Level I · The Path of Embodiment
Personal Tantra Apprenticeship
“The first initiation is personal.”
A six-month immersion into the living practice of Tantra through embodiment, intimacy, consciousness, sexuality, relational intelligence, and transformative community.
Study ancient Tantric principles in dialogue with psychology, neuroscience, somatic practice, trauma-informed work, and the living complexity of human relationships.
Through teaching, embodied practice, mentorship, community, and a series of personal and relational rites of passage, you will develop the foundations required to live the work before carrying it for others.
Graduates who successfully complete all educational and retreat requirements become:
Certified Personal Tantra Practitioners
The first threshold
Six months that can change how you experience being human.
There comes a moment when understanding is no longer enough.
You may already recognize the patterns shaping your relationships. You may have studied psychology, spirituality, embodiment, sexuality, or personal transformation. You may know the language of healing and consciousness.
Another threshold appears when knowledge must enter the body.
The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship begins here.
This is a sustained journey into the inner architecture of lived experience: how you inhabit your body, move with life force, meet desire, enter intimacy, communicate truth, create relationship, and experience consciousness through ordinary human life.
Tantra becomes more than philosophy or occasional practice.
- It becomes a way of perceiving.
- A way of listening to the body.
- A way of meeting intensity without abandoning presence.
- A way of recognizing the unseen forces shaping attraction, conflict, sexuality, vulnerability, and connection.
Throughout the six months, teachings are studied, practiced, questioned, and tested through direct experience and relationship.
You will explore practices that awaken energy and sensitivity, reveal unconscious patterns, deepen intimacy, strengthen boundaries, refine communication, and open mystical dimensions of awareness through breath, presence, sensation, and the intelligence of the body.
The purpose is to cultivate the perception, presence, responsibility, and inner capacity required to live with greater consciousness.
Level I is a complete path of personal education and certification in its own right.
For some apprentices, it becomes a profound foundation for relationships, spirituality, creativity, leadership, and daily life.
For others, it reveals a calling to continue into professional formation.
Every path begins in the same place:
- With the willingness to enter your own experience more fully.
Who enters this path?
The Apprenticeship begins at different thresholds.
Some people arrive through a relationship that has revealed the limits of everything they previously understood about intimacy.
Some feel the intelligence of the body awakening and want to explore it with greater depth, structure, and discernment.
Some have studied psychology, spirituality, sexuality, embodiment, or personal transformation for years, yet sense that information alone can no longer take them where they want to go.
Others are standing at the edge of a new chapter and recognize that the person they are becoming requires a more embodied relationship with consciousness, desire, energy, intimacy, and life itself.
You may recognize yourself here if:
You have outgrown information
You understand many of your patterns intellectually, yet want transformation to enter your body, relationships, choices, and daily life.
You are called toward deeper intimacy
You want to move beyond familiar ideas of connection and develop the presence, sensitivity, communication, and relational intelligence required for extraordinary depth.
Your body is becoming a field of discovery
You are curious about life force, sexuality, pleasure, sensation, nervous-system intelligence, and the body as an entrance into consciousness and spiritual experience.
Your relationships are asking more of you
You want to understand the hidden dynamics shaping attraction, conflict, polarity, boundaries, attachment, desire, and the continual encounter between two human worlds.
Your spirituality wants to become embodied
You no longer want spirituality to remain separate from sexuality, relationship, leadership, creativity, money, purpose, or the complexity of ordinary life.
You are entering a new stage of formation
You may be a coach, therapist, healer, artist, entrepreneur, leader, or experienced practitioner who understands that the depth of your presence shapes everything you create and offer.
Or you may have no professional intention at all.
You are simply ready for a sustained personal path that asks you to study, practice, participate, and allow the work to become part of the way you live.
- You do not need to arrive with certainty.
You need curiosity strong enough to become commitment, openness joined with discernment, and a willingness to meet your own experience with honesty.
What you will develop
Tantra becomes visible through the capacities you carry.
The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship is designed to cultivate more than insight.
Over six months, you develop a deeper capacity to perceive, feel, relate, choose, and remain present within the complexity of human experience.
The work gradually begins to shape the way you inhabit your body, meet intimacy, move with life force, communicate truth, and participate in relationship.
Embodied Presence
Develop the capacity to remain connected to your body through sensation, emotion, intensity, pleasure, uncertainty, and change.
Learn to recognize the body as a source of intelligence, communication, and direct spiritual experience.
Energetic Intelligence
Explore the movement of life force through breath, attention, sensation, sexuality, emotion, and creative expression.
Become more sensitive to how energy gathers, contracts, flows, disperses, and transforms within the body and between people.
Erotic Intelligence
Learn to perceive the visible and unseen dynamics shaping attraction, conflict, intimacy, attachment, polarity, boundaries, and connection.
Develop greater capacity to remain in relationship without abandoning yourself or reducing another person to your expectations.
Conscious Intimacy
Deepen your ability to communicate desire, truth, vulnerability, limits, and emotional experience with greater precision and presence.
Explore intimacy as a living field that includes the body, psyche, nervous system, energy, history, imagination, and consciousness.
Sexual and Creative Aliveness
Encounter sexuality as a dimension of life force rather than an isolated act.
Explore how pleasure, desire, erotic energy, imagination, and creativity can move through the whole body and nourish a more vital participation in life.
Inner Feminine and Masculine Integration
Study feminine and masculine principles as living movements of consciousness rather than fixed identities or social roles.
Explore receptivity and direction, surrender and agency, stillness and movement, structure and flow, and the ways these forces shape your inner life and relationships.
Conscious Relationship
Develop the capacity to recognize unconscious agreements, inherited models, recurring patterns, and the hidden architecture beneath your relationships.
Learn to participate more consciously in creating the forms of intimacy, partnership, and connection that reflect who you are becoming.
Spirituality in Lived Experience
Bring spiritual consciousness into the body, sexuality, relationships, purpose, leadership, creativity, and daily life.
Tantra becomes less of a separate practice and more of an orientation toward reality.
These capacities are not acquired all at once.
They are developed through repetition, reflection, direct experience, relationship, and the willingness to remain present when familiar patterns begin to reveal themselves.
- The Apprenticeship creates the conditions for this development.
- What emerges through those conditions is uniquely your own.
How the six-month journey unfolds
A living rhythm of study, practice, relationship, and integration.
The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship is designed as an immersive educational journey rather than a collection of lessons completed in isolation.
Each stage introduces new teachings and practices while continuing to deepen what has already been opened. Understanding develops in layers. A principle first encountered intellectually may later reveal itself through the body, a relationship, a challenge, or an unexpected moment of recognition.
The journey begins as soon as you enroll.
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Preparation
Entering the field
Before the formal training begins, you receive foundational materials introducing the School, the Tantric lineage, and the principles that will shape the Apprenticeship.
You complete a detailed personal inquiry and meet privately with Lana to explore your intentions, current threshold, previous experience, and the areas of life most alive for you as you enter the work.
This preparation allows the journey to begin personally, rather than generically.
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Study
Encountering the teachings
Throughout the six months, you move through a progressive curriculum exploring embodiment, consciousness, life force, sexuality, intimacy, relational intelligence, feminine and masculine dynamics, healing, mysticism, and conscious relationship.
Teachings draw from ancient Tantra while entering dialogue with psychology, neuroscience, biology, somatic practice, trauma-informed work, and the lived complexity of modern relationships.
- The curriculum provides maps.
- Your experience reveals the territory.
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Embodied practice
Bringing knowledge into the body
Each learning cycle includes practices designed to move the teachings beyond intellectual understanding.
You work with breath, movement, sensation, presence, energy, nervous-system awareness, self-inquiry, communication, boundaries, and relational experience.
Some practices are completed individually.
Others unfold through guided online exercises with the cohort, including reflection, communication, witnessing, and relational exploration.
There is no nudity, sexual activity, or intimate contact between apprentices, teachers, or facilitators.
Students who have an existing partner may receive practices to explore privately within their own relationship. These practices are undertaken only through mutual desire, clear consent, and respect for each partner’s boundaries.
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Live transmission and mentorship
Learning in relationship
Live sessions create space for teaching, guided experience, questions, reflection, and the direct application of the material.
Mentorship supports you in recognizing how the work is entering your particular life, relationships, patterns, and unfolding edges.
The purpose is not to produce identical experiences.
It is to help each apprentice develop the perception and responsibility required to work consciously with what arises.
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The cohort field
Practicing within a living community
You move through the Apprenticeship alongside a committed group of students entering the same educational path.
The cohort becomes a living laboratory of human relationship.
Through dialogue, witnessing, shared practice, difference, resonance, and reflection, apprentices begin to encounter aspects of themselves that rarely appear through private study alone.
Community becomes part of the curriculum.
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Integration
Allowing the work to become lived
Between sessions, the Apprenticeship continues through personal practice, reflection, embodied assignments, and the ordinary relationships and circumstances of your life.
You begin observing how the teachings appear beyond the classroom:
- In the way you respond to intensity.
- In the boundaries you establish.
- In the desires you acknowledge.
- In the patterns you interrupt.
- In the quality of presence you bring to intimacy, conflict, creativity, and choice.
Integration is where information gradually becomes capacity.
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The certification retreat
Crossing the culminating threshold
Level I culminates in an in-person retreat devoted to embodied practice, relational exploration, integration, and the completion of the Personal Tantra journey.
The retreat gathers the teachings of the previous six months into a concentrated living experience.
What has been studied privately enters the relational field.
What has been practiced gradually is experienced with greater depth and intensity.
What has been understood is asked to become visible through presence, choice, communication, movement, boundary, and participation.
Apprentices who successfully complete the curriculum, participation requirements, and certification retreat graduate as:
Certified Personal Tantra Practitioners
The retreat investment, dates, location, and practical requirements are presented separately and clearly within the program details.
The Level I curriculum
Six progressive modules of study, practice, and embodiment
The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship unfolds through six interconnected modules.
Each module enters a distinct territory of Tantra while continuing to deepen the practices, perceptions, and capacities developed throughout the journey.
The curriculum is supported by preparatory work, live teaching, embodied practice, personal inquiry, mentorship, community participation, and the culminating certification retreat.
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Pre-work exploration
Preparing to enter the path
The Apprenticeship begins before the first formal module.
You receive foundational materials introducing the School, the Tantric tradition, and the principles that will shape the six-month journey.
Through a comprehensive personal inquiry and a private session with Lana, you begin exploring the intentions, questions, relationships, experiences, and present threshold you are bringing into the work.
This preparation allows the Apprenticeship to meet you as an individual from the beginning.
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Module I
Tantra as a modality of healing and intimate arts
Enter the philosophical, historical, and experiential foundations of Tantra.
Explore Tantra as a path of consciousness, embodiment, healing, intimacy, sexuality, and spiritual realization. Begin developing a Tantric view in which the body, energy, relationship, and ordinary human experience become part of the spiritual path.
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Module II
Tantric initiation: Personal Tantric Practice
Begin cultivating a personal Tantric practice through embodiment, self-inquiry, sensual awareness, desire, pleasure, energetic exploration, and archetypal work.
Encounter your body as a living field of intelligence, memory, possibility, and transformation while developing practices that can continue evolving throughout your life.
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Module III
Physicality & Energetics of Tantra
Explore the physical and subtle dimensions of the body through anatomy, physiology, nervous-system awareness, breath, energy, arousal, pleasure, and expanded sensory perception.
Study the relationship between biological processes, emotional experience, energetic movement, sexuality, and consciousness.
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Module IV
Trauma-Informed Tantra & Intimate Healing
Explore trauma through somatic, psychological, transpersonal, and Tantric perspectives.
Study nervous-system intelligence, protective patterns, relational and sexual wounds, Polyvagal Theory, embodied healing, expanded states of awareness, and the principles required to approach intimate transformation with responsibility and discernment.
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Module V
Tantric Intimacy & Conscious Relationship Paradigm
Explore intimacy as a psycho-spiritual practice and relationship as a field of consciousness, transformation, and discovery.
Study relational intelligence, Sacred Union, sovereignty, polarity, emotional and sexual connection, conscious agreements, relationship models, and the unseen architecture shaping intimacy and partnership.
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Module VI
Tantric Communication Skills & Emotional Intimacy
Develop a multidimensional approach to communication that includes language, emotion, embodiment, energy, nervous-system awareness, and relational context.
Explore emotional intimacy, authentic expression, conscious listening, Nonviolent Communication, Authentic Relating, Circling, feminine and masculine communication patterns, and practices for creating deeper understanding without abandoning truth or connection.
The curriculum is not experienced as a collection of isolated subjects.
Each module enters into conversation with the others as the teachings move through the body, relationships, practices, and lived experience of the apprentice.
What is included?
The complete Level I learning experience
The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship combines structured curriculum, live transmission, embodied practice, mentorship, and community participation across six months.
Your Level I tuition includes:
Six In-Depth Learning Modules
A progressive curriculum of video teachings, written materials, workbooks, personal inquiries, and embodied practices devoted to the foundations of Personal Tantra.
Two Private Sessions with Lana
Two 60-minute personal sessions support the beginning and completion of your Level I journey.
The opening session is scheduled after you complete your Welcome Packet and return it to Lana for review. This allows the conversation to begin with depth and focus, drawing upon your intentions, relationships, previous experience, current threshold, and the areas of life most alive as you enter the Apprenticeship.
The completion session is devoted to integration, reflection, and recognizing how the teachings have entered your body, relationships, consciousness, and life.
Twelve Live Group Sessions
Twelve two-hour online sessions for teaching, guided practice, reflection, questions, integration, and direct exploration with Lana and the cohort.
24 hours of live group learning in total.
Pre-Work Exploration
Foundational resources and guided preparation begin as soon as you enroll, allowing you to enter the formal program with greater context, self-awareness, and connection to the work.
Welcome Packet & Personal Inquiry
An in-depth self-exploration process designed to help you examine your relationship with your body, intimacy, sexuality, emotional life, relationships, consciousness, and personal intentions for the journey.
Apprenticeship Guide
A structured guide introducing the educational rhythm, foundational principles, recommended resources, agreements, expectations, and practical preparation for the Apprenticeship.
The Pleasure Map of Your Body
A guided personal exploration of sensation, pleasure, sensitivity, contraction, aliveness, and the unique language of your body.
Integration & Embodied Assignments
Personal practices, reflections, and experiential assignments designed to bring the teachings into your body, relationships, communication, choices, and everyday life.
Embodied Tantric Practices
A library of guided practices and video demonstrations working with breath, movement, sensation, energy, embodiment, pleasure, presence, and relational awareness.
Apprenticeship Community
Access to the private cohort space for connection, reflection, questions, peer exchange, shared inquiry, and support throughout the six-month journey.
Level I Certification Process
Educational guidance, review, and certification assessment are included in the program tuition.
Graduates who successfully complete the curriculum, participation requirements, and Level I Certification Retreat become: Certified Personal Tantra Practitioners
Investment & payment options
Level I: Personal Tantra Apprenticeship
The investment for the complete six-month Level I educational journey is:
$5,800
This tuition includes the full Level I curriculum, twelve live group sessions, two private sessions with Lana, preparatory materials, embodied practices, mentorship, cohort participation, and the certification process.
The Level I Certification Retreat carries a separate investment and is not included in tuition.
Pay In Full
$5,600
Receive a $200 tuition reduction when paying the complete investment in one payment.
Enrollment Deposit
$1,500
The deposit secures your place in the cohort and locks in the current tuition.
The remaining tuition balance may be paid in full before the program begins or arranged through an approved payment plan.
Payment Plans
Payment plans are available and may be customized according to your circumstances.
All payment arrangements must be confirmed before the Apprenticeship begins. Your individual schedule, payment dates, and installment amounts will be clearly established as part of the enrollment process.
The intention is to create a structure that supports committed participation while honoring the financial realities of each apprentice.
Retreat Investment
The required three-day Level I Certification Retreat is priced separately.
Its final investment will depend on the selected venue, accommodation structure, cohort size, and retreat location. Complete details will be shared near the beginning of the program, once the cohort has formed.
Travel to and from the retreat venue is not included.
The Level I Certification Retreat
Where the teachings become lived experience.
The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship culminates in a three-day, in-person Certification Retreat devoted to embodiment, integration, relational exploration, and community.
Throughout the six-month online journey, apprentices study the teachings, develop personal practices, and bring the work into their relationships and daily lives.
The retreat introduces another dimension.
Gathering in a shared physical space allows the teachings to be experienced through movement, energetic presence, embodied interaction, conscious communication, and the living intelligence of the cohort.
- What has been explored individually enters a communal field.
- What has been understood conceptually is encountered through the body.
- What has been practiced gradually is invited into deeper expression, integration, and choice.
For many apprentices, the retreat becomes the moment when the different dimensions of the training begin to form one coherent lived experience.
The Retreat Experience
The Level I retreat may include:
- In-person energetic and embodiment practices
- Tantric practices for grounding, expansion, circulation, and integration
- Feminine and masculine polarity explorations
- Optional, clothed, consent-based partner exercises
- Ceremony and rites of passage
- Certification reflection and completion processes
- Breath, movement, sensory awareness, and nervous-system regulation
- Relational exercises devoted to presence, boundaries, consent, communication, and conscious connection
- Nonsexual Tantric body-awareness and bodywork demonstrations
- Personal reflection and integration processes
- Community practices, shared meals, and time for meaningful connection
There is no nudity, sexual activity, or intimate sexual contact between apprentices, teachers, or facilitators.
Any touch-based exercise is clothed, nonsexual, clearly guided, and entered only through active consent. Apprentices are always free to modify or decline a practice.
Students attending with an existing partner may receive optional practices to explore privately within their own relationship outside the group setting.
The power of gathering in person
Some dimensions of Tantric education cannot be fully understood through explanation or a computer screen.
In person, apprentices encounter subtler layers of communication: posture, proximity, energetic presence, rhythm, resonance, nervous-system response, and the ways the body speaks before language arrives.
The cohort becomes visible as a living relational field.
Insights deepen through direct contact with experience. Connections strengthen. Practices become more tangible. The principles of Tantra move out of abstraction and into breath, movement, voice, boundary, choice, and relationship.
The retreat is not separate from the curriculum.
It is the culminating rite of passage through which the Level I journey is gathered, witnessed, and completed.
Retreat location and timing
The retreat venue, dates, and accommodation structure are selected after the cohort has formed.
This allows the School to choose a setting appropriate to the final group size, accessibility needs, and educational requirements of the retreat.
Complete details will be communicated near the beginning of the Apprenticeship, allowing apprentices sufficient time to prepare and arrange travel.
Retreats are held in carefully selected venues that support concentrated practice, rest, nature, shared experience, and community connection.
The retreat investment includes
- Three-day retreat program
- Accommodation at the retreat venue, typically shared or standard lodging
- Dedicated spaces for teaching, practice, ceremony, and integration
- Three daily meals during the retreat
- All retreat teaching, facilitation, and guided experiences
- Materials and community practices
- Certification reflection, evaluation, and completion process
Travel to and from the retreat venue is not included.
The Certification Retreat carries a separate investment and is not included in Level I tuition.
Anticipated retreat investment
$1,500
Optional upgrades
Depending on the retreat venue and availability, optional enhancements may be offered separately.
These may include:
- Private-room accommodation
- Additional private sessions with Lana
- Optional healing, restorative, or wellness experiences
- Additional nights before or after the formal retreat
Available options and their associated investments will be communicated once the location has been confirmed.
Certification requirement
Participation in the Level I Certification Retreat is required to complete the Personal Tantra Apprenticeship and receive certification as a:
Certified Personal Tantra Practitioner
The retreat marks the completion of the first level of the Apprenticeship.
For some, it becomes the closing rite of a profound personal journey.
For others, it reveals readiness for the next threshold: applying to enter the Professional Tantra Apprenticeship.
Your Level I certification
A recognition of personal study, practice, and embodiment
Graduates who complete the Level I curriculum, participation requirements, private sessions, embodied assignments, and Certification Retreat receive the designation:
Certified Personal Tantra Practitioner
This certification recognizes that you have completed a substantial six-month path of personal Tantric education and have demonstrated sustained engagement with the teachings, practices, and principles of the School.
It reflects your development in the areas of embodiment, energetic awareness, intimacy, sexuality, relational intelligence, communication, personal practice, and the integration of Tantra into lived experience.
The certification may become a meaningful foundation for your relationships, spirituality, creativity, leadership, existing profession, and continued studies.
- Every apprentice begins with Level I.
The scope of Level I
The Certified Personal Tantra Practitioner designation is a personal practice certification.
It does not qualify or authorize graduates to offer Tantra coaching, intimacy facilitation, therapeutic services, professional bodywork, sexual healing, couples guidance, workshops, or group experiences under the certification of the School.
Professional work with individuals, couples, and groups requires a different level of preparation, including facilitation methodology, ethics, supervised practice, professional boundaries, leadership development, and the demonstrated capacity to hold complex relational spaces.
These dimensions are taught within Level II.
The next threshold
Graduates who feel called toward professional practice may apply to continue into the Professional Tantra Apprenticeship.
Admission to Level II considers more than the completion of Level I.
The School also looks at participation, integration, relational maturity, ethical awareness, readiness for responsibility, and the apprentice’s demonstrated capacity throughout the personal journey.
For many graduates, Level I is complete in itself.
For others, personal embodiment becomes the foundation from which professional formation can begin.
Still not sure?
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time should I devote to the Apprenticeship?
Apprentices should plan to devote a minimum of two hours each week to education, embodied practice, reflection, and integration.
Some weeks may invite additional time depending on the module, assignment, or depth of personal exploration.
The Apprenticeship deepens through continuity. Consistent engagement allows the teachings to move beyond intellectual understanding and enter the body, relationships, and daily life.
What happens if I miss a live session?
Live participation is strongly encouraged because the sessions include guided practices, questions, cohort interaction, and experiential learning that cannot be fully reproduced through independent study.
Recordings will be provided when you need to miss a session, allowing you to continue following the curriculum and complete the related practices.
To remain eligible for Level I certification, apprentices must attend at least six of the twelve live sessions.
Missing more than six live sessions means the participation requirement has not been fulfilled, even when the recordings have been watched and the educational materials completed.
Certification reflects sustained participation in the living field of the Apprenticeship, not only access to the curriculum.
How long will I have access to the learning materials?
Level I graduates retain access to the educational materials for one additional year after graduation.
Graduates who continue into Level II receive eighteen months of access after completing Level I, allowing the Personal Tantra curriculum to remain available as a foundation throughout their professional formation.
Is the Apprenticeship a form of therapy?
No. The Personal Tantra Apprenticeship is an educational and experiential program.
Although the curriculum includes trauma-informed perspectives, nervous-system awareness, emotional inquiry, relational patterns, and healing practices, it is not psychotherapy, medical care, or a substitute for appropriate professional support.
Apprentices remain responsible for recognizing when therapeutic, medical, or specialized care may be needed alongside the program.
How do I apply?
The application and call-booking process are completed together.
You will be invited to share what is drawing you toward the Apprenticeship, the experiences shaping your current threshold, and what you hope to explore through Level I. After completing the application, you will select a time for a personal conversation with Lana or a member of the School.
This conversation gives you an opportunity to ask questions, discuss your intentions and readiness, and discern whether the Personal Tantra Apprenticeship is the right next threshold.
The School is also discerning whether the program, cohort, and current stage of the work can responsibly support your development.
When the recognition is mutual, you will receive an invitation to enroll, submit your deposit, complete the enrollment agreements, and begin the preparatory phase.
The first threshold is personal
You do not need to know where the entire path will lead.
You need only recognize whether you are ready to enter the living practice of Tantra with enough depth, presence, and commitment for it to become part of the way you inhabit your body, meet intimacy, create relationship, and participate in life.
- Level I begins with your own experience.
- Your own body.
- Your own relationships.
- Your own capacity to perceive, practice, and live what you are learning.
For some, the Personal Tantra Apprenticeship becomes a complete and profound journey of personal formation.
For others, it reveals the beginning of a professional calling.
Every apprentice enters through the same first threshold.
- The willingness to live the work.