully experience this life and our own embodiment, and reflect back to creation what only we can see, from our unique position in this body, in this time and place.
There are thousands of practices and philosophies that support this way of being. Join me as we explore some of them together.
This course is an antidote to any lingering beliefs that the body is a problem. Instead, tantra sees the body is a divine expression, a gateway and a source of full vibrancy.
Together, we create a dynamic space filled with wonder. We expand our capacity to move with and through various energies and emotions with compassion and playfulness. We learn how to navigate sensation in ways that profoundly improve relationships and deepen our connection with the world.
PARTICIPANTS’ FEEDBACK
Living Tantra
AN Immersive Journey
Many of us have been taught to live from the neck up -- told that spirituality means leaving the body behind. Shame around pleasure, disembodiment, and sacred disconnection have become your invisible teachers. And yet... in the classical tantric worldview, your body isn’t the problem, but the doorway.
You’re not alone if you’ve ever felt…
Your sensuality doesn’t belong in spiritual life
Pleasure carries guilt or cultural disapproval
You’ve been trained to disassociate from your own body
True intimacy seems distant or undervalued
The unspoken truth is that the body is divine intelligence and a temple of aliveness. Tantra honors this. It’s an invitation to return fully to your sensory self, to release old myths, and reclaim your sacred vibrancy. Here, “spirit” and “body” are one.
There is no split between spirit and sensuality in the material sense, we are both all the time.
Imagine…
Moving through life guided by embodied presence, aliveness permeating every moment
Your relationships rooted in deep, attuned intimacy and compassion
Pleasure as a sacred portal to awakening, not distraction
Your Invitation:
Living Tantra I01 (Introduction Class)
Four Tuesdays, September 15 to October 6, 2026
Living Tantra 201 (For Returning Students)
Four Thursdays, September 17 to October 8, 2026
Participate in Either Time:
7:00 pm Central European Time/ 1:00 pm Eastern/ 10:00 am Pacific
Join Us!
Classical Tantra, NeoTantra and Waking Down into the Body
With Christine Marie Mason, 20 year Practitioner-Scholar of Bhakti Tantra, Author, Reverent Sexuality Advocate and Educator, and Special Guest Lecturers and intimate 1:1 support
Living Tantra I01:
The foundational course.
The non-dual view, the subtle body, clearing the lens of perception, home practices.
Modules
Living Tantra 201:
Shakti, Rasa, Shadow, Death. Requires either 101 or significant prior practice as a foundation
Sacred Sexuality and Relationships
Sacred Sexuality and Relationships — Neo-tantra, sacred sexuality across cultures, eros as a path, sacred relationship as initiation. Accessible without 101 as a prerequisite, though 101 deepens it considerably.
Tantric Breath
Tantric Breath — A complete four-week immersion in breath as a practice system. Draws on the full range of tantric breathwork from basic pranayama through advanced energy practices.
schedule
Living Tantra 101
The foundational course: the non-dual view, the subtle body, and a living home practice.
4 weeks · three threads each week (philosophy / embodied practice / reflection & dyads)
Sept 15 (Week 1) The View and the Altar
Locate yourself in the Kashmir Shaivism and Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta lineages without initiatory dependency; articulate the non-dual view in your own words; establish a personal altar as an attention anchor; begin a daily practice held for seven days.
Sept 22 (Week 2) The Subtle Body
The subtle body as a working map; clearing the lens of perception; the practices that move energy and awareness.
Sept 29 (Week 3) Clearing the Lens
Excavation and forgiveness as somatic practice; locating what is held and locked in the body and returning, again and again, to release.
Oct 6 (Week 4) Spanda and Home Practice
Recognize spanda — vibratory aliveness — in ordinary experience; design a sustainable home practice; return to the non-dual view and notice whether it is now felt rather than understood. Leave with a living practice, not a completed course.
Living Tantra 201
The advanced transmission: Shakti, Rasa, Shadow, Death.
Prerequisite
Living Tantra 101 or significant prior practice.
Readiness Note
The Shadow and Death units require participants who have done enough prior work to engage without destabilizing. The prerequisite structure is explicit and enforced at enrollment.
(Sept 17) Week 1 Shakti
Shakti as the field everything occurs in — her names, her forms, the Shakta Agamas, the body as her body. The erotic and the fierce held together.
(Sept 24) Week 2 Rasa
Aesthetic experience as a primary path. Camatkara as recognition doorway — music, poetry, beauty, the felt sacred in art.
(Oct 1) Week 3 Shadow
Kaula transmission deepens. What has been excluded, locked, disowned; the malas as they live in the body. Requires the Shakti and Rasa ground first.
(Oct 8) Week 4 Death
Maranasmarana — remembrance of death as practice. The body dissolving back into the field it never left. The most radical opening available.
Investment
Living Tantra 101
(Introduction class)
$500
✔ 6 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Sessions
✔ Weekly Office Hours
✔ 1:1 with Christine
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
Living Tantra 201
(For REturning students)
$500
✔ 6 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Sessions
✔ Weekly Office Hours
✔ 1:1 with Christine
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
Course FAQs
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No, you don't need any prior knowledge. Our course is designed to guide beginners through the principles and practices of Tantra, Neo-Tantra, and Sacred Sexuality.
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The interactive sessions will provide a safe and supportive space for you to explore and practice the teachings — including discussions, exercises, and Q&A sessions.
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Yes — once the course materials are released each week, you can access them at any time that suits you. This allows you to learn at your own pace.
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Yes — the course is delivered fully online.
Living Tantra is for anyone who has been curious about Tantra and wants to place it in the context of its classical origins and broader philosophical base.
IF YOU ARE:
✨ Someone who is seeking an expanded way of life
✨ Curious about embodied spirituality and want to learn practices
✨Looking for greater attunement and intimacy in your relationships
✨ Curious about disentangling disassociation and shame from sexuality
BONUS CONTENT FOR:
✨ Sexuality educators wanting to expand their understanding of Tantra to enrich their teaching.
✨ Yoga teachers looking to integrate the classical teachings of Tantra into their personal practice & yoga instruction.
Yoga teachers: Earn 18 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits with the Living Tantra course.
If you're interested in receiving American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), please speak with us.
Whether you’re exploring Tantra for personal growth or professional development, this six-week journey offers practical tools and transformative insights to enrich your relationships, spirituality, and everyday life.
As this course comes to a close, you may find that something in you is just beginning to open.
Living Tantra Fall Immersion in Hawaiʻi
November 1 to 22, 2026
Kalapana, Hawaii
This Tantra retreat in Hawaiʻi initiates you into the somatic and spiritual lineage I teach
Choose your length—One week, two, or the full three, November 1 through 22, 2026.
This is also for aspiring teachers; each week earns you 25 Living Tantra certification credits, and yoga teachers can get Yoga Alliance continuing education hours (YACEP), so your time on the land advances your path as a practitioner and a teacher.
For those who feel called to go deeper, you are invited into a more immersive field of practice, rest, and recalibration. You may also choose to incorporate a guided detox experience into your stay, with nourishing meals, restorative practices, and time in nature designed to support renewal, cleansing, and deeper connection with yourself. Whether you come for a week or the full immersion, you'll have the opportunity to reset, recharge, and return home feeling refreshed and inspired.
If you feel the call to continue beyond study into lived experience, this immersion is the next step.
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