tantra festival

Festival Presenters

Maria Porsfelt

Maria Porsfelt

Maria Porsfelt has been practising Tantra and Yoga since 1999, and has been teaching Tantra and leading workshops, retreats and courses for over 15 years. Through her own practice, depth of knowledge and charisma, Maria makes Tantra accessible to all in an approachable, playful and eloquent way.

Foca Yariv

Foca Yariv

Foca Yariv has been studying Yoga and Tantra for over 21 years. His pursuit of knowledge and spirituality took him from his native Israel to the ashrams of Europe, India and then to the UK, which has been his home for the last 12 years. Foca teaches both Yoga and Tantra, and has a strong focus on running workshops for men.

Vital Development

Vital Development

Patricia & Marcelo, originally from Argentina, have dedicated their lives to the practice and promotion of new holistic forms of body-soul aimed disciplines, movement-therapy and art-expression in various spiritual events, retreats and health organisations.

For many years they have concentrated their professional activity in training courses, workshops and seminars of Vital Development in Japan, Finland, Germany, Denmark, the US, Thailand, Russia, the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Argentina.

Morgan Arundel

Morgan Arundel

Morgan Arundel is passionate about teaching and inspiring others on their own journey of spiritual awakening and transformation. A dedicated and enthusiastic practitioner of Tantra yoga for over 20 years, he has a unique ability to bring clarity to ancient teachings, combining his deep spiritual knowledge with broad life experiences.

DJ Colibri (aka Guy Barrington)

DJ Colibri (aka Guy Barrington)

Dj Colibri is a “Sonic Alchemist” who weaves together different genres, energies and musical intentions for the purpose of Transformation and Renewal. He works with the essence of the Colibri/Hummingbird, our vibrating Heart, resonating frequencies of Love, Wisdom, Joy and Beauty.

He enjoys creating musical atmospheres and amazing soundscapes in which Awakening, Alchemy and Inspiration naturally occur. Through the medicine of Music and Dance we are invited to return to the golden state of our Sovereignty.

He has a background in Shamanism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Tantra & Conscious Creativity which weaves its way through the music he plays to impact dancers and inspire transformation, growth and the Celebration of Life.

Ben Carver

Ben Carver

Ben has been practising Tantra since discovering it in India while he was exploring many aspects of spirituality in 1999. A musician, artist and former Steiner school teacher, Ben brings a creative and heartful approach to teaching, which he has always found deeply rewarding. The connection between Tantra and art has been a very important part of his life and he has been able to explore theatre, dance and music, as well as massage, as powerful ways to heal and awaken the soul.

Austin Allen

Austin Allen

Austin was fascinated by Eastern mysticism and the metaphysical from an early age. He practiced Martial Arts throughout his teens and later studied Psychology and the Healing Arts, before discovering the Yoga course (offered by our school) whilst traveling in India. As he practiced more, he soon realized that he had found his spiritual path and the desire was born to share the experience with others. Austin has been practicing Yoga & Tantra with Tara since 2000 and has been teaching since 2006.

Bogdan Radasanu

Bogdan Radasanu

Bogdan has been practising yoga and Tantra since 1994. He has found that sharing his experiences on the spiritual path with others is the best way to teach, and a fast track for self-development and opening of the soul. Bogdan also believes that love, manifested in the most concrete way, is helping others unconditionally - the very core of Tara’s mission. Expect a very down-to-earth and practical approach.

Mojdeh Moasser

Mojdeh Moasser

From a young age Mojdeh has been interested in finding the golden thread between a worldly life and spirituality, and the balance between the two has become more and more of a reality through a disciplined practice of Yoga and Tantra. Mojdeh has been a Tantra teacher for women for six years, while organising workshops, personal transformation programmes, retreats and festivals both in Denmark and the UK.

Alina Chereches

Alina Chereches

Alina immersed herself into many spiritual traditions, fell in love with the Tantric philosophy and practice, Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta and Esoteric Astrology. She weaves these together with Transpersonal Psychotherapy into one integral path. As a teacher of Tantra and astrology, Alina loves sharing her vision, in a playful and approachable manner, that life is our deepest meditation.

Inka Oravec

Inka Oravec

Inka has been on her spiritual journey for over 15 years, practising various modalities. However, none of them could fully answer her curious nature and the questions she felt within. Until she came across Esoteric Integral Yoga and authentic Tantra 8 years ago when she committed to the path of transformation. Inka now uses all her knowledge and experience to guide other women on their journey of spiritual evolution towards happiness.

Elizabeth Mason

Elizabeth Mason

Elizabeth has always been fascinated by different aspects of spirituality and found the courses at Tara answered many of her questions, put everything into perspective, and provided a comprehensive understanding of many spiritual ideas. She started with Tara in 2005 and began teaching five years later. She co-runs our Centre in Oxford, and very much enjoys welcoming new students to our community and seeing their inspiring transformations.

Kirsty Pearse

Kirsty Pearse

Kirsty discovered and started practising Tantra and Yoga in 2017, which began to bring coherence to both her inner and outer worlds. Through a deeper understanding of femininity, Kirsty realised the importance both of becoming a spiritual woman and the beauty of being a woman. Her aspiration is to share the Tantric methods and teachings with others, in the hope that their lives will be as enriched as her own life has been.

Ákos

Ákos

Ákos has been practising yoga and tantra for over 30 years, alongside an enduring love of esoteric art.

Largely self-taught as an actor, musician and choreographer, he has found himself involved in many corners of Tantric Art, ranging from the poetic to the practical.

He works with various groups, teaching at the ArtExtasia Academy in Budapest, and playing a part in the group’s ongoing artistic creation - wherever he happens to be most useful.

Iulia Carver

Iulia Carver

Iulia discovered yoga relatively early in life which comes across in the strong sense of spiritual purpose, positive attitude and joyfulness she radiates. Since that beginning in 1993 she has travelled extensively while maintaining a rigorous practice of Yoga and meditation, enjoying and demonstrating the benefits of such practices for women everywhere.