Team
We have gathered an amazing team to co-create and hold this festival experience for you.
Festival Management
Ananda Inglin (Organizer)
Ananda has been teaching the tantric arts in Switzerland since 2021.
She has dedicated herself to the teachings of tantra with great devotion. Her workshops and retreats have impacted the lives of hundreds of participants by guiding them through a process of self-realization, healing and transformation.
Ela Flury (Manager)
Ela’s path has been shaped by embodiment, personal growth, and the exploration of authentic human connection. In 2022, she discovered Tantra, which opened a profound doorway into presence, self-awareness, and deeper relating. Her devotion to personal development had already been part of her life for many years, and Tantra became a meaningful expansion of that journey.
She brings warmth, dedication, and heartfelt care to the team and the festival space. She loves creating an atmosphere where people feel welcomed, supported, and able to truly arrive.
Alp Tekyildiz ( MC)
Alp is an experienced facilitator of events and workshops on embodiment and conscious touch. He uses his experience in bodywork, meditation, tantra, breathwork, energywork, and communication practices to empower others to growth and transformation.
His intention is to contribute to a vision where human beings embrace their authentic, vulnerable selves, and open their hearts to deep connections with honesty and integrity.
https://alp.care/
Roy Lissack (Volunteer Manager)
Roy has been dancing with the magic of Tantra for over 11 years. What started as curiosity quickly became a lifelong love affair with presence, connection, and the mysteries of the body. Along the way, he’s explored countless workshops, retreats, and festivals—each one adding a new flavor to his tantric toolkit.
Roy brings warmth, authenticity, and a grounded spiritual presence. His work is an invitation to slow down, tune in, and rediscover the joy of being fully, vibrantly alive.
PRESENTERS
Elaine Yonge
Sexuality, Soul Initiation, Energy & Breathwork Facilitator www.elaineyonge.com
Elaine is an International Group Facilitator, Educator, Coach, Guide, Energy & Bodyworker working in the fields of Consciousness, Shamanic Breathwork, Sacred Sexuality, Soul Initiation and Somatic Sexology. For over 13 years, she has supported thousands of individuals in deeply experiential and transformational spaces exploring the many dimensions of being human. Her offerings include private sessions, in-person and online programmes, festivals and specialised 7-Day Immersion Retreats. Elaine has facilitated over 200 residential retreats and workshops in more than 20 countries. Her certifications include Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Tantra Educator and Certified Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator. Her journey reflects a lifelong inquiry into awareness, purpose, the human condition, love, spiritual connection, soul wisdom, expansion, learning, unlearning, meditation, physiology, health, disease, aliveness, sexuality, death and grief. Her current work includes a limited number of 1-to-1 sessions, online programmes and a series of 7-Day retreats known as The Journeys — Shamanic Breathwork, Master Your Pleasure and Master Your Energy — primarily deep embodiment experiences weaving Somatic, Tantric and Shamanic explorations. Before entering the world of transformational facilitation, Elaine worked as a Medical Scientist for 20 years in research, surgery, clinical practice and direct patient care. She now enjoys bridging the “apparent illusionary gap” between science, mysticism and spirituality with curiosity, care and respect for the many dimensions of human experience.
Shashi Solluna
Shashi Solluna has trained in several aspects of Tantra including NeoTantra, Classical Tantra and Taoist Sexual Arts. She began her journey into Tantra with Taoist Arts in the year 2000.
From 2006-2008 she was resident at Mantak Chia's centre, Tao Garden, where she co-authored a book with him, worked at the healing centre and taught on the trainings.
Her therapist training in 2009 (including gestalt therapy and relationship counselling) brought the fusion of therapy tools with meditation, bringing her earlier psychology eduction into even more alignment with her work in Tantra.
She teaches workshops in many areas of Taoism, including Qigong, Breathwork, Nutrition, Healing and Sexual Practices. Her work in Tao Tantric Arts is the result of her own blend of Tao Sexual Practices, Tantra and Osho Meditations. Currently she teaches around the world at retreats and festivals.
Mahara McKay
In 2015 Mahara opened her first Yoga Studio in NZ. In 2024 she birthed EQUILIBRA, a retreat center in the Swiss Alps. For over a decade, Mahara has been holding spaces rooted in Yogic, Tantric, and Shamanic arts. With depth, presence, and intuitive guidance, she creates containers for profound inner exploration, personal development and spiritual growth.
Francisco Fortuno
Francisco Fortuno has spent over a decade guiding men and mixed-gender groups through deep transformation, helping people reconnect with their truth, body, and conscious sexuality. He shares experience rather than theory, drawing from his own spiritual journey. Author of Men’s Circles and founder of Hombres Evolucionantes, he has reached tens of thousands through courses on sexuality, masculine energy, and conscious living. He has facilitated workshops on six continents, appeared on Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle Latino, and trained directly with renowned teachers such as David Deida and Arne Rubinstein.
Diana Nunez
Diana Núñez is a Colombian facilitator, speaker, and entrepreneur devoted to conscious sexuality, tantra, embodied relationships, and female empowerment. As the founder of Sexurero, she shares a vision that contributes to the liberation of sexuality through body awareness, pleasure, and authentic connection. For more than 10 years, she has guided women, men, and couples through festivals, retreats, courses, and live and online experiences, helping them reconnect with their bodies, their truth, and the transformative power of life force.
Amir Jaan
Amir teaches technics taken from the ancient monastic tradition of yoga, blended & combined with the latest scientific understanding of psychology, physiology and anatomy.
After 30 years of studying, exploring, experimenting & practicing a variety of classical forms of yoga and meditation. Amir has formulated a contemporary fusion of all those tried and tested technics into his own unique method.
After undergoing a traditional and rigorous apprenticeship for more than 10 years, Amir went on to become the principle teacher at a number of London’s top professional yoga studios.
Amir has became a teacher of teachers and the senior mentors at one of the world’s most esteemed yoga schools for 12 years. And now uses yoga therapy as the main therapeutic approach in his private health consultancy in Switzerland.
THE YOGA The practices are both experimental and experiential; producing a practical and functional toolkit to help mitigate the stress and tension of modern life. It is a practice that is simple, achievable, sustainable, and effective. It is important to Amir that his classes are accessible and available for everyone regardless of tradition, experience, age, and physical ability.
www.amirjaan.com
Jonny Driscoll
Jonny Driscoll is a highly experienced embodiment dance coach and facilitator with over 15 years of teaching experience. Specialising in conscious partner dancing and partner connection,
Jonny Driscoll is the creator of Embodiment Dance, a unique method rooted in principles of yin and yang, the natural elements, and the relationship between physical density and spiritual unity. This method bridges the physical and spiritual realms, supporting authentic expression and conscious communication through movement.
Jonny’s classes are known for their depth, playfulness, and inclusivity, creating safe spaces for exploration and connection. Rooted in principles aligned with Tantra’s ethos of unity and presence, Jonny invites participants to move beyond limiting patterns, embrace flow, and experience the profound joy of embodied connection. His work continues to inspire those seeking deeper self-awareness, connection, and creative expression.
Rick Smith
Best-Selling author Rick Smith has spoken to over 100,000 people on five continents on topics ranging from presentation to presence. His focus is on bringing tenderness to the human experience, by welcoming both our Human and our Being. Through connection exercises, movement, and humor, he offers practical and accessible ways for participants to awaken, to stand up, and remember their own innocence, wholeness, and “enough-ness,” especially in all the tight corners of their inner and outer worlds.
Komala Lyra
Komala Lyra invites sensuous aliveness by deepening sensitivity and awareness, weaving together inquiry and silence, dance and stillness. With over 40 years of experience as an Ayurveda-Yoga-Tantra international facilitator, she merges intuitive wisdom with practical skills, creating a transformative integration of body, heart, and soul.
Her diverse background, enriched by various cultures and traditions, includes intensive training in therapies and healing modalities, blending Eastern and Western approaches with meditation. For decades, she has designed and facilitated educational programs that embrace Ayurveda, Yoga, and Tantra as a foundation for conscious exploration, health, sexuality, and meditation.
Bina Taverna
Bina Taverna is a Shibari & Tantra facilitator with experience for a decade. She has a diverse background in bodywork, sexological bodywork, coaching, kundalini, conscious kink, BDSM, breathwork, polarity integration, dance and movement practices. She creates spaces that invite exquisite presence for transformational work. She dances between the polarities of the light and the dark and the ecstasy of diving into the mysteries. Her offerings provide space for emotional expression, self-love and personal growth, transforming blockages and finding inner power and purpose. Her trauma-sensitive approach creates the safety for vulnerability unfold to explore the depths of our being in a more raw and intimate way.
Lenerd Louw
Lenerd achieved success in the business corporate world at a relatively young age. Then in 2013 after a big internal shift, he resigned as CEO of an insurance company in Cape Town South Africa. He sold and gave away most of his possessions and bought a backpack and a one way ticket to Lima in Peru. This started a five year journey of exploration and learning around the world. He visited five continents and 35 countries. His next destination was always the next most powerful learning opportunity he could find. He underwent and partook in numerous initiations, rituals, workshops and trainings across many areas, but specifically in spirituality and sexuality His passion is vibrant and fully expressed sexuality. His wish is for everyone to be fully connected to their own life force energy without any shame, fear or guilt. He wants men and women to be on the journey of integrating their masculine and feminine energies within themselves. His dream is a a world of deep connection. Based on his own 20 year journey of being a multi orgasmic man, he would love for all men to explore this beautiful expansive potential. His memoir JUMP! – an epic soul and sex adventure was published in 2019 in South Africa. It covers his countless, colourful and deep learnings in a light, fun and easy to read way. It won the Literary Titan Silver Awards in December 2019 and reached the number 2 on Amazon in the category spiritual/religious/travel in early 2020.
Katarina Foltova
Katerina is a facilitator of embodied transformation, weaving tantra, sexuality, and deep emotional work into powerful experiential spaces. Her work invites you into raw honesty, aliveness, and the courage to feel, where body, heart, and consciousness meet. With a presence that is both grounded and electric, she guides people into deeper connection with their desire, truth, and life force. Her spaces are intimate, real, and transformative, opening the door to authenticity, vulnerability, and the freedom of being fully expressed
Jade Lesha
Jade is an International Teacher, Feminine Empowerment Leader, and Founder of Feminine Wilde. For over 17 years, she has guided thousands of women & men across the world in reconnecting with their wild-hearted truth and returning to the fullest expression of who they are. Her work bridges somatic embodiment, feminine mythology, Jungian archetypes, and grounded therapeutic practice. Through her 1:1 sessions, group programs, and Retreats, Jade creates spacious, transformative environments where people soften, unravel, remember, and rise. Her greatest joy and devotion is standing alongside people as they come home to their power, their pleasure, and live their lives on their own terms as their full-spectrum selves.
Eleanor Rutman
Eleanor is a tantra facilitator, creatrix of transformative group experiences, and guide into embodied and sensual connection.Known for her dynamic and evocative spaces, she blends music, movement and somatic practices to open pathways into deeper intimacy, expression and self-disvovery. She runs Dance Events like AmoRythmo and is Co-Founder of Sensual Speed Dating. "My purpose is the understanding of polarities and fun. Playing, dancing, and laughing, creating spaces for sacred sexuality.“ www.eleanorrutman.ch/
Alp Tekyildiz
Alp is an experienced facilitator of events and workshops on embodiment and conscious touch. He uses his experience in bodywork, meditation, tantra, breathwork, energywork, and communication practices to empower others to growth and transformation. His intention is to contribute to a vision where human beings embrace their authentic, vulnerable selves, and open their hearts to deep connections with honesty and integrity. https://alp.care/
Philipp Mutschler
Philipp Mutschler is an Intimacy and Relationship Therapist and Educator based in Germany and France. His work focuses on the practical development of emotional maturity, embodied sexuality, and conscious partnership through trainable methods and long-term integration.
His teaching draws equally from extensive life and love experience and from more than two decades of study and practice across Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. He developed a deep understanding of how intimacy, attachment, desire, and emotional safety evolve in real relationships.
Professionally, his background integrates Taoist sexology, Tantric philosophy and Neo-Tantric practice, schools of Yoga, Bioenergetik, and trauma-aware somatic work.
Alongside his therapeutic work, Philipp has developed his own modern yoga system for men.
Philipp works with individuals, couples and groups on conscious partnership, sexual energy awareness, pleasure-anatomy, body-based emotional integration, and sustainable erotic development. His facilitation is calm, precise and non-dogmatic, oriented toward clarity, self-responsibility, and the development of a stable, skilful relationship with one’s body, sexuality, and emotions.
Alice Hong
Alice Hong has been an embodied feminine leadership coach & tantra teacher for the past 15 years. She has supported thousands of women (and hundreds of men) to create the intimacy, passion and purpose they only dared to dream of.
Alice helps woman connect to the wild wisdom of their body, increase pleasure (this is a women’s secret sauce to radiance) and equip her with tangible tools to align her actions and soul, so she can move powerfully forward in life.
Jenna Lorena Ammann
Jenna is a shamanic movement artist from Switzerland. Through her twenty+ years of dance experience and multiple certifications, Jenna has been blessed to physically, mentally and spiritually encounter and foster aliveness. In her opinion, to move means to be alive and to be alive means to perceive, to allow, to express authentically and to simply be. As humans the only medication we need is movement.
Amira is the founder of Lovecore Bodywork and a dedicated Sexologist, Tao-Tantric Bodyworker & inner Child Coach working at the intersection of body, mind, and spirit.
Her work is an invitation to shed the masks of everyday life and reconnect with your inner wisdom through sensuality and a reclaimed zest for life. At the heart of her practice lies the life force energy—the vibrating snake that makes us truly alive. Amira creates a safe, non-judgmental space for deep de-conditioning: a process where old patterns dissolve, allowing the body’s inherent intelligence to flow freely once again. Her approach is playful and gentle, yet energetically powerful and transformative. She guides you in bridging the gap between your vulnerability and your untamed wildness. In her space, you return to your true essence—vibrant, free, and deeply rooted in your own power. "I look forward to weaving a space together where we can meet in our raw vulnerability and celebrate our collective life force as a sacred power."
Stephanie Amira Hensel
Marco Giglio
Marco Giglio began his path as a competitive judo athlete, coach, and high school teacher, leading groups and developing an early sensitivity to the body and group dynamics.
After studying Sports Science and Education, he has worked for over a decade as a holistic health coach, guiding hundreds of people through processes that integrate body, nutrition, recovery, awareness, and nervous system literacy.
His path deepened through years of personal study in depth psychology. From there, he opened into a broader dimension of the soul’s journey, exploring processes of shadow work, self-authorization, state transformation, and initiation.
He is trained in various modalities, including somatics, depth psychology, BDSM dynamics, and shamanic sexuality, and continues to deepen his path through ongoing study and practice.
Through his work, he creates contained initiation spaces where slowing down becomes a doorway into the body—supporting nervous system literacy, inner alignment, and the cultivation of embodied clarity, boundaries, and self-leadership.
Kobi
Kobi works with Transmission, Intuition & Presence, rather than with concepts, ideas, and complex methods. You’re welcome to trust this and let go of the mind of those who like to ‘get’ something and have a specific goal. Kobi’s gift is creating transformational experiences within a light, joyful, safe, and loving atmosphere, infused with playfulness and clear guidance into the depths of being. He will lovingly guide you through your transformative journey, helping you release limiting beliefs around what you can create and tap into your full potential. You’ll leave with valuable insights and tools to navigate your path with clarity, intention, and faith. With over 25 years of leadership experience and more than a decade of intense self-inquiry, spiritual exploration, and learning from renowned teachers and traditions worldwide, Kobi brings deep wisdom to every space he holds. He has guided thousands through group facilitation across Europe, Asia, and America — merging his experiences into a one-of-a-kind training designed to empower and awaken.
MUSICIANS
Hanuman Project
Known for their highly accessible and deeply powerful Kirtan and Medicine Music offerings, The Hanuman Project will sweep you up into a whirlwind of chant ecstasy and then plunge in a lake of devotional nectar. This is not a band, it’s a movement - a grassroots and cutting edge devotional music ensemble, ever evolving, dissolving boundaries and creating accessibility for devotional culture around the world for the past decade.
Amit Carmali
Amit Carmeli is a musician, vocal artist, and facilitator whose work explores the human voice as a powerful pathway to self-expression, creativity, and inner connection. Drawing from years of experience in music and performance, he has developed an approach that blends voice work, breath, and awareness into a deeply transformative practice. At the heart of his work is the understanding that the voice is more than a tool for singing—it is a direct expression of one’s spiritual, emotional and authentic self. Through workshops, group experiences, and individual sessions, Amit guides people to rediscover their natural voice, release creative blocks, and connect more fully with their inner and outer world. His approach weaves together elements of sound, presence, and exploration, creating a safe space where participants can move beyond performance and into genuine expression. Whether working with individuals or groups, his intention is to support a process of personal discovery, empowerment, and healing through the simplicity and depth of the human voice.
Kosma Music
Kosma has been passionate about music from an early age, using sound as a channel for expression, healing, and inner exploration. Over many years, he has been active in diverse musical projects across Switzerland, guided by a deep search for authenticity, meaning, and connection between body, mind, and soul.
Since 2018, his focus has been on musical improvisation and free movement, creating immersive journeys through sound and rhythm. Using instruments such as handpan, didgeridoo, percussion, vocals, and flute, Kosma invites participants into a dynamic and intuitive experience—embracing both depth and playfulness, and responding to the energy of the moment.
He has been devoted to the handpan since 2016 and now facilitates workshops and retreats for both beginners and advanced players throughout Switzerland.
THE HEALING TEAM
Cornelia Commenda
My name is Cornelia Commenda (she/he) short Coco, Sexological bodywork IISB® I open up the space for people and their sexual issues. My sessions can be juicy, confrontational and always designed for emotional clarity. I'm happy to serve you at this festival!
Tilly Welmers
Hi I'M Tilly, Working as a craniosacraltherapist and sexological bodyworker, it is my passion to support human beings reconnect to their body and natural rhytms & blossoming in their sexuality.
My Clients are people who feel pain discomfort or numbness in any part of their body, wich is holding them back from growth.(genital area and Internal included)
In my sessions I bring over 30 years of experience, combining physical and craniosacraltherapie, tantric teachings, ISTA Practitionertraining, traumarelease methods, pelvicfloor and sexological bodywork.
I am accredited by the swiss 'Zusatzversicherung
Corona
My name is Corona. I am a trained doctor and psychotherapist. I underwent 11 years of intensive training in the millennia-old tradition of original Shakti Yoga and classical Tantra. One of my main focuses is to accompany people on their journey to their inner guidance and grounding within themselves. My work in my practice in Zürich includes general medicine, psychotherapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga, and spiritual guidance.
www.cor-ona.ch
Raquel C. Sanz Fontan
Yoga has been with me for over 20 years. As a qualified yoga teacher and complementary therapist in the yoga therapy method, I support people holistically. Yoga promotes mindfulness, health and quality of life – both professionally and privately.
TEAMLEADS
In recent years, my life has been devoted to embodiment — gently arriving back into the body, moving out of the mind and numbness, and into sensation, feeling, and deep presence. More and more, I am embodying and living my authentic essence.
Being caring and nurturing is at the core of who I am; it fulfills me deeply. I love welcoming both new and familiar faces, offering a warm landing and a heartfelt invitation to arrive.
I feel a deep calling to strengthen sisterhood, and starting in January 2026, I will be holding these spaces together with my sister — guided by mindfulness, presence, and love.
As a sound bath facilitator and frequency therapist, I follow my heart and support people on their journey.
Ela Flury- Reception Teamlead
Mei walks the path of Tibetan Buddhist Tantrayana / Vajrayana, guided by daily awareness meditation and Tibetan mantra chanting practice. She embodies holistic wellbeing as a Qigong Teacher & Therapist, QHHT Practitioner, Sound Meditation Facilitator. As the founder of TARA HOUSE, a humanitarian NGO dedicated to Sustainability, Community, and Charity, she brings spiritual devotion into grounded action.
For the past three years, she has led the festival’s largest support team as Team Lead of Loving Angels. She and her angels hold the field with unconditional love, devotion, and sacred service—offering a frequency of safety, warmth, care, playfulness, creativity, and radiant color light that gently weaves through the entire festival.
“Her mission, like a quiet whisper from the unseen, is to carry light into the hearts of others—walking gently, yet with the luminous strength of an angel.”
Mei Abicht- Love Angel’s Teamlead
Stefan brings years of professional sound-engineering experience to the Antara Tantra Festival and joins the core team for the third time. What he offers is a rare mix of technical precision, calm presence, and thoughtful support that helps the whole team flow smoothly.
With steady attention to detail, Stefan ensures that sound and tech simply work - unobtrusively and reliably - through every workshop, ceremony, and celebration. His intention is to create a smooth, reliable tech ride so facilitators and participants alike can dive fully into their experience. Contributing to this grounding from the background is something he genuinely enjoys.
Through his work, Stefan supports the facilitators in doing what they do best - ensuring that the festival’s atmosphere is held with care, clarity, and quiet dedication.
Stefan Rickli- Sound Technician
Sarna first joined the team at last year's Swiss Tantra Festival 2025 summer event and will now happily contribute again as the Spacekeeper Teamlead to this year's winter festival. He brings a calm and present approach based on his spiritual growth, along with his extensive experience creating many events throughout his life.
Sarna started his path of tantric awareness about four years ago. He has developed his wisdom, emotional, and energy skills at various detailed workshops across Europe, focusing on tantra, shadow work, and trauma release.
"I feel incredibly lucky to be gifted the opportunity to be in service to this festival and all it’s participants - this safe space we create, where everyone and every part of you is welcome."
Sarna- Physical Spacekeeping Teamlead
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