Lisa Witter, DHP | 9:30 AM

Lisa Witter is a Non-Dual tantric meditation teacher and psycho-spiritual counselor with more than two decades of experience guiding students in accessible and transformative meditation practices. Rooted in the living traditions of Non-Dual Tantra—specifically Trika Śaivism and Śrī Vidyā—her teaching bridges classical Tantric wisdom with modern psychological insight. Lisa has studied with Christopher Wallis and continues advanced study and practice with the Swami Lakshmanjoo Academy, Stanishwar Timilsina of the Vimarsha Foundation, and her guru, Śrī Yuganandanatha of Śrī Vidyā Tantra Peedom in Kerala.

As founder of the Tantric Arts Collective and the Living Tantra Project, and creator of The Karmic Warrior Oracle, Lisa has developed a wide ecosystem of offerings that reach students worldwide—through summits, mentorship, retreats, and an ongoing membership community. Her teaching is distinguished by a focus on integration—helping seasoned practitioners embody awakening as a lived experience in daily life rather than something reserved for the meditation cushion. Known for her clarity, warmth, and ethical leadership, Lisa creates spaces where profound spiritual insight becomes practical, grounded, and transformative. 

The Alchemy of Desire

Tantric Wisdom for Clearing Karma

Few topics on the spiritual path have been more loaded with taboo and misinterpretation than desire. Most traditions warn us against it, casting desire as the very source of bondage and suffering. Tantra dares to see differently: desire is Shakti itself—Divine Power alive within us. When misunderstood, it fuels the wheel of karma, pulling us into repetitive patterns of craving and dissatisfaction. But when we learn how to work with it, desire becomes the very force that can free us, transforming karma into a path of awakening. In this session, Lisa Witter will unpack the Tantric view of desire in the larger context of karma—and guide a practice to experience how this alchemy can turn the forces that bind us into the very currents that set us free. 

Christopher Tompkins, PH.d | 1:00 PM

Christopher Tompkins, PH.d is a Sanskrit scholar and teacher of Tantric Yoga history. For over a decade, he has researched hundreds of previously unpublished Tantric texts spanning 1,400 years of yoga history. His work focuses on the role and evolution of Kuṇḍalinī and the chakras in Tantric practice, with a special emphasis on uncovering the original daily sādhana. Christopher’s groundbreaking research reveals Kuṇḍalinī not as a dormant energy at the base of the spine, but as a liberating sonic power activated above the head and drawn into the subtle body to enliven day-to-day life. Through his teachings, translations, and guided practices, he is dedicated to making the original Tantric sources accessible to modern practitioners and showing how they shaped contemporary yoga lineages.

The Sound-Based Path of Kundalini Awakening 

Reclaiming the Tantric practice of uccāra

For centuries, the tantric practice of Uccāra—the ascent of sound—was hidden in manuscripts and rarely taught. In this session, Christopher Tompkins brings it back to life. Drawing from the Śiva Tantras and Kṣemarāja’s commentary, he explains how Uccāra uses sound, breath, and subtle posture to safely awaken Kundalini and release the knots that block our energy. You’ll explore the five-part praṇava—more than the familiar OM—voiced as a current rising through the body. Christopher shows how this practice, done in seven simple rounds, was intended as a primary gateway into non-dual awareness. Along the way, he clears up common misconceptions, reconnects Uccāra to its original sources, and offers practical steps to experience it yourself. This session offers both scholarship and practice—an opportunity to reclaim one of Tantra’s most transformative methods for awakening, wholeness, and bliss.

Laura Plumb | 4:00 PM

Selected by Spirituality & Health as one of 100 Trailblazers of Yoga & Ayurveda, Laura Plumb is an international educator on radical health and sacred, sumptuous living. With decades of deep study into Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotish, consciousness, and the potential for Self-realization, she is dedicated to making this ancient wisdom accessible and relevant to modern life. Laura is the author of the best-selling Ayurveda Cooking For Beginners and creator of the acclaimed Ayurvedic Integrated Nutrition Consultant Training. Her other work includes the video course The Medicine In Your Kitchen, a 53-part TV show CleanseVeda, and the 12-part series Divine Yoga, which aired on GaiaTV and now streams on Amazon. Laura also teaches for The Sevanti Institute and UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine.

The Tantra of Light and Life

How Jyotish, Ayurveda, and Tantra point back to one Source—you

In this session, Laura Plumb shows how Vedic sciences meet in a single thread of light. Jyotish names the pattern of light in the cosmos; Ayurveda teaches how that light expresses through body and elements; Tantra points you back to the source of that light within. Laura offers a clear, heart-opening pathway—settling the body, attuning to inner luminosity, and working with breath, mantra, and simple visualizations—so the teachings become felt, not theoretical. You’ll learn how to align daily choices with your natural brightness, relate to the sun as a living teacher, and see beauty as a doorway to the sacred. Come away with a grounded sense of how these traditions are one continuum—and how that unity lives in you.

Shanna Hughes | 9:30 AM

Shanna Hughes was raised in the sacred landscape of Kashmir, where her early life was steeped in the wisdom of yoga and the profound teachings of Kashmir Shaivism. For the first fifteen years of her life, she lived in close proximity to Swami Lakshmanjoo, the revered saint and philosopher whose presence deeply shaped her understanding of the non-dual Tantric path. With parents who were devoted students of Swamiji, Shanna grew up in a home where meditation, breath, and self-inquiry were woven into daily life.

Today, she draws from this rich foundation to guide others in remembering their own inner essence. As a yoga and meditation teacher, yoga therapist, and retreat leader, she weaves ancient practices with embodied presence—creating spaces where healing and awakening can unfold naturally. Whether through stillness, breath, movement, or the beauty of travel, her offerings are rooted in the wisdom traditions of Kashmir and carried forward with love.

Three Tantric Methods of Awakening

Discover how body, mind, and direct knowing support your path

Classical non-dual Tantra describes three distinct methods of entering awakening: through the body and senses (āṇavopāya), through subtle awareness and refined thought (śāktopāya), and through effortless recognition of the Self (śāmbhavopāya). Each offers a different way in, depending on where you find yourself in practice. In this session, Shanna Hughes speaks from a rare and precious grounding. Her family not only studied with Swami Lakshman Joo—the last living saint of the Trika Shaiva lineage—but dedicated their lives to carrying forward his oral teachings. From within that stream of devotion and practice, Shanna introduces the three methods as living realities, not abstract concepts. Participants will gain clarity on how these classical approaches can be practiced today, and insight into which method most naturally supports their own path of awakening.

Jeremy Wolf | 1:00 PM

Jeremy Wolf's lifelong interest in the mind–body connection began early, first as a second-degree black belt and teacher of Taekwondo, and later as both a student and teacher of Capoeira. Meditation became his doorway into yoga in 1993, leading him into formal study by 1998. He received his 200-hour certification in Classical Yoga in Nasik, India in 2006, and his 500-hour certification in 2013 with Rod Stryker’s ParaYoga school.

Over the years, Jeremy has trained extensively in yoga nidrā through the Bihar, Himalayan, iRest, Amrit Method, ParaYoga Nidra, Total Yoga Nidra, and Yoga Sadhna traditions. Based in Denver, Colorado, he now teaches locally and internationally through classes, retreats, workshops, immersions, and as faculty in multiple 200- and 300-hour teacher training programs. He is registered as an E-RYT 500 and YACEP.

In addition to his yoga work, Jeremy is a Reiki Master in the Mikao Usui tradition (studying since 2001) and a passionate musician. As a producer and label DJ for France’s Ultimae Records, his sets have been featured at festivals, ecstatic dances, and yoga classes worldwide.

Through a contemplative and grounding style of yoga, Jeremy’s teaching embodies the ancient lineage of yoga as a holistic and transformational spiritual practice.

The Sleep That Awakens: Yoga Nidra & the Heart of Tantra

A guided journey through the five koshas into deep rest and non-dual awareness

Yoga Nidra, often called “conscious sleep,” is one of the most accessible yet profound tantric practices. In this session, Jeremy Wolf introduces Yoga Nidra as more than relaxation: it is a systematic inward journey through the five koshas, dissolving layers of tension, confusion, and belief until you arrive at the bliss of your essential nature. You’ll learn how Yoga Nidra works therapeutically on body and mind, while also revealing its deeper spiritual dimension—the heart of yoga and tantra itself. With clear guidance, Jeremy offers a comprehensive practice that restores balance, invites deep rest, and opens the doorway to non-dual awareness.

Christine Marie Mason | 4:00 PM

Christine Marie Mason is a visionary leader in women's wellness, intimacy, and spiritual growth. She is the founder of Rosebud Woman, a plant-based intimate wellness company supporting women throughout the life cycle, and the host of The Rose Woman Podcast on Love and Liberation. Christine is also co-founder of Sundari Gardens in Hawai’i and Radiant Farms, which offers gentle medicinals for wellbeing.

A mother, grandmother, author of eight books, and PhD candidate in Philosophy and Consciousness, Christine's work bridges embodiment, activism, and sacred living. Her most recent book is Reverence: Creating Ritual in Modern Life. She writes and teaches on love, power, and womanhood, and speaks at global summits and institutions such as AASECT, SummitLA, and Visionaries. Christine began teaching yoga in 2002 and has studied deeply in classical Tantra, Shaivism, and mantra. She has trained with Mark Whitwell, Rod Stryker, and Thomas Huebl, and currently studies Tamil Siddhanta. She has presented internationally at festivals including BhaktiFest, Yoga Mela, and Rishikesh IYF. She divides her time between California and Hawai’i.

Relational Tantra: The Path of the Unarmored Heart

Awakening through intimacy, feeling, and community in the tantric view

In classical Tantra, the sacred is immanent—discovered in relationship, feeling, and community. In this session, Christine Marie Mason shares a practical approach to relational awakening: clearing projections, attuning the body as an instrument of truth, and staying present with others without abandoning yourself. Drawing from the Vijnāna Bhairava Tantra and lived teaching, she shows how the “unarmored heart” becomes a workable gateway to recognition—whether in tenderness, conflict, or daily life with sangha. You’ll come away with concrete pointers for practicing intimacy as path and seeing the Divine in the space between.

Kaya Mindlin | 9:30 AM

Kaya Mindlin's life and work are rooted in devotion to the Goddess. A trusted teacher to many of today’s yoga teachers and longtime practitioners, she is known for an authentic approach that speaks to mature seekers—one that skillfully weaves together the mystical and the practical. With over two decades of teaching experience, and the blessings of her gurus to continue in stewardship, Kaya integrates Vedic scripture, storytelling, devotional sādhanā, Sanskrit recitation, Vedānta, Śāktism, Vedic astrology, and Ayurveda into her deeply nourishing programs.

Her Supreme Release Yoga invites students to experience the spine as a sacred pilgrimage site, while her Nectar of Time program guides practitioners through each Vedic month with Jyotish forecasts, ritual, and enlivened storytelling. Yogic seekers find a home in Kaya’s inclusive and profound approach, which honors the teacher–student relationship as a sacred container where all of life can become material for spiritual growth.

Kaya lives in a seaside village in the United States with her husband, a masterful Vedic astrologer, and their two children.

Tantra of the Moon

Myth, mantra, and lunar rhythms you can live by

The moon has always been a source of renewal—shaping our moods, energy, and sense of connection. In this session, you’ll learn how lunar wisdom can nourish resilience and bring rhythm to your spiritual practice. Through myth, mantra, and simple guidance on the waxing and waning phases Kaya Mindlin shows how the moon’s cycles offer daily doorways into balance and restoration. You’ll also explore how your personal moon day can guide ritual in a way that feels both grounding and practical. This session is an invitation to align with lunar rhythms so you can feel supported, replenished, and more at home in your own life.

Kelly Blaser | 1:00 PM

Kelly Blaser, LMFT is the founder of DharmaBridge, specializing in Buddhism, Śaiva and Śākta Tantra, and Somatic Psychology. She is dedicated to the power of mettā (loving-kindness) as a doorway to fundamental awakeness and true transformation—both personal and collective.

Through her programs and courses, Kelly helps people apply the dharma to their relationship with themselves and others. She guides students in meditation, mindfulness practices, and compassionate self-inquiry, supporting them to free themselves from conditioned mind, open to possibility, and contribute to deep systems change for the benefit of all beings.

Kelly began yoga and sitting practice in 1989, has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1997, and became a licensed MFT in 2006. She draws inspiration from Zen, Vipassanā, Vajrayāna, and the Śaiva–Śākta traditions, as well as from the wildness and wisdom of nature.

Transforming Shame: The Tantric Path To Freedom

How Buddhist and Śaiva Tantra help us unhook from painful internal narratives

Shame can feel like a private prison—keeping us small, reactive, or endlessly critical of ourselves. In this session, Kelly Blaser brings Buddhist and Śaiva Tantric wisdom together with insights from psychology to show how these painful inner narratives can be recognized and released. She introduces the classic “three poisons” and the Buddha families alongside modern frames like shame shields, then guides you through her practical 3-1-2 Method: shifting from mental story, to embodied awareness, to compassionate self-connection. Rather than trying to banish shame, you’ll learn how to transform it—softening judgment, dissolving old patterns, and remembering the freedom of your true nature.

Michelle Bouvier | 4:00 PM

Michelle Nayeli Bouvier, B.S., E-RYT, C-IAYT brings over 25 years of expertise to the intersection of movement science and embodied spiritual practice. As the founder of the Kutilaa School of Embodied Resilience, she bridges cutting-edge research with traditional wisdom, translating complex principles into clear, accessible methodologies.

A certified Yoga Therapist, GYROTONIC® Trainer, Ayurvedic lifestyle coach, and Axis Syllabus teacher candidate, Michelle’s interdisciplinary background is shaped by extensive training with pioneers in both living yoga and bodymind science, including Shiva Rea, Tias Little, Joanne Avison, Frey Faust, and Gil Hedley.

Her approach blends scientific rigor with spiritual grounding, equipping teachers and practitioners to explore new paradigms of healthy biomechanics through biotensegrity principles and intelligent movement patterns. With an ecological lens, Michelle illuminates human anatomy as a living, adaptive system—one that supports freedom of movement, nervous system health, and lifelong vitality.

Reclaiming the Tantric Body

Bringing Tantric wisdom onto the mat and reshaping how we practice asana

In today’s yoga culture, practice is often reduced to posture, performance, and alignment rules. In this session, Michelle Bouvier challenges that paradigm with the Tantric view of the body as a living field of intelligence and interconnection. She weaves Tantric philosophy—Spanda, Shakti, and pulsation—with modern fascia research to show that our bodies are not mechanical structures to be “fixed,” but dynamic webs of resonance and relationship.Through this lens, practice becomes less about “doing it right” and more about cultivating resilience, integration, and freedom. This session is both an invitation and a revolution: to reclaim the Tantric body, and with it, a fuller sense of embodied freedom.

Judith Blackstone | 9:30 AM

Judith Blackstone, PhD, is the founder of the Realization Process, a method of embodied psychological and relational healing and nondual spiritual awakening. Her approach differs from many other nonduality teachers in that she views the realization of self-other oneness as maturing and enriching our experience of our individual existence, rather than eradicating it. Judith teaches workshops and teacher certification trainings world-wide and online. There are now many hundreds of Realization Process teachers throughout the world. She was a psychotherapist in private practice for thirty-five years and before that, a professional dancer. The Realization Process includes practices for stabilizing in nondual realization, as well as a method of recovering from trauma called Healing Ground, a method of embodied movement called Stillness Moving and a method of relational healing called Empathic Ground. She is the author of eight books, including Trauma and The Unbound Body and her newest release, The Embodiment Workbook for Women: Feel Centered, Grounded and More Fully Awake. 

Safe To Be Here: The Realization Process

Non-Dual Practices for Cultivating Resilience and Safety

For many of us, safety feels elusive. We tense, defend, or fragment in an effort to protect ourselves—yet these very strategies can leave us more fragile. Judith Blackstone introduces the Realization Process as a different way: by inhabiting the body more completely, we uncover an unshakable ground of awareness she calls fundamental consciousness. In this session, Judith guides gentle practices that attune you to the subtle core of the body through breath, awareness, and presence. From this depth, resilience arises naturally—not from armoring, but from openness. We begin to feel whole within ourselves and connected to the world around us. This shift allows qualities like love, intelligence, and strength to flow more freely, giving us real tools to meet life’s challenges. If you’ve struggled with safety or resilience, these practices offer a path to feel grounded, empowered, and genuinely at home in yourself—safe to be here, just as you are.

Chandra Easton | 1:00 PM 

Chandra Easton is a Dharma teacher, author, and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. She has taught Buddhism and Hatha Yoga since 2001. She studied Buddhism and Tibetan language in Dharamsala, India, and at UCSB’s Religious Studies department. During her studies, she co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection (Vimala Publishing, 2012) with B. Alan Wallace. In 2015, she was given the title of Vajra Teacher, Dorje Lopön (Varjāchārya), for Tara Mandala Retreat Center by Lama Tsultrim Allione and H.E. Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. Seeking to bring forth the voice of the empowered feminine in Buddhism, Chandra regularly leads retreats and classes for various organizations, develops programs and curricula for Tara Mandala, and teaches Dharma nationally and internationally. She co-founded the 21 Taras Collective with Nina Rao and Genevieve Walker, to record music for the twenty-one Taras mantras found in her book, Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom, to be released by Shambhala Publishing in December 2023.

Primordial Purity: Awakening Pure Vision

Compassion, contemplation, and meditation in the Buddhist tantric view

In Buddhist Tantra, “primordial purity” points to the insight that our true nature is never stained by thoughts or emotions—it’s already clear and whole. In this session, Chandra Easton shares how compassion (bodhicitta) and the three steps of hearing, contemplating, and meditating support this recognition. She then guides a simple exercise: bringing to mind a challenging person or emotion and practicing seeing it in the light of that innate purity. The result is a fresh way of relating to yourself and others—less bound by stories, more open to kindness, and closer to the freedom this tradition calls awakening.

Anjali Deva | 4:00 PM

Anjali Deva is an Ayurvedic practitioner currently residing in the mountains of Southern California. Her private practice, Rooted Rasa, specializes in an integrative and trauma-informed approach to Ayurveda. Anjali founded Mādhya Way, a school for Ayurveda in 2020 to provide education in trauma-informed care. She is the co-author of “From Stressed Out to Stress Wise” published in July 2023. She is dedicated to sharing the Wisdom of Ayurveda for the benefit of all living beings.

Digesting Trauma

Ayurveda's wisdom for healing, resilience and inner balance

Trauma lives in the body, often disrupting digestion, vitality, and emotional clarity. Ayurveda teaches that when Agni—the inner fire of digestion—is weakened, both food and life experiences remain “undigested,” creating ama (toxins or residues) that weigh us down.
In this session, Anjali Deva guides us through Ayurveda’s holistic approach to trauma healing, with practical ways to rekindle Agni and restore balance. She explores how food, herbs, daily routines, and mindful eating can become pathways of renewal. Alongside these tools, she offers a gentle meditation practice to support safety, resilience, and self-compassion.
Through this integrative lens, healing becomes more than symptom relief—it becomes a process of digesting and integrating our whole experience, so we can return to balance, wisdom, and inner freedom.

Ekat Petrova | 9:30 AM

Ekat is a Women’s Liberation Coach. She is passionate about helping women free themselves from their disempowering conditioning and samskaras, so they can enjoy unapologetic authenticity in their lives and true freedom in their bones. With years of executive coaching AND trauma-informed somatic coaching under her belt, Ekat combines traditional leadership coaching with a gentle, body-based approach to liberating transformation, all rooted in nondual classical Tantra.

Empowered Choice

Tantra’s invitation to shift limiting stories into freedom

Tantra holds that every experience, even the ones that feel most constricting, can become a doorway to awakening. In this session, Ekat Petrova explores how patterns of blame and disempowerment can cloud our freedom—and how meeting them directly can open the possibility of transformation. Through guided reflection and embodied exercises, you’ll learn to recognize the hidden ways we give our power away and experiment with stepping into new choices. Rather than bypassing difficulty, these practices invite us to engage it honestly and discover the agency that has always been available.This session offers a practical approach to empowerment: simple tools you can return to whenever you feel caught in old patterns, and a reminder that freedom is possible in each moment of choice.

Alka Tyagi, Ph.D. & Sara Taub Ph.D | 1:00pm

Alka Tyagi, Ph.D. is a scholar, translator, poet, and dedicated practitioner whose work bridges academic research and embodied yogic wisdom. She teaches English at the University of Delhi, and for over two decades her philosophical & spiritual inclinations have led her deeply into ancient Indian literatures, the Upanishads, non-dual Kashmiri Trika Śaivism, and Sanskrit studies. Dr. Tyagi’s teaching & practice in yoga and meditation, principally in the Satyananda Yoga tradition, spans more than thirty years. She is the author of several books, a translator for the Sahitya Akademi, and a poet with published collections including Sun Ri Sakhi, Amaltaas, and Whispers at the Ganga Ghat. Her most recent book is Reconstructing Devotion through Narada Bhakti Sutras. Her academic work includes a forthcoming monograph on Bhavana (Creative Contemplation) and Bhairava (Supreme Reality) in Kashmir Trika Śaivism. 

Sarah Taub, Ph.D. teaches relationship and community skills, helping groups cultivate deeper intimacy and connection. She facilitates group processes such as consensus decision-making, business meetings, retreats, conflict resolution sessions, and ZEGG Forum, and has co-created consent policies and led consent support teams for gatherings ranging from 50 to 1,500 people. Since 2004, Sarah has been a lead organizer with the Center for a New Culture, producing multi-day camps and events that foster communities rooted in awareness, compassion, and freedom rather than fear and judgment. She has also studied classical nondual Śaiva–Śākta Tantra and Sanskrit intensively for five years with Dr. Christopher Wallis.

112 Doorways To The Divine: The Vijnanabhairava Tantra

Exploring a timeless collection of meditation instructions for awakening to your true nature

This panel brings the Vijnanabhairava Tantra to life as a living guide rather than a historical artifact. Alka Tyagi and Sarah Taub, moderated by Lisa Witter, unpack key themes from the text—attention, breath, senses, feeling, and clear seeing—and show how its brief meditation instructions point directly to recognition of your true nature. You’ll learn how to choose an entry point that fits your current capacity, what “right effort” looks like with direct methods, and how to work safely: pacing, regulation, and the role of a qualified guide. The panel also addresses common misunderstandings (trying to “manufacture” special states, skipping preparation, over-intellectualizing) and offers practical cues for integrating these methods into real life without diluting their rigor. Come away with a grounded understanding of what the text is, why it matters, and how to begin—or deepen—your relationship with it in a way that is respectful, accessible, and effective.

Allison Avalon | 4:00pm

Allison Avalon, MHS, Min is a meditation & tantra teacher, musician, author, storyteller, medicine woman, ordained minister, hospice caregiver, and death guide. She serves as Lead Facilitator for EntheoGEM, where she offers a potent blend of inner work that spans silent meditation, plant medicine ceremony, and ritual.  

Holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Ecology/Ethnobotany and a Master’s Degree in Permaculture Design/Horticulture, Allison spent many years living off-grid, teaching permaculture, and cultivating a deep relationship with the natural world. She is also a certified Hospice Caregiver and was ordained through Awakening Divinity Ministries.  

Her work is devoted to supporting others in navigating both inner and outer landscapes—helping people surrender into love, face the existential edges, and awaken into their brilliance.

The Tantra of Sound: Tuning Your Sacred Instrument

An embodied journey into the voice as both instrument and path of devotion

Classical non-dual Tantra teaches that the sacred is immanent as vibration (spanda). From this view, the body is the instrument—bone, tissue, and resonant spaces; the breath is prāṇa-śakti, the living current that animates that instrument; and sound (nāda) is awareness moving into audible form. In this session, Allison Avalon helps you sense that arc directly: feel breath as the inner mover, notice where vibration travels, and let simple vocalizations and mantra express what’s already present. The emphasis is listening and allowing rather than performance—meeting the vulnerability that arises when voice is honest, regulating the nervous system through steady tone, and resting in the quiet after sound. You’ll come away with clear ways to relate to voice as practice and devotion in the tantric frame: body as sacred instrument, breath as living awareness, sound as the expression that points back to its source.