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10/02/2026

We’re f*cking breathing. Like, that’s the baseline.

We’re supposed to be breathing, making sound, expressing ourselves. It’s important.

But most of us have spent our whole lives doing the opposite. Staying quiet. Staying small. Because at some point, being in your body became too scary. Too painful. Everything in your life told you not to be here.

So you learned to float off into the abyss. The checklist. The next distraction. The thing you forgot to do. Another episode. Another scroll. K-pop demon hunters or whatever keeps you from actually feeling what’s in your body.

We get it.
We’ve spent years doing the same thing.
Everything down here hurt.
Why would we want to be present for that?

The stuff that’s coming up now is coming up because you’re finally ready. Because you have the capacity. Because it’s time to stop running.

Living Ta**ra isn’t simply about learning to breathe deeper.
It’s about sitting with the discomfort that comes up when you stop distracting yourself long enough to actually be HERE.

In your body. In your life.
Feeling the s**t you’ve been avoiding.

It’s uncomfortable AF.
But it’s real. And on the other side of that discomfort is the aliveness you’ve been chasing through every distraction.

Living Ta**ra Retreat
March 21-28, Bali
8 days of being here. Of letting what needs to come up, come up.

Co-facilitating with .

Early bird ends Feb 21.
Comment LTR or DM us for more info.

If you’re tired of running, we’ll meet you there ❤️

04/02/2026

Clarity doesn’t come from trying harder. 
It comes from understanding what part of you is responding.

The five layers of the self offer a way to untangle body, story, energy, and emotion so you can move forward from alignment rather than reaction.

This is how embodiment becomes lived.

Comment “Embody” to get a link for upcoming retreat in April!

**ra

03/02/2026

This right here, is what Ta**ra actually looks like when you’re not trying to prove anything to Instagram, not trying to fit the “ta**ra aesthetic mold” we now see everywhere.

We’re connected.
We’re present.
And then Ben taps my ass mid-video because... why not? 😉

If you’re new to this world or you’ve been here for a while, nobody tells you that you don’t become some enlightened couple who floats through life in constant 24-hour bliss.

You just become more... human.
More alive.
More willing to be ridiculous and sweet and spontaneous all at the same time.

Because this is Ta**ra - living in the present. Embracing all emotions - not just the tears, and screaming, and pillow hitting you see online - but also the gut-wrenching, belly aching laughter.

At Living Ta**ra, we don’t just teach you to be more sacred. We teach you to be more real.

To feel your ALIVENESS without needing it to look a certain way.

To let intimacy be deep AND playful (because yes, you CAN be both).

To stop taking yourself so seriously that you forget to actually enjoy being in a body with someone you love.

People come expecting all eye gazing and breath work. They’re not wrong - there’s plenty of that.

But there’s also laughter. And silly jokes.
And moments where you remember that being alive is supposed to be fun - despite what current events and the news are showing right this second.

Living Ta**ra Retreat
March 21-28, Bali
Co-facilitating with .

8 days.
We’re here to become more human.

Early bird ends Feb 21. Comment LTR to learn more. 🍑

30/01/2026

The madness of this world is only ever of one cause.
The division of the small mind and its inability see it all.

That doesn’t mean the individual causes and issues of any given moment don’t matter— they matter deeply.

They just won’t ever be fully solved by the state of mind that created them, and without awakening beyond the black and white dualities, will still perpetuate the cycle in new ways.

Immanence and Transcendence are both vital medicines.

The human layer of what’s going on here is deeply sacred.

But without the high perspective, it’s hard not to simply see through the lens of our own perspective and our own pain.

The perspective on higher consciousness is important to have any truly functional idea of what’s going on here. But without a deeply visceral connection to creation, it becomes far too easy to dismiss all the valid issues of the time, as a distraction, or simply an illusion.

The tantrik philosophy demands of us, the bold task of refusing to let go of either, and living in both at once.

And to do it all with a wildly open heart.

The question of the times isn’t just how to solve this problem.
It’s a far more challenging issue of collapsing the paradox.

How do we love each other in this world?
How do we love this world with each other?
How do we move through this beautiful disaster
with love in our hearts and your hand in mine?

And then get busy easing pain without seeing division.

This is the sacred suffering of the project at hand.
Join us in this dharma, at Embodying Essence Retreat.

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