Ayurveda, Tantra & Living Intimacy
where ancient medicine breathes
Lalita Soma is a space for the art of living— where the body teaches, intimacy guides, and relationship initiates. A living practice ground, guiding you to remember your divine capacity for aliveness and wholeness. Through integrative embodiment, ritual wellness and the intelligence of the heart, you are invited reclaim the wisdom of your body, open to deeper connection, and align with life force of your deepest re-membering.
Ayurveda
The Science of Life
Ancient medicine invites us into a living relationship with nature’s intelligence. It teaches that every cell in the body mirrors the cosmos, and health arises from remembering this harmony. Through elemental awareness, ritual, and nourishment, we attune to the cyclical intelligence of our bodies and the Earth. Ayurveda is not only a system of medicine but a path of embodiment — a way to live in devotion to life’s rhythms, vitality, and wisdom.
Tantra
Spiritual Eroticism
The path of sacred eroticism and the erotic mystic is an art of weaving spirit and matter, light and shadow, form and formlessness. It honors desire as a divine current and the body as a temple of awakening. Through breath, sound, and sensation, Tantra dissolves the separation between the sacred and the sensual, revealing the pulse of consciousness as a remembrance that every moment, every touch, every breath is an opportunity to meet the divine through presence.
Intimacy
The relational field
The living field between beings, the tender space where truth, vulnerability, and love converge, calls us to be seen and to see, to hold and be held and to open beyond defense into deeper connection. In its purest form, intimacy is devotional: it mirrors us back to the places where love longs to flow more freely. Whether in partnership, community, or communion with the self, intimacy is the alchemy that transforms separation into belonging, and conflict into liberation.
What is Ayurveda?
This ancient science has its written roots begining over 5,000 years ago. Before that it was held in the oral traditions, passed down from teacher to student, with information crossing continents, traversing oceans and bridging cultures, merging multi-cultural wisdom on how the body operates, in soma and of soul. Practices of Ayurveda are reflected in countries worlds across from the continent of India, Ayurveda‘s most commonly assumed origin, and translated into the environments that suit their cultures needs and beliefs. No matter the culture, no matter the continent— having a body that is human links us all to the same wisdom stream of health and vitality.
Ayurveda is the substrate from which the other exotic and intriguing practices of the East, such as yoga and tantra, come from. The ancient wisdom keepers, sages, sadhus, tantrikas, priests and priestesses of these Eastern traditions held the intelligence of Ayurveda within the cells of their body— and from this intelligence birthing the transmissions that yoke body and spirit.
At the heart of Ayurveda lies the belief that our cellular health reflects the quality of our relationships, creating a dynamic feedback loop that manifests vitality within our bodies. It views the vitality of every cell as being directly impacted by the health of the relationships in our life— be it with ourselves, with others or with Spirt. How we move through the relational field is manifested in the consciousness of the cell, which then mirrors back to us what we are holding and carrying through the expression of our quality of vitality.
Intimacy is not a goal—
it’s a practice of deep listening and reverence.
Wholeness isn’t something you seek—
it’s something you live.
Nervous System Bliss is not to be sought after—
its to be self-sourced.
What is Tantra?
This ancient spiritual philosophy, linked to the cosmology of Hinduism and Buddhism, uses the body as a pathway to expand consciousness. This tradition has its first written texts dating back 1500 years ago in the South Asian continent. As with Ayurveda, tantra also has a long lineage in the oral tradition where practices and transmissions were given from a wisdom keeper to their mentee.
Tantra uses a wide range of techniques and practices— such as yoga, meditation breath work, and ritual— to achieve union with spirit. This system is commonly misconceived as being primarily about sexuality. While sacred sexuality is a high expression of this path, at its roots, it a conversation between sensation and soul. 
The pathway of spiritual eroticism uses the senses of the body to find connection with the pulse of life that lies in all experience. Tantra uses the body as an oracle, driving the ever present awareness of consciousness through all facets of life. In elegant sophistication, at the heart of this practice is devotion. When ecstasy can be felt in the most mundane experiences of life, then we are able bring tantra into the deeper mysteries of union with other. This is where the high, sacred practices in partnership come to play— where sensation becomes the spiritual path of awakening through the devotion of feeling the pulse of life.
you are not here for surface-level healing—
You are here for depth,
for transformation that ripples
through your body, your relationships, and the way you meet life.
This work is an invitation:
to slow down, to feel more, to meet yourself in the spaces you’ve turned away from and
call back the wholeness
that lives at the center of each cell of your being.
What is Intimacy?
Intimacy exists in the space between, encompassing the connections between our bodies, thoughts, and the relationships we maintain. It forms an intricate web of experiences and meanings, influencing both our inner dialogues and our interactions with the world around us. It encompasses all relationships— at the microcosmic level of self intimacy, and the way that the inner world communicates with itself, to the macrocosmic and the way that the external relationships interact within life.
This relational field of consciousness reveals how we impact and are impacted by our surroundings. It challenges the conventional notion that intimacy is confined to private partnerships, highlighting that we can foster intimacy with all aspects of life, including relationship ourselves, our communities, and the broader realities in which we exist.
Healthy relationships arise from how we nurture these connections, shaping our experiences and meaning-making processes. Our capacity for kindness towards ourselves and others plays a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of our intimacy and has a profound effect on the mind and the spirit. When relationships are thriving and intimacy is full and honest, the heart can be open. Conflicts move from acts of strife and division into our greatest liberator of love. The relational field is, at its heart, a horizontal experience connecting heart-to- heart— weaving us into a rich tapestry of relatedness.
