Team
We have gathered an amazing team to co-create and hold this festival experience for you.
Festival Management
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.
www.anandaessence.com
Ananda Inglin (Organizer)
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/
Alp Tekyildiz (Manager & MC)
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.
Roy Lissack (Volunteer Manager)
PRESENTERS
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.
Komala Lyra
Jacob is one of Scandinavia’s leading sex- and intimacy coaches for men. He developed the Vital Force Sexual Mastery practice in 2013 and has since taught several thousand men to master their sexual energy through physical and online courses. His book on the method, ‘Bedre Sex, Mand!’ has become a bestseller in Danish, and is currently being translated into English.
Jacob loves to create brotherhood and connectedness among men, and he is also co-founder and organizer of the annual men's gathering Man21 in Denmark.
Moreover, he is an ever-curious being, with a passion for history, philosophy and mysticism. He has travelled extensively in his life, harnessing the gems and treasures of several mystical traditions. Some of these are echoed in his work as a poet, which can be found in his collection 'Calls From Home - Mystical Poems'.
Learn more about Jakob here: www.vitalunit.dk / www.vitalunit.com
Jacob Kaergaard
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.
Amir's ongoing inquiry and investigation into, the underlying science of physical and spiritual anatomy and the way that they work together have led him to develop a fusion of yoga practices that are classical but delivered in a contemporary and adaptable way. His sessions incorporate a lot of educational commentary on the biological benefits of each exercise, exquisite music and cross- pollinate complementary practices from a variety of wisdom traditions
www.amirjaan.com
Amir Jaan
Matt is a German-born citizen who has travelled and taught around the world since 2010.
He’s been a facilitator in the fields of Sacred Sexuality & Tantra for over 20 years.
His sessions & teachings are grounded in trauma research and neurophysiology.
Matt considers himself a student of life—inspired by everything that resonates with the key values of connection, transformation, and love.
In his unending search for authentic experience, Matt has walked many paths, including Tao Yoga, Shamanism, and Energy Work.
In 2011, he found his calling within somatic practices & consent, and has continued to study & fine-tuning this work ever since.
Matt developed the Somatic Consent Engagement System in 2019. Since then he’s guided thousands of people through their evolutionary process, in settings ranging from festivals, to workshops, to professional private sessions.
www.somaticconsent.com
Matt Schwenteck
I’m Luzi, Somatic Sexologist, Temple Facilitator, witch & erotic artist. As a somatics nerd & nature lover I feel most alive when I’m naked in the forest. I love facilitating spaces which give permission for our most wild, creative and free expression. I honour the body as life’s true oracle and sexuality as magic. I’m here to feel and pour as much love as I can into the world.
I’ve dedicated my life to Self Pleasure because nothing is closer to my heart. When I fell apart and lost myself, this practice was (and still is) what returns all of me back home. It reminds me of the love I’m made of, every time I put my hands on my body. It’s my medicine, my prayer, my commitment to myself and the people I love.
I believe that working with Self Pleasure is the most radical thing we can do. Loving and returning to the body in a disembodied society is necessary for the evolution of this planet. It’s peace work - it creates a more compassionate way of living and relating. And how needed that is. If I had the power to teach humanity one thing - this would be it.
https://luzipods.com/
Luzi Pods
Fabiola Einhorn is a 650-hour certified intimacy guide for women and couples, with over a decade of experience in classical and neo-tantra. Rooted in deep personal transformation, she discovered that orgasmic states aren't just pleasure — they're powerful portals to healing, integration, and embodied truth. Her unique method weaves together tantra, somatic tools, IFS, and breathwork to guide clients into profound reconnection with the body.
Fabiola teaches women to reclaim The 10 Orgasmic States we are all designed for — a practical and soul-led framework for navigating desire, truth, and liberation.
She also guides couples through The Loveolution — a signature series of three tantric sessions designed to re-anchor their relationship into soulful intimacy, honest expression, and ever-evolving erotic connection.
You can explore her 1:1 sessions, events, and story at: https://www.thepleasurehacker.com/
Fabiola Einhorn
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.
Jonny Driscoll
With over 20 years of experience in wilderness work and close contact with indigenous cultures, Sebastian works with men in a practical, embodied, and experience-based way. His background combines traditional male ritual work with modern trauma-informed and somatic approaches.
The core of his work is supporting men to develop presence, self-trust, and clarity about their own direction in life. Sebastian invites men to explore what kind of man they want to be, how they want to live their masculine energy, and how to stay connected to themselves while relating to others.
His men’s trainings focus on honest connection, cooperation, and trust between men. The work is grounded in direct experience, the body, and real interaction, not in theory or performance.
He facilitates deep immersion men’s retreats in the Alps, in the triangle of Austria, Italy, and Switzerland.
Sebastian Link
Nour Elise is a conscious relationship and feminine embodiment coach and mentor as well as an international breathwork, yoga and meditation facilitator with a passion for music. She helps people shed layers of conditioning, pain and trauma to remember who they truly are and create space for the life they want and deserve.
She has a strong ability to create a safe space for people to be vulnerable and experience powerful shifts while learning to drop into their bodies and balance masculine and feminine energy dynamics within themselves for more flow in their lives. She is also especially skilled at curating music and creating transformational experiences that strongly resonate for many.
Nour Elise also co-leads the Heal Play Love brand and project with her partner Valentin Aschwanden - a community of beautiful souls dedicated to creating experiences that connect us back to love through personal growth, spirituality and music.
Nour Elise
Founder of The Power In Your Hands, Brent is a Master Hand Analyst trained at the International Institute of Hand Analysis. He has studied 26.000 hands worldwide, and now merges this experience with insights from leaders in the biohacking world-including Stemregen CEO Christian Drapeau.
His work decodes the neurological stress circuits and emotional imprints mapped in the hands — providing a measurable, biologically-informed view into the nervous system's impact on longevity, resilience, and performance.
Spiritual-Scientific Pioneer: Bridging Neurology, Psychoneuroimmunology, Dermatoglyphics & Epigenetics
Brent Brunig
I’m Max and I have been intensely studying and practicing different meditation and relaxation techniques for the last 12 years.
Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation journey, deeply restorative for body and mind. It is especially powerful as it allows you to set intentions and anchor them in the subconscious during the practice. They may then manifest during your life when the right moment is there.
My mission is to provide a container for integration and restoration during the festival.
Max Le Guerer
Nicole Kruger
Trained as a child psychologist and working in the field of holistic well-being, Nici`s journey into sound healing began through a serendipitous discovery of the powerful resonance of the Alchemy Crystal Bowls. This awakened a lifelong passion to share the gift of resonant frequencies and soothing experience of this crystalline medicine with others to help connect deeply to their heart, essence, and beauty of sound.
The alchemy bowls, made with pure quartz crystal and the finest gemstones and precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum, serve as potent tools for vibrational healing and cultivating awareness, helping us to reconnect to our inner creativity and playfulness. They invite us to create abundance, bring life force energy back into flow, help heal the emotional, physical and spiritual body and creating a heaven for wholeness. The deeply relaxing sound experiance of the bowls help us to integrate shifts on both subtle and profound levels. My mission is to serve as a vessel of pure vibration, weaving sound with subtle energy so we can return to the inner field where we remember our inherent wholeness.
Janet is a holistic health practitioner, spiritual coach, and healer devoted to guiding women on their journey of self-discovery and empowerment. Her work blends bodywork, energy healing, womb healing, and spiritual coaching with a deep respect for the wisdom of the feminine body and spirit. She is the co-founder of the European Tantra Festival, a lead teacher of the Tantra Woman Training by Santoshi, and a devoted holder of women’s circles. Known as a cacao shaman, Janet leads heart-opening cacao ceremonies and powerful 5 Element Dance sessions that support deep transformation and embodied healing. Rooted in authenticity and compassion, Janet creates sacred spaces for women to reconnect with their essence, reclaim their power, and live in balance.
www.youbalancemylife.com
Janet Diaz
Elise Alma
Elise Alma is a space holder devoted to conscious connection, embodiment, and inner freedom.
Through the practices of shibari and tantric massage, she creates grounded, intentional spaces where consent is the sacred foundation for deep trust and authentic connection. Her work supports people in opening their hearts—to themselves and to others—while finding peace in who they are.
As a musician, Elise shares mantras as a living, collective experience, inviting voices to awaken and reconnect with the soul and the present moment.
She also guides ecstatic dance journeys, leading participants into movement, trance, and embodied presence, where expression becomes prayer and the body remembers its natural wisdom.
MUSICIANS
Kirtan Bliss
The Kirtan Bliss is a band of musicians dedicated to sharing the healing power of sound and singing (www.thekirtanbliss.ch).
With their kirtan and singing circle evenings they guide you on a blissful journey of singing healing songs, chanting mantras, and connecting with the divine.
Led by Ananda with her voice and on the harmonium, Remo on the guitar, and Marc on the tambor and percussion, The Kirtan Bliss has been holding kirtans in Zürich and Winterthur since 2021.
You can look forward to a powerful and uplifting experience that will leave you vibrating with joy and happiness!
THE HEALING TEAM
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.
Amir now uses yoga therapy as the main therapeutic approach in his private health consultancy in Switzerland.
Amir's ongoing inquiry and investigation into, the underlying science of physical and spiritual anatomy and the way that they work together have led him to develop a fusion of yoga practices that are classical but delivered in a contemporary and adaptable way. His sessions incorporate a lot of educational commentary on the biological benefits of each exercise, exquisite music and cross- pollinate complementary practices from a variety of wisdom traditions
www.amirjaan.com
Amir Jaan
My passion is to support woman to blossom in their sexual fullness- I`ve been called a cranio-sacral therapist for the yoni :)
I bring over 30 years of experience, combining physical therapy, cranio-sacral, tantric teachings, ISTA practitioner training, traume release methods, pelvic floor and sexological bodywork. I love to create a loving, therapeutic space for women who want to explore the power and pleasure of their bodies.
Tilly Welmers
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
Corona
Tantra Coach for Women | Sexological Bodyworker | Creative Life & Leadership Coach Sam Allen guides women to reconnect with their pleasure, vitality and inner radiance—especially in times of midlife transition such as (peri)menopause. Through Tantra, Coaching and Sexological Bodywork, she creates safe, empowering spaces where women can soften, feel, express and come home to themselves. Her work is rooted in the belief that the body is a wise gateway to healing, joy and self-trust. With an intuitive and compassionate style, Sam blends somatic embodiment, empowering coaching and sensual awakening to support women in rediscovering their aliveness. Author of The Wild Feminine Spirit and founder of the Permission for Pleasure, Sam brings two decades of experience in creative facilitation, embodiment and leadership. Her authenticity and sensitivity infuse everything she offers—inviting women to honour their bodies, release shame, and remember that their pleasure truly matters.
www.samallencoachingcreatively.com
Sam Allen (Samtrika)
As a first step on my journey into the world of conscious touch, I learned Ayurvedic massage in India. Later, I completed training in tantric massage, sexological bodywork, and somatic sexual counseling. However, my greatest passion lies in tantric massage. With every touch, I want to create a space where trust, presence, and well-being can arise.
Nadin Salzgeber
I propose Myofascia Energetic Release bodywork sessions. These are deep tissue massages designed to get rid of pain, give mobility, help to embody emotions and release emotional traumas stored within the fascia. This goes beyond the relaxing scope of a traditional massage and requires your active participation through breathwork. This session is here to support your festival journey.
Nicolas Gonin
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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