About us
We're happy to have you join our wonderful Tantra community in Minnesota!
Everyone is welcome here - all ages, experience level, relationship status, sexual orientation. Whomever you are, we provide a space where you can explore what it means to connect with other like minded people.
We offer introductory workshops on communication, touch, meditation, breathing, relationship, intimacy, sacred sexuality, tantric teachings, practices, and more. We also offer longer weekend retreats. Our retreats answer a deep human need; the need to step away from daily concerns and to simply rest. Without rest, reflection and re-creation, we exist in survival mode. We come together to share, learn, and support one another in our practices, ultimately benefitting all areas of our lives.
Because of the size of our group, we ask that you please add a last name (real or pseudo) or initial so we can distinguish between members.
Thank you for your interest!
Namaste
(I honor the divine in you that is also within me)
Upcoming events
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Touching Desire (Level 1): The Art of Pleasure for Couples
Four Springs Seminars, 14598 Sheveland Rd, Middletown, CA, USDo you wish to unlock your body’s natural ability for more ecstasy?
Would you like to learn how to exchange pleasurable, whole-body touch?
Enjoy an experiential weekend dedicated to exploring sensuality, sexuality and awakening your desire through the Tantric art of touch!
Join Sara and Thomas Stout, Certified SkyDancing Tantra teachers, in this transformative seminar that weaves together sensuality and spirituality. Discover touch as a doorway to enlightenment.
- Learn extensive tools to enliven your capacity for ecstasy.
- Fine tune your skills in the art of Tantric touch
- Learn sensuous, healing, and pleasurable whole-body touch
- Integrate spirituality and physical pleasure
- Open new doors to the heart, and allow more pleasure and trust in your relationships.
- Develop true alignment with your desires.
- Have fun!
Employing conscious touch, ritual, and communication as the foundations of this sensuous weekend seminar, you’ll experience deepened connection with yourself as the difference between self and other dissolves into a harmonious flow of ecstatic energies.
How is Touching Desire a “tantric” practice and differs from other forms of touch such as massage? In a traditional massage, we recline on the table and receive, entranced. Touching Desire (Level 1) includes interactive elements such as eye contact, communication, breath awareness, sensory play, and energy movement along with touching the whole body.
“They were amazing, grounded, loving, skillful and personal in their explanations. I liked most that Sara & Thomas brought in their own practical and personal experiences.”
~ Meenal K. Ventura, CAGet more of what you want and discover new and a wider range of pleasure. Come away with lifelong tools to increase intimacy and connection with yourself and others.
This exploration of desire through touch is for everyone regardless of how easily you feel desire. These practices support you in knowing what is pleasurable and how to feel more with your entirety.
Open to everyone. No previous experience necessary.
All genders, orientations, and relationship configurations are welcome. You may work together exclusively during the workshop or with others if they wish. If you identify as feminine, watch this video: how does SkyDancing Tantra support you?
Touching Desire (Level 1): The Art of Pleasure for Couples is designed for people who are ready for more aliveness, love, and consciousness in their relationships and intimate partnerships.
“I was profoundly moved by the loving energy of Sara & Thomas as teachers and as a long time married couple. They are caring, very open and clear communicators.”
~ C. M., Ohio“A slow and safe space to explore sensuality and pleasure. Sara and SatchiJo move with impeccable, kindness and care, allowing each person in the space to “be“ and emerge in their own timing. Ask and you shall receive!”
~ Willow Jo RiverThis workshop serves as a prerequisite for the Love & Ecstasy Training Cycles.
Sara and Thomas Stout, Certified SkyDancing® Tantra teachers, founders of LovePassionately® ~ School of Mindful Intimacy, and Directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute® – USA. They teach seminars in sacred sexuality around the USA and internationally. Married for over 30 years, Sara and Thomas bring great warmth, insight, and humor into their workshops. With backgrounds in psychotherapy and bodywork, Sara and Thomas have cultivated what they call “the art of bodyful intimacy,” which they beautifully demonstrate through their workshops and coaching. They are also never-ending students of meditation, yoga, sexuality, and interpersonal dynamics.
Practical Information:
Teachers: Sara & Thomas Stout
Location: Four Springs Retreat Center, Middletown, CA
Start: Friday, Feb 13, 2026, at 6pm with registration/dinner
End: Sunday, Feb 15, 2026, at 1:00pm, followed by lunch
Cost: $775-$925 per person includes:- full weekend seminar
- delicious and wholesome meals (Friday dinner to Sunday lunch)
- access to Four Springs amenities (including its beautiful land, trails, pool, sauna and more)
- lodging options (listed at registration)
Register Now at Touching Desire
Deposit: $250 per person; full payment due by January 7, 2026
Knowledge or experience of SkyDancing Tantra is not necessary.3 attendees
Awakening Passion: Trust, Play & Love 4 Day Immersion
Menla Retreat Center, 375 Pantherkill Rd, 12464-5317, Phoenicia, NY, NY, US### Awakening Passion: Trust, Play & Love
Now a 4-Day Immersion at Menla
Dates: Thursday evening, February 26 – Sunday, March 1, 2027
Location: Menla Retreat Center (Catskills, NY)Are you seeking more passion and love in your life? Do you wish to feel more confident and joyful?
Awakening Passion: Trust, Play & Love is perfect for those who want to discover healthy ways to approach intimacy and create new opportunities to live with more energy, vitality, and authentic confidence. Singles and couples equally appreciate the fun and safe ways we explore love, passion, and relationship-enhancing connection.
Through proven Tantric methods, you’ll build from the bottom up—cultivating a strong, centered self from which passion naturally arises. If life has felt dull or unfulfilling, this weekend helps you rekindle spark, creativity, and choice.
### Why Four Days?
Our community asked for more—and we listened. Awakening Passion now unfolds over four days at Menla, February 26–March 1, 2026.
This expanded design means:
✨ More time to explore Tantra as a life skill. Not just an experience, but tools you can apply whether you’re in relationship or not.
✨ Clear, embodied communication. Practice boundaries, consent, and attunement until they become second nature.
✨ Holistic integration. Breathwork, connection rituals, and choice-based touch frameworks that nurture self-trust, play, and joy.
✨ Personal roadmaps. Link your values and desires into a clear integration plan you can take home.The fourth day isn’t about more content for its own sake—it’s the gift of breathing room. Time to try, to reflect, to embody. You’ll leave not only with insights, but with confidence in your own ability to live Tantra daily—in your love, your creativity, your joy, and your connection to life itself.
And while you’re at Menla, you may also choose to rejuvenate at the world-class Dewa Spa. Between sessions, enjoy healing treatments inspired by Tibetan medicine, soak in the sauna, or simply rest in the serenity of the Catskills.
During Awakening Passion, you will:
- Enjoy play as a path to awakening
- Strengthen individuality while in deep connection
- Reawaken your primal passion
- Explore the intersection of sexuality and spirituality
- Build sacredness into your love life
- Develop a foundation of trust, consent, and openness
- Celebrate your sexuality in a safe, affirming environment
- Learn tools to integrate Tantra into everyday life
With over 30 years of marriage, Sara & Thomas Stout embody a strong sense of individuality while diving into intimacy.
“Thomas/SatchiJo and Sara are impeccable leaders in the often tender and vulnerable space of self-love and sensuality.”
~ WN from WisconsinDiscover how meeting challenges with skill can create closeness, respect, and commitment. This retreat was designed in response to requests for deep intimacy while maintaining autonomy. Most stress and compulsion arise from playing roles that aren’t truly ours. How do you balance your need for attachment without losing yourself?
Through practical exercises, you’ll establish the trust, verticality, and boundaries that allow oneness and bliss—without self-abandonment. When you return to your true nature, tension dissolves and joy expands. And yes, we have fun while we grow.
When you return to your true existence, tension dissolves, and joy is boundless.
And you’ll have fun while evolving.
In which area of your life do you want to ignite more passion?
Love?
Creation?
Joy?
Sex?
A cause that is important to you?
or Life itself?Do you want to feel more relaxed and light with your body and sexuality?
Feel the freedom that comes with acceptance and self-love.
Passion bursts forth from unrestrained desires.
Imagine being in a community that welcomes you and your true and boundless self.Who is it for?
Open to all genders, orientations, and relationship statuses. You do not need to be in a relationship to learn Tantric tools. Come as you are and leave with practices you can use with partners, dates, friends—and with yourself.From this seminar, you’ll take home ways to access your source of ecstatic energy and share it in a conscious way with anyone in your intimate relationships and everyday life. By learning and putting into practice the timeless wisdom of this work, you will gain the benefits from these practices over and over.
“It’s a beautiful way to start on a journey of self-exploration in a container that provides safety, fun, listening, and learning.”
Diane Divone“Perfect weekend to really find your inner truth with or without a partner.”
Rose M.Click here for Frequently Asked Questions
This workshop serves as a prerequisite for the Love & Ecstasy Training® Cycles.
#### Practical Information:
Teachers: Sara & Thomas Stout
Location: Menla Retreat Center, Phoenicia, NY
Start: Thursday, Feb 26, 2026, at 6 pm with dinner (registration is open after 4:00 pm)
End: Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 12:30 pm, followed by lunch
Cost: $1045-$1645 per person includes:- full weekend seminar
- delicious and wholesome meals (Thursday dinner to Sunday lunch)
- access to Menla amenities (including its beautiful land, trails, Dewa Spa, and more)
- lodging options (listed at registration)
Menla is a hidden oasis set in a secluded valley beside an enchanting stream in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. It is a truly unique venue and a project of Tibet House US, the Dalai Lama’s cultural center in North America, surrounded by thousands of acres of unspoiled wilderness. Immerse yourself in the magic of our pristine mountain forests. Explore hiking trails, encounter wildlife, and discover a rich tapestry of wellness experiences and activities.
Deposit: $250 per person; full payment due by January 15, 2026
Knowledge or experience of SkyDancing Tantra is not necessary.Register Now at: Awakening Passion
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