Living Tantra
A More Alive, Tender, and Wholehearted Relationship With Life
What becomes possible when you stop treating the body as a problem and begin experiencing it as a source of wisdom, vitality, and connection?
Living Tantra is an invitation to explore the rich traditions of classical Tantra, embodied spirituality, sacred relationship, and the art of living with greater presence.
Through contemplative inquiry and active practice, Christine Marie Mason brings ancient teachings into conversation with modern life—opening pathways to deeper self-understanding, emotional freedom, pleasure, and reverence for the world around us.
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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.
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.
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.
Living Tantra 101
The foundational course: the non-dual view, the subtle body, and a living home practice.
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.
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.
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.
Available Anytime
Learn at Your Own Pace
$500
Living Tantra 201
The advanced transmission: Shakti, Rasa, Shadow, Death.
Prerequisite: Living Tantra 101, or significant prior practice.
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.
Week 1: Beauty
Aesthetic experience as a primary path. Camatkara as recognition doorway — music, poetry, beauty, the felt sacred in art.
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 2: Death
Maranasmrti— remembrance of death as practice. The body dissolving back into the field it never left.
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
Week 3: Shadow
Kaula transmission deepens. What has been excluded, locked, disowned; the malas as they live in the body.
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: 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.
This week we meet Shakti (SHAHK-tee), the power, as the field in which everything happens. She is the living movement of consciousness: every sensation, every thought, every tree, every heartbeat, every love and every loss arising on her own screen.
Available Anytime
Learn at Your Own Pace
$500
Sacred Sexuality and Relationships
Neo-tantra, sacred sexuality across cultures, eros as a path, sacred relationship as initiation.
With special guest teachers:
Indian sex therapist Neha Bhat and Viraja Prema
Week 1: Neo-Tantra
What it is, where it came from, and what's actually useful.
Week 2: Sacred Sexuality Across Cultures
How traditions have held the sacred and the sexual together.
Week 3: Eros as Path
Desire, consent, and intimacy as practice.
Week 4: Sacred Relationship
Relationship as mirror and gateway; dyadic practices.
About our Special Guest Teachers
Neha Bhat
Neha Bhat is a Licensed sex and trauma psychotherapist (ABT, ATR-P) practicing between India and the U.S., known publicly as @indiansextherapist. Has worked with more than 5,000 individuals, couples, and organizations on sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, and decolonial approaches to healing, including at the University of Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago, Rush Medical Center, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Author of the bestselling Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist (HarperCollins India), winner of Vogue's Best Author Award; her Healing from Sexual Trauma Masterclass won a UN Laadli Award. Teaches at NYU, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
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Episode #175: Unashamed | Bringing Sexuality Alive in the Birthplace of the Kama Sutra
Viraja Prema
Viraja Prema is a Tantra educator, healer, and transformational coach with more than two decades of experience, working with leaders and individuals on healing and embodied transformation. PhD in Human Science / Integral Health (CIHS) and a Transformational Touch practitioner since 1996. She blends classical tantric wisdom with modern somatic technique. She is also one of Christine's teachers.
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Episode #97: Rebound from Betrayal, Create Sacred Safety & Express your True Self with Viraja Prema
Starting January 26, 2027
Every Tuesday (Virtual Sessions)
10:00 am Pacific · 1:00 PM Eastern · 6:00 PM London · 7:00 PM Central Europe · 10:30 PM India
4 Weeks
$500
Breath and Meditation Methods
A complete four-week immersion in breath as a practice system.
Basic pranayama through advanced energy practices · online and in person, co-taught with Richard Bock
Week 1: Foundations of Breath
Breath as the bridge between body and awareness; foundational pranayama.
Week 2: Building the System
Expanding capacity and subtlety; breath as a daily practice.
Week 3: Energy Practices
Working with breath to move energy and awareness.
Week 4: Integration
A sustainable personal breath practice that holds beyond the course.
About our Co-teacher
Richard Bock
Breathwork innovator and master of True Contact aquatic bodywork (Waterdance, Watsu, aquatic Craniosacral), studying and teaching breath and aquatic bodywork for 33 years and Bhakti Yoga since 1977. Raised in Northern Bavaria, he served as a Hindu priest in an ashram in India for fifteen years and later spent twenty-three years at Harbin Hot Springs. Creator of SomaRasa; carries forward the Quantum Light Breath lineage from Jeru Kabbal, taught with his wife Ki Ki. Based in Hawaiʻi.
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Episode #161 Holding to Flowing: Richard Bock on Breath, Body & Liberation
Starting January 28, 2027
Every Thursday (Virtual Sessions)
10:00 am Pacific · 1:00 PM Eastern · 6:00 PM London · 7:00 PM Central Europe · 10:30 PM India
4 Weeks
$500
Living Tantra: The Depth Forum
It is where we plant the seeds of classical tantra and tend the fire of practice, week by week, together
This winter and spring we begin the Living Tantra Forum, a weekly gathering exploring topics in classical tantra, with practice and discussion woven through each session.
Sessions run 2 hours and 15 minutes and alternate between daytime and evening, so those of you in different time zones and rhythms can join us.
We begin in January [Date and Time to be announced], take breaks February 20–27 and April 12–19, and conclude on May 15.
Week 1:
Week 2:
Week 3:
Week 4:
The full semester is 16 sessions.
Dates to be announced
Early bird: $600 [through date]
Paid upfront: $700
Monthly: $200 per month for 4 months
Living Tantra: Mantra Immersion
A four-week immersion in mantra and kirtan as a recognition doorway.
Week 1: Foundations of Mantra
Sound as a direct path; the voice as an instrument of practice; introduction to call-and-response kirtan.
Week 2: Deepening the Practice
Building stamina and presence in sustained chant; working with breath and sound together.
Week 3: Devotion as Doorway
Bhakti as a recognition path; a different mantra tradition and topic each session.
Week 4: Integration
Carrying mantra into daily life; a sustainable personal practice that holds beyond the course.
Dates and Times to be announced
Virtual Sessions
4 Weeks
$500
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
Investment
Living Tantra 101
(Introduction class)
$500
✔ 4 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Session recordings
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
Living Tantra 201
(Special topics class)
$500
✔ 4 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Session recordings
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
The Depth Forum
(A Weekly Gathering)
$600 Early Bird
$700 after
✔ 4 Modules
✔ 16 Sessions (4 months)
✔ 2 Hour 15 minutes Weekly Live Session
✔ Weekly Office Hours
✔ 1:1 with Christine
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
Mantra Immersion
$500
✔ 4 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Session
✔ Weekly Office Hours
✔ 1:1 with Christine
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
Sacred Sexuality and Relationships
Neo-tantra, sacred sexuality across cultures, eros as a path, sacred relationship as initiation.
With special guest teachers:
Indian sex therapist Neha Bhat and Viraja Prema
$500
✔ 4 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Session
✔ Weekly Office Hours
✔ 1:1 with Christine
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
Breath and Meditation Methods
A complete four-week immersion in breath as a practice system.
Basic pranayama through advanced energy practices · online and in person, co-taught with Richard Bock
$500
✔ 4 Modules
✔ 2 Hour Weekly Live Session
✔ Weekly Office Hours
✔ 1:1 with Christine
✔ Interactive Assignments
✔ Integration Session
✔ Supportive Community
PARTICIPANTS’ FEEDBACK
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.