2026 Living Tantra 201 LIVE:
4 weeks, beginning September 17
Living Tantra 201
Willingness · Beauty · Shadow · Death
Week 1: Willing ness
Each of us carries vāsanās — the latent impressions and inherited tendencies that shape how we perceive, react, and desire, often long before conscious choice enters the room.
What vāsanās are: latent impressions, inherited tendencies, the grooves of the mind
How conditioning shapes perception, desire, and reaction before choice arrives
Willingness as the posture that makes seeing possible — consent without collapse
Recognizing a vāsanā in real time: body cues, repetition, charge
Family, culture, and lineage patterning — what we carry that isn't ours
Meeting old patterns without shame, suppression, or acting out
Practices for loosening the groove: witnessing, breath, interrupting the loop
Freedom as relationship to conditioning, not its erasure
The 4 Weeks
Week 2: Beauty
Beauty appears when the obstacles to presence have been lovingly removed. We are becoming Sahridaya: A human being whose entire life has become a receptive instrument for beauty.
The nine rasas and how to work with each as practice
Beauty as recognition
Sensory practices as contemplation
Tapping creative attunement
Finding beauty in the ordinary
Art, music, and film as tantric technology
Cultivating the aesthetic eye in daily life
Beauty and the beloved: seeing the divine in another's form
Week 3: Shadow
Shadow work as a tantric practice: rage, envy, shame, and desire not as obstacles to transcend but as intensities of the one consciousness, waiting to be reclaimed.
We enter experience at its strongest point and practice turning toward what we habitually turn from, with humor, rigor, and real companionship.
What shadow is: the disowned energies of the psyche
The tantric reframe: every intensity is consciousness in disguise
Projection: recognizing your shadow in what you judge
Working with shame, rage, and envy without acting them out or pushing them down
The gold in the dark
Witnessing practices
Week 4: Death
The tantrika keeps death close as a great clarifier. This unit works directly with impermanence: the death of moments, identities, relationships, and eventually the body itself.
Death as teacher: how impermanence sharpens presence
Laya: dissolution practices from the tantric tradition
The many small deaths — endings, losses, identity shifts
Breath as rehearsal: the exhale as surrender
The cremation-ground lineage: meeting fear where it lives
Grief as sacred practice
Contemplating your own death without flinching
Living from the awareness that time is finite and love is now
Prerequisite: Living Tantra 101, or significant prior practice.
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.
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 201
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
Investment
Living Tantra 201
(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.
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.