Tantra Training Ikaria island, Greece
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We offer a intense and deeply transformative retreat with a wonderful curriculum
Our retreat is a tresure to us and to many of the hundreds of students who have attended over the past eight years. It is founded upon a mature and extraordinary curriculum that is deeply transformative, intense, and heart-opening.
We feature our retreat in the blue zone of Ikaria island in Greece
We proudly offer one of the most nourishing and beautiful surroundings for Awakening & Healing. Our retreat combines alongside the energy and wisdom of this magical island with the great facilities offered by Cavos Bay Hotel in a sea front location.
We are a long established Tantra school
At Samma Karuna, we draw on over a decade of experience offering Tantra on a daily basis. Combining ancient wisdom with modern practices, our Tantra Teacher Training is the product of our expertise and the support of the Tantra community in Koh Phangan.
Free Tantra Internships to graduates
Our Tantra Teacher Training offers an optional free internship (extra 4 weeks) to teach Tantra at our headquarters in Koh Phangan, Thailand. This benefit is valid for 2 years from your graduation date and is meant for graduate students that would like to deepen their Tantra teaching skills.
Become Lifetime Member & Join our Tantra Community and Family
Enjoy lifetime membership to our Awakening & Healing program, which includes daily classes in yoga, tantra, breathwork, and more for graduates. Samma Karuna is more than just a school; it’s a community of friends and family embracing a conscious lifestyle and supporting one another.
We offer non-dogmatic and heart based teachings
Our approach cultivates goodwill, simplicity, kindness, and compassion, rooted in strength and self-understanding. Additionally, our teachings and practices are non-dogmatic, embracing both traditional practices and modern science, creating an optimal environment for self-exploration.
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What is this retreat about?
What is this retreat about?
Our Tantra retreat offers a transformative journey, exploring Tantra as a path to both awakening and deep healing. Rooted in the path of love, it guides participants toward self-realization, inner harmony, and lasting happiness. Tailored to meet the unique challenges of modern life, the retreat addresses relevant topics such as family dynamics, intimacy, self-worth, coping mechanisms, shame, sexuality, and relationships. Through the teachings, you will cultivate essential qualities like love, simplicity, compassion, and inner peace, fostering personal growth, deeper connection with yourself and others, and a sense of true happiness.
For who is
this Tantra retreat?
This retreat is ideal for individuals who are committed to using Tantra as a path for inner healing, personal growth, and spiritual awakening.
It is designed for those who wish to enhance the health of their body, mind, and spirit through Tantra practices and for anyone aspiring to become a professional Tantra teacher.
Whether you are looking to acquire advanced skills and the knowledge necessary to teach Tantra and guide others on their journey or just deepen your own Tantra practice, this retreat provides a comprehensive and transformative experience.
About our style of Tantra
Samma Karuna offers contemporay Trika Tantra, a unique heart-centered Tantra tradition that blends the ancient wisdom of Trika Tantra—the birth place of Kashmiri Shaivism—with a contemporary, non-dogmatic approach. Our tradition is anchored in The Archegram®*, an educational framework that helps practitioners understand the interplay of feminine (Shakti) and masculine (Shiva) energies and their role in the creation of the universe and the discovery of who we truly are. This approach allows access to the same timeless wisdom while keeping the tradition pure in essence, non-dogmatic, and free from blind beliefs. Our style of Tantra emphasizes the realization of the Spiritual heart, guiding individuals toward awakening through love, compassion, and self-awareness. This heart-centered tradition integrates sexuality and celebration as essential tools for self-transformation, recognizing their power to foster deep healing, joy, and personal growth. While maintaining the essence of traditional Tantra, our approach is free from rigid beliefs and adapted to meet the needs of modern practitioners. It combines ancient teachings with accessible, movement-based practices, making it relevant to contemporary life. Our practical framework empowers practitioners to design their own classes, applying these heart-based teachings and tools in a way that is flexible, non-religious, and transformative.
The application requirements for our Tantra Teacher Training course
The prerequisites to enroll in our Tantra practitioner training and Tantra Teacher Training are:
- Previous experience in Tantric or Tao-Tantric practices.
- An open, flexible mind and the ability to meditate (you may be asked to engage in sitting or cathartic meditation for 1 hour a day or more).
- A high level of comfort with body movement and respectful body contact.
- A commitment to learning.
- You must be able to read, speak, and comprehend English with a satisfactory degree of fluency.
- A high level of self-discipline and a stable mind is required during both course modules as they are physically, mentally and spiritually demanding.
- In order to be considered for either of these 2 modules you need to pay an online deposit and fill in the application form that will be forwarded to you by email.
- If your course application is not accepted a full refund of the deposit will be issued.
- Full payment in cash of the remaining tuition fee will be required upon arrival.
Meet your Tantra teachers
Salome
Salome is a passionate Tantra and Yoga teacher whose transformative journey began when she left her corporate career in New York City to pursue a deeper connection with herself and others.
The power of Tantra and the heart’s wisdom completely transformed her life and igniting a deep desire to share this beautiful spiritual path with the world.
She creates a supportive and non-judgmental space for her students to explore the profound realms of Tantric practices.
Brady
Brady is a dedicated Tantra and Breathwork facilitator, passionately committed to guiding individuals on their spiritual journey of Awakening and Healing. Transitioning from a career as an electrician, Brady began a path to illuminate the inner self through breath and love.
Believing that “to see ourselves fully enables us to love ourselves fully,” Brady’s mission is to foster greater awareness, love, and light, bringing profound healing to both the individual and the world.
Charilaos
Charilaos began his deep spiritual journey and bodywork in 2006, studying yoga, tantra, and practicing vipassana. The universe knocked on his door in 2012, that’s when he found a mentor and went to Thailand to study the art of traditional healing modality’s. He had the opportunity to learn and experience different styles from some of the great masters such as Pichest, Mantak Chia , Sinchai, and Mr. Nat (school for the blind). He is also authorised instructor to Chi Nei Tsang (Chinese medicine) and Thai massage! Dedicate to his purpose to admire and help the human body, to be aware and healed, thought his classes and private sessions!
Kristine
Kristine started her spiritual path 7 years ago when she decided to take a break from the corporate and academic world to travel without even thinking that would change her entire life. It was a new beginning and liberation for her.
The journey took her to Asia where she discovered and started practicing meditation, yoga and different spiritual modalities.
Ishi: the lead teacher
Our lead teacher for this retreat will be Ishi, an internationally acclaimed spiritual guide, Tantra teacher, and founder of Samma Karuna.
Ishi is a dedicated seeker and spiritual mentor with a deep background in Tantra, yoga, energy work, and breathwork. He is the founder of the contemporary Trika School of Tantra at Samma Karuna and the creator of The Archegram, a modern, non-dogmatic representation of the archetypal energies of Tantra.
For the past 14 years, Ishi has been leading Tantra workshops and extended trainings, sharing his message of Loving Presence. His spiritual journey took a profound turn after a life-changing spinal injury at the age of 29, which led him to devote his life to self-discovery, awakening, and healing.
He is also the creator of the BioDevelopment® dance therapy system and the R.I.C.H. method, along with Samma Karuna So Ham Breathwork® and Tetra Breathwork®. His work integrates Tantra, breath, movement, and expression through various active meditations and techniques.
The jouney in a nutshell:
The Foundation
“We provide a safe and nurturing environment, free from common coping mechanisms, where you can reconnect with your body, cultivate inner strength, and open yourself to emotions and feelings—laying the foundation for deeper personal growth.”
The Transformation
“In our supportive and nurturing environment, combined with powerful tools, you’ll be empowered to progressively explore every aspect of yourself through powerful tantric practices, unlocking profound healing and transformation along the way.”
The teacher
“As you emerge happier, stronger, and with greater clarity and inner wisdom, you’ll gain the ability to recognize and transform your inner blockages. From there, you’ll be ready to master the tools and knowledge needed to guide others on their own journey of transformation.”
The Foundation
“We provide a safe and nurturing environment, free from common coping mechanisms, where you can reconnect with your body, cultivate inner strength, and open yourself to emotions and feelings—laying the foundation for deeper personal growth.”
The Transformation
“In our supportive and nurturing environment, combined with powerful tools, you’ll be empowered to progressively explore every aspect of yourself through powerful tantric practices, unlocking profound healing and transformation along the way.”
The teacher
“As you emerge happier, stronger, and with greater clarity and inner wisdom, you’ll gain the ability to recognize and transform your inner blockages. From there, you’ll be ready to master the tools and knowledge needed to guide others on their own journey of transformation.”
The jouney in detail:
Your Tantra Course structure:
The course consist on two different modules; Module 1: Tantra practitioner training, and Module 2: Tantra Teacher Training. While module 1 can be done by itself, module 2 can only be done if you have successfully completed module 1 first.
Module 1: Tantra Intensive Retreat
In this first module of 14 days, you will dive deeper into your understanding of the tools, meditations and techniques available towards a deeper self-understanding of Tantra as a path of awakening & healing. This module can be taken as a transformative retreat to immerse deep into the practice of Tantra, or as a Teacher Training to gain credits toward the 4 weeks certification.
Main subjects covered in Module 1:
- What is Tantra
- Biodevelopment practice (Tantra & inner-child work)
- Compassionate Sharing
- Self-Inquiry practice
- Concentration practice
- Tantra and nutrition
- OSHO Dynamic meditation
- Tantra & boundaries
- Introduction to emotional awareness
- Mindful touch
- Tantra & self-development
- Caressing meditation
- Different styles of connecting breathwork
- Samma Karuna So Ham (diaphragmatic breathing)
- Energy body structure
- History of Tantra
- Exploration of the senses meditation
- Balancing polarities meditation
- Samma Karuna AUM meditation
- Techniques for sublimation & transmutation of energy
- Shiva & Shakti sacred practices (circles of male & female)
- The Archegram as a guide in the spiritual path
Module 2: Advance practices and how to teach
Module 2 offers advanced techniques and practices, focus on intimacy, heart-opening, recognizing the observer, and integrating the observer with the observed.
Our teacher training module equips you with the knowledge and teaching techniques required to lead your own Tantra classes and workshops. You will gain all the necessary tools to structure a session from start to finish.
Upon successfully completing this training course, all graduates are invited to participate in a complimentary 30-day internship at our main school in Thailand, where they can facilitate regular Tantra classes within the first 3 years of certification.
* Teacher Training can only be pursued after successfully completing Module 1.
Main subjects covered during the Module 2:
- How to structure a class
- Overview to Tantric sutras
- Mantras and Yantras
- Tantra as a path to awakening of the heart
- Tantra as a path to altruistic love
- Atisha's heart meditation (Tonglen)
- Tantra and devotion
- Tantra and music structure
- How to structure a Tantra class
- Tantra and the understanding of trance states
- The art of Teaching Tantra
- Tantra teaching practice in groups
- Tantra and business
- Tao-Tantra practices for multi-orgasmic
- Sexual control for men and women
- Tantra as a path of liberation
- Samma Karuna Awakening Meditation (observer)
- Tantra and the transcendence of duality (observer and observed as one)
What will your day consist of?
What will your day consist of?
- 06.00 to 07.00: Meditation practice
- 07.00 to 8.30: Light Tea break (Fruit and other Refreshments Provided)
- 8.30 to 9.00: Compassionate sharing
- 9.15 to 10.15: Tantra theory (Tantra Lineages, Truth & correct understanding, etc.)
- 10.30 to 12.30: Tantra practice
- 12.30 to 15.00: Lunch & break (Healthy and nutritious Vegan Buffet)
- 15.00 to 15.30: Compassionate sharing
- 15.45 to 16.45: Tantra theory (Sexual Education, Sutras, Art of Teaching etc)
- 17.00 to 19.00: Tantra practice
- 19.00 to 20.00: Buffet Dinner
- 19.00 to 20.00: Buffet Dinner & Rest
- 20:00 to 22:00: Optional evening activities may be offered on select dates
Sundays are your day off, however some activities may be included. The schedule structure will remain the same throughout, but the topics will change according to the program.
Join us at magical Ikaria!
Ikaria blue zone free day trip to the springs
Our transformative retreat will take place on the breathtaking island of Ikaria, renowned as one of the world's Blue Zones, where people live longer, healthier lives.
When booking our 4-week course, you’ll unlock a complimentary day trip to the rejuvenating Ikaria Springs, where the island’s ancient healing waters provide a unique, restorative experience. Immerse yourself in Ikaria’s natural beauty and vibrant energy as part of this unforgettable journey.
Accommodation for your Tantra Training at The Venue at Cavos Bay, Ikaria
Accommodation for your Tantra Training
The event will take place at Cavos Bay Ikaria, a beautiful hotel exclusively reserved for our training.
We provide a range of accommodation options, from shared standard rooms to highly comfortable rooms with amenities and sea views. All accommodation are exclusively within Cavos Bay, where all course participants will stay. The standard accommodation included in your course fee is a shared room with another student and garden view. However, you have the option to upgrade your accommodation during the booking process.
Type C
Standard room shared with another student (included in your course fee).
Type B
Superior private room and garden view (€ 850 extra).
Type A
Suite with sea view - spacious room with extra amenities and a sea view (€ 1320 extra).
Certification overview & disclaimer
Certification review
Upon successful completion, graduates will be certified by Samma Karuna® and the Tantra Federation® as Tantra Teachers in Training. This temporary certification is valid for one year, during which time graduates must accumulate 100 hours or more of teaching experience to become eligible for an upgrade to Certified Tantra Teacher status. As a Tantra Teacher in Training, you are authorized to lead regular classes, private sessions, and workshops of up to three days in length. Please note, the school reserves the right to deny your certification upgrade or revoke your teaching license if there is any misconduct or unethical behavior, in accordance with the Tantra Federation’s Code of Ethics.
Student testimonials
5/5
I completed the Tantra teacher course in Ikaria, Greece in 2022 and returned home a new person with heart wide open. My friends said I was glowing, “it was a quantum leap.” <3 I am blessed to carry forward the gifts I receive at Samma to my family, friends, as well as to the patients I serve as a medical doctor in the USA.
Heather C
Written August 27, 2023
5/5
I took the Tantra Training Course in Greece, and was blown away! One intense month with a deep and personal learning process through meditation, dancing, playing, classes, human encounters and inner process. The teachers live what they preach, and they are amazing! Say yes to the whole experience, and you will get a lot more than you came for 😉
Extraordinary645350
Written August 20, 2023
5/5
I did the tantra teacher training in Ikaria 2021.
The days were structured and intense. It was well organized but also flexible enough to be in the moment and follow what ever came up during the classes. The training was a life altering experience, and the teachers were so knowledgeable, creative and loving. And I am forever grateful to them. The teachers created a safe environment for me to move outside my comfort zone and learn more and more about myself.
Kristina S
Written July 22, 2022
5/5
I have visited Samma Karuna many times, both in the old place and the new one and have also done some courses organised in Greece with them. My experience can only be described as one of abundant love, that's why I keep going for more and more. The people that run the place and those courses are heart driven.
Pepe P
Written September 27, 2022
5/5
I went along to Samma Karuna in Greece in April 2022, and it was a life-changing experience for me, and has left a very profound mark on my life, which is hard to put into words. I would highly recommend Samma Karuna's courses, and I already plan to visit again in Thailand later this year. 100% recommend
Win
Written July 25, 2022
5/5
Such a beautiful and peaceful place ♥️ Various yoga and tantra classes you can join all day. Most importantly the staff and volunteers turn the space into a very nice community. If you need compassion, kindness or you just want to be in a nice community this is the place ✨
Ilgaz Y
Written May 30, 2023
5/5
Samma Karuna is a place where everyone can find their place, be accepted and heal.
I have done Breathwork facilitator training in Greece and it was simply life changing. I was able heal many wounds and literary change my life completely.
The teachers were amazing and supported us all the way through with lots of love and care. This training requires a lot of courage, motivation and self discipline, but when you feel the massive change in yourself at the end it all pays off 🙂
Zivile
Written January 26, 2022
5/5
Samma Karuna feels like a cosy community. Which I did not found in other places on the island. People are so supportive. Which is lovely because the classes can be intense in a way that it can trigger a lot inside.
Esther
Written February 10, 2023
5/5
Amazing place with wonderful people and wise teachers. The energy and location is just amazing. Highly recommend 🙂
Kristaps J
Written May 30, 2023
Upcoming Retreats in Greece & Thailand
Course Booking:
Course Booking:
Book your place on the next Tantra Training Course (TTC) by choosing your preferred course and selecting your date afterwards.
14 Days Tantra Intensive Retreat in Greece
€2190
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Module I of the TTC course
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Truly exceptional training program from Samma Karuna School of Awakening & Healing
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Welcome bag and instructorial hand-out
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14 days of residential accomodation (Shared room with another student)
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Transfer service from and to the airport
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Self-understanding program. 85% if this course is experiential
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Light Breakfast and 2 healthy and nutritious vegan meals a day (lunch and dinner) in All-Inclusive.
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Certificate of participation and credits towards become a tantra teacher
Module I
28 Days Tantra Teacher Training in Greece
€3870
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ALL IN THE 14 DAYS PROGRAM PLUS:
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Module II of the TTC course
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Welcome bag and training manual
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Transfer service from and to the airport
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Learn all theory behing how to structure a class
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28 days of residential accomodation (Shared room with another student - upgradable)
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Set of Music, guided meditations and tantra texts (to support your teaching after the course)
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Multiorgasmy techniques and awareness in intimacy
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Life-membership to our Awakening & Healing program with daily classes of yoga, tantra and breathwork for graduates.
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Optional internship to practice teaching tantra at our main school in Thailand (Valid for 3 years)
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Certificate as tantra teacher for graduates* 100HR teaching experience are required during the first year
Modules I & II
