Online Heart of Tantra Retreat

From the depths of the Self to the Pulse of the World

Oct. 10 - 17, 2025

A Retreat for the Ongoing Unfolding of Awakening

Join us for an embodied passage through stillness, devotion, and community

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This is the heart of the Tantric path, not choosing one over the other, but holding both the formless and the form as sacred. In the tradition of non-dual Shaiva Tantra, awakening is a recognition of the unchanging Self through life.

This online retreat invites you into that movement: from stillness into expression, from emptiness into embodiment, from quiet into praise. Here, the inward and the outward are no longer in conflict. They are two faces of the same truth.

Benefits of Attending Virtually

Attending the Bali Retreat virtually allows you to be fully part of the live immersions, while also giving you the freedom to revisit the teachings through replays at your own pace. This option makes the retreat more accessible, without losing the intimacy of connection or the depth of transformation. It’s a way to receive the essence of Bali and the heart of the community, while weaving the practices naturally into your life.

The Path of Awakening

The Threefold Movement of the Tantric Journey

This retreat is shaped by a core understanding from the Tantric tradition: awakening unfolds in layers between stillness, energy, and integration. These three aspects form the foundation of our time together.

Awakening to Awareness

The recognition of stillness as your natural state.

Silence, self-inquiry, meditation.

Awakening to Shakti

The honoring of life, energy, and devotion as sacred.

Ritual, kirtan, somatics, movement.

Union

The lived integration of form and formless.

Wholeness, presence, everyday embodiment.

We explore each of these through direct experience, woven into the structure, practices, and flow of the retreat.

What’s Included

This online retreat is immersive, sincere, and grounded in lived lineage. It includes:

Daily Atma Vichara (self-inquiry) and guided meditations

Tantric asana, somatics & embodied awareness

Tantric rituals & practices including mantra, yantra, and yagna

Kirtan, devotional dance, & traditional tantric puja

Daily teachings in non-dual Tantra rooted in scripture and direct experience

You may join the livestream gatherings or if that timing doesn’t align, you can watch the recordings at your own pace. All recordings will be available for three months after the live sessions.

The livestream gatherings will happen on:

dates

Why Online?

We’re offering this retreat online because we know many of you can’t get away, whether it's responsibilities, children, or the cost that holds you close to home. So here’s the invitation: make space right where you are, a chance to marinate in the teachings.

When we hold sacred space, even through a screen, something begins to open.

This is your invitation to reconnect, with the wisdom that’s always here, with each other, and with what’s really real. To rest. To return. To begin again, with clarity, with presence, with heart.

What you'll gain

This online retreat isn’t about achieving a permanent state or chasing peak experiences. It’s about deepening your capacity to meet life — as it is — with awareness, presence, and sincerity.

Here’s what may genuinely shift as a result of this experience:

A more stable familiarity with stillness.

Not something dramatic or new, but a subtle returning — again and again — to what’s already here underneath the noise.
Perspective.

A clearer understanding that losing center doesn’t mean something is wrong. It’s part of the path. You’ll leave with more tools to recognize that movement and respond with clarity instead of self-judgment.
An integrated experience of both silence and expression.

Many people come with a preference for one side of the spectrum — stillness or energy. You’ll explore what it means to hold both, without opposition.
A relationship to practice that’s less idealistic and more sustainable.

An embodied sense of how to live this work in your actual life, with your family, your job, your distractions, and your emotions.
Supportive connections.

Real people, real conversations, and the beginnings of spiritual friendship that doesn’t require explanation — Sangha, in the truest sense.
A more grounded understanding of the Tantric view.

Teachings and frameworks that help you make sense of your inner life in a more coherent and compassionate way.

This retreat offers practical tools, lived experience, and a deeper orientation to yourself. It offers a way to engage with life more fully.

Your Investment

This online retreat is offered on a sliding scale as a practice of generosity and care, honoring the many different circumstances we each walk with. You are invited to choose the tier that resonates most with your heart and your means:

Supported

$108 USD

Standard

$250 USD

Sponsor

$400 USD

Your contribution, whatever the amount, is part of the collective prayer of this retreat — a weaving of generosity, presence, and shared intention.

Testimonials

Meet the Facilitators

Bhairav Thomas English

Bhairav is the founder of Anuttara Ashram and co-creator of the Anuttara Turyatita School and Teacher Trainings, alongside his partner Artemis. A lead facilitator, co-author of The Power of Tantra Meditation, and co-host of the Tantra & Yoga Podcast, Bhairav is a respected teacher in the Shivoham Lineage.

He has dedicated over 20 years to the study and practice of Yoga and Tantra, beginning his journey in India in 1998 and completing a 6-year initiation with Guruji Maharaj in 2018. Now a Guru and lineage holder, Bhairav offers authentic teachings rooted in deep personal practice rather than academic study.

Authorized to initiate practitioners into Mantra Meditation, Bhairav is known for his profound wisdom, humility, and approachable nature, offering a rare and transformative presence to all who learn from him.

Artemis Emily Doyle

Artemis Emily Doyle is the visionary behind Anuttara's Turyatita School and co-founder of Anuttara Ashram. She co-created Anuttara’s Teacher Trainings and courses alongside her partner, Bhairav. Artemis is also the co-author of The Power of Tantra Meditation, co-host of the Tantra & Yoga Podcast, and a respected teacher in the Shivoham Tantra lineage.

Her spiritual journey began in 2008, leading to initiations in indigenous dance and cacao ceremony, and deepened through Darshan with teachers like Mooji Baba, Sadhguru, and Guruji Maharaj. Since 2015, Artemis has helped organize transformative tantrik festivals and has been initiated into rare tantric practices, particularly those honoring menstruation.

Deeply rooted in the Kashmir Shaivist tradition, she continues her dedicated study and practice of non-dual tantra, primarily under the guidance of Ellen Emmet since 2017.

Tara

Tara (she/they) is an Anuttara Yoga & Meditation Facilitator and a devoted Practitioner of Devotional Dance. She has been immersed in the study and practice of Traditional Tantra within the lineage of Guruji Raj Kumar for the past six years, continually deepening her understanding through ongoing Tantric studies and personal sadhana.

At Anuttara, Tara co-facilitates the 200-hour Yoga & Meditation Teacher Trainings, online courses, and retreats, bringing a grounded, heart-centered presence to her teachings. Her offerings weave together the wisdom of Tantra, the embodiment of devotional movement, and the transformative power of sacred community.

Through her practice and facilitation, Tara invites others into a deeper connection with themselves, the sacred, and the living traditions of Yoga and Tantra.

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