Embody the Sacred

Weekend 1: Awakening Through the Breath
We begin our journey with foundational Tantric breathwork to awaken life force energy and connect more deeply with the body. Through guided breath practices, gentle stretching, chakra attunement, and meditation, we open the pathways of awareness and cultivate presence, vitality, and inner clarity.

This weekend also introduces connection exercises that support trust and energetic attunement within the group. Our first Saturday evening ritual will offer a sacred, heart-centered container to embody the energy we've been cultivating and anchor our intentions for the journey ahead. Sunday afternoon includes a solo erotic practice that allows us to deepen our ownership of our sensual nature. Then we have time for integration, sharing our wins and challenges with the group, and refining the techniques we're learning.

Weekend 2: Embodied Love and Radiance
In this weekend, we turn toward self-love, body acceptance, and the reclamation of our sensual innocence. Through mirror work, self-touch, and guided movement, we soften the layers of shame and reawaken reverence for our physical and energetic bodies.

We'll explore loving our bodies with presence and care, and deepen into energetic boundaries and erotic dance as tools for embodiment and empowerment. These practices gently build confidence and inner radiance, supporting a more authentic and open-hearted expression of self. Saturday night we celebrate our ever deepening embodiment with each other in playful and joyous ways. Sunday we practice erotic communication so that everyone gets their needs met in our intimate exchanges. Then we have integration and sharing with the group.

Weekend 3: From Shame to Sovereignty
This weekend invites deeper exploration into embodiment, healing, and energetic awakening. We'll come to discover more of the mysteries of our sacred sexuality, held within the safety of our compassionate container. This work replaces shame with an embrace of our true authentic nature as a sexual being. Our Saturday ritual is enriched by our wholeness as we share from a deeply embodied place.

On Sunday, we'll journey through the chakra system using the Rainbow Chakra Breath, learning to circulate eros through the entire body. As we deepen the flow of energy through the system, we come to inhabit our body more fully.  

Weekend 4: Sacred Energy and Sex Magic
Building on the energetic groundwork we've laid, this weekend opens the door to sex magic and the art of consciously directing sexual energy for manifestation, healing, and spiritual evolution. We'll introduce the Cobra Breath and deepen with Sex Magic, anchoring into the power of breath and intention.

Through ritual, movement, and energetic play, we'll cultivate a sovereign relationship with our life force, learning to work with desire as a sacred creative force. The Saturday night ritual will invite us into a potent ceremonial space to embody and anchor these teachings. On Sunday, we amplify the energy with Firebreath, followed by sharing and integration.

Weekend 5: Embodied Intimate Communication & Integration
In our final weekend together, we explore pleasure mapping, a powerful practice of embodied and intimate communication. This gathering is both a celebration and a deep integration of the full arc of our journey.

We will return to beloved practices and weave together the threads of breath, energy, sensuality, and devotion, grounding into the wisdom that has emerged through our embodied experiences.

There will be space for reflection, community sharing, movement, and ritual. We will honor the transformations that have unfolded, both individually and collectively, and complete our journey with a closing ceremony that anchors devotion, presence, and sacred embodiment in the heart.

Alyssa Anaya brings over three decades of devotion to classical Tantra and sacred embodiment to her work as a teacher, guide, and space-holder. Rooted in a personal practice of daily Tantra meditation and ritual since 1995, initiated through a profound kundalini awakening blessing from Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Alyssa weaves deep spiritual presence with finely attuned somatic awareness. Her path is one of reverence, devotion, and embodiment, inviting others to awaken fully into their sacred aliveness.

For the past 25 years, Alyssa has been a dedicated student of Evalena Rose, her primary mentor and teacher in the Heart-Centered Tantra lineage. She has also deepened her studies through immersive trainings with Sofia Sundari, Lindy James, Steve and Lokita Carter, the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA), and Christopher Wallis, a respected voice in classical Tantra. Drawing on these diverse lineages, Alyssa offers an integrative approach to Tantra that honors both modern and traditional streams of wisdom.

Alyssa holds a Master of Divinity in Spiritual Counseling and has served as a chaplain, death doula, and addiction counselor for several years. These roles have profoundly shaped her ability to hold deep, compassionate, and transformative space. In the San Francisco Bay Area, she has guided Tantra group experiences under the name Reverence for the past four years, alongside more than a decade of private work with individuals and couples. Her facilitation is grounded, heart-led, and infused with decades of devotional practice. It is with deep honor and joy that she now joins her beloved mentor, Evalena Rose, to co-teach this sacred five-month journey, offering her presence, wisdom, and fierce love in service of embodied awakening.

Open Sky Retreat Space — Our Sacred Home for the Journey

Over the course of our five-month Embody the Sacred: Tantric Awakening training, we’ll gather each month at Open Sky Retreat Space, a stunning sanctuary tucked into the rolling green hills of western Sonoma County. Just minutes from Sebastopol, this land feels both wide open and deeply held — an invitation to soften into presence and remember your place in the great web of life. Expansive pastures stretch beneath the vast sky, with sheep grazing peacefully and a gentle llama keeping watch. The air itself seems to hum with stillness and vitality, reminding us of the sacred pulse in all things.

The retreat hall at Open Sky is alive with carved wood art from Asia — intricate temple doors, sacred sculptures, and hand-hewn altars that radiate devotion and beauty. Their presence infuses the space with a tangible vibration of reverence, grounding our Tantra practice in timeless lineage and artistry. Within these walls, we will breathe, move, and awaken together — each sound, breath, and heartbeat resonating in a room that was clearly built for transformation.

Outside, the land calls us into communion. Between sessions, you might wander barefoot across the grass, sit beneath a cypress tree, or watch the sun dip behind the distant hills as birds drift home to roost. These quiet moments of connection are part of the teaching — a return to natural rhythm and embodied presence. Every breeze, every bleat of a sheep, every golden ray of late-afternoon light becomes part of the Tantra.

To spend five months in this field of beauty and simplicity is to remember that awakening is not something we reach for — it’s something we relax into. At Open Sky, nature herself becomes our co-teacher, guiding us back to the sacredness of being alive, together, on this generous Earth.

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