About The Tantric Arts Collective
Hi, I'm Lisa Witter- founder of the Tantric Arts Collective and the Living Tantra Project.
I've been on this path for close to thirty years, as a student, a teacher, and a psycho-spiritual counselor rooted in the Śākta-Śaiva traditions of Trika and Śrī Vidyā. What I know from the experience is this: the teachings of non-dual Tantra don't just inform how you practice. They change how you live. But only when they're embodied, not just understood.
The people I work with aren't beginners. They're practitioners, therapists, leaders, and committed seekers who have done real work and still feel like something isn't translating. I've navigated the integration gap myself, that space between the cushion and the rest of life.
The Tantric Arts Collective exists to close that gap so that practice and life are no longer two different things.
The Collective
The Tantric Arts Collective is built on a simple truth: no single teacher holds the full breadth of this tradition. The teachers and presenters who contribute to this community reflect that depth and range, people whose work we love, trust, and can vouch for personally.
Together, they reflect the living breadth of the tradition.
Meet Our 2026 Guest Teachers
Kara-Leah Grant, Founder of Joy Rebel Tantra
Kara-Leah is a boundary-pushing yogi, teacher, coach, and mentor devoted to liberation through fierce authenticity, embodied awareness, and Tantra.
Teaching since 2006, Kara-Leah is a certified Prana Flow Yoga teacher, creator of Dancing the Dragon Yoga, and a well-loved presenter on the New Zealand festival circuit. Her path began with yoga in the 1990s, intensified through a Kundalini awakening in the early 2000s, and found lasting ground in Tantra in 2010.
Through her teaching, mentoring, and writing, Kara-Leah invites people into deeper intimacy with life, radical self-honesty, and the joy of awareness in real life. She is the author of three books, a parent, and the creator of a body of work devoted to embodied transformation.
Maria Rippo, MA, LMHC, CPC
Maria is a psychotherapist, circle holder, advanced clinical hypnotherapist, and founder of Lotus Rising Healing & Wellness. Her work is rooted in the belief that beneath our coping strategies, trauma patterns, and conditioned identities, there is a deeper truth of who we are waiting to be uncovered.
Maria specializes in complex trauma, PTSD, disordered and emotional eating, anxiety, depression, addiction, codependency, and body image healing. She brings together psychotherapy, somatic awareness, hypnotherapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and transpersonal psychology to support people in returning to their authentic self. Her approach honors the emotional, mental, physical, intuitive, and spiritual dimensions of healing, helping clients move from survival into a more embodied, liberated, and self-connected way of living.
Contributing Voices In Our Community
Kavitha Chinnaiyan
Judith Blackstone
Chandra Easton
Christopher Wallis
Laura Plumb
Uma Disnsmore Tuli
Ben Williams
Kelly Blaser
Jeremy Wolf
Alka Tyagi
Christopher Tompkins
Shanna Hughes
Lama Glen Mullin
Josh Shrei
Christine Mason
Sarah Taub
Sarah Tomlinson
Kaya Mindlin
Maria Rippo
Shiva Sampurna
Ekat Petrova
Sheela Bringi
Brent Kuecker
Anjali Devi
Ege & Madhu
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