Living Tantra 101 · Intro to Classical Tantra
4 weeks, beginning September 15
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
The sacred isn't somewhere else.
It isn't above you, ahead of you, or waiting until you've earned it. It's immanent and intimate — and you can find it alone, but more often you find it through the mirror of another person, through the feeling body, through an ungated heart.
If you're reading this, something in you was already moving.
Living Tantra 101 is four live Tuesdays of practice, scholarship and genuine company, along with extensive archives and community space to grow.
Why it's live, and why it's a group
The part people assume is a nice extra. It isn't.
Relational awakening demands relational containers.
You can read the philosophy alone. You can't practise it alone, because what's being practised is recognition, and recognition needs a mirror. Not enmeshment, not a soup of "we".
Something more precise: become so present to your own field that you can be fully attuned to
another without leaving yourself.
The group that sees and affirms each other's light, reflects the shadows gently, holds space when someone forgets. Where being recognised stops being remarkable and becomes ordinary.
Nothing gets left out
Every feeling is Shakti. Pleasure, pain, longing, despair, joy, rage, tenderness — all of it is consciousness in motion. No feeling is made wrong. Meet it. Don't suppress it. Feel it fully and add nothing extra, and it will show you the spacious awareness that was holding it the whole time. Other paths ask you to transcend, withdraw, or purify certain states out. This one doesn't exclude anything.
PARTICIPANTS’ FEEDBACK
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.
Week 1: The view.
Cosmology of Classical Tantra, Applied to Life
Nonduality, The universe as sacred play, Shiva/Shakti as living power, the Implicate/Explicate.
Introduce the Heart of Recognition.
Introduce the body as instrument. Breath practice begins.
Begin refining our inputs, and clearing of channels so energy can move.
Establish a personal altar as an attention anchor; begin a daily practice.
The 4 Weeks
Week 2: The body.
Embodiment, Sensitization, and Pleasure
The subtle body as a working map; clearing the lens of perception; the practices that move energy and awareness.
Sensation as information.
Pleasure, examined directly.
The energy locks.
The body's own points of sensitivity.
Additional practices, mudras.
We keep clearing, and more becomes available to feel.
Week 3: Relationship.
Desire, Attunement, and Sacred Relating
Desire as intelligence.
The difference between taking and exchanging.
Archetypes — deities as qualities we tune to.
Every feeling a frequency, universal and not ours alone.
Excavation and forgiveness as somatic practice
Locating what is held in the body and returning to release.
Attunement without leaving ourselves.
Giving and receiving. Meeting and being met.
Week 4: Integration.
Living a Tantric Life
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. Recognition as an act of loving habit.
SvadharmaL the work that is ours and no one else's.
What continues.
What falls away.
A practice plan made for the life you actually have.
An Immersive Journey
Many of us have been taught to live from the neck up, and told that spirituality means leaving the body behind. Shame around pleasure, the body, and even the sacred are invisible teachers. In the classical tantric worldview, your body is 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
Living Tantra I01 (Introduction Class)
Four Tuesdays, September 15 to October 6, 2026
Participate in Either Time:
7:00 pm Central European Time/ 1:00 pm Eastern/ 10:00 am Pacific
Investment
Living Tantra 101
(Introduction class)
$500
✔ 4 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.
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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.
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 four-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.