SINGLE SESSION
Individual Tantra & Kundalini
2 hours · 1 session
$460
TANTRA SESSIONS
You can understand your story without ever feeling free inside it.
Private Tantra and Kundalini sessions for individuals and couples, exploring pleasure, intimacy, embodied awareness, and deeper connection.
Tantra · Kundalini Activation · Couples Intimacy
You've recognized your patterns. Perhaps you've spent years exploring yourself through therapy, spiritual practices, or relationships.
And yet your body still braces. Desire feels complicated. Intimacy triggers familiar responses. You know what you want to change, but knowing doesn't always change what you feel.
Because your nervous system doesn't speak in explanations. It speaks through sensation, rhythm, movement, and experience.
My private sessions bring together Tantra, Kundalini energy work, and somatic practices to explore the relationship between your body, pleasure, intimacy, and consciousness.
Pleasure is not something you earn. It's something you learn to inhabit.
Your body is always speaking—in tension and release, desire and resistance, pleasure and the places you've learned to go numb. Tantra invites us to listen, to recognize sensation as intelligence, and to cultivate a deeper relationship with ourselves.
Kundalini practice explores the movement of vital energy through breath, sound, movement, and awareness. As the body opens to more sensation, we learn to move between intensity and stillness, activation and surrender, without losing our center.
Our private sessions integrate tantric breathwork, somatic exploration, guided movement, sound, light touch, and energetic practices.
We work with the body's natural responses, cultivating awareness, expanding your capacity for sensation, and exploring the states of consciousness that can emerge when you stop trying to control every experience.
Individual Tantra & Kundalini
What happens when your body becomes a source of knowing?
Many of us have learned to relate to our bodies from the outside—managing how we look, perform, respond, and are perceived.
We know how to push through discomfort. We may be much less familiar with following sensation, recognizing desire, receiving pleasure, or allowing ourselves to feel without judgment.
Individual Tantra sessions offer an opportunity to explore:
- Kundalini activation and subtle energy awareness
- Sensual embodiment and the capacity to experience pleasure
- Nervous-system regulation and somatic safety
- Emotional expression and releasing habitual patterns of holding
- The relationship between desire, boundaries, and personal power
- Expanded states of consciousness through breath, sound, and movement
We begin with what is actually happening within you.
Couples Tantra & Intimacy Sessions
Love doesn't automatically teach us how to stay connected.
You can have a beautiful relationship and still find yourself repeating the same dynamics.
One person reaches. The other withdraws. Intimacy becomes predictable, difficult to initiate, or tangled in expectations. Sometimes there's plenty of love, but very little space to experience each other without performing a role.
Couples Tantra is an opportunity to practice a different way of being together.
Through conscious touch, breathwork, guided movement, communication, and tantric intimacy exercises, we explore how each partner experiences safety, pleasure, desire, and connection.
Learn to recognize each other's rhythms without trying to control them. To listen through the body. To make room for both individuality and union.
For couples rediscovering intimacy, navigating changes in desire, deepening an already strong relationship, or simply curious about the possibilities of tantric practice together.
We cultivate the capacity to experience more of our own aliveness, with greater awareness, freedom, and trust in the body.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Our bodies carry the stories of our lives—in the way we move, experience pleasure, respond to touch, and relate to ourselves and others.
Private sessions may be especially meaningful for people navigating:
Pelvic Numbness & Loss of Sensation
Difficulty feeling pleasure, pelvic disconnection, reduced body awareness, or the sense that you've lost access to an important part of yourself.
Painful Sex & Intimacy Anxiety
Fear, tension, or discomfort around intimacy. Exploring body awareness, boundaries, and the possibility of feeling more at ease with sensation and touch, alongside appropriate pelvic-health care.
Birth Trauma & Postpartum Disconnection
Reconnecting with your body, sensuality, and sense of self after childbirth, difficult birth experiences, or significant reproductive transitions.
Sexual Assault & Emotional Trauma
For survivors interested in carefully paced, consent-led somatic exploration, body awareness, and rebuilding a sense of agency alongside appropriate therapeutic support.
Emotional Numbness & Dissociation
Feeling disconnected, shut down, or distant from your physical experience. Beginning with gentle grounding, sensory awareness, and practices that respect your capacity and readiness.
Erectile Difficulties & Performance Anxiety
For men experiencing erectile dysfunction, changes in desire, performance pressure, or difficulty remaining present during intimacy. Exploring sensation, relaxation, and connection alongside appropriate medical evaluation.
Heartbreak & Relational Betrayal
The aftermath of infidelity, loss, rejection, or relationships that have shaken your capacity to trust yourself and connect with others.
Couples Seeking Deeper Intimacy
Navigating differences in desire, recurring patterns of withdrawal, difficulty communicating needs, or longing for more pleasure, presence, and connection.
Kundalini & Embodied Spiritual Exploration
For those interested in subtle energy, altered states of consciousness, deeper sensory awareness, and the relationship between pleasure and spiritual experience.
No previous experience with Tantra or Kundalini is necessary.
These are areas for embodied exploration, with suitability determined individually. Pelvic pain, erectile dysfunction, significant trauma symptoms, and dissociation can require specialized medical or psychological care. Private sessions can complement that care when appropriate.
INSIDE A PRIVATE TANTRA SESSION
Two hours of guided somatic and energetic exploration.
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Check-In & Intention
We begin with a conversation about your intentions, experiences, boundaries, and what is presently happening in your body or relationship. This gives me a sense of where to begin and what kind of exploration will best serve you.
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Opening & Grounding
Gentle somatic practices to establish presence and awareness. We may work with breath, grounding, subtle movement, and exercises that help you recognize your body's signals of comfort, tension, openness, and resistance.
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Awakening Sensation
Through breathwork, movement, sound, and light touch where appropriate and explicitly agreed upon, we begin exploring sensation and energy. We follow what naturally emerges.
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Kundalini Activation Journey
An immersive guided journey integrating breath, sound, movement, and tantric energy practices. We explore the movement between activation and surrender, building intensity and returning to stillness, allowing sensations and emotions to unfold at a pace that can be integrated.
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Integration & Embodied Awareness
We close by returning to grounding, noticing shifts in your physical and emotional state, and reflecting on what emerged. Where appropriate, I'll suggest practices you can continue between sessions.
How Our Work Develops
Kundalini activation unfolds through different phases and depths of practice.
I guide the progression at my discretion, considering your nervous-system responses, previous experience, starting point, intentions, boundaries, and readiness.
Some clients begin with gentle somatic awareness and learning to experience pleasure without tension. Others may gradually explore deeper energetic states, surrender, intimate connection, and more advanced tantric practices.
Safety, consent, and the capacity to integrate your experience guide our pace.
WORDS FROM THE COMMUNITY
WORDS FROM THOSE WHO'VE EXPERIENCED THE WORK
"inroads to intimacy that have deepened our relationship."
"a sense of peace and calm"
"I felt so connected to my man"
PRIVATE TANTRA MEMBERSHIPS
Continue Your Practice
From extraordinary experiences to an embodied practice.
A profound session can reveal possibilities you've never experienced before. But the real transformation often takes place in the time between those experiences.
In how you respond to conflict. How easily you return to your center. Whether you can express a boundary without shutting down, experience pleasure without losing presence, or stay connected when intimacy becomes vulnerable.
Ongoing Tantra and Kundalini sessions allow us to deepen the work, develop your capacity gradually, and integrate what you discover into daily life.
Membership Privileges
Your membership includes priority scheduling, continuity in your personal practice, and access to additional opportunities within the Ashira Tantra community.
Members also receive early invitations and preferred pricing for selected O-Circle LIVE gatherings, women's circles, couples' experiences, and other relevant workshops and immersive programs.
Member offers vary by event. Invitation-only gatherings have their own admission criteria.
TANTRA TEMPLES
Exploring intimacy in a collective field.
For those interested in going further, I am developing intimate, invitation-only Tantra Temples: carefully curated immersive gatherings exploring ritual, embodied communication, movement, sound, pleasure, and conscious connection within a group.
These experiences require a shared understanding of consent, boundaries, and personal responsibility.
Private work offers an opportunity for us to develop familiarity and trust while exploring your readiness for more advanced relational experiences.
Existing private clients receive priority consideration for future Temple invitations. This increases the possibility of being considered, but does not guarantee an invitation or admission. Participation remains at my discretion and is determined individually for each gathering.
FOR THERAPISTS & REFERRING PRACTITIONERS
When insight needs an embodied dimension.
Psychotherapy can help us understand our experiences, recognize patterns, and develop new ways of thinking and relating. Yet understanding a response and experiencing something different in the body are not always the same thing.
I welcome referrals from psychotherapists, couples therapists, sex therapists, pelvic-floor physical therapists, and other practitioners whose clients are interested in exploring somatic awareness, embodied intimacy, pleasure, boundaries, and relational practices alongside their existing therapeutic work.
Private Tantra and somatic sessions offer guided experiential practices. They are complementary to appropriate clinical care and do not replace psychotherapy or medical treatment.
Where appropriate, and with the client's explicit permission, I am open to collaborating with referring practitioners to establish shared intentions, understand relevant boundaries, and support continuity between their therapeutic work and embodied practice.
YOUR QUESTIONS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is the difference between Tantra and a sexual service?
Tantra explores consciousness, sensation, energy, and the relationship between body and mind. My sessions may involve breathwork, movement, somatic exploration, conscious intimacy, and Kundalini practices. Pleasure and arousal may be part of this exploration, but sessions do not include sexual services, genital touching, or sexual contact with the practitioner. Sexual gratification or orgasm is never offered as a service.
Will there be nudity or physical touch?
I remain clothed throughout every session, and you are never required to undress. Some practices may involve light, non-genital touch, discussed and agreed upon beforehand. Consent is mutual and ongoing. Both practitioner and client can decline or stop any form of touch or practice at any time, without explanation.
What if I experience sexual arousal during a session?
Arousal is a natural physiological response and can arise during breathwork, movement, or somatic exploration. There is no shame in experiencing it. However, arousal does not change the professional nature of our interaction or imply an invitation for sexual contact. Sexual behavior directed toward the practitioner is not permitted.
What boundaries and conduct are expected during sessions?
Mutual respect is essential. I expect clients to respect my personal space, physical boundaries, and professional role, just as I respect theirs. Unsolicited touching, sexual propositions, harassment, or repeated attempts to cross established boundaries are not acceptable. Consent to one practice never implies consent to another.
Can you refuse or end a session?
Yes. I reserve the right to decline a booking or end a session if expectations are incompatible with my work, boundaries are disregarded, or I feel uncomfortable or unsafe. Both practitioner and client retain the right to withdraw consent at any moment. Respect for these boundaries is a condition of working together.
How are couples sessions different?
Couples sessions explore intimacy and the relationship between partners through guided breath, movement, conscious touch, sensory awareness, and communication. We work with patterns of giving, receiving, expressing needs, and relating to one another. Both partners participate voluntarily and maintain their individual boundaries.
Do I need previous experience with Tantra or Kundalini?
No previous experience is necessary. We begin with your intentions, experience, and capacity. There is no expectation to achieve a particular sensation, energetic state, or outcome. Experienced practitioners are equally welcome to deepen an existing practice.
Can Tantra help with painful sex or erectile dysfunction?
Somatic and tantric practices can support exploration of bodily awareness, relaxation, intimacy, and performance-related anxiety. However, painful intercourse and erectile difficulties may have medical or psychological causes. My sessions are not medical treatment, and I encourage appropriate evaluation and collaboration with pelvic-floor physical therapists, physicians, and sex therapists when relevant.
What if I have a history of trauma or am currently in therapy?
You are welcome to inquire. We can discuss your intentions, boundaries, and whether this approach is appropriate for your circumstances. You are not expected to disclose your entire personal history. I welcome collaboration with your therapist when appropriate and with your permission. These sessions do not replace psychotherapy or trauma treatment.
Can I book a session with my partner?
Yes. Couples are welcome, whether you're new to Tantra or have an established practice. We begin by discussing both partners' intentions, expectations, and boundaries.
Can Tantra sessions be done online?
Some aspects of Tantra translate beautifully to an online setting, including guided breathwork, movement, somatic exercises, group practices, and education. I will also be offering online educational courses and group programs for those who wish to explore this work remotely.
Other experiences, particularly hands-on practices, Kundalini activation, and immersive Tantra Temples, are best experienced in person, where physical presence, shared energy, and direct guidance become integral to the practice.
Private Tantra and Kundalini activation sessions are currently offered in person, while hypnotherapy is available both online and in person.
How many sessions should I book?
You can begin with a single two-hour session. Some clients come with a particular intention, while others choose ongoing practice to explore intimacy, somatic awareness, pleasure, and energetic development over time. Monthly and twice-monthly memberships are available for those seeking continuity.
How do you determine whether a session is appropriate?
Before working together, I may ask about your intentions, expectations, and previous experience. This helps establish whether my approach is suitable and whether we are comfortable working together. I reserve the right to decline requests outside my professional scope or personal boundaries.
Maryam Lopes · Ashira Tantra
WORK WITH ME
Maryam Lopes · Ashira Tantra
My practice brings together years of exploring the body as a gateway into consciousness—from biology and nervous-system awareness to Tantra, hypnosis, sound, and immersive sensory experiences.
My ongoing Biometrics of Pleasure research explores the relationship between pleasure, autonomic nervous-system activity, embodied regulation, and physiological coherence. Through experiential practices and the development of biofeedback-based environments, I'm investigating how breath, sensation, rhythm, and connection relate to changes in our physical and emotional states.
This research informs the questions I bring to my private work: how we experience safety, develop awareness, reconnect with pleasure, and expand our capacity to feel.
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Begin Your Practice
Whether you're beginning your exploration or looking to deepen an existing practice, we can start with a conversation or a private session.
A Conversation Before We Begin
Private tantric work is intimate by nature, and finding the right practitioner matters.
If you're curious about working together but would like to connect first, I offer a complimentary 15-minute conversation.
We can explore what brings you here, what you're hoping to experience, and whether my approach feels aligned with your intentions.
There is no obligation to book a session.
In-person private sessions in Philadelphia
I'm exploring this…
A space to explore your intentions, at your own pace.
Interested in working with the subconscious mind? Explore my separate Private Hypnotherapy Sessions page.