You have already felt the opening
Now we go deeper
The breath that dropped you into your body. The first taste of what tantra makes possible when you stop performing and start feeling. Deeper Tantra is where the practice stops being something you visit on a weekend and becomes something you live from.
Where modern tantra meets its source
You do not have to choose between feeling and depth. Here you get both.
Many modern Tantra spaces
are simply selling you the fruit.
This workshop series
is giving you the whole tree.
This is tantra with its roots still in the ground.
Who this is for
This is for you if
This is where it begins. A soul-deep hunger for Reality.
I
You walked out of a Fundamentals weekend hungry for more, finally felt like you were getting somewhere, and maybe even found your spiritual home.
II
You have done other neo-tantra work and you can feel where it stops short. It goes deep in places, but you can’t find the thread running back through time to the people who originated this tradition.
III
You can feel the pull toward something deeper. Toward awakening, toward wholeness, toward coming home to who you really are. Plenty of spaces pay lip service to awakening without the time-tested tools to actually move you in that direction.
IV
You are ready to devour the path, not just taste it.
The two days
From the inside out
First we build the pillar within you. Then we take it into contact with another, where most of us lose ourselves.
Saturday, Jan 30 · 10am – 7pm
Day one
The Sovereign Within
Finding your own inner pillar: the felt sense of a self that does not need fixing, rescuing, or completing.
Cultivating a sense of healthy ego, healthy boundary of self, and innate divine worthiness.
Sourcing your own pleasure and meeting your own pain, without reaching outside yourself for either.
Staying with whatever arises in you, and learning the language your body has been speaking all along.
Sunday, Jan 31 · 10am – 7pm
Day two
Sovereign in Contact
What shifts the moment another person enters the field, and how to stay yourself inside it.
Speaking your boundaries, needs, and desires cleanly, without getting tangled in the story or the anxiety.
Being with your own energy, connecting with others without merging, and walking away from an interaction clean, clear, and complete, instead of carrying them around for days.
Using contact, sensation and the meeting of edges as conscious practice: sensory experience as a doorway, held in awareness and consent.
What you’ll walk away with
Deeper Embodiment
A felt sense of being at home in your own skin, and deep knowing where you end, and where others begin.
Deeper Practice
Time tested tools that keep working long after the weekend ends, and a systematized framework that delivers real progress.
Deeper Community
Real life connection with people who are linking arms and heading the same direction, as well as ongoing online community growth, support and learning with the Kula Calls.
Deeper Sovereignty
Feeling open, ground and calm in your nervous system; more attunement and agency and the quiet knowing that you can meet your life, and everyone in it, from wholeness rather than lack.
Reserve your place
Investment
Jan 30 – 31, 2027 · 10:00 am – 7:00 pm · Rooted Heart Yoga & Wellness, Denver. Address sent along with purchase of ticket.
Price does not include accommodation. Strictly limited numbers. Questions: Info@authenticessence.co
Your facilitators
Taught by two people who live it daily, in partnership
The practice with its lineage intact. We meet you in the beautiful, alive, expansive parts and in the tender, shadowed, human ones, because wholeness needs both.
Larinda Michelle
Trauma-informed facilitation · Energetics · Somatics
Twenty years of holding rooms, from music festivals to sensual connection workshops. Trained through the Embodied Awakening Academy’s Practitioner Training in trauma, energetics and somatics, and five years working closely within the Academy.
Before you book
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a partner for this course?
No. This course is structured as inner work, which is the right place to begin regardless of your relationship status.
What you learn here will change how you show up with a partner. That happens as a result of the work you do in yourself, not as something you need someone else in the room for.
Do I need to have done Fundamentals first?
No, there’s no formal prerequisite. However we do recommend that you have previous somatic, embodiment practices and self awareness practices. This could be a neo tantra extended day workshop or retreat, continuous breathwork, meditation or movement practice. If you’re brand new to all of it, Fundamentals of Tantra is built as the entry point. See upcoming dates on our Events page. Plenty of people do both.
How intimate do the practices get?
There is no nudity and no genital touch at any of our events. Day 2 includes paired practices with clothed contact: eye contact, hands, arms, back, breathing together. Before any paired practice you and your partner state boundaries out loud. You can decline any practice at any point without explanation, and nobody will ask you why.
What’s the mix of singles and couples?
Typically around 70% singles. Among singles it’s fairly even between men and women, usually slightly more women.
I’m coming with my partner. Do we have to work together?
No. Some couples want the whole weekend together, others get more out of pairing with other people and comparing notes afterward. Both are welcome and you can decide in the room.
What if I have sexual trauma in my history?
Many people in the room do. The whole structure of this weekend is built to give you a choice at every step: consent is spoken out loud before every paired practice, you can decline anything, and you can step out at any time. Nothing here requires you to push through. If you want to talk it through privately before booking, book a call and it stays between us.
How is this different from other tantra workshops I’ve done?
Most modern tantra teaches the experience without the framework behind it. You get a powerful weekend and then nothing to practice on Tuesday. This is classical tantra, taught with its lineage intact and structured as a progression, so what you learn on Sunday is still working in six months.
What’s the difference between this and Fundamentals?
Fundamentals gives you the tools for a thriving relationship with yourself and others, and it’s the entry point. Deeper Tantra is a multi-level path into the tradition those tools came from. Level 1 builds the sovereign, embodied self that everything after it rests on.
